skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We recently launched AboutOurWork, a small business connection network... imagine "eHarmony for the small business community."

We created AboutOurWork because even with the advent social, business-to-business connections (B2B) on the major social networks are a rarity. The focus on the major networks is instead on business-to-consumer (B2C) or consumer-to-consumer (C2C) conversations and connections.

Our mission and vision is to connect the world's small businesses and we'd love any and all feedback: design, UI/UX, business model, etc.
It bans your IP, not your account.
Oops we weren't aware, thanks for the heads up!
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Welcome to The New Dark Age (Open Dyslexia on the Web)
Look at this:

http://antijingoist.github.com/AlphaSymbolic/

Now this:

http://dyslexicfonts.com/

And this:

http://antijingoist.github.com/Eulexia/

What's more:

http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/

Read more:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-font-helps-dyslexics-read

Note: The neurotypical privilege is over. Welcome to The New Dark Age.
"Your winnings, sir." (Transfers 1,000,000 Facebook credits to Tech Crunch's account.)
14 of the best apps from 2012 for designers, developers and creatives
> Did you really? I guess that means you don't have kids.

No, I don't. But I don't see how that's important. When I was a kid, I didn't receive extravagant presents, despite growing up in an upper-middle class family that could have easily afforded them without going into debt. I received useful presents, usually something that I practically needed or something constructive, such as new clothes or books.

> Actually lots of people, since before Dickens, and often with ironic reference to the basic moral tenets of Christianity.

Dense works of literature (or their film adaptions) clearly aren't an effective way of reaching the masses. Then again, perhaps most people are just too stupid to get the message, or too afraid of being the first to break social convention.

> You seem to be saying that on the one hand, workers don't know how to spend their pay while on the other hand, neither does the government.

Correct. But while people will (probably) always be stupid, I believe the government can and should be reformed so that it is more responsive to the needs of the people and less responsive to lobbyists and campaign donors.
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Paul, I gave this some thought, and we need to say what Silicon Valley is. So I gave it a shot.

http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/december/whatIsSiliconVal...

Bottom line -- it's not you or Peter Thiel. It's an industry. Much larger than any one or two people.
Any sources you can cite here?
The Gilette Singularity

The interesting curve is the hyperbolic one, for two reasons: One, it matches the
real-world data. And two, it goes to infinity in 2015. And how are you going to
get an asymptotically-accelerating number of blades onto a razor? Why, you’d need
godlike super-technology to do that.

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/06/the_gi...
13 web apps you need to start 2013 off right
I stopped reading when they exaggerated the effects of the amphetamines given to the pilots. It's unfortunate that accidents happen during war, and actually that war happens at all.

But if I were a pilot having to fly over 10 hours, you bet I'd take amphetamines too. Unless they can fit an espresso machine in the cockpit.
Getting to grips with OOCSS
The FAA is being ridiculous about this.

However...there's literally nothing I find more aggravating than flying - because of other passengers. Every flight, there's always a handful of people who refuse to follow the simple rules. Their carry-on is too big. They switch seats or use the lavatories when they are supposed to be seated and buckled-in. They don't re-adjust their seats when landing. They grab their carry-on while the plane is taxiing.

I always feel horrible for the flight attendants. It feels like they are running a day care. Why are people like that? Are they stupid and don't understand the rules? Or do they think the rules don't apply to them?
We're still experimenting with various ideas and the main point in our release was to get an MVP out as soon as possible. This is the first major publicly released website for the both of us so it's still a learning experience.
For an overview you could start at:

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions

and follow any thread you find there as far as you have time and inclination.

Also the Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits http://books.google.com/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_Electron... is an excellent source if you know what you want to build, but not how.
I'm going to guess that the €700 figure is a reseller. It's £239 including 20% VAT in the UK, which works out to €300.

Of course it's not actually in stock, so carriers are charging £400 for it out of contract because they can.
asside from the ethical concerns, we're not actually as near to achieving this as the article seems to suggest, at least from my undergrad studies in chem/bio (not an expert, I'd like to hear what a researcher in this field has to say). The problem with gene inhancement is the off switch, we can inject a virus and overwrite some DNA that tells muscles to grow more, but containing it or making it stop is the problem, also the massive array of side-effects and unforeseen outcomes of altering specific DNA sequences is still a concrete problem.
Yes. Of the programmers I know, the split is probably 60/30/10 PC/Mac/Linux.

The programmers I know who use Macs tend to be typical Mac users who happen to program, not people who chose the Mac because it was the best programming device.
Followerwonk: Twitter analytics & follower segmentation
Ah, well, that explains why the unban isn't working. Didn't know it was one time only.
I zoomed in on my neighborhood. My question is... I live on the edge of a national park, and I see a number of dots (roughly 50) within that national park. How is that possible?
Linkbait (original) title, a relevant quote right from the beginning of the text is "The F.A.A. has no proof that electronic devices can harm a plane’s avionics, but it still perpetuates such claims."
awesome, thanks for the heads up
I expect that most of the people in charge of the Republican Party are emotionally committed to the idea that they're the "good guys" in an important fight. That doesn't mean that they don't have a price, just that it would tend to be very high. And since the Republicans is a voluntary association I'd expect that any rapid shift in policy big enough to be worth the investment would see the collapse and replacement of the Republican party.

Exerting the kind of influence that the Kochs do doesn't just require money, it also requires decades of hard and patient work. You've got to create institutions that attract people to work and publish on those issues where they happen to agree with you rather than where they disagree with you. You've got to make politicians feel that you're on their side and that listening to your spiel is just a matter of friendship, and you have to have a mountain of one sided evidence that lets them believe (and if you're their friend they'll be wanting to believe) that your proposition is Best For America.

But just buying a political party? I honestly think that if you're trying to accomplish a bunch of stuff quickly a coup would be cheaper and more realistic.
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It's the equivalent of Best Buy for Greece, I don't think it's a reseller (I'm not sure how a reseller works, though).

If it's 239 in the UK unlocked, it would be very easy to just get it shipped to Greece via Amazon. I'll have a look, thank you!

EDIT: Do you have a link? All I can find on Amazon is this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-Google-Nexus-Smartphone-Black/dp/...

which is 450 quid, which is 550 Eur...
Top Hacker News Content of 2012
We've tweaked the ad color scheme so it doesn't clash as much with the rest of the site. As for having ads now, we plan to run off advertising income and we'd rather be honest about that up front, rather than launching without ads and potentially giving our users a rude shock when we add them in later.
digistagram++
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My Top 5 Blog Posts from 2012
I don't think I've ever turned my phone off/to aeroplane mode during a flight.
We're planning on trying to grow a more mature community than the ones you see on Tumblr with a focus on actual content and the authors rather on the users.
Oops, I misread the comment I was replying to.
I have an idea for an app. What next?
Why I'm Quitting Instagram
"Maybe each generation needs a space to call their own: We've never had a social graph last >10 years at scale."

Physical postal addresses (and address books, if you insist).

Telephone numbers (and address books, if you insist).
They've been using metamphetamine and dexedrine since at least the 1940's. Over 200 million pills were given to soldiers during WWII.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371512/Nazis-fed-sp...

http://www.narconon.org/drug-information/methamphetamine-his...
Montag - python static site generator v0.01
But if you for example go to the gym with a tight posterior chain, you will squat with a form that either hurts your lower back... or makes you emphasise the wrong muscles... and leave you with progressively bigger problems lifting correctly.

Not to say that what you ended up doing was wrong, but to me this just indicates the need for a coach, or at least doing a lot more reading before you start lifting. If you have a structurally weak and tight posterior chain, you need to add romanian deadlifts to your program. Nobody (except Rippetoe) advocates blindly following a program like like starting strength. You can lift heavy while you correct imbalances, you just need to make sure the exercises you're doing are correcting the imbalances you have.
Modus operandi for many people is to get away with whatever you can until you're told otherwise (or caught). Just most do this with petty things versus breaking major laws.
That's the ridiculous part (well, one of many). If wifi, or cellular signal could detrimentally interfere with an airplane's operation, shouldn't a more thorough check be done to make sure all devices are "off" rather than the current polite warning? After all a terrorist could be watching YouTube...on purpose!
IANAL either, but it's unlikely that a salesman responding to an email with a price would be binding. It's more likely an "invitation to treat"[1]. Even if it was, technically speaking, binding, it would have to be the deal of a lifetime to be worth taking the case to court.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_treat
Yeah there is http://www.voxforge.org/home

I have CMU Sphinx (pocket edition even though I'm running on a full blown server) and for my use case it works fairly well.
Hey, jut ran out of disk space. Will be back in 20 minutes.
We'll add about 5 more non-apple device today. Check back around this afternoon (pst). Thanks
The first movie GIF theater (what do u guys think?)
Ask HN: Programming Languages for Dyslexics
One of my colleagues was ranting about Python. His dyslexia makes it hard for him to read any whitespace based languages.

What languages - if any - have been designed for readability for dyslexic programmers?

Or, should he just adjust the colours and fonts in his IDE?

(Not all dyslexics are the same, obviously)
I am a bit late to this thread, so you may not see my response. Regardless...

I have wondered about this as well. I am considering two strategies:

1) Stop checking HN at all, and subscribe to Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/), which is the best articles of the month in a nice format.

2) Schedule a time to check it once a week, and only look at the list of posts with over 200 points. http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200

We have to stop spending time on these sites, even when it seems valuable. Nothing is as valuable as actually building something and interacting with users.
We'll add them in a few hours
Just click and let it flow.. :)
I don't get how people can use laptops all day long. The form factor is totally unergonomic. I always use an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse when at my desk.
Lessons from the 'World's Ugliest Woman': 'Stop Staring and Start Learning'
I had this kind of posture as a teenager. When I started squatting 300+ pounds, I compounded my problem and wound up in physical therapy off and on for three years. My PT had me do a lot of the exercises and stretches on this list.

In short, if you've never addressed your own posture issues, consider doing so! Back pain is worse than pain in the extremities because it is continuous and affects everything you do.
Infinite sequences in ruby
If type and glyphs are the building blocks of the new OpenSemanticWeb3.0 megafad, then does that mean dyslexics and ilk will go jobless?

All of these sexycoolfun new Web apps, and you're still bombarding me with tiny fonts and variants of Helvetica/Arial.

I wish you would all just shoot me, right now. Please. What do you notice here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-zcUWwCZU

What is the atrocity? Look at the fonts. Everyone the same. Everywhere.

The future you people are building makes me want to slam my head into a desk.
Well, the Mythbusters showed that the reason is that old planes without shielding on their wires and instruments did get interference from cell phone calls[1]. But no modern plane should have that issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2006_season)#Episo...
> Why are people like that? Are they stupid and don't understand the rules? Or do they think the rules don't apply to them?

Speaking for myself, I have no respect for authority that does not stem from experience, knowledge, wisdom, etc. Air hosts/hostesses have none of those attributes - they are merely parrotting rules handed down to them, without putting any thought into them.

A case in point is the electronic devices rule - clearly nonsensical and stupid. I take it as a good sample of the sense in the other rules being imposed, and therefore revert to my default mode of operation, that applies in most circumstances, unless overridden by someone who appears to deserve to have the power to tell me what to do. In other words, I do what I think is sensible, reasonable.

Therefore, yes, I do check my emails before the plane has finished moving and even (gosh!) before the passport gates. I do grab my bag at the first opportunity (though it's usually pointless to do so before the plane has stopped moving - but then it's reason that's stopping me, not rules). I do fit as much as I can get away with into my bag (which generally weighs more than 5kg - but is usually compact and easy to stow because I value those attributes).

In other words, I act like the free, responsible human being that I am, and no, I don't care one whit for "the rules" except where I have analysed them and deemed them sensible myself.

Here's some good news for you: "the rules" don't apply to you either - not unless you want them to.
I agree with the rest, but the lavatory sometimes can't be helped. I've been there.
Pilots should do a barrel roll every now and then to catch seat-belt-sign-ignorers out.
LG has also apparently been charging a much higher wholesale price to everyone except Google.

http://www.zdnet.com/retailers-rebel-as-lg-tries-pricing-nex...
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Flash is frightening.

I wrote a transactional flash file system (well, object store) in the early 90s. It used NOR flash, which allows you slam individual bits from 1 to zero in any order. Basic strategy for doing a write: Write the payload, verify it, then clear some "commit" bits, and have enough infrastructure bits around that you can handle commit failure from stuck-at-1 errors. My failure model was probably pretty stupid, but it seemed to work well and I never heard of someone losing data. Of course, flash parts were a lot clunkier back then.

Fast-forward 20 years and they're playing terrifying games with those flash cells. I worry that the people writing the firmware are willing to trade off reliability for capacity or speed. Or they make crazy risks ("Hey, this window is only for ten milliseconds, what are the chances?"). I know too many lame firmware engineers to be really comfortable.

The failure modes are not block-by-block now, either. The whole device can go dead just because the firmware lost a lookup table to a bad bit. Something like this very clearly happened to Intel a couple years ago, and I know of other manufacturers who weren't very careful with their firmware quality (along the lines of "If we bump the version number on every fix, this will just make our customers nervous." Wow).

I'd love to see an eMMC spec that:

- Allows raw access to the underlying flash (useful for data recovery, in any event)

- Provides metadata describing the treatment of that flash (how many reads / erases, leveling requirements, geometry info, etc.)

- Provdes access to ECC engines, buffers and other support hardware (to reduce bus traffic and host computation)

... then we could push the data management into a FOSS layer in the host, where people can inspect it, fix it, and improve it.

The combination of a hot commodity, pressure to make it perfom, complex management algorithms and opacity of implementation do not make me feel very happy about flash.

[edit: typos]
Yes, I had back trouble (see my other comment) and spent a lot of time doing reverse flies to strengthen the muscles between my spine and scapula. It was pathetic at first how few I could do. One variation that was particularly hard was with my thumbs pointing to my back.
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Show HN: The Obvious Architecture
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Show HN: (Weekend Hack) Calendar 2013 for Android (8 Days) & iPhone (2 Days) 
Hello all,

We hacked a small app for end of year.
You can create Calendar with background images and set it as your Wallpaper.

iPhone : bit.ly/photocalendar
Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuskhalabs.photocalendar.android
I'm one of the creators of Obvious. If you have any questions, fire away!
gizmo686 - strange definition of "open source", sounds like one Microsoft would use. The definition I've been using for over a decade is the one from the Open Source Initiative http://opensource.org/osd
I was playing with the Rosalind problems using clojure. It was great fun, although I did evil things with the clojure combinatorics library and in one memorable session, datomic datalog.

I need to revisit them, but the thornier (for me) problems kept distracting me from other work.
The end of the beginning. Mobile blows past PCs
I have always wondered what the FCC must think of the FAA for this policy. I don't know a lot about the FCC certification process for electronics that contain radios, but I know that it involves both minimizing the amount of harmful emissions and operating safely under some harmful emissions. That the FAA could cite interference from radios as a reason to ban their use seems to this layman as a textbook example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Typical contradictory policy making that we've come to expect of large governments.
You have a reasonable approximation of life security: food, shelter, health/healthcare, and financial flexibility.

You have a goal and are substantially achieving it.
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Actually this brings up one concern I've had for a while. I've been doing yoga fairly regularly (2x a week) for about six years. I have no problem keeping up with advanced classes, holding plank/bridge/wheel, can almost do a full split, etc. Yet, I have pretty extreme APT. I don't really know where I'm going wrong; I've tried similar exercise and stretching regimens in the past, supplementing the yoga, but never seemed to get anywhere with them. As a result, I feel like perhaps more direct strength training (squat, deadlift, etc) might be worth a shot. Thoughts?

Also, is APT the same as lordosis or is there a medical distinction?
Fay: a subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript
Two important and often overlooked aspects of creating a lasting morning routine
4 Startup Tenets for Extreme Focus on Customers
i use mountain bike clips and shoes for riding in sf. the clips dont hit the ground when you walk, making it possible to do errands without changing your shoes. after i started riding for exercise, it quickly turned into riding to get around the city.
The problem with your explanation is that the player is going to devote AT MOST 4 hours to SOME game, yours or otherwise. There's a risk that those who are leaving the existing game may jump to another game from another company. Reevaluation moments are dangerous.
Happy New Year to all HN readers/followers around the World
I had a light weight Dawes galaxy touring bike (more comfortable than road bikes) and tried cycling for about 2 years. Problem is I live in London where there are actually no pleasant cycling experiences to be had. I gave up after the third attempt by psychotic drivers to take my life and bits of what I can only describe as cycling routes worse than an outback road in Afghanistan. Oh and dog owners - the scum of the earth: either end up rolling through shit or having them out of control jumping at you.

Plus it was awful being sopping wet and covered in 'london shit' that you can't clean off without resorting to rubbing yourself with swarfega.

Horrible experience. Even a picadilly line tube train (known as the tandoor) is better in the middle of summer with sweltering 32oC and no air.
How to flag an email message on iPhone and iPad
New York Got Smarter, Dressed Sharper, and Faced Off with Failure in 2012
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Nokia's Upcoming 10.1-inch Tablet - Sneak Preview
Can your recomend a brand/model? I would like to buy one for home.
We just need those plastic guns that deliver the drug which takes away mutant powers.
I don't disagree with your premise in general....but...The silliness of one rule doesn't, in my mind, invalidate all the other ones. I mean, couldn't you reverse your logic? Find a rule that makes sense (say, no smoking on the plane) and thus summarize that all rules make sense?

I keep thinking to myself that flying is a privilege, not a right. But that's probably more a reflection of my own authoritarian views than anything else. Cheers.
Unity3D & The SOOMLA Project
SOOMLA has released their virtual economy plugin for Unity3D mobile game developers.
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Ask HN: What job categories will be next to go? 
Jaron Lanier has commented on this in a recent interview, but I would like to ask people here for their opinion on what is next. As JL says we've seen translation, sectors of the music industry and journalism eaten up by the internet, what's next?

Teaching seems to be in everyone's crosshairs, IBM think customer service can be automated with Watson... what is your opinion?
I advice reading the full post when you get time.
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

So the terms of the original software might restrict creation or distribution of binaries, or anything else.
So you're a self centered inconsiderate jerk and you're proud of it, how typical. The rules do apply to you, I suggest you figure that out before someone decides to teach you the hard way that everyone else doesn't appreciate you ignoring the rules.