skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was going to complain that this is really something that the user needs to be able to disable or otherwise opt out of. As it stands there's content filtering going on outside of user control which isn't a good thing at all (seriously, there's probably less controls on free.fr than the local police station)
I've tried fountain pens and have never been satisfied. Perhaps it's my left-handedness or the inferior quality of the paper I use, but it never felt "natural".

I frequently purchase ballpoint and gel pens from JetPens.com and am particularly fond of the Pilot Hi-Tec-C: http://www.jetpens.com/Pilot-Hi-Tec-C-Gel-Ink-Pen-0.4-mm-Bas...

What are some of your <$10 pens that you frequently go back to?
To your last point: You might be right, but it doesn't negate the idea of the America he and I wish to see: Something that is trule honest and something to be proud of, regardless of the competition.
No, cause they use LLVM parts that were not yet successfully compiled to JS. This is just an LLVM assembler and bitcode-to-JS translator.

Obviously, a JavaScript C compiler would have been a much more impressive demo, and that would have been demoed instead.
Except that a badly-formatted Kindle book reflects more poorly on the publisher than it does on Amazon, since Amazon doesn't create the content. If a publisher really doesn't want to encourage the e-book industry, isn't it much easier for them to not publish an e-book at all?
In terms of the single thing that could work better that would make the largest number of my "cool ideas" possible I completely agree. That would be fantastic.

I think the focus away from training these systems for your own voice is probably a bad direction but I'm not an expert in this stuff.
America’s credit system is broken
No, I disagree. The Ruby community is, generally, far more cohesive and homogeneous than the others you listed. This may partly be due to it being a relatively young community, compared to some others.

Anyone who has been to a Ruby conference, especially while not being overly involved with the community otherwise, would likely know what I'm talking about, for example.

Almost the entire community is male. There are very, very, very few females involved. While other communities have an imbalance, it is nowhere near as lopsided as it is within the Ruby community.

Another common trait is the use of Apple hardware. It's rare to see anything but Apple laptops or other devices being used by those within the Ruby community. I've been at talks where there are rows of 20 people, and over 15 of them are using a MacBook of some sort.

There's very little true dissent within the community. The emphasis on "convention over configuration" ends up chiseling those conventions into stone, and nobody dares question them, even when they're obviously wrong.

While I'm not saying every single member of the Ruby community is exactly like every other, there is a commonality that is not found in any other computing community. It's undeniable.
There feels like two Facebook designs, the timeline, and other user pages.

I hate the timeline, as I can't track two columns, and probably wouldn't like a grid also for the same reason.

I logged in to Facebook a minute a go just out of curiousity, and struggle to actually find my homepage, first I get badgered by Facebook, I then accidentally stumble upon my Timeline (which I hate), I then click the Facebook logo to go to a homepage, which happens to be a feed - or rather what I deem my own homepage. Confused! And it happens every time.
Two words: port forwarding :) Yes, it makes using TOR a bit more difficult, but not by very much...
You can implement that by installing the CertificatePatrol addon for Firefox.
Still doesn't do it for me.
The way I understand what dxbydy has been writing, he or she is explaining how Warren Buffett often plays the opposite of a venture capitalist, risk-wise. He isn't a futurist, he picks off clear winners who are firmly entrenched in their markets.

While this is always a tough strategy -- because the easier they are to find, the more likely these companies are to become overrated -- it gets a little easier when you have a massive amount of capital. It's still tough to do consistently though.

The term "Rent Capture" calls out the distinction between entrepreneurs and landlords. The worth of land is obvious and so it takes other competitive advantages besides ingenuity to close a big deal. Pejoratively, as dxbydy mentioned, "rent capture" implies that the owners don't have to work very hard for their money.

"a very large moat" refers to the barriers to entry. Imagine you have 4 or five companies who built power plants 40 years ago. It was expensive for them at the time, but they made back their initial investment years ago and now the only thing they care about is market share. The size of their moat is proportional to how much it would cost for some new company to build their own power plant.
Have you looked at California's system of requiring voter approval of certain tax bills? That does not seem like something I would want to emulate elsewhere.
Are CAPTCHA's a good idea?
people usually use the word "emulator" for this. I do not believe jslinux actually outputs anything. So to call it a compiler would be misleading, IMHO.
Terse Words: Python Rocks - So what is Stackless Python?
If you look at comment 11 [1] in the article, it points to [2] as being the source of the TTS hiccup.

It also points out that speaking the phrase "filled with" spits out the rest of the text [3].

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38538#c11

[2] http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers...

[3] http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with
You are confusing art with design (formerly known, perhaps more accurately, as commercial art).
If you are creating "unlimited idealistic perfection" you are creating art. If you are selling soap it's design.
"I’ve never been able to prototype product on the computer; it always felt too clunky, too slow. Similarly, if you are in a meeting or—as I noticed during Y Combinator at a talk—typing on a laptop seems like a sure way to miss 70 percent of the content. I think typing encourages you to write more, to write for the sake of writing rather than for taking notes."

Your TL;DR skipped over a possibly important thought to many people.
I had the same problem with Lamy, but not other brands. But it had a plastic nib, and that was probably 10 years ago.
It seems possible to add iOS support :). The last time i looked there was no such support.
This is a very nice contribution of how to "prettify" facebook.
Facebook is and has been so ugly, and in many ways just complicated and not functional.
I also believe this may be flawed but I think facebook really has to do something about it's design.
I'm interested in doing some predictive modeling for a couple of project ideas I've been kicking around. Are there any specific resources you would recommend as good starter material?
If there ever were a 360,000 page indictment, then I'd agree.
I've also been working on something very similar (general data tracking with an awesome API) for a couple of months now. It's not quiet ready yet, but I would love to have your input on it once it's online!

(P.S. My project is also heavily inspired by the features and shortcomings of Daytum (namely the lack of an API), which is frankly the best self tracking tool available at the moment.)
screen + irssi? http is a less than ideal fit for messaging, especially when you're simply wrapping an existing protocol.
My brother has the same problem (and loves Pilot G2s). I think left-handedness is a significant barrier for fountain pen appreciation, even with Quink.

I have a Bic 730R in front of me that I like, but the article made me realize I left my expensive fountain pen that I like more at home.
Allow me to express my envy for your having a Nexus 4, the unattainable device...
Very very cool - see how nice the world is when we don't get lawyers involved?
Persistance pays off in all walks of life
Those who know how hard european football is will appreciate this story.
Thank you. I tried that but mine had no triangles. I closed and reopened the app and then they showed up. I must have hit a quick UI glitch or something, but a relaunch solved it. Thanks again.
I think you'll need the female voice. No idea how to change that, though.

EDIT: Try the US version: http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/filled%20with
There are plenty of ways to find working startup ideas. It would be great if you can find some problem solving idea, but it's not necessary. I wrote an additional essay on how to find ideas to PG's essay.

http://www.vusal.me/essays/ideas/
Indeed: http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24672-free-ne-bloque-pas-qu...
Patents are not related to human atrocities, it is truly sad that you made such a comparison.
Your first link got me "Filled with so much drama he now praises the iPad". Tee-hee...

Edit: Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyCGrWMk8Ws
Close enough to it, see eg. the Lacey Act. Here's a link to somebody who got a two-year sentence in the US for importing lobster tails packed in plastic bags from Honduras, because under Honduran law it was illegal to do so -- and she went to jail anyway, even though Honduras pointed out that the law is off the books.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/alobsterst...
Is it me, or does the left side of their logo look similar to KissMetrics'?
Completely agree, and great book. Though I believe Buffet's strategies no longer follow Graham's as closely as they use to.
Peeking into the Trash
1 - the link between blogs of all sorts and the bottom-line is tenuous at best. If you're an ad revenue business, you can make the argument that all traffic has an impact on the bottom line, but suffice it to say that none of the advertising supported start-ups I have been involved in have seen sustained valuable traffic referred in from a blog.

2 - Normal blogs and tech blogs don't write articles that go into detail on the minutae of the design elements in a product's UI. That's limited to design blogs.

3 - Personally, I'm getting kind of tired of the default defense of most designers to this sort of criticism ("because Apple"). Saying that Apple is where it is because of Design not only ignores the market, product and business realities that have lead to Apple's (recent) success - it also ignores the many ways in which Apple's design is sub-standard or even bad (resulting in people copying bad design patterns "because Apple did it").
I've been working on ways to have this be more obvious with outright explaining it.

Each column is a week, a black box means you had a day with an email, an orange box means you had a day with > 1 email.
Everyone copying Facebook's design decisions doesn't mean Facebook makes good design decisions...
You've gotta be kidding. What user interface tool does android + eclipse provide? There is nothing there, you've gotta hand roll it in xml. The UI tool is limited and a pain to work with.

I think android's ability to use folders to support different layouts and resources beats the file naming conventions necessary for supporting the same scenario in iOS... i.e. myLogo~ipad.png
This is extremely well done and has a lot of potential. A lot of people talked about incorporating it with Facebook and other mediums (maybe an app).

Do it up!
I think you have to be a little bit careful with plea bargaining statistics. Yes, their incidence is overwhelming, but it's also easy to intuit that the majority of engagements between citizens and prosecutors come from circumstances where guilt isn't seriously in doubt. It will bother the hell out of most HN'ers to consider this, but most people charged with crimes are guilty of those crimes (that does not mean that anyone charged with a crime is guilty, or that bad-faith charges don't happen).

If you were caught red handed with someone else's purse, or (even more likely) pulled out of your house drunk at 2AM after your battered wife was taken by ambulance to the hospital, chances are you're going to jump at whatever the prosecutor offers.
No. If you don't know the abstract definition of temperature from statistical mechanics, you haven't learned anything from the headline "temp can actually be negative (properly defined)"
But 0K (notice there's no °) is the lowest temperature - it's just that it's also the hottest temperature, depending on which direction you're coming from.

Temperature has a nice interpretation as average energy for classical systems, but in a sense thermodynamic β = 1/kT is the more 'natural' quantity that has a pole at T = 0, corresponding to infinite hotness or coldness respectively.
How fast does “virtual reality” have to be to look like “actual reality”?
Advertising has done nothing to make Internet access cheaper, that was due to upscaling infra from small mom and dad ISP's to telephone companies.

Advertising is responsible for all the treason of the 2000-2010 websites that took all the privacy of people in exchange for pity digital beads and mirrors, the cost is an ongoing avertisement harrasment into people's private sphere.

Also due to laziness, complacent and risk adverse handling of the receivers of that advertising money, it made the advertising companies too powerful, while these sell nothing but broken promisses and bullshit, so no value for whatever price.

All the stuff that advertising bought and brought to the people is mediocre and bland.

I personally hope that advertising will face the same "pull the carpet from beneith them" treatment as all the other big media industries like RIAA and MPAA.
Math formula gives new glimpse into the magical mind of Ramanujan
Would a loser pays system do anything to reduce this sort of behavior? Or is that only applied to civil cases? Am not a lawyer obviously, so please forgive the uninformed question.
"I’ve found that having a pen and paper that you enjoy actually makes you use them both a lot more."

This is exactly why I experiment with pen and paper combinations every now and then trying to find something I like. I find the act of note-taking very beneficial, both for work and for self-study of math, CS, programming, etc. Just writing my thoughts down solidifies things a bit better, so encouraging that by making the writing enjoyable is what I've strived for.

I don't even spend that much, just allowed myself to pitch what didn't work and find something I like. My current favorite combination is National Brand Computation notebooks ($12) which I like for being quite large at nearly 12"x10" and having thick smooth paper and the largest (08) Pigma micron pens ($2) which are almost like felt tip markers. It almost feels like writing on a whiteboard.

Of course, what I like specifically isn't that important, but I definitely recommend experimenting with pen and paper if note taking is something you want to encourage yourself to do.
Perhaps you could view this "A/A/B" test as a very crude form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics) method? At least if you're resampling A1 and A2 from a pool A and then doing separate A1/B and A2/B tests and looking at how much the resulting statistic varies between the two runs.

Agreed this is a silly way to go about it, but there better-thought-out bootstrapped confidence tests which could be used if you don't fully trust the distributional assumptions behind (say) the t-test.
Scanning two columns is not easy at all. The right column has some fixed elements but it also has regular newsfeed elements scattered around. It's really a terrible design.
But to be fair, when you present your designs for the consideration of stock holders ( which this probably is) its important to make it look its best and since Facebook users technically can upload awesome DSLR style photos and it makes the design look far better, I forgive him and understand that this kind of presentation is more nessesary than really representing what it will look like.
I just released a prototyping framework that uses css transforms: http://www.framerjs.com/

It's targeted at designers, so simple and fast and works great on desktop and mobile.
10 militanats including Taliban commander in Pakistan are under the Grave
HB does have a very iconic style, but that style was deliberately chosen to make it easier to get away with low-quality animation techniques [1][2]. The HB shop needed to run on a shoe-string budget, and they had to cut corners wherever they could.

Now, it works because of the HB cartoons' light-hearted style and premises, but would seem tacky and ridiculous for a film or episode attempting something grander (i.e. a feature film like The Little Mermaid or Toy Story).

[1] For example, many HB characters don't have necks, or have extremely thick necklaces or collars where a neck would normally be. This allows you to swap out head and face animations with much greater freedom, and makes it harder to detect camera errors when the head and the body don't quite line up correctly. Is that bad? Not necessarily, but if you rely on too many of these tricks you end up painting yourself into a corner.

[2] Also, some HB characters don't even walk correctly. Their torsos and upper bodies stay perfectly motionless while their legs flail about beneath them. It looks cute and storybook-like in certain applications, but completely ridiculous in most others.
Not Ready for Prime Twine : A review of Super Mechanical's Kickstarter hardware
git commit before running, then git diff to see what code was bad.
The section you referenced is thin and poorly cited. I still don't know his specific role and contributions. I am trying to dig deeper than the veneer.
That definitely looks similar.
A plea to designers.... Read the original piece carefully and try to avoid being defensive. This is an important post for all of you. I've been a defender of Design and designers for 2 decades now. But you all are your own worst enemies. This post should serve as a chance for all of you to learn why you are often Balkanized in business decisions and business structures. It should serve as a chance for you all to show that you actually understand business realities and can propose rational arguments.

Instead, reading through these comments I see pretty much nothing but personal opinion, vigorous hand-waving, very poor and stretched-to-breaking analogies and the usual "because it means this to me" and "because I say so" and "because... Apple" arguments.

I'd suggest reading again with the mindset of "this is the way non designers think about us" and then come back and (with facts this time) explain your perspective.

And remember... this is Hacker News.
We work at Start-ups.
We believe in shipping early, shipping often, and iterating to improve.
Your answers and perspective MUST work within this construct or we will ignore you (and you will thus teach all of us that designers are, in fact, crazy).

Ball's in your court.
First of all, how credible is a Path PM's opinion on the "camp stove" example? Conflict of interest, anyone? Did Vic G or anyone official at Google say that's going to happen?

IMHO, what's more likely to happen is: You search for a camp stove, and your G+ friend has written a _public_ review of one, and your personalized search results show your friend's review as well. Personally, I would find that quite helpful since I can now contact my friend directly about this, but even if you don't, why not disable personalized results for yourself?
Twitter is now worth around $11bn and is likely to IPO in 2014
That's mostly what certificate pinning does already, if I'm understanding the concept right.
> I cant see this being a good thing for the internet industry. A lot of websites rely on advertising to keep their websites running.

Is this where I get to say "information wants to be free" and "if your business model can't handle technological change, it needs to die?"
Hmmm...let's put some ugly people in their and test.
I'm reminded of the... I don't know if it's a quote or a general idea, but the sentiment that the next big thing starts out looking like a toy.

Possible UI bug though - I can't seem to control the line spacing to fit the text in the bubble?
Poker players refer to the phenomenon as "winner's tilt". It will make you go broke if you're not disciplined.
>I cant understand why this is not making people want to argue for non rich people to have a decent defence in court.

It's because that would break the system. There are over two million inmates in the United States. There is no known or obvious way to provide a reasonable defense for that many defendants in any cost effective manner.

A single good lawyer gets paid six figures. A criminal trial lasts several years through all the appeals. There are millions of accused. Do the math. It's just not happening.

The only way to fix it is to drastically reduce the number of accused so that each can be allocated more resources. So either we need to develop some magic to drastically reduce the number of crimes people commit, or we need to prosecute drastically fewer criminals, or we need to drastically reduce the number of things common people can be prosecuted for. Make your choice.
New class of martian meteorite found in Moroccan desert
I wonder what Edwin Armstrong would say about that?
Reminds me of that bug back in 2007 when Google translate would take "sarkozy is chirac" and translate it into "Bush is classless" or other completely different text.

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-stra...
Our definitions of "smoothly" vary a bit.

If I speak as a consumer, then it's not very smooth when I want to read an article and can't, due to the in-line words which pop up intrusive ads when your mouse comes anywhere near them. I can't hardly watch a 30 second video without spending another 30 seconds to 2 and 1/2 minutes watching ads. It actively annoys me that Amazon has started serving ads on their homepage. I've ended up going to other retailers to purchase things on the principal.

As someone working (indirectly) for companies that make revenue off of ads, I've noticed that there's always that nagging fear in the back of their minds about Google cutting them off with no recourse. Of loosing customers when a new ad in the rotation pisses of parents due to the scantily clad nature of the characters in the ad. Of loosing customers due to poor performance of ads or conflicting javascript.

It is always very unfortunate when people get laid off. However, to have to lay people off just because someone doesn't download specific bytes from the internet signals a broken system to me.
Top Lessons Learned from Launching iPhone Apps
What a buy.
I commend you for trying to offer an alternative, seriously!

Google may not have hand curation, but they do use manual raters as one of their signals.

It's also true that new content doesn't have a click history, but the click history as well as topological history of the internet can tell Google a lot more than just the history of individual items.

In any case, my main point here is that the position of competitors like yourselves would be strengthened if more people realized that Google wasn't somehow based on 'objective' algorithms.

You guys claim subjectivity and editorial quality as a strength and I agree that it is, but I think there's an argument that Google has been falsely advertising itself as objective and free of bias and could be forced to rectify that through advertising.

Indeed the reportage around this FTC settlement implies that Google has been 'cleared of allegations of bias', which is essentially the opposite of the truth.
If I understand this correctly, it enables basic auth to one or more oauth based services for individual users.

The original intent of oauth was to provide a fairly simple way to authorize sites to access various portions of my content on another site, all without sharing credentials.

Any reason why you couldn't enable oauth to foauth.org, then proxy out to all the other APIs? I realize I could checkout and run this myself, but it seems handy for others given it was a bit more secure.