skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really enjoyed that one. It is interesting that you can use the same mechanism to frame the technological debate about open source and proprietary systems. That one might really pump up the rage views though :-) nobody wants to feel like they are being duped into carrying out someone else's agenda.
This has always struck me as a really poor argument. For one thing, because webkit itself is by far the youngest rendering engine around and also among the most complete. You can't reasonably argue both for a webkit monoculture and an unreasonably high barrier to entry.

Gecko was an open source ostensibly pluggable engine (even MSIE is pluggable, in fact), so why did we need webkit to bring about the monoculture? Would advocates of it have been satisfied if it had come about then? Probably not, and rightly so, because Gecko has stagnated, as most large codebases managed by people with specific interests do.

And we are talking about branded product monopolies here. Should Google and/or Apple fall behind who's going to take up the cause of moving things forward again? People don't use webkit, they use Chrome and Safari.
“iWatch” reportedly one of several wearable experiments from Apple
Meet Starling, a system for determining geographical intent from strings of text
It's interesting and seems well implemented but I don't understand the use case? Why would you need this?

If you want plain text inside HTML isn't what the <pre> tag is for?
Ha! I can see Avalon or Butterfly testing their boxes for a week or so before shipping each one.
If you buy the US version of Adobe software then using it in another region is not allowed in their EULA. So it's almost the same as torrenting it except you paid for it. After a quick look I found these in their EULA:

"Adobe grants Customer a non-exclusive and limited license to install and use the Software (a) in the territory or region where Customer obtains the Software from Adobe or Adobe’s authorized reseller or as otherwise stated in the Documentation (“Territory”)"

"4.9 Territory. Customer shall only use the Software and access the Adobe Online Services in the Territory and in a manner consistent with the activation policy described at http://www.adobe.com/go/activation. Adobe may terminate the license granted herein or suspend the Membership or access to the Adobe Online Services if Adobe determines that Customer is using the Software or Adobe Online Services outside the Territory."
the after and before pseudo elements are kind of weird. I think for it to work with copy-paste I'd have to include some JS to look at the selection, reverse markdown it, and then get it into your clipboard.
Downloadable / electronic distribution really has nothing to do with it. They value their product to be significantly more than the average price of a game etc, hence the higher price. If their customers don't think the product is that valuable they will either go out of business because no one is buying it at that price, or they will lower their prices.
Just commented elsewhere in this thread about this, we intentionally made the service super flexible so it's not a "cram things down your throat" model. You can rush or delay your next shipment, cancel a pick if you don't like how it looks, set frequency to every 2 or every 3 months or put your membership on pause indefinitely. Because we pay for shipping both ways, we only make money if we're sending you stuff you actually want.
Why should the California Code of Regulations be copyright and licensed with a creative commons license rather than just being public domain? Federal government works cannot be copyright. State and local can; requiring a creative commons license (open access creative commons attribution license) presumably would ensure the broadest possible distribution.
SSDs are your friend :)
The world does need men & women to be making the same amount of money for doing the same job. It also needs to shatter the idea of gendered roles. I thought we already had...
I find this clever. Use cases aside, it's fun.
This hypothetical barter society works, for a while, because no one needs anything. Most things are made by machines, and you can make most of the rest. You could charge a currency like bitcoin for your creations, but what would you buy with it if you convinced someone to pay for it in currency instead of something like perishable goods? You would run out of uses for it quickly.

Currency already relies on our belief in its value. It won't last long when it's easier to trade for your own production and swap goods for things than to try and find a buyer for your bits.
> I think 80 years of R&D is overly generous. There's been no fundamental change to the ICE since its invention

Fuel economy has been greatly improved. That same type of advancement in the electric world should translate directly into longer range (perhaps faster charging and/or easy battery swaps). So in 80 years... do you think we'll still be worried about getting 200 miles out of an electric car? Doubtful.
Oh look, a way to detect who's using an auto-submission script to try and get karma.

Just because raganwald writes it doesn't mean it belongs here.
THe Best Coffee In the World
Ask a Colombian what is the greatest coffee in the world. He'll tell you "¡el cafe de Colombia compi!" Now, ask a Haitian the same question. He'll have the same answer, but he'll also insist that you try Haitian coffee and decide for yourself.

Every coffee producing nation take pride in their coffee, but no nation is prouder about their coffee than Haitians.

The name "Kafe Pa Nou" meaning "Our Coffee", and also "Our Favorite Coffee", stems from this pride that haitians have towards their coffee.

We strongly stand by the belief that Haitian farmers grow the best coffee in the world, but we won't force it onto you. Instead, we'll invite you to try our coffee. After all, coffee is one of these things that you should "Have it Your Way". There are so many ways to brew and spice up your coffee, that the resulting number of taste is infinite. Some people prefer the French press over the Ibrik, or the Regular Drip. We haitians have an affinity for the Stove Top Espresso.

As a haitian company, we strive to reflect the true nature of the Haitian People: Hospitable, Authentic and Warm.

So when we say "we'll invite you to try our coffee", we mean that we'll send you some of our coffee free of charge if you've never tried it. Just send us a kind email at tryourcoffee@kafepanou.com with your name, address, a few words about yourself, and your very own share of haitian coffee will be on its way.

As a haitian, I'll proudly say it again and again: We have some of the finest strains of coffee in the world. But don't take my word for it. Find your best coffee in the world, and own it.
I looked at the patent referenced in the article (http://www.google.com/patents/US8239662) and was disappointed to see nothing that would appear non-obvious. It looks like it would be pretty easy to infringe on this patent if one were building a pre-boot configuration management system with existing free and open source tools.
Opera announced that they'll be using v8 for JS.

So why opera instead of Chrome? They'll differentiate themselves with the UI, mouse gestures, ad-blocking etc.
In the short term and if the miner sells all of his BTC yes. But in the medium term, the difficulty will increase, the same amount of coins as always will be mined and the price should remain roughly constant. ( And in addition, if you want to move the market to 25.50 $/BTC, you need to sell about 3k BTC [1] at the moment.) So the market would not move much, even if all of these bitcoins are dumped in an instant.

[1]http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html
Agreed, would love to use this to generate markdown!
There was a post/link I read here recently that discussed the earn-out issue in depth and it's really colored my thinking on it (BTW - if someone can remind me whose post it was or point me in the right direction, that'd be hugely appreciated). I think they nailed it.

Basically the idea was this: When you sell your business, you should be paid -- in cash -- for the value you've created. That's what a sale is, and that's what a sale should be.

An earn-out represents value that is yet to be created -- the future interaction between your business and the acquirer's business. There's nothing wrong with that inherently, but recognize that it's really just an incentive for what is to come, not payment for what was done.

Now, none of this is saying that you shouldn't accept a deal with an earn-out if that's what you've got in front of you. But you have to think about it differently --

If you built a business that you think is worth $100M and you sell it to BigCo for $100M, 50% of which is structured as an earn-out given revenue targets over 3 years - guess what....you didn't actually sell your business for $100M.

You sold your business for $50M and agreed to a $50M compensation package in your new job. And with that new job comes the uncertainty of what your new owners will do. They could, conceivably, decide to close your division and lay everyone off after 6 months - having absolutely nothing to do with you or your team (this happens in big companies).

So when the time comes, just make sure you have the right perspective about what price you're actually selling your company for.
Venice is robust? It has lost something like 50% of its population in the last 30 years.
I actually see there being a lot more room for improvement in DOM performance than in JavaScript. Most of the time, poor DOM performance is a bottleneck in my code long before poor JavaScript performance, now that JS VMs are so fast.
What settings were used on the benchmark?
My Firefox feels like Vim, I suppose Firefox wins in the configurability department, at least when you include plugins.

Of course, only desktop Firefox.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101006/full/467650a.html

"For now, most members of the do-it-yourself, or DIY, biology community are hobbyists, rigging up cheap equipment and tackling projects that — although not exactly pushing the boundaries of molecular biology — are creative proof of the hacker principle. Meredith Patterson, a computer programmer based in San Francisco, California, whom some call the 'doyenne of DIYbio', made glow-in-the-dark yogurt by engineering the bacteria within to produce a fluorescent protein. Others hope to learn more about themselves: a group called DIYgenomics has banded together to analyse their genomes, and even conduct and participate in small clinical trials. For those who aspire to change the world, improving biofuel development is a popular draw. And several groups are focused on making standard instruments — such as PCR machines, which amplify segments of DNA — cheaper and easier to use outside the confines of a laboratory, ultimately promising to make DIYbio more accessible."
Gender should be irrelevant, but it is not currently irrelevant. It is highly relevant, and to ignore this is to ignore obvious reality, roughly equivalent to jumping off a cliff because reality is subjective and you believe that you can fly.

I think the choice of that particular moniker has more to do with the fact that women are rarely both liked and respected in any professional field. Competent women are viewed as cold; warm women are viewed as incompetent. For a woman to be competent, she must be a bitch.

This is obviously not the best state of affairs, but it is the way reality is.
There is one other reason to keep the non-privileged from paying for better benefits:

Imagine for a minute that everyone had BASIC health insurance. Provided by the government. If they get cancer, it will be paid for. If they sneeze, they will pay out-of-pocket for a doctor. Doctors who are AMAZING will charge... 200 for a visit. Not so amazing ones... 30.

Woah there. If your doctor charges you 150 per visit, you will be sure as hell checking that the doctor is good. While at $30 whatever. If you pay for your drugs, you will be damn sure you need them at $150 a pop. But at $15 a pop, meh better be safe than sorry.

Now an insurance company comes along... Hold up, sure I'll pay for it but how easy is it to make claims? Are they actually paying out or are they just giving you red tape?

It goes on.

Look at the COMPETITION created:

Doctors compete on skill to get not only clients who pay next to nothing per visit but pay hundreds to the doctor, but also on how much they charge.

Treatments compete on effectiveness. Will I pay $10k for a treatment that may be equally as effective as a $1k treatment?

Insurance companies compete on coverage/serving customers. Because anyone can leave and switch, and if they don't they have the safety net. Insurance companies now stop having the per-person monopoly. Very rarely do people have any choice in insurance companies.

Employers have employees who have only the risk of lack of salary when leaving a job. Though that risk is bad, especially when owning a mortgage.

The competition created becomes crazy. Entire monopolistic business models get toppled. And all for a very very small price. The fun part is once the free market kicks in, prices will plumet too. Competition will ensure to that. We just have to make sure competition gets a chance.
I think you missed the taxes?

999 / 1.04 * 1.10 seems about right to me.
Yes! Email me bernie[at]bombfell[dot]com and I'll save your email to the notify list for Down Undah.
note that it's markdown, not just plain text.

i think it's mostly just for fun though / as an impressive CSS trick.
Abut the programmer/engineer dichotomy:

He uses the word "programmer" only for people that write code, and the word "engineer" for people that design technical solutions. Somebody can be both, a "programmer" and an "engineer", but a "programmer" is not necessarily an "engineer" if the actual technical design, strategy, and main technical questions are answered by another person (the "engineer"). This division of labour is a common model in some Big Co's (with ~50 programmers or more), not in small-medium size compaines or in the startup world.

IMHO this model is not perfect, but there is a point when the time of a high level technical person should not be wasted in trivial implementation details (whatever you call him "programmer" or "engineer")
Cool idea.

I run sitebuilderreport.com (basically I review website builders) and I think there's enough website builders marketing themselves as the best way to build "any" website. Weebly, Webs, Wix et al. They've done a good job of solving that problem.

A website builder that creates a specific type of a website makes for a compelling option!

BTW - Another interesting option in this space is onepagerapp.com (similar concept- different approach).
I was under the impression that Bootstrap enables a responsive design out of the box? Is this essentially a standard CMS running Bootstrap backed up by solid design?
An analysis of Lincoln's words
Mostly because it's fun in a nerdy way, and it was an interesting challenge to implement.

I decided to use it for a demos page on my site:
http://mrcoles.com/demo/

Also, there's a bookmarklet at the top of the markdown-css demo that let's you apply the markdown styles to any page, which is like a harder-to-read version of readability or a quick way to see how well layed out the markup is on any page.
Are they going to open source Presto?
There is also an interesting childcare aspect in that for logistical reasons my wife shuffled the kids around when they were little... car seats are expensive and cumbersome to install and a PITA on a 2dr car, therefore while the kids were small, my car-seat-less little commuter car was quite literally limited to my commute only and we always had to take the giant wife-mo-bile on any (including long) family trips.

In practice I really didn't care, although the bigger the vehicle the less comfortable I am on the road (high winds scare me in a tall vehicle, I know if a tall vehicle hits a curb in an accident its rollover time killing everyone unlike my little car, obviously I have to drive more carefully to avoid hitting things because its huge, very low performance by all measures compared to my 2dr sports car, in summary I hate driving big cars). In theory if I experienced the same limitation due to gas vs electric I'm told over and over that I'm supposed to experience extreme agony, although I suspect it would be OK.

The startup lesson is to glom onto existing limitation. Oh you can't take a road trip because it doesn't have those little car seat mounting bracket thingies. Not some spooky hidden techno stuff in the engine compartment. Keep it simple, "Oh you can't road trip because it can't hold a car seat". This is a simpler marketing message.
Before its Time: Burbank's Experimental Monorail
Neither gives you a store. Every band, designer, boutique I've ever talked to wants their own store at their own URL that looks like their own brand. Storenvy let's you edit all the HTML and CSS to make your store look however you want. Example: http://cherrysauceclothing.com

The other ones you mention just gives you a marketplace where you're essentially a classified ad without your own brand experience.
The minimum wage for Washington state is $9.19.

http://www.lni.wa.gov/workplacerights/wages/minimum/
Clojure Generative Testing
Exactly. When I moved to the Bay Area to work for Apple, it was all very nice but had a strange "taste" to it, sort of like Cowslip's warren in Watership Down.

It's not just the health insurance, it's also the college loans (and the prospect of having to pay for your children's college) and the mortgages. People with debt don't make much noise, and while people were likeable and smart, there was an undercurrent of deferring to authority that seemed bizarre.
I would buy electricity, natural gas and shares of a financial instrument in order to save for retirement. I don't plan on running out of those uses for a while.
My take. At the lowest level all software is built on solid logical statements. Yes or no, true or false, one or zero. Developers live here. At the top level are the whim and desire of feature requests and defect reports. "let us imagine a world where..", "like X only better", "along those lines". Customers and business stakeholders live here. Somewhere in between they meet. Project managers live here. Welcome to hell.
1. I did read the article. Twice actually because I know this is a contentious issue and I wanted to ensure I wasn't missing the point.

2. Your source for #7 is ridiculous. There is absolutely zero proof that female programmers are paid less than males. My career is dedicated to helping programmers find work (both male and female) and my own direct experience with the thousands of people and companies I've worked with points to the fact that female programmers are paid more than average simply because companies are willing to shell out a bit more for a female dev in order to avoid the label of having a male dominated workplace.
$69/month is about 10x my clothing budget! Should I be embarrassed? Ashamed? Is this a sign I'm not dressing well :-(

(I go out once every other year and spend 100-300 on new clothes)
Why marketing and engineers don't mix.
Enhanced Campaigns' Hidden Boost for AdSense and Parking Payout
It's nice to see this classic appearing on HN. Certainly worth a reread. (Edited, thx tikhonj)

The first time I read this article was about one year after leaving University. I graduated as a near pure Java developer and worked in a pure java consultancy. I could have recited various GOF design patterns from memory. By pure luck I was hacking about in Erlang in my spare time.

In Erlang I was managing to piece together a pretty mind bending (for me) application for distributing depth-first search algorithms over a network. I was neck deep in learning about all sorts of hard problems and it was only afterwards that I noticed that I had barely missed the lack of Java-style object orientation. I was a changed man :) I am still a Java dev but I preach OO moderation.

Objects are great, but 90% of the time you probably wouldn't miss them if they weren't there. Now I program Go in my spare time :)

https://github.com/fmstephe/Erlang-Sat-Solver
Lack of sales tax is US-specific, too which is, for me, quite strange. Amazon here pays 19% sales tax just like every other online and offline business and they end up somewhere in the middle of the spectrum (using price-comparison websites).
Looks like the link has died. Here's the cached version.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fzkWVrs...
I really don't care about 'name brands' but they seem to have higher quality clothing. I assume it's classic price discrimination and floor space issues, but I don't see why you can't have a high quality online only brands that don't charge 90$ for a decent pair of pants.
Not passive aggressive?

>the browser that nobody cares about

>Now they see Chrome is going to win

Implies that Opera never innovates or has anything interesting to offer, and implies that instead they follow the market leader like-for-like. They were one of the first browsers to have tabs and supported many CSS3 properties without prefixes first. Just because they didn't support WebSuperFlySpeedySocketRockets the day the draft standard was out doesn't mean they don't innovate.

>copying Chrome

They're standards compliant, Chrome is standards compliant. Not "copying" Chrome.
The about page indicates that the company is based in China.
Yup! After all, web developers are individual people with their own opinions, not a monoculture. It's not hypocritical when different members of a group hold contradictory opinions.

But if you open your mind a little, you'll also see that the two opinions can also be totally compatible, just dependent on the context. For example, expanding "HTML9" (ha!) can be great for exploring, prototyping, experimenting, where a monoculture is bad and harms innovation. While only >10%-share browsers can be worth commercially developing for, because of resource constraints.

In other words, ideally, there would be a "polyculture" in innovation and experimentation, that would constantly funnel into a "monoculture" in actual final standards. Of course, that's hard to establish and maintain in practice, but you can see how they're just different perspectives.
Zero-day attack exploits latest version of Adobe Reader
I think this is a reasonable attitude to have, but I think it presents the situation as a false dichotomy. It's not a choice between pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps or live-in-anger-and-finger-pointing. The discussions on this too often devolve into slippery slopes: if -this- is sexism, then how long until we're so PC and whiny that no one is ever judged on their merits?

Like every complex situation in life, things aren't slippery slopes, it's always you're-either-with-us-or-against-us...but I think the sincere frustration that both sides have on this is that there doesn't seem any perfect solution...OK, but there's still room to improve. And I've been someone who tends not to complain, but I've come to be more appreciative of those who do play the part of the squeaky wheel. Not everyone can wait for society to slowly evolve.

In terms of the OP, I think it's a good sincere effort to raise awareness. However, as this is a complex issue, I just think that mantras are of limited value and tend to polarize something that isn't helped by polarization. Also, too many colors.
yeah, the \A makes a newline and the `white-space: pre` makes that work like a <br>
Sometimes that's all you need.

To be to fair to them, they have added analytics, social integration, SEO optimization, etc.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a service (but targeted at a specific industry) that will offer something similar as a feature but is not the core product/service.
Well, everytime I receive a bug report I take that thing seriously, because hell, I am quite sure that people didn't made stuff up just to annoy me on weekends :)
Agree. Most iPhone users don't care at all. This non-issue sounds to me like a designer who has gotten tired of the look of iOS. Which is fine, but don't make it sound like a technical issue with the platform.