skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read through the entire front page and I have no idea:

1) what need wikidata will fill

2) what they want me to do

3) how I would go about doing (2) (other than "starting the wikidata community", mentioned at the bottom of the page, which sounds like a lot of work).

Maybe I'm not their target audience, but this sure as hell isn't a good elevator pitch.
You tell this to the guy who's responding to the worlds most common imposed view. That of the internal workings of a system being dictated solely by malice and corruption.

"Why does this computer hate me?!" "The people who built it must be stupid."

It's not world changing in any way at ALL to say some entity or organization is corrupt. Find me an organization that hasn't being called corrupt.

Do you remember in 2011, when OPERA had some experimental results that suggested neutrinos were moving fast than light? I was in the reddit comment thread covering this story at the time. I made the point that there's no way this is actually happening, and that they were just releasing these results to get 3rd party analysis into what was happening.

By the next morning I had a flood of downvotes and comments about how naive stubborn thinkers like me are rejecting science and ruining the world, and that if only I'd open my eyes to the possibility of something new, even if it shook the foundations of my beliefs, then we could make progress as a species. ect. ect. ect.

Turned out it was a measurement error and they were just releasing results to the public to get 3rd party analysis.

Awwwww.
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Indeed; in order for any standard like this (or UPC, EAN, etc) to gain widespread usage as opposed to very narrow, single-organization usage, it has to be EASY to adopt.

This means that while the standard's official documentation might require that it be purchased (this is the case with QR), or while software which interacts with it might not be free/gratis, it must not carry with it patent or licensing encumberances. While ISO allows "reasonable and non-discriminatory" patents/licenses to be enforced against technologies which are ISO standards, something like a barcode format is difficult to justify licensing restrictions in almost all cases.
You may want to read up on HTML Design Principles: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/>.
Well, I really doubt this will work for you, but as a metalhead I find abstract and atmospheric death or black metal works quite well for me (Lately I've been on an Agalloch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ih3JVrRPE) kick).

Also I find that medium-intensity electronica will put me in the zone - Deadmau5, Justice, etc.
Ask HN: Best micro computer a la raspberry pi?
I am looking to buy a micro computer to experiment with. Primary role will be to act as a home to my external hard drive and other media on it, so a USB port would be a huge plus. I would preferably want to run debian on it, though even android should be fine. I have seen a few posts here about different micro computers but don't remember any other than raspberry pi. Is raspberry pi the best one to buy?
Show HN: Tiny script to make links possible for all html elements
His link to github actually does have screenshots and explains details. Probably what should have been the primary link.
Please use the air-sickness bag located in the seat back in front of you.
The whole antitrust case in the States was about that: MS abusing his status to force OEMs not to install another browser.
Excellent presentation in this blog post. Perfect use for looped GIFs.
Standing Out
And just for the record: for firefox users there is fox to phone: http://www.foxtophone.com/
That's quite clever. I've played with the amazon widget quite a bit and it seems to work as intended too.

Are there desktop widget toolkits that implement that behaviour? At a glance it seems GTK at least does not.
Bonobo is fantastic. Based on what you've listed, I think you'd enjoy Emancipator as well.
Mine's missing the same folder!
http://miniqr.com/reader.php uses the replycam flash camera (i own both sites, so i don't care)
Just hacked a quick enhancement together. Please comment, improve or ridicule.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331146
>You can tell neither sides heart is in it

No, actually you can't. Any specific examples?
> I'm yet to have any idea that passes the "would I pay money for that?" test. That's kind of a massive problem.

This is a mindset problem for many developers. It's hard to realize most businesses love to pay money to make problems go away, however. When I was a consultant, I would have thrown money at a service which I could bill through, and it would auto-file my taxes with Uncle Sam without me having to do anything. Why? Because I forgot to do it, and had to pay penalties and such as one giant check when I filed for 2012.

Basically, what do people have to do that they dislike? Businesses have a bunch of those needs.

But, yes, the startup biz seems dominated by these pithy replies from people who've had success and just can't imagine how other people also aren't killing it. Posturing, pure and simple.
"Perhaps we will see a hybrid model in which your phone gets additional CPU and RAM to work with when plugged in?"

Yes, but indirectly over the network.

The hybrid model I've been using for about 20 years now is connect a wimpy machine to a big one using SSH/NFS and a couple other technologies. For a decade or so the end users at wife's employer have been using rdesktop/vnc for their hybrid solution.

Its actually "easier" for enduser devices to connect to a (private?) cloud than to try to do stuff themselves. So that's the more likely hybrid model.

I don't run exchange server at home, or even run exchange client at home. Exchange webmail, yes.
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IE has been bundled in Windows since XP (Win2K even?), Safari has been part of OSX since 2003

Every phone has a browser, and many did before the iPhone launched in 2007 (even if all they had were crappy WAP browsers)
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This is where I got it: https://twitter.com/neilsarkar/status/276823902930497537
Thank you! I wasn't aware that these plugins existed already. While I was getting excited to get my "vim -D" on to get the script in the OP to work with svn, I might just work one of these plugins into my workflow.

Thanks!
Many people will tell you that when you go in to "sugar burning" (approx 140bpm+) mode then you are doing very little to improve your aerobic capacity... Regardless of your heart rate being lower at certain points. Read about Mark Allen's (Ironman champion) experiences with this. To train your aerobic system you need to start in the aerobic zone and stay there religiously. IMHO
The World of Work is Changing
>Whenever there is a tablet, it is an iPad.

So basically just like in the real US. Where iPad vs other tablets are like 80-20 or worse...
So you wouldn't object to it if catching and throwing happens in the same component (however you define component)?
Excellent article - I've been waiting for someone to capture the fact, that as a reasonably productive Network Engineer/Technical Account manager, I'm able to work, every day, completely proficiently with my Dell Precision 650 -Circa January 2004. Visio, Power Point, Excel, VMWare Workstation (with 5-6 OpenBSD + Linux VM instances running) , Cisco Dynamips Simulations, Outlook+Lookout, PowerPoint, and lots more Visio. Prior to 2003, I really felt the need to upgrade every 2-3 years, and by year 3, my PC was really, really starting to drag.

I've just never felt the need to lean on IT to upgrade/replace my current Desktop though. Runs just fine.
Wait, what? That is one very strange conclusion. I didn't apply for a programming internship at Microsoft, it's a market research internship. I don't even have access to the team that developed the Windows Store... So no, I don't work on that product.
You mean like pastefire, the browser plugin that sends text to your iPhone clipboard, that I've been using for years ;)
http://pastefire.com/
Awesome article. I love teaching math concepts especially to kids. This is something I will have to remember.

Here is a smartphone/tablet app that teaches kids algebra. http://dragonboxapp.com/
First, let me say that I like Microsoft. I'm a happy Windows user and developer but what they did with IE was wrong and I'm happy someone tried to hold them accountable.

Originally, Netscape was a thriving company and able to make money by selling it's software to consumers. Microsoft crushed them by giving their interferer browser away for free with their Windows monopoly. For many years after that, consumers had a terrible browser with little to no alternatives.

Eventually, web browsers found a way to compete but consumers suffered with the artificially created IE monopoly. Innovation to slow down and even went backwards during those years.

You're looking at the world today as if it was always thriving with choices but MS inflicted many years of damage to consumers by illegally driving out competition and stifling innovation.

It's important for governments to protect competition and prevent monopoly abuse. You might argue that MS got away with killing Netscape because the fine was worth it for them but at least they were stopped from preventing more damage with their monopoly. Who knows what other businesses they would have tried to shut down.
I agree with the observation, but I don't see it as entirely positive. I understand there is a lot of anti-religious sentiment in this community, but I think that the "great" religions of the world teach fundamental values, and I don't think entrepreneurship does at all. The "God" of entrepreneurship is success at a venture, and I firmly believe that the more people who take this as a life principle, the worse off we will be as a community. And I do believe that many take entrepreneurship's values as life principles without fully thinking through the underlying core of it all.
This isn't a terrible idea, but I think it belongs in the header (maybe meta tags) of the page to be loaded. Then if you added a paywall to your site, you'd update your server config, rather than trying to round up every hyperlink to your site ever. Imagine if Chrome could do a HEAD one link deep, and indicate visually whether you'll actually be able to see the page, or whether you'll be solicited for some personal info.

In the meantime, someone could write a Chrome plugin that uses a blacklist to rewrite links to paywalled sites.
You don't understand the context. MS did indeed prevent OEMs from installing another browser; it's like they were forcing house builders (which have to use electricity) to connect only their own gas services to new houses.

And for that sin, MS will keep paying for a long time; they're basically an ATM for the EU now. This is not great but hey, they do have a history; once a felon, forever a felon, so to speak.
Not necessarily. Sometimes they just need the cash now. Think about the famous American Airlines lifetime tickets:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...
Look, this even works when you’re offline :)

qrencode -o - -l L -s 10 -- "$(xsel)" | display
I'm using a zsh function with similar functionality for exactly the same purpose:

qrdisplay () {
qrencode -o - "$1" | display
}
Exactly. Allowing end users to put spaces into end user document names is a fine feature. Allowing developers to do it is just dumb. There are far, far too many tools (really useful tools, if someone is tempted to argue this bit: please don't, you're simply wrong and I won't engage) out there that presume that path lists are split on whitespace.
Looks great. I'm quite tempted to buy this. But I have a few questions:

1) Is a tab bar included?

2) What other iOS controls have you styled and included in the kit?

3) I see some icons depicted in the screenshots. Are those included? If so, what other icons are available?

4) Any plans to target iPad?
Some skin diseases that wreck your life
Everyone wants to look beautiful. Skin is the basic thing that adds shine to our beauty. But often our skin is easily attracted to dust and pollutants in the environment, which makes it a breeding station for bacteria and viruses. Often this may result in skin rashes such as acne, psoriasis, rosacea and eczema.
Inner-most links take precedence, with the exception that non-absolute nested links are relative to outer links. E.g.

<ul href="http://example.com/examples/">
<li href="1">Example 1</li> <!-- http://example.com/examples/1 -->
<li href="/foo/bar">Foo Bar</li> <!-- http://example.com/foo/bar -->
<li href="http://example2.com">Other examples</li> <!-- http://example2.com/ -->
</ul>
Say what you want about the state of American democracy, but our freedom of information laws and steps (small as they may be) in releasing digital data are far ahead of our EU counterparts. It's a common complaint I've heard from European journalists when discussing watchdog journalism, that the legal advice U.S. journalists have for getting public records has no real parallel in the EU.

In the OP's case, the data is ostensibly public, but not in a useful form. There are many parts of the U.S. gov that don't post great records, but beta.congress.gov and federalregister.gov are a couple of the best government records sites I've ever seen and contain more than enough compilable data to hack on
Saving Great Ideas from the ideas industry
I host an archive of a free British political satire podcast. As far as I'm aware, my archive is the only place on the 'net that provides downloads for older episodes of this podcast. I receive something short of a terabyte of transfer per month. It's been implicitly approved of by the podcast creators by their linking directly to my archive.

To my surprise, in the two or so years I've been running the site, I've had no fewer than 5 people go out of their way to email me and ask how to give me money. I always redirect them to a charity, as I'm just redistributing someone else's content and the hosting only costs $10/month anyway.

But this reflects what this article describes: people will pay for what they perceive to be a quality product. I really wish the content industries (entertainment, software, literature) would learn this lesson and stop with the DRM nonsense. Make your product easy to use, easy to acquire, and easy to pay for and people simply will pay you for it. It is a different business model than what we've had in the past, and you'll have to get used to the fact that some won't pay you at all, but it can and does work.

It's the future, folks. Time to give up on buggy whips.
You're right, mac has been using this technique for a while. Actually trying it out right now, it still does this, but you need to move it fast. If you move it fast enough within the triangle it'll stay, while if you move it at the same speed straight down, the menu goes away immediately.
This is true, but for most startups the 'advantage' is that cash now is much more valuable than cash later (since it can be plowed back into growth).

It's not that it's more profitable for us to strike sweetheart lifetime deals (it's actually less profitable overall), but by having the money up-front we can grow more quickly.

My $0.02
You can do it locally with qrencode[1], which is available via MacPorts and Homebrew. It would probably simplify the script, too (especially if converted to bash).

On an X11 environment, I can select some text and get the same results on the command line with something like:

xsel | qrencode -o - | feh -FZ

None of these commands are standard on any distribution, but you can easily install them or use alternatives. You can also make this an alias, hotkey, etc.

[1] http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/

Edit: No need for temporary file
Exactly what I was thinking. I never noticed that Amazon's dropdown both displayed the submenu instantly and prevented it from mistakenly disappearing.

Speed is also involved. For example, if you hover on Sports & Outdoors and quickly move your mouse towards the Exercice & Fitness sub-item, it'll work. But taking the same path at a slower speed will hide the submenu.
yes, I missed a lot of money for not continuing to play football after high school.
Maybe it's just me, but the requestAnimationFrame code fails in Firefox unless they're all prefixed with 'window.'

It probably works straight away in Chrome because requestAnimationFrame is defined.
>For better or worse, iPhoto is a part of the Mac experience.

Sure, it's a non-part-of-the-core-OS, bundled for free, easily replaceable, with 10s of alternatives, peripheral to using a Mac, part of the Mac experience.

To return to our duck-ing topic, what does that have to do with OS X being bad or "not just working"?

If you had to bring up a bundled, non-essential, app to make your point of OS X not working well, then one has to conclude it works mighty fine overall.

And it's even worse than that: you haven't actually even made any point against iPhoto. Just that you don't like it's filesystem abstraction. Which is neither here, not there.
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In the old days:
"Some people tell children to "not ask questions" or "just because"."

In the wikipedia/google era:
"That's not important enough for our limited disk space / griefers thought it would be funny to trash it so they feel better when they make others feel sad"

I think you'll see an interesting societal shift as the current generation grows up. Its not a positive one. Going from "stop asking questions", "there's no answer" without necessarily judging the questions themselves to "your questions are wrong and your ideas suck and you're wrong to even wonder about this topic" is even more negative.
So, your users aren't working on traditional "Desktop PC" instances anymore, but inexpensive terminal clients that connect to a backend Hypervisor running on a server? I've been waiting to see when companies would start doing that "en masse" - back in 1999/2000, I thought it was going to take off when Sun was promoting the Thin Client Concept. Then VMWare took it up - but, for some reason, I never saw it get any traction, and the vast majority (Well, in my experience, all) companies seemed to go the other direction (countering where my instincts thought we were going to go) - and started issuing everyone laptops. The exact opposite of thin clients connected to servers. I had to eat a lot of claim chowder.

If I'm understanding your situation correctly, how do your thin clients work out in practice, and, how do people deal with scenarios in which they would normally use laptops? (Business Trips, Airplane Flights, etc...)
Our times are sad. Do you see any encouragement toward science in the Simpson's? Read any Jules Verne book, you'll see why in these times most kids dreamt about science. Now even Lego became figurines you have to collect, in my time Lego was a big box of colorful squares used to build anything that crossed one's mind.
What do you want to do with it? Samba server? For what? HTPC?
I don't think you fully grasped the point. Look a level deeper.
Yes they do. Stop trying to make everyone live in the 90's with you.
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I doubt they're annoyed by their "lack of knowledge" being exposed, it seems more likely to me that they're annoyed because they're trying to do something more important (to themselves/their boss/whoever) than answer your persistent questions..
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Just pushed updates and tested in FF 18.0.2 and 19.0

Please let me know if this is still not working in your browser.
So now the app store is going to be flooded with apps with all the same design. :-P
For comparison to native applications:

- Firefox 19 uses the delay technique
- GTK3 uses the triangle technique
- Tk 8.6 does what bootstrap does
- I can't figure out what Qt 4 does
Sometimes the EU regulators seem to have such forward thinking and great ideas. I don't feel this is one of those times. A browser selection screen as a legal requirement, as well as the decision that they have to offer Windows without Media Player installed, seem to me to just be ridiculous requirements levied on Microsoft in an age where these decisions are increasingly irrelevant. There's no browser selection screen required for Windows RT or Windows Phone. Nor is there a requirement for browser selection on OSX, iOS, Linux distros, Android, or ChromeOS (imagine if that were the case...). In fact, the majority of those platforms require you to use the built-in browser, something Microsoft has never done with IE on the desktop. There's always been the choice of what software you want to install, up to the point when mobile devices gained popularity.

What the EU is trying to do is make competition more fair. What they're doing, in effect, seems to be making sure Microsoft has all the disadvantages the legislators can legally throw at them. I worked at a company that did this for employees it wanted to fire, making new requirements that couldn't possibly be met and when the employee failed they were fired for not meeting them. It's obvious the EU wants to fire Microsoft, in an age where competition has never been so fierce (and not due to a browser ballot).
You make money by selling what people want.
Microsoft's latest vision of the future is a world of giant screens and sensors
I've seen countless "bugs" in Internet Explorer and the documentation in their developer knowledge base was always to "upgrade browser" or "use this vbscript snippet" or "use this jscript only solution that would cause errors in non IE browsers".

At some point I got seriously annoyed by them. This fine is a good reminder that there is some justice in this world.
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But that doesn't fit with the analogy. Downloading and installing a third party browser is next to effortless. Who cares if the OEMs didn't install them? In my analogy the third party gas companies had to send out a technician to install their service, but could presumably do that free of charge to entice the customers to switch to their service.
One has to wonder whether the whole "elitist" strategy from Apple isn't, in fact, a way to avoid the sort of responsibilities Microsoft took on, both towards developers, the "enterprise" community and the wider population.
Already discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327261
I don't think you'd ever hear anyone whose created something truly great say this.

For a lot of them, good enough, just isn't. (partial Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, quote)

Sure good enough MVPs might be alright. Once you find product market fit, build "whole product" and customer experience. Stop building new stuff, take what you're already doing good enough and make it great.

Fab deliveries used to take 1-2+ months a year ago. Now it takes less than two weeks, sometimes same week. Not holding inventory, inbounding post purchase and MVP pick and pack is the easy way. Since they stopped doing things the easy way, I know my friends and I order 2-3x as much.

At Airbnb, we were technically international from day 1. We could've kept doing internationalization like we were doing....good enough. Instead we chose the hard, increased our language and currency support 2-3x, and spent a painful 2-3 months taking all consumer facing localization forward be leaps and bounds, not steps. We pry wouldn't have doubled the previous 3 years of nights booked in 3 months if we hadn't.

At Munchery, a lot of stuff is currently good enough because they were focused on finding product and operational market fit.

We found fit. Now we're circling back and taking everything we're already doing good enough, and making it freaking great.

You can check back in with me in 3 months and see if doing the hard work was worth if you want.

But I'd bet a lot of money that it will be.

As Mark Cuban said "everyone tells you they're going to be special. But no one does the work. Do the fucking work."*

*I added fucking to Mark's quote
GTK3 does (verified with emacs-gtk3 and gnome-system-manager).