skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I would also suggest making it easy to replace images, especially the logo and the hero elements, with plain text boxes (textured/gradient/solid background)."

I second this suggestion.
It's ok - we feel the same about OSX font rendering.
Per other comments, that's coming in the next update.

... now if I could only figure out how to get people to upload.
Because these guys appear to be crooks, it's doubtful that they own any IP or have any IP-owning clients.
Imagine if we could outsource prison guard duties (especially the dangerous, interpersonal stuff) to robots. And if those robots could also ensure the prisoners work efficiently in their prison jobs.
"Why is it that in a 100 person company, you only have 5 IT ppl and the other 95 seem to have secured jobs?"

Isn't that what we expect to happen? As jobs become automated, humans stop doing them and you get more humans doing the jobs that cannot be currently automated.
You are confusing things with value.

Most commenters seem to confuse needs with value. They think that once we are all fed and housed there will be no more jobs.

At least you've taken it to the next step -- tangible things. Congrats.

You need to ask yourself a question: why do rich people create things for each other? A millionaire grandmother may make a scarf for her grandchild. A middle-aged man may take time to create a scrapbook for a friend that is retiring. A billionaire may go to yard sales and haggle over the price of a toaster.

It's not about needs, and it's not about things. It's about trade, creation, giving, social interaction. These things are not going anywhere, no matter how many AIs there are. In another 100 years we're just all going to be the equivalent of today's billionaires. That means having purpose and creating things, ie, continuing in some form of semi-structured creation and trade process.

Look at it this way. Describe the life of an early 21st century person to somebody from 1000BC. They will have no idea why you work. Guaranteed meals every now and then? Communicate with anybody on the planet? Water, sewage, and light for the dark -- all without effort? We live in an incredible far-fetched place beyond dreams. There's no point in working. From their perspective.

But that's not the way things panned out.
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need to improve performance...
The Mincome experiment only failed in the sense that despite proving the benefits of a minimum income, it hasn't caught on very quickly elsewhere.
I use firefox, always have even when it was buggy as hell, mostly because i needed all the web dev tools and was confortable with it, but i also use chrome for watching youtube and quick browsing (unfortunately firefox till this day is damn slow to open and become responsive).

Thats why im looking forward to opera's webkit version (so i can ditch google chrome for opera), i think google chrome is getting more and more creepy and has made some decisions that are more in google's interest than the users (like posting links on the speed dial or all the extensions that are nothing more thank links and all the extensions that are not links but behave like links, its weird).
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..and can release the flying monkeys?
You may be aware, but for the edification of others I would point out that these ideas find their roots much earlier than Grotius. For example Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, "In cases of need all things are common property." [1]

[1] http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3066.htm#article7
The article could've been titled "I hate emacs for no particular reason". It's probable more accurate.
Show HN: My second startup; solving the problems from my first startup
A little history first. Back in Jan 2011 I quit my day job after saving up my $ for a year and began my first startup, a hardware + SaaS business. It was exciting and at the end of 14 months I had a handful of customers but not enough incoming to keep me going so I went back into the workforce full time, running it on the side. Naturally my time is pretty limited. Users kept signing up and I had to constantly print and post them unique welcome forms, direct debit forms, post out monthly invoices etc, the list goes on. The paperwork alone took me hours. I'd have just coded up each form into a batch job if the content on them didn't change so drastically. I needed a mail merge system that worked.

So I checked out the offerings from MS and Libre Office much to my dismay. 36 steps, an excel file, stand on a sheet of alfoil and hit merge and you've got your mail merge done hopefully. Finding them not quite capable of doing what I needed I did what any coder with a few spare evenings does and I wrote my own that spat out PDFs from a csv file. I shot the idea past some business connections from startup 1 and got back a lot of positive feedback from. In fact so much feedback that the recurring theme was that they were shouting at me "How do I use this, my secretary/wife/monkey spends hours hand editing our invoices and still half of them are inconsistent. Sell me this now!". I realised hardly anyone except MS Word pro's and well trained office staff actually know how to do a mail merge. Usually not the kind of people you find in a small business. So why not make an app out of it.

The spare evenings turned into 6 months and a few banking headaches but finally it's ready for it's first release.

www.rocketmailmerge.com

Any and all constructive feedback is welcome. I've got plans to put an intro video on the front page when time permits and add some extra features, but I'll see how the feedback goes first before stretching the MVP boundaries too far.
I think you'd need a combination of both minimum income and minimum services that goes beyond your food stamps example to be successful. If you only have a minimum income, then monopoly/oligopoly providers will raise their prices to absorb the entire minimum income. This is already happening in the form of healthcare prices rising significantly faster than inflation.
Interestingly enough, the article was ALL about how to expand your available candidates to include more qualified women and had absolutely not even a whiff of "hire the less qualified candidate if a women".

Contrast with the number of comments here about affirmative action and steorotypes and gender bias ...
Unless the web crawlers are intentionally spoofing their user agent to identify as browsers, I don't think that they are counted.
Clickable link : http://www.rocketmailmerge.com
I don't mean this specifically about your site, but most of the sites like these where the user is trying something new, don't put a barrier asking for an email and expecting him to register. Allow him to start using your tools right away and then if he deems it worthy he'll register anyway since he needs to save the damn thing.

Right now, all I did was go to 10minutemail.com and grab a temporary email. Look I get it you're a new service and you promise to never never ever spam me. But after being burnt a thousand times no sensible user in his sane mind would give you his email address that easily. Allowing one to try before registering may increase coding complexity, but it'll drastically lower the barrier.
What an opinionated piece of crap TFA is. This kind of stuff is precisely why I stopped reading The Reg a long time ago.

Seriously:

"4. The editor should contain no implementation of Lisp."

Why do they do that? Because of course Emacs totally rocks in their last example, where you need to apply the same modification to various lines (in Emacs you'd probably use a macro repeating some search and replace using a quick Lisp substitution).

How do you even want to talk with people who argue for their own limitation?

Appeal to authority: I urge people to read "Beating the average" from pg.
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Buy by colour
If the internet is going to crush your business by avoiding rules you are legally bound to, then yeah, I think you have a right to complain.

Uber (or whoever does Uber's PR) does a fantastic job of making every single one of their legal problems look the same. They really aren't.
That is going to be very useful to me, thanks. I'm doing 2 classes right now, one where I have to present python and the other explain NLTK! :P
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Verity is usually satirical; at best he's overblown and ridiculous. I don't think the Reg's editorial staff expects you to take this as gospel, it's mostly for entertainment value.
I have a suspicion that WHM/cPanel servers are propping up CentOS's numbers on servers (I've got 5 WHM/cPanel servers all running CentOS, my non-WHM servers run Ubuntu).
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Agree, they're great for mockups though as it's really easy to change the colours rapidly. Also good for doing things like animation of gradients.
I am guessing DRM
I'm pretty sure you can turn that on. Though I think it shows all whitespace characters unless he's changed some more recently.
Oh the memories : )

Would put a smile on my face too but... I decided to make part of the computation on the server-side so that my desktop software cannot be cracked without rewriting what the server-side does. My desktop app only makes sense when the Internet connection is up and doesn't "phone home" too often.

If users don't like that they can GTFO.

If pirates don't like that it puts a smile on my face ; )
And I am using it...!
I know how you feel. I am in the same situation. Sorta. Good clients are hard to come by and I am running out of them.

But I am not sure if I want to join someone elses startup or do my own. I'm not much of an entrepreneur as I am a hacker. But the problem with most other companies is that they are not run like the way I would want to run them. Which brings me back to the point where I might just be happy running my own show.
But again, I'm no entrepreneur.
Cover and TOC

http://nltk.org/book/
Probably by starting with the idea of writing an article gushing about sublime and working backwards in an attempt to not appear biased :p
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Home-grown dashboard. Works fine for now. It was quite a lot of work to build it but the code turned out nice and concise and I learned a lot in the process.
Building a better battery
Why is it "bullshit"?

Due to space constraints, someone needs to commute for an hour. What's wrong with the person having a lower hourly productivity being the one stuck with the commute?
Where for "market" presumably we read "criminals breaking the law", ultimately to disastrous effect.
Yep, I should probably refresh my Latin skills :)
Well. At least he was pretty clear this was all his opinion.

But that's a couple of minutes of my life I'd like to get back.

I'm soOOooo glad I learned ed as my first editor which lead to a 30 year love affair with vi. Both of those editors sound painful to use.
Post some examples of your work/github, I'm sure there are plenty of people here looking for IOS skills.
Before you all get too angry about the scandalous lies about your favorite editor note that this is a Verity Stob column. If you're reading it for a sober, fair-minded review of the various tradeoffs involved in the very serious business of text editing, you're doing it wrong.
looks nice, but one thing I really don't get is how

<a ng-click="modal.saved=true;dismiss()">...</a>

is any different to

<a onClick="thisIsAnAntiPattern()">...</a>

I'm all for declarative code but isn't stuffing javascript in html attributes something we learnt not to do about 10 years ago? Why the resurgence?
Silex Power announces 1,000 km-range electric car
The contention is that 1950s tax law enabled tax shelters which allowed wealthy filers to heavily reduce their income tax bill.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732470510457815...
I've personally used the black car option more than the taxi option so as you would expect, always more. Most rides I took were ~$15-20 Cambridge-Back Bay. For business travel there I'm considering reliability and consistency as worth the extra $.
Awesome (font)
This has saved me a ton of time mocking up designs. Not how it would affect performance 'tho.
Automatic - Your car and smartphone, connected (YC S11)
OTOH Vimscript is painful to use compared to Python...
This has saved me a ton of time mocking up designs. Not how it would affect performance 'tho.
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Responsibilities
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- Implement user interfaces

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Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business?
Nice, but oh my poor Firefox. What's wrong with images as bg?

Some numbers:

The one with hearts is 944 bytes (css file), 232 bytes gzipped (with 7zip), 304 bytes as gif (Photoshop. Can be smaller with hand optimizations. Need extra css code to tile as bg)

Just a tech demo IMO.
The goal is to have a vehicle that can land on another planet and return to the surface of Earth in working condition with the only requirement as add fuel.

One hindering factor is the problem of having enough fuel to make the return trip.

There needs to be a better technology to harvest the massive amounts of energy wasted when decelerating from 30k mph to 1 thousand mph during re-entry. Convert the heat to a usable fuel. So we store the fuel needed for re-entry in the velocity of the craft.

A heat to fuel converter. If we could be 100% efficient at this, we would land with just as much fuel as we left to get into orbit.
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HOWTO: Deploying RabbitMQ Simulator on Cloud Foundry
I'm very pissed at Meteor for using their own package system and pretty much ruining NodeJS ecosystem.

Apparently they have their own reasons[1] but most of these are questionable. As I see it, this is just lock-in, NIH syndrome or just bad engineering.

[1] https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/516#issuecomment-12919...
Google Wants to Replace All Your Passwords with a Ring
This should solve your problem: https://github.com/SublimeText/LineEndings
In terms of Machine Learning for text data, Chapter 6 is highly recommended.

http://nltk.org/book/ch06.html
maybe you want to check out this classic: http://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/ismm.pdf
I think it is good to focus on only one paradigme initially, and functional programming is a good choice. Later they learn other paradigma's and how they can be combined.

Good work!
Modular CSS with Media Queries and Sass
For a clearer explanation see: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its...
You're quite correct about them raising their prices, but then again, healthcare is competitively purchased only the loosest and least meaningful way. There really aren't strong competitive forces emanating from the demand side - it's more like a demand-side oligopoly of buyers setting prices. In healthcare, we are arguably seeing the expected outcome of a lack of meaningful price competition.

The government could take action to enable competitive individual purchasing of care instead of monopsony or group buying. It could provide cash incentives for people who shop around for basic, easy-to-understand care. It could fund patient education for more complex care. And if this model proves successful, it could be expanded to harder-to-understand care gradually and with caution to see how consumers react.

In other words, competition can only work if it's allowed to. Today, food prices are raised for various reasons, but I am not aware of a school of economics that faults this on a demand-side government-funded competitive individual purchasing program (not that you said that either).
If those regulations actually protected riders and cabbies instead of entrenched cab company profits, don't you think Uber would have folded by now under the weight of consumer complaints? By giving the rules a run-around, Uber has done a great job of proving the hypocrisy and self-serving nature of those rules in the first place.
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My first objective is indeed to find some clients.

You don't tell us who are, what you do, what you have done. Start with those things on your HN profile or blog, and finding clients will become much easier. As a freelancer, building your personal brand is your number one job. I'd love to help, but until I know more about you and what you are capable of, it's extremely difficult.
I love how the US claims to be the home of capitalism but yet to the casual observer lack of government intervention seems to result in a /less/ competitive capitalist market.

For example, two or three broadband providers, two or three cable providers, one or two taxi companies, three large cellular operators, just a small handful of insurers, one children's toys company, etc.

Seems like the US's capitalist model is great for big corporations or whoever the incumbent is but terrible for real grass roots competition. You want to go out and start a new business today there are simply tons of sectors you cannot compete in at all.

Technology has been largely immune to this but patents have crashed that party and with trolls everywhere a lot of smaller businesses are shutting their doors when threatened.

The US seriously needs to up its game. They need to say "no" to corporate money and actually encourage/force competition. This is why the US is losing its competitive edge to China.
That's a feature, instead of customizing your text editor you spend your time coding the thing you originally wanted to code.
I setup an Python Flask server on Azure last week. I was pretty impressed by the polish on a lot of the MSFT Azure management tools. I had also tried AppFrog, Heroku, and AWS Beanstalk in the past.
Oops it worked for me...!
This is an excellent resource which I own, but seemed to be focused on language scientists who are unfamiliar with Python rather than developers who need to process text - which I suspect is a large portion of the audience.
You work for Maxis? :)
That's fine because emacs has been an implementation of lisp that contains an editor for years now.
If it's a matter of security, speed, or an issue with how a particular website is rendered, knowing that somebody uses "google" as a web browser is of little help when attempting a diagnosis, regardless of their point of reference.
Who’s the biggest cloud of all? The numbers are in
Paragraph 4 on the first page:

"The taxi company argues Uber operates a taxi service without bothering with any of the rules and regulations that govern the industry."

I too hate the page breaks in order to get more eyes on more adds - but this article seems fairly balanced to me.
"No support for Object Pascal ... minus 1 million points"

"How can I possibly use this as an IDE for theregister.co.uk backend systems when it doesn't support object pascal"

Get off my lawn! What smells like Mustard? The president is a demi-crat!
Your second metaphor ain't correct. Google and FB's normal way of executing doesn't consist in sending regular trafic to a bicycle (server) until it crashes and then re-dispatching that legit trafic to non-crashed servers.

Sure a server does crash once in a while but it's not because they purposefuly did overload it.

The DDoS attempt trafic is dispatched left and right just like regular trafic and doesn't affect the normal behavior.

It's more like the single truck can hit any of the 1000000 flying bycicles.

: )
Thanks for your answer. You're right, we need to discuss this openly before I put much more work into it. We aren't looking for investment yet, but I'm assuming he's talking to people who might be interested.

I think formalizing our agreement in writing will make me a lot more comfortable with the relationship.
I think ordinary Lua does the same? - this was all a while ago now - but the result isn't arraylike, because the indexes aren't starting from zero. Of course, you can keep on top of the indexes yourself, because tables are tables, and you can use whatever indexes you like and/or track the size by hand... but you might then feel that Lua isn't really being much help here...
I use all of those 3: Codecademy, Treehouse and CodeSchool.

I think codecademy is best for starting a new topic, next stop is treehouse because it goes into details and at last codechool, because it cover a lot in a short lesson.

If anyone need 50% of first moth at the threehouse, click on my profile.
I think you meant 'iOS and Android'. Google's phones have very little market share.
I hated Linkedin since it started 10-ishyears ago because it managed to get to my private email because a friend invited me. Now I know how that happened.

People use it for jobs and so I'm loathe to delete it entirely, but I still loathe it.
I wish you luck in your journey.
"We won't ever spam you, but we will send you a pointless email about a minor change in our TOS or a new feature in 6-9 months' time, once you've completely forgotten who we are and that you ever signed up for us. This email will ding your phone at 4am if you live anywhere that isn't San Francisco."
Why are "black cars" more? What is the difference?

I just assumed a black car was just a taxi that was unlicensed with the city (so couldn't legally call its self a taxi).

Also $15-20 is insanely cheap. I took a black taxi in London, less than 30 minutes (20 of which was traffic), $55.
For anyone whose interested in text classification (along the lines of what Chapter 6 in this book covers), check out our service https://www.repustate.com/predictive-analytics-machine-learn...

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They also have crazy union rules where a cab is only allowed to pick up in the (tiny) area it's chartered in. So if you catch a cab from Cambridge to Boston (across the river) the now empty Cambridge cab is not allowed to pick up anyone in Boston but is supposed to drive back to Cambridge empty to find a new fare. Same goes for Somerville, etc. Rules like this further reduce the availability of cabs and make getting around unpredictable and super frustrating.
Russians now say new Antarctica bacteria actually contamination
Is there a way to use native API? For example I'm looking for a framework that can embed browser into the App's interface. Or it's done in some other way?
This idea is too morbid for me, I'm afraid.

Or perhaps the presentation feels too "light"?

I can read Wiki articles on serial killers, but this seems somehow disrespectful. I'm also concerned because (although I respect Al Jazeera as much as any news source) I wonder if they have an agenda they're pursuing through this piece?

If I'm out of line here let me know why!
Right -- the drivers, protocols and skeletal processing stuff remain closed.

We had an internal bet on how long it would take folks to reverse-engineer the Kinect protocols. My money was on a week. Someone mostly figured it out in about three hours. :-)
Pinterest plus Delicious?