skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10% of net income does not sound like a good deal at all. 10% of gross revenue for the product would be much better, but still why so little?

It's also 10% of any form, even electronic:

"as a result of our distribution of the book, in any form, printed, electronic, or other, or from the license or sale to third parties of any rights in a derivative work."
NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life
> it is the KDE and Wayland guys who have come out screaming in a very public, very vitriolic attack against Ubuntu

When blatantly false things are stated about your project by an organization as big as Canonical, one really can't blame them for expressing frustration. Especially when there is FUD about Wayland everywhere you go.
To make it look like the actual site you need the orange line to be straight and at the top.
Anything is vulnerable to rubber-hose cryptanalysis. The question is whether this is more or less secure than average Joe using the same three passwords for every site he logs into.
Note that your own definition has nothing to do with economic status.
Yes, I've bought dozens of US0.00 books from Amazon!
For me its solidarity. That, and I just want to be a part of it, regardless of who else knows about it.
Google Code Jam 2013 starts in about an hour.
I was just going to comment on that.

To my eye, Slate, Asphalt, or Heather Grey would work better (in order of preference). http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/ExpressOrd...

Also, these are 100% cotton, right?
I'd say the people behind the new Gov.uk website are single handedly killing the notion that government can't do things as well as the private sector.

They're doing "web" right, whereas most private sector UK firms (including design/development agencies) are doing "web" wrong. Very wrong.
At my employer (a car sharing company) we do have this API (for internal use only) and it is extremely fun to use.

When you realise that you can just send commands to a car and get it to do things, the possibilities you can think up are incredible
I went back and forth with Springer about publishing my book (Essentials of Metaheuristics). It was a completed, edited, typeset, and ready to go volume, and my rep really wanted it, but couldn't convince her higher-ups of the one requirement I had: that I retain copyright on electronic copies. The reason was that I intended to release new versions of the book once every two months or so, constantly modifying and updating the book, and didn't want to go through the hassle of Springer approval for new editions every month.

This was of course a non-starter. Springer believes that in the coming years it will make nearly all of its money on electronic volumes. Heck, they'd be glad to give me the rights to the bound volumes, but no way will they release the electronic volumes.

So I put out electronic versions for free and bound volumes for people who want to buy them at minimal cost through Lulu. It's been a moderate success in a very narrow field: maybe about 6000 downloads a year.
Official Hacker News T-shirt
I love the minimal design. Purchased.
"Just use Git. Or Mercurial. It doesn't matter."

Exactly! That's the whole point of Kiln Harmony. Use whatever you want, and let the rest of your team and company do the same.

Allowing developers to use the tools they want to use and the ones that allow them to work the fastest should be your highest priority.
I do not want anyone of them tracking my movement. May be except Business vehicle fleets.
> You've now twice in this thread made the claim that the person whose views you disagree with used a style that was too complex

Now I am 100% sure you are just another silly troll.
How Brightpod got featured on TheNextWeb and GigaOM Pro
Wow. This was unnecessarily hostile.

Though I agree that the tagline's a little confusing, the first two bullet points ("Never ask for a friend's Wi-Fi password again" and "Sync passwords between your tablet and phone") gave me a clearer understanding of what they're doing here.

Irrespective of the quality of their explanation, your cynical assumption (read: projection) that in comparing themselves to Dropbox they're just trying to "seem disruptive" or to put on airs is disheartening. I don't know these guys, but why not give them the benefit of the doubt? Couldn't they be comparing themselves to Dropbox for another reason – namely, that Dropbox is great at syncing, and that, just perhaps, their app is great at syncing too?
I think the inside joke is kind of the point.
Ah, the old false dichotomy logical fallacy.
I guess the only reason I would know this has anything to do with HN is because this post. Other than that I think it's a little too obscure.

The price is right though, so I might go ahead and get one (plus I love HN), but I hope to see more designs in the future!
>O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul

Yes. But that was like 7-8 years ago. Around the same time Oreillynet stopped being interesting.
Sorry what? Did you read TFA?

Recording audio and video of people in their homes and then sharing it over the net, using it as leverage to get the victims to do things, harassing them in their homes...

This in no way equivalent to sneaking a look into the girl's locker rooms or rummaging through a bin for discarded porn! It's harassment, it's invasion of privacy and it's downright evil. That's before we even get into computer hacking.

You're right the tools don't matter in the slightest, but you completely miss the scale of the crimes. To throw it back at you - just because these kids are sat behind their computers at home doesn't make it any less heinous, or lessen the effects on the victims.
I'd buy this in an instant if it was available in Canada.
Forking, iterating, and contributing new code are all good things. Reinventing the wheel, coming up with a square, and then getting the majority of users (by virtue of being the default, not by being the best), is not so good. The complaint is that Canonical is doing the latter with a lot of things.
> People, AWS original sales pitch was to take care of scaling for you, not the other way around.

As far as I know, it was never about that, but about giving you the tools to spin-up whatever you need at will. The cool thing about AWS has always been the APIs.

I would rather take a service that has downtime but give me the tools to failover/recover than a service that promises something they cannot promise (100% uptime) and when it inevitably fails, I'm at the mercy of their support.
Typography Competitions. Part 1 
For procrastinators, choosing an ongoing competition is a great opportunity to start and (mainly!) finish a project, because deadlines keep us moving in the right direction. Or a direction, which is better than no direction. Needless to say, a competition is also a smart way to get your work noticed by professionals who can become your future colleagues, employees, employers, sponsors, groupies, and so on.
There are minimalist shirts, and then there are official Hacker News shirts. Count me in.
"On OS X, the buttons have the colors of a traffic light (red=close, yellow=minimize, green=zoom). Windows users trying a Mac for the first time understand this instantly."

Nope, that's not obvious either. Also a result of convention.
I find it hard to believe she really cares about the bigotry and child porn on Reddit when half her post is about people who were mean to her
Chrome Extension Replaces Every Instance of ‘The Cloud’ With ‘My Butt’
I love the shirt. I was nervous at the concept of a shirt dedicated to Hacker News, but it's very simple, yet will promote solidarity amongst weathers.

And I hear black is the new black.
I don't get it, is there any way to format text? Is there any way to spellcheck?
Google Play: Potentially Unwanted
I'm beginning to wonder: is it possible to write inspirational, motivational prose without making ridiculously false and insulting statements?

The author has clearly not found a way.
Clojure's great. While I like static typing in general, I see a better chance of long-term success in Clojure over Scala. With Scala, there's nothing wrong with the language, but the amount of Java-in-Scala code I've seen has convinced me that there's unintended cultural risk-- at least in the enterprise, where software has been done wrong for decades-- while Clojure forces people to be exposed to new ways of doing things.
Tim's key quote:

"If we don't put the hooks for the use of DRM in… people will just go back to using Flash."

- this underestimates the momentum at play, and the fact that developers have already found ways to monetize HTML-based content. Flash is never coming back.
I was struggling to find a name for the primary background color here. It's probably not gray. Creme?
Abba - JavaScript a/b testing
The description at the start of the pull request for this work-in-progress branch is worth a read for understanding the motivations behind most of the changes.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342

It may also help to keep in mind that this is a preview. Bootstrap 3 isn't done yet.
It is my understanding that they have levels of moderation that are comparable with the levels of moderation across reddit as a whole (some individual subreddits being more heavily moderated than others).

The difference seems to be one of culture, not policing, or perhaps the difference only exists in our biased perception of the two.
It really depends on what you're doing. For me (Java), IDEA is about 50% beautiful but 500% functional, and that's what leaves me with it.
I agree. Anyone with animals knows that black just doesn't work, so I have to pass on a lot of cool shirts at conferences, etc
This sentiment seems to be common amongst people who fought their way through git’s somewhat obtuse syntax first.

People coming from the other direction (hg first), I know a lot of people who wish they could go back to mercurial, but for various reasons can’t.
Ron Gilbert bids Double Fine farewell
Much of the criticism of SRS is because they game the discussion forum by coordinating posting and downvote rings.

In some ways, they have a laudable mission, but the way they go about it is without logic or regard for the rules of reddit. For SRS, it's not really about enforcing the standards of political correctness that they claim to stand for. It's more of a game where they choose someone to hate and then do whatever they can within the technical constraints of reddit to make life hard for that poster.

At one point, they were going after a guy who had posted a candid account of caring for his mentally disabled adult brother, because they felt he was being ableist. I went into the thread where they were coordinating the downvote ring, asked if he might not have some relevant real world experience, and was banned from SRS within minutes.

I think for most of them, its more about having an excuse to game the reddit commenting infrastructure, than any sort of moral cause. The reddit administration can't ban SRS like they do other voting rings, because of the negative publicity that would result.
It seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off. That was also how we found out about them.
What Good Marketers Can Learn from V1aGr Spammers
> What's wrong with the person having a lower hourly productivity being the one stuck with the commute?

The productivity of labor is not determined by wages. Period.

What is right with the person having a lower hourly wage being the one stuck with the commute? What is wrong with the person with the higher hourly wage being the one stuck with the commute?

Due to space constraints, what argument is there for preferential treatment of those already economically better off? It is far less of a hit on your pocketbook to shoulder the expensive commute than it is on someone making 50% of your wages. Perhaps the social expectation should be that the more money an agent makes, the greater his social responsibility to give up conveniences to those making less to better balance the equation?

There is far more reason to be found in those with higher wages being 'stuck with the commute' and living in less convenient areas than there is in an elitist notion that one ought to have the benefit of both higher wages and maximum convenience. Unless, of course, higher hourly wages also bestow upon the bearer an inherent right to misanthropy and rejection of a social obligation to produce greater equality across humankind.
Shuttleworth actually goes on to say in the comments
"The very people protesting their super-collaborative credentials have a long history of being super-antagonistic to Ubuntu in practice."

I don't think it's even the NIH problem it's just sheer delusion.
Very similar UI to ia Writer [1], which I really enjoy — as someone who easily gets caught up in the minutiae of choosing fonts/sizes/linespacing etc. and thus never starts, you know, actually writing, it’s actually sometimes great to have a program with preset attributes that you can’t tweak. Adding git-like versioning is an awesome addition, I’m looking forward to playing (and maybe writing!) with this.

[1] http://www.iawriter.com/mac/
I'd love to donate to Watsi + proudly wear a Hacker News shirt, but this design doesn't really do it for me.
Sort of. I'm all for open access and government data behind APIs, but it also leads to some level of unfairness. In NYC for example the MTA has opened subway schedules and (on some lines) live arrival estimates via API, which has led to an explosion of commercial applications.

So taxpayers have to either pay a private entity for access to public data, or download scummy "free" apps and have it hoover up their private data.

Opening up APIs should not preclude the government from building its own frontends, in whatever format makes sense.
> I preface this by saying I don't know the author and I don't recall ever having read anything by her previously before, so all of this drama about past things she's spoken about is new to me.

RW has a reputation for courting controversy. As a result, people tend to be more critical of her than they normally would. Regardless of the validity of her post here, nobody operates in a vacuum.

I personally suspect that her public shaming, wikipedia vandalism, etc., are less a function of her being a woman, and more a function of her being a fairly unpleasant and somewhat dramatic person
Eh, it's pretty easy to host it on your own server. Just run "meteor bundle myapp.tar.gz", extract the .tar.gz on your server, run "node main.js". It's documented on "meteor help".
JSON Style Sheets
soooo good
I've been told off before for pasting that on HN before. I'd suggest you edit your comment.
The Teespring homepage seems to be designed just for people wishing to sell their apparel, not for people looking to browse around for shirts. Is this in the works?
The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Yep! These will be printed on 100% cotton tees.
> This means that you never have to decide whether you want to use Git or Mercurial. Religious war: averted.

I think the religious war is already over, and Git won. The only time I hear about Mercurial is when Fog Creek talks about it; approximately everyone else is on Github.

(Update: For the record, I don't think Git winning this war was due to it being technically superior in any significant way -- but neither is Mercurial superior enough to make it worth teaching everyone how to use two different DVCSes. Git was good enough, and then it won the mindshare war, and now it's the standard.)
Absolutely, i do also. But if its a HN Tee, should it be recognizable to those who frequent HN?

@mayank same applies, inside joke to who? Those who where told it was a HN Tee or the HN community?(assuming its not recognizable to them).
My biggest hurdle with Meteor so far has been how hard it makes testing and test-driven development. Built-in testing support is pretty much absent from the core framework and has been marked a "post 1.0" feature on the roadmap. If you know your way around Node, you can kind of isolate out most of the global state that the framework uses and write unit tests, but it's pretty ugly (you can refer to my stack overflow question for a sample of the difficulties I've had: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15191257#15314384)
I've written a command (that we're still playing around with here) to take a 'snapshot' of things that a server is doing (many of the things mentioned in this article). This can allow you to look at it later to see what's going on.

https://github.com/rory/SystemAutopsy
I came to the same conclusion (looks like Creme). But it's probably best to have someone look at the colour in person?
I want to know how much the domain cost.
isn't the nature of Open Source to be constantly forking, iterating, and contributing new code when you think the existing stuff isn't good enough?

You can always start from scratch if existing projects don't cut it. When talking about a windows manager (like Unity) or display manager (like Mir), starting from scratch is, financially, a pretty big decision, so you should make it an informed decision. The weird thing is that Canonical never even contacted the Wayland developers. It's weird because they should be interested in any mistakes Wayland made on their way (to not make them again), and because it's so easy in the open source community. If you find a bug in your Intel graphics driver you just go to freenode and talk to the developer that wrote that code. Same for Wayland, and most other projects.

If they really want to be better than Wayland, they should learn from Wayland's mistakes, not make the same mistakes again.
I think you're wrong.

The reason people put it on pitch decks to investors is that investors care. Now, this can be explained by investors being stupid. But there is at least one other explanation:

VCs are trying to hit the 1 in 1000 startup that makes it big. These startups are, necessarily, aiming at a large market. The VC realizes that, if the size of the market is huge, your chances of getting a good chunk of that market is small. But so what? They'd rather fund 100s of startups that will fail, but are all trying to make it big, than fund 100s of successes that are mediocre successes (to them).

Of course, as a founder, this isn't the math you should be doing; not by a long shot. But it is what matters to investors.
You can write your own username in with a sharpie. :) I would recognize this for the colors and shape. I do wish it came on a light-color T though.
Someone please answer this. If this is true you will have a pro sale within 15 minutes of me reading it.
Suppose is too strong a word. I find the hypothesis worthy of serious consideration though.
What would an ideal question have been, in my mind? How about this: [...]

If they wanted to have that kind of discussion, why not use a panel moderator to ask those questions and invoke that conversation in the portion of the event the panelists were driving?

I didn't attend this, but based on Skepchick's own summary, the presence of Chen on the panel, relying on the audience to challenge their criticism, other posts online covering the panel and the fact MrGrimm felt the need to strait up "filibuster"; I get the impression they were there to recite well-known criticism rather than engage in analysis of reddit.

I wonder if, out of an audience of 300, nobody was able to meaningfully challenge the panel's position or if those that could just didn't bother. Why didn't they?
I'm can't tell what the benefit of Draft is supposed to be, but for folks looking for a great tool for writing longer works, check out Scrivener. Bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hand of it you'll really appreciate the ability to work at a paragraph, chapter, or document level, and to pre-determine formatting for different outputs (p-book, e-book, etc.).

(I have no financial connection to the company - just wish I'd found it sooner.)
Most definitely in the works! We're planning on releasing a product iteration that has more discovery tools soon.
"If not, wow...blanket statements are rarely ever true." - this blanket statement is not true :)

and yes, it is much easier to start from _something_ than from nothing
> Robot Mega Corp and it's owners have no need for your grandmother's scarf, so what is she going to provide in trade for her more basic needs?

This is assuming that the robots are owned by a monopoly or a cartel. Such a case is an obvious candidate for government to step in and break them up.

On the other hand, if the robots are owned by companies that aggressively compete with each other, how much do goods cost when they're made by robots using robot-produced raw materials? The more humans we replace by robots, the lower the cost of goods will be and the easier it is for charity or government to provide them gratis to the public.
I don't have a horse in this race, but I feel like this ship has sailed. Personally, I don't like jQuery's API, but it has become so popular that it's the honorary JavaScript standard library. I'd be hesitant to start a new project using MooTools, knowing that most people I might hire or most frameworks I might want to incorporate later probably know/expect jQuery.

I feel like GitHub has done the same thing for Git. Mercurial is in Python, which in theory would make it easier for me to hack on if I ever needed to, but the community has settled on Git. I think the fact that Atlassian bought BitBucket, which was a boutique version control tool for Pythonistas, and the very first thing they did was add Git support and position it as an alternative to GitHub speaks volumes to this.

I know that there are people who prefer Mercurial, and I'm glad they have that choice, but I feel like choosing Mercurial over Git for a new project is swimming upstream without any real benefit.
I was about to say the same thing in that thread :)
I think SVG is finally arriving. Look at D3 for instance.
Not A Cloud In Sight
Definitely not like Amazon US-East-1.
I would also say that there is no "beating" depression and while that does sound bad, it doesn't actually mean that it will be a continuous struggle to be happy.

It has been around ~8 months since I was at my worst and while I have my bad days every once in a while, I am much happier than before and in a better overall state of mind. Eventually, even the bad days will go away (I think) but as far as "beating" depression goes, it's just always going to be there and you learn to live a happy life around it.

As far as any tips I can give to people with depression, I would say this: set up short term and long term goals and try to stick to them, eat healthy, exercise, and find new people to talk to. Do not be afraid to ask for help!

Also, if you are feeling suicidal at any point in time, do call the national suicide hotline. They are very helpful people and are available 24/7. They helped me greatly when I was extremely suicidal.
Essential for what? You can get an idea of what the ceiling of your market looks like, but that's it. Unless you can strongly and credibly argument how, saying you'll get 1% of the market is equivalent of saying nothing.
Does the price include shipping?
Tons of employers.
Yes, i know :( ...

I'll get those styled soon.

Thank you very much for this feedback.
I wrote this about a year ago for an intro to how I think you should design APIs based on my time at Twilio: http://john-sheehan.com/post/18688963163/dont-build-the-best... Hopefully it helps.