skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't comment on the usefulness of the product they're showcasing because a lot of people have already done so.

But seriously, those perks/prizes are absolutely horrible. The only different between the $25 and $50 prize is that you get three stickers? For $500 I can get a t-shirt and a one-hour conference call with the engineers?

Judging by the video and the prizes alone I get the impression these guys aren't quite sure how to sell their product.
Yes, it works. But it's not up to what it should be its standard. Also, what is the repo good for if it's not official and it has no chance in being put that into production?
"completely abused Kickstarter is becoming"

The problem is that Kickstarter gets a 5% fee, so it is to their business interests to raise as much money as possible (even if the product isn't completely up to snuff)
I agree.

Murder is unequivocally a violent crime; however, I believe "violent crimes" can cover assault of just about any type, sexual crimes and more.
Loving all the vice links on HN these days.
A real operating system would be nice, too.
Turning down paying customers because of some moral objection to pointy objects

Are you suggesting the US government asked google to stop runnings ads for knives?

In the same country where I can pick up a semi automatic assault rifle at WalMart?
Only a few, but some of those startups will become the software giants of tomorrow and they will not use anything from the Oracle ecosystem. Something to be really worried about.
Show HN: Fixtures replacement for Mongoose
I use http://hackerwebapp.com/, its great.

edit: I just realized you are talking about not being able to vote on things easily- sadly you cant do that with hackerwebapp, but it is still a really good mobile site.
A friend of mine bought an old excavator for $800. He spent about $1500 on fixing up the hydraulics, and used it to landscape his property. It was very rough but still went OK. When friends dropped around (like me) he would happily let us dig massive holes and fill them in again. I had a very happy afternoon digging and filling in, giggling like a kid in a sandpit.

He ended up selling it for a small profit to a guy down the road, and they just drove it there - clank clank clank down the street. I was sad the day I went around and the digger was gone.
And, as I have said many times, that's OK.

No, your stubbornness is not OK. It is called a lack of intellectual integrity.

You aren't supposed to go around wearing prejudiced "glasses" based on what your grandparents did, you are supposed to try and see things as they are - and be open to revising your opinions as necessary.

I suggest you stop pretending to be Burt from Tremors long enough to try being objective. You might like it.

As it happens, I have never been a government employee and basically all my professional experience has been in the private sector. That shouldn't dictate my opinions.

The same way that the fact that I have worked in data cleaning before doesn't make me an advocate for data cleaning.

Now if I try to advocate that a public sector hospital cafeteria is just as nice as a commercial cappuccino bar, I'd look silly, because that is an example where the free market does better.

When you dismiss all that has been achieved by the tiger economies because of your sheer prejudice, you too look very silly.

It is also silly to assume that private sector = entrepreneurship and government = master planning, which is simply not true. Counter-examples:

1) A lot of the master planning that the Japanese and Koreans do is implemented by their private sector, which is clear from the links that I provided.

2) A lot of the private sector even in the US consists of large corporations who do master planning internally using ERP systems.

3) The people working in these companies are also not showing any kind of entrepreneurship or cowboy self-reliance; they are private sector bureaucrats churning out TPS reports

4) The DARPA funding for Internet and other CS research was government funded - but by throwing money at Professors, not by politicians micromanaging the thing

Maybe looking into Zen might help you with your world view problems.
How is drop-shipping changing the e-commerce landscape?
The vast majority of people who represent themselves pro se lose. Lawyers are sneaky and will use your lack of domain knowledge to hurt you unfairly. You need to get a lawyer to balance it out. The judge is not there to be your advocate.
I'm just learning myself but looking at others code helps, you might find the UI library helpful as there are lots of directives and filters

https://github.com/angular-ui/angular-ui#readme

Also Google 'ben nadel angularjs directives' and he provides numerous examples. Good luck!
Just sticking this at the end of the CSS file seems to help (obviously the 800px could be adjusted downward if that is deemed too wide for filtering mobile devices):

@media screen and (max-width: 800px), handheld and (max-width: 800px) {
img[src="grayarrow.gif"], img[src="graydown.gif"] {
width: 20px;
height: 20px;
}
}

(It'd be nice if the images were unicode symbols, e.g. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25b2/index.htm)

And possibly putting the following in the <head>, so that the screen starts zoomed to a reasonable level.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Worth noting, this doesn't affect that latest release if running on v8 (the default).
As someone who has worked with many different programmers from very different walks of life, it doesn't matter. Some of the worst programmers I know started early. Some of the best started even later than you.

It all comes down to your ability for self inflection, a strong desire to always be better and, of course, a love of programming.
"Now had the OP not been using a throwaway account you could at least infer some legitimacy (however slim) because the poster would be known at least a bit. "

Absolute idiocy. Especially with ongoing litigation, it's a really bad idea to associate your name with the situation
Traditionally MySQL has been ahead of Postgres in terms of replication, but Postgres has made great strides in that department recently. Having said that, Postgres still doesn't support master-master or ring topologies, replication filtering, and is binary only (which is probably a good thing).
>Bitmessage is in need of an independent audit to verify its security.

Just saying.
* Technical issues that affect the livelihoods of almost every person on here are important. The fact that this has so many upvotes is indicative of that.

* Unfortunately, because Google is on the surface a very friendly company, many technical people place Google on a pedestal and actually believe their slogan about doing no evil. It's just a slogan, and yes, Google does do a lot of evil.

* I suspect that you've never experienced the frustration of having your entire business on the line and not even being able to get a human response from Google. If you've ever been in that situation, I think you'd be able to understand how frustrating Google actually is.
If you use bcrypt, there is literally no reason to go through the manual "salting" process you describe.
And doing SOA from the get-go is orders of magnitude more complex than the standard monolithic application.

Seems to me this is mostly a tooling issue.
When we work on the web, we focus on being semantic, conscious about the actual web in which one size does not fit all, usability and design

What does this mean?
Ask HN: Visionary Media Startup Seeks Early-Stage Advisor
I'm a startup co-founder looking for a media or music business professional who can provide a high profile media startup with early stage assistance as concerns networking and marketing.

The startup is in stealth mode (I don't find current music business efforts exciting, so stealth mode seems a necessity) and I'm not sure how to - discreetly - find advisors who can help the startup in its early efforts...

Send an email to me at vossjens1@gmail.com for further details - the startup has a domain; however, I don't want to advertise it shamelessly.
I've been using cheeaun's version to read from mobile:
http://cheeaun.github.com/hackerweb
It will be great to see it integrated into HN
And lets get rid of the computer and add an FM radio.

Ok, we just invented the Pontiac Aztek.
The World as 100 People
I'd say when it feels usable to you. Eating your own dog food is a classic piece of advice. When you can make use of the product and the experience isn't painful then it's (hopefully) going to be valuable to someone else. Design-wise, it doesn't have to be the most beautiful thing in the world, as long as it has a consistent personality. Maybe someone else can tackle the promotion question (its been covered here a bunch in the past). Promotion is an art in and of itself, that you should probably research as deeply as the coding side if you want to do it yourself.
I get the sense that the majority of this problem is that there is a lack of separation from the backend from the front-end. If you separate the two and have a decent front-end language you should get individuals to compete for having the best/most-usable front end. At least that was the dream of MVC.
There is zero requirement that salts be kept secret in the event of a password database breach. Salts are to prevent users with identical passwords from having identical password hashes, thereby defeating rainbow table attacks (and other attacks involving attackers being able to reuse work from other accounts).

Your approach offers effectively zero additional security; it is trying to add "features" to salting that don't work towards their actual purpose.

Edit: If you want to have something site-wide that an attacker wouldn't have while decrypting an offline password database, the thing you're looking for is an encryption key.
Meet The Man At The Forefront Of Open Sourcing 3D Printed Guns
I've always thought that we need to make it very easy for HN:
somebody, please post some CSS that is short, simple and does the job; so simple and elegant that they will have no choice but to copy and paste it into the news.css file.

EDIT: dbaupp did something while I was writing this. Great.
Phone interview with company developing Flex or Silverlight widgets?
Yes. I guess your 1-minute rule is more appropriate for black teas than anything else. I like my teas more overbrewed in any case.
$300 is still a lot of money to a lot of people. $99 is doable, sometimes $399 isn't.
The title of the kickstarter is:

MiiPC - Power to the Parents!

and then the whole blurb is about how it lets you keep an eye on your kids online. Does that give you a clue that it's not about the hardware?
Wow, love the look and feel of this one. A new favorite!
> Adding milk is more of a Western thing ;)

> There are some Sri Lankans who do that due to the British influence and I imagine in India as well, but that's not the case with most of the tea cultures.

I wonder where the Mongolians got their milk-tea from. Probably not from the British.
Yeah Silverlight :)
... and the screenshots from the kickstarter don't even look that interesting. absolutely nothing new going on here?
He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He’ll Be 18
In the short term, perhaps. Long term, why would they burn their business down like that? All it takes is a few high profile failures...
> I have to wonder, if someone were to fire off a pull request with GUI improvements for aesthetics and UX, would the maintainers approve it, or refuse it?

This model may work for one evening js libs, not serious opensource projects with a large userbase. You just don't fire off a pull request that turns the project upside down because you feel like it without any consulting, expecting it to be accepted right away because it's nice (even if it is). So the most probable scenario would be to reject it and invite you to engage in working on the project before you propose drastic improvements.
Even if you know both “paradigms”, Scala's incredibly well-done fusion of those concepts is what makes the language interesting, imho.

You can learn FP and OOP everywhere, but which language combines FP and OOP in such a seamless a way Scala does?
I'm not sold on MiiPC, but support, future updates and user experience come at a price.
Fedcoin: A centrally-issued alternative to peer-to-peer currencies
If their innovation is not in hardware, one wonders why they're designing hardware at all. Why not put their ROM on an existing ARM box?
Suit Offers a Peek at the Practice of Inflating a Legal Bill
I have some projects that never saw the light. Two coupons websites, 1 tutorial website, and a freeware download site. I have learned a lot from it though. Now I publish my project with bare minimum and add features gradually
Science Heroes: Why Science Needs A Celebrity Spokesperson
round/s...same diff
Sure, except in talent and thought leaders.
Wordpress and Gmail are both free and the market leaders. I'd bet that most people who use Wordpress don't care that it's open source, they just like the price and that it works well.
Show HN: Test your Chinese pronunciation with Chinese Tutor
"Long term, why would they burn their business down like that?"

There are two ways of looking at the problem:

- from the side of the project sponsor, KS is already the gold standard. Think about forbes.com: forbes has a name but they still make money selling out the name. Even if there are high-profile failures, the storyline will be spun as failures of the projects and not the platform or process.

- from the side of the project creator, KS is an easy way to get a ton of money (far more than the fixed-funding campaigns of other sites like indiegogo)
I you had written "an accountable manufacturer (or at least a sympathetic community of other buyers) rather than a random producer", you would have avoided one of the forms of racism that is socially acceptable to Western people at this time.
We use first party cookies and do not try to track people across websites which is what most ad networks actually do.
I'm not aware of browser extensions for Safari or Chrome on the iPhone.

Since this is about mobile, it really would need to be an improvement to the site itself.
Isn't improved browser-level authentication handling (including not letting information leak via authentication) one of the things BrowserID is about?
Are you in the US? Try looking for a local Legal Clinic or Community Law center that helps employees, via http://www.probono.net
Because it's designed for the living room? A generic ARM box won't look as good, have their branding or be as appealing to their target market.

Also, who's to say that they're building it? This is a relatively easy thing to contract out, and from the motherboard pics it looks relatively generic.
Im just upset that they removed RSS. I love the 3 column view though, but not at the expense of RSS
In these cases hopefully your business is real enough to be able to afford a load balancer.
You might try googling^H^H^H^H^H duckducking the phrase "If only Stalin knew!"
There is a social-status related concept in psychology as well. it is implicitly assumed that hierarchy, seniority, and weatlth are linear functions of time. going backward is a (rare) and thus high information datapoint. it is therefore, actively avoided. TLDR the consequences of actions are more complex.
If anyone's interested here's my go approximation https://github.com/minikomi/go-nurble running at http://poyo.co:9000 for now :)
Jenny's Composite Map Projection implemented in D3
>I think this will go very well for the US.

FYI this visa has existed for over 60 years.
And we're back to Waste again. ;)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE for those who don't know)
what school do you go to?
Curious for people that actively write way more JavaScript and deal with cookies more than I do:

Outside of Local Storage, is there still a loop-hole (though it defies user expectation) for ad retargeters (they must rely on third party cookies)? I feel, if not, that this will totally kill those businesses. I am neutral and just wondering if I am missing something.

Google was sued for using iframes to get around this so defying user expectation no matter the loop hole is quite dangerous.
Americans argue about the need for early schooling
Fingerprints Instead Of Credit Cards? YC's PayTango Payments Through Biometrics
-- I don't buy it. People don't criticize a king at all. You don't criticize the communist party in Stalinist Russia, tactfully or otherwise. Doing that gets you sent to the gulag.

You missed his point: you praise the King and leader by saying that certain underlings that do the bad acts are giving the wonderful King /Stalin a bad name. You might have missed the show trials where someone was always being blamed for x and y. People have complaints about life, someone has to be responsible. At Google someone is doing bad things but it can't be the wonderful and "open and free" loving founders, just some bad apples. They money is going to Google's bank, of course.

-- They're a publicly traded company. They have an obligation to the shareholders. Turning down paying customers because of some moral objection to pointy objects is a little bit crazy.

The obligation is not like you seem to put it. They have an obligation to make money over the course of years, not this quarter. If I wanted to spend $1 mil on "Abort your baby just for the hell of it" Google, even if 'it' agreed with the message might see this as alienating their other customers and decline. Likewise, using search to drum up Adwords business, in addition to being possibly illegal (not disclosed to users) can make Google lose credibility and that's all they have /had.
I prefer Postgres wherever i can, i usually go with MySQL(or RDS) whenever i'm on AWS. Since the added features of multi-AZ, and scalability take a lot of upfront effort/time investment away.
Minuum Keyboard: Has This Just Solved Touchscreen Typing Forever?
Oh my bad. I forgot to specifically look for light gray on white as indicators for interaction.
> either position strikes me as irrational.

Right. Because they are both irrational. Fear isn't a rational thing. I think both tehwalrus's comment and mine are two very different responses to the same fear.

tehwalrus fears being surrounded by people who are "armed to the teeth, legally." I fear being surrounded by people who are armed to the teeth, illegally. tehwalrus would rather those people not be armed at all. I would rather have the ability to at least attempt to defend myself with comparable force.

Where we differ is in our assumptions. I assume that no law will ever make firearms magically inaccessible to criminals.

> The chances of being the victim of random violent in either country is not worth worrying about.

Yep. I realize, in the rational parts of my mind, that if I sold my guns tomorrow and never touched one again, I have a pretty high probability of living to a ripe old age without ever being a victim of violence. I don't want to put words in tehwalrus' mouth, but I think he probably realizes too that if he were to live in the States, the chance of one of those gun-carriers around him on a day to day basis going on a shooting spree is quite small.

But my point is that fear is immune to statistics. In my mind, owning guns for self-defense (and, on a side note, knowing when and how to use them legally) is the exact same thing as buying life insurance. Statistically, will I ever need life insurance? No. Otherwise insurance companies wouldn't make a profit. But there's always the chance. So in the same way that I want my family to be provided for in the event that I die unexpectedly, I want the ability to attempt to defend myself and the people I care about.

Would I prefer to live in a perfect world where nobody's afraid of violence? Absolutely. But unfortunately we don't live in such a place.
My hunch is that this says more about Yahoo than anything else, but without technical details it's hard to be sure. There's been good summarization tech that Yahoo hasn't implemented for at least a decade, despite having dozens of engineers who could be doing so. Did this startup they bought for $30m implement something another class above that yet? Or are they buying themselves up to the par they should've already been at?
Does anybody else see post replies rendered in seemingly random sized fonts in mobile chrome or firefox?
I remember when these went in in Philly a couple years ago... often on well-shaded corners, not such a great match for solar powered compaction I'd think.

No doubt the new bins reduce the amount of waste collected, a) because nobody wants to touch the grotty handles, and b) it isn't possible to fit anything much bigger than a loaf of bread. However, could they possibly reduce the amount of waste generated? Where is the rest of it going?

Center City also has a crew of workers to operate noisy, walk-behind, teal street sweepers. I'm not sure if these actually pick up garbage, but at any rate it would be a delight to see them pull a tour of duty on Snyder Ave. instead of Market.
"are they buying themselves up to the par they should've already been at?"

They must have decided it was easier to extend summly than to build it organically.
I spent a week going to work sitting down then going back home. Sometimes programming just doesn't work for me. However when I am working on my own project, you need to fight me to get me off the computer.

Twitter fb quora are fun, but they are for consuming. Find something cool to work on. Solve a real problem you have using programming.
Kid is wicked smart...will be interesting to see where he goes from here.
Google redirect for NYT:

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=...
This was added to Gecko 20.0, but it isn't part of the specs.

V8 doesn't support it: http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2455
Will he have to move from London to California or will he be allowed to telecommute?
> It's not like a criminal is going to give you a call letting you know that they're getting in so you get prepared.

It's late and I'm tired, so I must be missing the point you're making here. How does knowing whether a criminal is coming affect the argument for or against firearms for defense? It takes me about 2 seconds to ready a firearm, and I have this excellent living burglar alarm called a "black labrador retriever" who will give me at least that much warning. :)

> Fun exercise: did guns save more lives or took more away?

Took more away, definitely. What's your point? We can't magically un-invent firearms, unfortunately.
its easy once you figure out how your startup is going to be profitable and try to prove that to VC funds, and its a good idea to put some effort in articulating your business goals, and plans.
Best Of Demoscene 2012
Can I just say I called it before Wired posted this: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/yahoo-summly/
Men secretly climb great pyramid w/photos
That's an explanation for the proximate cause of "do not fucking pitch me". And that part I understand just fine.

My point was deeper: once the environment has reached a point where the important investors have "thousands of people vying for [their] extremely limited time", to the extent that "it's not humanly possible [...] to process the sheer volume of pitches", then it seems like the startup environment has jumped the shark. It's a machine now -- generate as many launches as possible, and pitch them to as many investors as possible. The focus is about funding -- not survival (does anyone remember "ramen profitable"? Yeah, we don't hear that so much anymore), and not products.

Back in 2005, it didn't seem that way at all...
I use this[1] Hacker News app on Android. I think it's beautiful and it works really well for me.

Haven't found anything comparable on iOS.

[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
It depends on the concentration level a user story needs to get and my mood to get it done.

Light: Beatles, Bob Marley, CB, Lemon Jelly, Rush, etc.
Medium: Bonobo, Dave Brubeck, Ludovico Einaudi, Bach, Vivaldi, etc.
High: rainymood.com or silence
That sounds like the opposite of mindfulness :)
Maybe they were buying a news story.