skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could actually have a very helpful application- generating maps with customised colour schemes. Anyone with a form of colour blindness will know that some of the lines on the standard map are basically indistinguishable from each-other, and while TfL does provide a black-and-white map, it's designed for ALL forms of colour blindness, so they've had to come up with a load of different patterns, making it a bit messy (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/14091.aspx).

With this CSS map a user could customise the colour/pattern of just a couple of problem lines (I could already in Firebug, but it would be great if there was a control panel to fiddle these things and then provide print/save links). Just an idea!
Show HN: Shell-Jobs, Human-friendly Cron replacement
So what you are saying is that Tumblr will allow Yahoo to lose money on its target demographic faster than Yahoo could lose by itself?
I am currently doing #2 on my own startup. Getting up earlier in the day to work on a passion project is ideal since I have the most mental capacity at that time of the day. Also, giving a strict 2 hours workspace, I know exactly what I need to focus on for that day.
Sometimes I wonder if both sides of such analyses are written out beforehand (for/against). Then, if the prevailing sentiment is for the event, they publish the against version; and vice versa. Just to offer a 'counter opinion" and garner pageviews. It reminds me of the obits that NYT has in its database of all famous people alive today; when s/he croaks, they just pull up the latest version and publish.
Isn't a graphing calculator an unreasonable demand for someone who's been brought in on hacking charges? You and I know he couldn't do much with it, but it's a common term of parole for computer criminals to be denied computer use, even for their work. I'm not saying I agree with it, but it seems like a ridiculous point to milk, saying "they won't even let him have a graphing calculator!". They also won't let him have a 286, or a PDP-8, or a smartphone.
Guide looks very well written, and I'm actually studying parallel programming right now...bookmarked.

Side Note: Maybe this is Nvidia's way to promote sales, since AMD cards sold like crazy cause of the mining craze.
Facebook, One Year Later
"Imports have actually spiked on the rumors even though it’s Sunday: normally we import 400-600 posts an hour from Tumblr, last hour it was over 72,000."

He posted a rate of posts (as you mentioned), rounded down, for the "last hour".

When I read stuff like this that covers fields that I know (or blog posts I happen to have read) it really makes me wonder when I'm reading sites covering topics outside of by domain of knowledge, be they Engadget or the Economist.
Out of curiosity what can't you do with the launcher/indicators in Unity that you could do in GNOME2?
The blog heading is too apt. Marissa Mayer's tumblr :)
Bitcoin mining for eveyone
While most fighters stick with the preset moves they learned in their dojo, Bruce Lee would mix those moves with new moves he created himself. He was so able to understand and control his physical self that he could generate new martial arts moves spontaneously during fights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_Do
Great article. Newer developers are spoiled by jQuery and don't realize that all it does is make native javascript a bit cleaner. However, one nightmare javascript task that this article overlooks is ajax. Native javascript ajax is no where near as simple without jquery
We can see how Einstein thought through this modern day Einstein: meet Jacob Barnett (aka Einstein), a 14-Year-Old Master's degree student on his way to earning a PhD in quantum physics. Truly a genius.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/jacob-barnett-autis...
You need to look up what a paper wallet is.
What is it like to become Verified on Twitter? This video explains how it works
Startups Seamless and GrubHub to merge
Demand Routing and Slotting on Ring Networks
I think the HD DVD/ Bluray era hasn't seen porn on those formats for two reason: 1. it doesn't matter anymore because the Internet has infinite porn. 2. No one wants to see their porn in HD, as it makes the whole thing kinda grosser. A bit like how Cameron Diaz looks great in low def, but has a crater face in HD.
You Shouldn’t Start an Ad Tech Company, But If You Do…
This analysis is pretty useless. Where do these metrics come from? Yahoo long ago ceded the search crown to Google and don't seem to be focused on reclaiming it. The assertion that Yahoo can't integrate Tumblr is baseless considering how new the exec team is.

YouTube wouldn't have scored much better on a report like this.

I don't think the deal will ultimately end up having a YouTube like effect for Yahoo, but this is nothing more than a linkbait puff piece.
I'm not sure that the demographic or the site is money losing over the long term, like youtube.
Did i just see position:sticky? I like the path chrome is taking with css. Seems to be really be making modern design trends easier
Neverwinter Money Exploit Sees Cryptic Turn Back Time
Ok.

I got only knowledge of the french and dutch market.
The website you gave seems to be a good candidate for scrapping (simple layout, really straightforward).

Web scraping is usually not well seen, but hey, if you can help them sell more / more efficiently you can make some friends pretty quickly!
AFAIK, what is hugely missing in real estate websites currently is location based search.

Some time ago, I had written some to play around with google maps and say "I want to live within 30 minutes of this place".
If you can link that to a real estate listing that could really become awesome!

Let me know if you actually start the project :).
The wikipedia article talks much about dealing with outliers. How can outliers be removed/replaced or handled differently as the article suggests? Are the outliers not part of the data, after all? It seems like the goal of 'improving performance' here involves tweaking the data to get the results you want. What have I misunderstood here?
As of PHP 5.3, PHP-powered software is safe. Using

is_numeric('١٣٦٨') // -> false
preg_match('/\d/', '١٣٦٨') // -> no match / false
filter_var('١٣٦٨', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) // -> false

Which I'm thankful for. I should hope that most people understand base-10 and ascii numbers. I don't want to have to worry about properly validating/handling unicode characters with number parsing.
Our map changes 3-4 times per year for new stations / closures etc so supportability of something like absolute CSS locations would never fly. Fair play for giving this a go though, it's pretty darn accurate and super quick!.
What happens when an this kind of attack originates from US, attaching Chinese state agency or company? Is are people/person involved prosecuted?
The largest concerns seem to center around: Yahoo attempting to make Tumblr family-friendly, re-branding Tumblr into a Yahoo property, and where David Karp is going to be (now and in the future).
Amazingly this article doesn't mention Immanuel Kant. If you read the autobiographical notes, Kant is the first name that appears. And from there it is quite a different step to the theory of relativity.
From farmers and other business people. I'm not claiming businesses are unimportant, simply that bankers are (because they redistribute that capital as loans to potentially successful new enterprises).
>It's not an attack on economists, it's just how it is.

If it's not, it should be. Economics are a dismal science, a tiny part math (quite simple at that), and huge parts of hand waving and ideology.

The "not being able to predict shit" is not some accidents, it steps from the whole "hand waviness" of it all.
G8 nations under increasing pressure to reconsider biofuel policy
Are telecoms which operate in one country (i.e. Germany) unable to operate in neighboring countries (i.e. France)?
ChatJS 1.0 released. Instant messaging jQuery plug-in for ASP.NET applications
selling products and services to companies who will pay for it, thereby getting the money you need to expand???

what a radical idea. it'll never catch on.
This is an amazing resource thank you.

I wish I had this last semester during my statistics course.
Saving this so I can re-post it in 2 years to show how wrong this was.
Backup? Paper wallet?

Really, there's just no reason to keep all your bitcoins any one place. Keep a couple in an online wallet for convenience, some on your hard drive for quick access, some on your phone and some in paper wallets. Or spread them across multiple computers. The flexibility is part of the appeal.
I just restored my nightly N900 rsync backup to my spare because the USB port on my original 2010 vintage won't reliably charge anymore; the replacement micro USB ports are on order. That's how much I love the N900. Of course, now I have even more reason to play with different software on the broken one (I have an external charger for the batteries).

All that being said, I've been looking for a replacement phone with decent QWERTY for a long time (I hate that when you select "QWERTY" as a feature, some people think that it's okay to include "on screen keyboard (QWERTY)" in that category), but the selection is limited. It's a deal breaker for me, though, as I really don't want to give up org-mode in Emacs. I've heard of the Android org-mode app, and emacs for Android; either of those might be okay, but I really am dreading giving up a "real" Linux for something like Android, especially when I can get the source to 90+% of the software I run now, but I'm pretty sure that won't be the case on Android.

And don't even talk to me about giving up the FM transmitter that only the N900 seems to have. Another piece of hardware I really don't want to have to replace is my 4Runner (which currently lacks bluetooth stereo input).

I'm hopeful for the future though; more and more it seems like options to make your own hardware are becoming available, and the fact that there are multiple open source options for mobile is also a very good sign.
How Learning to Program Got Me A Technical Co-Founder
Couldn't decide which comment I liked best

"Worsted merger announcement timing ever!"

or

"Did Matt pay Jonathan today's going rate; 1.1 billion in cash?"
On similar hardware, Firefox OS is not slower than Android, and rather a bit faster. Remember that developer phones are relatively low end ones (1GHz single core cpu, 512M of ram)
Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
As someone who worked on rendering fluids in computer graphics ten years ago, things like this are super exciting.

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch38.html
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. Now is a very exciting time to work for yahoo.
#whole-map {
rotation:180deg;
}

It might result in a few confused travellers, but hey.
I wonder about the extent to which the GrubHub/Seamless model will prevail and the extent to which the ChowNow model will. My brother works for the latter, and now that I know what to look for I've seen a fair number of NYC restaurants using "their own" ordering systems.
It was still said in a condescending fashion. Implying that if you cant make the 60fps club you should go work a lower level job.
innerHTML isn't W3C compliant. Why are you using it in the first place?
cross network information pollination changes the equation.
Numbers are relevant when there is context to properly digest those numbers. Here's some comparison from the flipside from Yahoo's press release:

With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second (!) and 24 billion minutes spent on site each month.

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?&Re...

120,000 new accounts every day is amazing. While I don't know how many accounts made up those 72,000 posts over that hour, I can imagine it being easily and quickly wiped out by new posts. 900 posts per second is 3.24 million posts per hour. 72,000 is 2.22%. If that number keeps growing and the 900 posts per second number drops, then this is interesting news. Until then, it's just posturing by WordPress (or perhaps just a cheap publicity stunt).
In the same vein, sign up at swRev.com to find out when we launch with a consumer reports for software. Should be this summer.
OTOH, grave robbing is a real problem with Egyptian archaelogical site, and international politics is very sensitive. The prof doesn't want his research program shut down by someone strolling in and destroying a site.
I hope it's fate will not be similar to Posterous.
Indeed. This seems to be the motivation behind the sale. I'm sure David Karp would have liked to keep tumblr independent, despite the huge payday, but it seems to me that he failed to develop a cohesive business model.

I loved the focus he put on the market sector he was serving, and I share his hatred of intrusive advertising, but he didn't present a realistic alternative. It's a shame - we keep losing innovative businesses that don't think enough about long-term business models, so we have to hop onto the next big thing until it too gets snapped up. Much as I dislike Facebook, you have to respect Zuckerberg for not selling out... at least he's tried to build something sustainable.
Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3004446

The url linked there redirects to the new site, but the old site is still available through the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.moderngpu.com/
Promises not to screw it up

Yes, they promise they won't screw it up Officially
> avoiding taxes is being used in a negative way

But that's an important point.

Traditionally "Tax evasion" was legal, and "tax avoidance" was normal, acceptable, and purely legal.

The weird accounting practices of some of these big firms are pushing a language change.

"Tax evasion" is clearly illegal.

"Tax planning" is clearly legal and acceptable.

"Tax avoidance" is using probably legal but weird methods to reduce (beyond any sensible amount) the tax burden of a company or very rich individual.
I don't follow your logic. Let's assume the Indian government promises every citizen a EUR 2 salary for 100 days. Most people will have a working career that is much longer than that. Spreading that EUR 60 a month salary over 10,000 days (27-ish working years) is EUR 0,02 a day, a EUR 9,98 a month salary for the other 99% of their working life would bring the average close to EUR 10 a month.
That "sigh" moment is really important. If you want the benefits of good habits like TDD, you need to make them rewarding at the micro as well as macro level.

More carrot, less stick.
The proper solution to these sorts of problems is end-to-end encryption, be it OTR or GPG. Unfortunately, encryption is work (you at the very least have to authenticate your buddy once), and the general public doesn’t really seem to like work.
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Counterpoint: YouTube vs Dailymotion
I've been told by lawyers that M&A activity usually precedes an economic uptick in a sector. If that's true, then today is a pretty good day to be in tech.
Perhaps, but what do think of the JCPenny catalog?
My bigger surprise is that the GrubHub CEO will become the CEO of the combined operation- in NYC at least, Seamless has always seemed like the far bigger operation. And GrubHub's web site was painful to use for a long, long time.

I wonder if this means Seamless are closing their offices in Utah?
The proof of Fermat's last theorem is algebraic geometry.
First smartphone maybe, but not first phone. It's appropriate that a team of ex-Nokia people have recycled the idea of Xpress-On covers.
Swatches: A jQuery plugin that turns a one-line div into a sweet color swatch
Computer Brain Escapes Google’s X Lab to Supercharge Search
Yeah, but no one goes to jail for speeding. And they can already pull you over whenever they want. This is how they catch dunk drivers. Swerving, driving too fast for conditions, driving erratically or all sorts of other subjective terms. They can set up a checkpoint and pull you over just because. Speed limits are really the least of it and don't serve your argument well.

Edit: I want to point out that I've defended speed limits here before because speed limits, like building codes, are created by engineers, not some arbitrary big government conspiracy. Like most laws, they are well thought out and for everyone's safety.
Matt Mullenweg is not "WordPress" CEO.
My undergrad advisor had a similar story. He was working on an old open problem for his dissertation, and his advisor (quite a well-known figure in the field) kept giving him ideas. Nothing worked. This went on for 4 years.

Then one day he decided to stop listening to others, and just work on his own. Six months later, he had a novel solution, closing the problem. His entire dissertation (including title, abstract, etc.) was 22 pages (single sided, double-spaced).
R.I.P JavaBlogs (Atlassian shut down JavaBlogs)
I wonder if that code block does anything at all.

var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (http != undefined) {
...
}

In what runtime would calling this constructor return undefined (or null, or false...), and yet not throw an error?
User attention is not free. Its not money but its not free. Isn't that the story of the last 10 years?
> Yahoo long ago ceded the search crown to Google and don't seem to be focused on reclaiming it.

This acquisition seems to support that idea.
"It would be a staggering reduction in complexity if a language made data manipulation easy,"

So, you mean, like a query language?

"perhaps at the dismay of programmers stripped of the amusing complexity of using this separate thing called a database."

Or facing the prospect of learning another database system, and unsure what the gain is.
Yes, this could be an instance of Simpson's paradox. If more jobs were created in low paying areas, the salaries could rise in every single geographic area, but still decrease overall.
Ask HN: What are your day to day pain points as a customer?
Decent article, but it's difficult to take seriously this form of argumentation:

where instances of sexual harassment and assault against women are so rampant there are even websites devoted to cataloging them

The existence of websites? Really? By this standard of evidence, we are also to believe that alien abductions, aspartame-induced brain cancers, and infiltration of the government by subterranean lizard-people are also rampant.
So what are the advantages of using this over other existing services such as Feedly?
How to move from Tumblr to WordPress: 3 useful tools
Guy "retired" to Norway for yr with family, learned iOS dev, built $260k/yr app
RapGenius annotation if Lawrence Lessig's TED Talk
Like a race car driver saying, "don't hit the wall... don't hit the wall" then bang, into the wall. Not being in Yahoo's shoes I don't know what I'd say. But I don't think that anything could be said to ease the concerns of the acquired customers. Actions speak louder than words and words can sometimes cloud actions.
Ask HN: Whats next for my classic car hobby site? 
Hi!

I launched my passion a few months ago with a partner: A visual cross between Pinterest and Quora for cars.

www.projectvroom.com

We have sustainable, and returning daily traffic and can generate significant spikes using reddit to share our finds.

We organize, archive and encourage conversation around classic car finds on the web.

However, our user engagement is low. Sign-up conversion rates are abismal and engagement for registered user dies of within a few days.

I have a few ideas on how to fix this but with limited resource(and time), I would love some help from the community.

Which one of these or other would you put time into?

() Create a top 5 cars of the week email - generate returning traffic sources

() Integrate facebook account sign-ups - lower barrier to interaction

() Finish the internal upvote system (a la HN, reddit) - make engagement "cheap"

() Pull in info from carwiki, other sources - increase SEO and knowledge value of each page

Thank you guys, I appreciate it immensely.

Zhenya
Better off with Hybrid – Big Data needs cloud and dedicated servers
As a quick data point, corn was $1.32/bu. in 1970. Adjusted for inflation, that would be close to $8 today. Current price is $5.16. That does indicate a downward trend in prices, and I expect you will see similar trends for other food commodities.
IntroJs v0.4.0 released
Written sanely, it's only marginally slower; it's so close that it's inconsequential for 99% of uses.
this is potentially exactly what i've been looking for. i posted about where i ended up, using screen recording to capture canvas animations to gifs just a week ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5691742

this may not work for me though because i need to record a css-scaled, hard-edges (pixelated) canvas. (which works in ff but not in chrome) and want to do this at 60fps, so on each reqAnimationFrame.

maybe i can disable imagesmoothing on the canvas and scale each frame via callback before encoding it.
This is the first step on the way to going public for certain.

I always admired Grubhub for their dedication to the tech, but Seamless always had the most amazing sales people (Looking at Wiley Cerilli)

(full disclosure: Former Seamless Lead Dev)
Typical HN comment. Pointless nitpicking.
What about GoWaiter?
This seems like a more and more likely scenario.
If the comments below are true, this is a very poorly written, badly researched article. If you can even call it an article. It looks like they spent more time putting together a witty movie poster-style graphic than they did actually creating the content.
Yep. Its not fully supported or implemented across the web but it will make lists and headers soon much easier to use... I made sure we had a video to demonstrate it too.
I'm using PostgreSQL at Justcoin[1] and am quite pleased with it. We direct all writes to one server and reads to another. It's open source[2], so you can have a poke around and see.

[1] https://justcoin.com

[2] https://github.com/justcoin/snow
The accredited investor requirement is right on. It doesn't stop crooks who don't care about law, but without it we'd have rampant 1920's-style fleecing of individuals by smooth talking con artists.

That's not to say there aren't some wealthy people out there whose only successful product was stock, but at least they were forced to do it through proper channels and often endured the boilerplate shareholder lawsuit that's in the top drawer at certain law firms during economic downturns.
A response to this article on Redis: http://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis
In the original post's comments, Matt says:

"FWIW, I don’t think there will be any sort of exodus from Tumblr. For most folks habits overcome internet-outrage. Even if a million people left, that’s just about a week’s worth of signups."
I think the market will be able to support both models for quite some time, as Seamless/Grubhub will never leave high population density markets until delivery problem is solved.
That and some other things. There were also several forks of GNU Emacs and Xemacs to support Mac OS Carbon/Cocoa, of which Aquamacs is still in widespread use.

There's also Steve Youngs' SXEmacs (a XEmacs fork), which is probably the most well-developed of several efforts to extend Emacs to be a window manager.
I think I agree with your main point here, but it seems you're associating the idea of putting constraints on internet usage with the idea of discouraging internet usage.

I think you were making the point that parents should be just as attentive to the TV shows their children are watching as they are to the internet their children are exploring, but I just wanted to be sure. ;-)