skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind that Instagram has video now, because that does seem logical for them to add. However, they really need to make videos separate from the pictures somehow. Either by having separate feeds for video content and the classic picture feed or a way to filter by type in the feed.

It is nice that there is an option for videos to not play automatically, but I would still rather just not see videos all together.

I can tell you now that there is going to be a lot of "unfollowing" in the near future with this new feature.
Flat Design Is An Overreaction
Agreed. The author is assuming our capacity for communication is/should be text based. We're visual beings as well, and aesthetics is a lubricant for effective communication.
مشاهدة مباراة اسبانيا وتاهيتى
Having webpages that are not bleak and characterless is not a resignation to having webpages that are like highways with unending billboards.
Show HN: A mix for you to work to, every week
I built a simple app that lets me create a mix, and email it to subscribers every week, called http://thekidsarebored.com . Using 8tracks.com and mandrill.com, it's mostly free (except for the music, and server). Enjoy!

It's a simple script, with an admin for me to run it. If you'd be interested in running your own, let me know and I'll put the source on Github.
Hipchat with my close internal team. Gchat for the rest of the company.
The other nice part about being able to estimate- you can often determine feasibility with a reasonable degree of confidence, for a minimal investment in effort.
In what situations would you choose to use one service over the other?
Worth reading the whole way through.
Yes, we love Tor, and are looking at ways to help Tor and make Tor more robust and easier to use as well.

It would be ironic if the NSA fiasco ended up accomplishing half of the NSA's mission (protecting domestic networks) by getting everyone to improve security and encrypt-by-default, at the cost of making the NSA's SIGINT mission vastly more difficult.
A Study of Assassination – CIA (1953)
Ask HN: Do technical startup founders need help with sales skills?
I'm a sales guy and I seem to be doing more and more consulting with young startups and so I'm investigating this further.
I love it. Even seeing Times/Times New Roman in use brings back a tinge of nostalgia.

I like sites with some design pizazz, but a simple page like this with well-written content trumps most over-designed, over-widgetized crap sites any day.
XMPP/Jabber Server (self-hosted)
This is true, but Mt. Gox historically has the lowest exchange rate as they have far more liquidity than other exchanges. Gox is also the primary indicator against which other markets rise or fall, today is no exception.

In an unrelated note, big fan of your site.
I had to choose Lotus Sametime. Now I must go weep alone.
Here's some raw data: http://www.data.gov.uk/

They're working on releasing more, plus APIs, etc. It takes time.
Internally hosted Jabber/XMPP for chat; Google Hangouts for cross-location meetings.
Hmm, that would be an interesting way to justify government granted monopolies. They need to devote X% of their operating budget to R&D, possibly with some special constraints on any patents that come out of that.
Io has volcanoes that shoot so high they nearly launch material into orbit
it looks as if the colour is just a background-color attribute in CSS, which changes on mouseover. If so, it should be white->transparent anti-aliased in the RK image, which is looks like it's trying to be.

Vector, e.g. drawn with Canvas, would be better (e.g. with a fallback to a single colour png.)
If the NSA is actually doing widespread monitoring/collection of backbone traffic will a VPN actually help at all? End-to-end encryption seems like right solution.

EDIT: nevermind, VPNs do offer obfuscation of "metadata", i.e. your IP address, which I guess is what you were saying.

I wonder if you could create a VPN/Tor-like network that automatically picks "exit nodes" closest to the destination to avoid taps... (or even better, avoiding known tapped routes)
> At it's heart, web design should be about words.

If you're going to praise the power of words, you might want to start with spelling them correctly.
FYI - You didn't spell starting correctly in the sentence about your graduate studies.
http://talkerapp.com/ - to me it's essentially Campfire but free

Skype is good too but be careful if you use it for IM. I frequently receive messages hours after the other person sent them, even if we're both online. This is starting to make me not want to rely on it other than for voice/video.
Seconded, kato.im is an interesting company to watch
Nonsense.

It works in every other developed nation on the planet AND we spend close to 50% per capita you do right now.

You spend so much on Medicare/Medicaid because of your system; the US government is simply just a big employer.

The idea that the US is somehow operating under a different set of rules for basic math is mind boggling to me.
Wow -- can't believe we overlooked that. Adding, and will probably make that the default.
This post is missing the forest for the trees.

Hard problems are hard. Easy problems are easy. In a world where autonomy can only be purchased by wealth, any rational actor will spend his/her time optimizing the acquisition of wealth by solving easy problems as quickly as possible. This will then allow him/her the necessary autonomy to tackle hard problems.

This applies to all capital intensive endeavors of creation: science, film, software, hardware, etc. Even the least capital intensive endeavors such as pure mathematics require autonomy in the form of a guarantee of food, shelter, and healthcare to be viable in the long term.

As such, the solution is simple: Increase autonomy. But do we increase autonomy for everyone, or pick and choose winners?

The first strategy is basic income, and the second strategy is venture capital. Those involved in venture capital are now seeing the weaknesses in their own system, wherein picking and choosing winners will skew heavily towards the best signalers (i.e. marketers), rather than the most qualified/talented.

If VCs want to hedge their bets, they can put their lobbying money where their mouths are, and support basic income. This allows savants who are unable to market themselves the required freedom to work on their ideas with a tiny but guaranteed degree of autonomy. It is the equivalent of buying a Vangaurd index fund instead of picking and choosing stocks for a portfolio.

The winning strategy is to do both simultaneously.
The Improbable Resurrection of a Quirky, Once-Popular, Art Deco Font
Gtalk/Hangouts, a little Skype still, and Whatsapp (although I'm forcibly trying to replace Whatsapp with Hangouts).
Fantastic, and makes me hopeful for how I'm about to launch my resumé. Just words.
It's not clear that this is what's happening. Especially since the companies have vehemently denied such allegations.
Stuff like this is probably good from a consumer perspective. From a "state of the web" perspective (and speaking as a web geek/professional), this is terrible. Yet another step away from the openness of the web and into the walled garden of platform-specific apps. I thought we had already voted as a planet to embrace what the web represents. Walled gardens like Compuserve, Prodigy, (old) AOL, etc.

Why can't links go to a mobile-optimized website, and from there (if I chose) I can decide to open that content in a native app? The browser should be the first destination of links.
Flowdock for chat and a GH/Jenkins/Jira feed. Google Hangouts for meetings.
I'm not very surprised by this. If someone is accused and sentenced for a crime they honest and truly don't believe they committed, people get very jaded against the government.

This is why a large group of people pointed out that if you declare 2/3 of the population as criminals, the effect is very bad for society. It doesn't really matter if you are pro- file-sharing, or anti-piracy. If we loose the mutual respect between citizens and law creating government, everyone will loose.
That's what I get for trying to make a quick edit after my acceptance. Thanks.
I'm wondering the same thing. I mostly enjoy articles from Medium, except that they seem to frequently present foreign-language articles that I can't read.
Absolutely, it's one of the things I love about HN, it's simple.

But the fact it appears simple doesn't mean no design's gone into it. It's still visually appealing.

I suspect if HN was just <h1> <h2> that, regardless of its content, it'd have a lot less traffic.
Exactly what I did when I heard about dwolla no longer offering withdrawals for MtGox....I love coinbase! It's so simple and the UI is clean.
Is Fiverr a Good Way to Make Money Online?
Making money on Fiverr seems to be quite the trend these days. However, not everybody can do it. Here are some tips and tricks to help you learn how to make money on Fiverr.
It's easy to create a market for exploiting the environment, especially when the individual contribution to the whole of the exploitation is small. Sadly it's very difficult to create a market for preservation, especially when the individual impact is just as small.

I ask this non-rhetorically: how the hell does anyone turn that on its head, especially without government involvement?

The Ocean Research and Conservation Association is a nonprofit that's trying to promote the visibility of this problem (hypoxia caused by harmful blooms). They're doing this through the use of very low cost in situ sensor networks [1] and broad spectrum toxicology assays [2]. It's headed by Dr. Edie Widder [3], the scientist who got the first footage of the giant squid on last year's Discovery Channel cruise.

In combination with measuring physical/chemical parameters, they can automatically measure biological parameters of the environment. They've done this by miniaturizing and cost-reducing bathyphotometer [4] technology.

To the best of my very limited knowledge nobody else is looking at the problem this way. Everybody else measures physical/chemical parameters, and either infer what's happening to the biology, or they do point or small area biological sampling on an infrequent basis. And because it's so damn expensive there's always a big tradeoff between temporal and spatial resolution. With techniques like that everything is aggregate and there's little ability to tie specific action to specific consequences, let alone enforce any kind of feedback loop.

One of ORCA's biggest goals is to create a realtime water health gradient map that's promoted to and accessible by the general public. In a perfect world this would be used on the news right alongside the weather report.

I hate to cast a light of negativity but frankly I doubt they'll ever pull this off. Not because of lack of technical ability or people with the passion to do the work, but because of lack of stable funding. What's crazy is their technology is downright cheap, especially compared to the magnitude of the problem. If they could ever pull together the funding to engineer for manufacturability and do a full volume run, it'd be orders of magnitude less expensive.

I freely admit that I suck at marketing, so the best I can offer is a shameless plea. If this problem is important to you do something to solve it. Read up on nutrient limiting and how it impacts hypoxia. Find a polite way to tell your neighbor that their super green lawn might be sucking the life out of the waterways. Spend a bit more to buy your meat and produce from farms that limit runoff. If you have loose change, donate to organizations like ORCA or perhaps to someone more local to you.

1: http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/kilroy_technical.cfm
2: http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/fast.cfm
3: http://www.ted.com/speakers/edith_widder.html
4: http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/biolum_study.cfm

Disclosure: I'm a former ORCA employee, but otherwise I'm no longer affiliated.

Edit:

Bathyphotometer link [4] refers to a larger, more expensive model Edie designed for the US Navy. See edited [1] for reference to smaller cost-reduced version.
Clean code is more than just not writing obtuse code. There is a lot of literature on the subject spanning advice about patterns and principles to cookbook recipes for problems and so forth. The challenging part with clean code is that most of it is fairly subjective. More of an art than a science. We know clean code when we see it, but we cannot always reproduce it ourselves.

If you haven't read the literature and do not practice with the different techniques, you are probably not writing clean code.
"Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams."
> The US is a constitutional democracy
> Actually, it's a constitutional republic.

I don't understand this distinction. I read it from time to time on forums like these. US certainly is a democracy, in my (non-English) native language. And it is a republic. These are not exclusive.
We also figured out you can add arbitrary gifs as "emoticons" with built-in keyboard shortcuts and everything. Great fun ensued sending terrible reddit gifs to communicate :-)
And, IIRC, it was worth a whole heck of a lot less (like $300 mil less) because of the Facebook IPO disaster.
Is there any evidence that wealth distribution follows the power law outside passing the 80/20 rule? The charts of wealth distribution in the US when there aren't huge bins doesn't really look like a power law.
The Faulty Logic of the 'Math Wars'
PHP 5.5 Released
Product Editors vs Product Managers – by Andrew Chen
And everybody is always hating on the Drow. Who would have figured they were just argyria sufferers.
Thanks! I will see what I can do, though e-books and websites are better for me (for medical reasons -- I don't do so well with paper books).
We love Jabber. ejabberd is surprisingly simple to setup and get going.
sometimes do so automatically without physically crashing the jet

I hope by "sometimes" you mean "almost every time!"
Brilliant essay. Short and to the point. Imho also applies to enterprise/b2b product management, not only to consumer (but obviously more important there).
Boy, you really never get tired of reposting this, do you?
it is an existential threat to the survival of our modern society

Forget about promiscuity vs. insularity- modern society is not built on the backs of twenty-year-olds. If humans suddenly did not survive much past their prime reproductive age, humanity would survive with absolute ease, but modern society would undergo dramatic change.
Lufthansa: Planning the Frankfurt to LA route
We use the product we're working on: http://kona.com
Show HN : specter a simple blogging platform
yes, I'm on iOS 7 and it was auto updated for me
still broken :(
I think the point is to retreat farther from the idea "a better jet engine" to "a better way to fly" or "a better method of propulsion". By shopping around in that larger idea space you may be able to trade in your current physical limitations for something less constraining, or even just less known. Discussions on this topic always make me think of Neal Stephenson's article on rocketry, which in my mind is closely linked to local maximums of innovation/invention[1].

[1]: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/0...
Engineers use primarily IRC and collaborating with non-engineers is in a Hangout, although we'll use Hangouts too when just need to over something in detail over a short amount of time.
We actually do some pretty interesting internal routing for that, but only have 4 geo locations so far. Adding more, and adding some "unique" security features in the future, but wanted to get something out there now. Doing "cross border" that way is probably the most meaningful, assuming many countries set up their monitoring on international links. Being aggregated inside a VPN service helps a lot there.

End to end is mostly the right solution, but I'd like to see message/object based encryption (conf and signing) rather than just transport encryption, too.

(other metadata includes DNS resolution, and of course all the other protocols and things which aren't encrypted -- it's not JUST an issue of hiding your IP)
Kinograph Brings Old Movies Out Of The Dark
Zed Shaw's http://lamsonproject.org/ looked interesting, last time I looked at it. (If you forgive it for pretending all the world is UTF-8, which it emphatically isn't.)
I'd agree that there are use cases where it works. For example: if I wanted to send my roommate a password over email, this would be great because the message content would be gone, and I don't care about headers and timestamps. But if I'm sending some secrets, I wouldn't want any record that it was even communicated.
He was taking a stab at visual design / aesthetics being prioritized over content when building a product.

Words are used simply here to better communicate his point.

Nowhere did he say that words are more important than photos or video.

You say "No" to him, but yet you know he would not disagree with what you have said regarding photos and video. I find the whole response to his original post borderline strawman.
https://hall.com/

Pros: integration with PT and Github rules; mobile client is better than decent.

Cons: transcripts/history can be wonky; no way to add metadata to file uploads; native OS X client seems to randomly eat characters when typing.
Just like your Pachinko reference
I always feel like people will remember my name and what I've done. If I do something "wrong" (make a faulty assumption and get called out, for example), I'll take a break from HN in the hopes that people forget about me and what I've done. I then ease myself back into the discussions.

Yes, it's weird and I know I'm not interesting enough to have people know me by name. I've just had a few incidents where people have tracked through my comment history and brought up things from the past to defeat me in an argument, and I get a little gunshy.
I can't stand the huge fixed header and I'm sad that I'm seeing more and more of them on websites. If I plan on spending any amount of time on a website that has one, I immediately edit the css to add display: none because otherwise it'll drive me crazy.

It's a waste of space and it makes it much much harder for me to read on my laptop. Vertical space is way too valuable to throw away like that.
There's a small number of chefs in US who are certifie4d to prepare the real fugu, and I was visiting one of them.

I did not find anything special in it, by the way. :)
I/O Ventures VC Paul Bragiel Goes On Hiatus To Train For The Winter Olympics
The top 3D printing cities in the US
Dalmatian in cloud: Apache Gora 0.3 and Amazon DynamoDB
Reading down the thread, you seem interested in my reply.

> Who decides what health care I have access to

Society decides, in the same way it decides how to spend any tax dollars, such as when and where to build new public roads, when to open a new elementary school to better serve the changing population, etc. etc.

Keep in mind, any "heath care you have access to" is just the minimum provided to everyone. If you want to buy more/better care, you are absolutely free to do so with your own money. Go nuts. I've been living under this system in Canada and Australia for the majority of my life and have never felt the need to buy more converge, but that's just me personally. My aging parents buy extra.

> and what health care I'm required to take (vaccines, vitamins, exercise, etc)?

This is a great question. It's very topical right in Australia [1] as one state (NSW) now requires mandatory vaccinations before children can attend child care centers. This is analogous to you being required to buy car insurance before you can drive on public roads - if you don't, it's too risky for everyone else and society has deemed that unacceptable. You also can't nail together a few pieces of timber and call it a house, as it doesn't meet building codes, etc.

Of course, you are free not to participate in these rules - you just don't drive a car or build a house. NSW is now saying if you don't want to get vaccinations, then you don't get to participate in child care centers as it makes the cost to high for everyone else.

It remains to be seen if the people of NSW agree with this or not. If not, the rules will change.

Keep in mind that all of these rules are set by the society we live in. Plenty of people chose not to live within these rules. They break the rules and often face consequences as you mentioned (fines) or, if you chose, you can just move into the middle of nowhere in Alaska and do whatever the hell you want, and actually not be a part of any society. (I live right near Alaska, I know tons of people doing this)

--

Based on your other comments further down, I have to say that it doesn't look like you're against universal health-care per se, but you in fact have absolutely no confidence that your society can determine what that would actually look like. You've lost all faith that your system of government is actually representing the interests of the people, so you would rather it doesn't represent any interests at all, and "butt out" of your life

This is a sad shame, and it's actually the root of the issue here. If you don't trust your system of representation to represent you, then of course you don't trust it with something like your health, or anything else for that matter.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2013/s3769940.htm
If silver is potent enough, that may not be an issue. While it is hypothetically possible for biotics to develop resistance to sterilization via sulfuric acid, to my knowledge none have. If your treatment operates with fundamental chemistry (rather than complicated interactions between large organic molecules) and is powerful enough, the biotics don't get a chance to develop resistance. Or at least, that's how I understand it.

For example, I would consider osmosis to be a "fundamental chemistry" form of action. The only organisms I know of that can tolerate ridiculously high osmotic pressures are extremophiles. They developed resistance, yes, but they had the opportunity to gradually develop on the fringes of these extreme environments, instead of simply being dropped into a pool of salt.
I think video's killer feature is the image stabilization. A large percentage of bad videos are because they're shaky as hell.
Just s/words/content, if you like.

If your content is pictures, the same philosophy applies: ditch any ornamentation that gets in the way, just post your damn pictures. If you're selling the pictures? Get the pictures out there and get the "buy" controls out there.

It's still minimalism, and all it's saying is: "if your goal is to show pictures, that fancy layout that pushes all your content into a slick grid of thumbnails, just so people can see some slick fly-out animation when they're clicked upon, is probably just wasting everyone's time."
Anybody using Sococo? https://www.sococo.com/home
"First, give us the data"

Here you go

http://data.gov.uk/
Startups Are Not Risky
Loved the story about the squirrel
Check again -- look at http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html. There's a significant premium on MtGox. At the time that I'm writing this, the values are

mtgoxUSD: 112.99
bitstampUSD: 107
btceUSD: 106.87
cbxUSD: 106.12
vcxUSD: 105
bitoxUSD: 95
On the other hand, yesterday there was a discussion on HN of Steve Jobs remark that his legacy won't survive long, because technology quickly becomes obsolete:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906202

Words have much better chance of survival than other elements of web design. What was considered a decent design 10+ years ago, is today often laughable.