skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three design suggestions:

1. Pie charts need to die in a fire. I'm Tuftian like that. :)

2. The "scratched" fill on the bars makes it really hard to "read" them; solid colour would be much much better in my opinion.

3. I don't think bars are a good choice to display developments over time (for a non-discrete domain, if you will). I think line charts are much better, but you could probably get the best of both worlds by combining both visualizations into one.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I am not blown away by the design. d3.js has really spoilt me in raising the bar so high like that, but I am sure that your general demographic will find it fine. Still, it might be worth to draw some inspiration by some of Bostock's blocks at http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock.

.05. :)
I doubt it has any practical application outside llvm.git. Why would you want to write assembly by hand in the first place?

1. To bootstrap. There's various architecture-specific bootstrap code to load the kernel into memory in linux.git. The project largely depends on GNU as to assemble reliably; llvm-mc doesn't work half as well.

2. To try out new processor extensions. When new instruction mnemonics come out, assembler have to catch up. I'm not sure why anyone would want to use LLVM IR here, because those instructions are architecture-specific anyway.
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this seems like the coolest thing in the world to see, but yet no pictures? What does stopped light look like?
Modules are loaded as they are needed.
I think it's cleaner to configure your VM to _not_ have a sound card, rather than blacklisting all those snd* modules.
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This isn't a particularly good moment to weild this cliche. The core value proposition here is that it re-presents your data more beautifully than google analytics itself. Unlike the examples from which your cliche arose, this isn't bragging so much as a statement of purpose.
I love this idea. "Our search engine is different from search engines you've used before. Traditional search engines are geared towards providing answers, whereas our goal is to give you the best list of results for a query."

Should be interested to see how people react to that since a lot of people really focus on just getting that one answer whether it's right or not.

Good luck!
Bitcoin is a voting-based protocol. The "vote" with 51% of the computational power of the system wins.

By performing very very hard math problems with every PKI digest (ie, the "proof of work"), with a "difficulty level" such that it'd take the entire BTC network approximately 10 minutes to find a solution... then it becomes extremely extremely difficult for someone to enter the BTC system and screw up the public ledger.

You see, BTC is a distributed database, cryptographically signed by the BTC miners every 10 minutes. The difficulty of _performing_ the signature is automatically adjusted to take a ridiculous amount of time.
To the naked eye, nothing. If it's stopped, it can't hit your retina!
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Lets call it - the only know counter balance to experts running the show. We have a lot of geniuses on Wall Street and Silicon Valley and it hasn't prevented serious meltdowns that have effected millions of people.

Not to mention a law professor in the White House smart enough to interpret the law which ever way is most convenient.
And well known. Nobody wants the boss to find out: "uh, we alienated Hanselman".
>Sniper bots combined with friends bumping up prices on auctions means that a typical auction is a waste of money

This doesn't make sense, really. You enter the price you're willing to pay in an auction; what everyone else bids is irrelevant to you.

If you are getting outbid, it's because someone is willing to spend more money on the item, bot or not. Don't bid low trying to get a deal. Bid what you are willing to pay, and it works every time. It's a very efficient system.
Slippery slope. From there we might start requiring basic knowledge of politics and policies before people can vote! ;]
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I have nothing against Miguel and Mono. I just wanted to say that a product which is going to win the market, should be really open source and really free. People would choose PhoneGap for multi-platform mobile development over Mono.Touch because it has a friendlier license and leads to less risks.
I think it's worth considering the massive hurdle of making people replace their GA script code with one of your own. It's a hard battle that I think it makes sense not to pick, unless you really feel up for the challenge.

The value proposition is the design, and you could always offer it as an optional choice - that you might force users to replace the GA-based script with at a later point.
I'm pretty sure this is a rip off of a rant in "After Hours" on Cracked.com but still an interesting visual http://www.cracked.com/video_18459_why-pixar-movies-are-all-...

P.S. After Hours is HILARIOUS!
> Realistically, what would they do if you showed up in jeans?

Nothing at that talk, but you may not be on the invite list for next time. Microsoft's invite list for TechEd is notoriously political. The leader for each track (an MS employee) picks the session list.

To give an extreme example, one of my submissions was called something like "Fixing Slow SQL Servers." I was told, "At TechEd, there are no slow SQL Servers." It was changed to Building the Fastest SQL Servers. (sigh)
Don't bother trying to sign up, after they get you to make an account they tell you:
> The Design of Everyday Things
> We’re still making this course but we'll let you know when it's ready!

Pretty annoying it gave me the option of Google/Facebook login, then made me fill out information anyway. The whole reason I picked Google to login is because I don't want to fill out a registration form for site number 1000.
We tried something about 3 years ago that (presumably) addresses the same problem.

The feedback on HN back then was similar, especially the frequent mentions of GA custom dashboards.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499018 (just for reference, the service is _not_ operational)

At one point we started asking people we were presenting the product to to put together a GA custom report that's comparable in terms of setup time and output format. To this day I've not heard of anyone actually pulling it off.

HN is not your target audience for this. Hopefully you've already realized that. Your market is the massive amount of Google Analytics installations that remain completely unused because people can't be bothered with the details. Yet these people are interested in stats about their websites.

I'd be interested about how the "per report" pricing is working out, at first glance it seems a bit steep.

Good luck.
Herself, as most of us are. This kind of thing will make it a lot easier to get media attention for her projects like Grapefeed [1][2].

[1] - http://grapefeed.com

[2] - https://angel.co/grapefeed
are you using "checklists" internally? how do encourage people to use them?
Where's the new guy's place in the revolution?
mouthwash made with some high quality peppermint essential oil. The menthol in mint plants apparently tricks your brain into thinking you are cooler than you are......
What I want to know is: Does the crystal gain mass with the light stopped inside of it?
Interesting as always but I do wish Greenwald would write shorter more targeted articles.
> This sucks. However it's never been my experience,

This just in - Scott Hanselman treated better than other presenters at TechEd. Film at 11.
my head just exploded trying to grasp this... objects don't move but i can see them, but i can only see them because of light. therefore, if light doesn't move, if the object does, can i see it on the object?
This is exactly why we decided to make this gem. Looking forward to the port.
Ask HN: This company links my home IP address to my employer. How?
I've just had a spooky experience at http://wowanalytics.co.uk/ - I work remotely and was researching WOW Analytics website for a client. They have some buzzwordy technology that links IP addresses to companies.

Fair enough I thought... until they linked my home IP address to my company. Yes I'm a director of it but no domains point to my home IP address, this postal address etc...

So how the heck did they manage that? Short of having filled in a form on a website with the company name, and it saving name + IP address, I can't think how it could make that leap...
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> USA is already a fascist state by Mussolini's definition.

Orwell (1944): "the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'"

The fascist state was very much totalitarian, and the relationship with corporations wasn't conspirational, they were co-opted into the state for the benefit of the state's goals. Individuals were enabled and allowed to attain wealth through this scheme, but that doesn't mean they ran the show, at all.
It says Keynote at the bottom of his blog post.
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I would feel the same way if we switched places! Really interesting that we have such similar approaches.
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Mono is tolerated by Microsoft, and supported behind the scenes (not financially or anything, more like cheerleading) because it lets MSFT tell enterprise customers that "See: You aren't locked into Windows - there's a Linux alternative that you could use."

Microsoft is not setting technical direction for Mono, and I expect that there are few (if any) Microsoft employees contributing to the project -- because of conflict of interest and IP concerns. They are very much at arms-length with regards to Mono.

So far as *nix tools being superior - I would agree that they do what they are designed to very well. But don't turn up your nose at C# and the .net framework -- it's quite good, and doesn't have the Java factory factory factory issues.
Well, if you are planning on not giving further anyway talks because of how you are being treated, then there is probably very little harm in not being invited in the future.

IMHO, life is too short to donate time to people who are going to treat you like a child.
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here is the original paper: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v111/i3/e033601
well its energy has increased, so yes, but probably not measurably.
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Amazing story, love it. Yes it's all about building wonderful things. I've been doing one screencast per week since 2011, I have to say it's really really lots of fun.
I was attempting to be somewhat clever.
Partially agree. When I choose a technology for my project, I have to prove to my supervisor that technology is a good fit. In case of Mono.Touch, its usage leads to too many risks. What if Mono.Touch is bought by evil company like Oracle (see what happened to MySQL) or decides to abuse its user base by imposing crazy fees? What if the company fails, and who is going to maintain the solution in this case etc? In case of current license, the risks related to these questions are just too high.
You're absolutely right. It just masks the timeout from the client for as long as it can and then fails just as ungracefully.
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I love it. I would definitely pay for this service if the value was more reasonable. Good luck!
The Pentagon Papers? My history classes barely got into the 20th century, let alone the 1970s (I graduated in the late '90s). History was not a well-taught subject, and my impression is that recent developments in standardized testing and whatnot has made it even worse.

Also, unless you're concentrating on journalism, the Pentagon Papers incident is a rather obscure and unimportant event. I wouldn't be surprised if even a well-taught and comprehensive US history class didn't touch on it.
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a decentralised technology like solar or wind, in combination with electricity storage.

What kind of electricity storage? As I understand it, this is the hard part. We don't really have giant batteries that can efficiently and affordably store the power generated from wind or solar. You can either store it as some form of gravitational potential energy (think like a river dam), or as heat or cold, or as a fuel that you later have to burn. These are all pretty difficult and inefficient in the case of solar and wind power.
Is it no longer shipped on the install DVD?
My co-worker was just telling me he wants to show his kids some YouTube videos, but the "suggested videos" are always R-Rated. So, keeping all of the browsing on the phone would be a huge plus for him.
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I almost didn't vote this up. I hate calling out political leaders or parties in HN articles.

However, the title was a bit of linkbait. The real point is that no, it's not true that the parties in Washington do not agree on anything. The hardcore partisans all are very happy to work with each other to secure and increase the security state. For that reason, for pointing out the traditional wisdom is wrong in this area and that the problem here is not political but systemic, it was worth a vote.

I called my Representative, a Republican, to support the Amash amendment. Like a jackass, he didn't do it. I imagine Repbulican leadership did a lot of leaning on members to vote the amendment down. Looking at the Democrats (the other major US political party), I imagine Democratic leadership did a lot of leaning on members to vote the amendment down. While the consitutional system seems broken in the US - the state is conducting blanket surveillance and then deciding later what to review -- the political system, whereby parties gain and maintain power, seems to be working very well.

The good news is that the wheels almost came off the wagon: the amendment was almost passed. That means next time we'll all need just to lobby twice as hard to get our rep's attention. The other good news is that members of both parties came out to support the amendment, which means that the issue of the security state cuts both ways. Both parties could easily flip on this given enough pressure. It's just our job to make sure the pressure is there (while acknowledging that there is a vital need for national security and SIGINT)
This sounds defamatory to his colleagues. Most of whom also watched those elections and participate in political activities. It's just that Ilya was the most brightly burning among them all.
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If the light doesnt hit you in the retina you don't see it. So no.
What, no pics?
Yes. Since light is effect by gravity, it must have a mass. The increase should however be quite small on the crystal.

correction: See below.
That's an extremely prejudiced reading of that quote.

She clearly describes the [applying the metaphor] technologically illiterate as akin to ignoramuses.

It's clearly not the benefits of technological literacy that is the motivator to preventing young children from being exposed to hardcore pornography.

If some people were saying we shouldn't allow hardcore porn magazines to be sold to children; your argument would be like saying those people are advocating destroying all forms of printed media.
I think it's for light that entered the object, unsure if any light reflects off the surface.

It could be a glass ball which turns to look like a shiny ball.
That article makes quite a few mistakes.

For one, we don't "run out of sweat", says PopSci (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/fyi-how-much-c...).

More dramatically, from needing to set your convection oven 50 degrees lower, he gets that there's a 50 degree delta regardless of temperature, and: "This means that although the room’s air temperature is 90 degree Fahrenheit, with a fan on, your body is cooking at the same rate as being in a room with 140 degree Fahrenheit[.]" Of course that is inane - ignoring evaporation, blowing air over an object means the object will more quickly approach the temperature of the air (and vice-versa). Blowing 90 degree air over a 98.6 degree body is cooling the body, and cooling it faster than static 90 degree air, even if there is no sweat.

I have no doubt that there is a point at which moving air as opposed to static would cause hyperthermia faster, but it quite obviously needs the air temperature to be above body temperature and actually even above the temperature the body needs to reach for hyperthermia to become an issue. It probably needs to be even higher than that, because of sweat, but I don't have an easy way of working out how much higher. At these temperatures, we would likely be seeing deaths from heat stroke without a fan amongst the susceptible population.

None of this disproves fan death, but that article is not at all credible proof.
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Honeycomb did the same thing.
Where I am living this is available for such a long time. What is suddenly so new about it?
My guess: The object that does not reflect light to you ceases to exist in your vision. Nothing comes from that direction. Your brain would then attempt to compensate -- as it does for the blind spot in both your eyes -- and fill in the void, perhaps with a fuzzy version of continuity of whatever colors and textures surround the object.
That is the most mind-blowing thing I have read all day.
I wouldn't say it makes jQuery redundant - the AJAX stuff is helpful (if replaceable) and it does a great job of e.g. $div.height() and so on, which can be a source of cross-browser headaches without it. Though personally yes, I find I rarely use jQuery now I've got Ractive.

The difference is the difference between declarative and imperative programming. With jQuery you have to describe the steps that the browser has to follow in order to do something (e.g. $button.toggleClass( 'selected' ), whereas with Ractive you're much closer to simply declaring your intentions (e.g. ractive.toggle( 'selected' ), assuming your template references that variable). It's an inherently more scalable approach (which isn't to knock jQuery at all - they're attacking different if overlapping problems).
I though light was massless which was the reason it was able to travel at c and that anything with mass would travel at less than c?

If so then how does a massless object add weight to an object by being trapped in it.
It's nice for once to see evolutionary algorithms being used for something completely impractical.*

*mostly tongue-in-cheek
The problem with leaving things to common sense is that different people's common sense will lead to different decisions in many situations - it can lead to questionable forms of selective enforcement.

"Other speakers' wives were allowed to attend their talks, but my homosexual life parter was escored out by security!"

"I paid $$$ to attend but this speaker brought 5 friends who got in for free!"

If you depend on common sense, you either have to make sure to hire only people who don't misjudge, ever, or have to deal with embarrassing mistakes.
Maybe one day ;-)
Yes, conservation of energy.
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I thought light was not effected by gravity but by the increased distance it had to travel due to warping effect on time/space caused by gravity?
Quite ironic when you consider the Design. I wouldn't worry, the fact that you realized this was a poor design means you don't really need to take the course. Just read up on "affordances" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordances) and start complaining about doors that have handles that look like you should pull them but actually have to be pushed, for the rest of your life. It's a life long course.
Russia's anti-LGBT problem in pictures.
> But they’re more work for readers – questions take longer to scan and understand than simple headings and you can’t take any meaning from them in a quick glance.

Really? I find them easy to scan -- hell, I prefer them.
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"To break the minute barrier [they] fired a control laser at an opaque crystal, sending its atoms into a quantum superposition of two states. This made it transparent to a narrow range of frequencies. Heinze's team then halted a second beam that entered the crystal by switching off the first laser and hence the transparency."

Thus continuing my inability to understand what the fuck anyone is talking about whenever the word "quantum" is used in a sentence.

I mean, seriously. This has to be the one area of general reader science journalism in which the journalists -- having about as much as idea as I do about what the physicists are talking about -- just copy down whatever the guys in the lab coats are saying and print it.

I work in research computing. When I start talking to someone from our communications department and use a word like "interoperability," they say, "Whoa, slow down. You have to spell that out for our readers." But "quantum superposition?" Oh, what the hell.

I understand that is this very, very complicated stuff, and that they can't explain the whole thing from top to bottom every time they mention quantum mechanics. But pithy little paragraphs like this explain absolutely nothing.
I'm wondering if this would be a good defense against laser weapons? I've heard that normal mirrors are worthless for this since even a minut imperfections can be enough to quickly heat up and destroy the mirror.
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If this doesn't inspire you, nothing will
I don't think there's an energy -> mass -> energy transformation going on. Rather the crystal enters a different energy state while it 'has' the photon.
If you have a perfect mirror, can you store energy in lasers indefinitely?

I guess you'd still lose energy to the air
>I'd love for you to cite your source on that.

Do you actually need me to cite my source on the fact that it harms birds and can lead to resistance? I can, if you need me to, but I didn't think those facts were in dispute. The extent of the problem is arguable, but all I'm asserting is that these are measurable effects. There is also evidence that DDT is harmful to humans, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to be significantly more so than a ton of other things that we happily accept. It seems unlikely, for example, that DDT usage at its peak killed more people per year than air pollution from coal power.

Anyway, I think your general point is fair and that it was irresponsible to try to scare people away from controlled DDT use on mosquitoes. But I also think it's irresponsible to assert that DDT is safe. It's OK to use solutions that aren't safe if the benefits outweigh the risks.
Wouldn't it just be dark? I think the blind spot is a different phenomenon. This would be no different than being in a pitch black room.
Thanks, I didn't mean to imply this. I edited the post.
And it shows. That was the point I was trying to make. There must be a few MPs who actually know enough about the Web to form a cross party committee within the system as it is. Surely?
Thanks, this is an interesting example. I'm not wild about the extra DOM it creates (the placeholder <script> tags, etc) but I'm intrigued about what's going on under the hood - will poke around the source code.
I heard on Security Now (twit.tv) that they (among other companies) were asked if they ever provided master keys to US law enforcement, and they refused to reply.