skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably wouldn't answer some of those questions in public, but not because I think someone's going to steal my idea. They're just none of your business.

It's a big market and this is an execution game. If you think you can jump in late just because you heard I have 100,000 users, well, good luck to you.
IPhone 5s: Is Apple innovating or playing catch-up?
I agree that the new iPhone camera will be no substitute IQ-wise for a half-decent point-n-shoot, and it probably will not be enough to convince me to upgrade from my 4S. On the other hand, I am very impressed with the path Apple are taking regarding automatic modes. Automatically bracketing exposure and shooting in burst-mode, then analysing the results in real time for highlight/shadow clipping and sharpness, and then presenting the 'best' photo to the user? Automatically combining twin tinted flashes for tone without mucking about with gels? That's great stuff (assuming it works), and orders of magnitude more advanced than the 'auto' modes on pretty much all other cameras.

It's not going to replace good cameras used by enthusiasts who know their aperture from their ISO, but it has the potential to make huge waves in the snapshot category. I'd love to see that tech make its way to, say, the successor to the Canon S110 or the next Ricoh GRD.
Dashfuck — a little language that compiles into brainfuck (in Go)
So I guess it's fair game.
Fleximg.js - javascript/php Responsive image resizer/loader
Two years full time? Impressive in any case.
Cool Idea !
Some Minecraft parts in 2D combined with a jump & run... and old console/c64 retro look :-)
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http://www.bottledlifefilm.com/index.php/the-film.html

If you speak German, you can find a great free documentary here: http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/45_min/videos/minuten8...
yay..another pixely indie game...yay..really..yay
Terraria is a clone itself. Also it's probably a separate genre already.
Moonman is Minecraft 2D? I'm okay with this.
Our plans for growth are (mostly) public. A smart competitor could have figured them out on their own anyway--it's to keep expanding on what we're already doing. Luckily for us we really don't have much direct competition. Not every market is the same.
Excuse my ignorance, but can you not use div layers to position your data as well as the header / footer tags?
Thank you for posting that. When the government has indiscriminately turned its power against the people it is supposed to protect, then it is working to some other end and for some other interest.
I have played Minecraft since back when it was still a browser game and played Terraria a lot as well from day one and honestly Terraria has been much better simply because it had a lot more content. By the way, the 1.2 update is almost out, he has been working on it for a while and kept pushing the date back but apparently has finished it and is just left with bug fixes now (multiplayer is finally fixed too so you wont need something like hamachi to play).
Would be useful to also sandbox it against running any javascript etc. contained therein.
Arguably most modern websites might as well be using tables considering how they use divs.
I think mobile first solves excess DOM mostly when you are serving different templates to different devices.
It completely trashes Firefox here, not exactly a compelling argument for a site like this.
Nothing like a phobia or anything, but it did give me a feeling that there were bugs all over my screen.

It's a cool animation though and a nice reference to the first book, personally I'd probably add a small toggle for the bugs.
That's a fair point, and I agree that in the circumstance due to the framing of the situation it could be more harmful - but it doesn't change the fact that the root cause is bullying.

We as a species have a remarkable proclivity to be very unkind.
[Tell PG] Bug in submit
If one submits a post with a trailing '/' and then the same URL without the trailing '/' then the post is counted as a different URL.
It is very clear that this method is still in infancy and we should not be expected to be able to fully accommodate everyone right now. We are working towards a solution.

The fact the DOM is parsed regardless is not a massive issue to me, as mobile browser speed increases this will become a non issue. The issue really is the images, there needs to be some way of telling the browser to completely ignore the image on certain media types, or at least defer the load if it is not meant for this media type then load it last.

There will eventually be a standard for responsive web design but at this moment in time people are doing it the best they can with the tools they have
I heavily depends on what your non-profit does (help people with cancer?) and on what porn sites you advertise, but in generall I think it is a bad idea.

For many people porn and fast food are BOTH "guilty pleasures" so food adds are a great idea, beacuse the audience is already in the right mindset.

People visit porn sites to get some exitment and relief, or to get into the right mood (Fk the rules / I need something to cheer me up/ Lets stay in bed).

Your add will remind the visitors of something they SHOULD care / worry about and will ruin the experience.
True, but Russia, China and the US all have a shared interest in working (together?) against Islamic rebels/separatists/militants/terrorists, so they may well cooperate more than you might at first suspect. If you could get some Islamic militants to (develop?) contribute a cryptosystem, then you would be more convincing.
Phonebloks, a phone made of detachable blocks
Oh dear. No help for you either, is there?
I imagine it's an extension of the 'terrarium' example which is used to demonstrate OOP in javascript in the first edition of this book....

[edit - yes - it says this at the bottom of the page!]
No, I get the need, as you described it, but one place was charging 1000%.
That's a lot of money to ask. Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club got bought for $6000. Just sayin'.
Amsterdam's Startup Manifesto
I am amused by the comments on this post and even the story itself.Kenya's primary problem is not a lack of water.Around 70 percent of the land is rich with multiple rivers,which is why it is one of the leading producers of Tea and Coffee.Only some parts of Northern Kenya,around Lodwar have dry spells .Western Kenya has the opposite problem:flash floods that usually occur around April and March.

Corruption and poor management of resources are the major headaches facing the country,not droughts.
Doesn't decreasing page weight for non-mobile help?
As an amateur photographer I've actually been in the same boat, but with an unnamed newspaper in the UK, it's an interesting process. It's also ridiculously common for media companies to use photography without licensing it properly, and whilst I've heard the argument of "don't post it if you don't want it using" it just doesn't work. The world would be a poorer place if creatives felt that they had to sequester their work away to maintain their own rights of control over their product.

Plus most of the time if you approach a photographer first you're going to get a much better deal than when you've decided that licensing it properly wasn't important.
You're right. Seems some recent change in FF upped their requestAnimationFrame fire rate, or I made some change since I last tested it that causes the slowdown. In any case, try to refresh, should be smoother now (I've added a mechanism that reduces the framerate when the animation is eating up too much processing time).
I suspect the author doesn't live in the US, as a few of his points don't apply to US non-profit law.

In particular:

"A charity (except in special circumstances) cannot pay a salary to anyone. Typically everyone who works for a charity is a volunteer."

In the US, when people talk about non-profits they're usually talking about organizations with the 501(c)3 tax status (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization#501.28c...). Those organizations are further classified as either public charities or private foundations -- the former being what people typically mean by "non-profit."

US non-profits almost always pay some people for some of their work. There are restrictions on salary, insofar as you have to explain that salaries are justified to the IRS (this really only applies if the salary is beyond normal market rate).

"A charity must disclose all of its financials publicly, in great detail, and be audited by several government bodies. "

The same is true in the US, though non-profits do not have an audit requirement here. Large non-profits typically hire a CPA to do an audit each year, though, as multi-million foundation grant-givers often require it.

"A charity may only do things which have charitable purpose for public benefit, and nothing else."

This isn't strictly true in the US. A charity can engage in unrelated business, but it's taxed on it and it can't account for a substantial amount of revenue. For instance, most Museums have gift shop, and selling stuffed animals isn't usually their charitable purpose, so the organization will typically pay tax on that revenue.

"A charity receives large amounts of tax-relief from the government for conforming to these rules."

True in the US -- non-profits don't pay income tax and donations are tax-deductible.
VLC Media Player: Automatically Skip Songs in Indian Movies
Brightbox launches new lower-cost cloud server tier
How one hack got to engineers with security clearances
Django: Stop Writing Settings files
yes. this is an under-appreciated fact.
How I fixed an anonymous infinite loop in jsbin
Either use NNTP, or http://gmane.org/export.php
Good clarification, I'm sure the author will see this. And your suspicion is correct, he lives in Europe.
Technically, those are different URLs. Often, one redirects to another or serve the same content.
This is not just about communications, though, is it? It is about authentication and control over our the machines that help us to run our lives. If you can break my cryptography, you are (in essence) the real owner of every single network-connected digital-electronic device that I have. Which increasingly means all of them. It feels (to me) more akin to theft than dirty-tom peeping.
A little less privacy is worth a little more security, says Internet founder
Who Are Ontario's Hottest Startups (Interactive App)
Don't they mean "armbidextrous?"
IPhone 5C: C is for Cognitive Illusion
Upsells And Cross-Sells: Techniques To Improve Your Conversion Rate
Quite agree - it's all about execution.

Other people want to come and do what we're doing? Well that's just great, it validates our market. We just need to make sure we're doing it better than you.
Hey man, you need to clean your mind, seriously.

I had only been in 5 or 6 countries in Africa, I want to visit way more. I had seen lots of good from foreign people (some of them giving their lives to others expecting nothing in return) so your comment is almost an insult.

Don't read books, don't listen to other cynics like you. Go see yourself, go to Africa.

You will discover and learn lots of things. In Africa there are things that don't work, but there are things that do. Most Americans have no friends, in Africa communities are very important.
Almost by definition, a standards organization would have some form of government (lowercase g) running it. What would you suggest as an alternative? Wikistandards? Even a wiki has government.
You should try the Youtube comments, that'll drastically sour your faith in humanity. :p
The focus on biometrics in the mass market
If you want to give more money to old people for their healthcare, that is a legitimate aim, and it would be better if we were to talk about it as an aim per se... and maybe get the money by taxing healthcare for young people (which is very regressive and quite painful for many people who are not rich young computer programmers.)
Google images is better.
+1 for consolas on Linux.
> It should probably be noted that this is not some sort of validation to the fact that "the NSA owns this particular DRBG".

It sounds like the NYT is convinced. The caption under the header picture reads:

"As part of its efforts to foil Web encryption, the National Security Agency inserted a backdoor into a 2006 security standard adopted by the National Institute of Science and Technology, the federal agency charged with recommending cybersecurity standards."
It's started a conversation at the very least ;)
US Facing Of Downfall In Global Mobile App Market
Smalltalk? Lisp?
What is Terraria a clone of?
> There seem to be lots of situations, even in just mildly
> complicated web pages, where you need to write HTML code
> solely for graphics / layout reasons

It depends on the browsers support desired, but for reasonably modern browsers this should be rarely the case, except for really complex layout.
Now when we have multiple backgrounds and background images and generated content there is less demand for extra elements.
"A charity (except in special circumstances) cannot pay a salary to anyone."

That's not true for the UK, either. Lots of charities have sizeable paid staff: Oxfam GB has about 6,000, the Canal & River Trust about 2,000, and so on.
That's what I thought when I saw it. Break something, take a quick snap and import it, fix the damage, send to printer. Very little 3d modelling skill required, making it way more accessible to the average person.
Without revealing our IP, yes, we believe it's a really good idea to use just "good enough" algorithms for traffic balancing, packing edge servers with content, content promotion and demotion, etc.

At scale, we find blind strategies (round robin for balancing, LRU for content allocation) do okay (say, 70% of theoretic optimal) with almost no signal (e.g., server up/down), and many CDNs using off the shelf equipment are in that category. Using another 20% of hardware doesn't really affect their overhead.

We're a wholesaler and rely on a competitive edge in the margins, so in our IP we've discovered and take advantage of classes of "good enough" strategies (say, 95% of optimal) with just a couple high performance signals (e.g. overall server load). To get above those to, say, 96% or 97%, requires gathering detailed metrics with deltas (e.g., HDD and memory stats), and lengthy computation. For us, those final incremental gains are not worth the complexity.
To be sure: With this manifesto we don't mean that the ecosystem is completely shit. We've written this post in order to recognise current weakness in the Amsterdam ecosystem, discuss and learn form them, and build something great from it.
Quepy project uses python to do question answering (nl to mql) over freebase
Quepy 0.2 now is able to generate queries in MQL for the Freebase knowledge base!

Quepy is a python framework in which you can specify how to handle questions (in natural language) in order to generate a database query that answers them.
Freebase is a HUGE database that contains A LOT of enciclopedic information about everything.

You can find a tutorial here: http://quepy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial.html
The full code here: http://github.com/machinalis/quepy
And the full documentation here: http://quepy.readthedocs.org/
Demo: http://quepy.machinalis.com/
Facebook got started similarly, though that was a coder hired to work on a project and told details presumably in confidence.
The Richest 10% of American Families Got Half of All Income Last Year
"Stop making me sign up. [...] Discuss this on Hacker News."
In other words, it's useless for now, and for a few more years.

God, I wish IE 8 wasn't the latest thing on XP (Still a lot of users on windows XP) and that new features weren't added only in major releases that happens rarely for Microsoft.

Rarely, that is, compared to other vendors on the market.
Exactly. Which is the most important part in my opinion.
Seems like the perfect advertiser for 4chan. A lot of traffic, the ads are ALWAYS for porn so people will notice, and the user-base never leaves the house.
Dragon Nest Hack
Dragon Nest Hack
LuaJIT is a work of great beauty and efficiency. I've been working on a commercial product for small ARM boards where rapid prototyping has been essential because of ever changing requirements but the speed of the finished code is also paramount. LuaJIT has made this project an absolute pleasure. It wraps C libraries cleanly, it runs within 5-10% of native code speed on the ARM (I checked because I didn't believe it at first) and it's 100% compatible with all the Lua 5.1 supporting libraries I need. This new profiler will be a great addition to the toolbox along with ZeroBrane Studio's debugger which I just discovered this week and which also rocks.

Mike Pall needs several Jolt Awards.
You can, and that is how it's mostly done now.

But that isn't semantically correct. A div tag is just a div tag - like all other div tags.

An article tag is "a div tag", unlike all other div tags. It tells that this is the main part of the webpage.
Dragon Nest Hack Video
Dragon Nest Hack Video
NIST's Non-Response To Revelation That NSA Controlled Crypto Process
Reversing the effects of the industrial revolution on entrepreneurship
This is pretty well known. If you append additional query term to the end of a URL, same thing happens.
I wonder where in Europe he lives, since paying a salary to employees at charities is quite common in most countries I can think of.
A Wall That Limited the World Trade Center’s Devastation
I want to start learning Javascript (total beginner with few months experience with PHP), can you guys recommend me some good books suggestions as to what frameworks I should get in to?
That "study" is bullshit. It's actually a survey asking people after how many seconds they will leave the site. I'm now expecting them to find cure for cancer by popular vote.
As a direct marketer I could see this being useful, but it's hard to get a feel for it when the site is pretty much bare now - get some content up. I would think that you'd do pretty well in organic search results for things like "<app name> reviews" (which I search all the time, and never find anything good).
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
It doesn't, directly, but you could argue that when designing/building a website with mobile at the forefront of your thought process, you should end up with a less-excessive DOM, as you begin by building the simplest (i.e. mobile) UI, first.
Depends on the meaning of "can" and "div layers". Technically speaking I can do many things, it's just that CSS (before flexbox, as mentioned in the comments) does not have any nice way to say that this element should be displayed before that element and so on.

Not sure what you ment with the layer thing.
Ghost is based in the UK - where Charities can pay some people but, most notably, not the trustees who run it. Apologies for not making that clearer!
A few other threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5244867
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6110551
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023840

My personal advise based on my personal preferences for insurance is to get the highest deductible you possibly can. The monthly cost for a single person in their 20's will be cheap. This will cover annual exams and stop you from going broke if you get really sick or hurt. This is especially good if it is unlikely that you will get sick.

I should note that many people disagree with me on this.
Interesting analysis by Dediu as usual (I'm a big fan and listen to his podcast regularly). I think a lot of people (including Horace and yours truly) are surprised by the 5C pricing strategy -- it's not 5C(heap) but 5C(olor). I just looked at real world photos on Ars of the new models and from my POV the 5C models look like they are designed for kids. (A matter of taste, of course.) If Apple cut the price by another $100 they might make sense as a pricepoint but at only $100 less than 5S it seems crazy to me.

It's notable there's no black (or 'slate') 5C. I guess if one wants a more 'dignified' (again, a matter of taste) one has to go 5S.

I commend to all the interesting Steve Jobs quote found at the end of the comment by markwilcox:

"What ruined Apple was not growth … They got very greedy … Instead of following the original trajectory of the original vision, which was to make the thing an appliance and get this out there to as many people as possible … they went for profits. They made outlandish profits for about four years. What this cost them was their future. What they should have been doing is making rational profits and going for market share." - Steve Jobs.

As a long-time Apple fan and former shareholder I'll be very interested to see how this pans out.
Government secrets: Is it fair that they are spying on you?
America now operates as a corporatocracy, a corrupt system which serves the interest of powerful corporations. This has been facilitated and enabled by an increasingly fascist government, which shows little respect for constitutional rights and personal liberty.
Politicians frequently use rhetoric and fear in order to ignite panic and entropy. Confusion is a means of control which allows them to exercise further control and rally support for their fraudulent wars and hidden agendas.
The revelation of secretive Intelligence programmes, such as PRISM, indicate a gross neglect of personal privacy. The basic right to human life no longer appears valid as we continue to witness unjustified drone strikes and night raids on poor rural villages throughout the Middle East.
The true "terrorists" are the puppeteers in charge of the most powerful nation in the world. It is up to us to educate ourselves so that we can put an end to corporate rule and return the power to the people.
Lethargy is not an option.<p>"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve either one"
-Benjamin Franklin
Packaged Chrome Apps - Just like native apps
The author's comments aren't correct for the UK, either. He writes:

"A charity (except in special circumstances) cannot pay a salary to anyone."

Charities ( unincorporated, companies or CIOs ) can of course pay salaries, it's how they attract good people to work on the boring back-office stuff.

For example, the British Red Cross ( registered charity 220949 ) has an advertisement at the moment for an Admin Suport Manager, £21,783 - £28,046 per annum + benefits.
Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to spawn another process instead of just RTFM,
if you are on linux:

ls --color=never -1
Yes but it relies on an informed electorate holding mostly honest elected officials to account while said officials hold the tools of state to account.

In other words no.