skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with design isn't the designers. It's the clients.

Designers can only aim to produce work that challenges "constraints, organisational politics" if the client will allow them to. Very few will. You can explain until you're blue in the face that they're shooting themselves in the foot, but in any organization the easiest and safest thing to do career-wise is to avoid rocking the boat, so very few clients are willing to push back on all the different internal pressures that hobble their projects. It's easier to just accept them and deliver the best thing their internal dysfunctions will allow.

(This is as true for consulting coders as it is for consulting designers, btw. Even the original consultant, Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, could never get the London police to take his word for things.)

And it's easier for designers to go along with that too than it is to refuse to work for clients who insist on shooting themselves in the foot. But it's hard to blame them. Designers gotta eat too, you know? I mean, you can play Howard Roark and refuse to work on anything that's in any way compromised, but since reality isn't a bad novel you may find yourself going your whole life without ever finding a client who meets your standards. And is a brilliant designer who never got around to designing anything really better in the final analysis than a brilliant designer who designed a bunch of nearly-great-but-sadly-compromised things? I dunno.
'Grand Theft Auto V' makes $800 million in 24 hours
I doubt it takes each startup very long to figure out that they shouldn't hire based on Dribbble profiles.
Yup, heard stories like this a thousand times.
MMS died years ago. Terrible technically and never actually worked the four times in someone tried to send one.
Fully heard and appreciated. Obviously, the storage of this media does have real cost, but feedback on the pricepoint is helpful.

Thank you.
because no investor wants to take an equity like risk for a limited upside return which debt is. If the company is still early, but doing well, you want the full upside.
Facebook 'Like' is Protected Speech, Appeals Court Says
Introducing Nirman - A flexible static site generator for NodeJS
If money is no object...
We Are All Awesome
The problem is ego, Designers have a too much of it.
NSA can do much better than that. US tech can no longer be trusted.
For reference, JellyBean 4.2 is still at 8.6% a year after release[1]

[1] http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Time to move to Texas.
PRNGs are ultimately machines, they produce data from an input, even if that input is obscured from whoever receives the output. Statistical tests for randomness are still very valid and very important for PRNGs, and your dismissal of them is premature. Three million zeroes is so wildly improbable that any PRNG that for a reasonable seed value would produce such a sequence would be intensely scrutinized to determine if other seeds exhibited such behavior. If Dual_EC_DRBG exhibited that behavior, the cryptographic community's reaction would be swift.

The issue here is the entropy of such a sequence is extremely low, and while low entropy PRNGs do exist, and they are not considered good for cryptographic purposes. If algorithmic weaknesses led to long stable and highly compressible sequences, or rather, sequences with a very low entropy (as measured by say, Kolmogorov complexity) would be considered suspect.

Determining Kolmogorov complexity is itself a difficult problem, it's the problem of finding the shortest program (in a theoretical computer science sense) that produces a given output. And the complexity of that sequence is trivial, which is a huge problem for PRNGs. If every other seed had an extraordinarily high complexity with lots of hidden state, then maybe it would be considered, but I suspect not.
Having grown up in the 90s and 00s, I disagree. I had tons of time to play, and you know what I did with it? I played. Outside at first, then video games, and I still play now and then when I find time.

I've got a 13 yr old brother and a 10 yr old sister, and they play. Anecdotally, this article is bunk. Kids play still, even if they are getting shuttled off to various practices.

As a counterpoint to the rise in mental illnesses in children, isn't our improved ability to test for illness, and our increased willingness to diagnose mental disorders as much at play as any other cause?

In the 5 or so minutes it took me to read this article, I can't help but think of this as yet another example of, "my childhood was great, the next generation lost something!" that can be seen throughout history. I'm no expert, and I know nothing more than a layman does on the topic, but in my limited experiences, I've found no such suggested problem.

I guess I just want my experience to be added to the data pile.
I see you failed to read the whole article.
Inkling (YC W06) is hiring. Help improve decision making in companies and govt
Diablo 3 auction houses are doomed by developer Blizzard
Why LinkedIn Needs More Cash
I can pretty much promise we are never going to do a BlackBerry app.
good thought, definitely true, reminds of this http://www.switched.com/2010/12/27/navy-pilots-flew-helicopt...
Yup. I imagine you'd be welcome and invited to stay for free, housing included, to many places around the world - if not everywhere. I do think in the future most everyone will have the ability, the benefit to travel anywhere in the world - as an incentive and reward for good behaviour; If you do criminal activity/counter-productive behaviours towards society or individuals, you lose that, etc..
Truthfully, my personal track record for predicting protocol success isn't particularly good. There is an old essay on gopher's "resurrection" that I really hope no one is able to find anymore.

All I know is that a whole lot of our customers asked for it, so we built it. Took us a long time, but I'm very stoked for the response developers are giving us at Twiliocon.
Walled gardens are not new. HTTP was first documented in 1991. Compuserve was founded in 1969!
Aubrey de Grey: Finally, the War on Aging Has Truly Begun
In his example, he did not suggest that there were any downsides to voting yes. What was your basis for voting no?
This was exciting at the beginning.

"stepping out of the confines of the search box"

"reinventing search"

... what could this new search be? how will it work? is bing finally innovating and thinking for itself?

No. No.

Turns out they just designed a new logo.
How  to Get Investors Interested
MPAA and RIAA Teach Copyright at Kindergartens
Looks pretty and useless. I've been using iOS since iPhones came out, I'm seriously thinking about moving to android. Google has a good deal on Nexus 4.
What I wrote is based on a) best practice, b) the understanding that the vast majority of APIs are, in production, consumed by applications, not humans, and c) the knowledge that, in high-volume production environments, small inefficiencies can add up to larger inefficiencies.

Finally, I don't know where you came up with your 1% figure but I just ran a test on an API I use and the uncompressed pretty printed response was 24% larger than the uncompressed non-pretty printed response because of all the whitespace. I'd challenge you to find a scenario under which a pretty printed response of reasonable size is only 1% larger than its non-pretty printed counterpart.
Tea Storm
I played until the other kids stopped coming outside to play. Even then I still played a little, riding my scooter around the neighborhood. But after I ran out of friends where I lived (They either got sick, moved away, or decided they were too cool for me.) I got bored sitting by myself outside and started trolling the Internet or playing video games more.

Grew up in the 2000's.
Dribbble is to design what GitHub is to coding. Case closed.
No, that was just the first premise, the point was "you're better off typing it". They were implying that a fountain pen is a waste because it's only useful in situation you should be avoiding.

I think the parent you your post is a very valid criticism when paired with this sibling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6407094
The curves seem to look a bit deceiving, probably something in how our eyes work - switch to the 'count' tab instead of the 'percent' tab. It's much easier to see then just how much 'flatter' the founder curve is compared to the non-founder curve, and this flatness pushes up the deviation, but it pushes up the average far more and puts the confidence interval well out of range of the non-founder curve.

Judging based off just the visual curve is not a great idea as our brains are wired up for matching patterns and not for working out these kind of differences properly. It's why math is such a good idea when making decisions.
Imagine if we grew up in a world like the one you posit, where humanity advances only slowly because it's held back by the ideals held by people 400 years old.

You propose that the best solution to this is kill everyone over 80.

That would make you a psychopath.
Oops. Blog post: http://www.p01.org/releases/tea_storm/
Well, the way to solve the charging issue is to have universal healthcare for all in which no one can be denied care. Given that, I don't see why I should care why anyone know my cholesterol or blood pressure.

And where is Google advocating for cuts in public science spending, or lobbying to get regulations reduced on harm-causing environmental agents? This is a non-sequitur with respect to Calico.

Part of big data is transparency, removing ignorance. We overspend on healthcare and treatments that don't work, precisely because we haven't crunched the numbers and informed the public and based policies based those insights. Obamacare took a lot a flack over this ("death panels!!"), but if you want to talk about optimizing health, then using computer science to evaluate medical data to target spending at stuff that works and extends life and well-being the most is a huge win.

Standing in the way of that is conspiracy nuts who obsess over the privacy of their vital fluids and that somehow, scientists recommending that your favorite treatment is nothing more than a very expensive placebo is a death panel.

In a perfect world, no one could be denied healthcare, and everyone's medical records (anonymized) and history would be open to all scientists in the world for exploring the connections between disease.

I'd certainly like to know that 10,000 other people, who have the same gene X as me, who also developed symptom Y after behavior Z, and that scientists could also make that connection and begin to figure out how to target treatments, rather than counting on some hope that some study will get the right participants with the right set of histories to figure this out.
Regarding the second half, I said I wasn't going to comment on the broader discussion.

Regarding the first, though, if we need to produce X horsepower for Y hours, then we can do it by using Z gas + Z' gas, or Z gas plus an idea for a more efficient engine. Ideas absolutely replace energy. They can't, so far as I can see, replace the last bit of energy, but we're nowhere near that.
Had the same argument about a year ago. No, once you override it, it's gone. The value of the font-family property is a single list, not a list of lists.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/8TLBd.png

It doesn't work with inheritance and it also won't work if the very same selector is used. E.g. if you add:

.comment{font-family:foo}

to the current stylesheet, you'll get Times New Roman (or whatever your browser's default font is.)

Hence this line:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-family-prop

"Style sheet designers are encouraged to offer a generic font family as a last alternative."
I would actively discourage you from even looking at Mont Blanc. They are the designer pens of the ... uh pen world.

Personally I have enjoyed my Pelikan... german made, huge ink reservoir and as far as these things go not excessively expensive.

Also as many others have pointed out, disposable pens let you get used to the fountain pen world first.
Yup this, I havent ever had a fountain pen leak during air travel.
While the author gives some great tips about product design, I don't think it's fair to say that Dribbble is belittling product design. You don't really get the full picture with each shot. You don't know what the designer's agenda is with that particular image, whether it's for fun or is going to be implemented in an actual product. I doubt that all designers on Dribbble go in head-first by only caring about the visuals. I can see where the author tried to go with this article, but I don't think that you can really place a single label on an entire community.
The most useful public speaking advice I've received
Malnutrition Impairs U.S. Children’s Health, Behavior
Link to github repo and docs:

https://github.com/strongloop/loopback

http://docs.strongloop.com/loopback/

FWIW, I'm really trying to figure out what this is exactly. Is it something that can be used standalone or does it need to be used only as part of StrongLoop Suite? The marketing speak all over the place is so palpable that it obfuscates.
They didn't just hide it below the fold. They made it look like it wasn't there at all, by showing blurred-out content first, along with text along the lines of "subscribe to see the answers".

Any reasonable person not aware of the trick would believe they had to pay for the answer.
~ 3 hours after release iOS7 adoption rate ~ 10%

> 1 year after release Windoze 8 adoption rate ~ 7%
And I hate to reply twice but the other thing was organized sports = responsibility responsibility responsibility. Pay your dues. Buy your uniform. Responsible for getting your name and number on your uniform. Do your 10 hours of "volunteer" groundskeeping after the games. Which kid (aka parent) is responsible for the water bottles today, and which kid is bringing the snack this week. Make sure you show up at 5:47 on wednesday on the dot or we'll have to forfeit. You're responsible for 2nd base, I don't like being 2nd base, too bad you're responsible. You're responsible to wear the proper color sweatpants with your uniform shirt or whatever it was. All a bunch of totally non-fun BS. Nothing to do with play or fun.

In comparison, disorganized sports at the park is awesome, your only responsibility is not intentionally hurting another kid.
Higher diagnosis rate, the definition of 'autism' is always expanding, parents being older when they have kids (late 20's-30's, compared to late teens/20's), possible links to pollution and environmental influence. Same can be said with ADD/ADHD (My husband has autism, and I have ADD. Neither of us did lots of tv/gaming until we were older. If anything, we gravitated to tv/games/reading/being alone/studying to avoid being around other people)
Being subscribed to cat facts is about to get 100x more awesome.
Detecting pulse from head motions in video
When Android came along as a strong competitor to iOS, I remember reading about OTA updates and thinking "How come we are still updating via freaking iTunes? I hate this shit from Apple..".

At some point I got an Android, had to root and install CM to upgrade after waiting a long time for OTA update. Then I got a Lumia 920 last year to see the development opportunity on WP8, had to wait for an update (Portico?) to roll out on my carrier for months after it's US release. Got rid of it sometime later.

My iPhone 5 is downloading the iOS 7 update right now.
buried in the article: Linus confirms that US Government has approached him to put a backdoor in the linux kernel.
There are definitely investors that like venture debt risk/reward like the following firms:

http://www.goldhillcapital.com/
http://www.westerntech.com/
http://www.orix.com/

There are also some commercial banks with venture debt arms like SVB, Comerica, and Square 1
Wow, how far has Microsoft screwed up their decades long partnership with Intel that Intel would throw public support behind the Linux desktop is pretty stunning. It doesn't matter because Windows will obviously outsell on desktop/laptop PC's from major vendors like HP and Dell, but still. Microsoft has really fallen these last few years.
Thanks. I've seen eth.js and was just waiting for OpenCores to approve my membership so that I could start working on it. I didn't realize the spec was on github.

I need to look a bit more at how everything is laid together, but my intention is to have eth.js write ethernet frames to a WebSocket, then on the server side read/write frames from/to a TAP device.

As for the demo, there's no reason why you can't just turn off the socket for the static demo. Otherwise, I'm intending to host something on DigitalOcean to prove it works. I'm sure whatever it is it will be very simple so I don't wind up with a huge bandwidth bill, but I'm hoping I can think of something that's clever and easy on the wallet. Maybe I'll make it add all machines to one giant subnet or something... we'll see.
I'm sorry is anyone else the lest bit confused how a country can have such enormous aid camps, with little or no recourse for those living in them, no way for them to receive citizenship and be accepted as normal humans?

How can Jordan or even Syria for that matter, get away with hosting this enormous population of refugees and not even trying to reintegrate them into society?

I'm happy to see that they're getting much needed aid, but these are only stop-gap measures, these people should be applying constant pressure to be accepted as citizens with normal rights.
Reading about the bolder fonts is a huge relief. That was my #1 complaint about the earlier screenshots.
Simple: indefinite lifespan for the members of tiny minority Group A will turn them into a ruling elite even if they're not one already. You can't separate the issue of lifespan from social hierarchy.
Humor is impermissible in HN titles!!1!
slightly HS : I find it difficult to start to read an article when the first image caption has such a blatant error "In the country of Le Grandes Meaulnes" ( vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Meaulnes )

(but then I remember it's hard to master a second language and that this comment is probably full of 'blatant' errors)
Yes exactly this. Social signals matter.

To go a bit more meta, the question is, who are you? Who do you want to be? Who do you want people to perceive you as?

Using a fountain pen hits all the highlights to these questions.

Besides, it's just plain old COOL to be using a writing technology that is over 200 years old. The quality pens feel amazing, and encourage additional note taking for me.

Another advantage to paper notes: They arent searchable. Yup you heard me, NOT SEARCHABLE. Oh wait, you say, I want to search my notes... so I put everything in email. Then I get fired. And my boss owns my private notes. Oops.
It doesn't seem clear that these results are even statistically significant. As there are no calculated errors associated with the final values (which there should be for any study involving numbers) and the first sample is about 1/10th the size of the second. It doesn't seem like you can even draw the conclusion that there are more psychopaths proportionally within the founder group, let alone establish a causal relationship.
TL;DR
Study does not really say anything statistically meaningful.
Another way of putting it might be that accurate judgement of the audience is an essential skill for any comedian.
you're kidding right? Because I can make the non-founder curve just as "flat" by yanking up the scale on the percentage graph to 10,000%. The reason why it looks "flat" is because when you go to "count" the website scales both curves the same y-axis. I think you mean to say something like "kurtosis" - which is, if anything, obscured to the eye by the process of flattening by scaling.

And math is not a good idea when you make assumptions like normality of curves which are absolutely not normal. In this case, using the t-test to calculate a p value.

I think reification of poorly done math is a bigger problem than math by eye.
I'm glad to see this freshened up. Curated deals ala appsumo minus spam is a welcome concept.
So that's another thing, a larger, heavier pen actually reduces hand pain.
Cheaper, easier parking -> more demand for driving -> more traffic -> hard to find parking again. Plus the additional traffic.

A better solution would be to encourage the use of non-automobile transport through increased public transit investment (more service). That would free up plenty of parking for those who still choose to (or must) drive. Or to encourage ride or car-sharing, thus maximizing the effectiveness of existing parking (more people served per parked car). Also, raising the price of parking on-street would make more parking available, both by discouraging some existing parking and making off-street lots more profitable for operators.
what Jrockway said https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6407580

But your comments are factually wrong. None of Google's products you mention are new or really that much better (so far.)

>> Google is a company that is making self-driving cars

So is every major car manufacturer out there. Who's ahead of the game? I don't know because Google gets all the press and fawning from fanboys--like you.

">>providing incredibly fast internet to consumers

Experimenting in a few ares with plenty of subsidies doesn't count. The much hated Verizon has done a LOT more on that regard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS

">> providing Internet to suffering area with a patently new idea (the Loon)"

Not providing anything yet, just experiments and Loon is not a new idea at all. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120347353988378955.ht...

">> exploring definitively new ideas for hardware (Google Glass)"
Not a new idea at all. Different thinking of course but the verdict is still out.

One day--the focused like a laser--Google will manufacture their toilet paper and you'll be here to wonder how we managed without toilet paper before Google invented it.
It looks like it broke around 1600 and 1700. I just thought it was because there was just no data past that (it's currently 1600 EDT,) but the post above said the times are UTC.
"Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine: Fill this book with ideas and sketches, then let the Evernote mobile app bring them to your computer, phone and tablet with a simple snapshot."

http://evernote.com/moleskine/
Why isn't anyone mentioning that this is coming not long after Google hired Ray Kurzweil?

http://www.kurzweilai.net/monolith-when-google-hired-ray-kur...

Now he can put Google's resources to work on the problem.
You are operating under a false assumption. The SF government and many of its citizens (see other comments) don't want more parking. Almost every policy change in at least the past 15 years has resulted in fewer parking spots not more.

We have also instituted policies to reduce housing (rent control), increase homelessness (city welfare programs & non-profits), reduce employment (anti-tech, heavy taxes, fees & regulations), increase cost and reduce quality of government services (lax management, union friendly contracts), increase corruption (single party rule), increase crime (lax prosecution, sanctuary), drive out families and middle class (high costs, poor schools)... I could go on all day.

I know this seems strange but you just don't understand. We are just much smarter, more sophisticated and more caring than you!

Sorry for the cynical, snide rant but sometime this city gets to me. It seems like a conspiracy to set SF up to fail but it is a conspiracy led by the people of SF. This is a great city but it could be so much better.
Someone should write a short story (Doctorow, perhaps?) of a supercentenarian baby-boomer who is woken from a coma to suddenly find himself unwillingly young again, and explore the moral ramifications.
Given psi(x, t), if the relation between x and t is not non- linear. Then you can have a time-independent Schrodinger equation with a time-independent wave-function i.e psi(x).

However, you do not need start with a time dependent wave function to justify the time-independent wave function.