skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it states in the welcoming:

Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.

It later defines deeply interesting as 'stuff that teaches you about the world.' I would by no means consider this a crap, or superficial article. I likewise believe it adequately fulfills the 'teaches you about the world' statement. Please explain my fallacy.
This is a SaaS I launched officially in July - any feedback is most welcome (even if you're not a potential customer).
Adobe Edge Animate is their answer to animation in HTML 5 (not the same thing as an non-native SWF player like Shumway, but a direction they're obviously headed). Did some hands on with the early betas back at Adobe MAX 2011 - kinda felt like Flash 4 or 5 (admittedly I'm not a Flash guy, but have only played with it in the past)
Amazing alternative to LCD displays. If only they could make the frames smaller
Ask HN: left the consulting company I started, what now?
Two years ago I started a consulting company with a colleague. We initially focused on Java/Scala development for the enterprise and moved to infrastructure automation (CI, DevOps and so on). Business was good but not so great.

We did many mistakes, starting from working in two different countries and targeting Europe as our market.

Last Monday I have decided to pull the plug and sold my 50% share of the company to my colleague and decided to go back into freelance consulting, mainly for financial reasons (I live in a very expensive city, I have a family).

I already miss running my company and I want to start something new as soon as possible. Consulting is a bitch, especially in Europe and especially with this harsh economical situation. I'm looking into creating some product: I strongly believe that automation (DevOps but also software life cycle automation) has huge potential in the enterprise world. What do you guys think? How do you cope with the entrepreneur bug?
> I have no idea what nationality Dan Froomkin is

Looks like he's American raised in Washingotn DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Froomkin

And your point is?
There's no real conceptual difference between a <canvas> element, a <video> element, a WebGL experience, a NaCl app or a Flash <object> on your webpage. They're all somewhat non-semantic, hard to search, rich media black boxes. So what's your particular beef with Flash, especially when rendered via HTML5? Or do you just hate all tools that enable creativity beyond a plain text website equally? Or did you just drink the Flash-should-die KoolAid without really thinking about it?
This article is talking about games, not books... and the distinction here is between keeping all of the costs in-house from production to distribution and publicity. Indie publishing (whether of games or of books) would still likely involve some cost-distribution to the publisher/distributor.
It isn't a default, the USG is still paying its bills. What it is doing however at the moment is cutting hours (and hence wages) that it is not currently authorised to give. In other words, Congress normally gives the government the authority to spend money; in this case the authority is not being given.
MySQL is to SQL like MongoDB to NoSQL
What happened to labeled axes? Is it not cool anymore to tell people what BOTH axes are supposed to be?
I used it few times and it is amazing. It can tell you where was the vacation photo of your Facebook friend made. Or what is original author of the artwork reproduction on your hotel room wall.

Another (Google-independent) tool like that: http://www.tineye.com
So your premise is that once a law becomes signed, all future Congresses either must support it financially or repeal it?

Do you have any idea how legislation is made and enforced? I'd argue north of 80% of laws currently int he books aren't being adequately applied or enforced, all because of political considerations, either by Congress or the President.
That's the way it should be,at least with Congress, because you can't do everything. With the president, it's a different story, as his job is specifically to carry out the law, not interpret it. But even then, the legal system is such a clusterfuck that we've had to create these special "signing statements" where the executive tries his best to explain why he's constrained to do inertial things one way or the other.

We passed the point of expecting all laws to magically become reality a long time ago. Like over 200 years or more.
I can work from home.

It is vastly less effective than being able to rotate my monitor towards a team member and say "What do you think of this?" and get an instant answer.

Shared spaces lower friction, and this is incredibly useful when working closely.
Whoops, thought that article was a little short ...
Unnoficial design concept for Windows 9
Paymo 3.0 Beta is here
Wow. As an atheist who believes a lot of evil in the world comes from the big religions (mainly Islam and Christianity), I'm pretty much allergic to "Arab propaganda" as you call it. For the most part, AlJazeera has better journalistic standards than most American news outlets. They're an international news organization, actually. And anyone should have the right to criticize a democracy as long as they have a valid point. By the way, whatever happens in the US has a nasty tendency to affect everyone globally sooner or later.
I see a whole slew of vertical integration opening up here:

* export to LaTex

* export to an electronic academic paper format that supports bibliography (paper writing meets 'blogging')

* creation of an academic journal platform that is entirely electronic. License it out to universities and other academic bodies.

* gather those university/body-specific channels into a user platform where users can subscribe to channels and topics.

* integrate the peer review process through solid user authentication. Think reddit-like voting system, but taking credentials into consideration. There are basically three levels: Standard user, User with credentials in the field endorsed by at least one academic body, User that has been chosen as a peer reviewer by the academic body for that specific paper.

* Enable annotations that can be filtered using these levels.

* have iPad, Android Tablet and Kindle reader apps where users can subscribe

Imagine how fearsome this would be to established journals once it gets traction through some universities. Imagine how much more universities could engage their students in the academic process right from the get go.
Using window managers as an example was a bad choice, they are like clothes, people like different styles.

But why do we need more than one good way of displaying stuff on screens (X, Wayland, Mir, etc)? Competition is good, but not if we end up having to have them all installed and running at the same time to be able to use a linux desktop environment.
I think that this "feature" is an arXiv exclusive -- the links point only to their articles. I left an angry comment on the link block:

Is this “This Week’s Top 5 Posts” Medium’s new deal, or is it yours? This is like HuffPost mid-article attention-bait. I can’t stand it.

I’ve previously equivocated Medium with an intense focus on single article content — no distractions. It was very confusing to find this totally unrelated link block here. I thought the article had suddenly ended.

What sort of click-through statistics are they trying to drive here? They don't have pageviews to pump on Medium (do they?), so what's the play?
Yes it does get people home faster if only because there is no latency on speeding up after breaking.
Last I heard XWayland didn't actually work properly either, and the official position of the Wayland devs was that it was Not Their Problem because it wasn't part of Wayland, they had no interest in fixing it, and anyone who suggested this reflected badly on Wayland was just spreading FUD because it wasn't part of Wayland.
People till now are not able to differentiate between Linux and GNU/Linux.
Conversation need not be audio-based.
No it's not, as this must be proved scientifically to be real it must also be proved scientifically wrong to fully dismiss it, until then it's something unexplained.

Our science lacks the knowledge or the tools to prove or disprove it, remember what are we dealing with and or science is young and limited.
WiseCash helps you getting a better idea of what you can do with your extra money.

How? And at what interest rates? I find this to be a very, very, annoying thing to do. You end up piling money in your bank account that just stays there. I think lending for me would be great, both to banks and corporations, but this market is not as easy to access as stocks.
SEEKING FREELANCER - We are an advertising Agency based in London looking for freelance developer to work in-house on a project for a big client. We are looking to build an iPad advert with the following concept. The screen is full of particles that represent iron filings, the users finger becomes the magnet and interacts with the particles on touching the screen. The effect doesn't have to be perfect but has the impression of magnetism.
I submitted the link, but I don't agree with the article (but the great thing about HN is the discussions). I think face-to-face time in software development is essential. Virtually every day I discus different aspects of a problem or a design with colleagues (often using a whiteboard), and it is quite striking how often I come away with a better solution and a better understanding of the problem. I've used video conferencing in the past, and I doesn't come close to being in the same room. I touched on this subject in one of my blog posts "Programmer Productivity – Interruptions, Meetings and Working Remotely" http://henrikwarne.com/2013/04/02/programmer-productivity-in...
Can An Irish Start-up Challenge Starbucks?
NASA website down to due to lack of Govt funding
A Shabby Chic Shed for Zero Pence
This will actually make Flash go away faster, since now more devices and browsers can start ignoring supporting Flash.
The message shown is:

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, this website is not available.
We sincerely regret this inconvenience.

For information about available government services, visit USA.gov.
Counter-nitpick: A newspaper can be Arabic in that it's chiefly in Arabic; i.e. Arabic is also an adjective for describing things relating to the language. "Arab" is an ethnicity and an adjectival and demonym for a region. Arabic publications may or may not be Arab, and vice-versa. But a newspaper can certainly be Arabic.

Some of the confusion might be that we rarely use "English" to describe things that are in English when it might be ambiguous whether we mean the language or the place/people. So we say "English-language newspaper" to mean something different than "a newspaper published in England". But with Arab/Arabic, we have two words, so it's not a problem.

Of course, Al Jazeera is also Arab (in the region sense, not necessarily the ethnic sense-- different ambiguity); I'm just saying that to the extent that it's in Arabic, it can be called Arabic.

I should note that I'm not actually an expert in any of the relevant fields here and I'd love to hear someone take that apart.
and not just a bunch of predatory [people who lack warmth and depth] who do things differently from everyone else in search of an illusory competitive advantage.
I can tell you what my problem is with flash: the reference implementation by Adobe stinks.
Lights out for byte.com
The main problem for me was that it was a proprietary, terribly buggy and insecure piece of code. In principle, Shumway should fix that.

The other problem is autoplaying audio and video, which is annoying in the extreme. So I hope there will remain a click-to-activate option for this.
Yes there is.

You misunderstand.

My beef is with NaCl, objects, Applets and ActiveX etc as well, mainly because they run outside of the browser's engine, sandbox, security model and conceptual model. you also have to ship them externally to the browser.

Canvas, video, webgl fine.
What's your runway? Do you have money for 3 months? 6 months? 9 months?

If you have personal runway for 1 year (around 40-60k euros, I guess), you can start a product company.

If you have less, I recommend to look for a "special client". Some company that will pay you 20-50K euro for custom solution and allow you to retain full IP ownership. You can turn it into a general product after delivery to your initial client.

Good starting point: http://earlydays.io/guide/
There is a huge benefit related to your point about smoothing out human error:

People who pick the wrong lanes can change back immediately and travel the right way rather than either (a) slowing to a crawl with their indicator on hoping to be allowed into the correct lane by some kind soul (who also has to stop/slow down) or (b) looping back round on themselves and trying again.

Obviously, both of the latter solutions add to congestion, and the most common solution I see is an awkward combination of both (a) and (b).

EDIT: In addition, smoother-flowing traffic is desirable in-and-of itself, as fuel economy is greatly improved.
Stephen King's rule is that the second draft of his book should be ten percent shorter compared with the first draft.

Source: his biography On Writing (http://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/...)
sure, using source maps in chrome dev tools, I can work directly with coffee source, the same way I work with less source instead of compiled css
http://www.tox-chat.com/2013/08/tox-developer-fed-up-quits.h... - in this rant he sounded like there are some security issues that are irrecoverable. Have something changed since his rant?
Redesign: We Love Icon Fonts
This property prevents certain class of cracks, making it harder to pirate software.

Consider the following example: a vendor provides a free demo and a paid version of the same program. Functionality is the same (`computes the same function'), the paid full version uses a good O(log(m) + log(n)) algorithm while the free demo is purposefully encumbered with a bad O(m * n) algorithm -- in hopes of making you pay for heavy use of the program.

Now the property means you can't really trace which exactly part of the program encodes the key algorithm, thus you can't really patch the demo version to the full version.
Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012)
chrome/ff dev tools have source maps support, I can work directly with coffee source the same way, as I work with less source instead of compiled css ... only coffeeconsole is in a separate tab via chrome extension
You know, initially I was wondering what the added value (except for abstracting away the raw OS management => automated management) was compared to DO until I saw that you're running with them ;)

Good luck though! Sounds like a good approach although I'm not sure whether charging twice what DO is charging you is going to work out.
V5 less is more!
Peer group?
The current reliance of sites on Javascript is worse than Flash ever was. Flash elements can be blocked, but if you block javascript, this disables the entire site, so you have to live with CPU chugging mess of a website.
There was no fortune to it, it was years of OSS work on lots of Ruby projects followed by a realization that existing solutions were terrible and I had the knowledge to make something better. Nothing like years of experience to put you in the right place at the right time.
The original paper seems to take the Global 2000 and then re-orders them by asset size, not revenue:

"we find that financial firms dominate the top tail of the firm distribution by asset size"

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.2130v2.pdf
Thank god for noscript.
Actually this is not yet detailed inside the app - but I'm preparing blog posts on that + a dedicated feature in the app. Here is how it works:

- you start to build a reasonably accurate situation by entering your data

- once this is done, you can determine how much money and how long you could use for investments, without going to $0 (you can use the burn down chart, see the screencast, with your current bank account balance to determine that)

- you can also alter your situation to add or tweak income and see if you can afford that investment from a cash flow point of view

The key thing is what to invest in!

You should look for 100% no risk investments that also let you retrieve part or all of your money in a day or two.

In France (where I'm from) we have what is called "Comptes dépôts à terme" which present exactly those characteristics. I think that the equivalent in the US is Certificates of Deposit, but then not all offer the same guaranties, so take informed advice!

In my case, I subscribe to "Comptes dépôts à terme" at the Credit Agricole bank. You can lend a specific amount of money for a predetermined period of time.

I have a 7 years DAT account, which provides an average (over the 7 years) of 2.5% (first year is at 1%, last year is at 5%, to encourage you to leave the money here).

So this means roughly €250 of interest on average per year, for €10,000 invested.

But be super careful: verify the characteristics of your investments, of course.

In my case there is zero risk, and I can get back the money by small bits, in 24 hours, so this does not put my company at risk and I can finetune with WiseCash.

Hope this helps!

Ping me at support@wisecashhq.com if you want to discuss that in more depth!
Being rare != it didn't happen.

In a sample size of one, statistics is useless.
Author here, thanks for the kind words. Always nice to wake up to a DDoS of my site at 2AM. :-)

Recurring revenue is a pricing change I'm seriously considering, I just don't have a payment system in place that can manage my customer list and handle the annual CC charge.
[I was just about to write something defending one of the last remaining journalistic institutions of the world (Al Jazeera) but then thought about the drone murders, the NSA totalitarian surveillance of the world and the US military industrial complex, and that "The mainstream press really has such a difficult time trying to cope with asymmetry between the two parties' agendas and connections to facts and truth." so I thought better of it...]

I agree with you 100%, how dare they criticize the US media, the US is the only true democracy of the world!

[Next time I will skip the first and this paragraph, its becoming too dangerous, I have a growing fear of the US and its brainwashed citizens]
I was also confused, but Google turns up the following:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workflowy/id551139514?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.karelklima....

The Android app looks like an embedded web application. The iOS client looks the same.

Disclaimer: I haven't used either mobile application yet, so I don't know what the experiences are actually like. I use Workflowy from the desktop in a browser.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Zhitomirskiy

On the evening of 12 November 2011, Zhitomirskiy was found dead in his San Francisco home by police responding to calls about a suspected suicide.

Zhitomirskiy’s mother, Inna Zhitomirskiy, did not comment on reports of his history of mental illness, but she did say on his participation in Diaspora, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."
Building a Pluggable REST API
>> you can't see a color you can't name

> Interesting idea, but untestable, therefore unscientific.

Astonishingly, it has been tested and falsified. Some people have color synesthesia: they experience various patterns as colors. For example, in number-color synesthesia, the person experiences numbers as having colors regardless of their literal visual color. For example, the numeral 7 might appear as a particular shade of green.

Some of these color synesthetes are color blind due to genetic defects in their light detectors. Nonetheless they appear to experience the full range of synesthesic colors including ones they have never seen by direct perception. One person called them Martian colors.
That's actually Hacker News being terrible. Their font declaration is just "font-family: Verdana;" so if you don't have Verdana installed (which just about never is installed by default on Linux), it defaults back to the one mentioned in the browser settings (which tends to be a serif font).

Hacker News could've made their font declaration have a fallback (like "font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;") and things would look way better by default.

As for me, I solved it by editing userContent.css and adding a font-declaration for Hacker News myself. (or you could use something like the Stylish addon)

All in all, I'd say it's the fault of website creators.
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The browser only needs to support HTML5 in order to run SWF.
There are no significant facts about human beings
Maybe people should put their GPS rather than just location, I wanted to see exactly where in London, unless everyone works on The Strand.
Hey, Intercom is hiring in Dublin, Ireland (along with Gilt, and Hubspot). Just FYI.

(Irish people love to be represented :) )
From the fine article:

"Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores
building a faithful and efficient renderer for the SWF file
format without native code assistance."

By your criteria, you should be fine with this.
Draining excessively my CPU and Memory for no good reason, being insecure, etc.
Start with a simple statement and follow up with the detail.

If you read a good newspaper article you will see it starts off with a paragraph containing most of the detail of the story and then expands on it later allowing the user to skim.

Blog readers, like newspaper readers, are viewing a number of stories and reading some of them just to get the gist and others to get the detail. So the headline is there to grab their attention and then the first paragraph has to give enough detail that they can go away with most of the details and move on. You can then expand later in the page for those that want a greater detail. It's quite a skill and one that journalist and editors work hard at.
Am i the only one who does not like "touch" on a desktop/laptop.
It is not the revolutionary input method that makes everything magical.
I want to think in boxes (desktops) not a fluid streams of desktop space.

We need something else for the desktop.
Is it fair to call African businesses ‘clones’?
My OCD wouldn't allow a plugin that is "just there" in the browser even if it's not activated ;)
Beautiful. Thank you for this reply.
"Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps."

Wrong. Manual windows management is just what a professional needs. The window manager will never know what is the best position and size for your programming editor/environment. It will never know where is the best position and size for your preferred debug window. And how to place and size your browser windows for API documentation.

Sure, a typical computer user needs only a full-screen browser window. But when you're really trying to get work done, Microsoft's "new" concepts are just wrong.
Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps. Traditional desktop window paradigms are powerful but obsolete.

In any multi-monitor situation living without manual window management is awful. What they need to do is to offer a choice instead of forcing users down a specific path.
Yes and then with the improvements to activesync in 2007/2010 the iPhone and Android devices had good enough security and monitoring for most organizations.
That would be the ideal case. However, that would require the cooperation of the owners of all this Flash stuff, and there is simply no way to get them all to agree to get rid of Flash just because the reference implementation happens to be annoying, crash-prone, unsafe, etc.

So, in practice, the only way to handle the issue is to do stuff at runtime.