skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are in the rare software segment with $30k software, then the extra $1000 or $2000 to indirectly get hardware drivers & firmware that confirm with your $30k software is not a big cost.

BUT, there are large segments that do not need those special drivers in their software set and are restricted by circumstance to use OS X only, such as iOS developers. Or just people who want high performance GPUs with their mac who don't need the FirePro feature set. There are also many software packages that do GPGPU or OpenCL just fine with consumer segment GPUs too.

I would of loved it if it was a mac pro with dual CPUs vs. dual GPUs for example, something you really can't physically get without the xeon level chipset, even though we all know it's very possible with a consumer chipset.
Well let's start doing something about this. I created a whitehouse.gov petition, let's start spreading it around: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-antibiotic-us...

Hopefully we'll be able to create some alternatives, but let's stop the bleeding if we can.
And all latest Microsoft technologies are Open Source as well by the way.
Project minimums
Do you have any specific examples of behavior to illustrate your low opinion of Coinbase?
Rapgenius founder writes "If it weren’t for Adderall, Rap Genius wouldn’t exist"
In the what's new it says everything has been rewritten. Does this mean the icon vector files themselves or just the CSS?
I don't think this product is really tailored to a privacy-conscious consumer.

Even if they're safely disposing (recycling) the books, uploading them in an encrypted manner, etc., you're still losing control of your "private thoughts."

I see it as more fitting for sketches, random thoughts, (non-crazy-private) journals, etc.
I think it would be more accurate to characterize antibiotics as effective, not just profitable. You are completely ignoring the actual benefit of antibiotics and acting like they created profits without actually benefiting the patient
Possibly it is due to the much wider dishes here. You can speak quietly to someone using a gramophone-like hearing aid.
This may be the pain of trying to sell software to developers. There are a lot of "open source enthusiasts" who don't do any more programming than simple shell scripts, and while they appreciate the philosophy of "if the project doesn't have the feature you want you can just add it," in practice they can't just add it. (Unless it can be added through a simple script, which -- ironically in this case -- you can do pretty well with a lot of closed source editors.)

The flip side, of course, is that only a limited number of developers can afford the time to write a full-featured programmers' editor with no expectation of recompense. That's not trivial stuff. There are an awful lot of free editors out there, but most of them end up being relatively feature-limited and, at best, "cult hits." Even getting to that point takes years.

(And, while I hope this won't seem too cynical, the pain points Lime's developer describes as his motivation don't strike me as coming from Sublime Text's status as closed source. They strike me as coming from its status as a one-person project. A one-person open source project is theoretically better than a one-person closed source project, but...)
MEPs call for suspension of EU-US bank data deal in response to NSA snooping
But the SEC won't allow ordinary Americans to invest in much safer FTSE flotations for example say the royal mail float that just happened.

Floated at £3.30 now £5.30 in not much more than a week.
So far after 8 hours, one of HappyLetter's customers has 13 subscribers. They've only announced their letter on Twitter and ADN. Many of the Gruber-inspired school of bloggers try to minimize ads and rely on direct support from their readers. I think newsletters are a (classy) way that their readers can support them.
Or if they use algae or a microbial process to produce hydrogen instead, or concentrated solar to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen? Electrolysis isn't the only option.
Sketch is good, particularly for smaller intricate work, but runs out of steam under stress. The focus is tighter - Illustrator does much more - and for some categories of work it's a delight to use.
At least we have Viagra!
Looks like this might be loosely related to Mitchell Hashimoto [1], who makes Vagrant.

[1] https://twitter.com/mitchellh
short article that has a good strategy for improving results for a low traffic page.
This is probably the most successful Lithuanian IT startup (which is still based there, as far as I know). As a Lithuanian, I'm feeling really happy to see how far and awesome they got!
Its not that hydrogen is unrealistic. Hydrogen cars currently exist. The problem is that mass producing hydrogen is just as problematic as mass producing gasoline.
The issue was never about the loss of the Start button. It was about the loss of the Start menu. That hasn't been fixed.

I don't understand why so many people fall for this misdirection.
Almost certainly the case.
Teslas do not take hours to charge when Superchargers are taken into account. The Superchargers can charge 50% in 30 minutes (80% in 40 minutes)[1].

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
I use command line in both linux and windows, they offer the exact same thing, just different commands. Of course it windows has a few problems with it, but mostly just presentation (like static buffer size for width). I'd say 90% of microsoft tools have a CLI you just have to know how to use them, which is the exact same thing when you are going to linux for the first time.
Jon Marco music video w every classic '80s movie
Looks like you're #1 and #2 for [lifecycle emails]
The hydrogen from fossil fuels isn't used for energy directly, but rather for making nitrate fertilizer. Hydrogen energy storage would probably come from electrolyzing water.

Not that this is likely to work, anyway. There's many reasons to believe that hydrogen isn't going to catch up to batteries for this purpose. It's thermodynamically impossible for it to function as a primary energy source unless we can find an easy source of elemental hydrogen. Musk is biased, but he probably had good reasons for taking Tesla in the direction he did.
More speed? Looks to be from the following change:

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/568

Any others?
Why I'm going back to capturing credit cards up front
Apologies for the lack of support on the chart, SVG rendering is terrible in Firefox.

If you click on the 'Day' view and then 'Show only Mavericks' you can clearly see a rise from 0.20% at 7pm yesterday up to almost 10% at 5pm today. The other lines have had a slight decrease, but yes it does look like Mountain Lion users are upgrading fastest. I'd be surprised if Leopard/Tiger users upgraded quickly as I'm sure they'd be apprehensive of updating their old and potentially fragile kit.
I have never heard of bacteriophages before. Doing some light research, I found their protein/body structures to look almost machine-like. Very fascinating stuff.

From Wikipedia's Bacteriophage page: "Medical trials were carried out, but a basic lack of understanding of phages made these invalid".

I seriously hope alternatives like bacteriophages are being revisited and reconsidered within the medical community, as it's obvious that conventional antibiotics are increasingly becoming less effective each year.
Ask HN: Why would or wouldn't you do a marijuana-focused startup?
A lot of HN is libertarian and I would assume that many would see no problem with doing a marijuana focused startup. Considering how much opportunity there is in this space, I'd expect to see a lot more companies (WeedMaps, Leafly etc.) pop up.

I can imagine some of the issues:
- Family would frown on it
- "Unfundable"
- Difficult regulation
- Not a "sure" thing

So HN, why wouldn't you do a Marijuana-focused startup?
"Many of the Gruber-inspired school of bloggers try to minimize ads and rely on direct support from their readers."

That's awesome. I hope it gets traction. I guess we'll see as you move forward ;)
It's like asking people from the future how do they deal with the lack of internal combustion engines. Well, we kind of don't need them in most cases. Because things evolved. GUI has been invented long enough for everyone to catch up.
I just looked at the sales figures Apple reported. Apple has so far sold 95 million Macs that run the Mac App Store (Apple sells between 4 and 5 million Macs per quarter). The Mac App Store came preinstalled with Lion and was added to Snow Leopard in version 10.6.6.

If you are planning to offer your app on the Mac App Store, you don’t need to worry about compatibility with Leopard and Tiger, as those customers won’t see your app anyways. To me, that seems like a much better situation for developers than it is on the Windows side, where 40% of users still run XP.
So water electrolysis has losses of 50-80%. And then you need to transport it to refueling stations (which could be pretty high). Edit: forgot the obvious, the losses in the actual fuel cell. 40-60%. Yeah that equation doesn't add up.

What losses to we have on the battery end? Transmission line losses (6%), li-ion charge/discharge losses (80-90%), losses due to the fact that the car needs to keep the battery warm/cool depending on outside temperature (pretty high in the winter, regular 120V outlet is not enough to keep the capacity up).

Personally I dismiss hydrogen mostly because I'm frightened by the thought of a bunch of high pressure fire bombs being driven around by drunk people.
To make a public comment:
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/ruling-comments?ruling=s70913&rul...
How I want this (https://github.com/niemeyer/qml) to pick up. GoLang + QT would be an awesome combo to write desktop and mobile apps.
Elon Musk wants to turn the James Bond movie prop into a real submarine
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/ruling-comments?ruling=s70913&rul...
Too much work for my mom, thanks.
But will we be able to afford the "ink"?

Maybe the business model will be different.
LookFlow has been acquired by Yahoo
First Thoughts Developing on Mavericks
Absolutely horrible example because .com owns .gov and the primary patent for CFC production expired in 1979, obviously lots of money is going to be poured into encouraging the use of patented CFC replacements, such as making the use of CFCs illegal. I'm not questioning the science of it, I'm explaining why .com and .gov worked together really hard on banning CFCs in the early/mid 80s, because HCFCs and HFCs are more profitable. The historical about-face is documented and hilarious how .com strongly denied CFCs could have any effect therefore .gov wouldn't ban them until the patent expired, then suddenly everyone agrees we need to use the more expensive HFCs and HCFCs.

I'm quite sure around the time HFC and HCFC patents expire we'll all have to suffer thru very well industry funded explanations of how R-141b causes excessive pr0n browsing or some such nonsense, so for the children, we'll all have to switch a new, ever more expensive refrigerant.

I'm sure if the patent for CFC production expired in 2020 we'd still be pumping the classic stuff out, along with an industry funded denial movement and probably an alignment on political party lines to prevent any progress, etc.

Bringing it back on the original topic the best way to get .com (and since the merger, .gov) to fund antibiotic research in the modern real world would be to genetically engineer bacteria genome to contain an encoded .avi of the SuperBowl or an encoded Miley Cyrus .mp3 or something like that. Maybe glycophosphate resistant MRSA would get some attention from the usual suspects.

If someone could figure out how to patent global warming or global cooling we'd be on to something...
Fiddling around with it some. Interesting. It's not going to replace Illustrator by any means (that's been my main medium for 13 years) but I kinda like it more than Ideas - I think I might take it out to doodle some this week.

Stuff I'd like to see:

sync sketchbook across devices (maybe via evernote?)

palm rejection with bluetooth styli

an equivalent to AI's artboard - a way to say "this is the edge of my canvas, please export a 72/150/300/other DPI image" instead of making the user futz with it

some way to organize drawings into different sketchbooks, also a way to delete a drawing from the home page

I also kinda feel like I'd like to see some calibration notches on the sliders.

The UI could be a bit more streamlined? I'd love to have immediate access to all the tools and a color popup instead of having to possibly double-tap on the brushes/tools icon to get the menu. ArtRage really gets it right with its little popups in the corner and a tiny toolbar on the bottom, but bitmap apps just make me itchy.
Both are HashiCorp projects.
Conde Nast Drops Their Intern Program
Reading this really scared me. Is there any hope against this.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_faucet
Ask HN: Do the best development consultancies specialize in technologies?
I was just wondering, do the most successful development consultancies or agencies specialize in 1 or 2 technologies or frameworks, or are more generalized?
You can’t put a price tag on privacy
I've been using Pixelmator since they pushed it to the Mac App store, and all this time I thought they where German... good to know I was wrong!
It depends on your infrequent needs. Are you using advanced Illustrator features?

I also cannot justify a subscription to Adobe CC and try to use Sketch as a Fireworks/Photoshop alternative.
Let's suppose that in an antibiotic-resistant future some, very small, number of people develop a mutation that produces 2 effects: antibiotic resistance and VERY ugly nose warts. Since other people live for 25 years and the uglies for 100 years, I suppose they would be desirable mates with lots of offspring despite the ugliness. In a few centuries, they would be the majority.
Now, if there weren't the antibiotic resistance, do such mutations have the same chance to appear? Yes, but they'd have hard trouble finding mates. Their mutation has only drawbacks, and no advantages. As soon as the advantage appears, the mutation has more chance to spread through offspring.
The same with bacteria. It is not necessary that they mutate more, it is just that those mutations that help the bacteria survive spread quickly. But if the danger is not present, the mutation is not significant.
I've been very alone to be a double with Computer Science and English literature, albeit minor.
As a 22 year old just out of college, this article sums up my experience the last few months.

>>Teach yourself a new industry

I was on the pre-med track throughout college. And by on that track, I almost went all the way (MCAT + all the pre-reqs). Got really bored wiht the root memorization involved + didn't think it satisfied my needs for creativity so I started learning how to code online via the usual free resources - Codecademy, etc. Realized that I needed some more structure and a mentor (had no idea of "best practices")without the ridiculous price tag associated with bootcamps, so I chose Thinkful (https://www.thinkful.com). I had chosen my industry.

>>Do one hour of research before you apply

I used and enjoyed the "product" for two months while conducting extensive research on every press article out there on TF. Was impressed by the background of both the co-founders and saw a post by Dan in our Community about an open intern position. Did more research and sent them a long email basically saying I'd do anything (had a bit of marketing experience so I pitched that).

>>Get in early

I was accepted as a Front-End/Marketing intern and had a lot on my plate immediately. I was/am a huge part of helping Thinkful grow now that I've moved up to become the Community Manager - I handle everything from starting a class to maintaining alumni relations.

>>Work with fabulous people

Super fabulous. We've added 3 more since I joined to become a 9 person team. Constantly growing. Everyone has different backgrounds and a unique sense of humor. Darrell (CEO/co-founder) gave this hilariously vague (but often quoted) advice to our Thinkful Fellow, "if you make it awesome, it'll be awesome. That's awesome." I think we're awesome.

>>Pick a rocket ship

I'm beyond excited of the direction we're headed. We hope to fill a void between the less structured online resources and the intensive in-person bootcamps.

>Learn

Basics of Photoshop/Illustrator, Social Media, Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, SEO, Github, HTML/CSS, Javascript/jQuery, and soon Python/Ruby.

All on someone else's dime - while earning a few dimes of my own, ha.
Yes, but the ball rolling down the hill is not very contentious, whereas evolution is (at least in the US), and wrongness explaining it makes dismissing it easier.
mitchellh
237 commits / 16,925 ++ / 9,149 --

from github, so yeah
It's very hard to get the phrasing right. There's always a certain amount of random mutation going on, which can lead to better fitness (or not). However individuals with better fitness end up reproducing more, so mutations that lead to such better outcomes end up surviving.

This coupled with multiple ways that bacterias can use to protect themselves against antibiotics, like enzymes, better shielding, or even pumping the antibiotics out, also increases the chance for successful mutations. And they've also developed this mechanism for spreading their DNA around to other bacterias.

The result is almost the same as if bacterias would have an agenda. Although it can happen for mutations to lead to worse fitness in contact with older and forgotten antibiotics. And it can also happen for these random mutations to drive a whole population to extinction. But these two outcomes have a much lower probability than bacterias becoming highly resistant to all antibiotics.
If we're talking about the US, we have tons of open space. Really, tons. Americans don't appreciate just how much open space is in this country. If it's really a concern, it can be done with water towers rather than a conveniently-placed hill.

As for transport, that's what a power grid is for. Transporting hydrogen loses more efficiency than transmission losses.

Batteries are way ahead on every objective measure, and getting better every year.
The Biggest Threat to the Internet You've Probably Never Heard Of
It is tutorials that are required for learning, manuals are for people who are already proficient.
Antibiotics in animal farms should be banned world wide.

Unfortunate the only nation who has the power to convince others joining this ban, is one of the worst abusers of antibiotics.

Consumers might have a choice, if they are wealthy enough to afford it. If you are a beef consumer, eat beef from Namibia, where antibiotics for animals are banned, and avoid US or South Africa. Ask you butcher, if he can offer antibiotic free meat.
"Tne real threat of a Dr. Strangelovian nuclear apocalypse certainly died with the Soviet Union"

Why? Did the weapons magically disappear? That outcome is much more likely in the 2010s than the 1980s, for example.
I really appreciate the stance you're taking with issues and pull requests. It takes balls to get a project out there, and being upfront about what you're going to accept as contributions is great. Not only because you demonstrate honesty and make things clear, but also because it is a good way not to lose your time.

I doubt I'm going to leave Vim anyways, but I really wanted to share my opinion on this point.

Congratulations and good luck.
Kay is an expert in Smalltalk and Wirth is an expert in Oberon.

Stroustrup is an expert at nailing legs to a dog and calling it an octopus.
The problem is that some of the stuff works but most of it is quackery. I just had a look, and there do seem to be some placebo-controlled trials showing ginger is effective at reducing vomiting in pregnancy. For acupuncture there are studies showing it is more effective than a placebo, although it doesn't seem to matter where you put the needles...basically it looks like poking yourself with needles reduces pain, but all the so-called acupuncture points are probably just quackery.
Thank you! I'll tweak the wording if I ever post this again.
I find a bit strange not to have contributed in svg.js ( http://www.svgjs.com/ ).
Not Invented Here ?
Predicting a Crash Years in Advance Is Unimpressive
Is this better than http://icomoon.io/app?

I can create my own font file with icomoon so it only contains the icons that I needed for my site. Only issue I have is that there is no way to save the created font file so that I can modify later.
Sbt for C++
Apple Hypocritically Downplays Windows 8 During OS X Mavericks Launch
The Great Desktop Giveaway
Awesome technology and an insanely talented team. And now they have a useful way to apply their algorithm. Congrats!

(For people who don't know, they have an algorithm that can identify things in a picture and let you search for stuff like "red boat".)
>We [sic] should just make it flat out illegal to...

>We [sic] should also fine doctors for...

Why is violence an appropriate response to these non-violent issues?
Agency description language is easier for humans to understand than the passive language required to describe the actual occurrences.

Yes, it's inaccurate, but it is what often happens when you want to get across the message and can live with a bit of inaccuracy at the expense of message reach.
I kind of expected 'learn on someone else's dime' to be about a company providing training as part of your job rather than a company hiring people with the expectation that they both do the job they are hired for and learn on their own everything needed to handle whatever new problem arises on any given day.

That doesn't sound at all revolutionary to me. That's basically every company I've worked for - we pay you to do a job but we also expect you to learn on your own time to keep your skillset up. The idea of the company actually helping you with the time and resources to do that learning would be something actually novel...

Sure there's value in on-the-job learning but most jobs give you that. There's also value in the kind of learning that you can only do in time outside of the time needed to do the tasks that are expected of you as part of your job.
I tried taking designs from other folks. The quality wasn't good enough, so I stopped.
Norway did just that, and it seems to have worked rather well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-6014559.html
Indeed, I'm one of the creators of the project. See here: http://www.serfdom.io/community.html :)
Is svg serialization supported? I looked in the doc but couldn't find anything.

*Edit - toString()?
Here is a London equivalent: http://roundabout.io/
I'm slightly bugged by "desire" type language because it does actually cause problems in how laymen think about evolution. It's not uncommon to hear them make the mistake of thinking evolution will "think ahead". But the bigger problem I have with it is the "anything we do ... bacteria will eventually discover".

Some problems are just very difficult to evolve around, and it's hard to predict what they'll be even if you have a complete working knowledge of an organism's genome and biological workings. If the problem space doesn't contain a solution that can be climbed toward without sacrificing fitness in the short term, it is unlikely that it will ever be found by evolution.

Evolution is actually a really crappy optimization algorithm. The reason it has worked so well is not that it is so effective, but because it's the only game in town. It took evolution billions of years to make machines that can run 60 miles per hour. It took humans a few thousand years to create machines that run about 12 times that fast.

Bacteria work on a faster time scale than animals in terms of evolution, but five orders of magnitude? Somehow, I think we'll win in the long run.
Live-blogging was way more helpful to the development process than I ever imagined it would be.

Even if you don't feel comfortable sharing everything in public, I'd keep a private journal and write through any issues that are stopping you from moving forward.