skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish some of these bundle sites would reach out to me. I'd gladly offer free months or discounts for Improvely to startups! By the time I hear about the bundle, it's too late to be included in the offer.
Two solutions that do something smarter than just global search/replace on the raw HTML:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/spotlight-...

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/find-and-replace-text-w...
Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this
Inkjet-Based Circuits at Fraction of Time and Cost
I used to feel the same way, then my son suggested I get an xbox so we could play some grand theft auto 5 together (and lately it's battlefield 4). Since then I've come to really appreciate when I turn on my xbox knowing that whether he's already playing. And it's sort of annoying having to turn on my xbox just to see if he is available.

Over time I started joining parties with his friends, and adding them to my friends list, and chatting with them independently. For all of them, the normal routine is to hop on the xbox and join whatever friends you have online doing what they're doing. From the people I've talked to online, the number one factor about whether they will use ps4 vs xbox one has to do with which one their friends are going to be using.

So I'd say that the hyper social gamer is a very common creature indeed. You just need one good game and one good friend, and before you know it you're making memories together online and having a great time.
That's true-- although just based on my observations it feels like Facebook comments on popular posts are silly because of how angry/polarized they are, not necessarily how nonsensical they are (relative to Youtube's comments historically).

For example: typical bad Facebook comment = angry rant at Sean Parker from person who seems genuinely angry

vs

typical bad Youtube comment = some nonsense troll/needlessly racist comment.
After having deleted everything from my old non-Google account, I decided to stop using YouTube logged in. Everything is so much better, the only thing I hate is how I can't give likes to videos. Everything else is okay, brings back the exploration aspect that made YouTube fun.
Can you explain? I've been able to use my Nexus 5 without directly interacting w/ Google+ at all.

The only place I could think of where the integration is jarring is the photo uploading feature, but I've simply told Dropbox to do it instead.
Amazing the power that is being consolidated onto the browser platform.

I saw a demo of Lagoa[1] this week which would interface very well with this type of product (clara.io). You could have both the creation and materials / rendering without the burden of your own render farm and without the cost of some of the high-end software normally required.

In the demo I saw, it was pretty amazing to see an accurately rendered sneaker being moved in real-time with its colors being changed at the click of the button. Even over the slow wi-fi, results streamed immediately and progressively got more and more detailed.

[1] http://home.lagoa.com/features/
If it's the same backer, using the same kickstarter account, then it's likely that it's the same amazon payments account.
My wife's old Camry once got its starter motor stuck on – she could remove her key and it kept running until it smoked itself out. Needless to say we don't own that car any more.

Software that ensures safety like this really ought to be mandated to be open-source.
Those people will only see your updates if you send something that is public and is not to a circle.
My slightly pessimistic view is that the ones with resources would be able to keep their privacy and use that to their advantage, while the less fortunate would not.

Popular opinion might change, but as we've seen laws can change much more quickly, and even things that most people would consider normal could become a punishable offense.

At that point, for the people who already have the data on their lives out there, it will be too late to do anything about it, while the people who have been smart enough to live "perfectly normal" lives with the correct political and religious views, or those who can hire people to cover their tracks, will be better off.
I honestly do not know what Nexus 5 feature or functionality wouldn't work without a Google+ account, and that's from someone that bought the phone on release day.
The home screens of 37signals (2013)
I love Debian. But I wish they had a stable version released more often.
As mentioned, Spitzer, before he was Governor, was the Attorney General of New York. As Attorney General he aggressively prosecuted prostitution. For him to be caught with prostitutes was not only illegal but made him look terrible. He was sworn in as Governor in January and was forced to resign over the prostitution scandal in either March or April so he wasn't Governor for very long.
Forcing to tweet AND not making clear it's a sweepstake?

That some two dark patterns.
Amateurs :)

Myself, having already been thru a Google domain account merge fiasco, when confronted with the gaccount merge at YouTube just created a new useless account.
It's really goddamned frustrating and just shows how hollow google is as a company.

They have search and ads, and an utter inability to actually build anything else or connect with a customer base. For a company this is like having cancer. It's astounding that they can ignore the situation to such a degree.

Youtube is already an amazing force in the world, and that's with google half-assing so much of it. With enough work it could be a multi-billion dollar business and the next generation of media. Instead it'll probably take years while individuals and 3rd parties figure out ways to do what google fails to do (make content more explorable and discoverable, for one, make paid revenue models possible, for another) for them to catch on and build the functionality into youtube directly.

Meanwhile, instead of building improvements they're paying this stupid google plus strategy tax.

Google is chasing facebook when they should be chasing HBO, and amazon, and the discovery channel. It's like they live in a giant mansion with a huge lawn where a bunch of super talented people have been camping out for a while, trying to figure out how to make the next generation of video work. And everyday google gets out of bed, looks out over that scene, grunts, scratches its ass, thinks maybe they should just call the cops to get rid of the hooligans, then goes off to watch Judge Judy.
It's not even one extra line of code. usage() should take the output stream as a parameter.
You're not alone. I don't quite understand the war against anonymity on the internet. Seeing someone's real name and photo next to a comment doesn't make what they say or do on the net any more civil.
well, but it's free!
I understand that, but since scanning a document doesn't actually generate any revenue, I don't understand how there could be an opportunity cost associated with it.
Is there a fixmint.com? Apparently one is needed: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2013-...
FYI - my work proxies are blocking this, as the blog.eventhandler.co.uk site is currently categorised as "Malicious Outbound Data/Botnets" (http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp).
No, it sucks to be an employee because it is possible that a material part of your wealth is now in a casino, your tax liability just matured, but your ability to pay for it is riding a train with a potential to crash, and all you can do for the next 180 days is watch.
There's a link on the bottom to submit your own startup. Improvely looks awesome btw.
This is the thing that bothers/scares me the most about this balkanization of the internet that's happening. You end up getting forced into bubbles that someone else has decided you belong in. And if you don't know it's happening, you can't even try to stop it. For me, I have not found utility in the things that have been selected for me, so most of these services are becoming useless. All those "smartest guys in the room" at places like Facebook and Google and Wherever are really fucking up if their goal was to direct me to things I like and might pay money for.
8 subconscious mistakes our brains make every day
All Linux distros should be free charities and their developers should eat catfood and ramen.
This isn't a "bad move" for them by any stretch. It's a cost/benefit ratio that doesn't lean in favor of linux. The iD that would burn cash just to serve the community is long gone. There just isn't much return on investment from their perspective to maintain a linux port.
That's pure bs:
www.data.gouv.fr is full of XLS and DOC documents. No raw data, only aggregated statistics. Useless.

Documents and data are not the same...

I'm french, and NOT proud of it
The notion that Israel does anything to appease Palestinian is kinda funny.
A couple statements to highlight:

"because I see too many good products die because whoever built it never got it out to the right people."

- yes. Great ideas DESERVE to be found!

"difficult as a marketer discerning who is a gifted programmer and who isn't"

The street goes both ways. I would say that it's easy to fool a marketer into thinking you're a rockstar programmer.

"there is a long, long learning curve if you're going to do it well."

Well said. I still personally think it's more difficult -- maybe not conceptually, but it's terribly labor intensive and unpredictable.
I remember during EE course we had an assigned project to write some software for 8051 microcontroller, in assembly. I organized my code into small "functions" and used a consistent stack-based calling convention with pushing all the resisters on the stack and restoring them back on exit, just as if it was generated by a C compiler. The teacher looked at this and said "huh, look, this is not a CS lab. We do not do things like this in embedded software. Why don't you just keep everything global and use absolute addressing instead those crazy push/pop calls? And you should be reusing registers..." Anyways, it was lot of fun.
Could you point to the source of the "hackers and startups" quote? Didn't find it in the main article. (Edit: sorry if this is on a tangent)
(Edit 2: well, I didn't think it was a downvote-worthy tangent, considering the word's connotations debate and this being an official govt url)
Is it much mental energy to take a couple of minutes to just pick one?

I had to expend a lot more mental energy last time I tried to use modern Windows, and has OS X got a maximise button yet?

--edit-- I'm not trying to say "My OS is better than your OS" because we all know where that leads. I just don't think anything is perfect and it likely comes down to what you're used to.
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I use XMonad, and don't have these problems to fix (in a sense, because XMonad 'fixes' them). For those who are on Linux who've never used XMonad, I suggest you give it a try. It's awesome. I'm on Ubuntu 13.04 and have never been bothered by ads. Also, I find the instantaneous desktop switching and fullscreen windows, resizable tiling invaluable.
yes and they could maybe make a "second Tier" pack for 500 more users
As a Gnome user all this Unity madness just went over my head - I never had to deal with it. But there are things that keep breaking from one release to the other (for which I blame myself for having twitchy update-trigger fingers). But as a whole I'm a happy user in particular that now Steam is on Linux. My question is - how does Steam work on the Ubuntu derivatives like Xubuntu and Mint? Will it work on Debian?
"If you live in some sort of bizarre homogenous bubble where all your friends are just like you and have effectively the same tastes, and a lot of your friends insist on reviewing every last Youtube video they see, and yet, have some sort of diversity of opinion that you might actually care about, this might work."

I've never spontaneously seen a comment on Youtube from someone I know, as far as I can recall. However, it's really, really common to have friends of mine on Facebook share the same thing. This happens even for friends of mine that don't know or interact with each other. I think to avoid a fair amount of overlap you'd have to be very careful about adding only friends with orthogonal tastes...

One of the reasons that things like politics are getting so polarized is that's it's really easy to fall into the "bizarre homogenous bubble", and that's where most people stay, online.
Seconded.

I was wondering if it was possible to be accountless on Youtube while logged in in Gmail, in the same browser, or if one needed to use two browsers.

It turns out, blocking all cookies for youtube.com and www.youtube.com does the trick!!

And it also solves the very annoying name change prompt that blocks every other video when logged in.
I looked at that in the past: storing energy in a massive ball going up and down a well. But you need tons of mass traveling a long distance. The energy density is just too low.

To give you an idea: E(energy in Joules) = mgh(mass in kg x gravity in m/s2 x height in m). So one ton (1kkg) traveling 10m would store about 100J which is about 27Wh (1J = 1Ws), which is about nothing.
Wow, you took 10K hit while being in college. Brutal. So does a payment gateway not handle weed these scams for you?
So you think that blogger accounts will be folded into google plus?
Is this not the case with all three big players in the smartphone market? I don't have an iphone but my ipod sure seems useless without an account with Apple. It's the same account I use for itunes, apps on my macbook pro, and their developer network. I presume MSFT has a similar situation with a live account. People are just upset because their Google account happens to have some social features to it. I've personally never seen anything force me to post anything on G+, it just sort of comes with my gmail account. It's completely non-intrusive. The fact that it's associated with a social network I don't use is inconsequential. It's also associated with their news and finance products which I don't use. The only nuisance that has ever come up is when some app wants to authenticate with google it wants to know all about my circles or whatever. This is pretty much the exact same behavior as what comes with facebook authentication except with G+ circles I can tell it not to share all my circles.
It always make me laugh seeing ads for something I already bought couple of days ago.
Exactly his point: A lot of the Google services hosted within a Google account essentially served as independent accounts themselves, each with their own independent sharing model/systems divorced from the others.

Google's trying to switch over to a new system there's just one generalized Google identity (hosted by G+), and all of the products/services tap into that. If you want that identity to be your real identity, you use a Google+ Profile. If you want to remain anonymous or represent a business entity/organisation, you use a G+ Page.

The problem is there's two Google+' sharing the same name: "Google+, the identity system" and "Google+, the social network" and they've done a hamfisted job of explaining what the value of any of it is to the user.
> "And our use of the trademarked term Ubuntu is plainly descriptive—it helps the public find this site and understand its message."

I disagree. askubuntu.com already exists and is officially sanctioned. From domain name alone, I think it's reasonable to assume that users will believe that fixubuntu.com is also officially sanctioned. Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms of the trademark.

OTOH, ubuntusucks.com is obviously critical commentary. I don't think that would (or should) be a trademark violation.
My mistake, shouldn't try to read articles pre-coffee.
If it has no license, that means it's copyrighted. Everything is copyrighted by default.
Video calling library for Android
I had a hearty laugh at this. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Walled gardens forever
This is going to be the best ever...
I would love to get this as print version. Is there a way?
But the tablets have much higher resolution and often no aliasing. It's not quite so clear-cut when comparing only the end-result.
His first comment is a word for word of my last comment.
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I have dealt with the 250GB cap for nearly a year and half, they always add the blocks on at 50GB for $10 per block. Luckily my internet is paid for through work so its trivial at the moment.
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Here's what three researchers actually found regarding real tax rates in France two years ago :

http://www.revolution-fiscale.fr/img/g1-1.pdf

If you cannot understand French : on the horizontal axis you got the income percentile, and the real tax rate on the vertical axis. The real tax rates may seem high, but they are pretty average for Europe.

The nominal tax rate is not enough to gauge the real tax pressure. The French system is well known for having many "tax niches" (as we call the tax loopholes)

The three researchers are Camille Landais (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), Thomas Piketty (Paris school of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (Berkeley).

Edited to correct : wealth percentage --> income percentile
I'm pretty openly not a Linux desktop user, but come on: if Windows hasn't rearranged core functionality in the XP to Vista/7 transition, and again in the 7 to 8 transition, and again (less so, but noticeably) in the 8 to 8.1 transition, then I don't know what your standard is. (Apple's been better about it following the initial iOS-esque feature landings, but that, too, was disruptive.) Conversely, Ubuntu's operated roughly the same way since Unity initially landed, and if anything, has become more coherent. I can't speak to other distros, but I doubt it's been a radically different story there.
What I don't understand is what your boss thought he would gain by the threat? Because if you quit, they'll lose weeks or months trying to find a replacement?

And if the environment is toxic and they'll repeatedly try to get people to do the job, they'll get absolutely nothing done in the long run?
Your posts seem to be arguing that you shouldn't be merging branches that are full of experimental crap into your topic branch, you should only merge releases - which I agree with (where I work we use the github-flow where the master branch tracks the release version).
There is no difference between "inflation" and "price inflation."

Suppose that yesterday you received $50 from government assistance programs (e.g. food assistance) but today you receive $50 as a basic income and no food assistance. You have the same amount of money to spend.

Suppose that yesterday you received no government assistance and paid no net taxes but today you receive $50 as a basic income and pay $50 in new taxes. You have the same amount of money to spend.

There will be some people who, on net, receive more or less from a basic income (less the taxes required to pay for it) than they do now -- mostly the very rich would pay more and the working class would receive more -- but the net amount of money in the average person's pocket remains the same. The difference is that you don't have the disincentive to seeking employment that the current unemployed do when they lose government assistance by taking a job.
Surely this comment must be satire...
Accidental art: when data visualization goes beautifully wrong
Probably works much better with piezo printers than thermal inkjet printers. The article points that out but doesn't go into detail.
Not if they can just charge the customer extra. Where's their incentive?
NASA: 'FREAKISH' SPACE OBJECT spotted by Hubble telescope
If people did 30 seconds of searching they'd realize this information is available on the official Stack Exchange site AskUbuntu.com which is directly supported by Canonical's paid staff:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/192269/how-can-i-remove-amazo...
No you are not forced to have Google+ enabled on your Google Account.

Some social services like Youtube and Google+ require it, but you could still use Gmail without having Google+ enabled.
"Because you sold YouTube to Google"

In all serious though, I think this just further opens up the door for competing services like Netflix, Instagram and Vine to dig in. With Netflix for my serious video watching, and Vine / Instagram for cat videos, I find myself visiting YouTube much less. Requiring a G+ account for comments is the little extra effort that makes me not engage.

IMO YouTube on its way to be the MySpace of video.
For people that love Emacs and Lisp, I would suggest to also take a look at StumpWM. It's implemented in Common Lisp, and you can customize and develop extension on the fly.
I'm not sure there's a lot of entrepreneurs starting with an income greater than a million € though!
Ah I fat-fingered that, for the record it's tracey_pooh with an 'e'.
Do I have join Google+ to get on the barge?
Blame Steve Jobs. https://web.archive.org/web/20130122022004/http://silicon-ne...
I have Verizon FIOS which has no data caps although there was a story recently of a user that received a call when he went over 77 TB for the month:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-c...

I really couldn't be happier with Verizon FIOS. For $74.95 per month I get 75 Mbps downstream / 35 Mbps upstream Internet, unlimited phone service and their Premium TV channel lineup.

Comcast is an option where I live as well but I can't imagine many people choose it. Twice now they've had a door-to-door salesman come around trying to sell it. No thanks.

I'm fortunate to be in an area that has a lot of broadband competition (including from wireless providers like Clear [now Sprint]).
Good suggestion. It is a needed feature.

We've implemented streaming progressive renders using V-Ray (a premium and very popular renderer in the visual effects and architecture world) in Clara.io in a similar fashion to Lagoa. Here is a video of how it works in Clara.io:

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/news.html?single=544

We haven't launched this feature officially, the above is a four month old tech preview, but that will happen soon.
Also there's Cube 2 - uglier than the ones you mentinoed, but it has a fantastic built-in level-editor that minecraft fans should love since it uses a very twisted perversion of voxels - the landscape is cubes where you can nudge the corners around. Somehow, this lets people build terrain that looks like this:

http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_878348...

http://sauerbraten.org/

That and I love the beautiful simplicity of the weaponspread. Shotgun, Rocket-launcher, Sniper as the main weapons, and a chain-gun filling in the BFG10k's role of "OP weapon that you burn through the ammo in seconds" and a pistol and grenade launcher for "crappy stuff you start with". Also, you can melee in instagib mode. Just enough stuff to keep the game interesting without bogging you down with too much crap.

Edit: Also, there's OpenArena. It's a one-man-show and has some ugly models, but it gets the job done of being a complete content replacement for Quake 3 and capitalizing on Quake 3's open-source code to give you a 100% free/opensource implementation of Q3 complete with compatibility for most mods.

http://www.openarena.ws/smfnews.php
Dude. When's the next chapter coming? I've been waiting for like a month now!? :-)
those days with Doomer, Lakerman, czm...ahh
Unstable is pretty dang stable.
ahem Windows 8 ahem