skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best combination I have seen is a two-floor suite connected by stairs. One floor has project rooms, which are small-ish open plan rooms, holding up to about 10 people, with reconfigurable walls tables and seating. The upstairs has some traditional offices (seemed like for business development and other phone-bound users), conference rooms, and a very quiet, library-like open plan area for individual on-site work.
I generally agree that gaining a wider perspective is valuable, but it's not clear that HN is the best way to do that, and the OP outlines a number of reasons which make sense to me why it would be a bad way to do that.

At the least, HN exists in a thickly-walled bubble. There's not a very wide perspective here.
Visual cryptography is fun! I used the idea to make wedding invitations when I got married. We printed out black and white patterns on transparencies along with some other graphics, then when you overlapped the "his" and "hers" transparencies you got the secret message.

It took some fiddling to be effective. I originally wanted a high-resolution image but that made alignment really hard. It ended up being larger pixels at maybe 8 pixels per inch.
Hmm every form I try and evaluate seems to be reduced to a one line function. Is this working as intented?

Even in the example given it's reduced the function to a 1 liner, I assumed because it was short enough that it's still legible. Is this trying to tell me my functions are too long?
That would be a great CAPTCHA.
I keep wondering if there's a market for "co-working" spaces that don't follow the open-plan style. What would it look like? I know Joel tried to floor-plan the ultimate developer office, has anyone followed up or built on that since?
What does silicon valley tell us about innovation
7 Things A Web Designer Shouldn't Have To Tell You
Hmmm

(defrules my-rules
[(+ ?x 1) (inc ?x)]
[(- ?x 1) (dec ?x)])

Could something like that be shipped together with libraries and automagically update and refactor my code on simple backward incompatible changes?
Tetris in 36 lines of JavaScript
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Looks pretty wasteful. I prefer how it currently looks on my machine:

http://i.imgur.com/PvlTZ3k.png

My tabs can get as small as the pinned ones on the left (which is the default behavior of every other browser).

There used to be a about:config setting for minimum tab width, but one(!) Firefox developer decided to remove it, because:

"Users can override this using userChrome.css if they absolutely want it. I don't think the prefs are worth it."[1]

Now I have to use a custom user chrome CSS file and disable the tab animations to get the same effect.

I really hope this pointless update won't make me jump through a dozen hoops again. I'm tired of it.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574654
Indeed. Arkanoid had better graphics and sound.
That is why I am asking about a potential hedge trade. A long bet on an asset that is inversely correlated to the Bitcoin.
Nobody Is Going To Steal Your Startup Idea (Blog Article)
Original: http://habrahabr.ru/post/202628/
I worked with some Russians a few years ago. Great guys. One wasn't very well adapted to American culture. He came to my cube one day. He's like "Let's go get a smoke", but his face and tone was flat, so it came across as "You've pissed me off in some way and I'm probably going to kick your ass now". I demurred. A couple more offers over the next few days and I finally relented (I don't smoke, but went to hang out). Pretty soon he was smiling and cracking jokes. A few months later he asked me, "Why do Americans always have to act happy? It's so fake."

*edit: I a word
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Why Snapchat is Actually Undervalued
"Seevibes provides a comprehensive analysis of the Facebook and Twitter audiences of a TV show and to demonstrate their affinity with a brand, thereby enabling the optimization of a media plan and promotional projects."

Sounds pretty cool but I wonder if Twitter / Facebook can easily enable this in their analytics? I guess they can also just buy SeeVibes.

On another note - I wonder if Nielsen uses social media to measure because if not, they're behind.
Way to dump your own depressive tendencies on a 15 year old. Jesus.
Statistically, the American economy has not been more stable since the invention of the Federal Reserve. I think George Selgin has a paper on it.
OP... I love this.

Well played!
Yeah. Chrome has been consistently using more RAM, CPU, and power for me than firefox over the last year or so.
It's always weird to read accounts of experiences with my age group that diverge wildly from my own experience. Everyone I know is hard working and completely open to criticism. Maybe you just got a bad batch in your local experience. Religious observance is near absent, but no one I know is without morals.
Why frameworks don’t have much to do with how easy it is to add a feature
>If you think of democracy as being majoritarian, the U.S. Bill of Rights is explicitly designed to be anti-democratic.

Yes, and look how well that turned out!

(Spoilers: Not very well. The USA has thrived when it has been more democratic and stagnated when less. We are currently in a 40-year period of less and less democracy. Strangely enough, stagnation and crisis have become more and more common during this time.)
The OSX version also looks closer to that than the Windows version. There is no orange "Firefox" bar, and tabs already have x's on them.
People still seem to make the statement that Firefox uses more RAM, when in fact, since Firefox 20, it has consistently used LESS ram than all the other browsers.

I have 40 tabs open now, and it's using 1.16 GB which is awesome. I actually want it to take up more because I have 6GB of free RAM not being used, which is a waste.

Compare that to chrome. Using the same number of tabs and it can easily take up more than 3GB of ram on my system, which is expected since each tab is a different process.

I wonder when Firefox's tabs will run on their own separate process. I'm looking forward to that. I think I saw some updates a month ago but I can't find that now.

(fwiw, I have 16GB of RAM)
I think any project worth doing will have some competition. "competition" can also mean "market validation". I understand you're not trying to get rich off this, but I think you'd like it if someone used it :) In my opinion, the fact that reddit already does it means you're probably onto something.
Agreed. Many people in cubicle farms won't think twice about taking a phone call at their desk. But this is frowned upon in an open office plan, where it is usually expected that you step into the hallway or a phone room.
So Firefox is now Chrome plus IE's back button? Doesn't seem like the most inspired way to differentiate your product.
(reposting my comment from the dupe)

The exceptionally cool follow-on to this is David Chaum's work on using visual cryptography for voting --

http://www.constitution2.org/wiki/files/2004_chaum_secret_ba...

People have since built further on that work, but I seem to recall that Chaum's paper is what started a wave of work on end-to-end verifiable voting.
Yep. I usually ask: what features can we cut? And then do the remaining features well.

I find it usually strikes a good balance between shipping early and perfectionism. Perfectionism is a actually a great thing in doses since its proves you care about quality to your users. But shipping early allows you to course correct sooner. Both have their merits and should be balanced.
do they have anything that an inexperienced person can contribute too? i'd love to get involved but don't know if i am experienced enough.
Indeed.

However I think that buying or holding bitcoin is just as crazy.

This is strictly a mental experiment. There is no way I am putting any kind of money into this market on any side.
I'm curious why you think it won't re-appear within the Dropbox infrastructure. Do you think they bought it for internal use only?

Do you expect the open source pickup by Multyvac to be a bust?
This doesn't include contributions to other people's repos, which makes it not so useful (and a bummer if someone tries to use it to summarize my GitHub work). I spend the majority of my time contributing to pydata/pandas, which doesn't show up at all. Bummer.
Same here. Cubicles with walls high enough that I don't constantly see everyone and vice-versa work pretty well for me.
Coin has 3 big problems
Most of my experience is with offline conversions, using call tracking data, with a number switching app from mongoose metrics. Google's data has held up to my experience.

Did you track the position of the same ad, keyword, adgroup, and landing page across different positions and see a significant difference in conversions?

otherwise, there could be several explanations.

In my experience, while CTR are higher in higher positions, conversion rates stay steady across positions.
Worst in employee satisfaction. What about productivity? All the stats quoted were surveys, not measures of work done.
I would say it is the terrible weather, too cold in winter, too hot in summer. It probably means something like "serious people are the rulers, because if you do stupid crazy things you are dead" over thousands of years that forge a culture.

Russia is so big, and yet so ugly. I took the transsiberian train and it was so boring. In 40kms of Chile you see more than in 3000 of transsiberian. In Winter there is no light, and no color(snow everywhere).

When you travel to places where the sun shines all year long you find that everybody smiles so much. You go to Bali, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, kenia, Nigeria, all people smile all the time.

Boston, New York,Seattle, Germany, they are in the middle-upper scale of seriousness. Miami, California, less serious.
Clojure doesn't have a real code formatter unfortunately. I posted a slightly better version that preserves formatting if nothing changes and tries to use the clojure pprinter to format as best as it can.
I'm not sure what you will do with those ideas but here some:

* Board games: reversi, go, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Men%27s_Morris, there are many checkboard games. You can make AI or allow play two players each against another.

* Simple adventure game. Story is always important. Read some SF book and make game out of it.

* Make page where user can drag-and-drop (or upload) photo and add silly hat(s) to people in that photo.

* Make app to learn English words. e.g. user is shown word in his native language and 4 English options are shown. User must select correct one. Or show English word and 4 pictures and user must select correct one.

* Make math learning game.

* Hangman game

* Make app that takes input from camera and uploads to imgur.com. Make it without your own server! I'm not even sure if that's possible but I believe that's possible.

* Upload whatever you did to Mozilla Marketplace for Firefox OS.

Wanna do something together?

EDIT Here is something I do for fun:

http://discount.sandbox.lt

I have more apps like this. It takes 2 hours to write something like this, you learn something, and make something slightly useful actually (in this case I have noticed that Firefox markerplace does not have discount calculator with slider - I don't even have Firefox OS phone:)).
or change --lives to ++lives
No, its grown, quite a bit, and only heathkit has gone away.

There's much better stuff out there than when I was a kid and all we had was heathkit. However you need to use the internet, not just the annual heathkit catalog.

Something along the lines of the pie used to have basically one very big slice, which went out of business in '92, and since then the pie has expanded quite a bit, although no individual slice has come close to the size of Heathkit before it sank... the small size is probably why the individual companies are growing instead of shrinking LOL.
Perhaps this could be retitled "Having cake and eating it too: No good options."

Big companies want technologies they can invest in that will remain stable and supported for a decade or more. Hell, many of them are upset that XP isn't being supported for longer than that.

If as a big company you had been a leader and built a web-based app in, say, 2005, it would most likely be a mess of hand-built DOM libraries that sniffed for specific browsers and most likely were wired to IE6 or IE7 (remember, jQuery didn't even exist yet). The "good options" that corps are choosing to use today mainly involve forcing newer versions of Internet Explorer into IE7 or IE5-Quirks mode so they don't have to lift a finger to change that festering pile of custom JavaScript.

I'm not convinced that any technology exists today that will be so set-it-and-forget-it wonderful that companies should plan to build it now and leave it the hell alone for a decade. But that's what they've demanded of the last generation of apps they built.
Reminds me a bit of differential privacy too ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy ). I wonder has anyone looked into connections between visual crypto, steganography, and differential privacy?
There's nowhere to go but the middle of the ocean if I don't want to live in a place that is either authoritarian or democracy-worshiping though.

>refuse to accept the existence of any laws restricting their actions.

I was trying to focus on our lack of ability to choose, not so much what I advocate, but I do not advocate a lawless society. A corollary to "right to secede down to the level of the individual"—which is a law/rule BTW—would be that other people can't arbitrarily take control of you and not let you secede.

But what if there are disagreements? I try to approach this in a way that I feel is scientific. I think that we can discover an eminently "human" law but then still have a lot of variation in politics, maintain peace and prosperity with having a few fundamental rules dominate popular acceptance like democracy does now. I don't have time now to get into all of that but if you are genuinely curious I could help you learn.
Python: The homogenization of scientific computing
tl;dr: not much
> but "Fuck you", "moron", "piss off asshole" are a smidge over the top

On the other hand he could have responded with this:

for I in range(2**20):
print "Fuck you, Asshole"
I don't mean immoral. I mean amoral.

From grammarist:

The adjective immoral means contrary to established moral principles. Immoral actions are corrupt, unethical, sinful, or just wrong. Amoral means (1) neither moral nor immoral, or (2) lacking moral sensibility. So while immoral and amoral might share a little common ground, there is a clear distinction: immoral things are bad, and amoral things are either neutral from a moral perspective or simply removed from moral considerations.
Which is the big one then?
One interesting feature is the ability to customize the layout of the UI. Opera had some really great features for customization of UI and it's nice to see another browser doing it.

One thing I still haven't seen except in Opera: Tabs on the left or right. With widescreen monitors, I prefer my tabs on the left. Even better, tabs with thumbnails.
Tianming. If some other system governs better than democracy, then we should use it.

As Moldbug points out, the current US Govcorp is structured as an employee collective[1][2], which no competitive corporation chooses as a system of organization in the free market. As Mancur Olson points out, bureaucracies tend to get more inefficient over time[3].

I know we've all been raised to believe that democracy is love and rainbows, but maybe it's time to rethink that.

[1] http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-whe...

[2] http://foseti.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/on-government-employm...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Decline-Nations-Stagflation/d...
The question is whether the arguments behind "anti-democracy" (bad terminology: not all non-democratic forms of government have anything in common with each-other other than their lack of democracy) are value arguments or effectiveness arguments.

There's a huge difference in saying, "We have a system that serves the people's values and interests better than democracy does", and "You proles don't deserve a voice." Unfortunately, the vast majority of anti-democratic rhetoric right now is of the latter kind.
C#

Large teams drive make typed languages attractive and C# does it without leaving behind a lot of the functional (like) and dynamic (like) features.

C# and Office are the reasons there is still a microsoft, but those are pretty decent reasons.
Obviously, you have strong opinions about this subject and I will try to tread carefully, but your comment reads like you are not in favor an app that attempts to assist in preventing suicide.

And on this point:
> To understand suicide, you have to understand wanting to kill yourself, and you cannot understand this intellectually, you have to have experienced it yourself.

Not all people who attempt suicide have the same mindset. I know people who have attempted suicide (one guy's face is disfigured due to a self-inflicted gun shot) and they do not even remotely suggest that suicide could possibly be anything but bad.
I agree that rearranging for the sake of it is annoying but that 'original' interface is ugly.
Not only that, it's faster as well. Try closing a session of Chrome with 20 tabs open and then reopening it. On both Windows and Linux, Chrome can be extremely unresponsive in this scenario. FF lazy loads tabs so doesn't care to reload everything in the background when you restart your session.
It's not clear why the SR admin would be buying cocaine in the first place, though. Wasn't the whole point to just be a marketplace and make money by transaction fees? Did the SR admin decide to also become a vendor? If so that's just... really poor form.

And some of the other arrests, like the vendor "NOD" included some rather fortuitous circumstances. Like random inspections over a day or two just happening to pick up multiple packages with the same handwriting.

If Tor was compromised, you can bet they'd take ever measure possible to prevent leaking that information. That'd include making sure they have very solid, plausible, cover stories. But yes, it does look reassuring that all the arrests seem to based off of basic police work and simple mistakes.
I really dig it! And I like sending/receiving postcards from all over the world, I'll post one tomorrow.
China is unlikely to be left too far behind in any robotic revolution. Foxconn's been building a "million-robot army", likely to build the aforementioned iPhones.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043026/foxconn-to-speed-up-r...
FWIW, here's my user interface: http://imgur.com/ABi2XVO

which is to say, damn near identical modulo the GTK theme emulation. AND importantly the nightly build linked in the article completely respected my changes.
I also use a very minimal setup (http://imgur.com/NoCafoH).

On OSX, Australis will actually be thinner (once they fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=938985) because the window buttons are now on the same level as the tabs.
As I said, it is only an example, and could go in a lot of different, but similar ways.

I wouldn't be offended if that happened to me.

"It would take a pedantic asshole to reject something coming from such a place"

Yes, that's the main problem, as there would be people sending offensive cards there's also "overly sensitive people" that would be beyond themselves because of something like that.
Ugg boots?
>As Moldbug points out, the current US Govcorp is structured as an employee collective, which no competitive corporation chooses as a system of organization in the free market.

That's doubly inaccurate.

* Worker cooperatives don't give membership votes to non-workers, and the vast majority of American voters are not government employees.

* Many firms choose worker cooperative organization and thrive on it. The fact that many districts don't have laws for chartering cooperatives is what holds them back, not some innate untenability of the form itself.
Way to dump your own depressive tendencies on a 15 year old. Jesus.

^-- A perfect example of the ignorance that I mentioned, thank you.

To Krish: remember, people who contemplate suicide are constantly faced with such ignorance, and so in the cultures where such attitudes are common, suicide happens unexpectedly (and this is most of the world). Then people "wish they could have said how much they loved them", etc. etc.
I am not really sure what you are thinking of doing?

You cannot drop the price worldwide with merely $5000 of BTC. If you buy, sell, buy, sell, etc, in cycle, you are not going to cause the price to continuously increase or decrease.

You can split a sell or buy order for $5000 in numerous small transactions, but it will have no more influence than a single $5000 transaction.
Converting Customers in 30 days with well timed emails
I seem to have accidentally inverted my real point. Anonymity will always be possible for a dedicated stalker no matter what these jokers do to eliminate it. My concern is removing it as a straight forward option for the stalkee (which I was.) We're on the same side.
Ask HN: I need some help with an investing-based startup
My friend is working on a product focused on investing. He has been looking for guidance all over and I told him I would get some feedback from the HN community. This is what he emailed me. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I would be happy to ask him for any other information that might be needed.

"""
My interest in finance started when I saved up $5000. I wanted to invest it and approached a stockbroker who suggested that I invest in China (back in 2006) for 22% returns. I walked out of the deal thinking a compounded 22% return was impossible. While practicing medicine, I’ve pursued a MBA to learn more about finance.

I’ve started working on a product that estimates the amount of risk you can take, the amount of risk you need to take to achieve your goals and then suggest a simple investment plan that required about 1-4 hours per year. The estimated learning curve is about 10 hours. My initial target market is professionals with little to no knowledge in finance (MDs, non finance PhDs etc..,).

The goal of the product is to provide enough information to allow individuals to invest efficiently and help them pick the right financial planners (advisors who charge less and advocate the right practices). I would have no affiliation with any advisors (to avoid conflict of interest) and our revenue may be through selling this product.

Since some of you may be potential customers or have more experience in financial planning, could you point out how I may fail in this venture and how I could avoid failing. Once concern is having no customers since they don’t want to spend adequate time. Another concern is establishing credibility.

I’ve also composed a survey with a few elements I need to validate and if you have some time (approx. 10 minutes), I would greatly appreciate the feedback.

http://goo.gl/NR54hu

Thank you for your help!
"""