skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nice, will definitely use it in my next project.
this is pretty cool that you got to the top of hacker news with this post as a lot of investors and start ups are always reading hacker news. I am actually looking for a co founder for my company somebody that has different skill sets then me . I am a developer living in new york I already have a demo created and have I THINK A PRETTY GOOD GAME PLAN. that I will not post here as I am not ready to release to the public especially hacker news. But I am willing to meet and discuss what I am working on. What I am looking for is someone to help me take my site to the next level. this includes helping me bring users and help with getting funding. If you'r interested I am always willing to meet and greet. it wouldn't be that hard if you live in new york. if anything at least we can discuss some idea's and talk about your prior startups that have failed. email me at spidergt1@aol.com my name is richard
The tables are a bit busted on the smallest breakpoint, but other than that it's pretty awesome for the size. Well played sir.
The work of Zubrzycki is impressive. For having studied acoustics quite a bit, I'm very impressed by the fact that the sound manages to have both a very short attack an a very good sustain (thanks to the wheel). Controlling the vibration of a bowed string must have been extremely difficult... For the interested reader, there's a more detailed article here:
http://tygodnik.onet.pl/zmysly/the-da-vinci-tone-in-english/...
They may be using a plan which was not intended for mi-fi or smartphone use. I guess they reprogram the IMEI or equivalent of Sim ID of a 'basic phone' onto the Android phone.
Open offices are bad when people not on your team wander through and have loud conversations. This problem gets more likely/common in larger companies.
nice clone...
I hate to be that guy, but Leonardo didn't really innovate here: the hurdy-gurdy had existed for a long time by the time he sketched out this instrument, and it had rosined wheels turning against strings, the different pitches being selected by a crude keyboard of buttons. Sure, this is more refined, but all the important elements were present in an existing instrument.

Still, though, it makes a pleasant, musically useful sound. I wonder how hard it is to keep in adjustment; it seems like it would be touchy (just like the hurdy-gurdy).
Da Vinci was certainly the hacker :)
JHSheridan is using the term "private" to mean "not owned by the government."
To elaborate on that last part, aiming down in the city is helpful because you can see far away objects with the street lights already and the bike light is helpful for spotting potholes
Me: activates phone, types "fuck", verifies that phone suggests "fuck", sleeps phone
At this point/size, why do you even need a 'framework'? I think anybody who wants to adopt this kit and modify it a bit might as well just code the css themselves.
A bitcoin is a token which gives the user the right to transact on the bitcoin network. It derives its value from this right.

The bitcoin network provides global near-instantaneous transference of ownership records for negligible transaction fees. It enables transactions to occur without a trusted third party, and also represents the advent of scriptable money. For these reasons, the right to transact on the network has value.
Here's someone from Japan who's been making Geigenwerk and Streichklavier for the last twenty years. Neat videos.

http://obuchi.music.coocan.jp/Geigenwerk/index-e.htm
Very clever service.

"Technology" is misspelled here:
https://blogmask.herokuapp.com/browse

Also, why copy the Kudos feature from Svbtle?
Noticed the spelling error, want to correct it but waiting to do a push until this fades off of the top page of HN. Thanks for pointing it out though!

As for the kudos mechanism, people seem to be happy to engage with it. I know on HN it's something that everyone recognizes but the average web user doesn't notice it (kind of like Bootstrap).
What the fuck are you talking about?

Sent from my iPhone
There must be some kind of psychological correlation to attract up-votes when in an even ranked position...
This isn't remotely the case on Android. Must be a problem with SwiftKey. The Google Android keyboard has an option to disable profanity filter, and also respects you adding it to the dictionary.

Not to mention, the iOS keyboard just hasn't been improved at all since it was introduced. The suggestions are still at random locations in the screen. There's no swipe. There's no off kilter correction where my fingers can just be shifted a whole letter off or hit between the keys and it still works.

Go pick up a KitKat device, pull up the keyboard and close your eyes. I can type while watching tv with two hands as fast as I can tap, and I can swipe with one hand without looking and get 95% right and then double tap and correct the few that were wrong "to -> too", etc.

Yet another thing that iOS users have no idea how much they're missing out on and makes me just LOL whenever they insist the keyboard is still better since it was _5 years ago_.
Absolutely, even over-eager use of "git add -p" can easily create commit "snapshots" that won't actually compile.
Better yet, post an exposé on HN (that seems to be pretty powerful these days).
I usually start with Sinatra (without a DB). Instead of an ORM & DB I'll create simple Ruby objects in memory. Maybe I'll have a Post class with an #all method. Similar to AR, but I'll hold off actually creating a DB.

As a prototype (I'll be throwing this code away) this approach works well enough to simulate how the real app might work. Mimicking some of the conventions I'll be using later makes the transition easier.

I avoid a CSS framework when prototyping. I might pull in jQuery if it's essential.
Set up your own private sub Reddit.
First off, I didn't know the hurdy-gurdy was an instrument, nor did I know it preceded this. Guess I really didn't pay attention to Donovan's lyrics…

I'm even more curious now. I want to know why this couldn't or wouldn't have been built before.
You changed my opinion on this. Google needs to fix the page rank algorithm.
Interesting. Not $65 interesting though.
Lets solve the easy problems first.

Plus you can make oil from air plus energy. Coal plus water is even easier.

All we need to do is reduce the cost somewhat, it's not necessary to solve it fully.
Oops, thanks for pointing that out. Will definitely fix that as soon as possible. Thanks for the kind words!
This is the same reason we switched from darcs to git. The value of ubiquity exceeded the value of our previous preferences.
Similar things were built. If you read German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geigenwerk.
Anything... like HN? Should this be regulated?
Show HN: My term project, a timeline-based editor for complex CSS animations
http://www.codeframer.org

Hey guys. This semester, I built a tool to design and build complex CSS animations in the browser. If you've used After Effects, it works similar to that.

You create animations by modifying CSS attributes/values across keyframes and layers, while previewing it in real-time as you design it. When you're finished, it generates all the CSS needed to deploy your animation.

Currently only works in Chrome. Would love to hear your feedback!
Cause commerce/ enods.com
We are building a cause commerce marketplace and are evaluating different payment processing mechanisms that might fit our business model (both one time and subscription based). Would anyone here understand the merits of stripe, paypal adaptive payments e.t.c?
> typing a word five times adds it to the dictionary.

That seems terrible. I only want to add words to a dictionary explicitly. Make a typo often enough now you got teh in your dictionary. I turn off autocorrect anyway.
But the same may hold true for bitcoin in the future, if they can develop economies that accept it at all stages of production and final use.

Yeah, but in the case of an economy, you create the value first, then you create the currency to help hold that created value. You do not start a country and say, here is $1 trillion. With Bitcoin, you create $1 trillion, then you say "Go buy things from other countries with it."
Learning to code couldn't hurt.
So... Walmart? (I'm a last minute kind of guy!)

Plenty of things materially affect my life that are not essential infrastructure.
What would be really cool is building visual layout tooling for CSS frameworks...something along the lines of jetstrap or layoutit but perhaps more generic...it would have the ability to flexibly define components and their design time rendering.

Another thing that would be cool is a generic css layout framework..basically a more robust form of the grid...something like this http://layout.jquery-dev.net/ but perhaps have only jquery as dependency and styling being up to user.
Magnetic Properties In Graphene Could Unlock Broad Applications
The glue of OAuth?
Go doesn't have objects.
Why a 10 column grid? 12 makes much more sense to me since it is divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 while 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5. 12 gives more options with hardly any additional styles.
Filtering out all characters other than ASCII alphabetical with preg_replace would probably do it.

And yeah, I'm not a huge fan of php - or the ridiculous function names it is known for. However, it can be dead simple to set up for trivial tasks (which is about all od want to use it for).
Much better article, interview, and video here (watch the bottom one with CC on): http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/viola-organista/
> Bitcoin deals with this issue by having 8 decimal places. The higher the Bitcoin value rises, the smaller the decimal transaction size will become. Each decimal place has a name, with the smallest unit being 1 Satoshi. If 1 Bitcoin was worth as much as one million dollars 1 Satoshi would still only be worth 1 USD cent. In other words, there is no need to print new currency, we can simply use smaller units of Bitcoin.

This explanation glosses over what I've always thought was the main problem with deflationary currency. Why would I want to use Bitcoins (or any other deflationary asset, for that matter) as a currency instead of an investment? It just doesn't make sense to the customer.

You wouldn't sell land that you own just to purchase basic necessities unless you had no other choice. In the same way, I'm not sure it will ever be a rational decision to buy something with Bitcoins unless you had no other choice of currency to use. I'm not an economist so I could be misunderstanding the nature of deflationary assets, but doesn't that imply that Bitcoins should be used only as an investment vehicle or to purchase things which other currencies can't (or shouldn't) be used?
You are repeating what appears to be a completely baseless claim all over this discussion. What evidence do you have to support the notion that languages you happen to dislike decrease flow?
Available for vim as well. This is one of the things that consistently makes my life better. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3998
Oops I thought it was a xmas theme ;)
Thank god I don't work for Jason Calacanis
Android's default keyboard (at least on KitKat; not sure how far back this goes) has a setting to turn off the profanity filter.

From the keyboard, hold comma to get to the settings menu, pick Google Keyboard Settings, scroll down under "Text Correction", and uncheck "Block offensive words".
Using DI is like using goto. It gives you more power but at the same time it makes it impossible to reason about the code.
I'm surprised that there is no command "git sucks" in git.
I'm upset that googling for "rap genius" still does not return one single rapper in the first 10 pages.

and none of these guys are geniuses either

and justin bieber cannot rap, so google is correct in this case
I know what 'backed by gold is', but what the hell is 'backed by goods'? USD is backed by taxes (try to pay taxes not in USD) - yes, I can see that, but backed by goods?

Money is a token, a debt unit that passed on down the chain in exchange for product. Many things can and did serve as such token: gold, bank note, cowry shells. Their only 'value' is that they all are scarce resources (well, in case of bank notes less and less so) and socially accepted as a measure of debt. So can be bitcoin. In many ways bitcoin is much better money then others.
So what's the moto side like?
I laughed out loud when I realized this (I was searching for Tyler, the Creator lyrics) - instead of filing a page with their links, now they are nowhere to be found. Checked my watch and it was still December'13 so something is wrong.

The annotations have really degraded in quality - there used to be some very good ones that gave you context and explained complex puns and references and now you have 9gag style memes.

The RapGenius story and characters become more and more fit for a movie making fun of the whole internet industry.
The 15 most promising start-ups and products of 2013.
And 1.9 was about twice as fast as 1.8. So it should be 400% percent improvement compared to 1.8.
No; if you type a word that isn't in the dictionary five times, but let it get autocorrected each of those times, then it will keep autocorrecting it. It's cancelling/reverting the autocorrect suggestion that increments a word's "should be in the dictionary" score.
By the same logic why wouldn't you use all the extra cash you have to buy bitcoins? If you frame it that way then the answer is obvious, there is no guarantee the value will continue to rise so you will use it to purchase when you think it's over priced (I bought a TV and new camera when the price was over 1k).

The volatility actually ends up being a good thing in this regard because sometimes you are better off purchasing other goods with bitcoin, sometimes you are better off holding.

If the value eventually balances out and is truly deflationary against inflation then I don't think people are going to lose sleep over selling bitcoins that are going up 3% each year the same way they don't worry about taking money out of a savings account to buy something they don't really need.
Im totally doing this to my sister next year...
all our problems are solved. The end
Site looks clean but the 10% fee the site takes on every sale seems a bit high:

>First, itch.io will take 10% of the total, 10$. Then the payment provider will take $0.30 + 2.9% of the total price, $10. Leaving you with $8.41.
that's not how it works, just because you make a typo a few times wont mean it's picked by autocorrect.

To bypass the five times, just type a word into safari's omni bar and it will add it to the dictionary.

it would be an awful ux if words needed to be added explicitly to the dictionary.
while true ; do NUM=$(( $RANDOM % 80)) ; for i in $( seq 1 $NUM ) ; do echo -n " " ; done ; echo \* ; sleep 0.1; done
Shouldn't "Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics" just show you all Justin Bieber lyrics?
This is why your business shouldn't rely on it. I initially rely on it to get users, but then get info like email addresses, so if they ever decide to make changes in their algo and I drop rankings, I am still in business.
Anatomy Of A Con: How The Public Was Scammed To Build Candlestick Park
No.

Mindfulness meditation has a measurable and significant effect not only on stress, emotional regulation, recurrent thoughts/rumination, attention, and decision-making, but also a physical effect in the brain in the form of a reduction of amygdala size, and an increase in the activity (and size) of the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices.

`Internally', it changes the meditator's subjective sense of self and of how he experiences the world.
HN header's background color was changed from #FF6600 to #cc1010, too dark?
Having a "take no shit" attitude is a statement of privilege. This is the same flawed rationale that says "I can do it so anybody can do it" and if you'll pardon the phrase, its utter horseshit. With all due respect (which is to say, about as much as you give the victims of bullying) its your attitude that empowers bullies, not mine, and certainly not the choice or inability of the victim to fight back.
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Post should have ended with "It's about ducking time."
I usually do 'git checkout <branch/tag/sha_of_commit> -- <filename>' to revert a single file to previous state. If I ever need a gui (very, very rare), I would just use 'gitk'. Small and does the work.
Is this like the Marching Band? [0]

0: http://itchyo.com/
You going to release the source code for them :) ?
The Enchantments of Elm – writing a roguelike using FRP: Part 1
" Snapzu is a social sharing and discovery platform similar to reddit that focuses on quality over quantity."

Really, we need another one of these?
I occasionally search for lyrics. If I know the name of the artist and song, I search for those with the word lyrics added. If I have a line from the song I'll type that and add lyrics.

I don't think I've ever noticed a Rap Genius result. To check this, I just searched for a few lyrics on Bing (where presumably Rap Genius is not penalized), and did not get any Rap Genius results. I even tried some Justin Bieber lyrics searches because I believe the links that got Rap Genius in trouble had to do with Bieber songs. Nothing on Bing.

Could someone give some examples of searches that used to include Rap Genius high in the results?
I don't. The English version [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geigenwerk] suggests the a hurdy-gurdy wheel is in constant contact with strings, while the viola organista allows for a large number of strings to lower on to the wheel, so individual notes strings and notes are played.

This seems like he moved technology forward, no?
You just called a group of human beings poisonous based on stuff you've "read and heard". Think about that. Poison kills people. You've never interacted with them personally, yet you are already calling them toxic.

So prior to actually analyzing the situation, you are already saying you don't care what actually happened, you don't like them anyway. Context is important, and I believe if you come into a conversation with a closed mind, it's not a conversation. That's why I don't believe those questions are moot.

Do you believe Edward Snowden is toxic for breaking rules and then complaining that things didn't go his way? I feel as though I could make the same argument about him using the logic you've just presented.
That's easy to answer. You wouldn't convert your dollars to bitcoins because bitcoin will only appreciate in value if it becomes an important instrument of commerce; it has no other value even in theory. If you believe the deflationary attribute of bitcoin will cause it to be hoarded instead of used as a tool of commerce, you also believe that hoarding bitcoin is irrational, because the system is eventually going to collapse.

It doesn't take any insight about bitcoin to arrive at that conclusion ("deflationary currencies are unusable, therefore don't bother hoarding bitcoin"); it's just logic.
You are correct, bitcoin and dollar are exactly the opposite. Dollar prices inflate on a whim thanks to Nixon, Greenspan or whoever is at the helm (speaking of cows, check car prices in 1980s and compare to today). Bitcoin prices theoretically should be much more stable since the rate of growth of BTC monetary base is algorithmically limited and grows predictably and slowly.
I have to ask, do you ever look at what you've just typed before you hit "reply"?
Wallbase is dying: see [1].

4walled.cc is a similar if much less polished service. Also see WallHaven.cc, which some of Wallbase's staff is working to make Wallbase's new home.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/1tbux9/ysk_ab...
Is the problem just that there is no setting to enable this behavior out of the box? Perhaps I just swear too fucking much, but my SwiftKey has learned all of my common uses of profanity, and is surprisingly good at auto-correcting them.
The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
I thought they were simply a choice of colors!
And I like the new design!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

So, stop whining.
People are always gaming the search engines. Lyric websites are some of the absolute worst perpetrators of this. They care for absolutely nothing but ad impressions and their sites are a tortuous experience to behold. That being said, I'd still say it's a shame since for once, someone gaming the system actually had decent content to offer.
Whenever it rains in Beijing, I deal with this problem with normal and black taxis. If the prices become too high, at least I can take the subway.
ooh! That's bad. It really has a good collection.
Oh well, will wait for the new one!
This is awesome, I've seen this in real life and it's so useful/fast for creating audio visualizations and the examples are excellent to learn from!
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engineers have all sorts of tricks(mostly math or alogrithems) for solving problems. remember story problems from school. we had them in our engineering classes.
MIT team shows graphene's potential for quantum computing
Seems strange to me to set up a community around a revenue model.

Edit: I guess it would be interesting if discussion centered around how to make the revenue model work.

I think there is a fine between allowing players to spend as much or as little as they like while enjoying your product, and the use of scuzzy dark patterns.
Engineers are valuable for what they can learn (skills and about the problems they are solving) not for what they know at a particular point in time.

A myopic way to look at hiring.

Edit:

You should care about the delta of an engineer's career and knowledge. That says a lot more about how they'll perform now and in the future.

These days companies prove themselves to engineers. I'd rather see something like a more descriptive and meaningful glassdoor so that I can know what companies are worth my time.

Tags/attributes like:

"$company is in the 67% percentile for employee freedom in your job type [Software Engineer]"

"$company practices open allocation."

"$company is known for fast-firing. They are also known for paying XX% above average for your job type [Software Engineer]"

I don't want some bullshit tag-based skill endorsement clone of LinkedIn profiles. I hate LinkedIn for a reason. I definitely don't need to be even more discoverable by recruiters - my website is a fucking curse on that front as it is. I leave it up because I do get valuable conversations going because of it.

I'm more interested in sites that could further balance the lopsided information power dynamic between employers and employees.

I want to know if there's a chance of a fit between me and the company before I even email somebody.

A company is more likely to be able to recruit me the more substantive information I have about what it's like to work for them. Shut the fuck up about perks, tell me about how you empower your employees to perform their best and entrust them to do the job as it needs to be done.

Things like sourcing.io don't just hurt engineers, they hurt the companies that recruit like this (technology checklisting) too.

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Making it even easier for lazy recruiters to be shitty is a bullshit thing to do. May the spam of a thousand recruiters looking for "Senior Java developers" flood your inbox and decimate your sanity MacCaw.
"Digital sucks, or why I use cassette tapes instead."

Seriously, if your complaints about git are a few implementation problems, user interface, and that some commands are needlessly complicated, your solution should not be to use a completely different revision control system used by nobody.

How about "DARCS did some things right that git could learn from" as a different way to present this material?
It's just a temporary change for the holidays (along with the green and red colored numbers on each story).
I don't understand. They say "we find you developers from our database of 4 million devs" but later say that they find them from YOUR github/fb/linkedin/twitter connections? So is this a sort of web scraping tool?