skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learn the basics of pixel art with some good tutorials. This is my favorite: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/

Practice a lot. Get feedback from others in the community (e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt )

Have a consistent style and constrain yourself. The faces in Papers, Please are drawn with only 3 colors! It's a lot easier to get something decent looking when you limit your options.

You could always hire an artist of course, but that doesn't answer your question and it doesn't allow you to be that lone developer who has fine grained control over everything. I'm no artist and I've been able to make at least workable graphics in a short time period: http://humbit.com/gkh/
I would say that start-up culture is the perfect breeding ground for burnout.

#1 cause: lack of a mature organization. No clarity, no process, no structure, constant uncertainty and bosses that clearly have no idea what the fuck they are doing.

Collective ownership, treating employees like entrepreneurs even though they are very different people with a different mindset and different coping mechanisms is not just misguided, it's downright destructive.

Employees are not entrepreneurs, they have a different mindset and different coping mechanisms. They can handle the uncertainty of a starting company that may very well fail, they can handle long hours, but they need certainty about the nature of their job, what is expected of them and their coworkers. Not having that structure makes them extremely vulnerable to any kind of stress, stress that a startup job is guaranteed to have.

It frankly pisses me off how badly employees at startups are treated by not recognizing their needs as employees. No amount of toys, free snacks and other gimmicks will compensate for that.
"If you get jammed up, you can become a convicted felon and that damns you to do it for the rest of your life, because you won’t get anything but a $7.50 an hour job—if that. You give somebody a felony record for life, what did you accomplish? You’ve just created a lower-class idiot that has to commit more crimes to survive.”

That's the problem right there. We can spend tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars incarcerating a simple marijuana dealer, and then remove most of them from the chance of ever having a productive life.

There are exceptions. I have an old friend who spent a few years in prison for LSD traffic back in college. He's one of the smartest people I ever met. Eventually he got out, finished his PhD in chemistry, and now is the co-founder of a startup doing new chemotherapy drugs. But like I said, one of the smartest people I've ever met.
I'm interested in your opinions on holes in the market - is it a cost thing? Also, if you want to bounce ideas around, my email is in my profile.
In Denmark: http://www.it-kollektivet.dk/
If you're running a PHP site, please, please turn off display_errors. It's really bad practice to have your PHP code dumping your query strings to the web when you have a failure.
That's pretty awesome! As an artist, the only thing I would really do is add some lighter/darker browns to emphasize shadows and areas in the light. The same goes with grays on the flag.
Twitter's scalding 0.9.0 and beyond
NYPD Twitter campaign 'backfires' after hashtag hijacked
Even if google does implement this, where is everyone going to get a shiny new PGP key from? Is google going to create it? Is the user going to create it? How about linking it in to the web of trust. Who is going to go around teaching all the users how to securely verify each other's keys, so that the public key part of the system isn't a complete and utter waste of time?

Don't get me wrong, I would love it if loads more people were to get a PGP key and enter the PGP web of trust (like, say, paypal). It's just that over the last ten or so years, I have found remarkably few people who both have a PGP key, and care about it.
Bob, if you're lurking this thread:

Congrats. Any idea when I'll be able to buy it?

Like the other free-online-first books I've read, I've gotten enough value from it that I'd like to thank you by paying for it.
PoMA presents a mathematical approach that's done in countless other analysis textbooks. What people (students) hate is that the author makes leaps in his proofs. But that's not something unique to Rudin's style. And who says these students wouldn't be capable of making these leaps later on? Please explain to me how "Rudin sets you on the path to being very good at mathematics" (more so than any of the "easier" books), if you agree with my claim that there is in fact nothing unique about his book. If you don't agree, please tell me what is unique.

"As to why successful people don't read more difficult books, well, being a great mathematician just isn't that important to success."

???

"Rudin is like reading the source code"

Rudin's book is incomplete to a beginner. The analogy doesn't work at all.
Because they are comparing their product against other products that do offer that feature and wish to give their customers an honest comparison?
I had the same thought but I doubt he's as big of a player as he makes himself out to be.
Become a manager. :)
I know you're trolling, but some people might not, so I thought it might be helpful to point out that they are actually discovering and fixing vulnerabilities. For example, CVE-2010-5298:

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/analysis-of-openssl-free...
Unfortunately that's more of a defense of YC's funding of the Immunity Project than a defense of the Immunity Project itself.
This stance is counterproductive in my eyes.

Lots of security standards, including state/local government and some healthcare environments require FIPS compliance. FIPS isn't perfect, but screens out low-quality crypto implementations that most organizations lack the expertise to evaluate.

Dual_EC and that ilk is obviously a serious problem, but FIPS validation addresses other pertinent problems -- like my doctor's office securing my private data with a more trivially flawed/bogus encryption implementation.
IANAL but I did write a "lawful intercept" (LI) spec for a type of infrastructure router. As far as I know, most places in what we'd call "the free world" don't compel carriers to do anything to thwart users from protecting their payloads, nor do they compel carriers to actively deny service to encrypted payloads or even discourage use of encryption. Even if individuals can be compelled to hand over keys, it isn't the carriers' problem.

Empirically, we know that, for about a year, Google, Yahoo, etc. have been bitching about PRISM, but not doing anything to make it more convenient for their customers to encrypt their payloads. Is there some secret law? Heavy-handed pressure? Or did they just spend a lot of time wishing the privacy thing would just go away?

This will be an interesting test to see just how much freedom Our Benevolent Overlords think we can handle.
> The HummingBoard uses a Freescale i.MX6 quad core...

Current i.MX 6 silicon aren't able squeeze out more than 470 Mbps from their Ethernet MAC.

http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/errata/IMX6DQCE.p...

ERR004512
that makes sense. probably FIPS-certified firewall vendors such as sonicwall will be the ones affected by this.
The video is kind of light on information.

Here is a more in-depth post on the topic [1]. Its titled March 1st 2014, so apparently this isn't new-new.

[1] https://secure-resumption.com/
It's interesting to see the comments on this submission: http://aquatilis.tv/ ( https://news.layervault.com/stories/21015-site-design-aquati... ). I'm pretty sure that if the same site was submitted here, 80%+ of the comments would about how slow and heavy the page is, but it is not even mentioned once on DN. (I'm using a maxed out rMBP with 16GB of RAM, a Core i7 and and a 2GB video card and it can't scroll the website smoothly).
IBM’s bold plan to save the Power architecture
IPyApp – IPython notebook desktop app
I've always believed in going through a lawyer for this. Guys like Cooley and WSGR have startup friendly terms and plans that work out well.
Fair point. I expect the people making serious bank aren't the kind to grant an interview to a journalist at The Atlantic.
That's what I was thinking, but now that you mention it, all that is needed is to have introspection gain the ability to examine local variables up the stack, so I guess it's do-able w/ back compat after all.

I wouldn't hold my breath, though.
Just wrote my first blog post using this and it was actually a nice refreshing experience. Much easier to write I found.

My one gripe is when I export to Google Docs for further editing, it has some weird formatting. The words don't get wrapped, and adding new lines of text pushes everything down a new line, not sure how to get rid of that.
You can download The Daily Show (or any show for that matter) in 1080p minutes after its finished airing, with no commercials, or you can wait a day and have to sit through 12-15 ads on Hulu while their player desperately tries to play the proper rendition for your connection.

Hard choice.
Touche :)

Hours in the day, unfortunately.
This was recently posted on HN: http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/
I'm very interested. Could you please elaborate some more?
OpenSSL FIPS certification (#1747) is for source code, not for binary. This is highly unusual indeed, but it is not the case that only binaries can be FIPS certified.

On the other hand, you can't change the source without losing the certification, so it doesn't actually matter.
This is a wise move.

Let me suggest the mitochondrion as the main target to explore:

- In a very simple but accurate analogy, a computer will not work properly - if at all - if the power is not coming. You can have the best hardware; you can put endless hours to develop the best possible software, but nothing matters if the power is not coming.
- Mitochondria produce 90% of the energy - ATP - we need to function.
- Mitochondria are a relatively simple structures. Its DNA is way smaller and simpler than the nuclear - double helix - DNA.
- Many health issues seems to be the result of a primary mitochondrial dysfunction, or
- Many health issues will result in a secondary mitochondrial dysfunction.

I do have a mutation in my mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA), so

- I know what I am talking about and
- Yes, I am very biased; my life depends on this.
Shapeless 2.0.0 released
Ask HN: How have or would you convey failure to an employer?
I quit my job 6 months back to set out on my own doing my own startup idea. This idea hasn't panned out quite the way I thought it would.

How have you or would you convey that your startup failed and you are interested in <x> job now?
How to Remove Vocals from Music Tracks
Map of IT coops in Argentina: http://www.facttic.org.ar/miembros
Setting up mail servers is the one things I truly dread. Its truly barbaric. I cuss and froth at the mouth whenever I have to go down there into that postfix dungeon.

Its the reason I got into Puppet and Ansible - vainly hoping all those barbaric problems could be encapsulated.
I don't think investing should be dumbed down to betting. The public already has high aversion towards "throwing $120K at [random] companies". YC (and with them a lot of accelerators/investors) analyze their prospects.

Sure, sometimes there is a chance and an underbelly-feeling involved in whether a startup should be invested in, but to degrade investments as "betting" is probably the highest insult an investment/accelerator-firm can get.
At more than 90 bar, the lower atmosphere of Venus is basically made up of supercritical CO2, making it more or less a question of taste whether to call it an atmosphere or an ocean. Indeed, floating cities have been suggested as a way that man could actually live on the planet. High up in the atmosphere, the pressure and temperature would actually be quite livable.
Nothing excites people like a false analogy. Looking to biology to model how economies work is like looking at stars and movements of heavenly bodies to see how stock prices change. I can find a thousand things common between them, but you know how accurate that science is.
When we talk about technology, it's time to stop using the word "mobile."
> I live in Indiana, the only state where one cannot buy alcohol on a Sunday.

I'll allow that it's been 14 years since I lived in the area, but NC and TN still had dry counties where you couldn't buy liquor at all, let alone Sundays.

Born and raised in Indiana, where you could buy hard liquor in one of two places: the liquor store (duh) and the drug store. I'd love to know the origin of _that_ law.

"What about the grocery."
"Nah, too accessible."
"Drug store?"
"Well, ya know, alcohol has been known to be used for medicinal purposes. And Osco Drugs just dropped twenty grand in my campaign fund, so why not?"

Warm beer? Buy it in a ton of places. Oh, you wanted it pre-chilled? Liquor store only.

Not to derail the conversation, but my point being that if 80 years after the end of prohibition we still have whacky liquor laws like IN does, some places just aren't going to get to enjoy a nice bowl of Purple Kush anytime soon.

Meanwhile, here in WA, I feel majorly inconvenienced because Winterlife Coop won't deliver to the Eastside.
Normal people will load their computers with malware when they attempt to pirate anything. Cable TV is idiot-proofed. Which is why the ad rates are still so excellent on many channels. You're overestimating the technical competence of most people.

The video quality is also higher for less effort on cable. What I think it will take for the displacement to happen is another large improvement in the internet connectivity to American homes and smartphones. Netflix exploded video rentals already, but cable is not quite the same business.
Game Mechanic Explorer[0] covers some of these, with examples and source code.

[0] http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/
Nice site
It's better than the opposite, which is designing to some random processor with completely opaque information about it. No datasheets or TRMs, no idea of production schedules, no idea of lifespan.

And I'd classify Samsung Exynos and the Broadcom BCM2835 in Raspberry Pi in that group.
I think you have a point here. I was just using what Tony Alessandra already made popular: http://www.alessandra.com/abouttony/aboutpr.asp.
The FAA recently approved drones for agriculture use: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/faa-officially-permits-d...
IOS 7.1 code indicates Apple working on Siri for Apple TV
>> Just because revenue is reinvested doesn't mean it isn't revenue or a margin.

Your sentence is a little confusing, because calling something revenue means it is revenue. And while related, revenue is not the same as margin.

And please note that the bill of materials for a phone is only a part of the cost of goods sold, which as mentioned by others, also includes manufacturing, assembly, marketing, r&d and other costs. Those costs are generally not considered to be "reinvestment".
Google tells me 아니오 translates to "not" so they're probably not using a password.

That's... that page makes me sad.
This would be the effect of legalizing the sale of drugs to adults: legal dealers would be able to offer lower prices than illegal ones (assuming that the taxes are not sky-high), so would price illegal dealers out of the market. However, for legal dealers (who are also risk-averse, like most businesses), it's very risky to offer drugs illegally (e.g. to minors) - they get all the disadvantages of illegal dealers (risk of jail/closing down the business) with few of the advantages (high price, but only on the amount of drugs sold to minors, which is presumably not a lot).

Therefore, your market would partition into two groups: illegal and legal dealers (who would follow the law to the letter, like most businesses). The first group would also be extremely tiny - unless the state's taxes are higher than the risk premium illegal dealers are charging, which is unlikely.
All your local team's games are going to be on free channels. Get a $8 rabbit ears antenna, or if you have a cable modem that provides internet only, get a splitter and plug the other end into TV (that you would normally plug into the cable box). The local free channels (NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, etc) are going to be available, and that's enough for NFL. You're not going to be ESPN or NFL Network, but if it's your local team, the game will be on a local channel anyway.
American Entrepreneur
Stan was unique; a polymath polyglot, easy-going and charismatic, well-liked everywhere he went, highly learned and interested in everything, a linguist, mathematician, singer, and songwriter.

He had the world's first postgraduate diploma in computer science, and is perhaps particularly famous for his long-running erudite humor column in Unix Review, "The Devil's Advocate".

From wikipedia: "his best-known song is the "Liverpool Lullaby (Oh you are a mucky kid)", which Judy Collins recorded in 1966 for her album, In My Life"

Many of his witticisms from his book, "The Devil's DP Dictionary", are still widely quoted, such as this one that appeared on Hacker News last year:

"There are three things a man must do
before his life is done;
Write two lines in APL,
And make the buggers run."
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, 'The Devil's DP Dictionary'

I attended a local APL user's group meeting in recent years to take notes on a topic of interest for Stan, who had moved back to his home town of Liverpool and could not attend, and when I said so at the start of the meeting, they all knew Stan and asked how he was doing and exchanged old anecdotes about him.

Long ago I worked for him, before Unix Review and again with him at Unix Review, and we had been friends outside of work ever since.

I will miss him, as will his countless friends and audiences appreciative of his talent and humor.
I think you're making a set mistake. The set of "techies" doesn't as a whole dislike Rice's politics. The set of "people who live around San Francisco and Seattle" dislikes Rice's politics. Elsewhere I think techies tend to lean more to the right... certainly on university campuses the most likely place to run into a Republican is in an engineering department... <flamebait>...probably because engineers have to understand math!</flamebait>
I find it interesting how focused this article is in the "traditional" male gender role. It doesn't even touch the subject of different friendship types and relations when involving other genders than 'male'.

Without denying that sex has it's toll in the physical (duh) and psychological treats of a person, I do believe that traditional gender roles are the only roles taken into account for this article, making a great deal of assumptions on how males act towards friendship.
Does anyone know if there are studies such as the ones mentioned in the article that take into account a less black and white view of gender roles or that digs into other types of friendships?
Habitable exoplanets and the Fermi Paradox
I was more struck by this part:

> How many Nature papers are not reproducible? To call out a new bunch of people who are trying something different because people are afraid they’ll fail is sort of hypocritical given that we don’t really check whether anybody else’s results are correct, either.

Peer review is more about politics then reproducibility. Reproducibility is really important, but Nature doesn't seem to agree.
I know this is now a pretty dead thread, but just FYI: you're again looking at the comparison of power output to "power absorbed by the particles to be fused," not power output to overall system power input.

All the fusion people are so far from being energy positive to overall system power input, and so far from even trying to get to that milestone, that it's a little hard to find articles that talk about the power input to the whole system. But, to use wikipedia, here's a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus

Note that they talk about Q. JET claims a Q of approximately 0.7. Q=1 is what you're talking about -- more energy out of the particles than is absorbed by the particles. Q=5 is potentially self-sustaining -- because, in this case, only 20% of the energy out is in a form that can create more fusion reactions. The article suggests Q=10 as the minimum for overall power output. My guess is that Q=10 is wildly optimistic for that.
But sincerity and youthful exuberance is a startup founder stereo type. People do go life coaches to manufacture a Win Friends and Influence People Tom Cruise persona precisely because they are seen as indicators of success by funders.

When you over select on certain qualities, those qualities will be mimicked. In business, correlation is causation.
Thanks for the correction. I'm on the hardware side of things, so my understanding was that the "allowed" algorithms were actually required, and I'm relieved to hear that's not the case.
That's basically correct, with a bit more nuance.

There's no profit in selling alcohol to kids. Not only does the law come down on you if you get caught, but they can't provide enough demand to make it worth the risk. Plus, a chunk of your clientele will get antsy about it.

Illegal stuff, on the other hand, already has fully-operational structure measuring risk versus reward. The law is going to come down equally hard, so there's no increased risk, just more customers. Plus, the clients who find out are already incentivized to keep quiet.

tl;dr, prohibiting something to a minority is ridiculously more effective than prohibiting something to a larger group.
The OpenBSD people sure are abrasive

I've said it before, all "opinionated software" is abrasive, the scale is really how much you notice it based on if you like the faces and decisions involved. It'd be non-controversial to the HN crowd, but there are plenty of developers are happy to trash any GPL/share-alike project on the same grounds.
If they cared about best practices for PHP they wouldn't be using mysql_real_escape_string().
We are currently much better than lime jello at these tasks, too. "Currently" implies an expectation that things will change, which is a claim that needs some kind of argument in support. Rhetoric alone doesn't advance the discussion.
One of my companies sends hundreds of thousands of emails a month from Rackspace servers. What can you tell me about this ? What blacklists, where ? We don't show up on any of the easily checkable ones.

We are of course CANSPAM compliant, use good email headers, unsub etc. etc.
One of the side effects of 120k vs 20k opening the model to different sectors/needs at the earliest stages. What will be interesting to see is the developments in expertise and what different requirements there are for managing and mentoring entreprenuers in these different areas. Would be great to hear some thoughts on that, if not immediately perhaps in a years time or so.
> a technocratic meritocracy

Unless you're Jewish.
> if you're going to take on a big risk

It's not only the risk, it's also finding the right whole-sale provider, which I imagine is not the easiest thing to find.
Asteroids equal to nuclear bombs strike Earth twice yearly
| Looking to biology to model how economies work is like looking at stars and movements of heavenly bodies to see how stock prices change.

ha!
Ask HN: Do you connect with people you don't know on LinkedIn?
Hi,

I have this principle about social media in general: I don't connect with people that I don't know. On LinkedIn, this translate as rejecting people I don't know or I've never done business with.

I started to think that my stand on this issue might be defeating the main purpose of using LinkedIn. What do you think? How do you manage your LinkedIn connections?
I didn't grasp "the business model". Their plan is to offer the vaccine for free, how do you monetize on that?

Or is it "for free bc it will be paid by governments"?