skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other factor I would mention is the massive uncoolness of Ada. This seems to come from three directions:

1. Invented by and for a bureaucracy known for its extravagance and wastefulness.

2. Verbosity of a degree only before seen in COBOL.

3. A focus on avoiding errors above all else. For people who have a positive/benefits focus like most hackers, this negative focus is very unappealing and provokes references to anal-retentive pedants and so forth.

I would agree with others who pointed out the other problem "won't run on a computer I can buy - and anyway I can't afford the compiler". This is not to criticise the compiler developers but nonetheless it was a problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
I agree that 'pirate' anything is a disservice for a brand name, but let's not apply the MPAA's definition of piracy so broadly. Piracy isn't sharing copyrighted media, it just happens to be a spookier name than "copyright infringement" that the media industries like to use haphazardly to in order to paint such activities as morally reprehensible.
But would google have ended up as google if they were bought at that price?
It’s a lot like the difference between shitty code that is barely held together and happens to work, and really well written code that is beautiful from end to end.

It’s sometimes invisible to the user, but these details are indicative of a software (or company or brand) that is intrinsically well-designed.

(another example I’ve seen bandied about is shitty wood veneer vs well-crafted hardwood furniture)
What about something like hiscox?
Introducing Beyond  Consciousness:
My understanding is that we have analysed our hiring process and found that the diversity of candidates is ~equivalent to the diversity of hires. In other words, there isn't bias in our hiring processes. The problem is we don't have enough candidates from diverse backgrounds applying.
Ask HN:Best Crowdfunding options for Hardware?
My sense is the jury's still out on which platform hardware companies are using for crowdfunding - kickstarter, indiegogo, selfstarter, etc.
Is this the case? What are the decision factors hardware entrepreneurs are actually factoring into their decision?
I'm disappointed that you are in the negative points. Your comment was insightful and interesting, and I know more after reading it than I did before.
>not a place of worship //

Your contention is that the Sistine Chapel¹ is not a place dedicated by Christians to the glorification of God? Like it's not, say, a chapel? And they don't have art work depicting the lives of important people in the Christian faith, or imagery that Christians might use as part of their worship.

When the Sistine Chapel choir sings the Miserere, say, to assembled members of the Roman Catholic church, you don't think that maybe, just maybe that means that the people who own the building consider it to be - perhaps - just a tiny bit of a building for religious devotion ... now what's that word, oh yeah, perhaps they consider it to be a chapel.

Would you go to a Mosque, perhaps the Great Mosque in Istanbul, and say "people shouldn't be imposing their religion on me, like, just because I came to a mosque".

"Why should I respect your beliefs as a Christian when I choose to visit a Christian chapel" is that really your considered opinion?

TBH if it weren't for your long standing on this site I'd have dismissed your comment as an obvious troll.

Now if I go picking apart your need to hide from God, your desire to run from the truth, your imposition of your beliefs on others in an affront to the truth ... I'm guessing you're going to consider that this isn't really the appropriate forum for such a conversation, that I'm being crass and troll-like, no? Perhaps you'll start by telling me you're only interested in the truth despite your "not a place of worship" claim being the most obvious of falsehoods and putting the lie to such a notion ...

- - -

¹ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUQyLXKdF_M Roman Catholic mass being celebrated in the Sistine Chapel, March 2013.
Curious what you mean by "white people invented Buddhism 150 years ago". What is this in reference to?
‘HiddenCash’ scavenger hunt causes frenzy as creator struggles with popularity
The first time I saw that line my first thought was along the lines of "holy shit, that technology is insane. How are they overlaying it like that?". I was seriously impressed with it.
I care less about what font is used and more about not having the text displayed at seemingly random sizes from one page to another, or even on the same page. Insanity!
I tried this a few months ago and didn't have any luck at all with matches. Maybe I was doing something wrong.

The team however was friendly and very responsive to feedback.
Too many typos...can't finish...
A) Facetime wouldnt work without Internet connection to Apple's servers

B) Even if you used some sort of video app that worked on the Piratebox, discussing PHI/PII over an open unencrypted WIFI network would violate all kinds of HIPAA regulations.

C) The IT Department is there for a reason, stop trying to break security protocols. Especially when you are Department of Defense.

D) This thing isn't actually secure/private like it says it is. They said there are no logins. And your MAC address is still associated to a device. Even if you spoofed it, you still have to be 30 ft near the thing. Not hard to hide.
When I first started college, the intro to computer science courses were taught in Ada (this was back in '97). I don't have too many memories of it, but I do remember how verbose the language was, and that drove me pretty crazy. Its not very good for teaching programming to someone who has no idea what they're doing, but after much more experience, I can appreciate the language for what it is and what it can do.

And yes, I do realize that the verbosity and safety are good qualities and certainly can teach a lot, but for a 17/18 year old who may have never seen a programming language before, its pretty crazy. It should definitely be taught at higher levels, so as to reinforce good programming standards and practices. Have a few years of wild screw-ups and crazy bugs and gain an understanding of why you need safety and so on.
"Also your coworkers wont be cursing your name after you leave them a patchwork of barely held together code in your wake to make the SSG based site do dynamic things CMS's find trivial. Especially if they come from a CMS background."

Can you provide an example of something that CMS's find trivial that is difficult to do in an SSG?
Many (most?) TrueCrypt users obtained the software as a prebuilt Windows binary; they did not compile it from source. So even if the source code is clean, maybe the binaries were not. Is there any way to audit this and if so is that being done?
Cliche but, at least his, hindsight is 20/20
It's alluded to in the article that outdoor fields and green jerseys are the hardest. For outdoor fields the lighting is affected by the time of day, cloud coverage, players moving along the field, and plenty of other things I'm sure. It says they spent a lot of time creating a unique palette for the fields and that domed stadiums were preferred by the engineers on site. Indoor lighting probably reduced the shadows a lot.
Lets talk about "people as a whole" who are interested in "a few clicks access to congressional district demographics." You think it is too much to ask to have them type "congressional district demographics" into a search box? If you put this search into google "My Congressional District" is the first result. I don't know how you make that any easier to find short of creating a mind reading application.

https://www.google.com/search?q=congressional+district+demog...
We repeated dimensional analysis in my first physics class until everybody got it ( all six of us... ).
what browser are you using? looks great to me on firefox. chrome butchers fonts though.
Helvetica is ideal for print work, especially headings, as the last few decades' worth of design can attest to. I hate it as a body font on the screen, though. It's too thin at small sizes, which makes it harder to scan text when compared to Lucida Grande, Gotham, etc.
Even though Ada is now completely forgotten by most people, it's worth mentioning that the GNAT compiler is being actively maintained by the company AdaCore (which core business, as the name suggests, is about Ada).
http://www.adacore.com/
Extremely impressive. Almost tempting enough to try and build an adder, but I fear for anything larger than a few gates the concept starts to become clunky to implement (see the gates at the end of the video ..)
In the Eagles vs. Lions game earlier this year there was about 6" of snow on the field and tons more coming down. The field barely showed any hints of being green underneath. The photographers couldn't even use autofocus because of the size and frequency of the snowflakes.

Due to the yellow line technology, or some other augmentation they were doing live on the feed, all of the players would appear translucent for brief periods. It was really weird, but it made me stop and think about how many impressive live-processing algorithms get their hands on the video before it gets to me. It was the first time I appreciated how tough it is to do the "yellow line". This article is a very interesting insight to how it came about.
>You think it is too much to ask to have them type "congressional district demographics"..

For the majority of the (US at least) population? Absolutely yes. Hence the term "circumvention". No way this fight is won, at least at this point, over a battle of logic.

In this day and age, instigating change needs to be as simple as possible.

Maybe what I'm saying doesn't make sense. If so, apologies.
I was actually thinking digital sales, like steam and the xbox online store etc. This is a good model. It feels like a healthy ecosystem. Released games are at the $60-70 price-point, which decreased as they gradually migrate into the long-tail of sales.

Gamestop lucked out this console generation when Microsoft caved. I sincerely believe they won't be so lucky next gen.
What if you're a Lynx user?
Because enormous serif type is trendy right now.
From their assets site:

> Words don’t just hold meaning; they communicate by their very form. We primarily use the Gotham font family: elegant and direct, stylish but not exclusive. Putting well-designed words in our product enhances the user experience.

Not sure what the 'but not exclusive.' is implying though...

Source: https://about.twitter.com/press/brand-assets
We can only assume they've had their entire engineering team fighting for weeks over the decision. There is no way they have a team of engineers focused on development of features, bugs etc and a separate team of designers, marketers or branding specialists who focus on the UI/UX, and other visual decisions like font choice, uh uh, no way I say, I say no way. They are way too small of a company to have dedicated designers.
I agree on security - I'm sick of updating Drupal and Wordpress for different security holes.
That's really a cool idea, is this your site?
The logged-out user experience (or even just the web/mobile experience) is really odd. Apart from a bar permanently blocking screen real estate telling you to signup/login, there are times where it simply doesn't work (not down, just not working), translations are mismatched/wrong, things like viewing an image.. simply don't work, and never have for me. It literally gives a black popup with nothing happening and this old iPhone 1.0 feel to it.

For a long time, they didn't even manage to provide an up to date version of someones tweets. Heres a realtime communication website, and yet when logged out, tweets would be at times delayed for hours and days.
... you won't care?
Well, now it seems like they totally screwed up with non-latin characters.
I have always thought that it was a complex computer vision problem that made this work, very interesting that it was more than just software and makes sense.

I am tempted to think that this was the first widely adopted (and accepted) instance of augmented reality. Very cool in that context!
Everything looks bad with ClearType.
Gotham and Helvetica are both sans-serif.
Generally, no, I have not. That preachy, self-righteous subset of Americans I was referring to is usually very easy to tell apart from concerned Europeans. Which to be sure I've seen as well, but in much lower quantities.

And to be clear, I don't actually have much of an opinion on whether the immediate consequences of the ECJ ruling will be positive or negative ones for EU citizens. My issue is mainly with the way this topic was and is reported on in some of the US media – lots of fear mongering and misrepresentation of facts by mainstream press and high-profile bloggers alike. It smells like a PR campaign. (The completely unreflected freedom-of-speech-as-a-religion type forum commenter is really just a consequence and an extension of that.)

Larry Page happily confirms that suspicion. From the article:

“I wish we’d been more involved in a real debate . . . in Europe. That’s one of the things we’ve taken from this, that we’re starting the process of really going and talking to people” - Larry Page

Translation: "This whole ordeal made us realize we need to do a lot more lobbying in Europe and pay off more media outlets in non-english language markets, since our propaganda there didn't work nearly as well as we had hoped. Don't worry, we're working on it."

At the core of the ECJ decision – whether you consider it good or bad, or hilarious, or plain stupid – lie important questions about what privacy and human dignity mean in this age and how much of them we're willing to give up. These questions deserve more than being drowned in the overwhelming noise of corporate shills.
From my high school AP Art History class, I believe that door is where the priest would enter. I vaguely remember something about a controversy when it was revealed that Michelangelo put the depiction of hell in the lower right (directly above the door) with the tormented characters pointing at it.

For the life of me I can't find verification of this online, though, so hopefully Mr. J (my APAH teacher) wasn't just making it up.

Edit: Ahh wait, I think you were talking about a different door. Mine is a smaller black door in the lower right of The Last Judgement.
The problem with that article is it's too "inside baseball". It's probably great for font aficionados. But I just want some simple side-by-side images showing how the two fonts differ.
I give up, you're a troll. You're not really saying anything at all.
Accessibility was a problem. As a poor student I couldn't afford to get a cheap Ada compiler to play with, while Assembly, BASIC, C, Scheme, Lisp, and Pascal were readily available for free or for little cost.
Things like this have been tried before, and I'm sure this wont be the last iteration, but I really don't think it's ever going to pick up. Most of the population is only marginally plugged into political news. I'm not trying to condescend the American voting public, mind you; there's tons of content and data to compete with politics.

Despite the fact that it is now possible for a more direct democracy to exist thanks to communications tech, I don't think we are likely to head that direction for the simple reason that putting someone in charge of voting for them allows most people to refocus their time and energy on other things.

It's kind of the same reason I'm skeptical of Democracy.com. I'm just not convinced most people are that interested in connecting with politics and politicians to that extant. They may be passionate about a few issues, and maybe they even vote in local elections (though not likely), but to connect day to day in the way Democracy.com thinks they will, or to be able to commit the time necessary to understand and vote on every bill that goes before Congress, I think, is unrealistic.
As opposed to if you weren't a Lynx user?
Soberbia.
For Web startups with big ambitions, regulation increasingly on the radar
Incanter, similar to R but based upon Clojure: http://data-sorcery.org/contents/

Another good mention, in addition to D3, for client-side graphing is highcharts: http://www.highcharts.com/
In this case it's removal of your own data, so it's self-censorship if anything.
Your experience isn't better, except in the degree that the user base benefits from the increased morale, motivation, and time and monetary resources of the business owner. I think this is too intangible to really quantify. I suppose you also benefit from the health of the service's reputation -- if ngrok becomes known primarily for hosting illegal content, it'll most likely be blocked in a way that seriously harms the service you host through it.

Patrick is definitely right that it's nice to be able to avoid widespread abuse as a business owner so that you don't have to deal with the cops, etc., but that doesn't have a direct effect on the users.
New Materials Let You Bake Your Own Robot
The most common thing I struggle with as an accountless user is linking to tweets. It can take me a good while to find a link to a tweet I'm looking at.

The second most common problem I have is finding a user, even if I know their handle. It was hard to believe how difficult that was the first time I tried it (admittedly, vanity URLs have made this easier).
A lot of this has changed since then, of course. No grass swatches anymore! We have a lot more computer horsepower to throw at the problem now, plus a lot of gained experience.

We have a bay in our lab with a to-scale football field where we can run indoor tests, but on the field it is computer vision that is doing it all. The cameras are instrumented to get attitude, zoom, and so on (we have to modify the lens to get the accuracy we need), and then of course you have to compensate for lens distortion. If you look closely, the "line" is not a line, but a curve. If we drew a line it would look stupid, and not reg well in most parts of the image.
Judging from the little interactive diagrams in your link #1, the author has set up the CIELAB and RGB color spaces with different white points, without doing any kind of chromatic adaptation transform in between. As a result, the widget presents a sort of pale orangish-brownish color as 'neutral' and all the slices related to hue and chroma are noticeably off. It’s an unfortunate oversight, because it makes them much more confusing than they would otherwise be.

In general, I’d recommend people use the CIECAM02 color space for most of the purposes being discussed in this thread. Here’s my implementation: https://github.com/jrus/chromatist
I was being a little flippant, but it was a reference to this: http://meaningness.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/a-new-world-reli...

I haven't read the books he cites, but if you listen to the Buddhist Geeks podcast (and really everyone should) then the differences between modern buddhism(s) and traditional buddhism(s) is a recurring theme.
ARMv8 is generally faster than ARMv7 although it depends on the program.
The biggest gem for me is this:

193. A writer told me "I didn't get anything done today".
Answer: try to do nothing. The best way to have only good
days is to not aim at getting anything done.

Actually almost everything I've written that has survived
was written when I didn't try to get anything done.

This happened to me trying to craft aphorisms. There's some sort of inverse psychological effect where the more direct you are in what you pursue, the harder it becomes to achieve it. It's as if by being direct you suppress what your unconscious is quietly brewing.

Pg had said it's hard to write quotes, because they are so dense, like one-line essays. I suspect he meant it's hard to come up with one consciously. It's surprising how easy it is to spot an aphorism when you aren't really looking. Big revelations come when you least expect them.

To me aphorisms feel like conclusions that help you move forward. No aphorism, no direction.
Ngrok has paid features that let you use your own domain name, though when used with https it will give an ssl warning but this is optional.
I think some have assessed you are a snarky little fucker.

EDIT: big fucker I should say
i just find it ironic they used flash since there's webgl solutions now for this that would work on mobile devices a lot better.
This is a bad approach, because HSV is not an appropriate color model for this purpose.
Wait, wait, wait. Didn't your bosses recently complain about the EU directive to protect privacy as being "censorship"? Yet Google feels it has the right to determine what is "low-quality" or "spam" articles in determining web rankings? How's that not "censorship"? Also, do you ban everything that shows up on say, Buzzfeed, since by any measure that's low-quality and spam.
Still not sure if I agree with it but Lawrence Weiner has a great quote on Helvetica:

"[Helvetica] it’s one of the type faces that I absolutely detest. It’s totally authoritative. It in fact does not adapt itself to things and all information that comes out in Helvetica is saying exactly the same thing: this is cultural, this is intellectual, and this is intelligent. I’m rather afraid that words don’t start off being cultural, intellectual, or intelligent."
I cannot recommend this book enough. It is tough but highly rewarding. You will walk away from reading it, whether you complete it or not, with such a greater appreciation for types, for logic, for programming.
Looks like a really early mockup. For example, the buttons don't have any physical accidental press protection. The labels are tiny. All shapes, sizes and colors are identical.

The seats look that they don't support the crew at high g forces at all. In a nominal launch that might be ok, but in case of problems, you'd need a better seat.

No life support systems shown. etc.
Has the actual Chapel aged so well or have the images been reworked to give show more color?
Nevermind the buddhist warriors then.
Like it or not, neither modern media nor the MPAA introduced this usage of piracy. It has been around and part of legal discussion about intellectual property since the 1800s:

"I know patentees are much troubled with piracies upon
their inventions" (Irwin v. McRoberts 1879)

"he has a just defence, and is not a willful pirate
of the plaintiff’s invention" (Goodyear v. Dunbar 1860)

and so on...
I don't actually know what this yellow line is, probably because I am from Australia. Have you got a sample video for it?
How so? What would be an appropriate model, and why is HSV not appropriate?
Design is a Search Problem [video]
Seems like a CMS that generates static pages would be the best of both worlds.
Some innovative history teachers should start incorporating this dataset into curricula somehow.
This is why I loved comodo firewall back in the day. You could block all outgoing connections, including some system processes. You would get a nice little dialog detailing what process was trying to reach the internet and what it was trying to connect to, on what port, and you could on-the-spot set up a policy for that app.

Phones need this even more than PCs ever did. CyanogenMod people should look into this kind of functionality. Sure, google will try to make it impossible, but that won't stop a determined reverse engineer from making basic personal privacy available to anyone who wants it + can install a custom ROM.
If you are using any terminal-based web browser, then you get whatever font you have set for your terminal.
The comments are disabled on those posts because the likelihood of positive discussion about said companies is low.
Here's an example of what's being done with Overtone: http://www.repl-electric.com/
"Not sure what the 'but not exclusive.' is implying though..."

As in not snobby. Imagine a wealthy and well-dressed business man who still takes the time to help you in the street rather than ignore you because their time is more important than yours.
The yellow line in the 3 to 5 seconds mark in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxoYaMebF0