skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love love love these backer options:

Pledge $299 or more: Choose an icon to be added to Black Tie OR the original Font Awesome - you decide one icon to be added, I do the design.

Pledge $999 or more: Choose 4 icons to be added to Black Tie OR the original Font Awesome - you decide four icons to be added, I do the design.

Pledge $1,999 or more: Your logo in Black Tie & the original Font Awesome. Must be square-ish, single color, & you must have the rights.

The corporate-logo option might be underpriced: 4/10 already sold.
Ask HN: Best clipboard manager for programmer
I am looking for a free clipboard manager (Win 8) which is geared up towards programmers. Maybe it should allow 3 hotkeys (for copy/paste). Any thoughts on what would be a good tool? What features (or tips/tricks) do you use?
Further aggravating: "4k" isn't "four thousand (and 96 in binary pocket change)", it's the marketing-by-association of noting that "true 4k" at 4096 is "close enough" as the consequence of taking a 4096x2160 display and feeding it 16:9 content, then trimming the resulting side black bars.

More detail at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution
Another argument for breaking up Wall Street and other hives of corruption like Washington DC. There is no reason that those two locations in particular should need to by physically concentrated around a physical location like that.

Some will cry and whine about proximity to the transaction switches, but even that's a policy issue. There is no particular reason that transactions need to be completed in milliseconds rather than actual seconds or even minutes. There are no legitimate efficiencies to be had, only corruption of process and skimming.

The concept of physical co-location of core functions of society and economy are ripe for corruption and doe not provide any advantages that are not utterly overshadowed by the advantages of distribution. It is essentially the transparency and sunlight that disinfects society by spreading out the corruption making it more easily found and identifiable. Distributed government and financial sectors are essentially the transparency that inoculates against corruption.
For those not familiar with The Wirecutter, is their concept "the best value-conscious buy"?

I was looking for a review for a MicroSD card to use with a Surface Pro convertible tablet I'm going to buy, and they didn't review 128GB or 64GB models, just 32GB and 16GB ones "because they're very expensive and most people don't need that much space on a microSD card". http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-microsd-card/
Personally this is great timing for some of the features I'm needing to develop http://Listen2EDM.com further. I'm sure that music discovery, and the music community in general, will greatly benefit from this!
The damage is speculative so far. It remains to be seen whether any significant environmental damage has been done. The mere presence of plastic particles is not enough. Marine life has dealt with particles in the water for a billion years.
fsiekfen & nkoren:

Stapledon's works have inspired me to no end. He is brilliant and visionary. I humbly believe if his works were written now, they would still be ahead of their time. Now, as to the following:

1. fsiekfen: "Even so I'd like to believe Stapledon really was traveling among the stars 'in some way', also his description of the out of body experience is oddly similar to credible accounts later in the 20th century and might be autobiographical but if not could be explained by him reading earlier accounts of this psychological effect."

2. nkoren: "Still, like you, I do like to imagine that Stapledon tapped into something that was somehow beyond the ordinary. I don't feel like speculating beyond that, but however he did it, Star Maker is an extraordinary book."

The two of you and others I assume, might be curious to know about "The Opening of The Eyes" (there used to be an online version here (http://olafstapledonarchive.webs.com/openingoftheeyes_index....) but it's down now. If you like, I could make the .mobi file I created available somewhere from the various parts.

Not commonly known, as far as I can tell, even among Stapledon fans. It was published posthumously by his wife and is written in the first person. Essentially, it's an essay by him to his "creator". I won't comment on what that entails; hopefully his work speaks for itself. But within that story he mentions this - the exact quote:

"Long ago (it was while I was scrambling on a rugged coast, where great waves broke in blossom on the rocks) I had a sudden fantasy of man's whole future, aeon upon aeon of strange vicissitudes and gallant endeavours in world after world, seeking a glory never clearly conceived, often betrayed, but little by little revealed."

It says... something. I'm not sure what. Either way, the piece is a powerful expose on the author. You get to see a lot into his mindset, and even into the challenges he faced in relation to his proposed philosophies. Some interesting commentary on Christianity as well, among others.

But in the end, I guess you get the feeling there's more to him than simple imaginative power. The concept of "fiction as cover for non-fiction (so people will read your stuff without calling you a lunatic) tends to crop up in some of his works too. Either way, his works are nothing short of incredible.

Cheers
This is great! I teach high school math and science, and students often ask how sound waves can be turned into music. I give them a big-picture overview of sine waves and superposition, but I've never had a tool that lets students play with the math easily.

I look forward to showing this to students in the fall.
Tasty. Too bad people like him don't practice deprogramming us from greater evils than two-bit cults - for example, communism, capitalism, patriotism, orderism.

Each of these isms also demand suspension of thought and beliefs in either magic or the greater wisdom of authority figures.
Can't wait to go to the next Girl Talk show where instead of DJ pressing space bar to play, they press F5 to "Compile and Run..."
Thanks for that, looks fun! There's something very appealing about tank games, it seems - both from the 'hmm, I'll write my own' angle as well as the 'spend hours in a virtual tank blowing things up' side of things. I guess it really appeals to some primal instinct .. at least, in my case I know its true. :)
your scrolling seems to be broken when using chromium and arrows (up/down)

when going all the way down and then up, it gets stuck around the 2nd or 3rd panel
Why would documents using Webdings stop working today? I'm pretty sure they still work. That's a lame excuse. Considering your point, wouldn't it have been the chance to clean up this mess with unicode instead of piling up shitty icons in a standard?
What, no mention of Populous ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous
I don't doubt that New York has excellent nightlife, but as someone who's travelled the nation extensively, I think your categorization of "very few" cities where there's hustle and bustle after 3AM is perhaps limited.

Nashville, Memphis, Miami, Denver, Portland, Honolulu, Houston, Austin, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle all spring to mind immediately, and that's not even counting the big two -- New Orleans and Vegas.

Also, for what it's worth, I've been coding in bars for over a decade in places like Memphis, TN, Albany, NY, etc., and haven't ever been a problem.

Glad you like New York, and I'm in no way trying to disparage it, but the OP does make a point. That said, everywhere is different, and New York undoubtedly offers a myriad of things not found in other places, and vice versa.
People want to spend lots of time sharing photos of themselves and cats. Blame humans not Facebook.
I am EE graduate myself. But I majored in Electrical engineering aspect (electricity generation/transmission, power supply etc.), but not nothing to do with hardware/chips design. I started programming at 25.

I have found that my biggest weakness is not programming, but the interviews where they grill you on CS fundamentals. Did you have to prepare for that?
By all means wait, but as a programmer, I've found the Samsung 28" UHD monitor terrific. I can get a huge amount of crisp text on the screen at once, and the color accuracy is Good Enough For Me. I have not seen any issues driving the display over DisplayPort 1.2 @ 60Hz - BiOS etc all works fine.
I guess if I was just sitting there doing nothing waiting on my food to be cooked, sure. But I often read, sketch out ideas for my current project, figure out what my next goal in working out will be, etc. And given where I live right now, I can be to a restaurant and seated in about 5 or 10 minute walk.

And bread, cheese/milk, egg and carrot - wow. How boring. Just because I don't want to cook doesn't mean I don't want my food to be good, flavorful, and exciting. I like food. I like hot, prepared food.
It's not the same environment, but I think that you're way off base regarding the quality of engineers. Of course, as a software engineer in Pittsburgh, I may have blinders on. ;)

On the other hand, given the rate that Google is growing in Pittsburgh, I suspect they'd disagree with you about available talent quality.

(On the third hand, "quality" is a fuzzy metric unless we nail down more concretely how one would evaluate it. Is someone writing thousands of lines of code per day at Facebook higher "quality" than someone writing a hundred lines of code per day on machine-learning cancer detection logic?)
Thanks for letting me know -- I'll look into it.
Show HN: Email us an img or url, get back design comps
I liked your article -- I appreciated the different perspective it presents (kind of outside-looking-in on the coding/startup job).

The article also led me on to "Invisible Burden" and "Why Stories Are So Important" -- great stuff. Thanks for writing those.
I did the same. Paper is excellent. Problem with this app is none of my non-US friends will do it. So even though I can download it - I can't use it.
> secret laws

Can you explain how a secret law could ever exist?
The trouble is when a serial killer says the same thing.
Shows you the power of numbers. I get a different feel for each equivalent phrasing:

- 1.1 million plastic particles per square kilometre

- 1 bead per million sq mm

- 1 bead per square meter

And I agree, the article should have used the latter.
I have the Dell UP2414Q, driving it with Debian Linux. Software support is still not quite there (e.g. in Chrome on Linux), but the display quality is awesome.

I’d buy this monitor again in an instant. Reading/writing/programming/just using your computer does feel a lot better than on “non-retina” panels.
Not free but 'donation' ware:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/clipboardhelpan...
Just hacked this together: http://joellehman.com/playlist/

Which should let you download you playlist in CSV
More or less. In their own (maybe slightly breathless) words:

http://thewirecutter.com/about/
Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems and Verifiable Systems
Guess the Programming Language
I think looking up values based on a simple offset is far simpler to all the clever rules and "parsing" that happens in capn' proto (some of which no doubt caused by the desire to support streaming "automatically", an anti-feature IMO, streaming should happen at a higher level to take advantage of domain knowledge).

I really don't see how you can even pretend that cap'n proto is less complicated. Yes there's an extra indirection at runtime, but the benefit is great simplicity, and quite possibly better performance when the vtable is hot in the cache.
If you like Jack London, I'd also recommend O. Henry:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/634
Very good work, I like this a lot.
The 23-year-old Wordsmith behind the Hip Voice of the NY Times Crossword Puzzle
And that device would have a keyboard with thousands of keys?

Btw. that device exists today, and it's called a tablet. I'm pretty sure i have seen stuff exactly like that and it serves a great purpose.

The consistent set of "characters" (pictures in this case) would still look very different on each device or application that uses another font. Because a banana in one font could look very different in another font. The only thing that actually would be consistent if the content he uses would use actual pictures! (A website displaying a banana on his touchpad can look different on his laptop, can't it?).
The app is pretty confusing to use. For those of you stuck like I was, you actually have to complete the tutorial in order to add people and start "slinging."
Oh wow, I had this idea a few years ago and put together a handful of crap prototypes. Stoked someone is doing it. Well done, I love it!
You beat me to it. Another way to state it would be that having a richly-paid CEO is a lagging indicator; or the companies with the resources to have a trophy CEO are likely already topped out and running up against the law of large numbers. Imagine being Tim Cook, CEO of Apple: he ought to expect high pay for such a prestigious job (I haven't looked it up), but continuing to grow the stock price at past rates would be next to impossible.
Its definitely because they are taking naked pictures of themselves.
Distributed government services just makes the pork and corruption harder to control. All the way back in the early years of the Republic Jefferson had to fight against spreading federal functions and contractors all over the country. He knew the only hope for controlling waste and pork was to keep it concentrated in DC.
Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video]
I'm here right now with a friend at We Work 222 Broadway, Fulton. Seems like a pretty place to work and chill. Spent the day looking for other co-working spaces and narrowed down to this one. Wasn't too keen on doing the coffee shop thing.
Who determines what 'real therapy' is?
This guy should help people who listened to the charlatans and then bought Bitcoins and Bitcoin ASICs.
Most recruiters don't care about the number; they only care that you signed the dotted line. Their downside is much, much bigger than their downside.
Facebook’s Slingshot Messaging App Takes on Snapchat, With a Twist
Same here. Its like sharing, but you have to share to let people share. Seems fucking stupid. Sending a picture is essentially asking for a picture. I can't imagine enough use cases where I think "I'll definitely want to send them this picture if they send me one first" to make this app stick, outside of sending naked pictures of myself in exchange for another one - which I never do.

Outside of using the "must-share-to-care" rule as some sort of teasing or game mechanic, why would they literally create work to share? I simply don't get it.

I'm also more than likely not their target market.
A scene has sprung up around music based on algorithms, called Algorave http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave

Vice did an article on the subject a few months back which gives an overview of the scene (from a layman's view) http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dan...
Reinventing Git interface
The NBA imposes a salary cap because the owners don't want to pay the market rate for their star players. It does not mean those stars aren't worth the higher salary in the money they generate for the team. It is an artificial limit that does not correspond to value.
(Inferring from my perception of your tone in the first paragraph that you find software engineering for FedEx somehow unacceptable; forgive me if I'm off-base)

I'm not sure what you find offensive about the idea of working for a company that is trying to solve one of the hardest logistical challenges in history, at scale. It doesn't seem very glamorous, until someone needs socks (or medicine) right-the-hell-NOW.

How long ago were you 26? Wikipedia tells me Sony was out in Westmoreland between 1990 and 2008; if you're drawing on knowledge from the '90s, other comments in this thread suggest to me your perspective is woefully out-of-date... And at the rate things are growing, 2008 may still be out-of-date.

You're overdue for a visit. ;)
The FCC does have a definition of broadband: currently 4 Mbps, possibly to be redefined to 10 or 25 Mbps. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/30...
Yes, because we've never seen massive casualties as the result of a flu virus. Oh, wait...

Worrying about what influenza viruses are doing is not in any way shape or form similar to worrying about reptilian illuminati.
I'm sure this isn't universal (though I don't think I'm the only one), but my experience with recruiters has been a series of cold emails for jobs that aren't even close to my areas of expertise in areas nowhere near where I'm located. They usually incorporate some form of "if this isn't a good opportunity for you, can you please forward it to someone else" with no attempt to actually get to know me or what I'm looking for. That type of stuff is borderline spam, regardless of market demand.
How do you know the hits aren't cosmic rays? It seems a few hits per hour could easily be cosmic rays, unless they are distinguishable somehow.
Have you never used a small 11k angle grinder? Those things try to jump out of your hand even worse than the big 6k RPM ones (without soft-start, of course).
It should work very well for specifying the logic around the calendar example: Switchboard would accept the credentials of the accounts to monitor, e.g. calendar@mydomain.com, and then notify a "schedule notification" worker of new messages. The burden of scheduling reminders for participants would be on the worker, but there are a lot of tools for that. I like the idea!

One note: Switchboard is especially useful relative to a bare IMAP connection when you're monitoring many accounts. This is because it provides a lot of the boilerplate around restarting failed connections and issuing IMAP commands while an IMAP connection has an active IDLE continuation.

I agree that there's tons of room for more automation around emails. I think the lack of automation is due to not having high-level tools, which is where Switchboard comes in, and that emails are typically natural language. I'm personally excited to see Switchboard get used for email classification -- imagine if your business-logic could include the email "class", e.g. "sent by a human", or "marketing", ... etc. A bit like Gmail's categories, but open and accessible to developers.
Congratulations on the release guys. The update to the Javascript driver is huge and will make development a lot less painful. I get to remove a lot of redundant code thanks to that.

I am a huge fan, keep up the outstanding work!
I had the same reaction. I'm not a "muscles on muscles" guy but three times a week I lift weights. The 'meat head' thing was judgmental and off-putting.

Perhaps more importantly, why do I have to create an account to view a work out video? That and the fact that I had to agree to a massive ToS which included things about billing and cancellation stopped me going further.
Acconrad, I appreciate your thoughts on the tagline, "meat head free". My goal was to appeal to people who aren't already doing something active. HackerBody isn't the end-all in being active but it's a great place for people to get started.

The videos are just the tip of the iceberg. I wanted to get this launched and get feedback before I push out new features.

Thanks for taking time to give me your feedback!
So, what $ figure do you consider a reasonable salary?
e.g. just from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7866930
Looks great. Any future plans for implementations or API in other languages?
Why the hell would sending dud pictures to see a picture someone sent you be "normal" for the app? Couldn't we use Facebook, Snapchat, or SMS to get the same effect without literally working around a feature? Fucking retarded.

Why would you want to use an app that "forces" interaction? Either the two mutual parties are interested in talking to each other, or they are not. Im sorry, but a photo sharing app like this one will not help my conversations be more engaging. It actually puts up barriers.

"Neat" does not justify the money or engineering talent invested in it. If I was a Facebook share holder, I'd be confused as all hell.
Thiel's idea is fine if you're a kid eating ramen and living with your parents, but it is completely wrong for people who already have experience, and/or have families to support. I actually lost an investment because the investor thought I should not pay myself at all while trying to build the business.
Using side drawers in mobile apps on Steroids.js with Angular
Introduction To Developing Fireworks Extensions (They’re Just JavaScript)
That's nausea-inducing.
Show HN: Paul Graham's Essays ordered by Popularity
Peapod doesn't do same day delivery.
Show HN: A simple-to-update dynamic DNS service
If Facebook is doing it, its a clever way to do something to help them serve you ads.
Out of curiosity, how would you feel if MAL used your code in updating the UI of their site?
Nice, I bought 3 Samsung 470s back in the day because of the endurance tests that showed it can withstand 400TB of writes.

Two of them are still going strong, one failed in very unique circumstances (and was probably recoverable by Samsung).
Once again, if I have to sign in to look at anything about your service, I will not look at it. Might be cool but I don't care. MyAnimeList doesn't require a login to look around.

Yes, I'm not a user to care about, but it's just annoying.
I think it has to do with intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation[1]. I'd be a lot happier if I didn't need to get paid for work- as soon as money is involved, my intrinsic drive/interest tends to evaporate and gets replaced with anxiety. I'm definitely a fan of basic income for that reason- the ability to create things\help people without having to be concerned about income so much. If additional income results from that, great! If not, oh well, there were likely still other benefits garnered from the experience.

[1]Self-Determination Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
Frustratingly, when I think "high variance," Allerdice is precisely what comes to mind.

I volunteer for the FIRST Robotics program in Pittsburgh. A couple of years ago, I was chatting with some of the students from Allerdice who also volunteer and were away from school that day due to their team being in the competition---at about the same time that a few miles away, the police were breaking up a large-group fight in Allerdice itself.

Allerdice (last time I checked) is a good school with some real problems. But it's a good school.
Will do. Also, if anyone wants to write a tutorial/short blog post message me and I will happily review and post it on the site with a linkback to your personal site.
20 cores i5 @ 1.8GHz , 160G RAM, 1.2T SSD for $12K.

My [at a BigCo] HP workstation has 16 cores i7 @ 2.6GHz, 256G RAM, 1T SSD - about $10K. Of course it doesn't consume 320W power - its power unit is something like 1KW :)

I'd wonder what is advantages of Intel NUC in such a cluster setup over say using microATX boards with 4 core i5 and 32 GB per board.
Serial killers who are almost universally white Christian males?
From my point of view, Google still is an ecosystem of applications: Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Docs, YouTube, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Blogger, Google+, etc.

In fact, if you want a complete list, just get a "Google Apps for Business" account ($50/user/year) and start browsing the Admin pages.
and then send me a blank picture so you can see the one I sent for you. This way, a picture exchange requires at least 3 pictures. Seems like a win for usability to me. /s
Do they really need that certainty, or has that been trained into them from an early age?
I had an angle grinder disk shatter on me. It didn't hit me, but the force with which it blew was pretty startling.

Yes, I always wear eye goggles with it.

Even so, don't use a grinder without the metal guard, and still try and keep your body parts out of the plane of its rotation.