skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been really happy with PureCSS[0], and it seems to be gaining quite a bit of traction lately (over 8000 stars on GitHub). PureCSS is very small and modular. If I didn't like PureCSS so much, I would probably roll my own grids using Bourbon Neat or Susy.

0 - http://purecss.io/
Actually I doubt that, 50% are probably automatically generated rubbish that is (luckily) not available in a local library.

But yeah, this is probably just "renting". I doubt you could download them all but I would love to try doing exactly that.
That assumes that Apple will be beholden to enterprises and forced to stop innovating the way Microsoft did.

Given the enterprise market is much smaller than the consumer market, that isn't going to happen.
Inside the Artificial Brain That's Remaking the Google Empire
Merger Creates a Leader in Crowdfunding Market
Yahoo Wants to Bring the Concert to Your Couch
This looks scary for authors, and maybe it should. Like digital music and movies, the marginal cost of an ebook is pretty much zero. If you are an author, you need to rethink how to make money from your work. It won't be from selling $10 books much longer.
> That aside, the game has a problem, in my view: it's too real.

Exactly. I don't play zombie-based video games because zombies scare me. I play them because zombies are fun to kill. This game seems a little too realistic.

Then again, it might be a good thing to confront some real-world fears in a video game. I could see a game like this working really well if it's designed right.
I think having felt pain with std::string, you would implicitly understand and enjoy working with the two string types in Rust. They do everything it sounds like you've been doing manually and inconveniently in your C++ code.
Yeah, no. Ask a vet suffering from PTSD.
The financial incentives behind Comcast's strange cancellation behavior
PocketCasts has the same feature without an account. The app can auto-generate a server account using the device's uuid.
Oxt: the new word that will make your life slightly simpler, forever
There are two things the federal government is extremely unlikely to do.

* Let any part of what is now California cease being part of the union.

* Assign twelve senators to what is now California.

There are only two ways to avoid both pitfalls.

* California remains one state.

* The US Constitution is amended to allow only two senators for six states (which used to be one).

Any proposal for splitting California without including that constitutional amendment is effectively a call for secession, and is likely to be treated as such by the federal government.
First of all, what is that shiny gold motherboard [0] on the front page? Secondly, I recommend that you add Amazon reviews as another feature - just like price and performance. Also, I think you should add in some kind of metric for mice and keyboards - # of buttons, DPI, activation weight, etc. Finally, I really like the UI of your site. Although it may not be as feature-rich as some competitors, it seems many HNers have forgotten the importance of a good design.

[0] http://pangoly.com/images/main-mb1.png
That is my sense as well, people who are decidedly not nerds grabbed hold of the reigns. It's been a long time since I've heard the phrase "Don't be evil".
With you until the last sentence. How about icon sets for those who are colour blind? Whilst I'm sure you could, to some extent, automatically convert, I'm also sure there are nuances that only a human designer could cater for. Also, how about different sets for different nationalities/cultures between whom analogies can vary greatly.

It would be nice to solve the N+1 problem with a semantic hierarchy providing fallbacks, particularly in the case when only one application within a specific group is installed.
Are you controlling the heating in each room separately?

From your description saying "relay", I'm presuming this is electric heating?

Do you find that this keeps all the rooms around the right temperature? The usual problem with a normal heating system is that you have parts of the house that regularly are hotter or colder than the rest, so I was wondering if you had managed to solve this.

I'm looking to control radiator valves electronically, which of course relies on someone actually making electronically controlled radiator valves that don't cost a stupid amount of money.
Looks like the same book selection available through the Prime Kindle Owners Lending Library, which gives you one a month with Prime membership. A nice to have, but not worth paying extra for to me.
Marketplace Pricing
I think two factor authentification is just an excuse to confirm your real identity, as it is much harder to obtain a fake phone number compared to a fake email address. I bet internally someone using two factor authentification is seen as more valuable to advertisers, since the phone number can probably be tied to a credit card record and other information collected by banks and other large real world companies. To 95% of twitter users it would probably be completely inconsequential if their account were compromised, just create a new one an let all your friends know.
You keep playing dumb. It's not working for you. It won't ever work for you.

The hypothesis is that the exhibited feeling of incompetence is because men are better than women on average.

How many times will I have to repeat this until you get it?
> You made a claim without evidence

So did you :)
Things look a lot rosier for audiobook listeners, though, because audiobooks are significantly more expensive than textbooks. Even the cheapest Audible subscription is $15. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they mean by "thousands of audiobooks;" if they're incorporating the Audible library, then this is an easy decision.
We're still running Debian Squeeze in production at one of the places I work. It had one advantage recently: The SSL package was so old that the heartbleed vulnerability hadn't yet been introduced, lol!
Yes it would be nice to avoid this until you are sold.

It would also be nice to have an explanation as to why it's needed (web client etc).
IBM gets lock-in through support contracts. Apple gets lock-in through their proprietary ecosystem. Those are two very different things. There is no need for Apple to be beholden to any particular client.
Israel's Media Strategy: Deception at it's best
If you collect data (and create a walled garden around it through various superficial methods increasingly easier to bypass at scale, so that "only" you can access/leverage it to the fullest without having to go through such artificially erected barriers), your government can quietly collect it from you (and access/leverage it to the same extent).

If you collect data, and it was made accessible to everyone to access and leverage to the fullest if they choose, … ?:

"Information Asymmetry and Power in a Surveillance Society" http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53109/1/MPRA_paper_53109.pdf

"This paper has engaged in a wide ranging discussion around the issues of information asymmetry in contemporary life. We have examined the relationship between such asymmetries and how power is ineluctably interrelated to such imbalances. Within this, we demonstrated how key technologies and techniques have been, and continue to be, employed to deepen and widen the information gap.

Unsurprisingly, we note that there are marked differences between those who inhabit the opposite banks – we are witnessing an entrenchment of power and information within a small, exclusive group on one side while the general population bears the weight of evermore intrusive surveillance.

One potential,and possibly democratic, move would be to ensure that knowledge is spread more equally and transparently.[…]"
Re old podcasts - I found something similar with Instacast. It imported things where I just had a single episode imported but also a few things I just have no subscription to at all.

Feels like more like a glitch in Instacast and what it's sending to the OPML rather than Overcast though.
> So no Penguin Random House, the market leader in print and audio

The market leader in print and audio fiction.

Fiction is ephemeral - mostly read and then discarded. The awesome potential for this service is in factual and reference books that are used hundreds or thousands of time each in their lifetime.

The 1.5 books per month metric is diluted in that case when it's possible to dip into 100 books per month just to extract the one snippet of information needed from each.
What a cool family
I'm not a parent, but have had to "babysit" teens and young adults with slowed development (autism etc) for a while now. That's really the extent of what I teach them: Be awesome. Love can only be freely given and respect can only be hard-earned.
I feel a bit bad being so superficial, as the app has real merits, but the design is really painful. The app icon is just awful and, unfortunately, it is only a hint of what's to come upon launching the app. I hope it's successful enough to allow Marco some funds to hire a designer.
That's a very interesting observation and almost certainly something that will have been considered at some point.
It's fun. I like to shoot things and blow shit up and hit people with swords.

Very rarely do I find the story in a game good enough to care about some neologism like "ludonarrative dissonance".

I find these "important" games like Bioshock to be pretty embarrassing and childish in the story department. Ken Levine is not the first person to take on Ayn Rand. That's like shooting fish in a barrel. The pretentiousness of that game is just over the top. But it's a lot of fun, because they nailed the blowing shit up part.
The point would be better made if it clarified military vs. civilian casualties. It'd be hard to fault Israelis or Palestinians for killing the people that are shooting at them.
> Also, people listen to the same songs hundreds (sometimes even thousands) of times before getting sick of them.

But people also don't read as much books as they listen to songs, so naturally the royalty per unit consumed will be higher for books.
Glad they bring this to the forefront. Log files provide the best information for diagnostics, but mainly and afterthought after something happens.
California is not as blue as some people like to believe. I don't think California democrats would want to create three to four new red states.
Yes, I'd say a language runtime definately falls in that critical 3% Knuth referred to in the original quote.
I think it would work for all finite fields.
One of the solutions to this IOI problem was solved that way, and it's not of the form GF(p) but it's GF(p^2).
http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ioi/ioi94/contest/day2prb1/probl...
see solution 2:
http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ioi/ioi94/contest/day2prb1/solut...
@DBLA, It is great to see more services like this. I'm one of the guys behind Harp.js and Harp Platform. We have a lot in common! Basic Auth was a question that came up all the time and wasn't to challenging to add, as well as lock in - which was addressed by Open Source. Hope it goes well.
Has modern technology killed the spy thriller?
There's nothing more satisfying than a hardcore greenscreen admin interface to your web app.
Which is what makes this game weird. Just some quick initial thoughts:

> The game tracks Gemma’s emotional state. When she’s running fast and jumping high, she feels good and the world is filled with light and color. When she gets laughed at, her mood darkens and the world darkens with her.

That just reinforces that bullying inevitably and inexorably leads to depression. And then it also reinforces that acting happy ("running fast and jumping high") is the way to counteract it.

In other words, it's the old standby advice of "just ignore them" in video game form.
ISP responds to the Emergency Data Retention DRIP bill that was passed yesterday
The experience he describes is not unique to teenage girls, but effects teenage boys as well.
I'll be showing off a 2048 analytics demo at the Datastax booth. The web service backend that writes to Cassandra is written in Go. Stop by if you're interested.
The following analysis of self-publishing's future is from an author who had two successful books on self-publishing. Those (excellent) books are now free on his website. The economics and discovery challenges sound like mobile apps. And this is before fractional book royalties are introduced.

http://www.newselfpublishing.com/blog/#partyover

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POD books provided a handsome profit margin even at reasonable prices. But Kindle books, with their lower prices, have decimated POD sales. Meanwhile, Kindle customers expect more and more for the low prices they pay. Many feel cheated if they spend 99 cents or even less on a book that isn’t “full-length.” And the flood of easily-published books makes it harder and harder for individual ones to stand out—a problem that can only worsen with time.

The upshot is, if you want to self publish and are new to it, then by all means, hop in. But for a long time at least, it’s likely to be more for love than for money. Sure, self publishing is still a money machine—but nowadays, that’s mostly for Amazon, not authors.

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> Most of these books are available through your local library for free.

All inter-library loans in my library board cost 1 UKP ( c. $1.40 ) which quickly mounts-up when there's very little on the shelf in the local branch.

I could read 'Excel 2003 for Dummies' again, I suppose, but I'm a bit bored of it to be honest...
Historically, males compete and establish superiority by fighting and physical strength. Females do it with mind games. That's why females are more emotionally manipulative than males are, in general.
Ten useful techniques in Go
Would love to use this service, but instacart does not service my neighborhood yet! Zipcode 95123 in San Jose.
I really love your selection of topics. For instance, the first one on PATH variables reminds me of when I first got started and wondered what all the auxillary command-line stuff does. I even learned something watching it now.

Most beginner tutorials just say "do this, do that" on things that aren't part of Rails proper. I found this really frustrating and glad you're thinking like a beginner would.
To be clear; He is not currently charging $9/month. You are now charged a one time fee of $9 that is either indefinite, or until Ryan returns and starts adding new content.

It is definitely worth $9 for all of the existing great content.
I don't think ignored. It's just way easier to build snapchat than fight with HIPAA compliance and all the regulations against rapid innovation in health care.
There are different types of programming, ranging from directly applied theory, for example scientific modelling, to solving everyday problems, for example creating an interface to a health system. In the best case multidisciplinary teams will work together to solve problems to support many perspectives. Pure math is sometimes necessary, but in many cases it's not, and the projected requirement to be a math expert to participate in formulating new digital connections is a very harmful force causing digital illiteracy and wasted opportunities for participation.
The feature list make this purchase a no-brainer. Excellent App.
It's not exactly a huge win for authors, but you never know. While the business of selling millions of individual copies of a books might go away, the opportunity to grow an audience and leverage that is a different thing.

The authors who figure out how to leverage more than just selling a book are the ones who will do well. The ones who don't build an audience will likely fail at a higher rate than they did previously.
Getting Started with Modern Web Development
I think that makes it sound more arrogant than it probably is.

You can take feedback and suggestions (and remember, feedback is in the menu above the links to other apps) but as a software developer it's unlikely your app is ever going to be all things to all people. This feels like a simple acceptance of that and a chance to recommend apps / developers he likes if what he's doing isn't for you.
People consume fewer books than songs, though. I might listen to hundreds of songs in a month, but only read two or three books, so that $10/month fee is being split between very few authors. Say this means that an author gets $2/reader under this model. Is that unsustainable? It doesn't seem too different to me than what authors have always gotten in the dead-tree model.

It also seems like the incentives depend on how Amazon is compensating authors: a fixed per-book fee would incentivize splitting large books into small pieces, so as to collect the fee multiple times, while a per-word or per-page fee would be more neutral (assuming that Amazon tracks how many pages actually get read, e.g. Piketty would only get credit for the tons of people who read his first chapter).
Technology can enslave us. Can it also set us free?
With Less, you can pare bootstrap down to just the bare minimum of what you need, all the way down to just using the grid an nothing else. When you compile your Less, it's super slim.

My focus wasn't on the bootstrap CSS customizer though, I try to recommend people use their own Less to keep things under control.
It'll be fascinating to see how our relationship with books plays out over the next 10-20 years. On one hand, unlike music, books are very physical objects, their content very much associated with their form, used by many as decoration within their home. On the other hand, most of us only read most of our books once. I suspect that many, like me, then hang onto those books primarily for sentimental reasons (along with the slim chance that someone else might want to borrow them, future children might want to read them, we might re-read them one day, but probably never will), but that feels very much like a cultural fad, albeit quite a long-lived one!
Let me clarify...you're designing against complete takeover of an account, which without 2-factor authentication, can be done with just the password.

Now the other part of the equation: a security system has to be designed against real-world practicalities...In this case, where does the main risk come from? Mass-anonymous attacks, such as phishing or a database compromise ...now unless phone-numbers can be mass-acquired via knowing a bunch of passwords (can the installing of the Twitter app for iPhone and clicking the "send to phone" link be automated?)...it now becomes a lot of work to take that extra step...and when you've completed it...you still can't break into the Twitter account...How many phishers are stealing passwords just so they can learn a bunch of people's phone numbers? The ones that have that strategy...well, keep on doing that, because that's way more work than other channels for mass-gathering phone numbers.

Now, if the retort is, "well, there may be someone who an attacker REALLY wants to compromise, and the phone number is one more piece of the puzzle."...Then that's a different ballgame. Now you have an attacker who is not drive-by-random phishing, but is going after one person, and going after that one person hard.

So the situation where a victim gives an antagonist (say, the FBI, or NSA, or whoever you are investigating) their password...again, that is most definitely an edge case. And it requires a different systems design (by design, I mean, the details fallback procedures for cases when a user loses their phone and needs to recover it, and so forth).

I can see advantages for Twitter to show the phone number to someone who knows an email and the actual password: you may be someone with multiple phones, or have forgotten that your 2-factor-auth is assigned to a different phone/Google Voice...showing the phone number mitigates the confusion of the user who's wondering when the hell the code is coming, when in fact, the code may never come to the expected phone number.

So, how frequent is that situation compared to one where a user announces his password to the whole world? I'm guessing, quite frequent.
So you use the Sass or LESS versions of bootstrap and use '@extend'
>How much do people read? Nobody's too sure

We actually have a pretty good idea. According to Gallup/Pew research[0], the median American reads 8 books a year. Slightly less than a third read more than one book a month. I doubt any customer who reads less than one ebook (let alone a physical book) per month would find it worth signing up for this service. That leaves the service with mostly heavy consumers of books, which is going to really stretch that $10/mo price point. Since the major publishers already think that a single ebook is worth at least that, I can't see them joining a program that will almost certainly deliver less revenue.

[0]http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-re...
I've been paying $99/month 105Mb for about 1.5 years now.
The mirror man
Agreed -- reading it, it felt like it needed to be more allegorical. As for the lesson, I think it should be "learn how to love yourself, so people's negativity can't penetrate you," but I didn't see anything in the article that indicated that was the takeaway. Then again, maybe games shouldn't be purveyors of morality lessons.
>I would recommend, again, watching David Friedman's talk on the "Machinery Of Freedom"

I will try and watch this when I get chance.

>on the difference on it from government violence: when a contract is signed with by me and some entity, we both agree that out conflicts are going to be solved in such and such manner and in such and such courts. That is, if there is going to be some violence involved, we both know it from the beginning.

So you have some entity with the power to enforce contracts by violence? What incentive do they have to do that instead of simply mugging you? A democratic government has to care about elections. A private company has no such concerns.

>If you can show me an exact mechanism how to reliably elect politicians who would ignore those incentives and do good instead of those incentives offering them a much more profitable thing to do, then I would gladly accept that.

Well first of all, you're assuming that I mean representative democracy, rather than direct democracy. The system I've been thinking of recently tries to combine the best of both: Ostensibly direct democracy, where people can delegate their voting privileges to a representative, and change that delegation at any time.

> On the market, you can decide to buy or stop buying things immediately with your own money.

Indeed, so in a completely capitalist system, your freedom is contingent on the amount of capital you have. Personally, I think some freedoms should be guaranteed regardless of wealth.
Well, it would also need two front legs.
Kindle rental price for academic nonfiction is often quite pricy, e.g. $10 for one week for one book.
Voters are willingly accepting authoritarian rulers though. They want the heroic leader who fans the flames of sectarianism, uses nationalistic football club support songs in campaigns and wears a shiny uniform. When the economy dives the tried and true solution is the standard scapegoating of whatever visible minority to offset the blame of decades of mismanagement and corruption. Look at all the extreme authoritarian movements taking off in Europe right now. Those are going to appear in a country near you very soon. It's like they don't even need to hide it anymore, these new regimes can openly campaign on a promise to restrict rights and bring back the glory days of yore and get a standing ovation. The reaction to mass surveillance here has been "only illegal immigrants need to worry or criminals".