skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean? You can change them to any by clicking on the left side different "views" and then change the column width to anything, and when you click back and forth between the responsive sizes you'll see it change live, and you'll see the HTML and Less change.
Innovation is cloning 80% and innovating on the remaining 20%. :)

Edit: Hey why the downvotes, I didn't say it, Andrew Chen said it. Slide 23 http://andrewchen.co/2013/10/14/zero-to-productmarket-fit-pr...
This was a clever comment and arguably a hack. I do not appreciate being down-voted for it. Can we lighten up a little?
Kids these days, no idea how rough we had it back when IE had 90% marketshare and didn't update for decades on end.

You think HTML5 is just about streaming video? The standards are out there and they are improving rapidly, look into flexbox.
Downvoted you before replying.

I might even agree with you, but in the context of the thread, I'm afraid if I don't exercise my downvote, I might lose it.
Yes! Thank you. In fact, most of my local library is just shelves of book covers, most of the non-kid/non-teen collection is digital.
Well as long as they aren't Hachette books :-)

My thinking on this has evolved over time. Especially with NetFlix. The 'stream what ever you want' service is great if 'what ever you want' is actually available, but something that it turns out is even more important for me, is that something you wanted before, is still available now. I go back and read books sometimes, and I go back and rewatch movies of TV shows. The random loss of content on Netflix has forced me to go back to buying the DVDs and ripping them rather than depend on NetFlix to have on tuesday something they had on Friday.

For reference books especially, it would drive me insane to have the book available, and then not available.
Lots of success stories there with a 10x of investment and many jobs and fortunes made. But also interesting to see just how hard it is to succeed big with 20 of 716 (2.8%) making it to $100M valuation so far even among this every elite set of entrepreneurs given only 3% of the current batch's applicants were accepted.
Forget Chile, It Is Time for Startup Italia
Why is Gawker banned here? Are other properties of theirs banned as well, such as Gizmodo? I've tried in the past to submit a couple of Gizmodo articles with no success. I know that they are generally not written in a way that would be welcome here, but every once in a while they have some great original writing that I think is interesting.
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Previous discussion of AprilZero (the site, not the making of):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024073
Reference from Source code [Don’t be the startup that accidentally runs out of money](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7239975)
Logo similarity:

https://www.automationanywhere.com/

They've had this re-design at least since March (based on their Facebook page).
Straw man much? We're talking about public spaces here. The article says this is a state school, so it is funded by tax dollars, and therefore the outdoor campus could arguably be considered public space.

The 1st amendment has _never_ applied to private places. It is between persons and the government.
What's new here? People who use their all-access passes less have always subsidized the ones who use them more, no matter the market- movies, gyms, buffetts...
Good read. I really liked how the author concretely defined the things they use in OCaml, instead of just saying "functional programming" and waving their hands.
The new sign on French menus
Nope. This is all it does and all it is planned to do. There may be more features to extend the way it works, but it's strictly a grid tool and learning tool, not a builder.

I wanted to attack the problem from a different angle than bootply and some of the others that recreate a WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver in the browser. This is JUST for seeing the grid and learning how it works, and seeing how the Less mixins work.

It's a narrow purpose, but I want to focus just on 1 thing and do it better than anyone in the world.
Designing for your colorblind users
"he has done his research and knows what he's talking about"

Yeah, and then he goes on here and does the usual propaganda stuff. Come up with a problem, find some way to discredit the other side, and generally find some excuse to do nothing. There is a word for this attitude and behavior, from Winnie the Pooh: Eeyore.

His words speak for themselves. Credibility and leadership go hand in hand. Don't listen to people whose job it is to add confusion to the debate. These lawyers have no concept of the public good and will say whatever wins them the most money.

This kind of thing is a science:

https://archive.org/details/PropagandaMadeEasy
> Suppose you're having dinner at a restaurant. Is it okay for someone to show up, stand by your table, and preach about their religion? Hey, that spot where he is standing: it's part of the country, and the whole country is a free-speech zone!

Yes, actually, it is a free speech zone. However, you're also on private property, and while it's not illegal for you to be there proselytizing, the owner (or someone acting on behalf of them, e.g.: an employee) can certainly eject you from their land if your behaviour does not meet their requirements. The existence of free-speech rights in an area does not give you legal admission to occupy that area.
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That's a "no" because it's important to keep up with the current reader base and slowly change it over time, rather then make a massive change at once.

We chose to iterate slowly instead of a "bet the farm" launch. Agile vs. Waterfall.
FYI, Erik's great post that was here yesterday may be useful in dissecting containers vs. rows vs. cols. [1]

[1] http://www.helloerik.com/the-subtle-magic-behind-why-the-boo...
gawker.com is banned because it's gossipy, which means that the subdomain valleywag.gawker.com is also banned.

I believe Gizmodo and other Gawker properties are not banned. (there was a Gizmodo submission 7 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043765)
Probably want to nest a row in a col.
nesting containers is something you don't want or need to do.

rows will reset the col padding so nesting rows in cols will have the correct behavior.
I've used this library before and really liked it. I made a really simple roguelike with it:

https://github.com/melloc/roguelike

I remember running into some minor issues, but for the most part it's an awesome, mature library.
The Bill of Rights only applies to state actors, and receiving money from the government does not, by itself, enough. Essentially, you have to be working as an agent of the government. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_actor.

Now, public universities are clearly state actors, and the First Amendment applies. For such organizations, free speech zones are based on the principle that certain "time, place, and manner" restrictions on speech in public areas are Constitutional: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/timepla.... It probably wouldn't have been considered a violation of the First Amendment, even in the founder's day, to charge someone with disturbing the peace for protesting in a residential area in the dead of night, even if they were standing on a public sidewalk.

Universities justify their regulations on "time, place, and manner" grounds, but often stretch that category too far: http://www.thefire.org/misunderstanding-time-place-and-manne... It will be interesting to see further developments in this area. The Supreme Court recently struck down Massachusetts' law banning protests in a 35-foot "buffer zone" around abortion clinics: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/26/325806464/sta....

[1] On the flip side there are other people who argue that university grounds are not public forums per se, but are rather private property that happens to be owned by the government. They argue that university campuses are more like a government office building than a public street in that regard. See: http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar....
Just because you have a right to say what you want, doesn't mean other people have to listen to you.

without disrupting the other fundamental functions of the institutions

IMO this is the key part. You have a constitutional right to say what you want. You don't have a constitutional right to shout it from the front of a lecture hall in front of my professor. (Just as a random example)
Given that 4 satellites are necessary for a fix, are such receivers able to mix-and-match satellites, say, three GPS satellites and one GLONASS satellite?
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Think of the mask like windows in a wall.

As the sun moves (or as the earth spins) the light from each window will change its angle.

So if we add another wall with more windows, we can filter our filtered light. Then you'd say, "when the light shines in window 4 it's say 6pm".

Now add a board person with a degree in mathematics, and a grid of windows. And you get single "pixels/windows" that show light based on the minute and hour, and BOOM a digital clock.
Casual APIs
In the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" not only do we have "free speech zones" but we apparently have so much in the non-free-speech category that Watch-dog groups have to sue to get rid of some of them.

In the name of convenience, "anti-disruption", security, etc we are essentially selling one of America's greatest founding principles down the river.

While this might be a controversial comparison What we really need is a NRA style rabidly pro-free-speech (First amendment- freedom of speech or press clause) organization. This group will fight EVERY single "free speech zone" crap on every public place - colleges, Borders, Govt buildings, what not.
Another thing that might affect their valuation is whether or not investors believe Airbnb may grow to serve a universal market or just a niche market.
The future does not look bleak. For fuck sake progress is accelerating. That may not jive with your doomsday bullshit but that hardly matters because foolish ideas like yours are going fucking nowhere with honest decent people who will tell you to take a flying fuck. If you want to induce suffering on some questionable moral stance you will be crushed under a stampede of reason.
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I couldn't agree more. If a child is bullied for a specific reason (not conforming to society's perceptions or expectations) then there is no guarantee that that reason will go away unless society changes (which tends to happen slowly, if at all). Unfortunately, you may find situations were it is hard to either fight or avoid, and you need a more subtle solution. This has happened to me in college and in my internship.
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The funny "sex without a condom" case is the actual rape charge.

4. Rape
On 17 August 2010, in the home of the injured party [SW] in Enkoping, Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep. was in a helpless state.
It is an aggravating circumstance that Assange. who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used. still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.”

Thanks for the link. I really feel like many people here understate the nature of his accused crimes out of misguided hero worship. The guy can do good things for spreading information and at the same time rape women who believed him to be a friend.
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I'm not saying he doesn't have a user name but a user name is not required to read HN and click on the links.
Agreed. For the HN audience I would expect something like li, but with more interactivity.
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I would bet that the median outcome is failure. Even within an impressive group, you're not going to escape the basic power law dynamics in starting companies.
Aggressively following someone around in public is harassment, regardless, which renders your strawman irrelevant.

Please don't bother replying if you're just going to continue erecting strawman with such vigor. You are not contributing.
Is it incorrect, though?
Plenty of people (such as myself) find themselves buying several actual hard-copy books a year only to read two or three of them. It's definitely not rational -- maybe call it aspirational.
The front page looks like a designer/agency portfolio site and not like the tool/application that it really is. It looks like the actual result pages haven't changed much, so that's a good thing.

I'm in the middle of redesigning my own website this week and I've seen plenty of this stuff. Too much really.
"arrested-in-the-UK sense" also does not imply any charges have been made, and is frequently used when there is no intent of bringing any charges.
or for that matter - profits or earnings.
There are multiple offenses for which Assange will be charged when he is delivered to Swedish custody.

Being pedantic about how Sweden charges suspects will not change the fact that two separate women accused Assange of sexual assaults and Swedish authorities extradited him.
Show HN: Gmail Thread Splitting
FBI warns driverless cars could be used as 'lethal weapons'
Yep. You can try it out on the demo page.
> One thing I don't understand is why companies don't pay Canonical for support? Is it such a bad thing to pay for Linux support?

I've never needed paid professional linux support. Or windows support. Or mac support. Or android support or any of that.

I think the issue is...once you develop enough in-house Linux knowledge you don't really derive a benefit from paying for support.

Tbh, the only kind of "linux support" I'd really want is overnight sysadmin support so I don't get calls at 3am. I suspect that isn't the kind of support you have in mind.
That is nearly identical. Would anyone with legal experience like to chime in about trademarks or something? I don't have much knowledge of it.
Note the power-law distribution; Airbnb and Dropbox are ~2/3rds of the entire portfolio.

And at least 80% of the portfolio value comes from 23 companies - about 3% of companies funded.
I think you're thinking of http://www.seed-db.com/
Happy medium. I use the library for my 'summer reading books', the books you read once, enjoy and never thing about again. I use Kindle for books I really enjoy and want to read again (or for free/cheap summer books that the library doesn't have). I buy physical books for reference or if the library/kindle/nook/ebook provider does not have it available.
Huh? I don't think it does, and I have watched my fair share of porn. Looks like an upside down love heart.
The short answer is that the Supreme Court has held that restricting protests to particular places on campus is a reasonable "time, place, and manner" restriction, so long as the regulation leaves open some reasonable place for protests and does not discriminate on the basis of the protesters' message. (This is based on the dubious, but now legally established, principle that "protesting" is a mode of speech and not also a message. Some on the court would have held -- right, I think -- that a law that discriminates against protestors inherently discriminates between speakers' viewpoints.) The wikipedia page is reasonably informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone#Notable_incide...

(Though is leaves out Frisby v. Schultz, the case that held that laws regulating protests can be content neutral, among many other things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisby_v._Schultz)

Note also that it is not particularly relevant that an organization receives public funds. On the one hand, any school (or other organization) operated by a state is also subject to the federal constitution including the First Amendment (of course, this does not cover private schools). And on the other hand, I think your logic stretches too far: I reserve the right to kick you out of my dinner party because I don't like what you're saying. I receive "federal funds" in the form of various tax breaks. If I do actually kick you out, have I violated the First Amendment? I hope not.

The usual rule is that only the government itself (at any level -- or its agents, under certain circumstances) can violate the First Amendment (and almost all of the other amendments, with the notable exception of the 13th). I think it's probably better this way.
The Kindle has a T2T engine which makes a pretty good job, I think.
We started playing with the new Gmail API (https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/) and created this fun little feature.

Ever notice Gmail sometimes gmail threads things it shouldn't? (i.e. when you bcc a lot of people). We built a way for you to break of a subset of the messages into their own thread.
A single, mildly impressive engineering graduate student should be able to construct a functional hardware GPS receiver from scratch in a year or so.
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That sort of data usually makes it into CrunchBase eventually...
Half agree. Use a local library as the prototype, document how you did it and the results, and then scale up with that experience.
I'm guessing the ebooks will only be available on true Kindle devices. I just wanted to use the Prime Lending Library for the first time last week, and was disappointed that books can only be rented and viewed on Kindle devices, so my iPad and PC reader are out of luck. They don't broadcast this fact very clearly either, since to me "Kindle device" implies any official Kindle client.
I signed up for my local library and bought a Kindle precisely so I can check ebooks. Come to find out there is a waiting list for every book I've found that it worth reading to me, some of the ebooks only having one "copy". I know the publishers license it so they can make money, but that's ridiculous. Limitations of physical goods should not translate 1:1 into the digital world. One physical book should be the same as 10 ebooks.
There is no such thing as an OSX server. You mean a mac mini with OSX server edition on it?

There's basically nothing that IBM does that will work on an iOS device, nevermind well. This deal is hot air, Cringely is right.

Microsoft make their money on office and exchange, as much as it pains me to point the obvious. [0]

No port of IBM software to work on an iOS device is going to make a dent in that. No IBM software will be exclusively iOS, it will be java based and available on windows and linux first, then OSX as an afterthought.

http://www.tannerhelland.com/4993/microsoft-money-updated-20... [0] see operating income rather than revenue.
> for true long-term support, with support meaning=capability of debugging issues in-house for all the core stack they release

Your definition of support doesn't match that used by enterprises like Spotify, i.e. the ones with real money on the line. They don't care whether the debugging is in-house or elsewhere; they just want the problem solved, and they want someone they can call who will go solve it. That involves paying someone directly (Canonical or other support companies), indirectly (paying your own employees to learn and manage things), or both. I'm guessing the ecosystem thing is in play here -- it's just easier to find Ubuntu-competent people/firms than Debian-competent ones.

That said, the work done by the Debian team is very valuable (thank you), which it seems ought at some level be reflected economically. I have no familiarity with Debian's financial situation but the hosting and compute resources can't come for free. A reasonable business model might be for the Debian team, or a commercial branch or spinoff thereof, or even just some motivated entrepreneurs, to serve as a (potentially non-profit) service provider for the likes of Canonical. Seems like a natural evolution to me, but as I said I'm not familiar with Debian's economics.

> If the package you're having problems with is an old release that is not maintained anymore upstream

Wouldn't Debian suffer the same problem here, e.g. if some piece of software's maintainer gets hit by a bus? Or does Debian make the commitment to take "ownership", if necessary, of all the software it bundles? The latter seems logistically challenging but I am prepared to be (even more) impressed.
SciFi thought 'Gray Goo' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo ) was a possible end of the world situation.

Instead, we have an informational-goo. Software is eating the world, turning everything into bitstreams, and contaminating everything it touches as more things become digitised, more things can become digitised. And we're being flooded, swamped, clogged up, with unusably too much data while at the same time adding more at accelerating rates.

It's a kind of digibesity and leads to organizational digibetus and immobility as every employee trapses round through a sludge of gigabytes of old email and log data, reports slow against bloated databases, decisions drag as more and more people need to read more and more procedures and look up references in ever-bigger, ever-slower reference silos.

It's a kind of global hoarding disorder.

I wonder what the mid-stages and end-game of a Gray G0o01100 catastrophe is?
In the FCC statement Alexis (YC Partner) mentioned 3,000 new jobs.

To put this in perspective, SalesForce employs ~12,000 (4x that) and has roughly the same market cap ($30b).

IMO, if I were YC I wouldn't be touting this number (nor am I indicating that they do currently). What's probably more important is how many new markets have been created, and therefore jobs, due to YC companies. A number which will be extremely difficult to measure unbiasly. Otherwise, this simply reinforces the notion that software is eating the world and developers are paid too much.
Tony Hoare called null references his "billion dollar mistake": http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi....
That should be fixed now. Thanks!
It's interesting that the fear, pain, scarring and all around serious threat (above and beyond physical violence even) of humiliation, insults and generally making people 'feel like crap' can be acknowledged the way it is here, but a physical response to such things is universally deemed unacceptable and unjustified.

If a kid punches his peer in the face for engaging in the sort of sadistic mind games and public ridicule which leaves wounds that heal far slower than a bloody nose he (the puncher) will end up with the blame.

In my experience, most people won't even entertain this topic, it's an immediate retreat to 'sticks and stones' and simplistic notions of bullying straight out of 60 year old Archie Comics.
In what sense is this list "curated?" I'm seriously asking. Have you used all/most of these, and can recommend them?
After messing around with this, is there any reason to use any of the other sizes besides xs? With xs it seems like every device is covered, from the phone up to the large desktop.
There is a principle in First Amendment regulation that says that the government should not exercise more control over speech than is necessary to accomplish its specific legal purposes. In this respect, there's obviously a difference between speech in outdoor and indoor settings.
When going through YC, it was incredible how respectful the program was with founders' time.

This happens during YC (no pointless meetings) and afterwards (no burdensome data reporting requirements).