skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, obviously, 'offensive' is a very subjective thing. People can still be offended by an opinion held by a majority, yes.
Yes, I have also tried a number of matchmaking sites, but they didn't help me :/
Show HN: New (yet another) android hacker news app
Hey guys, this is something I've been working on for the past couple of weeks. I made this because I wanted something read HN that was both minimal and followed android guidelines.

Website (with screenshots):

http://dwak.io/holo_hacker_news/

Source code:

https://github.com/dinosaurwithakatana/holo_hacker_news

G+ community for becoming a tester:

https://plus.google.com/communities/112347719824323216860

Let me know what you guys think, thanks!
A robot is travelling Canada coast-to-coast, hitchhiking for 6000 km
Sometimes it's helpful. For example, I do listen to a bunch of podcasts and I follow some DJs on Soundcloud. But every once in a while, there's just NOTHING good being posted. So it's good to have a fallback to a radio station of some kind, one that I can just open the app, hit the "big triangle", and just get music immediately. That instant gratification is the real value of the app. I have Rinse.FM's app for this purpose.

Incidentally, I feel like as smartphones become more ubiquitous and embedded into the rest of our lives, we'll start to see apps that have a much more simple purpose. After all, since Siri isn't programmable by app developers, the fastest way to listen to NPR is now downloading the app, holding your home button, and saying "Open NPR One". Perhaps the app could be designed so that it immediately begins streaming when you open it, that way you can just tell your phone something and suddenly you're listening to the radio.

All of this audio streaming is on a consistent platform, it's mostly Icecast or SHOUTcast servers doing the actual streaming. Theoretically, one could build a directory of radio stations like Nullsoft did with SHOUTcast, but the main issue is the platform has never been created by a company whose SOLE PURPOSE is to index and catalog current radio stations. Until we get that, I don't think you're gonna see a platform improvement any time soon.
In other news, Chris Mustache named CEO of Google Chrome
On https://pinshape.com we give you the choice of downloading the file for your own printer or ordering it as a professionally printed design in over 35 materials. We're like a mashup of Thingiverse, Shapeways and Dribbble, since we also curate our designers and verify print-ability of each design.
Youtube provides videos that users specifically label as a creative commons license, and are available for commercial use. He may have not been in the wrong, though it's pretty doubtful considering his questionable judgement on everything else.
That's just it, the reason I noticed it was because they didn't continue at that speed. They pass, then they slow down to slower than my original speed (I'm also careful not to speed up at all if someone is passing me, that's stupid and reckless). I had thought about it being my own perception, but the fact is that I didn't first assume it was because I was driving a minivan. For the first few months I was just sort of annoyed that people seemed to be driving stupid, but mostly when I drove the minivan. Then when thinking about it it occurred to me that it was likely the minivan and perceptions that surround it that cause the problem.

My working theory is that people have bad experiences being stuck behind a slow minivan (which I'll admit, happens), and those experiences can be particularly annoying because it's hard to see past minivans. As people find themselves behind a minivan in a situation where their speed isn't quite yet stabilized (such as shortly after entering the freeway), they either assume it's going slow or just decide they want to not be behind a minivan, so pass.

I have had corroboration from other minivan owners I know, but I am open to being wrong or misinterpreting the information. I suspect it's less to do with that and more to do with specific traffic patterns that make it more or less likely (such as light traffic allowing easy passing), which may be more or less prevalent in certain areas.
Because you likely would leave some family behind that depended on your income.

I, ironically enough, don't have a need for life insurance as I have nobody who depends on me.
I believe the snarky comments are targeted at Mozilla's last short-lived CEO.

However, what does the political background of a CEO matter? Can he do the job? Can he lead them to success? Those are the questions that should be asked about any new big business executive... not rather or not he supported issue X at some point in the past.
I'm sure that Unread is a great app, but the author seems a little blind to the fact that being featured in the App Store and being written about by prominent bloggers only serve to introduce the product to an audience, not convince them to buy.

I just went to the App Store and looked at the screenshots for the app. There's a surprising lack of functionality depicted in the screenshots. There's nothing about how feeds are presented, or how individual items in a feed are presented. Instead we get "full screen reading", "swipe anywhere to go back", "multiple themes", "rich sharing via OvershareKit" (whatever that is), and a testimonial from someone I've never heard of, who turns out to be the author himself. Oh, and the screenshots themselves are shrunk down to make room for the text annotation at the top. Nothing here makes me feel like I know what I'll be getting for my $4.99:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unread-an-rss-reader/id75414...

In contrast, my iPhone RSS reader of choice, Reeder 2, has screenshots that show exactly what you'll see on various screens in the app. It's much less of a risk to buy upfront when you know what you'll be getting:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reeder-2/id697846300?mt=8

Of course, it's easy to armchair criticize, but as someone who is in the target market for an app like this (I've bought and use several well-designed iPhone RSS apps), I thought I'd explain why Unread never managed to convince me it was worth buying.
does anyone know of a site that keeps track of the SF Bay Area housing market? i.e., something that you can check monthly to watch overall price trends in the bay area w/ graphs and everything?
You're missing the nub of the issue - sure the guy made mistakes and ignored warnings. But the fact remains that he was banned by an impersonal, automated system with no chance of appeal, and as such is now effectively locked out of the entire android app ecosystem for ever - an therefore an entire possible line of business. Note there's also no possibility for him to mend his ways and be re-instated.

Imagine if the same applied to people who run physical businesses - some shop owner skips some paperwork thinking it'll be harmless, gets caught, gets a fine... and then is banned from ever owning a shop ever again for the rest of his life, no appeal.

This is our brave new cloud-oriented future - where all the power to regulate what content is available to millions of users lies in the hands of a couple of private companies. I find the whole thing very worrying, and am very glad that the FirefoxOS and Ubuntu phone projects are moving forward to provide some kind of alternative.
So it wasn't because Brendan supported the traditional insituation of marriage that he was let go? He just decided one day shortly after getting the position he didn't want it?

More complex? So if Chris Beard donated to Focus on the Family (hypothetically) he would be just fine at Mozilla?

Come on, Brendan Eich would still be CEO if he didn't make that one political donation and came out supporting the community.
It's not you - The page is broken - the scrolling is completely screwed up on that page.
A walk above the tide
Curious why such a low target of £30k. They don't allude to it on the Kickstarter page.
We do see cuboids sometimes.
http://www.prevention.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/sli...
I think you continue to misunderstand my point. It is not an "exploit" if it is the law. It is simply the law.

Your comparison to exploiting browser security holes doesn't even come close to being a proper analogy.
CSS Notification Styles
Talented Mexican hacker's Silicon Valley job search
And, probably more to the point, Facebook is Facebook and OKCupid is OKCupid. And even if, as OKCupid says in their post "But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That’s how websites work." the fact that Facebook did it ignited the Internet's collective anti-Facebook sentiment. (Of course, it's also the case that Facebook's experiments were more oriented toward their own advertising than improving the site experience for users.)
I think metalworking has to be the key point of efficiency, because anything that comes packaged in cardboard (cereal, crackers, cake mix, powdered detergent, etc.) is a rectangle.

I would guess that cardboard is less expensive to source and work, so they can afford to take the extra effort to make it a box.
> The evidence does not, however, provide anything like clear support that the political donation itself was the sole reason that the CEO left the position.

Do you agree that if he'd never made the donation he'd still be there?
I have no experience with google customer support as a normal developer[1], but I guess there is a vast amount of this kind of arguably spamy apps submitted every day. On that scale it's probably hard and too time consuming to distinguish naive from fraudulent developers.

For me its difficult to believe, that someone who has been a developer for so long, really didn't think, that using another companies name in an app name, use their logo – and removing their ads(?)[2] – couldn't lead to some sort of serious problems.

The punishment might be too harsh, but defending yourself in this case with 70/80 rebelism and doing them a favor with "free advertisement" is just bizarre.

[1] I've worked in the advertisement team of the biggest swiss news site, and we got decent personal support from google. Unfortunately, i guess it is as always in life: If you're big, others will listen to you. If not, you'll be ignored.

[2] "No ads, no junk, just videos" http://www.myappwiz.com/home/getapp?platform=Android&appID=c...
It doesn't have anything to do with Googlebot, it has to do with Google's "ghosting" rules: You can't have inaccessible pages be indexed, you need to permit visitors X views free per day/month.
I want...no I need this thing!!

Seriously, this is an amazing invention. The problem is, like most things like this, regulating it.
Adventures In The US Healthcare System
We built a new social media experience, but we need help testing it
Hello Hacker News,

We are a group of second year computer science students who have spent our summer developing a new and different social media experience.

We have just launched our beta phase and would appreciate any feedback you might have regarding design choices, functionality, user experience, or anything else you may notice.

You can find our site here: http://rankopolis.com/

Thanks!
UberX Drivers Might Never Get Any Better at Navigation
I hope it sticks around! They're so fascinating.
Durable, large, high resolution, and cheap have all be done, just not at the same time. As with any technology I think it will only be a matter of time, though.

Personally I do wish there were more options for metal and ceramic, which would make it very useful for custom, wacky eating utensils that could not be done with traditional manufacturing easily. Ponoko does it but it's not cheap and they have a limited selection of colours.
Since noone is explaining it to you honestly, I'll tell you.

By implying that supporting gay marriage (which is the opposite of what Brendan Eich did in his active campaign against it) is a "campaign by the elite" you are revealing yourself as an anti-progressive dinosaur who is on the wrong side of history when it comes to LGBT human rights.
I have a feeling Facebook is becoming a bit of an integrated app holdings company. Where as Amazon and Google have turned their infrastructure to the public, Facebook appears to be using it and its large investment dollars to be building a type of decentralized(partly) tech conglomerate.

It's almost as if they took their lessons from the struggles in becoming a platform for third parties and decided that there are only a small number of core applications people use. Instead of waiting for, and having less control of these high profile apps, Facebook instead is just owning them outright.
> Asking why you're being down voted is not the same as complaining about being down voted.

You're right. Never suggested otherwise. However, if the comment and the question are equally short, and your other commentary makes it clear you are just fishing for trouble, you'll get no sympathy.
I don't think I've ever seen the philosophy of emacs stated so concisely.
>In terms of real usefulness, it is a horrid "form factor" that wastes fuel and space

I never understood this. I used to drive a Land Rover Discovery 3, which is a SUV. And then I had a rental Open(or Vauxhall, for UK folk) Insignia for two weeks - your typical 5 door sedan, a typical "car" which does not invoke hate in most people. And I could not possibly understand how such a "large" car, with footprint as large as my Land Rover, could be so small inside! It took as much space on the road as my "horrid waste of space" Land Rover, yet it could only take 5 people instead of 7, and probably half the luggage. But if you put these two next two each other, you would be a lot more quickly criticized for driving the SUV, purely because it's an SUV. But both cars had nearly identical length and width - so how is the SUV taking more space? If anything, the Insignia was half as practical as the land rover.
Oh - I see. No that makes sense.
Why does the app need microphone access? I missed the blurb when you first open the app and can't seem to figure out how to replay it now.
Excellent and logical response, cookiecaper. The developer's article could have been written more succinctly, but the points he makes are completely valid and the larger issue of how Google's unintended power to credibly damage a developer's career should not be taken lightly.
> "He just decided one day shortly after getting the position he didn't want it?"

You need to re-read dragonwriter's comment, because that is not the reason that dragonwriter is suggesting at all.
On This Day: First World War begins after Austria-Hungary invades Serbia
I really like this post, but I think the success (or lack thereof) is really more about the competition than the product or the app market in general. There are tons of RSS apps that are good, with great ratings, and are free.
Using Lua is certainly easier. The C version will almost always be faster, and yes, performance in this scenario probably wouldn't be an issue between the two. The other reason for writing a module in C though is complete control over the execution and an easier time troubleshooting problems. Adding another language layer can present issues when things explode.
Possibly. There's a company near me (I see the liveried van trundling around) trading as Apple Property Maintenance.

(I'm amazed The Beatles let them get away with it).
21st Century Software Developers Make Business Decisions
These are comments which are already clearly disingenuous concern trolling, pretending to not understand why they're being downvoted in the hope of baiting someone into responding. It's the lowest level of discourse.
I'm not sure I understand your critique. It appears NPR has come up with an interesting approach to allowing discovery of content it has access to in the form of this app, but they understandably aren't planning to get into the business of providing access to all audio content in the world via their app. But you are not restricted to using the NPR app to listen to NPR. Their content is also available in numerous other ways, including podcasts and streaming radio, as well as traditional local radio affiliates. So what exactly is your complaint?
Machine Learning Frameworks for Python
Nah, we like people who like us. So if a trusted source tells us someone else either likes or will like us, we tend to like them.
A CEO should at least share the same fundamental beliefs and values with his company / organization. I don't imply that any of the Mozilla CEOs did not.
It's great to see Facebook releasing code for Flux. Hope to see more in the future. Here are some other implementations of Flux for anyone who's interested:
https://github.com/BinaryMuse/fluxxor
https://github.com/jmreidy/fluxy
https://github.com/yahoo/flux-example

We recently adopted this architecture for a medium-scale project. The unidirectional data flow has greatly reduced code complexity for us. We're still not satisfied with our server syncing strategy. Seems like actions are the best place to sync data, but how do you deal with interdependent actions?
Unfortunately, while showing what we would consider "intuitively bad data" may seem like a bad idea, only actually empirically testing it can we measure and quantify the exact impact that bad data (either shown purposefully or accidentally, or unknowingly) will have on users.

It may have in fact turned out that what we intuitively think as bad data results in better matches or better experiences. I think experimenting is worthwhile, so long as it is done in the open as they have been doing.
Nice game! I keep wanting to call it "Game Of Squares" :)
Game Developer: F**k Free-to-Play
Since noone is explaining it to you honestly, I'll tell you.

By implying that the LGBT interests are a campaign to be bought, or convinced by, or tricked into, you are showing a complete lack of understanding of the true reasons why people in the tech industry (who tend to be socially progressive) find the idea of fighting against gay marriage (which is what Brendan Eich did) completely appalling. You are also revealing yourself as an anti-progressive dinosaur who is on the wrong side of history when it comes to LGBT human rights.
On Science and Society
What would be the energy cost of artificially evolving human-equivalent AI?
The Secret Sauce For Twitter's Global Growth Strategy: Subsidized Data
Interesting that the author has a plug at the bottom for his new book, which he says he's been working on for the past 3 years. I guess his book writing got in the way of blogging.
Show HN: Linkwok- Your favorite search engines reimagined around YOU
Perhaps to throw a wrench into U.S. interests there? Being able to provide internal details of Israel's defense systems to anti-Israel factions would make U.S. intervention more necessary, allowing China a little more wiggle-room to do... something.
Yes, it did.

In the short term, making sure junk threads like this fall off the front page of the site (or to the bottoms of their threads) quickly is an important goal. That protects the site itself, by preventing it from collapsing in on itself due to pointless hostility. This is the problem the HN mods have been working on for the past year or so.

In the long term, figuring out how we can host relevant discussions about volatile partisan subjects is important, and I imagine something that will become a focus for moderation.

Not having completely solved the first problem, it's probably a bit wishful to hope that we can address the second one.

HN doesn't have to be all things to all topics. If we lose some stories in the service of repairing comity, I think that's a fine tradeoff in the short term.
Rather than some aimless techie kvetching, I'd just like to pass along a hearty congrats to the folks who made this happen. Great work, and I'm excited to use it!
Lotes comerciales en cancun
The tyranny of the battery equation?
I'd argue that a CEO's past causes and political background affects their ability to lead towards success.

Not because of innate analytical/communicative capacity difference in the individual, but just public relations angle and the ability to rally teammates of diverse backgrounds under one banner. It's nothing personal in that case. Just business.
I agree with most of the comments here, but wanted to add that when you are ready, if you are in the US, most business schools have an 'entrepreneurship club' or something similar, which mostly have a group of business-savvy people desperately looking for technical co-founders. The students running these clubs will be very receptive to an email from someone like you.
Not to be a contrarian, but there isn't really any reason to believe that the Model 3 will be any better than the already-on-the-market Nissan Leaf. Tesla hasn't really invented any new technology here that would be a game changer. The vague claim of a "closer alliance of Tesla and its battery supplier" isn't going to suddenly double the mileage when compared to the Lead- and it's not like Nissan hasn't been streamlining their production process for the past few years either.

The Model S is exceptional in that you can pay a ton of money and get an electric car with a very respectable range. But that doesn't really scale down when - like the article points out - most of the cost is in the battery.
I'm willing to agree with you about cabbies, but doesn't it seem absurd that Uber drivers ask for route information when they are already using a GPS-enabled smartphone with access to Google Maps' best routes for any time of day anyway?

It seems like a flaw in the Uber app that the customer can't just provide an intersection or an address, and the driver gets immediate turn-by-turn navigation. Yes, Uber still needs to blind the driver to destination until pickup, but it's not a huge obstacle.
"This is all well and good, but why does everyone need to have their own damn app?"

Also, why do all these damned apps have ridiculous access requirements ? In recent weeks I have been dismayed to find that HBO Go and Sonos apps both require access to all of my media files (android app) in order to be installed.

I'll bet that's not uncommon. Presumably it's just lazy development by people that don't know the finer points of the SDKs, etc., but it's pretty ridiculous what a lot of these apps (that, as the parent points out, aren't really necessary anyway[1]) require.

[1] HBO Go does not need to be an app, as demonstrated by the fact that I use it in my browser (OSX) every day.
One could say the same about the continued use of the word loophole in this context.

But I agree, that's part of my point. Just because one person feels it is a "loophole" that has some sort of negativity connected to it doesn't mean that everyone else will feel the same.

I agree with you again, that no law can be 100% clear and that's why we have the courts to decide on such things on a case-by-case basis. Until a court decides that the so-called loophole is illegal, then it is a legal thing to do. You cannot hold a person and/or company responsible for what was unsaid in a law nor when what is said is not always clear. If the thought is that the companies in question are not abiding by the law then take them to court, that's what the judges are there.

This whole meme that a company is immoral for not following the unsaid spirit of a law is just a result of people not knowing the proper thing to complain about when it comes to such laws.
The app does not need microphone access. You know it, I know it, NPR knows it.