skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can someone actually build this service? thx.
Gawker's Data on Ad Blocking
7 Surprising Challenges of Implementing Big Data
If they'd been able to hang in until Carly Fiorina is the U.S. President, they could have had the entire U.S. government for a client...
You seem to be taking contradictory positions, or I'm misunderstanding. You think that open relationships are the best way to go. But then you say that most people wouldn't go for them if religious strictures were lifted. Are you drawing a distinction based on religion specifically versus culture overall? One would presume that worldwide, if there was no "artificial oppression", people would naturally be mostly into open relationships if that's truly the natural state.
Cue the press release announcing their assets have been purchased by Acquirely...
drop the 'shut'; downly, downjoy, and eventually migrate to down.io and down.com, they would certainly have succeeded
Impressive. I hardly remember an old internet, but well, created a website at times when people used to use <marque> tag. :-) This site made me think about it. Probably we've lost something with this whole progress and knowledge how to design, maybe started overdoing it often? I don't know. Thanks.
I've pondered this too.

I have a friend who is a successful business person and know some others - none in the finance industry.

These are just observations from a tiny sample size. First I am surprised that none understand the finance industry; understandable since they were too buzy building a business to worry about anything but cashflow. More importantly is that I think they all suffer from a cogitative bias - they all ignore survivorship bias and believe they can beat the "system" which makes them susceptible to slick finance sales pitches. That sounds a bit cruel - i don't mean it to be; the same attitude got them to where they are.
+1 for sincere thanks. bootstrap is one of many factors that had made a lean development approach so much easier.
Glad to see this happen.

Looks pretty barren currently (and prices are high!), but I've long been waiting for a much higher quality version of wrapbootstrap/envato marketplaces.

Hopefully they won't be accepting any low quality themes -- parallax, anyone?!

Though also that price is really high.

Edit: Ironically, my favorite theme is the one they are using on the marketing site for this themes website! Hope they put it up for sale. And that admin theme is pretty gorgeous too. I'm excited about this!
Thing is, by using a cross-platform drawing library like Cairo or OpenGL, a lot of this code could have been reused anyway.

It wouldn't have been as nice or expressive as Javascript though. But it also wouldn't have required hacks like stitching together a giant string to be `eval`', for example. So there's a tradeoff.
Unfortunately, I regret to inform you that the sum total of their assets is already freely available and downloadable on the web. I don't think they'll be able to sell them for much after that sort of IP disaster. Another business destroyed by CTRL-S piracy. When will the browser vendors take this sort of thing seriously and put DRM on web pages?
"How can daddy's job be so boring when his hobbies are so cool"
The single biggest reason why startups succeed
I believe that to be the best technical document I've ever read. Surely biased as I learned so much.
Yes, because I think about profit more than one or two quarters down the road.
No way zenshutdown.com
World’s smallest drone launches next month – Aerius
Crash-Only Software (2003) [pdf]
The only charitable interpretations of this comment I can figure out are either "Mozilla shouldn't bother improving its core technology because it's doomed anyway" or "Mozilla should build a 'native' OS stack to push its browser", which are gratuitous negativity and off-topic/silly, respectively.
you added the entire bootstrap project to your repo?
Thanks! I am pondering how I want to take this, but I want it to stay pretty lean because I like it more and it's faster to develop. I'll consider a dev blog, probably just in the form of a more comprehensive about page.
Haha it's fooling virtually everyone in this thread
For anyone else who had to dig around to figure out what Ionic was:

> Ionic is a powerful HTML5 SDK that helps you build native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. [0]

[0]: http://ionicframework.com/docs/overview/
JungleDisk (http://jungledisk.com) meets several your criteria and has Linux/Mac/Windows support, but its just too bad that since Rackspace bought them they've focused almost entirely on Rackspace's cloud storage offerings. It started with AWS support (and which I still use, but which is hard to buy from JungleDisk these days) and there originally were hints when they first added Rackspace support that they might continue to support arbitrary cloud storage backends and yet that never materialized. JD has nice sync engine and a good "shared source" deduped backup "vault" format. I just wish that JD would either Open Source their software or get back around to supporting more cloud backends. I get that Rackspace wants to focus on their own offerings, but I'd love to see the JungleDisk client get more capable, again.
> but this tech is still very far from a conscious piece of tissue in a dish.

I suspect that will help its adoption. Not so many ethical or para-ethical issues for the press to get upset about. It's just meat.
Good read. How long do your keep your transactions logs and how often do you make backups?
Don't feel bad for taking it seriously. I can't tell satire these days. The world is too strange.
The funny thing is this actually could be a good idea. Big companies do source code escrow as part of on premise software purchases. A SaaS equivalent which handled data portability, ongoing legal/compliance, etc, as a 10% surcharge on invoices or something, could solve this for SaaS, making purchases happen when they might not now.
If you guys don't know the author (Shaun Gallagher), he's a pretty awesome guy!

He's also the author of http://www.correlated.org/
No, my description is correct, though I left out "assuming the null hypothesis is true."

The equal probability you are describing is for the p-value itself being more extreme, not the result.
https://twitter.com/shaun_gallagher/status/63410695062035251...
I guess Backbone uses jQuery too.
As a very loyal and frequent shutdownify customer, I am willing to save the business. Offer is equity only.
In USA: "marry ketchup bottles"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB961626630107390259
"in 2008, science and engineering doctorate holders up to three years out of school had just 1.5 percent unemployment"

I'm not worried about them not being able to pay their debts for undergraduate loans.
How about getshutdown.com?
Yeah but actually would have been better if they had registered the domain some time ago,let it bake for some time, and then put up the shutdown page and watch as HN commenters questions but took them somewhat seriously.
I feel very good: they are tools and the only way they can intentionally harm us is for all of them to collectively commit suicides.
There's a "protector", but the protection isn't guaranteed to be 100% effective.

That's an OK use of the language in this context and has many parallels in other fields. E.g. using a condom as protection against pregnancy and disease. Many people have learned the hard way that it's not 100%.
Active data, not passive storage: Using Docker for extensible data
Yep. They could also use some shared C/C++ bits to generate various drawing metadata ("the model") and delegate the rendering/input handling to whatever platform-specific APIs.

It may be more work, but if you're not going to build an actual native app, why bother? These apps are built as a sales point ("look, we have a Mac app!"), without the customer in mind.
You will have a mapping table: Public_Guid, Private_ID

Every request has to convert the public, non-guessable GUID into the private ID that will be used in the lookup query.
This is Mario Maker's most annoying feature
Thank you very much for your comments.

I have thousands of folders and files that I work on and I really don't want to drag every single one of them to a virtual drive on my computer after I am done with them.

The folders and files themselves are already sitting inside a virtual drive that was created with Truecrypt as I work locally on my computer.

I just don't want to create a Dropbox or Boxcryptor like virtual drive on my computer and drop and drag files into them before uploading.

I want those folders and files automatically encrypted and uploaded as I work on them.
"x is with a likelihood of 95% between a and b" -- that is not what a confidence interval means. Confidence intervals are about as confusing as p-values and don't really solve the problem.
My impression is that they want to invest in these exclusive vehicles precisely because they're exclusive.

Also, these are human beings not homo-economicus or even necessarily financially savvy people. Very successful people also tend to have over-confidence. Sure, most hedge-funds under-perform the market, but some perform very well, and I know how to pick those.
Not as ludicrously contrived as an html parser using regexps.
Can someone please take the team and tell us what it is?
I like that a lot. I wonder if it might be possible to use Unicode zero width space and zero width non-joiner characters.. Then there wouldn't even be any white space to see.
How do you think they feel about that?
For all the satisfied clients, and the investors that just took a writedown on this year's tax return, now's a good reminder that the Internet Archive accepts donations:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150819204235/http://www.shutdow...
They got VC funding‽

craziness… I don't believe it.
This is the Silicon Valley version of Möbius Strip.
Why that standardization should be done a la Bootstrap and not any other framework?
The proof is in the pudding, which begs a large question that's growing like Topsy.

Now I need to take a shower.
A band isn't only defined by its members, though. They can have a distinct sound, a preferred genre, even various brandings and styles that make for a markedly different performance.
Yet another way to avoid using C++
> In the end, the user doesn't care what it's built with.

Let alone the user who is facing a shutdown of their business.
Thanks for the tip. The FAQ entry certainly wasn't meant to be standoffish, but I've edited it - what do you think?
What I find more intriguing in this article is that whenever I click in the "Śūnyatā" reference link (by the end of the page) it moves to the column on the right side.

Would that be the same link or is it a new one?
Making Sense of Google and Alphabet
Fixing the Scientific Peer Review
Thick Apps Still Lose
The problem with p-values summed up in a comic, one of my all-time favourites, in fact:

https://xkcd.com/882/
Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Containers
...and http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com. Awesome stuff!
And then how do you know the formal definition you give to Cryptol is correct? How do you know that Cryptol correctly transforms the formal definition to a logic circuit? How do you know it correctly transforms your C/Java/Assembly/VHDL to a logic circuit?

Its a deep rabbit hole.
Yes. You have to start a webbrowser control, which reads the JS code and compiles it every time it runs, additionally the added sandboxing and abstractions (that are unnecessary in this case) also add to power usage and lower performance.

A better solution would have been something like OpenGL.
As a engineering student I have been very frustrated about this.

One of the main reasons why I think engineering is failing in the west is the deep separation between the math and actual production.

Software is an exception and this is why the US churns out world class software engineers.

But I think rather and throwing more billions into teachers and saddling students with more debt it would be be much better if the mid-level technical jobs existed to allow mid-level engineers to learn from experience rather than excel purely symbolicly ( in maths )
They need a dot com, so strike out the .io [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
Experiment (YC W13) Now Supports DOIs
most ? even one abrogation is a serious issue!
By working at a place that recognises a need for these tasks and hires specifically for them!
My thoughts went from satire, to serious, then back to satire. It's worrying how plausible it was that this was a real business at some point in time.
There was a company called AIDS that eventually changed its domain name from AIDS.COM...
I love this insight. Thank you.
App's first screen has typo: "please condifm your country code [...]"

Just FYI :)
If someone can find an out, someone on HN will find it.
You do run into messy ones that you basically have to repair before you use, but those themes are often very high quality under the hood.
Shutdownify's last meal is its own dog food.

Believed it right up to this brilliant bit of snark.

(re)Curse you, Shutdownify!
Wow, I wanted this recently. Anyone know stuff related to graph databases and how those work?
> The spouses who believed they were in a monogamous marriage deserve a divorce and the chance to be with someone honest who cares about them.

I agree, but that's not for us to act upon.
Some people do OpenCL / CUDA work as GPUs do some things exponentially faster than CPUs do. Nvidia pretty much beat everyone in this game, including Intel, with the Phi.
This is a fascinating perspective. It is great that so many companies in the Silicon Valley are now offering such generous paid parental leave. But when compared to the paid parental leave that the majority of the families in America get (i.e., none), it seems that paid parental leave is now becoming a benefit exclusively for the elite.
But those attributes are defined by the members. :)
Anyone know of any rust based databases being worked on? Relational or otherwise...
I like this summary of the evidence that most published research is false[1]:

-"One of the hottest topics in science has two main conclusions:

Most published research is false

There is a reproducibility crisis in science

The first claim is often stated in a slightly different way: that most results of scientific experiments do not replicate."

- [Ioannidis'] "Paper: Why most published research findings are false.

Main idea: People use hypothesis testing to determine if specific scientific discoveries are significant. This significance calculation is used as a screening mechanism in the scientific literature. Under assumptions about the way people perform these tests and report them it is possible to construct a universe where most published findings are false positive results.

Important drawback: The paper contains no real data, it is purely based on conjecture and simulation."

- then it summarises in the same way 7 other papers, including the Many Labs results.

-"I do think that the reviewed papers are important contributions because they draw attention to real concerns about the modern scientific process. Namely

We need more statistical literacy
We need more computational literacy
We need to require code be published
We need mechanisms of peer review that deal with code
We need a culture that doesn't use reproducibility as a weapon
We need increased transparency in review and evaluation of papers"

- the final paragraph:

"The Many Labs results suggest that the hype about the failures of science are, at the very least, premature. I think an equally important idea is that science has pretty much always worked with some number of false positive and irreplicable studies. This was beautifully described by Jared Horvath in this blog post from the Economist. I think the take home message is that regardless of the rate of false discoveries, the scientific process has led to amazing and life-altering discoveries."

[1] http://simplystatistics.org/2013/12/16/a-summary-of-the-evid...
Oh, the people do care.

Even my mum complains every day about it. "Can’t be that a 4 year old smartphone can’t run a chat app like whatsapp fluently"

But she refuses to buy a new phone, because that would just fuel this even more.
Show HN: Switch-Case Construct in 3 Lines of Python
... in part due to some hilariously complicit Hacker News accounts that are making serious-sounding comments. Not gonna lie; I was initially fooled.
Nice work! This is going to be alot of fun.
This piece is by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton.
I can't speak on sustainability because I can't speak to cost to support that much infrastructure.

Just seems a little low on storage and I think AWS's free tier offers more.
"After you place an order at a kiosk, you pick it up a few minutes later behind a glass door or “cubby.” The only humans in sight are the concierges, who can answer questions that you may have about the software, and the dozen or so staff in the kitchen."

They've re-invented the Automat, little glass doors and all.[1] The first Automat opened in 1887, and the last one closed in 1991.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
> the cloaked region is actually a long tube with a hole through the middle

Exactly, and if you can make that hole small enough and long enough with the viewport being large enough, you could use this to tunnel view through static large structures that aren't bothered by small tunnels through them.
JMK: In the long run we're all dead.

Would've made a good corporate motto.
I heard a legend that the Shutdownify stack detects that an entry has been created for Shutdownify itself. When that happens, it is treated like a FIN packet: the software serves up the shutdown notice, but schedules an actual shutdown of itself after a configured period.
I know this is meant as a joke, but as a just do some good in world service - it's not a bad idea: kind of like a hospice for startups.

Shutting down your baby is not a fun process. It's exponentially worse if it involves money from people close to you, laying off employees, and / or a very public notice to the whole (startup) world. I'm pretty sure everyone involved would be exhausted in every way. It would nice if there were people who could ease the pain. It's probably not something you conquer the world with, but it would make this place suck just a little less (maybe as a non-profit).
Actually, it tells us all a lot about the world when we think, even for the briefest moment "well, I guess, it isn't the most absurd thing I've heard".
Thanks for sharing your story. I can't stand arbitrary deadlines/targets just because a number sounds good. But the fact that the core functionality was overlooked is really telling of the challenges you faced.

Hopefully you're somewhere better now.
Giphy.com Node.js API
This isn't the first, but it is the only node module with complete Giphy API support. It is also very well tested!
I wonder if they're doing any sort of de-duplication. Surely 1000s of instances of the same jquery, bootstrap, etc shouldn't count towards JavaScript's language total.
sounds like something that soylent guy would do!
That's the one. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life
Or just cut out all sweets and snacks with added sugars.
Agreed. Servo (or any other multi-threaded engine) will definitely be a game changer.

I'm curious - when is Servo going to be smacked inside Firefox? We need that lovely thing right now.
There's plenty of us (game developers) that do our best to push the hardware!
Zero mention of robots in the article... disappointed.
I haven't used the application (can't on Linux), but if the graph doesn't require user interactivity, using Cairo or some other software renderer (e.g. http://www.antigrain.com/) to just render the graph into a bitmap, would do the job faster and with less resource usage. Adding user interactivity on top of that shouldn't be a lot of work either.
Sadly, my first thought was someone tried to outsource the gathering of company failures to the actual company so they could write an f'd company article for the ad revenue. Worse, this didn't sound as bad as other business concepts.
You know what a straw man argument is, right? It's on Wikipedia if you don't. The straw man that you constructed is that the "activists" would just switch to Wal-Mart. Your argument falls apart with that assumption. I believe it to be a safe bet that anyone that quits buying from Amazon because they mistreat their highly-paid upper middle class workers sure as hell isn't going to be shopping at Wal-Mart which abuses minimum wage workers who don't have nearly the job mobility of a software developer. In other words, why would you think one would switch to shopping at a company who exploits workers who are worse off than the ones at Amazon?
Sensational title. The actual stone age was called such because humans were actively modifying and creating new stone tools.
Wait a sec, I thought five week old fetuses weren't human.
and what about all the ways they can unintentionally harm us, since they are bugs without the mental facility to intentionally harm us? Furthermore, what does the nature of the intent have to do with the effect... whether they all commit suicide or are killed by our hand... we are in the same place.
I never posed that question. (hint: sibling did)

I merely countered the plight of old VW owners with that of new VW owners.
Thanks to everybody for your advice. I've decided to accept the airline software development company offer.
I'm just way more interested in the technologies they are using and as someone said it looks like in the IT security company i would mostly be doing Kendo UI charts.
That is then mathematically impossible.

What if I edit the same pixel, in the same image, in the same nanosecond on two different devices, and then sync?

There are situations where conflicts are necessary. The focus should be on making conflict resolution easily accessible, not on trying to be smart and overriding files at random
But those members may choose a different set of attributes to build a different band brand.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that p-values are useful when used once to evaluate preselected hypotheses with preselected thresholds. This is a common defense of p-values.

Here's what doesn't add up for me: this implies that for many configurations, p-values are invalid. But what was it about preselecting the experimental conditions that really makes them any different? What makes initially chosen hypotheses of higher quality than iteratively discovered, "p-hacked" hypotheses?

The need for careful selection of a limited set of variable combinations in advance seems symptomatic that the test being employed is not robust. I'm not convinced that even limited application of p-value significance testing is actually valid.
Thank you! These are all great suggestions. I am probably just going to go down the line and add most of these. I want to stray away from user accounts because they take time and resources, but I'm not sure if that's the right call. I'm erring on the side of improving the core functionality before the user accounts. The list of lists is also a great idea, that should probably tie in with user accounts.

FYI you can enter custom foods (primitively) by typing e.g. 500, 20g, 30g, 37g. This definitely should be improved in the future though.

Pics, or some clip-art style stuff would be a good idea for giving more feedback on what is entered. The larger idea of pictures is good but I'm not going to pursue it right now.

Data source is USDA along with a bunch of other various sources that I scraped. I believe scraping is 100% legal here because nutrition labels are not proprietary.

I will add an about page, that is a good idea. Backend is Python/MySQL on DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean was a hassle (not DO itself, but just getting the server set up) but I have been learning a lot. It's fast because I spent a long time optimizing how queries were analyzed and the MySQL queries themselves.