skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Even better was that being followed with "Twitter emailed the text of the tweet to the Guardian".
At least in Germany, they've outsourced this to a sub-group of the Bertelsmann company ([1]). They're a big (international) media company. This kind of has a sour taste, given that they probably have economic stakes in the whole game.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/facebook-germany-idUSKCN0UT1G...
The author of this post, John McDevitt, passed away last year in March. I found out almost by accident after clicking on the front page to see if he had any more writing tips. Very sad.
Interesting project, and the visual display is appealing, but the results don't seem to be any better than from the recommendation engines of, for eg., Goodreads. In many cases, the other nodes end up being mostly other books by the same author, with one or two books by different authors in the same genre.

One thing that could improve this as an exploration and discovery engine is an option to disallow books by the same author as the original we input. That would allow me to, for eg., check out what books the engine thinks are similar to 'Thief of Time', without the result being just a bunch of other Discworld books (which is not really useful or new information).

Also, why so few related nodes (five) in the result? Is this a constraint placed explicitly or just a feature of the algorithm? Having more books returned would also help increase the probability that the user finds something actually useful and previously unknown to them.
Example of their executable format:

{
"$vminit" : {
"type" : "function",
"identifier" : "$vminit",
"nparam" : 0,
"nlocal" : 0,
"ntemp" : 0,
"nup" : 0,
"args" : false,
"bytecode" : "14000000300000011400000230000003",

I am unconvinced of the merits of this approach.
Interpreting the metrics is always going to be a hard thing and I really can't see how this can become a SAAS business. The metrics generation part can certainly be, but how you should react to the numbers will depend on the software being developed, the people developing the software, and so forth. Basically there are a lot of variables to consider.

However, if step 1 (collecting the metrics) is done poorly, you'll have no real way of making sense of what is going on and people tend to use this to push some agenda. The most important thing in my mind, is being able to capture information in a non-objective way. Developers, manager, project managers, etc. should be able to scrutinize the numbers. And to be able to do this, you need to be able to capture every line change and be able to abstract this change in a way that makes sense to upper management.

For example, since GitLab is a hot topic right now, I've decided to index it to see what is going. If you goto

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/graphs/contributors

you'll find GitHub's metrics for GitLab development. I like GitHub, but none of their metrics, provides any indicators for code quality or gives you any indicators of where to look for potential code quality problems. The closes thing is this:

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/graphs/code-frequency

but their date range is way too great to provide any meaningful metrics. Those large spikes in the past are creating way too much noise. However if you goto

http://imgur.com/lTW3lZh

you'll find a screenshot that shows the code churn for the master branch for the last 30 days. And that large spike not too long ago should make you wonder what's going on, and this is where being able to dig into the number is important.

Since everything is captured in a SQL database, a simple query shows the following:

13376 (total), 13376 (add), 0 (chg), 0 (del), fixtures/emojis/index.json

which explains everything. What this means to you will vary and it's why I don't think you can really make a SAAS business out of interpreting the numbers. The best you can do is capture everything under the sun and make it as easy as possible for them to make sense of the numbers.
As a counterpoint, I'd like to point out that it has never been easier to start your own business and instantly reach a worldwide marketplace. It has never been less expensive to make things to sell. It has never been more practical to work from your home for a company anywhere in the world.
You know how Mozilla recently had to delay the SHA1 deprecation in Firefox because it broke people behind shitty MITM "security" solutions? That crap often doesn't support any "modern" TLS features like SNI either.

See for example here:
https://palant.de/2014/05/27/proxies-breaking-up-ssl-connect...
I have never heard the term Sybil attack. I presume in the case of bitcoin a Sybil attack would be having your private key stolen?
The goals here seem to be data immutability and protection against tampering data.
(like in spy movies, when someone hacks a government server to add fake passport data, this should be impossible)

Also as elmar pointed out, they can have a robust network with no single point of failure.
Twitter are quite capable of falling over by themselves.
According to the Guardian, Twitter confirmed the worldwide outage by tweeting from their @support account. Realising the issue, they had to email the tweet so that news agencies could actually see it.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/19/twitter-do...
I don't use (or even know) ASL. My (hearing) mother tried to get me to learn it when I was younger and enrolled me in classes, but the age disparity and cliqueish community turned me off even when I was 6 or 7. I especially remember getting a list of restaurants that had accommodations for us, so we were encouraged to use them, and how that really rubbed me the wrong way (because my favorite wasn't on the list).

Rarely, ASL interpreters have been offered to me (high school, as an option to explore in college), but since I don't know ASL, it was never really an option for me. It definitely wouldn't be a realistic option here in Japan. (I imagine any Japanese-ASL interpreter could command a pretty penny for the very rare times that they're needed!)
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Has it been released into the public domain or is that a pirated ebook?
> nor BlackBerry

Maybe not for the old blackberries, but SNI works on BB10.
I should have clarified that I meant those dollar figures in real terms. In the scenario I'm describing one of them can buy 2x as many things while the other can buy 3x.

Inflation is a separate problem.
the correlation between democracy and the welfare (politically, socially, physically, ecoomically) of citizens seems very strong.

Could you show me what metric you are using to show that?

Singapore and Hong Kong are cities, and in many ways not comparable to nations.

So is your argument that "Democracy is correlated with quality of life if a country's landmass is greater than a particular area"?

Also, both are more democratic than most comparable places in East Asia.

Can you name what other comparable East Asian countries you are comparing them too? I'd say Japan and South Korea have roughly similar GDP/Capita, but both are more democratic than Singapore and Hong Kong and have lower quality of life.

Also, much of what you write seems focused on economics. For example, I don't think anyone sees the Saudi people's political rights, religious freedom, or the well-being of women there as very good.

Sure. But then on the other side you have Israel, which may not be as extreme as Saudi Arabia but certainly has issues with political rights and religious freedom. Other democracies like Malaysia and Indonesia also don't have the same freedoms around religious and political expression as are the norm in the US and Europe, rate comparatively low on the quality of life scale and yet are undeniably democratic (at least in the case of Indonesia - Malaysia does have some issues on that, and yet as a higher quality of life).

Or compare say China and India: on women's rights China is way ahead, and their whole population's quality of life has risen higher and quicker than India's, from a similar base.
Unfortunately Facebook, Twitter, slack, and others can not ... Yet?

Maybe that's not directly SEO but it is indirectly. Good open graph data makes links, at least on Facebook, arguably more compelling which makes them more likely to be clicked and/or shared which may lead to better SEO
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927716
It doesn't have to be just another abstraction layer. In Full Metal Jacket, there's no underlying human-readable text-based language. The abstract machine it's designed to run on is highly-concurrent (MIMD) dataflow, which is very different from the von-Neumann architecture. You can represent concurrency visually better and more clearly than textually, though a few dataflow-based textual languages exist such as SISAL.

At present, FMJ is interpreted and runs on a virtual dataflow machine. This was a necessary step to ensure the computation model was implemented accurately. Compilation to run on a single processor would actually be simplified, however: there's no parsing or dataflow analysis required. Looking into the future, the question that should really be asked is whether languages designed to run on a single processor, or to execute the same instructions in parallel (SIMD), can be easily adapted to run on MIMD architectures. Do you really want to be using MPI?
I was waiting on this to appear on Hacker News. I take to Twitter to complain whenever a service is down. Now that Twitter is down... I guess all that is left is this HN thread.
The one possible benefit would be immutable databases.
> I don't know a single french entrepeneur that doesn't think about leaving the country if its start up starts to become successful.

In that case, why don't they start their companies abroad from the start? basically, they want to enjoy the security offered by their country in case of failure, but they don't want to pay their share in case of success.

> French like big, safe, and conservative structures

What's wrong with that? many elite graduates (not only in France) choose to work for big corporations that provide great benefits and little risk. It seems to be a rationale choice.
Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then.
It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.
> Yes, these days it may be true without a job you lose purpose, love, acceptance and you lose belonging

Without a job you lose food, shelter, and medical care. Worry about those things first, look up Maslow, etc.
Fully agree: most of the IoT solutions are "unsexy" stuff.

It's often painfully hard to explain that the kickstarter-sexy projects are only the tip of the iceberg.

A BLE "smart" waffle machine would surely be fun, and good material for @internetofshit.
But while we're looking at useless/gadgets stuff, there are a LOT of useful (or at least midly interesting) things happening in the IoT.

Unsexy doesn't mean old. And IoT doesn't mean "smart device". A dumb sensor sending raw data can bring in a lot of valuable data.

Metering is still a thing, and i see new projects every week in various fields : agriculture, public equipments, healthcare, safety, ...
Lot of independent things that don't need to be used by a user, and that you don't especially know they are "connected"
If you click on a leaf node, it walks the graph, expanding as it goes. Managed to find a triangle at one point. I wonder what the edges really are - some similarity measure, but what exactly?
Russia is ahead of the UK on that one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35007059

"Russia passes law to overrule European human rights court" because it ruled that Russian surveillance of newspaper editors was a human rights violation.
Visited the status page where you have the option to tweet status problems.

I ended in a perfect loop circle.

//edit

as it looks like HN is now the twitter clone.

hey @support your service is down!
> Do you want an ISP filling your recipe reading with their advertisements.

Thought this would go in a direction where your ISP changes the ingredients :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912945
But in a crypto-ledger system, if a computer in the UK embassy in Kenya is infected, you will still be issuing fake passports. This is effectively moving the problem away from a central server to all of the clients, and I am not sure this improves security.

I would assume that cryptographic signatures are a better protection against tempering.
We’re already doing this in UK Government (well, minus some of the bits of blockchain that we don’t want). GDS blogs about our Registers platform regularly. More info:

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/01/registers-authoritative-l...

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/10/13/the-characteristics-of-a-...

The specification of our Registers is on the OpenRegister project: https://openregister.github.io/specification/
I have to disagree .. I used the Linux client extensively between 2008 and 2013 and it was just fine. There was an issue that caused it to hang and use 100% of it's assigned CPU from time to time but I was able to write a little watchdog script for that (: Could be it fell apart more recently than that but I think that could have been said of Skype in general ...
Think different?

No, exploit the same.
Why use blockchains? Blockchains for government make excellent sense for distributed data entry, such as processing that can happen in many locations.

Imagine many administrative offices that can create many drivers' licenses, or many city inspectors on many sites, or many doctors in many hospitals -- all with distributed capabilities to create data that is securely signed, tamper-resistant, immutable, transparent, accountable, and fault-tolerant.

Kudos to Sir Mark Walport and the UK.
But can't this be achieved with a simple cryptographic signature?
Pure evil...
Ah yes "the fail whale" was a common and much loved feature of day to day twife :-)
Our case was the other way around, Apple TV first, and we are currently working on the iOS app. We have a previous iOS app, but it only knows about alerts. A full dashboard monitoring app was on our roadmap, further down the line, but with the release of the Apple TV (and having the luck of being selected for a developer kit) we decided to tackle the tvOS version first.

This decision was made easier due to the fact that both platforms can run the same code, so most of the API interaction and view rendering code will be reused. It was mostly a greenfield project, because even though we leveraged the knowledge from our alerts iOS app, we took the opportunity of writing everything in Swift, which functional expressiveness makes it slightly more useful when it comes to dealing with APIs.
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BTW, this was fixed! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/513
That's basically what rats do. I've got pet rats and they're cute and intelligent, but they're rodents optimized for breeding. That can breed so fast it isn't even funny and they destroy everything with their teeth to either eat it or build nests from the bits and pieces or just to test it out with their teeth.
Note that the accepted answer there is wrong, as it ignores the fact that the question asker wanted to distribute virtual machines containing the software, which is a violation of the GPL. The currently second answer by h22 is correct.
I'm surprised there's been no mention yet of government transparency and accountability. This is one of the widely touted advantages of using a blockchain.

Another good example is George Galloway, who is running for mayor of London. He has committed to running the city's budget on a blockchain if he gets elected (he wont get elected but it's a nice idea) - https://www.startjoin.com/blockchain
I mean, one part of me has worked on the backend of uber-high-bandwidth computing services and understands that there is no analogue to performance at that scale, and the other part is like "IT PUTS WORDS THAT PEOPLE POSTED ON A BUNCH OF PAGES, YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN AFTERNOON."

So I guess I kinda get it.
Oh, I wouldn't worry about that :-) if you are concerned, just say it's rough and ready in the readme. I doubt anyone will be critical, and if they are then tell them to piss off!

The beauty of open code is others can help improve it
A solution looking for a problem ?
At least the violations are obvious when countries have to pass law to bypass this ruling.
And countries will also try to weasel out of rulings on other countries (which apply pretty much verbatim to them) until the ECHR rules specifically against them[0] e.g. France asserting that Salduz v Turkey and Dayanan v Turkey (right to remain silent and to a lawyer from the earliest stages of even temporary custody) didn't apply to it because the rulings were against Turkey.

[0] or their supreme court tells the government to lay off the crack pipe
Given that our Home Secretary recently stated that 'the UK does not undertake mass surveillance' to the investigatory powers government committee, I can't see this having any semblance of an effect (over here, at least).
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These kinds of apps would be appropriate for the platform, but you have to take into account the input from the user. Training material would need to be navigated with a remote (or a game controller) and for a video conf. app, you'd need a separate camera (so far, the USB port is not accessible, so it would need to be a bluetooth/wifi camera, most likely an iPhone)
What are the highest impact features you can build right now?
You should look up http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/07/save-secures-16-7-million-t...

300 hires in a year is no small feat, isn't it?
Yes - and this is often the case. There has been cases where legal decisions in Ireland have been appealed to the EUCHR and the decision there has overruled the Irish one. For instance http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/european-c...
> How do you add the numbers on landmarks? Do you just have a road sign with 42 miles to x, or a building with 8 windows?

It could be anything, what you said would work beautifully if it has occurred spontaneously to you. The key thing is it has to be very very natural to you but may not make any sense at all to others.

Example, one of the building I have assigned the number 78 as it is an old building and my father's age is around that.

> do all the landmarks need to be unique

Again it is a very personal decision. For me currently it is one pair of number per landmark as I did not want to 'overload' my system.
But if I think about it now, maybe after sometime when I'm comfortable with my current system I can assign another number to the same landmark... But I'm not going to risk it now :-).

If you really want to try it out, start with one thing now and see how it goes before doing for others.

Btw, I discovered this when reading 'Moonwalking with Einstein' (referenced by another commentator here). This book was in reading list of Bill Gates couple of years back.

To illustrate my earlier point, the title of the book does not make any sense at all, but that series of words is used by somebody in the book to remember certain things.
I don't think this is going to help their share price!
Isn't this the same as the rest of the population's opinion about advertising? Everyone thinks advertising works on other people, but not them.
If you hover over an edge you will see what similarity measure it uses.
Shared webhost here: It's one of those complicated part-technical, part-user education issues.

Technical: SNI breaks older browsers (IE on XP, older mobiles). Also requires a modern (ish) OS on the server, if using CPanel, which like, every shared host in the world is pretty much.

User Education: Explaining exactly which clients will be broken is hard, etc.

#2 is basically gone now, because the users who would be broken are broken by the removal of SSLv3 and insecure crypto anyway - so we've now already killed them and can SNI without having to explain anything complicated to the user.
>I hate this fear you've succumbed to...

You're reading something into my post that isn't there. What in the world are you talking about?
I don't trust this site.

They haven't even heard of <title> tag.
Decentralized consensus does not solve data immutability. The append-only feature in Blockchain does that. So, you only need an append-only DB, without any form of decentralization, to do the same job.
Although this is a cute little project, isn't the name rather misleading?
Instead of a generator isn't this actually a markdown to HTML renderer?
No mention of Azure or Windows Containers!?
I did not mean it like that, I am genuinely interested.
Then meet me. I can also give you a list of french entrepreneurs that love Paris, France and hire a lot of people. Just look at Save, BlaBlaCar and Criteo.
Also, remember that our social system is the biggest VC in Europe, allowing thousand of entrepreneurs to keep their "old job salaries" while working on their own companies.

It seems to me you are just the typical example of "French Bashing" : always complaining and seeing the bad side of things.
liked one metaphor in the article: golden handcuffs
Twitter is down and I can't tweet about it :(
Hey, people misinterpreted my post (can't blame them, it was very sparse). I am genuinely interested in the kind of money this can generate and would highly appreciate regular follow-ups if you don't mind sharing.
I am a little surprised no one answered this.

The field of memory training has a system (called the major system) for converting arbitrary numbers into words by assigning distinct sounds to the 9 digits - 0 is s, 1 is t(d), 2 is n and so on.

For example, 95 would be p + l sound - say a pillow. Try to visualize a giant pillow (have something exaggerated and preferably silly) on that spot.
You really don't think this is a sin of omission? The abuse is happening multiple suppliers away from the companies in question. And Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung are reportedly implicated. I'm not pessimistic enough to think they are conspiring to keep Congolese children abused.

None of this excuses it, and now that is brought to light I expect at the very least that these particular vendors are dropped. But comments like yours seem either intentionally inflammatory or very naive.
It is the maximum that is safe (3 wide has a person in the middle with no handrail and if anyone fell, they would become a bowling ball).

It is much more efficient than 1 person wide - two double-wide escalators offer more capacity than the 3 single-wides that fit in the same space, and likely consume less energy and cost less to maintain.
My research is on hierarchies of composable domain-specific languages (see github, account 'combinatorylogic').
And here I was hoping that "%Y+1 will be the year of Linux on the desktop" has died a quiet death sometime around 2008 ;)

But indeed - despite all its shortcomings, Linux is becoming more attractive (or rather, Windows Nein is becoming radically less attractive with all those new artificial barriers tacked on top of the old-and-familiar ones).
No Linux or Windows support?
Well, one factor is the sample size is very small.
Don't you say?