skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then let others rate the complexity/novelty/nicheness? Of course asking users to rate on multiple dimensions is a problem on its own.

It may come off as elitist, but it may also help to find newcomers things they can contribute to. Similar to "good first bug" tagging on some bug trackers it could also help others to filter out things they can help with or that are too boring for them to bother with.

Efficient allocation of expertise is necessary.
Could be using something like IFTTT with a simple rule
RSS to Post Immediately on Forum
The Arctic Bumblebee
That is the obvious answer, do you have any scripts you could share?
To me, the example bot seems to have the potential to direct the search toward overly complex implementations. By which I mean, carrying on a intelligible chat about cars in general is along the lines of the Turing test. Yet, most chat bots are built to solve practical problems, and the 'chat' in 'chat bot' is often just a description of the technical context, a chat app and 'chat bot' is simply a bot that does something when chat text is directed at it. For example, a chat bot is more likely to compile the code than discuss compilers. Then again, people who want to discuss compilers or cars probably want to discuss them with other people more than a computer.

This means that most practical chat bots are along the lines of the first approach. Which makes them simpler to implement and less computationally intensive to run. It may or may not make them more fun to create from a developer's perspective.

Good luck.

Good luck.
It isn't just about users, its also about malicious software you may accidentally install, if for example a library you use is compromised as has happened before with Ruby gems.
Manic Digger can actually use the old Minecraft Classic protocol and hence act as a comparible Minecraft Classic clone, or at least it could in the past (maybe it was eventually removed). It's a secret feature, I think it was hidden behind some sort of flag.
For one, because whereas there were 10 distractions back in the day, nowadays there are 1000. Email, Web, YouTube, social media, mobile apps, and tons of other things all demanding (or getting anyway) attention and time.

On top of that we now have "on demand" almost everything, from knowledge and info, to stuff (e.g. one day delivery, etc).

Plus, the pace of stuff like new music, video, etc releases is far greater than back in the day (back in the day not everyone could release their own music to the other end of the world either).

And people now do 2-3 things at the same time, all the time -- work, listen to music on headphones, surf the web and check their FB etc -- back then even listening to music on headphones while working was a novelty (not to mention rare and frowned upon). Or go out for a coffee with friends and check their smartphone all the time, etc.

Ever tried spending a day in the 70s or 80s? Most of that time it was sitting around doing nothing -- at all.
Go for http://www.spoj.com/, every question there needed an algorithm and doing one question per day will help you in getting better and better in algorithms per day.
This is actually a pretty fun project, and can be a good introduction for people when they start learning about these fields !
'djob anyways !
End of a Rainbow Caught on Tape
They may be referencing IDEO's Human-Centered Design [1].

I think the danger is that if you don't intentionally use human-centered design processes, you could end up "just getting it done", or "reducing cost", or nothing at all in the center.

Surely you've heard some horror story of engineers spending millions of dollars designing software, but they neglect to include the end users in the design process. What happens in this story? It finally makes it to the users and they deem it unusable.

There was a fun little incident in Canada recently where this was probably part of the issue [2].

[1] http://www.designkit.org/human-centered-design

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/psac-pro...
I don't work there anymore, so I don't have access to the exact rule I used, but IIRC it was something like

iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT -d 169.254.169.254 -m owner \! --uid-owner 0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-admin-prohibited
irregular work schedules set by employers on short notice

I suppose that's flexibility for some definition of 'flexibility'.
That's really useful. Depends how many of the engines (Magento etc) use this - but I'll look into it. Thank you
But the data is not static.
Sustainability starts to gain traction with investors
Thank you. I'll check these out and also drop you a line
I liked the idea of getlivead.com and went to the pricing page.

149 for what time period? Hard to sign up like that.

For most people, that is way too much for a tool that only does one niche thing. The thing is, everyone could use that one niche thing every once in a while. You should have a casuals tier with limited use/time for people who have some stuff to sell because they are moving or whatever. Bigger clients could give it a test run and upgrade if they want.
IRC v3
EC2 instances are designed to enforce isolation between instances, not processes. Presumably there would only be one primary service running on each.

Use AWS be pushed towards an architecture based on containers and services. AWS is the OS, not any individual machine.
Are the building codes really so restrictive as to prevent building housing for homeless people without ignoring them?
Revenue is from people paying for access?
What? What does entropy have to do with it?
Automatic updates are essentially routine now, to get "important security updates" if for no other reason. In that setting, I think your line of reasoning is nearly irrelevant. "Never upgrade again, and never be able to install on another machine" doesn't have much functional similarity to "Lifetime license for the software"
Righhht...
MongoDB DAO plugin for Para, 1.21.0 released
We need bacteria that does
Smart Contracts: The Blockchain Technology That Will Replace Lawyers
The toothbrush test isn't just retention, it's also about sales velocity. A product used monthly tends to have a slower sales velocity than a product used weekly. The pace of the decision cycle is related to frequency of use. For a monthly use product, the moment the customer learns about the product will be an average of 2 weeks from when she needs it. That's two weeks for her mind to get distracted with other things. It's easy for the evaluation to get pushed by one or more intervals, and even once the decision to purchase has been made, there might be a month delay before the close and that's a month in which urgency can fade and a chance for it to get set aside.

Note how sales velocity and retention are similar, can you retain customer interest long enough to close a sale?

There are successful occasional use products. It's not meant as a threshold or black and white test, its just one factor to consider when choosing which business to start.
Righhht... only in silly valley perhaps. Ya can have the crowd that programmed Ashley Madison
Would you consider contributing to Erowid[0]? There are only a few articles on Depakote, and they don't seem to be focused on the direct effects of prescribed use.

[0] https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Pharms_Divalproex.sh...
> They've clearly stepped up their design chops in recent years.

1) https://i.imgur.com/VAwaroi.jpg

2) https://i.imgur.com/mSGwDsg.jpg

3) https://i.imgur.com/ZuOKBmF.jpg

4) https://i.imgur.com/IRTqmZL.jpg
Thanks! We wrote some blog posts last year, but I've been meaning to do an update on the whole project.

Here's our main site:
www.hackerparadise.org

Here's a blog post with some of our marketing experiments:
http://www.hackerparadise.org/blog/2015/05/06/marketing-less...

What would you like to know more about?
Yes, it's a simple purchase and then the customer has access to all the content.
Adsense. I experimented with Amazon Affiliates, but that made me 1/10th of the money.
In what language?
His brain is made for math, he’s willing to risk it on the field for the Ravens
The Stats Behind Product Hunt: Why You Should Launch Exclusively (2015)
How did you get those sponsors?
Document Structure Analysis Algorithms: A Literature Survey [pdf]
Welcome to a world without work
I feel particularly burned by the GitKraken price inversion, because I'd advocated it as a good free tool to help the windows-bound see git in an idiom they found natural. As a free tool it seemed a brilliant marketing ploy, a loss leader to their family of products, an opportunity to convince a potential customer of their design chops. It even made it worth loading their web page. (full-screen background animations? Really?)

I feel baited, switched, and played. Oh, well.
This is a good idea, and then potentially classes can be recorded and that would be another product (or special tier). I think this applies equally to other similar products.
I think another side effect is that as the rules get enforced more, there's less decedenting opinion, for fear of starting a big flame war and getting banned, or the people who would post opposite view points end up banned after not "being polite".

So the subreddit just turns into a big feel good circle jerk over a topic which tends to drive new people away.
Website background becomes black as soon as I scroll down, making all the text unreadable and the entire site unusable. Chrome 53.0.2785.143 on OS-X 10.11.6
New Phone: Samsung Galaxy S III Phone with Replicant
Most of it is - your instance ID, network position, etc, will never change after boot (or 'start' if you stop it) - so caching it is just fine. There's very little that will change on a running instance except of course, the IAM credentials referred to in this article (as they expire within 90 minutes IIRC).
I made http://feeder.co, a Chrome extension to simulate Firefox's RSS live bookmarks back in 2010. Now it has 500,000 active installs on Chrome and our cloud hosted service is netting around 1500 USD each month after costs (1700 subscriptions).

Me and my twin brother have had it as a passive income thingie for years. After a failed attempt at selling it (SaaS metrics are NOT easy) we met a guy who saw some potential and we're finalizing paperwork with our lawyer to create a Swedish limited company right now with him as co-founder. We will try to take the plunge and get it running as a full time company within a couple of years!

Achieving a lifestyle passive income project is surprisingly hard...
Ranking Visualizations of Correlation Using Weber’s Law [pdf]
Man, just a few days ago I was bummed that the top comment on most HN stories is critical or dismissive, and now I'm part of the problem.

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People have made some VERY COOL stuff using MineTest.

Check out spheretest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztAg643gJBA
Then why even make this comment?
Snort can at least get you close. A custom snort module maybe able to do the specific cert: https://www.snort.org/faq/readme-ssl

It's stream5 preprocessor can deal with most evasion techniques as it does full tcp stream reconstruction.

http://manual-snort-org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/n...
"A decentralized web would be very slightly inconvenient to the people so forget about your freedom and privacy who cares about that."

More realistic title. It would make for a shorter article though.
Terasology: Open-source voxel world
Discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529846
i remember that Bjarne Stroustrup held a talk in cppcon15 where he talked a lot about the GSL library [1] - it would add type annotations that can be checked by a tool, so as to check for potential memory problems (to me that sounds like a poor man's borrow checker).

One year later: i see the template library [1] but i don't see the analysis tool. Does anybody know what happened with this initiative?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A

[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL
> I don't understand how I could pair-program effectively on a code base that I'm seeing for the first time and don't know the first thing about.

Nobody expects you to magically know anything about code you've never seen before. That would be absurd.

The point is to get a sense of how you think and work as an engineer. We deliberately say that there are no "wrong" answers, that it's impossible to fuck up.

We want to know about the candidate. The decision is about hiring a person, not a list of codebases.

(Sorry for the slow reply, I was rate-limited.)
The blog post buries the lead a little bit because it's talking about lots of pain points with the ec2 API and IAM. The important point to take away is that any process with network access running on your instance can contact the EC2 metadata service at http://169.254.169.254 and get the instance-specific IAM credentials.

Think about things like services that accept user submitted URLs, crawl them, and display results...
You can try competitive programming course by ITMO on edx (https://www.edx.org/course/how-win-coding-competitions-secre...). It's going to start on 17th October.
Just split the bill into a variable and non-variable part, like most other countries do it?
Almost anywhere in the US has very strict building codes.
I've launched Sentopia (https://www.sentopia.net) as a side project and it is still easily making over 1K with just 2 medium sized clients but it is not passive income, requires some maintenance & customer support but still very much worth it.

This year we're launching new features and a simple API: (https://sentopia.net/apidoc/)
I built my side project "Documentation Hub for Developers" DocsApp.io (https://www.docsapp.io/). I spent 1 year+ to build it. Current revenue around $800 per month. Now I still spending night time and weekends to enhance it. HTTPS for custom domain powered by LetsEncrypt is on roadmap.

The project started because there is always need for documentation for software projects (in my career), and a lot companies are not used to have one. At the same time, I want to learn Scala so I pick up Play! framework to play and build real world app.

Happy to answer any questions!
This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.
I’m not assuming it is limited to gaming journalism, but I can only prove that it is happening in gaming journalism, and I don’t want to make any unproven accusations.
I wasn't being aggressive or an asshole, I was being literal. Everyone can accuse everyone else of being myopic when they feel their perspective is reasonable, justified, and un-shared. It wasn't my intention to insult, but I see how it could be taken so. I offer my apologies.
Because Techcrunch didn't link to any of the projects they're talking about, here they are:

https://ipfs.io/

http://dat-data.com/

https://blockstack.org/

https://www.ethereum.org/
Common nonsense
Mmm nice idea. I'm wasn't thinking whether restaurants would be willing to pay for something like that. Maybe I should give more thought to it. At the moment I am pulling data from public apis. Maybe I should think more about making a db of my own :)
I've been told that the window for accelersted language learning is much shorter than general high neuroplasticity, and that the best language-learners are adults that practice learning new languages over and over again.
> "And if humans could see magnetic lines, we'd all certainly be better matched to our earth environment, so does that mean all humans disabled?"

In the sense of being fully aware of our environment then yes, all humans are disabled in that regard.

Furthermore, disability is not a binary categorisation where you're either disabled or you're not, it's a scale, but crucially it's a scale based on your abilities to engage in the world around you and inside of you. We only use typical human behavior as a measuring point so that we can categorise people in a binary fashion. In other words, you can look at disability through the lens of human society in order to class a person as disabled, but disability can be thought of in much more general terms, which is where the WHO definition comes in.
Glad to hear that you live in a country where people generally have to be sued in order to be punished.
I don't think you spend a lot of time around children they can pick up new things very quickly, but they are missing out on some basic skills. Playing an instrument is a mix of hand eye coordination which is hard for kids, and a new set of mental process which is easy. Adults have the opposite problem, they have plenty of hand dexterity but have a hard time without a background in music.
The real issue is that we need to make it illegal to give out free content, unless it's distributed under an open license. Otherwise advertising-supported businesses will always be able to outcompete everyone else via dumping, and these businesses always benefit from being increasingly centralized. That's why we don't have liberal newspapers anymore in the U.S., because ad supported papers put them all out of business.

At the very least people need to be trained that it's unethical to surf the web without using an adblocker.
Do you have any plans for a linux release? Or a windows?
I'm not a programmer so forgive my armchair ignorance, but as a player I've found Minetest to run exceptionally smoothly even on 10+ year old hardware with crappy integrated video. On the other hand, Minecraft on a modernish Haswell based PC with a GTX 960 requires Optifine to run as smoothly as Minetest does on that ancient machine.

"(B)ig hairy ball of C++" or not, somehow it's optimized to the point that it feels more modern and advanced than Minecraft, if not as visually polished. My question is, is this purely a C++ vs Java thing? I've played some Java games that look and play awesome on older hardware so I have to wonder what the deal is with Minecraft.
For those not in the know or too lazy to Google, that's "the answer to life the universe and everything"
Ah, sorry. That was a bad choice of words.

There was a time when, to do let’s plays on YouTube, you had to still get written approval from publishers, and back in the day, that meant getting into their press contacts program.

Which in turn meant I got their press statements, half pre-written articles, phrases that should be used in articles, etc.

When reading gaming magazines after that I always noticed the exact same texts being used, often only minor alterations being made.

Sometimes they even suggested a range in which the rating for the game should be.
As a programmer past my late 30's, my heart bleeds for you.
Yes. That's largely why they exist. Zoning codes were often created with an explicit goal of keeping poor/black people out of rich/white neighborhoods.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/35889...
I just posted my code, in case anyone is interested in playing with it.

https://github.com/robinhouston/image-unshredding
Good job.

How does it make money?
I always thought this would be a great business as you can essentially create tax deductible vacations for entreprenuers just like all the doctors do.

See this page from a Heli ski operator which specifically markets trips to doctors: http://www.canadianmountainholidays.com/heli-skiing/special-...

Basically throw in some education or networking and your trip is all the sudden 50% off!
Also Spotify in the list of services victim of a malvertising campaign
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You mean something like this?

https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb
Sometimes competitors can be inspirational; they might attack the problem in a way that you don't consider, or they might push out features that suggest to you other things you could offer.

Me? I just wrap Amazon's route53 DNS with some git-magic, so you can host your DNS records in a git repository and make changes via `git push`. It's a simple idea, and yet it is surprisingly popular. https://dns-api.com/
I emailed people from companies that I saw had previously sponsored other, similar newsletters (like hacker newseltter) - I'm also making progress by emailing subscribers who work for companies that could be good fits as sponsors. I do need to spend more time finding sponsors though.
53.0.2785.143 on OSX 10.11.3 is fine. Perhaps an extension is throwing it off?
> almost as trivial for EC2 instances to expose XenStore as a filesystem to which standard UNIX permissions could be applied, providing IAM Role credentials with the full range of access control functionality which UNIX affords to files stored on disk.

Doesn't this become more complicated when you think about EC2 offering Windows instances? Even with straight UNIX file writing, what writes this? Where does it write this? Which user has read permissions?
I thought it was self explanatory. I guess it wasn't.
> Yes, there's definitely a script at work.

Presumably to farm karma for some other purpose.

I once observed that everything that shows up here eventually shows up in a particular cluster of subreddits and vice versa. Usually with a lag of 24-48 hours.

I half-jokingly floated the idea that one could write a karma arbitrageur bot which cross posts between HN and those subreddits.

I was told that I would be banned. Not just the bot: me.
A decentralised web is not viable until we can create an NP soft or better mesh network. Until then the network load to manage itself crushes it before it can walk.
But does that scale to ISP or even country level of traffic? Having enough RAM to reassemble all the TCP connections in a country sounds wild.
Quora's "real name policy" is just moronic.

The thing is that Quora doesn't care at all if the name is real or not. What is important for them is that the name looks real.

They think this policy (where people are making up fake but plausible names) makes the site seem more credible...

And this is what they now have accomplished, a site populated by millions of subscribers with plausible but fake names.

It also means that you are less likely to tell if a poster is using a pseudonym or their real name.

I think it is perfectly ok to use pseudonyms in this type of communities. And allowing pseudonyms does NOT result in more spam or trolling since a fake name is as easy to create.

When I use a pseudonym I very much would like to be able to signal to other users the fact that it is a pseudonym, easiest done by purposely using an id that is obviously NOT a real name. That is just sensible courtesy to other users, and what you would expect from other users.

But Quora have chosen to force people to instead use fake names.
It is $1/mo/user over 3 users. Says so on the FAQ.

Curious if they've tried other pricing models. Beyond, say, 10 or 20 users the value proposition shifts against that pricing model IMO.
That would be true if the environment in which they lived was the natural, outside environment, but it's not. It's indoors, warm, and decidedly not disabling.
I created pro version of my ruby gem for test suite parallelisation https://knapsackpro.com I released it last year but started validating it by charging users since July this year. $1K/month is my goal by the end of this year, so far I'm halfway there.
> OK, dwaxe, I have to ask: Are you a robot?

Cyborg. Story submission is clearly robotic, but there's a lot of charmingly humanesque entries under dwaxe's comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dwaxe
Same blackout issue for me. OSX 10.9.5 Chrome 53.0.2785.116
Very nice looking website.

FYI, you have a typo in the FAQ: "Can I change the time I get asked for an update?". I think "change my time" should be "change my settings".