skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Depending on what kind of projects these are, keeping a copy of the website somewhere is usually a good start.

If it is program based, keeping screenshots or recording of what the software did can also be of help.

My third and final tip would be to write some form of post explaining what the project was and maybe why you think it didn't take off.
https://github.com/geophile/osh

Osh (Object SHell) is a python application giving you a set of Linux like commands which can be composed similar to pipes. However, it is objects, not strings, that are passed from one command to the next.

It includes typical shell stuff, listing files and processes; database access, in which queries yield Python tuples; and distributed access, which distributes commands to the nodes of a cluster and then combines the results. For example, to submit a SQL query to each node of a cluster, getting a count on each, and combining the results:

osh @cluster [ sql "select count(*) from request where state = 'open'" ] ^ f 'node, count: count' ^ red + $

- osh: Invoke the interpreter.

- @cluster: Relay the bracketed command to each node of the cluster. The bracketed command returns (node, count) tuples.

- sql: Submit a sql query (on a cluster node).

- ^: Denotes piping results from one command to the next.

- f: For each result from the cluster, run a function on (node, count) which returns just the count.

- red +: Reduce using +, summing up all the counts.

- $: Print result on the console.
Strange that the article mentions nothing about Kolmogorov randomness[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequenc...
> Active radar increases your detectability.

An active radar pointed at the ground, so you'd need a pretty extensive detection network. Also, I don't think stealth is much of a concern once the cruise missiles are over the target's territory. BTW, TERCOM doesn't need to be continuously radiating when in use, it only needs to get a fix frequently enough to keep INS within acceptable accuracy bounds.

> That isn't how radio signals work.

It is when you're talking about trying to interfere with a weapons grade radio, by transmitting to the sidelobe instead of mainlobe.
http://alaskabunch.com

A polling tool for quickly getting opinions on logo designs, product ideas, etc. I thought other people might like it too, but 5 months after publishing it I'm still making about 95% of the polls.

The 5,000 app users have now basically become my personal soundboard for ideas, which I'm more than happy to pay for.
Hard to avoid spoilers this way, but the best way to consider critic reviews is to focus on the negative ones.

If a movie gets 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the negative reviews are all rather inane, you can be reasonably confident that it's actually a good movie. But when they start making valid points, you can be confident it's merely overhyped.
Correct. I usually include the up-to 4000 early cancer deaths in my comparisons. Still pales compared to air-pollution deaths from coal.
The downside of PSH of course is the massive reservoirs you have to create, but they have astonishingly good efficiency (I was skeptical when I first heard of the concept, but real-world examples can hit an 80% efficiency target which more than makes up for the constant replacement of batteries and the potential impact of sourcing lithium or other materials depending on who is mining them).
Re: 'Why we make money'

Is it now shameful to make money, so you have to defend it when you do?
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> We likely won't have a Linux client for our backup service any time soon

Ok. But why ? Technical obstacles such as having to deal with distribution diversity - or is it a way of market segmentation ?
I'm not sure what device you have, but there is a better than even chance that simply changing your rom will remove the spyware.
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While I agree with you, saying "If Chernobyl happens every 10 years..." probably isn't going to be a good way to sell nuclear energy :)
With electricity generation, thinking like a regular industry would also be very inefficient. It's well known that there's a lot of wasted energy in the electrical lines to transport the electricity from the centralized plant to the end users, even with crazy high voltage aiming at reducing losses.

An optimal setup would probably be a not-too-fine-grain decentralized setup
Can always start with a small number of templates I guess.
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http://woofjs.com

WoofJS is a simple JS canvas library and IDE I built for my students so they can learn JavaScript.
> And we don’t want to use an automated system that selects some ads for us.

So they do direct deals mostly, which is antiquated and probably to preserve their branding as a "tech site".

> Did you know we have a lot of unpaid inventory on Stack Overflow every month?

This is what trying to guess your avails with direct ends up doing. Leaving inventory unmonetized. Typically, you get paid less for less of your inventory trying to do monthly manual trafficking.

All they do is display, so it's rather silly to quibble about CPMs in the 25 cent range...until you look at the traffic and realize that translates to real money.
I think this works for some of the softer things like the vast majority of drugs, but i don't know if i want there to be an easy way to get "clean"/untraceable weapons, chemical weapons or child porn. Even some of the harder drugs can have a significant negative impact on your life and society after a single use.

Basically telling people they cannot have or do anything would create a black market and the associated problems. So assuming there is anything we want to regulate (which i think most people do) then we don't really solve the core problem, we just change it and potentially make it smaller or bigger.

In terms of most drugs though i am 100% on board, especially if it goes along with treating addiction like other mental illnesses and provide help, instead of prison.
Yes, I would imagine people don't generally account for the deaths due to a coal plant when they think about it casually. The grandparent already made some claims around that, but no references.
Could be, it's moving fast. Once I realized I could use nested functions to provide anonymous functions and deferred actions with decent syntax in a semi-standardized way, I was hooked :)

Nothing, but I seldom hang around in the BSD crowd these days.
So is it cash flow positive? I hope so, because it's hands down the most useful site for programmers. I even got the gold medal for using it every day for a long time.
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Does somebody has a clue about what % of the revenues come from ads and jobs? I understand that there might be other sources too (documentation and such).
Personally, I think the minimum wage as it exists isn't very useful. I'd replace it with a federal base level minimum wage where the local (county) minimum wage is composed of the base federal + COLA (which gets reevaluated yearly, like SS.) and it'd apply to all workers, public, private, local, state, federal.
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Anyone have a reason why the WD30EFRX has such poor reliability in their last table? Granted it's a smaller sample size.

Only asking 'cause it's my main data hard drive...
I asked in the #osm channel on irc and someone pointed at:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Mapillary

(You can download originals now, that page isn't fully accurate/up to date).

Hundreds of terabytes seems to be a reasonable guess in any case.
Oops, my dam broke. I just killed a million people.

The actual, worst case scenarios for other power sources are way worse than anything that nuclear has ever caused.

I'd rather have a Chernobyl happen every single year like like clockwork, than a dam breaking and killing millions, like the one that happened in China. Or deal with the continued effects of coal.

A Chernobyl every single year is better than coal. That's how bad coal is.
Thanks - let me know if you have any queries. The code's here if anyone's interested: https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer
Another big reason is maturity of the software. I've been using Linux and Windows in parallel for years now and even though it got better recently, I still stumble over minor bugs, inconsistencies, usability slips and such on Linux while those are practically non-existent on Windows.

It's quite understandable given the different objectives and budgets of the two, but I think for most average users this is a deal breaker for switching.
That's not true. Google indeed waits for async content to load for a given amount of time. You can inspect this from the Google webmaster tools.
Perhaps it's time they consider paying Moderators for their time and effort. It doesn't need to be anything large, even a small stipend will suffice.

Moderators are the real lifeblood of StackExchange. They spend countless hours ensuring their respective Sub Exchange hums along. Yes, it's a volunteer "job", but it's a job none-the-less - especially since once you become a Moderator, it's more-or-less expected you have certain responsibilities and obligations. Given StackExchange makes a pretty healthy profit off the efforts of the "volunteers", and given StackExchange is a for profit company, it seems fitting they should have to pay for the labor that creates their profit.

Currently, StackExchange kicks back and rakes in money via various avenues, but then doesn't have to pay staff to actually manage the growing plethora of Sub Exchanges.

We all give companies grief for underpaying or mis-classifying employees, but somehow everyone overlooks StackExchange.

I believe it an accurate statement to say, StackExchange would not be a thing today, if it were not for the innumerable hours worked for free by a growing army of "volunteers".
> Introduce anonymous answers.

Or, if you are worried about spam, you could allow signed in users to "post a question|answer anonymously". This would not allow users to see who posted the question, but would allow things like statistics (to track spammers and the like).
Exactly. When an address book is sent to every company that makes an app it's business!

When the same is sent to China, it's outrage?

Ditto with auto-updates.

I'd be glad if I could control much more of my data exposure. But business.
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As long as it meets the specs, most CAD people probably don't need expandable hardware.
It'd definitely smaller than 12". That's the size of the SFF PC I have on my desk, and this thing, next to the coffee cup and mouse shown, is definitely not as large. The subtitle of the article states, "HP Z2 Mini delivers server-grade power in a 2.3 by 8.5 inch package".
I used to be pro Nuclear, nowadays I feel that all the people looking at the benefits of Nuclear miss a few big things. They overestimate the maturity of the tech (x1000 for the maturity of the materials development in the designs as opposed to the Nuclear reaction itself), far understate the risks and pretty much ignore the economics. And by economics I include operating costs, but also rarely discussed: the ability of private markets to finance, build, and start pulling profits from a power project in a reasonable time-frame. If that second part isn't possible, then building lots of anything isn't going to happen easily. There is a big difference in 40 x1 billion projects and one 40 billion project - and one way that plays out is in the likelihood of any project getting spun up and succeeding even if all other things are equal. But all other thing are not equal, in operating costs, Nuclear is less economically productive than wind energy by far, and soon solar (or perhaps already more-expensive when one figures in overruns, gov't support, etc..).

There is a point in that Nuclear can provide "baseload", but it's fairly incompatible with varying renewable supply as it doesn't seem to cycle up or down fast enough to be really be paired with a renewable supply. Energy storage, while also being immature, is likely to improve much more rapidly than the relative slow design development of Nuclear tech.

I don't want to be unnecessarily negative regarding Nuclear (and am excited about potential future fusion developments - esp the small scale designs), but I think there's a lot more holding Nuclear back than simply anti-nuclear activism.
Yeah, not being able to backup the Linux machine at my house means that I really don't want to bother with buying it on my Macs/Windows machines either - having two solutions is a pain :/
My git-based DNS hosting site is pretty simple, in terms of code, but it is enormously useful to be able to make changes to DNS with a simple git-push and keep a local history:

https://dns-api.com/

In the same vain I put together a little archive for storing bookmarks under revision control:

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/

Finally I put together a small archive of tools which seems to be quite popular for reasons I don't fully understand:

https://github.com/skx/sysadmin-util
Indeed. Some analysis of the similarities and differences between many culture's myths lead researchers to believe they could be very old indeed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618341
>but there are more who make good money with coding

You should emphasize orders of magnitude more.

Of course, the other problem is that people who make "good money with gaming" aren't actually gaming - they're following a practice regimen that the average gamer wouldn't stick with for more than an hour - refining repetitive mechanical motions, analyzing gameplay to identify faults, fixing those faults through repetitive practice.

An amateur will ask "how do I get better at this game?" and, when you tell them, say "no thanks, I'd rather just play the game."
This is the long-tail effect of society being irrationally anti-nuclear for so long, despite all the favorable evidence. I think being able to be 100% wind/solar is a pipe dream with the continued growth in power usage especially by data-centers. It makes sense to start making decisions now that will continue the positive impact, even if those plants aren't able to come online for 20 years. The additional capacity will still be useful.
For those out there that haven't bothered to do a quick search, one notable story about the issue can be found here [1]. Note that the date on that article is from 2014, and only refers to the Unity service for searching from Amazon. A later article [2] shows that Ubuntu has changed directions, but it certainly hasn't been 2-3 years. Needless to say, while it took Canonical some time, at least they dialed back what they were doing with online searches and made them opt-in. I've yet to see Microsoft, Google, or Apple dial back their telemetry services regardless of what criticism they may have faced (fair credit here, at least Apple is opt-in for the most part, though not entirely).

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...
[2] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-feat...
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Practically speaking, this has no impact until browsers start requiring CT (which is in about a year for Chrome).
After making a React app for a hackathon in August, I was surprised I couldn't paste a link on Twitter and see a URL preview, thus began https://www.prerender.cloud/ - middleware that runs your single page app through a chromium browser to generate the HTML markup and return it along with the original JavaScript to the client (so the first browser paint happens quickly from the HTML, then JavaScript takes over after it finishes parsing)
> Personally. I'm a free-market type and so I struggle with any moral objection to these internships. But I find it amusing that internships are so popular within institutions (govt, media, big tech) full of people with politics that should find fault with them.

Same story here. I am truly amazed at the people who talk to me about opportunity and diversity and still have unpaid internships. It is an amazingly effective filter for a certain class of individual.

> By contrast: when I was the work experience boy at an electrical goods maker, I would have accepted no pay (I needed it for Uni). But they made sure to pay me out of a sense of professionalism.

The vocational fields got it right with paid apprenticeships. Shows the value of your work increasing as your skill and knowledge does.
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Stackoverflow is the prime example for how a company can generate tremenduous value without making that much money.

It's difficult to estimate its contribution to the world economy quantitatively, but I'd definitely say billions, many many billions.
May sound trivial, but for me it's a simple charting tool.

I'm quite big on QA, but it's always been a problem for us, due to lack of tools. We have tons (millions) of time series being churned into proprietary files (neither of which can readily change). We've always had issues analysing these, be it analytically or visually. Two years ago, I wrote a parser in Python, which feeds the data into a browser interface. There, one can select values in a few (<select multiple>) dropdowns - which denote dimensions, compare multiple files across these dimensions, and further manipulate these subsets of data. But the core are simple line charts from these data slices.

The whole thing is under 500 SLOC, it's blazing fast and it lets users cut through our data in no time. It has helped streamline our verification workflows, catch bugs, and allowed our clients to better understand the large amounts of data we send their way.
And that is exactly why I buy them. For me time is scarce and I don't have the patience for games that make me grind through levels. Been there done that. Gaming is more than testing reflexes. I view them as another medium to tell a story.
I don't buy it. First: just because you're close to the cell tower doesn't mean you're below it. Directional antennae work really well, it's trivial to shield yourself against jamming from below. Also, note that cruise missiles have inertial backup too. As long as they get a decent GPS fix in the non urban area outside the city where there are no jamming towers, they can still hit their target.

Add that to the "duh, who's interested in bombing Russia?" angle and I agree: 100% propaganda for internal consumption.
>In the UAE, where VoIP is illegal, the government was not able to selectively block voice traffic since it is indistinguishable from text traffic. So they had to ask WhatsApp to block voice functionality whenever a user is in the UAE.

Authorities can selectively block WhatsApp voice calls, it's been done in Oman where I used to live. If I leave Oman and use WhatsApp in an uncensored country, voice calls work just fine.

This is not the case where WhatsApp is registered via a UAE number; the blocks persist no matter where you connect from.
Correct. This question - HOW MUCH MONEY does Stack Overflow make per year - was asked in their Meta site. Granted it's a privately held company but there is atleast 1 answer that quotes "credible sources" and pegs it at atleast 21 MILLION USD in revenues (for 2013).

Source: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/214284/245495
It's true that the franchise model is in practice an impediment to unionization. But this argument represents a huge shifting of the goalposts from your original incorrect claim that they are contractors and not employees.
We know quite well what it costs. I believe you are making a mistake by using "we" for "I" in your first sentence.
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Fair point on the concentration. I concede. I will have to adjust the number, but I suspect it will still be in the 1e4+ range. In the meantime I'll pivot to the fact that seawater uranium extraction (while currently more expensive than mining) is renewable on a world-scale. It replenishes through rain runoff and plate tectonics faster than we could ever use it, even if triple the world's current consumption was provided by 100% nuclear.

Off-grid power is very small compared total energy used in the USA.
Bullshit, there is no such article by the link behind word "reported" and googling by word "полюс 21" (pole 21 in russian) doesn't give nothing.
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They have a free API that offers that kind of stuff?
Can vouch for it. I found my current job through SO Careers, and now that we're trying to hire more people, we're finding a good number of our better candidates coming through our SO Careers posting.
Traditional run-and-gun FPS games are not well suited to VR, despite how badly many seem to wish they were. There are workarounds and I've read about some truly silly ones (blow a fan in your face to simulate motion, take a preventative dose of Dramamine first, run on an omni-treadmill so there's no mismatch between motor and visual stimuli, etc.)

And it sort of bums me out because it feels a bit...lazy? short-sighted? FPS in the way we think of them now were uniquely suited to a flat screen in front of us. They offer a sense of freedom of movement that is great in games. But trying to shoehorn that old approach into VR seems like missing the point.

I think the real trick (at least as demonstrated to me by the 100 or so games, applications, and demos I've tried on Rift over the past couple of years) is to find formats and conventions that are uniquely suited to the platform rather than trying to rehash and cram what's already a big seller into something that doesn't make you puke after an hour.
Sure it's both and a gazillion other things. But here's the thing, even as a philosophical theme I don't find it presented very well. Why for example can't you act on free will? Who's stopping you? The future? And who's enforcing it?

He could for example go down the path of the simulation hypothesis which also renders free will irrelevant. But he didn't. I don't know, perhaps after a while it will hit but right now I can't really see the greatness in the scenario. I don't mean to dismiss it, just saying so to open a conversation.
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Gorgeous! Saw this getting developed on Twitter and can't wait to give it a spin. Insta-buy.
I've tried a couple of times to start learning Farsi, in hopes of visiting someday, but laziness wins out every time.
His story is very sad. He joined the Navy after an young adulthood set adrift after the suicide of his mother. He was discharged and diagnosed schizophrenic. Ten years ago, he was arrested for stealing smoke detectors, and the court proceedings implied he'd gone off his medications.
You're underestimating the mind-blowing awesomeness of high-end inertial navigation in general, and the awesomeness of inertial navigation inputs mixed in with other sensor systems in particular. It should be possible to build a system that can handle some sophisticated jamming and still keep flying with a high degree of precision...

...but the spectacle of Iran downing one of our drones a few years back using GPS spoofing makes me wonder if maybe defense contractors are hiring engineers who couldn't get jobs working at the phone company, or something. So yeah. Bleh.

(the maker of the laser ring gyros used in the F-15 used to brag that the plane could go up, patrol, and land and the indicated coordinates were in the same hangar. I'm sure the tech has only gotten better.)
And they have their own police too, right?
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