skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another option is using only the browser with a RSS extension, livestreamer.io (tons of options like player-passthrough=hls, player-continuous-http) and https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-with/

It works great for me.
Two years ago I created a CLI tool called pgcli (http://pgcli.com). A postgres client with auto-completion. It became ridiculously successful. I got a few requests to support mysql. So I launched a kickstarter to write mycli (http://mycli.net). This also became quite successful.

There is a thriving community of core devs and a ton of users. I'm happy with both creations and made a lot of online friends.

These projects also led me to create a standalone python library for doing fuzzy matching. I'm quite proud of this one since the resulting code ended up being ridiculously small but produced really good results. https://github.com/amjith/fuzzyfinder/
Earlier this year AWS was running a serverless chatbot contest. We built http://opsidian.ai/ a tool to work with AWS from Slack and ended up as one of the finalist.
Valuable Lessons Learned After Sending 1,000+ Cold Emails
My co-founder and I built a desktop app called Woot Agent when we were younger which would tell you when woot.com had a "Woot-Off" [1] sale.

It would sound an alarm every time a new item came up for sale, with a special sound for their highly sought after "Bag of Crap" [2].

It had over 25,000 downloads after its first Woot-Off. Sounds so bizarre in hindsight, but a partner at Polaris Venture Partners asked to meet—he wouldn't say how he found me, but I'm sure Woot Agent was how.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot#Special_events
[2] http://www.woot.com/offers/bag-of-crap
I am wondering how a lawsuit like this affects company valuation.

Between $88.7 billion and 550K installs * ( unit price - discount ) + ( 550K * yearly maintancence fees * average months_since_first_install ) ?
I made a printed circuit board to make it easy to connect things to a 1000 watt computer power supply I had lying around. Similar adapters are available commercially, but I couldn't find one that could manage 1000 watts.

http://timmaxwell.org/pages/atx-breakout/index.html
Well, Steve Jobs was a fan of the Beatles...
The difference is that Chromebooks have a keyboard. Programming without a keyboard is still a significant UI challenge - there are experiments but how usable are they?
This is really cool, would it be possible you add a toggle somewhere for Celsius degrees?
or nuclear warheads.
Not necessarily. Perhaps we live in a many-worlds universe, with no collapse.
>I don't see any nuance

Yeah, I can tell!

>Are you saying anything that isn't straw men?

Hey man, I'm just replying to things.

>And considering your question of coming from the same culture - you are assuming that the US military would be willing to go to war against their own people - a very different proposition to the wars they have been fighting

Hey man, I'm just replying to things! I am not assuming that the US military would be willing to go to war against their own people -- I'm just responding to that already established hypothetical. I infer that you want to yell at people who claim that, by your alleging that I called Yank citizenry fat. The clownfight you seek is upthread, where people established that we were talking about the US military going to war against their own people. I didn't establish anything.
I wax poetic about this pretty often - but it's always been amazing to me that me, and you, and everyone in the world has an unbroken chain of ancestry all the way back to the first spark of life.

We're all stupendously lucky in that regard.
But... those platforms already have Emacs...
Though it sounds like a bold move, it will not be a Richs to Rags story, most of undeclared wealth is already invested in Gold and Property (in proxy names).

A lot of people having undeclared wealth are going to lose 1% to 5% their wealth (which had held as cash for liquidity), no big deal.
"Welcome aboard." says WeChat..
Yeah but all the backup stuff is still expensive to develop/build with good quality. I can buy a good GPS for a few hundred bucks. I don't think this is to defend against American missiles.
The landing page is confusing, quickly looking at it can't really discern what the page is about. Something about charity, by whom for whom and how? Can't tell, already clicking the back button.

My two cents.
that Dead mans switch type of project is only funny when you want others to use it.

That idea alone should make us reflect if we had lived a life being true to ourselves and told everyone what we wanted them to hear.

OK, next its my turn:
Ill create a dating bot that contacts users on Valentines day, and invites them to restaurant if they will still be single next year.
How does it feel ?
"The federal EV tax credit of $7,500 gets the price down to less than $30,000" [1]

"the estimated average transaction price (ATP) for light vehicles in the United States was $33,666 in March 2016." [2]

A car that costs less than the median purchase price for new vehicles in the US seems pretty close to "for the masses" to me. It's at least in the running for more than half of all new car buyers in terms of price (not in size or amenities, obviously).

[1]: Parent article

[2]: http://mediaroom.kbb.com/new-car-transaction-prices-up-2-per...
According to World Bank, the earth's population exceeds 7 billion people and 65% of those people are between the ages of 15 and 65. So let's say there's 4.5 billion people of driving age on the planet.

The Toyota Corolla is the best selling car of all time and has only sold 37.5 million units.

By your measure, driving is clearly a niche activity as well.
Not if they're meant for specific uses in limited parts of your application; one allocator per thread, for instance. Why are you clinging so hard to the system level, general purpose perspective? Given that the problems it comes with don't really have any good answers. How is that supposed to lead us forward?
Regarding 2): Well, in Germany around 29% of the electrical power is currently from renewable energy sources (12% wind, 6% sun, 6% bio mass, 3% water, ...). Not (yet) enough for today and not enough for all future electric cars...
https://www.bmwi.de/DE/Themen/Energie/Erneuerbare-Energien/e...
Ask HN: What are your impressions about Alpine Linux and its use cases?
I see some companies are using Alpine for production servers, Docker containers (the image is only 5MB), testing environments, etc.
What are your impressions about Alpine Linux nowadays? Very appreciated it.
The simple tool I wrote that I get the most bang for my buck out of is synesthesia[1]. I spend a lot of my time tracing things down across multiple log files, and having to pick out the important lines visually or trying to isolate them with custom grep incantations was wearing on me. Synesthesia allows you to specify regexes, and it will color matches based on the value of the match itself, meaning that it's stateless and doesn't need to keep a dictionary of strings to colors. This makes keeping track of things like GUIDs easy - you can just keep track of e.g. the orange one and watch it fly by across multiple terminals. It's currently python 2 only and assumes a 256 color terminal, but it has been invaluable.

I've been toying with using the idea for forums so that it is easier to keep track of who is replying to whom[2]. I also would like to try using it as a layer on top of traditional syntax highlighting, perhaps as an emacs minor mode - if those can provide colors to the buffer; I've written hardly any elisp and don't know what capabilities are available.

[1] https://github.com/cromo/synesthesia
[2] https://imgur.com/E1N1Zsm
Well, anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

Rough count, I've worked with 30+ different windows machines over the last few decades. I have never seen the problem you are describing. I'm not saying you're not having it, I'm just saying it's not necessarily a common event. Maybe you live/work somewhere with a lot of EM interference?
Agreed. This was on HN two days ago, but I created https://enlight.ml (a place to learn to code through projects) Let me know your thoughts!
CSS resource for Front end developers
> stil the best one out there

Honest question: how do you know? I read the OP article and it talks about 100+ 'rules'. How can one ever make sure all this stuff is disabled (or even needs disabling)? And possible new stuff after updates gets disabled as well?

I'd really want to switch to W10 because it certainly has appealing features but didn't do set yet exactly because of this privacy stuff. But reading things like this makes me almost give up and go like 'well, yeah, f this, nothing I can do about it so let's just use W10 it and to hell with my privcay, nothing to see here anyway'
looks nice - would be handy if it was in celcius too (and if it showed avg rain %)
Cell towers as defense aren't new. In 2008 Egypt was showing off a passive radar system that detected objects by how they reflected cell tower emissions.
Strikes me as the sort of thing that Steve Jobs would have said "no" to.

(He famously avoided doing much backward looking. "It distracts from the NOW," as Edna Mode would say.)
I got started on programming scripting for AOL chatrooms, making tools that let me type out larger blocks of text and it would quickly enter it so it showed as concurrent messages for turn based role play.

Then, Starsiege tribes had a pretty open to modding stance and started making custom chat scripts, which evolved when more advanced programmers let you add on to their work.

This idea is so true, I watch as the foster kids my wife and I do respite care for get into programming through sharing time with me getting a raspberry pi into a minecraft servers.

Even just having customizable options got them very excited.
Thanks! I definitely will. Hopefully today. Very common, understandable request. I only launched it a few days ago. Definitely has things I want to improve.
Sluggish acceleration or below par top speed isn't a perception problem on the Autobahn, it's a real problem.

It's completely practical to drive long distances at high speeds because of the well-maintained road surface and well-maintained cars. There are plenty of stretches of the Autobahn with no speed limits.

This is a common scenario: you're in the middle lane, and a particularly slow driver is in the middle lane (who should be in the right lane), you attempt to overtake in your underpowered econobox, and out of nowhere a Porsche or high-end BMW is sitting on your tail, and you try to overtake asap to get back into the middle lane to let the other guy pass. This is doubly true if you're going up a slight hill, which exaggerates the lack of torque. Another common scenario is a truck driver, overtaking another truck driver in the middle lane, and you have to move to the left lane to avoid him (truck drivers are supposed to keep to the right lane).

Source: someone who's driven plenty of shit, underpowered rentals in Germany, e.g. a Fiat 500X and a Renault Captur. Why anyone, apart from rental companies, would buy these ugly, overweight, underpowered shitboxes is beyond me.
Who needs jammers when there is INS.
How much bandwidth does does all the "Telemetry" take?
What's the big deal? Google does this on a much bigger scale and of course shares its data with the US government when asked. Why is it suddenly scary when a Chinese company does the same?
At this point if you can't get linux of some sort running on PC hardware it's probably you that's the problem.

Back in the 90s, sure, there were a hell of a lot if blocking issues. But now?

Frankly anyone posting on a tech site that can't get it up and running adequately should be embarassed.
Adversarial Neural Cryptography in TensorFlow
It does, but with random sizes. If think you have a way to make that run faster than the provided implementations, then please show us.
The simplest one that I also use the most is start.sh: https://github.com/JangoSteve/start

I've been using it for 3 years now, but keep forgetting to tell anyone about it. It's a simple bash script that detects what kind of project your current directory is and runs the appropriate command to start the development server.

I created it, because I found myself constantly switching between projects of different types, and it always took me a few moments to remember if the current project was Rails 2 or Rails 3/4, Node, Jekyll, Rack app, etc. and starting the development server on port 3000 was starting to take 2 or 3 tries before getting it right.

Now, I just cd into any project and run `start`. It currently detects Foreman projects, Rails (old and new), Jekyll (old and new), Gollum, plain Rack apps, and Node; and it's easy to add new things as well.
I agree. That assignment was one of my favorites. It was a lot of fun because it was fairly easy to get something that functioned, and as you came up with ideas for making it better (or just got ideas from reference implementations), you could watch your metrics get better or worse.
It seems to me that what they're actually saying is to tread carefully when it comes to social media and cloud services.
I find it's often more useful to replace the "random" property of an object with the "incapable of predicting" property of the observer/consumer/receiver/attacker/whatever.

This is basically the approach taken by information theory: one of Shannon's many insights is that the content of a message doesn't matter for communicating it; only how well the receiver can predict it. If there are two possible messages, it doesn't matter if they're "yes"/"no" or "invade Portugal"/"bring me a sandwich", the information being communicated is the same (1 bit).

In this way, something is "random" if it's maximally unpredictable, i.e. if it can't be compressed. If we pick a Universal Turing Machine as the receiver, we get the characterisation of randomness given by Kolmogorov complexity.
Well, actually, the US has backdoored the entire Internet :(
Thanks. Agreed. Will add celsius. Rain % displays when the data is there. Otherwise I don't show it. Maybe I should show N/A or something ...
Here copy from my direct answer:

Large parts of former Soviet occupied and Warsaw Pact countries are marked either as not assessed or free. Except Russia along with Belarus (not free) and Ukraine (partially free, well, except Crimea, that is at the moment Russian annexed, but probably marked after Ukraine, or vice versa).

Sorry about the confusion.
Signal.
Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial
The terrain following guidance in cruise missiles had an accuracy of a few meters in the early 80s. The only place that tech doesn't work is over the ocean... where there aren't any Russian cell towers.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a110286.pdf
AUTHOR HERE. No more "sexism", I changed the title of the series to "Inky Machine Learning", to refer to my ink drawing and my inky fingers. Old pages related to this does not exist anymore.
By no mean I wanted to hurt anybody, all my apologies.
After many years away from gaming, I built a linux-based gaming machine recently. A surprisingly large number of games, from GOG and Steam, work natively on Linux today; many others (most dx9 games) works near flawlessly under wine.

I had actually planned to setup GPU bypass on the box and run Windows in a VM, but I have more games now to last a long time, and I haven't actually bothered.
This is why I have a strong preference for free software that is available for the dominant three operating systems. Only if free software doesn't satisfy my needs I look for nonfree software and then I first look for commercial software which supports free operating systems. If all that fails, it's time for a Windows 7-VM to run that program.

I'm only one customer but I'm letting Microsoft know that I'm not happy with the way they go with Windows by not using Windows 10.
It's a good thing mibbiting didn't disregard JS as a whole, then.
I think you might enjoy Adrian Goldsworthy's books on Rome. I picked those up after a wiki binge on Rome and I learnt a lot.
This is more or less how Pyotr Kapitsa helped to plan pedestrian lanes in Cambridge. He said that officials should wait until pedestrians lay out their ways and then just move them into official walks plan. So they did, I was told.
On mobile, you go to search to see the trending topics.
That's a pretty nasty requirement on top of an allocator protocol; I wouldn't want to use it, or debug it for that matter, yikes.

And you don't need to store the size. The slab allocator doesn't store any information except how far into the current slab it's already dished out memory.
Nice to have but I almost never used a video chat any phone app, only a few times on Skype, mostly on desktop. Anyway, probably many people are using this so it's a must have for WhatsApp not to fade away.

But please add bots, unless FB decided that their Messenger is the only platform to survive in the long run and WhatsApp has to die. WhatsApp is still the number one chat in most of Europe and every developer here would like to write bots for it instead of for Messenger and Telegram. It's where our customers and our customers' customers are. Messenger is going to take over if bots get mainstream and you don't support them. My bet is that it will happen next year or never so you're running out of time (or not at all). We'll see.

And if you do implement bot, please copy Messenger: exactly the same API and the same or a very similar UI. That will give you all the Messenger bots from day 1 and developers will love you.
sassifyit - http://www.sassifyit.com/

Converts CSS hex colour codes in to well named Sass colour variables f.x #fafafa -> $alabaster or #a6a6a6 -> $silver-chalice
At least in my circles I've never seen klout be relevant in any way other than for shady "sign in with twitter to post your score" spam
> The two founders are often fighting each other for power. Both are micromanaging.

Ultimately, leaving is easy. A bigger challenge is learning how to handle Micro-managing superiors. You'll likely run into some form of micro-manager type anywhere you work> https://hbr.org/2011/09/stop-being-micromanaged
How about an app for crowdsourcing answers to Y Combinator application questions?
IIRC there are various tricks you used to have to perform to get it to strip across different disks in the backend. Something along the lines of allocating 20% of your storage and then increasing it 5 times until you had what you wanted. If you provisioned a server immediately to full capacity you'd end up with your data too close together which degraded performance.

That's something I heard that used to be true but not sure whether it's still required with upgrades to S3 over the years...
The Book Itself: Four Thoughts on the Enduring Value of the Printed Book
I started with QBASIC in a command prompt within Windows 3. Definitely was hooked by the same things you mentioned - such as how quickly you can watch the computer "do" what you told it. It gave me the bug and the rest is history.

Nowadays, the closest I can think of is the interactive interpreter of python...but it's still not the same. Perhaps because python has orders of magnitude more libraries/functionality/gotchas out of the box. I think I would have been overwhelmed as a young teenager with all of that. Simple(and constrained maybe?) isn't such a bad thing for getting people their first taste.
Definitely the right approach. The more options out there like that the better IMHO.
I find the easiest way to addressing online abuse, is not using social media, and installing comment section blockers for browsers. I get the content I want, and I don't have to be distracted by the nonsense.
* Picnic CSS: a simple css library. I use it for both small projects from the CDN as medium projects with the SASS that I have carefully built: http://picnicss.com/

* cookies.js, a simple cookies library that uses a getter/setter style that I (and many people) like more. I'm considering taking the format and extend some other libraries like store.js. https://github.com/franciscop/cookies.js

* drive-db, a tool that converts a Google spreadsheet into a small database for Node.js: https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
Definitely agree about the soundtrack. I find myself listening to it while working quite a bit.
As I read the responses to this article, I thought of the pontification upon science-based reasons and, what I experience as simply reality. My life experience has taught me that as we age, family gains greater dominance as the source of social connection and support than friends -- and a lack of immediate and/or extended family results in greater and greater lonliness as the years pass. Family can range from one person -- a spouse or significant other -- to a large family including siblings, children, cousins. One's tribe becomes more important. Friends grow busy with their tribe and those outside the tribe become "my dear friends" but not your close, daily bud.

I have seen this change occur over the decades and wish I had known when I was younger. I may have made different choices that would have changed my life today.

Today I work from a home office, live alone, have no family within 2000 miles and my home is in country. I love business, tech and the outdoors. I am also at that everything is work stage in a start up. I am told that I am confident, smart and independent.

What others do not know is that I am so deeply aware of my aloneness that I do crazy tests to determine if I die here how long will it take for someone to wonder about me and find me -- and more important..find and feed the two cats that live with me?

Right now, it is day 36. In that time not one person has contacted me as a friend. I am overwhelmed with strangers -- in my spam folder, in my twitter box, in posts on Facebook

My husband died recently..in his 50s. That same year, my inlaws, my parents and my sister passed away. My 20'ish son did what sons do...graduate from college and move to a beach area far, far away and start his life.

Clubs? Civic groups? A community center? None of those are here.

When I am actively calling wives, I can get companionship. But the refrain I hear over and over is about family or work obligations. There are women who are out hunting for a male partner. Note.. they are not looking for a female best friend. I am not looking for a new spouse.

So I wonder how long I can live like this as it is so very quiet and deeply sad in an odd way. I never anticipated that my crazy busy and people-filled life would evolve to this stage. I do not recommend it.
This is why some users are going real paranoid. So somebody decided that their first and only Android device will not have access to the Internet. Instead, it's sole role is to function as a camera.

linuxbsdos.com/2016/11/05/the-samsung-android-tablet-that-will-never-access-the-internet/
The mathematics of coffee extraction
Also cigarettes and second hand smoke. But go ahead, smoke all you want.
this is really cool.

feature suggestions:

* range of dates

* zip code support cleanup

thanks!
Ask HN: How do you track traffic quality across outbound channels?
What do startups doing extensive outbound marketing (Facebook Ads, Google Display ads, etc) use to track traffic quality and conversions across channels?

We've tried manually tracking UTM codes in our product, but we can't seem to get reliable results from that approach.

Our marketing spend correlates very well with user acquisition, but we have been unable to reconcile our UTM data with our growth. We're not sure whether it's due to behaviour (tech-savvy user sees ad, but Googles to get to the website) or ad/tracking blockers.

What do you guys do or use to solve this problem?
That would be anecdotal if it wouldn't happened to me twice. I won't ever use them again, nor recommend them to anyone, unless they're masochists in nature ;)