skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been signed up for a couple of months now. It was ~£40/month when I signed up, and it was just the daily idea in your inbox and a community, pretty much. I wasn't planning to stay for that long, maybe a couple months at most.

I wasn't even going to really partake in the community, I was just going to take an idea that I really wanted to work on, tell people I was working on it and then put my head down and do it. I don't even know how it happened, but I got sucked into the community, and I've gotten further with the idea I've been working on than any other (which were, to be fair, half-hearted attempts).

Justin and Brandon have really guided me through the process; I also feel like having the community to keep me accountable during the cold outreach stage (which I wasn't a fan of) has kept me going. I've tried a cold outreach approach before, but had very little response. Just the help that Brandon gave me that got me over that hump alone is probably worth what I paid. I can now do that myself in future any time I want if I have to start all over again. To me, that's invaluable.

Justin, the guy who runs it, says they haven't had any successful businesses come out of it yet (though a handful have gone past the build, even launch, stage), but it is itself a fairly new business to be fair. So I can't really vouch for their track record, other than to say that the business he built before this took 3 years to reach ~$3k revenue and this one took 3 months to reach the same.

Now, it's $19/month (what, ~£15?) and it's got so much more. Justin's planning to build a third business completely from scratch and vlog and document the process as he goes, which I'm really looking forward to (should be starting very soon).

I've been looking for exactly that kind of material before (these new improvements came from customer feedback, so he's very clued up on what his customers want too); before I was worried about users and I was still learning to program, I was following Carl Herold's Livestream Startup (until he ended up getting arrested). There's practically nothing that gives you that level of openness (although Matt Bearman's Bugmuncher blog is really great as well).

Anyway, this ended up a lot longer than expected, but that's my… review? All in all, I think it's definitely worth it, especially with the price drop and all the new 'features', so I'm staying on for the foreseeable future. Take that as you will.

I guess the clearest way to say it is that I've been recommending it to a bunch of friends (including my best friend, who's now signed up) with enthusiasm. Honestly, at ~£15/month, there's no reason not to sign up for a month just to try it out, especially with the 30-day money back guarantee (ha, had to check that one).
Perhaps, 'fear-mongering, bigotry-merchant'.
I think you are doing this person a disservice.

With no undergrad CS and no development work experience they won't even be able to tell you how fast a sorting algorithm is.

Also you're not taking into account how new important tech is unfolding or what the long term impact of this choice will be over a lifetime.
> I'll be in New York and Boston for business meetings and Boskone in mid-February (I unwisely booked non-refundable flights and hotel nights before the election)

"I am protesting, but just a little bit, in a way that wouldn't force me to sacrifice my money."
It's like going on a hunger strike with lunch and dinner breaks.
I assume the uglify plugin wasn't commented out when the actual test was run.

I haven't tried this myself, but it's worth noting that you can use closure with webpack: https://github.com/roman01la/webpack-closure-compiler

Hopefully it won't be long before frameworks still depending on html templates are mostly implementing them with es6 tagged template literals, which will make them available for compiler optimizations.
Hey, off topic but this blog has a problem when you try to select some text.

I bet it has something to do with FB/Twitter sharing function and Ad-Blocker.

https://i.imgur.com/ZDQ38H4.gif
This isn't an apples to apples comparison, as Uglify is disabled for Webpack and Rollup. Of course they are larger without minification.
Question: during the Civil Rights movement, people of all sorts disrupted white people just trying to eat breakfast; just trying to get an education; just trying to get to work.

Is that "giving them hate"? Should MLK have made fastidiously sure to go to cordoned off areas where no one would have been inconvenienced in the slightest?
because not everyone has the ability to build a SaaS, I would encourage everyone to try and build something using the skills they do have and then fill in the rest later.

I started WP Extra Care (www.wpextracare.com) because I love WordPress but my skill as a developer and designer was mediocre. So I thought "I know a lot more about security for WordPress than most people, I'll offer that up." Now I've been able to add in extra skills that have been fun and also allow more of the business to run on auto-pilot. "Can you help us setup backups to AWS instead of them running on our production server?" "Yeah, I can help with that on Monday" :spends weekend learning:

TL;DR - build and launch what you can. Listen to customers and learn how to do what they will pay for. Then try learn that. You'll come out on the other side having gained both money and knowledge.
A far-right politician.
As a one-man SaaS bootstrapper myself, I definitely agree.

I'll add that shipping a working SaaS (= functional & bringing at least some profit) increases your personal experience by quite a lot, making you more employable than ever (either as an employee or a consultant).

So I can definitely encourage solo developers to try out that adventure :-)
First product that comes to mind is facebook and their gender selection.
All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
Thank you all for your condolences. If you would like to honor Val and Roger's memory in the future, please stay tuned to announcements on http://fb.me/valandroger. We are hoping to establish an MIT scholarship in their names, and continue work on Roger's unfinished video game.

To answer some of the questions in this thread all at once:

1. The unit was about 900 square feet. Looks like someone calculated roughly that from the publicly available information.

2. The laser cutter itself was a very small device. I don't remember the exact size, but the cutting bed wasn't more than 2 by 2 feet, and likely smaller than that.

3. Most importantly, from what the investigators told us, the laser cutter bed was completely empty and it wasn't running when they found it. The same goes for the 3D printer.

Friends here on the ground have their ideas based on what we know about the apartment, and we have made suggestions to the investigators. We are hoping they do due diligence. While I'd like to tell you more, we are trying to avoid all speculation. We know it's stressful, but please hang in there.
NuBank: https://www.Nubank.io

We allow you to do small/startup business banking all through our application rather than through your bank. We gained a few clients, but I am hoping once we release our own bank account and card products it will help us expand into a bigger project.
Disqus and social sign-on are the great cancer. Every local news site on the planet that outsources authentication to whoever's got a valid Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc., is opening themselves to troll farms landsliding both opinions and values out of existence in favor of mindless repeatable bites, "the Sleeper Effect." This is twice as true of Twitter discussions.

Hostile nations are employing legions of both paid users with a posting quota and bots. They are taking advantage of globalism to spread fear and infest rivals with a self-destructive nationalistic ideology which appears to be grassroots and organic.

Just the other day I saw "easyvpn" on here, a one command shell utility to hop VPNs to exit from any desired country. I assume far more anonymous and powerful alternatives exist if you have the cash. This kind of thing paired with "persona management software" is a real problem.

Step back, stop out-sourcing authentication on your websites (even if it means you have to do the time learning some amount of practical cryptography, it's safer than handing the keys off in this climate), and stop conceding massive tracts of digital "space" to a hundred thousand Ru & Romanian twitter accounts claiming to be Joe America tired of liberals while deflecting to "Correct the Record" and "but emails" every time you call them out. Step it up with security, boys, that means some degree of human intelligence. The Internet is growing up and it's going through a pretty nasty phase right now.

Build a wall? How about build a wall around your website so Facebook social sign-on isn't letting Ivan roleplay half of Texas on a popular news story.
Why I Ditched Spotlight for Spreadsheets
I agree that 99% of the time we should keep it non-political on HN. This isn't a political forum. But certain times where fundamental values get challenged then it's okay to cross the line and stand up to say something. Columbia had a great statement about this:

https://twitter.com/nancysitu/status/825727645795155968

But I agree that it should only be done in the right time and place. Far too often people get hysterical these days and call anyone they disagree with Hitler every time they utter a sentence. Where when it gets to the point it really matters to stand up they become far less persuasive.
At what point does the situation become dire enough to warrant your attention?
Doesn't operate in as many locations, but pretty much the same, and often the same drivers. Informally it appears drivers I've talked to have preferred Lyft (have asked even when they were driving for Uber). Most of course demur, but I've never heard a driver say something nice about Uber while I have had several praise Lyft.
Fight Trump, but don't forget about the Corporate Democrats that gave him to us
Yeah, this is why I went the usenet route mostly, people aren't whining about community in the usenet world. They just take cash and get it done. There's not a good indexer that doesn't take cash.

I'm just looking for more 2160p really, but so far no trackers I've found, public or private have satisfied that. Usenet has actually given the best result so far.
I've heard the BBC BASIC was quite a lot better, but I've never worked in it myself...
I meant (with a great sadness in my heart) that YouTube comments do indeed come from relatively ordinary members of the human species.

I might be wrong, but I don't think we can simulate flame wars yet.
How about comparing the gzipped version of them? That way larger names will be much less of an issue.
At this point, you probably need a new strategy.
I think what chpmrc means is that going for a Masters degree in CS versus stopping at a Bachelors degree in CS may or may not be of value.
I started two projects last year and now make ~$100/month in profit. Costs are almost nothing.

https://autoplaylists.simon.codes: iTunes-style smart playlists for Google Music.

https://gchat.simon.codes: autoreplies for Google Chat/Hangouts. Particularly useful for people with multiple accounts that forward email.

https://simon.codes/2017/01/09/side-project-income-2016-0-to... has more details on why I chose these and how I got started.
So protesters are entitled to hold people hostage for an arbitrary amount of time, just because they are unhappy? Give me a break.
Those kimono protests are ridiculous, I'm surprised it's not an April Fool's joke. Thanks for the link.

As for 'nobody owns breathing', nobody fundamentally owns anything, ownership is just a social construct. Someone owns something if a majority agrees they own it. What's being discussed is a style of breathing rather than breathing as a whole. It's no different to attributing the history of styles of music, dance, food, etc... to certain groups.
Lyft and services like it seem to be intrinsically tied to urban centers, which also overwhelmingly lean liberal.
Interesting that the article mentions Democrats. They were the ones who saw the inevitability of automation and tried to make education free to counter it in a real, long term way. The strategy of blaming immigrants instead can apparently win an election in the short term, but technology isn't going away.
Ask HN: Use Our Power VM
We'd like to ask for your support to help us validate our fledgling cloud business planning. Our cloud business provides fledgling startups and developers with bare bone "machine power". There are no other services beyond providing you with a machine.

Will you help validate our business planning? We would greatly appreciate a thumbs up or thumbs down on the following:

Virtual Machine

CPU: 2 vCPU (2 threads) on Intel XEON E5-2660
RAM: 1.5GB (1536MB)
DISK: 32GB SSD and 128GB 7200K RPM HDD
Bandwidth: 1TB
Public IP v4: 1
Hypervisor: KVM - possibly XenServer 7

$15/month

We would greatly appreciate if you would specify your ideal configuration and the price point that would get you to "perk your ears up".

Sincerely,
Venture LOL
It doesn't matter whether Uber actually supported the executive order any more than Lyft did. The idea is out there that they did, well-connected people are loudly talking about how they deleted their Uber accounts and you should too, and going against that marks you out as an evil Trump supporter. Welcome to post-truth politics. Even other claims that're clearly and unambiguously untrue has been winning out over the truth if it fits the narrative better. (For example, as someone pointed out on HN the list of countries elsewhere in favour of explanations that are outright contradicted by it like Trump's business interests.)
neo-nazi Leninist

The former term is how his detractors, including me, would describe him. The latter is a term he famously used for himself.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-banno...
> EDIT: The downvoting system on HN optimizes for older, over the hill developers as is shown here once again.

This is pretty lame. You're both whining about downvotes and calling everyone who disagrees with you old.

I don't know what your concern is with feature flags. Maybe the way you've implemented or used them in the past has been problematic. But when your approach to disagreement is this petty, it makes me think you are unlikely to be able to discuss it meaningfully anyway.
It's debatable; cheap labour could in theory have indefinitely postponed this.

But I think it is not a loss that less people take orders for burgers.

What is a loss though is there are less easy ways for people to participate in society economically.
"Soon the McDonald’s workers Sanders and Democrats promised would get a “fair living wage” to take customers’ orders for Big Macs “will have absolutely no wages at all courtesy of the ‘Fight for $15,’ ” Zero Hedge reported on Jan. 26."

I love how these guys spin things, truly impressive. So Bernie wanted a $15/hr minimum, but didn't even get the Democratic nomination. Hillary sorta backed $12.50/hr, but lost the election. Yet somehow the World Tribune lays the blame for some future job losses in the fast food industry at their feet? Incredible!

We are well and truly in The Zone now ...
Did Lyft or any other services disable all pickups at JFK in true solidarity?
I use t7 with (P)React, which works quite nicely :)
I reviewed the thread before commenting, and yeah, neither of you is really making any progress with the other. Up until this point, however stubborn either of you have been, neither of you has been overtly snarky or condescending.

As for a "burning desire to have the last word", I see no less desire on your part than on theirs.

Oh I see your problem. Your perception is way off. Please allow me to correct your misunderstanding once again and hopefully for the last time.

This goes well past the line of civil discourse. Communication is a two-way street, and requires active participation of both parties. Once you decide that it's all their fault, rejecting the possibility that you're not communicating your ideas effectively, you're no longer participating in good faith. At this point it's better just to back off. (As I'm about to do.)
> the people who decided to use them in shampoos and body washes must have known exactly what the long-term consequence was going to be, but went ahead and did it anyway.

It took years and years of use before people started finding evidence of microbead contamination and problems. And before that nobody was screaming about it. Why is it that the inventor "must" have been able to predict something nobody else did either?
Show HN: Mobile app for sports lovers
The mobile app SportzBee is now approved and available in the appstores. It ads free and totally for sports lovers.
Main features :

* It brings all your favorite sports teams, events, friends, schedules, news together.

* Get latest live scores and news for your teams and players.

* The app already beat scores of cricinfo and NBA most of the time, and for tennis + soccer one of the best ( coverage wise and personal news ), and football + baseball completes the other sports. More to follow with NHL, hockey, rugby, badminton, formula 1.

* The app cover 9000+ teams all over the world ( countries, leagues, women, under 21, etc ) and 2000+ events across all sports.

* Get notifications on live scores periodically, final scores, friend comments.

* Chat with friends on a game, or news or a general challenging. Know what your friends are following.

* Watch highlights of the match.
Can the organism replicate the XY pairs during DNA replication (and pass it on to divided cells)? I haven't seen that mentioned, only that it "holds onto it for its entire lifespan" which is not clear to me.

There's also nothing about the interaction of these pairs with existing mechanisms, like transcription (DNA-->RNA) and translation (RNA-->protein). Could the new new pair increase the space of aminoacids from which proteins can be formed?
Optional doesn't mean what you think it means.
Don't want to fill it out? entry denied: failure to cooperate with CBP personnel.
"I Don't have facebook" as a way out - google your name, busted: entry denied, lied to a CBP agent.
The US is a may permit entry country, even with a Visa your entry is still under the discretion of the CBP agent, they don't like you that's it they don't need a reason to deny entry.

No buts, ifs and whys, you can have all the right paperwork and if you misbehave, don't follow orders, or do anything that the CBP agent might not like you'll be spending 8 hours in a room waiting for an embassy official to come to scold you and give you a ticket for your flight home.
Indeed. We have had these things in Europe for a long time already. They tend to be really convenient when you are in a foreign country, since you don't need to be able to speak to them, you just press the buttons, and get what you want, without fear of the order getting "lost in translation".

And given that they are in use in thousands of restaurants in Europe, then you know that the price per machine is only going down, not up. Which means that at some point they will _always_ end up price competitive with humans, unless the humans also keep on accepting wage cuts to stay "competitive".

Forcing people into sub-poverty incomes is not a viable long term solution to this problem of low paid labour.
Since you like the quote allow me to continue from the same book

"But when the law, by means of its necessary agent, force, imposes upon men a regulation of labor, a method or a subject of education, a religious faith or creed — then the law is no longer negative; it acts positively upon people. It substitutes the will of the legislator for their own wills; the initiative of the legislator for their own initiatives. When this happens, the people no longer need to discuss, to compare, to plan ahead; the law does all this for them. Intelligence becomes a useless prop for the people; they cease to be men; they lose their personality, their liberty, their property.
Try to imagine a regulation of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property. If you cannot reconcile these contradictions, then you must conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice."

"You say: "There are persons who have no money," and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
With this in mind, examine the protective tariffs, subsidies, guaranteed profits, guaranteed jobs, relief and welfare schemes, public education, progressive taxation, free credit, and public works. You will find that they are always based on legal plunder, organized injustice."

The Law - by Frédéric Bastiat
Read Donald Trumps Twitter Timeline
Every Trump supporter I know is embarrassed by the travel ban. So this doesn't quite effect "half of the country".
Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean every disruption on our side deserves our unconditional support. It's worth discussing whether disrupting travel further helps or hurts the cause.
The article wikipedia refers to states that Bannon was a board member from its foundation. That could be co-founder or just paid advisor or early investor.
Just 'conspirator'.
Its not a comment on the importance of Twitter. But rather composing a tweet requires no considerable effort. Its the same as when people change their FB profile pic and considerate it action.

An action that involved real effort would have been a twee that contained a link to the AirBnB's program to help alleviate the problems faced by refugees.

The President of the US is an odd example because that runs counter to your point I believe. Trump Tweets are the ultimate symbol of vacuousness, vanity and impulse.
It's a conspiracy theory till you produce sufficient evidence or proof for the claims in your theory to explain a particular event or development.
I'd also recommend people interested in the Google Closure Library to try out ClojureScript. All ClojureScript code and libraries are automatically compatible with Google's Closure compiler advanced compilation.

It supports working with JavaScript libraries who are also compatible, or at the sacrifice of less optimizations, it lets you work with non compatible JavaScript libraries also.

For example for Angular, you just need to specify an extern file. It will still optimize parts of it, but it won't do symbol renaming. (Disclaimer, I've never actually tried to use Angular with CLJS, but I believe this is true)

For libraries which are completly non compatible, you can import them as foreign libraries and they'll just bypass the advanced compilation, but all your CLJS code and everything else which can be optimized will.

Here's a template to get you started with Angular2 and CLJS https://github.com/steveshogren/angular2-cljs
Check your SSL config, I'm getting a common name mismatch when I browse your site.
Because you should be able to automate that OK. There is generally no verification that a human can do on a computer system that cannot be automated. The only question is whether you're willing to invest enough to fully automate the go/no go decision.
I think it can work well with maybe 10-20 people.

Depends on how well you software is modularised.