skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would dearly love to see a ruggedized, solar-powered version of this device created for our descendants.

In case industrial civilization, well.. fails to go the distance. A Wikipedia-equivalent volume of paper is rather bulky and fragile.
Very excited to optimize some of my NumPy work using this. Can someone recommend any similar resources?
I see, so even just shutting down the servers hosting MU's data could be damaging to the whole network?
A lot more Reddit than HN to be honest, but thanks for the laughs in the office.
An interesting side effect may be to drive registrations, as it will appear to non logged-in users that they have to create an account before viewing the #1 item.
As soon as we have users, we'll have user testimonials and reviews. It's part chicken and egg, I know, but it's the same problem any new product has. Someone has to be the first.

Other than user reviews (and the free preview and money back guarantee), what could we do to convince you (or other prospective students in your position) that it's worth the risk? Would a google hangout with Dr. Ostrowski (something we have been talking about) make a difference ?
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I would like to see it. It reminds me of the SourceMap work that was on HN just yesterday.

Anyway, I am not sure how this site works - but I find it helpful: http://builtwith.com/
I like the concept, but then I clicked through to the other blogs, and it felt wrong.

I felt like I should be reading John Collison's blog, but I keep hearing Dustin's voice in my head. The same goes when I switch to other authors.

I get what he is trying to do - by keeping it minimalist and all, but I think it gets in the way of the content and the author by not offering a distinct enough experience on each author's words.
If we wrote "Don't Panic" on it, it'd be perfect.
Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito?
Something else to ponder:

We probably wouldn't have git or mercurial, and dcvs (would monotone be the frontrunner?) would still be slow and not fun. Github (under any name) and the explosion of dvcs code sharing probably wouldn't exist either. Sourceforge might still be relevant.
You can see what it's doing in the URL. You don't see that in other submission URLs.
Won't be able to compete long distance with the Alameda Weehawken Burrito Tunnel:

http://www.idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burri...
Considering the vast array of bizarre and offensive views held by Richard Stallman, I do not think disagreeing with him over one more small matter will bring any great harm.
Oakley dangerous
POST with CSRF protection is the answer: http://crazyviraj.blogspot.com/2009/10/xsrfcsrf-attacks-in-n...
Testing the self upvote
How could you possibly care enough about Curtis' made-up number to call him a dick?

Never mind. I couldn't possibly care. It's a game. Relax.
Show HN: Smartly organize articles from HackerNews at ScoopSpot
We (samikc and I) have created a micro blogging website which helps people to follow their interests. Interests could either be in other people or topics.

http://www.scoopspot.com

We would like to highlight a key usecase to show auto tagging and tag based personalized feeds in ScoopSpot:

1. ScoopSpot has a tagging model that automatically crawls links in a scoop (300 character long text message) and detects tags automatically.

2. A user can follow other users and topics.

3. It provides a personalized feed of scoops from people & topics followed (we call them favorites) by a user.

4. As part of this use case, a news aggregator was built to consume rss feeds from some of the well known technology websites such as Hacker News, Tech Crunch, ReadWriteWeb, TheNextWeb, ZDNet, TheServerSide and BBC Technology. The aggregator create scoops for every article discovered by it. The scoop would essentially contain title of the article and the link to actual page. Scoops from news aggregator can be found at http://news.scoopspot.com

5. In addition, it would also contain tags to highlight important topics that are addressed in a particular article. This helps organize news automatically by topics. For example:- If you are interested to know about what's happening in Java of late, you can visit http://www.scoopspot.com/Java
or
http://www.scoopspot.com/Google to get latest buzz on Google.

6. Now with feature in point #2, it is possible for users to follow Java and Google in ScoopSpot. This eliminates the need to visit each topic page separately. The feature in pt#3 provides a consolidated feed of favorite topics and people.

We are in public beta now. We would like to get your feedback about this service in particular and ScoopSpot in general.

Please read the "Why join ScoopSpot?" section to get an idea of prime features of ScoopSpot. Please feel free to sign in with your google/yahoo/facebook id.
You missed.
Link it to a php file on your server, and edit the php file to header('Location: the_actual_url') after the fact.
It's just the usual mini PCI-something slot that would hold a WWAN card.
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Ah, never mind then. :-)
To make it perfect, insert a line saying: "Website by M. Bourbaki."
That Bunnie dude's been busy: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3
Decision trees have proven to be sucessful in direct marketing/ecommerce applications such as incremental response modeling. Because of their explicit nature, decision trees trees can be used for workflow optimization in industrial environments as well.
If allowed to continue without intervention or a bug fix, this thread will stay at the top of HN forever.
Looks like the author is taking advantage of the recently exposed voting forgery:

<iframe width="1" height="1" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=3742984&dir=up&whence=newest"></iframe>
Most people (even most IT workers) don't use HN either, but I don't wonder "what kind of people" are we for using it.
@gamechangr, thanks for the headsup. I am in search of general programmers with some background in php,flash, C++. I am sure I can always look here at HN. Thanks.
I think one of those is already one too much.
Nah, everybody knows that drones can only be used to deliver drugs and bombs.

Commercial UAVs being illegal in the US, "might as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb."
The real technical challenge would be figuring out how to store 16GB of data reliably for that long, I would wager. You'd probably need to use some sort of optical storage that would be chemically stable over the time you expect it to keep.

I'm no expert in this domain, so I'm not sure what this would look like, or if there's already a way to do this in a small enough form factor to be feasible and relatively inexpensive.
There's no disputing that Madoff committed fraud - and he was prosecuted for it - and unless we want the government counting every penny we spend then there will continue to be fraud perpetrated till the heat death of the universe. All the whining about crowdfunding is telling people that they are disallowed to take any risk with their own property, but only for their own good of course. The laws against fraud do not go away because we've allowed adults to act a little more like they have some common sense.

I have been the victim of fraud, and I spent two years pursuing the embezzler and collecting evidence out-of-county and testifying in federal court. The man ended up serving several years in federal prison for his actions. Oh, this was in a publicly traded company - you know - full of all those supposed protections. There will be fraud in the future, and there will be people who get away with it.

It's always caveat emptor - but we prevent a lot of potential good trying in some misguided attempt to not let people act like the free men they supposedly are.
Still, much better than what I got with /over?points= ...
I love Memento, but I'm not sure it's on the same level. I haven't seen it in a while though, I might have to add it to the list.
Author here: Yes, the README is aspirational, its a checklist for myself. I put the STATUS line there for everyone else, but it appears no one actually reads it. (Heck, not one other person on HN actually tried it out, because it sure as heck doesn't work yet).

I hadn't put any publicity out about the code yet, I had just pushed it up to github a few days ago because I wanted to move the code around to some other machines, I didn't expect anyone to pick it up.
But I didn't expect it to work! According to the comment at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742893

"Just loading the vote URL directly or in an img/iframe wont work because votes that don't have a HN referrer don't get counted."

edit: the author of that comment has edited it to remove the part about img/iframe. It DOES work in an iframe in this case.

As of 146 points I have removed the code from the webpage and sincerely apologise for any confusion caused. Nonetheless, I hope that the bug gets fixed soon so that others won't exploit it to promote more malicious sites.
What does this have to do with electricity? I guess "Potential Pong" doesn't sound as good.
How about mask ROM? 100+ years easily (at least in theory.)
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And if any users notice your account and domain are banned. Not saying it shouldn't be fixed but I doubt you would have much luck exploiting this at any scale.
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not disagreeing with anything you said. I am merely pointing out that the parent posted a link that wasn't adding anything worthwhile into the crowdfunding part of the story
This is something I need in my life! Tacos delivered via flying robot. Could you imagine getting the delivery while at Dolores park?
Ah, right. That makes it ok.
Or it's just fun to buy all the shiny, colorful, sparkly stuff and flounce about in it.
I could not agree more.

That becomes even more frustrating when you (temporarily) are in another country and suddenly get smacked in your face by incorrect location based search results. If google wants to really retain traction with people who want to search for what they type (don't even get me started on the "showing results for: $bshere, if you want to see results for what you searched for, click here"), then they will soon have to provide a switch for it.

I really hope that google goes that way but I think it only crop up when people working at google find themselves using a different search engine to find (esp. programming related) specific topics.
The ball is charged and resides in an [electric potential](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_potential).
I doesn't matter what estimate software developers make, program management sets arbitrary release dates.
That's probably easier than it might seem. "Balancing" the drinks might seem like a hard problem to solve…

http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/why-doesnt-the-ball-...
+1 You can’t trust the Referer header.
It's a dark pattern. In my opinion, at least; an ambiguous interface element with unexpected and unintended consequences. Judging by his obvious design talent, I think Mr. Curtis should know better, especially in light of the incredibly negative response. It's a dick move.

You care enough to follow through with replying to me, it seems. I'm plenty relaxed, I just thought it was worth calling a spade a spade in this case.
Defining oneself has the consequence to set your own goals instead of only following the goals of others (you might join other people's quests, but you're now free to not do so without falling into existential boredom). You switch from external to internal motivation. That means very much.
That isn't what is happening though, hover over the link and its a direct link to HN.
Damn you; I already consider the absence of these words to be a design flaw.
As a matter of opinion, I agree. If someone claims they own something and they want to fight for it they should take responsibility for it. Property ownership comes with conditions and responsibilities. From an ethical standpoint, why should intellectual property be different? Do they own the data or not?

Expanding on this, if a company wants to claim that they always own a particular combination of bits should they pay rent for storing it on my system? The problem is people are generally short sighted and focused on the immediate future. Other considerations are rarely thought about until other people insist that something will affect their immediate future. There are costs associated with data that are rarely considered at the moment. No one to talk about this, it may change the way they do things and cost them money.
This could become the most voted up submission of all time.
Are the kinds of questions Google asks in interviews really effective?
The first thing that comes to mind is that any inaccuracies or vandalism are going to be stuck on their devices until they make an update.
Really? I block the referer header so I guess all my upvotes haven't been counted. :(
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I don't see the use a new device for a single function like this. Why not include this kind of function into any e-reader instead? Who wants to carry tons of devices around?
I would have fixed my vote at least, but:

http://news.ycombinator.com/vote?for=3742902&dir=down...

"Can't make that vote."
May I suggest we all block w3schools.com at: http://www.google.com/reviews/t

Google states that it "may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall" so this may be the best way to take action.
It'd be interesting if you could find a loophole. Maybe the tacos are technically free and it could be argued that flying them somewhere could be done as a hobby, and you're required to give a donation to a separate entity for the order to go through.
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Nothing. Well, OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but it's exactly what has securities lawyers and people like current and former SEC Chairmen shaken their heads in disbelief. The chain of transparency and accountability isn't there the way it would be with a public company registered with the SEC.

I wrote a detailed critique here: http://masht.ag .
Possibly – if I have to spend a lot of money and don't get that much out of it, then I'll be thinking the opposite.
Don't know if you are aware or if it's useful to you, but the author of PyCuda/PyOpenCL is at NYU and both have numpy support.
I'd like to do it — do you have any ideas for finding good jobs overseas? Something like Hackruiter for Non-US companies?
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LOL! Fair point :-)
Why not use a 301 instead of having duplicated content?
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Though obviously a joke this is the sort of thing that I'd support breaking the law for. Disrupt the land-based food delivery establishment.
His "about me" section already describes him as a superhero, so clearly you are just not awesome enough to understand how awesome he is. (How many people have you gotten fired from American Airlines?)
I'm right there with you.

I mean KickStarter is akin to donation. There is no expectation of getting your money back plus a return.

This seems ... I don't know ... kind of bush league. Who would do this? A team might have, I don't know, thousands of potential 'investors' who they would have to keep happy. What about follow on rounds? So many people are lawsuit happy now a days as well. Just seems... I MUST be missing something.
Work on the largest Node.js installation in the world
Voxer looking for several Node.js engineers to join our team.

Voxer have grown massively in just a few months. We are now the fastest growing voice application in the world and we need your help to keep growing. We are solving really hard problems at massive scale with Node.js, Riak, and Redis. We use continuous deployment and run on Joyent Cloud.

You'll get to work on:

- Likely the largest Node.js installation in the world.

- One of the largest Riak installations in the world.

- Many very large and hot Redis instances.

- Write code that touches millions of users every day.

- Scaling and monitoring busy Node.js clusters with HTTP and JSON.

- Work closely with the core Node and DTrace teams (we're on Joyent and that's where they work), as well as Basho and Redis core teams.

Some of the things we look for are:

- Some formal education in Computer Science or equivalent, but the exact degree or number of years of professional experience you have isn't as important as your enthusiasm and ability.

- Generalists with experience of many parts of the server software / hardware stack.

- Experience with Node.js, Riak, and Redis is very helpful. We depend on these technologies every day.

- Experience with DTrace, Hadoop or Splunk is a plus. We are starting to incorporate these technologies into our operation.

- If you don't have experience of above - ability to pick it up quickly.

- Signs of an entrepreneurial or intellectual exploration.

- Hacker-mentality. You're scrappy and want to get things done.

- You want to be part of the team building the next generation voice platform for hundreds of millions of people.

Voxer

We're changing how the world communicate. We launched Voxer in 2011and have since become the fastest growing voice application in the world. What we've built is already an important part of the daily lives of millions of people. We're making voice communication faster, more efficient and more social. Our goal is ambitious - we're building the next generation communication service in the intersection between phone calls and SMS.

We're a surprisingly small team doing this. Only about a dozen engineers who previously worked at Heysan (YC07), Danger, Android and Apple. We helped build things like redis for node.js and are contributors to the node.js community. Voxer is built using node.js, Riak and Redis.

We try to stay out of the spotlight and focus on building something amazing. We're hackers. The problems we're facing are at a scale only seen at companies like Twitter and Facebook and we're looking for exceptional people who can help us tackle them.

Apply here: http://voxer.theresumator.com/apply/zfpjQ9/Nodejs-Infrastructure-Engineer.html

Popular like Voxer http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/popular-like-voxer/
That description encapsulates why crowdfunding will be a last resort for many, if not most, entrepreneurs. Most founders I know would rather bootstrap and not take money from one investor, let alone hundreds. They generally go with angels for a seed round and VCs if and when they need a $1MM+ real Series A round. It's frankly a PITA dealing with a large number of investors; leanly staffed early stage startups have so many other things to worry about. I can tell you none of my clients (all of whom are entrepreneurs) are clamoring for this.
Points to DCurtis for shipping. That's what this life is all about and it's easy to lose sight of that.

But my own personal opinion is that I don't love it.

The UI of the published blogs is nice. I actually like the animation on the left, though I personally would only show it once per session. I think the challenge will be making this a more usable, integrated experience for the user while retaining the sparse and appealing UI. Even for "vetted" bloggers, audience reach and accessibility matters.

I'm not a big fan of the UI for the backend. I like the concepts. But the UI seems too designed. The strict use of black and white, for example, seems almost a gimmick to me.

And I really dislike the Kudos "button" and his response to the criticism.

There is absolutely no functional benefit. People know buttons. They expect buttons to work like all other buttons work: You have to press it if you want to press it. I could go on and on about why this is bad
(unfriendly to touch UIs (even if it also supports clicking), people shouldn't have to be careful about where they rest their mouse, it takes 1s to "hover induce" this button and far less than 1 sec to click, etc.)

But the biggest UX blunder, IMO, is not being able to undo it.

I was less than impressed by DCurtis's response to the Kudos issue: that a kudos is meaningless. If it's so meaningless why not let people kudos the same thing more than once? Why have a kudos at all?

I hope this can be seen as constructive, because I think his project is much bigger than this critique. He worked on something, and shipped. Our industry is more of a meritocracy than most. Congrats on shipping, high-five and well done.

Now make it better, please.
well done graphic.
Ahah!

I think you've just hit on the legal remedy for this bullshit.

It is illegal for an interviewer to ask about your religion, your race, your age, your political views, your sexual orientation, etc. All of those things are part of the typical facebook profile so asking to even look at someone else's facebook profile for purposes of an interview is a clear violation of the law.

Here's a list of things that an interviewer is barred from asking: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewsnetworking/a/illegal...
You need to need break; from your job, from hacking. Take a vacation and engage in something that doesn't involve code.
Go bowling, or fishing, or to Italy. Whatever.

When you return, you will probably feel a lot better about all those things that feel tired right now. And no, you probably won't be happy driving a bus (for long anyways), but don't be afraid to try that too ;-)
Attempted to take advantage.

Doesn't seem to have worked, or at least, I visited the link and it still shows the arrow unvoted.

Edit: Looks like he commented it out before I clicked. So I guess it did work.
"Oop, Katie's got the low cut dress on today! I know where I'm sitting!"

I can easily imagine a world in which such a remark is routinely interpreted as a compliment. I can also imagine a world in which it is routinely considered offensive. The problem is that we live in a world where you can't easily determine a priori what will be considered "offensive", due in large part to a social convention that says: the victim is always right. This attitude was exemplified by a black University of Wisconsin student who objected to the word "niggardly" (which means "stingy"): "I was in tears, shaking," she told the faculty. "It's not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid."*

Political reality makes it exceedingly difficult to draw a line in the sand and say: Your taking offense is what's unreasonable. Stop being such a baby, grow a thicker skin, and lighten up. Absent such a line, the list of "offensive" things grows without bound.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%2... In this case, her complaint helped serve to smash the university's speech code, but this type of outcome is the exception rather than the rule.
Then the fact that Hacker News is unwilling to talk about it should be a topic of discussion. Did you really just say "HNers aren't ostriches, they just don't want to talk about sexism"? Because those statements seems wildly contradictory.
What they are missing in the UI I think is a search function!
Just a little bar on top (yes, you could toggle it off for Unity haters) to which you could easily get to with a keyboard shortcut and just type in e.g. "liquify", hit enter and the liquify filter pops up.

I have no idea why that has not been done yet, or am I simply missing something?
Where is the $100 e-reader that runs for a year on one set of AAA batteries?
I am but an egg, but . . .

Even if the components built of units change, and thus trach their tests, won't the tests covering the units still be useful?

Also: I find that a lot of component changes are interface changes -- the test code has to change to match the new interface and return values, but still remains useful.