skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm curious about if anyone here is a lawyer is this: wasn't that demand -- from a legal standpoint -- extortion?
Great tutorial! I wish there was a similar article for LLVM/Clang.
That was part of the plan. User send a message "8:30PM call me: You look handsome today." to the bot then later you will receive a call from the bot. It is like a command-line alarm on IM.
And again, you're completely missing the point. One user's UI clutter is another user's essential UI component. Doing actual UX studies on your interface is essential (which I assume Disqus has done thoroughly).

Your original comments claimed that a mythical "the user" doesn't care about the Reactions, Community, or star buttons, citing "common sense." That's not a UX study. That's you trying to spin your personal opinion as fact. Which is cute, but is not useful criticism in the slightest.
Plenty of theaters have no internet connection. Offices are usually somewhere else, there are not employees or patrons that would benefit internet access. So now they have to add an ISP with network wiring to every booth? Seems a silly waste of cost, plus leading to the inevitable "now we can remote disable your projector if we feel the need."
The GMA3650 (aka PowerVR SGX545) graphics chipset used by Cedar Trail is not supported under Linux: http://communities.intel.com/message/158477
As you might know, without committed users Twitter would not have # tag and @ sign. They have talked with their users at one point. They don't have an option. You have to.

What their advantage right now, Facebook already have 3200+ employees which also means users that they can get feedback.
Twitter has the same nature. But believe me, they are talking a lot with their customers(advertisers), not with you or me, coz we are a small fish in the ocean. Our lives are not dependent on FB or TW, if we find a better app, we will sell them in a second.

That's also why I believe 37signals, Evernote, Dropbox are much more valuable brands than Facebook & Twitter. They might not have 100s million of users, but if you can't monetize, it does not matter

We will be going Freemium, but in a way that Evernote does. Not in FB or TW modal.
Yes, it is how it works, but it's not just how it works. There are reasons for the rules, and underlying models for the rules. It's not arbitrary, it has evolved over centuries to have purpose.

It's not "just" how it works. When you have the equals sign between two expressions you are saying that instantiation of the variables must result in quantities that are the same. When you modify one side then you must make the same modification on the other side in order to retain that property. there are reasons for things to be the way they are.

It's not "just" how it works.
For now I have tried to solve it by removing all BUY buttons from the interface but one - on welcome screen, that buys you everything forever - which is effectively turning app into 'pro' version without ads, offers, just pure content.
IAP is new to me, but from what I read it is the most effective way to monetize. Needs to be done nicely, though.
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback! Yes I used Twilio API. I went to a hackathon last weekend and built this using Twilio API, and it was cool so I decided to refine it some more and release it.

1. Yeah currently it's alarm for hours and minutes "from now" rather than actual time, because you know, time zone conversion thing is really annoying and takes up too much time. But you're right I gotta make that more clear.

2. Yeah I'm concerned about that too. I think I might actually think about doing it that way too. Thanks for the idea!
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Perhaps you're thinking of the proposal to abolish the leap second entirely?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16625614

The parent link is to the authoritative Bulletin C, hard to imagine that it's wrong.
opensource-> fewer bugs -> more users
-> more satisfied users
-> firefox style extensions or even an "app store"
-> code improvements
-> support for more platforms
-> praise of the world's hacker community
If you want to call somebody's claim out as bullshit, call it out as bullshit, please stop with the passive aggressive [citation needed] shit, it is extremely obnoxious, does not contribute to the discourse, and becoming very common in the comments here.

I encourage other users to down vote these style of comments, and up vote explicit reasoned replies.
Short funny chat
Read the crocodile chat and I am sure it would make you smile.
That's the one thing that bugs me most about Apple. Not the kill switch, not the pricing, but the complete and total lack of objective transparency on the app store. Would it absoulutely kill them to come out with some hard and fast rules? It's not that difficult.
Exactly. I hope that current model (get for free and pay once to get everything forever) will make happy both sides :-)
about, time
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I'd like to see an explanation of how this matters in plain English. I'm not sure what 0-1 in telomere length is, in relation to years, but the difference the chart reveals is less than 1/10th of a percent. The bias in the chart alone makes it seem huge.

Then I'd like to know if the telomere "consumption" rate is constant (I doubt it). Because unless its constant, this just leads to our potential maximum lifespan—not the expressed lifespan (due to stress, diet, etc). Like genotype/phenotype differences.
"Vigilantes"? People who express strong disapproval via email are vigilantes now? My goodness, back in my day that term meant something a bit stronger than vocal disagreement. So what do we now call people who engage in the sort of violent behavior that used to be called vigilantism?
Ask HN: Looking for Freelance Work
I am a 16 year old developer, and I find it difficult to obtain a development work.
I have a great deal of experience developing iOS applications and developing in Python. I have lesser experience with web design, Java and Javascript.
The two main jobs I have managed to obtain are:

• Freelance iOS developer with a startup called dirtcheapapps, developing iOS applications using a rapid development methodology.

• Research programmer at Heriot Watt University, Scotland performing programming work to monitor and control experiments over a summer.

I was also offered the chance to develop the app for roomhopper.co.uk, but unfortunately I declined due to exam pressures earlier this year, which are finished now.
Neither of these are long term or consistent work, which is what I would aim to achieve.
What should I do to make myself more marketable, and get myself into more jobs like these?
Any and all of your advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Totally resonate with this comment, when the article said:

"So our lesson learned is that, if you're a Scottish startup and want to apply for YC, make-up some numbers, and multiply them by 10, then walk into the interview and confidently say that you can make that much."

In my mind I saw potential investors rolling their eyes and saying, "Oh, one of those types."

Places like Google or Apple with billions of dollars in free cash flow can spend money to solve 'problems' for which their are no customers, startups cannot afford that luxury. There is a place where the goal is to come up with a novel solution to a hard problem, its called a 'research lab.' And something I always look for in people is where they sit on the spectrum between research and development [2].

The good news is that you can use this to guide your thinking about what the next steps are when you find yourself all revved up to solve a problem. Ask, "Would anyone pay to have this problem solved for them?" and if the answer is yes, figure out how much. And once you know that you know if there is a business there. And you can defend that number using your research.

If you don't know if anyone would pay for it, and after trying cannot figure out why they would or how much, then you are still doing research.

[2] Startup types need to be much closer to the 'development' side than the 'research' side.
Yes but what I just did was send an email to a person at a police department that we do business with (I don't know them) to see what they think of your software. (All things start with research and I don't want to give you info w/o doing research).

Here is the email that I sent. I will reply to you personally with the results (if any since I don't know that they will respond) or on HN if the response is interesting enough for others to learn from.

Here is the email that I just sent:

"As you know we are the [redacted business relationship
that we have with this police department]

I am helping a programmer with analyzing the business potential of a software program they developed that helps police departments with forensic analysis of photographs.

I was wondering if you could have the person or
persons who would use this software (it enhances
photos taken removing blur) take a look
and give me their opinion of whether the software
is something they could use and if it would
be something they would consider purchasing
(whether the price is appropriate for the benefit).

If they would like to test the software I can
get an evaluation copy at no charge."

My purpose in sending this letter is to get a general idea of how they view your product. It's only one data point obviously but from their response I will be able to gauge how you should proceed forward and possibly specific suggestions.
Jsonvalidator - A JSON 'Schema By Example' validation
Yeah, I think in my case the "calling" part is the most important part. It's not even about the calling itself but more about the message. If I get a call from myself and it says "Hey man you have a test today in 3 hours, you can't be sleeping! Snap out of it!" that's pretty effective for me :)

Plus my favorite part is you can respond to yourself and it will be recorded--the dream capturing part. Please try it, would love to hear your feedback on these. Thanks!
I tested mainly on my 4y old son and then asked few friends to test on their kids. No problems reported.
Re HW button - I am thinking about design without it especially because I am going to build iOS version that doesn't have one.
not sure benign is the right word.. but sure.
Some researchers at the University of Helsinki have studied the hell out of this problem, and even provided a useful tool that is available in many Unix distributions called "sgrep".

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html
No it was rejected.

Although it's always possible that the USA will unilaterally ignore cheese-eating surrender monkey time and adopt "freedom time"
I'd like to believe that socially well adjusted people understand that digging into browsing history outside of Facebook for profit is creepy.
Aw, I'm just horsing around. You're quite right that it's dangerous to mix metaphors while showing someone the ropes.
Nice! One more second before my next birthday! Oh, I've lost a few more writing this... Cant we add an hour or so, so I can take a nap?
All of these things are just really poor exception mechanisms, in my opinion. It really looks like no one with an up-to-date PLT background was consulted in the design. I agree 100% with Andreas Rossberg (who now, somewhat ironically, works at Google):

It is ironic that their motivation is to tame and restrict the use of exceptions, and then they replace them by something even richer and much less structured.
I fail to see any pros of this proposal. It seems mostly equivalent to exceptions, i.e., you can easily express raise/try/finally as syntactic sugar, and likely the other way round. But it is (1) much more ad-hoc -- you cannot give a simple reduction semantics for this, (2) much less orthogonal -- tying `defer' in with function definitions, (3) dependent on mutation -- for recovering and returning alternative results, and implicitly in the semantics of `defer'.
One consequence is the loss of beta-convertibility, which means that you as a programmer cannot take an arbitrary piece of code and turn it into a function anymore, or vice versa, eliminate a function by inlining its body. Such abstractions/refactorings are impossible in general under this proposal, or at least require transforming the relevant code in potentially non-trivial ways.
Example of a dynamic HTML5 datalist control
Right now I'm trying to use it and I'm getting a lot of errors.
As far as I can see, you need to work on the SEO side: there's a lot that needs to be done on that front. Change your title tags structure, create unique descriptions for each page, build friendly urls, make it easy to be crawled, use a sitemap, add to your links the 'title' attribute.
For a site like yours, you should not spend on adwords. You will lose money.
I hope it helps!
I have never dealt with Apple and the app store, but I have a question for those who do. Many of the complaints regard transparency and frequency of communications. Is it a lack of communication on Apple's part? Do your attempts to initiate communication with them and get status updates or discuss issues fail? Or do you expect Apple to initiate all communications for you and they never do?
Would you listen to "good enough" music or watch "good enough" movies? When I ask this, I think, many do. But I don't.

Do you?
I tried dozens of them on Android. They are so busy, terrible UIs, ugly pictures, ads... so that's where I want to fight - with a nice thing.
Thanks a lot for tips on apps, I'll check them out.
So wait.

You note that nowhere in your YC application do they specifically ask you about money stuff.

But, you talked to some YC Alums before the interview and they all asked you about $.

And since you didn't get selected you now assume that the YC partners really only care about the $? Sorry, I think that's a leap in thinking that might be in the wrong direction.

I applied with a website that let people name & share color... There wasn't billion dollar company sitting in front of them. There were a few guys with a passionate community and the ability to build great product. We were never asked in our interview about $ and didn't need to bullshit anything.

Yes, the Valley hype scene is heavily influenced by who's the next billion dollar company and puts little success on people making $5-10M/year in great businesses... But that isn't YC.

PG has on a number of occasions given me advice that is all about us as the founders being happy. Not about YC getting the biggest return possible.

So yeah, hopefully your idea could be a big business. But I would argue the opposite of what your post says. YC mostly cares that your idea is big and that you are a team that might be able to pull it off.

And IMHO... Try not to bullshit. It'll eventually catch up to you.
Ask HN: Can't figure out a NAS solution. Help?
Well I have been looking into pre-built options such as Synology or QNap for Nas storage.

I have contemplated building a desktop from ground up and implementing RAID 1.

Overall I am seeking a backup and redundancy solutions for my terabytes of photographs and personal data.

The attractive part about the pre-built solution is for instance the cloud access for Synology and the mobile Apps. Sounds very convenient and mobile access is a Huge plus for the photos.

Do any of the fellow hackers here have a suggestion for a build or a pre-build sys that would cost a max of $500 Please advise
I wonder what the impact is on computers. Will your server know to add another second, or will it just lose sync and be one second off for the rest of times?
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It's all well and good to question statistics, but:

> People who live longer are more likely than people who die young to have children while they are old.

That's a statement with pretty poor support. Certainly the median childbearing age is well within the lifespan of even short-lived people. The relative population of fathers who have children at 40 is not meaningfully increased by the number of people who died before 40 of correlating/age-related illness (staying with the hypothesis from the article: people basically don't die before 40 because of the length of there telomeres). Frankly my intuition says that the effect you posit is going to be near-zero. Do you have any numbers?

If you're going to criticize, do it right.
"people in the Philippines"

So no chance that older father = more education = better job = more money = better healthcare, compared to teenage parents?
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I'm still waiting for the lawsuit that forces apple to provide an option to install unreviewed apps. Nobody would tolerate this kind of total platform control in OS X or windows. Why is it tolerated in iOS?

It's perfectly fine to have a a curated app store by default, it's not OK when it's the only option. Especially when your as big as Apple is.
At least on Cisco systems, you can add a leap second [1], and at least on my network the tolerance is set at 5 minutes. So network time should still be working. For clients that might not know how to deal with a leap second but still poll network time, I only see issues in the rare case that the client polls the server at exactly 23:59:60. In that situation, they might poll back again to grab a new time thinking it's wrong.

Of course there will always be outliers and poorly coded applications that rely on time, but at least it's not a Y2K style situation.

[1] http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk869/tk769/technologies_whi...
BOOL's Sharp Corners
The thing about the mob rule aspect is, well... this:

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk2

"The owner of [funnyjunk] sent this mass message to every member of his site:

The Oatmeal wants to sue funnyjunk and shut it down! He thinks we're nothing more than dirty content thieves. That FJ doesn't have any real members, it's just a bot that steals content. [...] Contact Oatmeal any way you can!

As you can imagine, my inbox and Facebook page were slammed with thousands of messages from FunnyJunk users who believed that I was trying to get their community shut down. I think they set the land speed record for the highest number of "OMG ur a gayfagness!!!11" Facebook comments in a single day."
It might be off-topic, but I'd never used chpst before. That one's going in the toolbox. Thank you. :-)
From experience with my son (now 4y old) I think it's about 2 years. But if parent will assist, kids learn quickly :-)
Yes, it's broken.
I live in Chicago and am heavily involved on the tech startup scene here. Our scene is growing rapidly and changing by the month.

Is it the second largest in the country? I dunno. Probably not, I would think that'd be New York.

I don't really care though. I'm too busy contributing to the scene and working to keep that tide rising. :)
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I have this same thing as an app on my phone (that I wrote myself and is not polished but who cares, it works).

I think the idea is awesome, and it does work well to hear yourself when in that just-5-more-minutes-mom half awake state of mind.

Why a service rather than an alarm app? That strikes me as pushing the user into a less effective/usable solution to the problem that gives other parties access to personal information in order to ... I'm not even sure why, but I can't think of any reason the customer would prefer this.
it will just sync via NTP, and assume the "difference" was regular clock skew.
Still, you can create your own front page and leave all of that behind. I just watch math machinelearning askscience science and RealReddit pretty much.
From my experience any attempt to contact phone support is totally useless and will not get you anythings. Email support will get instead only not nice responses. Usually if you contact Apple it's because you have problems, whatever the reson, missed payments, app rejections etc... you will get only closed doors from them. I might be drastic but i came to the conclusion that there is NOTHING in the Apple's "dictatorship" that is benign.

I believe that their behaviour is because they are Apple. They don't need you. You need them. So or you stick with what they give you or you can leave. Personally I left. But sadly to make them care one person is not enough. Too many people are still "blind", or stuck with them and cannot leave.
Mathematical optimization problems to be solved
It's actually a 32-bit binary, so the amd64 debian package just lists all the i386 dependencies explicitly. Bummer.

$ file /usr/bin/skype
/usr/bin/skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, BuildID[sha1]=0x3223447b98867e62fbed258aa0da4f2281ab6f11, stripped
I did all the graphics, programming, etc. My wife (she is children book illustrator) created the animals set and will create more. Others are licensed from other profesional illustrators from stock sites.
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Yeah, I would have focused more on people playing (for example) in the subway in front of a big banner for the game.
It's coming ;-)
I don't have any numbers, but I switched back to the old version because "next" was so slow.
Just tried it .. works pretty flawlessly for me, very impressed.

There aren't any adverts so far ..
A Toronto Symphony
> If you want to show your support, donate to the charity

That doesn't affect the way this shitbag lawyer goes about conducting his chosen profession. This actually might.
Wikipedia is wrong on this subject, unless you greatly expand the legal definition of gambling. The gambling prohibition passed around the same time as the alcohol prohibition, but survived because it grandfathered existing gambling locales (Nevada, Atlantic City, Washington, and Delaware, generally, though the latter two have since outlawed or restricted gambling.)

This is why there are no casinos (other than indian casinos) outside of Nevada, Atlantic City, and reservations. Do you really think that California wouldn't have a billion casinos (in addition to the Indian Casinos) if they weren't prohibited from doing so by federal law?

Gambling generally means any wager for cash, where skill does not play a role in the chance of winning the prize. Skill generally applies to intermediate steps en route to winning, not "skill" in selecting the prize-winning item. This includes lotteries and horse racing, but these forms of gambling are specifically excepted from the gambling prohibition. Most traditional casino card games are considered games of "skill" rather than gambling, which is why card houses are legal (subject to local restrictions).

Sports books are legal, so long as they are based in a state where gambling was legal when the gambling prohibition took affect.
My point wasn't to make the transmission secure (since it would one be a 50 cm wire between two boxes in the projection room), but to isolate the screen server from the internet.

Even if the internet connected box gets hacked, they have no chance of accessing the screen server through the serial cable.
HN is about interesting discussion, and this article has generated that, so maybe it has just the right amount of upvotes?
adzerk huh? I like their solution, but I always get wary when I need to call in for a price.

Any clue on what they charge?
Personally, I've been more inspired by EmberJS as a template approach. I've gotten the basics working and up and available on github. https://github.com/koblas/distal

While I don't yet have a fancy blog post about the system and why it's "better" I would be interested if people think there is some core value in this style of View abstraction for Backbone.
Any custom built caching layer is normally going to have to handle this situation.
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