skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi - I find this interesting as I use LinkedIn quite a bit and am frequently reaching out to people to grab coffee with them. I tried the hedge fund search as I imagine that would be a highly sought after search and while it lists the names, it doesn't tell me any information about the people. It's a tough to know how much information to share to entice me to sign up for your service. In my opinion, my curiosity wasn't enough to get my to sign up to see the people's profiles in the hedge fund search. Perhaps give me the ability to see one a day? Or perhaps let people specify that they are okay having their information shown?

As a general tip - as you are on hacker news, I would imagine that most people who would be interested in this are startup folks or people related to startup folks. So for this to be more interesting to them, it would make sense to start with the programmers at startups or growth hackers at startups or [fill in the blank] at startups. Then you'll be reaching the right people with the right message.

Good luck!
There's more than one search result for 'VAT', that's just the quick answer, although you're right it's a little lacking in links to more info. But in which case, submit feedback.
Like Wolfram, I've been doing some personal analytics for a while, but only with email (http://sluggish.dyndns.org/wiki/Emailgraph). Potentially it would be possible to build a Friendica addon which does similar things to the Facebook Report.
A free gym membership where you pay $1 for the days you don't show up
>unless the plaintiff can demonstrate to the court direct harm //

The harm per capita is slight in financial terms I'd agree. But demonstrating the harm is simple - I did something with a PD work, this company acted to prevent my free exercise of using that PD work.

It's akin to blocking a public right of way (not sure about law concerning such things outside the UK sorry) - you block access on a path or road that should be free to access by the public, you're preventing a person from exercising their rights.

Possibly there is a libel issue too - the company [maliciously] claim you're copyright infringing, you show the work used is out of copyright and that the company would have [on the balance of probabilities] known that.

--

¹ I gather that's the measure used for torts in the UK courts.
My favorite acronym of all time.
It's a bit scary as well!
Microsonic Landscapes - visualizing music in physical form
Is there a consensus on why the SOAP/WSDL business sucks? Is it just a lousy bloated implementation of a potentially good idea or it's the whole idea that's misguided/unrealistic/foolish?
I agree that giving take home exams might not be the best idea, but I place 100% of the blame on the students for this. It is completely reasonable to give academic honesty instructions to students and request that they be followed. Maybe it's not realistic to expect that the instructions will be followed, but it is certainly reasonable to punish the students for violations of academic honesty. Honestly, I think Harvard would be well within their rights to expel any student who blatantly plagiarized an exam, take-home or not.

It's a little scary (maybe not surprising) that 2% of Harvard undergrads were involved in this scandal. This incident, combined with the Stuyvesant scandal makes me lose so much faith in the national student body. I wonder what the solution to this apparently endemic problem is. Maybe the best idea is to accept that students are going to copy and collaborate, and give each student personalized assignments.
I can just imagine some bored senator turning an app like this into an indictment of how Apple supports anti-Americanism and dodges taxes.
> OK, so what?

Well, when you try to fill in the blanks you get one of these:

1) AtomPub, which is a relatively simple protcol but has very limited application

2) oData/WSDL, which are powerful but complex
You made me investigate HN dom structure and it's quite scary !
Position: sticky lands in webkit
Gypsy ninjas? Gypsy is a highly offensive ethnic slur practically everywhere in the world except America.
This comes from the author of this fantastic book, highly recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Bootstrap-Lessons-Learned-Building-Suc...
related: anyone know any good platforms for collecting personal data so you can make cool graphs like this? i use google spreadsheet right now, but im not a fan.
scary to know how much info facebook has about you. wait until they actually start selling all of our little secrets
Drupal is not a CMS
Perhaps, but isn't there the risk that a charismatic leader could get team members to essentially do the work for him/her?

There were charismatic students who tried that, but it would become apparently very quickly what was happening and that point our competitiveness would kick in and we would demand contributions from that person before we would assist any further.

But yes, there is always someone who will abuse the system, and you're not going to get far trying to achieve 100% compliance all the time.
Letterman: How did you know so much about computers then?
Hopper: I didn't. It was the first one.

What a beautiful tribute to Grace Hopper's pioneering spirit.
I wonder if this shares code with the promising-but-defunct Ubiquity project? https://vimeo.com/1561578 Edit: if you don't feel like watching a video, here's what it's about: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/ubiquity-in-depth/
Incremental Garbage Collection in Firefox 16 Beta
I've thought for some time that Microsoft, Apple, and Google would end up forming a patent cartel. At some point they'll each have the patent equivalent of mutually assured destruction. It seems to me that it is in their interest to maintain the present patent system, not sue each other, and then crush any newcomers. It may not happen now but it will happen eventually, I think.
I'm terribly sorry that you had to go through losing your mother at 12. My older brother died a little under two years ago, when I was 18. Like you, death is ever-present in my mind. For me it manifests as anxiety of losing my parents, sisters, and friends. I'm not worried about my own death, though I am morbidly curious as to what my final moments will be like. I hope that even though you don't feel any better about death, you find comfort in other aspects of life.
It might not be that pretty! but I guess you have just defined the term "infographic" :)
I started, alone, with a C64. Oh, and I didn't read English. I could only read the code in the manuals and type it in to see how it worked. Trust me, HTML/JS is ten times easier than that. My take is that language is not as important as having a mentor. I did not have a mentor, and that made me waste a lot of time with the basics.

Its so great that you are involving your son with robotics. Really awesome. You should definitely keep working on that. In fact, keep me updated on how you guys progress along. My email is in my profile.
Now contrast that with Virginia Tech's honor code policy in use in all CS courses where absolutely no collaboration of any kind is permitted. The only thing you can discuss with classmates is the meaning of a particular requirement.

Sigh. Only 2 more years...
It sounds like something 1950 got right. At least to me.
Scooby do costumes and more great ideas for adults.
Scooby do costumes are just one of the ideas presented in this article for grown up cartoon ideas for Halloween.
Yes, it's not really possible with current products. But part of the point is that we should strive to make it possible; the original 6-button Apple remote should be the minimum and every additional button needs a significant justification for its existence, such as volume control.

On/off? Make everything power efficient, turn off after some idle time or detecting that no one is around, reliable auto power on across devices (HDMI-CEC is terribly unreliable), reduce "on" times to no more than two seconds, etc. (requiring a full minute for a TV to boot is insane)

Fast forward / rewind? Reuse left/right arrows. Heck Netflix on my TV doesn't even let you use the dedicated fast forward / play / etc buttons - you have to use the d-pad.

Number pad / channel control? Depends on the person. Cable's dying though, so it makes slightly less sense each day.

3D button? Detect whether glasses are being used. Or develop useful non-eyestrain inducing 3D in the first place.

Widescreen button? Ditch legacy hookups already!

Closed caption button? Who wants to toggle this often enough to warrant a dedicated button? (Yes I know broadcasters are retarded enough that you need to, you shouldn't need to though)

Device selection? Maybe one input selection button. But the button presses should always go to the intended device without having to push another button on the remote. Yes, HDMI-CEC sucks for this again (big surprise)
I choose to give them the benefit of the doubt. Both TextDrive and Joyent Cloud have been highly productive enterprises. I hated to see TextDrive fall by the wayside but I still trust them more than a run-of-the-mill exit-seeking startup. I hope the new TextDrive makes money and is around for a long time.
Beer subsidised by advertising all over the bottle.
Oracle issues emergency Java patch
The mechanism to avoid having a charismatic leader unfairly being granted credentials in courses not based on their knowledge is have a pass/fail (heavily protctored) exam at the end of the sememster drawing on knowledge from all the sections of the course. Fail the exam, fail the course. Pass the exam, you get the grade you earned throughout the semester.

We had a few of those at SFU, and they were awesome - the only ones who ever failed them were the cheaters - The ones who had actually done all the work/exams finished them in about half the time allocated.
Baltimore Beta Launch Party
Rule 11 - Don't unplug the Ethernet cable from my laptop when I'm not in the office. I have shit running on remote servers via ssh and they aren't always in a screen or tmux session. I'll become very angry and yell at you when you do this. If you do it repeatedly, I'll body slam you in the parking lot.
Qoture Wants to Be the Standard for Digital Clothes Sizing
Ever gifted her a large when she was actually a small? Possibly cure? Let us know what you think!
I don't get the downvotes with your post. This is absolutely correct. I went through a very rigorous engineering program and I was never unclear about what constituted cheating. You did problem sets yourself, and you did exams without copying anyone else's answers. It it's not a damned difficult concept for someone at a University where everyone has 98th %-ile SAT scores.
DRY Hybrid Validations
It's a little scary (maybe not surprising) that 2% of Harvard undergrads were involved in this scandal. This incident, combined with the Stuyvesant scandal makes me lose so much faith in the national student body.

You've lost faith "in the national student body" based on the actions of a tiny minority of students? Really?
31,140 Pennies Used for a Kitchen Floor
I would absolutely love to be involved in a project like that one. Been wanting to develop one locally, and this might be the push I needed. Good luck with the project, and keep me update on how it progresses. My email is in my profile.
Take-home assignments in course VI are ripe for co-work.

But the take-home test in 6.046, in my day, required us to affirm that we had worked on it alone. It was a lot of fun (I'm an algorithm dork), and I felt really bad -- like I had cheated -- when someone looked over my shoulder at what I was working on and shouted out the answer.
At a school like Harvard, with their much-touted financial aid where students aren't supposed to have to hold down outside jobs to pay for tuition, how do students end up with very little time to do work? Class itself should take, what, three to five hours on a typical day? That leaves a lot of time for homework and studying. Do people just overwhelm themselves with too many extracurricular activities?
I still don't get why the docs cannot be public. Stripe for example has public API docs.
My mother is a teacher and has run into this type of issue before so I got it right away.

Some thoughts - the gray text is hard to read on the gray background, it's a bit minimalist so it's hard to get the whole picture without lots and lots of scrolling down the page, for numbers less than ten - most people will write out the word as it's easy to get lost in the numbers (which I did), excuse me would like like to try a sample comes across as cutesy and doesn't really help convey the message, I was confused as to why you didn't show all seven of the activities that are available, hard to understand how to enter the 25 words into a single text box, it took me a while to realize that I had to press enter in the box and that it would expand automatically, the text box currently registers a comma "," as a word - might want to discount grammatical symbols, the 99 cents checkout at the bottom caught me a bit off guard.

Overall, congrats on shipping something that looks neat, solves a real problem, and are charging money from it. I would suggest thinking about how to improve the user flow so that I don't have to scroll down tons of times.

Good luck!
Your examples break federal law; I'm exploiting Amazon's proprietary codebase to lower my prices / someone is still breaking and entering into my home. Those aren't moral because federal laws are being broken.

If Amazon charged $20 for a book if I were to buy it on my laptop, but $10 for that same book if I buy it with my phone, why in the hell would I buy it on my laptop? How is that immoral? I'm presented with two options: $10 or $20 for the same item. The company has offered me a contract of payment and I am to choose one, or I can take my patronage elsewhere. This is not a matter of breaking into a server and SQLi'ing until you can make an item free; this is the company offering me something for cheaper, depending on how I buy it.
"Ray... if someone asks you if you are a god.. you say YES!!"

The idea here seems to be that Einstein and Feynman were gods, but they were actually people, and the author is a person, so therefore the author is a god. And "a god" seems to be defined as someone who knows something before others do.

I think the author is deluded as to what a "god" is. Or has some unstated alternative definition.

I don't believe the comment about Chandrasekhar "living in a yurt, redefining the mathematics of supernovae ... surrounded by uneducated peasant farmers" is at all correct. He started that supernova work in England, and did most if not all of it in Europe. Even in India, when he was born his father was Deputy Auditor General of the Northwestern Railways. He was initially tutored at home, and his mother "translated Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House into Tamil." So says Wikipedia. This doesn't sound like a family which would live in a yurt.
I think the general advice of dropping out of college to start a startup is a very bad idea.

I agree. There's no rush; there will still be plenty of ideas left to work on after college.
This is the kind of thing they need to get into. Data that lots of people care about, data for the masses, rather than obscure details on bolt sizes or ancient currencies. "Compute things people want".

I could only imagine what they could do with celebrity gossip. Or product comparisons.
$(No);

I plan on introducing her to PHP and Joomla. Just kidding. :)
D3 - Languages and Color
Except anything with a low/bid ask spread becomes money

- can you explain that? threshold % of asset value?
Have you tried Wolfram|Alpha Pro data input features themselves for the analysis?
Neat idea - do next steps include searching by color or by cost?
People have such weird logic. When 80% of the population is criminalized, we see that as a surefire sign of a bad government. But that completely changes when the population is "students" — then it's all their fault and the administration is just helpless against all these lazy kids.

Without necessarily absolving the students of responsibility for their actions, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that rampant cheating represents a failure on the school's part.
On assignments, that ends up with the charismatic leader not understanding what's going on come test time. (I am unfamiliar with collaboration on take-home tests.) The practice questions really are warm-ups for the test in most classes.
Spaceport America Unveiled, Prepping for Launches Next Year
This is amazingly OCD. You have to appreciate the commitment to an concept start to finish like this.
Application UX inconsistency is a Mac thing AFAIK. Yes they all look 'pretty' and 'likable', but not consistent. Most decent Windows apps are modeled one after another and are very consistent. They have such things as status bars, sidebars, menus, list views. Usually standard controls, though times are changing with the advent of XAML and web-like interfaces.

And man tell me where should I have gone to get any information about why my _wired_ Ethernet connection wasn't working on Mac when it worked everywhere else?

[UPD: I'd give iOS apps 2/5 on consistency scale, Android, Linux and OSX 3/5, Windows 4/5].
No but in case I squander those opportunities, don't hesitate to fill up the gap.
Don't be so logical. You sound like my defensive driving instructor! Killjoy! :(

sarcasm intended
I look forward to trying this, Wolfram's site is a little slow right now though.
Having just finished graduate school I think the cheating issue often comes down to a misalignment between what is being taught and the skills actually needed in the real-world.

Most students are at college to get a "piece of paper" that makes it easier to get a job. Unfortunately, I think most of them are also intuitively aware that what they are learning will more than likely be irrelevant in any real business environment. In the realm of CS, how often does one use calculus, linear algebra, unusual algorithms, or automata theory in the standard 9-5 coding job?... Rarely - thus the incentive in students to minimize hard learning in these topics
It's still a violent interrupt - I use the silent, no vibrate, technique mentioned above, with an exception for my wife and my business partner both of whom know not to call unless they mean it. Everyone else gets used to voicemail pretty quickly I find.
The fact that C++ is so complicated that three people knowledgeable about it can't agree on the best way to create a list of objects is a pretty good reason to avoid it.

I say this as a C++ programmer.
Ask HN: WordPress plugins to submit new posts to HN automatically?
Hi guys I was looking for a plugin to publish my essays and blog posts directly to HN. I know that HN does not have an API, therefore I played a little bit with scraping requests etc and just got banned (emailed @pg about it).

Anyway, is there a proven to be working WordPress plugin to get articles posted to HN automatically? Or would someone be interested in developing one?

Thanks.
11. See 16s

12. Shower, regularly

13. NO POPCORN

FYI, all of these (including those) apply to cube spaces.
> I am an expert on the topic.

You're an expert on how this fellow felt the first time he listened to music via his new equipment?

I think it is likely that you are an expert on how you feel, but this guy is crying as he listens to Mozart, he said it himself, and I'm not sure how much more we can ask for.
Its not at all unusual for third parties to develop apps for publishers and manage their sales channels. If you survey the education space, many publishers do this. Its just another way of handling the mobile space.

Our apps have been taken down, so there is no way to link to them unfortunately.

We have occasionally gotten frivolous claims for TM infringement, which we attempt to clean up quickly (If you have a lot of apps, you'll know that you get targeted by random individuals with no case). We were in the middle of an especially tenacious individual who was fraudulently claiming we were using a name he did not have a TM on. As our lawyers were trying to solve the problem, we were shut down.
Interview with Crowdbooster Co-Founder & CEO Rickey Yean
I was talking about the companies mentioned in the original article which have stood up to judicial scrutiny despite having ridiculous setups that exist solely to circumvent prosecution. Judges clearly don't mind that.

> Congress will recognize that as a bug and modify the law.

Why are you so sure of that?
Great work - definitely going to give it a try. Also - thank you for not scaring the living day lights out of me by saying something like if you don't use our web app security scanner now - people will figure out all your passwords and passcode and destroy everything!
Ruby 1.9's String
You have a valid point but the article is about co-working spaces, not open-plan offices.
Your reasoning is poor.

The point of taking a course isn't to get an A.

No, but sometimes an A makes the difference between graduating or not.

It's not like the course held a gun to their head and made them cheat.

No, but if cheating in the class is common, then it's likely that the difficulty of the class material is artificially inflated to account for students' artificially high performance. If you know this, the professor doesn't know this, and you need an A, then it may be that the only way to get an A is to cheat.
What is a "multimedia app"?

Will you provide links to your website as well?
From my experience (Brown), students often have on-campus jobs, take more classes than the norm in order to graduate early or edify themselves, and involve themselves in a variety of extracurricular activities with often intensive time requirements (i.e. sports). All of these contribute to stress. If you are out of town for a debate tournament and then have an exam on Monday morning when you get back, you feel a bit stretched.
I think there's a huge disruption coming in education. For every Brandon there are 10 others who maybe don't want to create a startup themselves, but could benefit from a series of internships at startups and larger companies along with a structured reading list.

A couple years ago my last company hired an intern who was about to start 10th grade. He wrote surprisingly good code and learn a lot in the process.
"Leap" creates 3d touch interface for your hands, fingers, pens, or chopsticks
Patents (at least as understood by the US founding fathers who put them in the Constitution, YMMV in other countries) are supposed to be a means by which we all benefit from knowledge that would otherwise be kept a trade secret by their inventors. The nearly two decade long protection is the price we pay for that knowledge.

Of course, looking at it this way, it is absolutely insane that things like "bounce scrolling" are patent protected. Even in situations where some piece of software functionality is 100% new (which basically never happens anyway), if I can watch a video on YouTube of someone interacting with the product and then write a 20 line function that simulates the behavior I saw without ever having seen the original code, nor even having touched the original product myself and that 20 line function can be a patent violation, the patent system is already 100% completely fucked up relative to what it was designed to do originally.
I hope I'm not being too sentimental in thinking of her as an über-hacker. She invented the very first English-like programming language, FLOW-MATIC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC
Website appears down, I think this is the same article except on Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/ten-rules-for-shared-working-...
The National Security Agency’s Domestic Spying Program
It seems like the GP is saying that based partly on Harvard's reputation, not just the incident itself.