skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. The writing is okay, there weren't any spelling mistakes that I noticed, but the use of three words written in only capital letters was somewhat disconcerting. I'd say if the author wants to get it accepted for publication somewhere reasonably mainstream he's going to need someone else working at arm's length who is willing to take the time to go through it and highlight areas for revision and expansion before sending it back to him. The author and this person might need to repeat the process a few times.
it's not hosted on github, so by hn standards I don't know if it can be qualified as an opensource contribution at all.
It was a joke: https://twitter.com/nacin/status/276769136829423616
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Good to know. I'm not a heavy G+ user so thanks for the explanation.
Upvoted for quoting Frank Herbert. So much interesting (sometimes convincing, often troubling) political philosophy in his books. Recommended reading.
Start with page 32.
This is excellent! How does this compare against BrowserStack (ignoring price, of course)
If they're not meaningful, wouldn't they be more realistic?
Maintaining selenium testing infrastructure is hell. Absolute hell. Sauce means you're not wasting time on that. I've watched people at both of my companies blow TONS of time on this, for relatively little results.

(Disclaimer: some of my friends work at Sauce.)
thanks for clarifying, I was just about to investigate this issue.
You can own a means of production without government backing, but without establishing laws and implementing a means of enforcing them, there's no guarantee that someone wouldn't come along and take it by force.

I just finished a Law 101 class so I'm by no means an expert, but I think the above explains the theory behind why we need laws. Whether you think the theory is legitimate or not is up to you. When I started the course, I was surprised to learn that our entire legal system was designed around the concept of property rights.
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Folks, this website is not called "internet love fest". Please stop downvoting me for giving honest and complete feedback of my experience with the app.
Oh man that's super cool!
If it had zero value why would Google be interested in it?
Tons of people up here have elaborate solar setups, usually 24V or 48V DC. Then they have an expensive 4kW inverter to 110V AC, and the vast majority of their appliances just convert back to 12V DC.

A big plan for my off-grid setup is straight DC.
Searching "www.Google.com" gives me "Sexy Bacon Bra" #2 result.
It doesn't matter. The linked breakin was half a year after the presentation. If Onity didn't fix the lock by then, more time wouldn't have really helped.
The main advantage of the value plan lineup is the truly unlimited data offering, which you can't get with the Monthly 4G plans (they are "unlimited" with throttling after a few GB, and trust me, you don't want to know how bad the throttled speed is). You can get 500 voice minutes and unlimited data for $55/mo, and though tethering isn't allowed they can't really stop you if your phone is unlocked. No other carrier offers anything remotely similar.

If you don't want to tether, though, Monthly 4G is definitely the way to go. $30/mo for 100 minutes and 5 GB data; all you need is a VoIP app and that's perfectly serviceable, and again no other carrier offers anything similar.
which is why the law proposal, called “Leistungsschutzrecht” (hashtag #lsr), is currently being discussed in the German Parliament

Next time a German native speaker tells me his loves his mother tongue because of the possibility of concatenating words together, I will point them to that hashtag.
The value of Bitcoin is also rising much faster than its tiny "inflation" that comes from mining more Bitcoins right now, therefore, even though Bitcoin hasn't reached its maximum number, it still doesn't have inflation right now.
Anatomy of a botnet: Rapid7 researchers dissect Skynet
Researchers from Rapid7 (the company behind Metasploit, Nexpose, and Mobilisafe) dissected the malware and CnC infrastructure powering the Skynet botnet recently discussed in a Reddit AMA.
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Your EUR will be fully insured (upto 100kEUR. Protip: Don't put 100kEUR into BTC).

Point 4 is you will have a unique IBAN address to wire money too. Instead of wiring to Bitcoin-Central's bank account number, you will wire money to YOUR account (at Bitcoin-Central). IBAN wires are free when using SEPA.

Ultra-concise summary: Instead of an exchange having 1 eur account and 1 BTC, each customer has an individual account. This provides ease, security, and EUR insurance.
This is brilliant.

By the way: If you're not absolutely clear that the generated text is a placeholder after five words, you seriously need a change of occupation.
Anyone who's dealt with Onity and is familiar with their business practices would immediately confirm that they not only didn't deserve disclosure but they likely would have done nothing with it. One need only look at the evidence of what they did in the face of non-disclosure to confirm that.
So why aren't they already doing this with the Nexus 4 and offering it for $300 unlocked, instead of charging $200 with contract? They can start doing this today. They don't have to wait for the iPhone - unless they made a deal with Apple that they can't sell a Nexus phone for half the price of what the iPhone will be when they'll sell it unlocked.
Why does anyone need to profit from it?

By definition, that means the service will be more expensive than necessary.

What's wrong with the government charging a fee that is just enough to break even year after year?
My startup tracks web hosting providers and what people have said about them publicly. It's mostly US focused though. I would look at the VPS section, companies like Linode (already recommended) are rated quite highly. No host is perfect, someone is going to have a bad experience with every single company. Our goal is to try and get enough data to be able to compare the average opinion of a provider.

http://reviewsignal.com
Just an attempt to distract from the daily horrors at Apple's Chinese production line.
Show HN: import antigravity
Open a python shell and run

import antigravity
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Speaking purely from a business perspective, if I implemented support for accepting BitCoin in my subscription service, it would be for two reasons: lower transaction costs and potential publicity with my target audience.

I can't speak for others, but both of those (particularly the former) make /accepting/ BC interesting to me. Although, admittedly, not so interesting that I'm seriously pursuing it yet.

The more traction BC gets, the higher it goes on my priority list.
Sauce does Mac OS X virtualization using some patches Alexander Graf and René Rebe helped them bring up to date, which they've released (see http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/08/apple-sauce-android-sau...).

I tried hacking their patches into a recent snapshot of the KVM tree but there were some issues. I sort of wonder if anyone else has managed to get their code working, because it would be a neat hack if so.
It is a joke, but one of the best commit message I've seen lately is from PostgreSQL - for example from Tom Lane - where each bug, or new feature is explained well. I wish I can write such. My commit messages are terrible to my home projects, at least at work I'm following some established rules and it's easier there...
Can't shove a dollar bill down a Cat 5 cable.

If you could, I am sure few people would have bothered with crypto-currencies, or for that matter, paypal...
Can someone take a shot at listing a few math languages vs non-math ones?
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At least it's not something entirely useless like "updated", "w00t", "oops", "test", or " ". (And yes, I've come across all of those in the wild.)
This would be true for a consumer electronics device, but this is something that's inserted inside the body and is expected to function for many, many years. 24 electrode implants have been in the market for over twenty years. The major, major strides in implant technology have generally happened outside the body - speech processing packs have gone from shoulder worn packs to behind-the-ear models.

You need to bear in mind that we're not dealing with traditional technology here: we're dealing with implanted medical devices. This is not a situation where Moore's law applies. It is vastly cheaper to spend R&D developing speech/music processing algorithms than trying to cram more and more electrodes into implants which require extensive testing and certification by the likes of the FDA.

To be honest, it's not a difficult decision at all. If you're happy with your child having an implant[1], you would be crazy to wait a few years 'just in case' the technology improved. Children implanted at an early age can often adapt far more rapidly than those who are older.

But it's a moot argument, because like I say these implants are not like smartphones that get improved every year. It is simply too costly to not only re-certify, but to re-train surgeons and audiologists on the new devices. Developing improvements to the external processing units is many factors cheaper than upgrading the implants themselves.

[1] There are some parents who do not necessarily approve or want their children to get implants, but not for the reasons you suggest. This mainly happens with parents who themselves are deaf, or part of the deaf community. This is a whole other ethical kettle of fish though!
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why there are other Publishers that will step in to fill the gap New Scientist has just launched a German language site for example.
Go to rural North Carolina and look at the 1000s of closed Textile plants and tell me it's a myth.
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http & https mismatch for the page and the auto-complete end-point.
But EventMachine#defer would make sense in this context, given that the Ruby version is written with EventMachine. That is why I noted it.
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Thanks for the fixes! :)
Generating Hype
So, imagine that you woke up one morning and you thought to yourself, I'm going to create an eCommerce site! Now, being an engineer, creating the site is no problem. Generating hype before launch on your landing site, however, is another matter entirely. You have no idea where to start. Facebook, you think, so off you go and invite all your friends to like you on facebook. done. now what?

If you are still reading you can see I need help. No, not mental help (well maybe); but marketing help. I've created my landing page http://rogerthat.com.au/ (feel free to like it!) and now I need people to goto it. Posting on hackernews is a start, but now what? How do I generate real hype? I'm sure there are others who would like to know the answer to this as well.

tl;dr
Made a landing page for business, want people to goto it. How?
Bitcoin exchanges are illegal in the whole of EU? When they did they pass such a law?
There's also this piece from Wired, from their March 2011 issue:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_madeinamerica/

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Writing a logging backend for slf4j isn't hard. Anyone unable to do that should not be programming.

Trying to figure out how to a) get lots of components that rely on wildly different logging frameworks and even multiple versions of the same logging frameworks and b) try to distill that into common practices in an engineering organization, is hard. In part because you have to spend two hours explaining the problems we've been through every time someone thinks all these problems have a 5 minute fix.

(And the slf4j technique of placing a bridge in the class path and hoping for the best is just priceless. That deserves an entire hour of slow clap)
It's not, as it doesn't do anything to describe the problem or the solution.

However, the change is so trivial that it's immediately apparent, so who cares :)
I didn't up-vote your OP, but I up-voted this. I hate that dissenting opinions often get relegated to the bottom of the comment list.
It's only missing "I'm Steve Ballmer and I approve this message" in the end.
Want a Nexus 4? Grab it direct from Google, then get a SIM card from Straight Talk (http://www.straighttalksim.com/). $45 a month for 'unlimited' voice / SMS / data (throttled after a certain amount - no big deal, if you're near wifi often) riding on AT&T or T-Mobile networks, depending on where you live.

I converted from AT&T a month ago and it's working out pretty well so far, after some initial headaches getting them to provision the SIM card properly. I'm still on the AT&T network, just through the Straight Talk MVNO.
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I enjoyed it despite its failure to describe the changeset. More good than harm. I was glad he did it.

The author subtly called out each WordPress core team member in the text with personal attributes and inside jokes. Even without that context, a person could enjoy it.
The English word "apron", as I understand it, used to be "napron". "A napron" eventually shifted to "an apron". See http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Napron.
I use space for page down and shift+space for page up. Scrolling means tracking where I am as I go, when I hit page down I know where to start reading, the top. It feels more like reading a book.
That doesn't seem correct either. Extremes at either end are where entrepreneurs tend to live. Most people have to be willing to be poor, lose everything, and fail miserably in order to have a chance to be rich and live the life they want.

This life obviously doesn't appeal to everyone, and many entrepreneurs manage to keep a balanced life. But at some point they'll get outmaneuvered by the ones who move faster and just want it more (and are willing to take the chance of flaming out in a big way).
Ah, thanks. Well I see a lot of bad behavior, from them looking at user uploads, finding pirated files, and not removing them. But it's still unsolicited uploads. Page 33 mentions disqualification of 'very obvious' copyrighted files, but being 'rather flexible'. This is bad, but it's not going out and encouraging illegal-in-particular uploads. It's just poor policing on the affiliate program.
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The key to the Toyota method is that over time, it results in fewer line stoppages overall, because real or potential problems are identified quickly.

If a bolt is hard to thread, but you never stop the line, you're going to get a lot of crossthreaded bolts. But if you stop the line for every crossthreaded bolt, the company will very quickly realize they need to spec or design a better bolt.

So, the "anyone can stop the line" mindset only works in the context of a management philosophy that values continuous improvement.
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> But it doesn't necessarily scale down so well.

I'd like to see thoughts on how we might improve this, but I don't have enough experience, or even enough anecdotal hearsay, to know where to start.
You're speculating though. The only 'hard information' that we're going on here is the article that says this:

> While petty theft is typically a misdemeanor charge,
> Williams' earlier convictions allowed prosecutors to
> upgrade it to a felony.

Sounds more like a "pattern of law breaking" argument was used to upgrade it rather than the facts of this particular matter, but again this is just speculation because we're not reading a blow-by-blow account of the trial.
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> a protocol for which traditional currencies circumvent their own limitations

Could you explain what you mean by that.
If he was sitting around two weeks ago feeling forgotten, and he wanted more fame and attention, he's doing a good job.
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Sending cash is slow, prone to failure (compared to bitcoin, at least), and still potentially trackable.
I write good commit messages that are serious, too. Only a few hours earlier: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23083
A big chunk of your energy will disappear in heat via resistance unless you run silver wire everywhere or keep the runs short. DC cabling has some weird voltage divider and load characteristics as well causing drop outs. This is particularly visible with high current, low voltage loads.

48v dc is pretty dangerous as well.
That's a fair criticism - thanks for the rebuttal. (Edit) Also - what kind of visibility are you looking for that we don't offer today? Please feel free to email me (my email is rather guessable) with whatever you have.
That's a good example, thanks for sharing. Are there any others that you benefit from?
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Greetings, we just made some changes, ran the tests and deployed an update to the Sauce for Mac launch page -- it should now be clear that you can use the desktop app to your heart's content for $12/mo. http://saucelabs.com/mac

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone.
"only for the first couple of weeks. How long has the iPhone 5 been out now?"

Two months. Let's see how the Spring 2013 ipad was doing two months in.

http://www.slashgear.com/apple-new-ipad-supply-situation-eas...

It also really bears mentioning that Apple used to roll out globally over 3-4 quarters to manage supply. This time they pretty much did the whole world in one quarter. There's some interesting discussion that this presages a new standard 6 month release cycle.
I love you for giving yourself props.
Ask HN: Examples of "build first, monetize later" successes?
I'd like some examples of the "Build First, Monetize Later" mantra of Silicon Valley?

I'm looking for examples of startups that had no way of monetizing their original product, but then successfully did so after achieving huge growth.
NATS[1] is a relatively simple pub-sub protocol and broker created by Derek Collison. It's originally written in Ruby. It was created as the messaging layer of Cloud Foundry.

From the technical side - routing is done using regular expressions, the speed of internal routing is proportional to number of different subscriptions.

Additionally, NATS have some interesting specific features - for example: if I remember correctly messages for slow consumers are just dropped.

NATS was originally a monolithic server, but I see that some work on clustering had been done [2].

[1] https://github.com/derekcollison/nats
[2] https://github.com/derekcollison/nats/wiki/Cluster-Design
Reading something like this makes me think long and hard about all the ways I could be healthier.
Absolutely. Basically, as long as your app is running somewhere with Very Good Latency to your database, this can be a fine pattern. In practice, this means if the data center is also in Ashburn, Virginia, and better yet, has a DirectConnect deal set up with AWS, you should be in business. The best way to test this is to provision a database and see how latency from your app is. My opinion is that 5ms latency would be a ceiling on what I'd tolerate for my own apps, and I'd probably look for more like 1-2ms or better.
Advice for a beginner iOS developer?
Hi, HN! I recently got into iOS development, and I absolutely love it. Last year, I fiddled around with Python, web design, some Java, and even a very tiny amount of Android development. I knew for a while that I wanted to move towards iOS development, but I thought that because I didn't have a Mac, my dream was just a dream. Well, I came to a pretty huge turning point in my life last year, and that shift completely changed my view on what can be reality. I ended up trading my gaming laptop with a friend for a Macbook Pro. After a bit of testing a few methods of learning Objective-C (I tried Stanford's iOS Development class on iTunes U, but I was only able to get through the first assignment), I got Big Nerd Ranch's Objective-C Programming eBook and literally blew through it in a week. I loved it! Immediately afterwards, I bought BNR's iOS Programming eBook, and am now blasting through that. It's an extraordinarily awesome feeling to tackle and accomplish the challenges within the chapters. I also have a few ideas that I cannot wait to build after finishing the book.

Anyway, I apologize for my novel, but now I'll get to the point. Can any current iOS developers share some advice?

Here are the main things I am looking for:

- What are the best ways to get noticed? (My main goal is to work for a startup - I am 18, and a freshman in college as a CS major, but I am open to taking a hiatus if the opportunity came up. I also started meeting developers in my area, and blogging is beginning to be a natural activity for me.)

- What are your experiences with building/marketing your first (few) app(s)?

- What are the biggest things I should look out for as a beginning iOS developer? Any and all advice is highly appreciated!

Side note: I am not solely interested in iOS development but it is 99.9% of my focus right now. I hear, "Software engineering is an industry where you will adapt and constantly be learning," quite often, and that is exactly what I want to do!
Seriously. No one thinks this is kind of odd?
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>I know I can’t fully control my health and what fate has in store for me, but I can be damn sure I’ve tried my hardest to stay healthy and given myself as long of a chance as I can to spend time with and help others.

I personally have been in the process of making such a change over the last 3 years. I do compound lifts and do extensive cardio nearly every day. For about a month now, I've been bike commuting to work (30 miles round trip) even in the rain. I used to eat a load of red meat every week, but now I've been pescatarian for a good two months. I typically sleep before midnight and brush my teeth twice a day (gum infections are bad! and expensive to treat!).

But what I find much more difficult than taking care of myself is getting friends to take care of themselves. Telling them bluntly that "you need to get in shape" or "you should go to the gym" or "you should stop eating junk food" isn't likely to get them to change. But what I've found is that oftentimes, indirect methods are more effective tools for bringing about change than the blunt, direct, brash modes of influence. A person might not want to go to a gym by themselves, but they're much more likely to come out to a long hike with a small group of mutual friends, followed by a healthy lunch downtown.

I have a longtime friend who's become out of shape over the years that I hadn't seen him (I was out of the area for the good part of the last 10 years). He's has easily one of the sharpest minds I have encountered, completely trumping my own mind in every way. To think that his health may expedite his eventual demise is an idea that tortures me.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to gently, indirectly, steer him back to the good health he used to be in 10 years ago (he used to compete on a national level in a certain sport).
Subsides -> subsists. Not strictly spelling, but definitely a mistake...

Otherwise a pretty awesome commit message. Better than my personal most used (before work moved to git and let me rewrite local history): "oops, forgot to add the new file" and "oops, fix up the bloody test"...
if you're a decent game developer, in this age of digital distribution (Steam), you should forgo the whole venture thing & look at Kickstarter.

Not only do you get to keep all your equity, you can crowdsource ideas & feature requests, fine-tune your marketing strategy & build a community of loyal gamers who will sustain you through the ups & down of the dev lifecycle al for a measly 5 % commission.

As long as you have good communication skills, the right attitude & talent. You'll find unrivaled rewards.