skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a FAQ for this data that is on the site's main nav:

http://www.advancednflstats.com/2007/02/contact.html

Of particular interest:

Where did you get your data?

Most of my team data comes from open online sources such as espn.com, nfl.com, myway.com, and yahoo.com. It's easy for anyone to grab whatever they're interested in from those sites.

My play-by-play data comes from a source that's not publicly available, and at this time I regret that I cannot share it. However, I am working hard to develop a way to spread the wealth. One of my biggest goals is to help create a larger, more open, and more collaborative community for football research.

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There's no real terms of service so I'm curious as to the constraints in using this for commercial purposes. I most definitely want to use this for teaching purposes (how to text-mine, how to build a web app from data, etc) but want to know what terms the data can be redistributed.
x86 also has been compiled to javascript (http://bellard.org/jslinux/) QEMU style.
Its the comments that are the best part of that article. Wow.
Automated Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Using APIs
There's also CurveCP (http://curvecp.org/) which is a more radical alternative (replaces TCP and relies on DNSCurve, a DNS replacement) but has good security built in by default and some interesting features (remote users are identified by their public key so they can reconnect from different IP addresses and the stream keeps going without a reconnect).

It seems like a much harder thing to get adoption going for but it has good thought behind it and can exist in parallel with the rest of the TCP/IP world. I would love to see it get to a place where you can just download it from Debian or Homebrew...
What's the point of an anonymous receiving identity if there's a trail of where the bitcoins came from is visible as soon as you go to use it to pay for house/car/rent/colocation? I must be missing something about Bitcoin's usability for nefarious purposes.
If you're going to expose an OO API then you'll need an object system of some kind (see also: COM and GObject). Objective-C is really just an object system, along with a minimal amount of syntactic sugar added to C to simplify its use.
I could see it being really helpful for accessibility for people with disabilities.
What were you expecting.. wordpress?

Here is Google's blog directory.. all on blogspot, their blogging platform:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/press/blog-directory.html#tab...
No, but it could be useful for manipulating 3d objects in CAD programs.
I haven't read anyone noticing that developers lose countless hours fighting with badly crafted PSDs like the one shown in the article, just to extract proper assets that keep their code tight. Think pixel fitting, but also dimensions consistency, color consistency, etc. Off-by one/three/eleven pixels are a plague. Save money on the design: you may well increase your development costs.
This loaded a fairly NSFW random image when I tried it. Sort of uncool.
unfortunately i think many people see that kind of "formal" architecturing as software engineering

related: http://zedshaw.com/essays/master_and_expert.html
Simple (& naïve - NAL) fix: Equal budgets for more equal justice.

If assets are frozen, require the prosecution to estimate what they will
spend prosecuting the case and to unfreeze assets of the defendants'
choice at least equal to the prosecution's estimate, to be allocated to
provide for the defendants' defense.

Let the court require weekly up-to-date accounting from the prosecution,
with a proviso that if the prosecution submits inaccurate reports or goes
over their estimated budget the case is decided in the defendant's favor.

Note also that a large percentage of convictions involve a defendant
pleading to a lesser offense.
Analysing Wikipedia Edits as a Trading Strategy
Great point about that quote. To me it sounds like an SEO salesman with the use of buzzwords instead of actually defining what it does and why it's important (mobile users accounting for x% of the web and growing). I know we're being short and sweet, but give me a relevant example where enhancing the user experience in this way greatly improved a site's viewership or sales numbers.

Then when I get to the "When you have a few minutes.." part, I'm completely gone. If it's so complicated that I need your help and I don't know the value, I'm not going to do it. The following sentence about "Or you can just get it here," just emphasizes this is a sales pitch, less you actually caring about my audience and the UX of my site.

I think it would have been smarter to say "It's easy to grab and install the plugin on your own, but we'd love to help get you connected if you have any problems or questions!"

Like someone in another thread said today, A/B testing is great and all, but just because you have an overall winner doesn't mean it's actually the most effective. It's just the most effective method you tested.
Unfourtuantly, the problem of vote buying is even easier to implement than that, as some could confirm that you actually gave your vote to them. You might be able to use cryptology to construct a system where it is impossible to confirm who delegated there votes to you (although this would likely limit the any-time switching of your vote, or reduce the granularity for which someone can know how many votes (s)he has).
An example would be nice before I connect my GMail
Easy Growth Hacking Wins
Randomly selecting emails from the web is what makes spam sleazy. You should build your own mailing list, from actual interested prospects who gave you their address.
They could just as well look it up on the company website. It's just that bots just send spam to the email addresses they have on a list.
Facebook lets apps add more context to Open Graph stories via Flexible Sentences
Is it possible to buy legal defense insurance? Not just insurance against civil liability, but insurance that will pay for legal defense in a criminal case?
Would be great if there were columns:

Head Coach
- Offensive Coordinator
- Defensive Coordinator
- Formation
- Play
Poor people are quite frequently the targets of ungodly amounts of government resources personally targeted at them, especially in Texas and certain counties in Southern California. I also suggest reading up on the history of Joe Arpaio and his former D.A. Andrew Thomas for what they did (and in Arpaio's case, is still doing) to indigent defendants in Maricopa county.
I like how your example leads by assuming that Joe is a criminal. Nice touch.

In reality innocent people get charged with crimes that carry the death penalty, and suffer because they lack proper representation.
Interesting. How does the integration work? How long does it take? Who are the brands? How do you make money? It says you're choosing 10 games.. How and when?
Cool and little known PHP functions / features
Android phones use the linux kernel, which is GPLv2, and they do not seem to have an issue locking them down.
http://usetempo.com/learn
It's widely used in video-games development. All metadata is kept on the server (unlike others like svn/cvs). The GUI tools are easy to use (p4win and p4v for all platforms). The thing just works. I love playing with git/hg/fossil/etc., but when comes to huge binary files (psd, tga, tiff, fbx) p4 is the king.
Nicely done - I too was looking for pricing information but after reading comments here see that its still in development. Bookmarked - good luck!
Scientific American's website is riddled with ads. Can AdBlock get rid of those full-page intermissions? I might finally install it.
That's a good point. I've since added "neighborhoods", but nothing on the site (other than /about) reflects that this is JUST the Bay Area. Thanks!
Tried creating an ebook out of some of my old blog posts. Import from URL feature is pretty cool. Loved it. The frictionless way to try the app is also great. Bookmarking the site. Can I import a couple of my Dropbox docs directly?
This is huge news.

ISPs modifying the HTML served is a big issue. I'm not that much of a fan of ads, but disabling ads is crazy.

It's not working that well apparently.

First thing is: a lot of Google ads are served directly inside GMail (these are the ones I notice the most) and at the top of the result from Google search.

If that trafis is over HTTPS I've gat to wonder how Free plans to filter them out.

But in any way: Free already wanted to throttle YouTube, which is not OK.

If I'm paying Free that much of an amount each month I want my bandwith. I Free cannot provide me the bandwith I want, then I'll go to an ISP who can and who doesn't throttle me.
Wow. Simply. Wow.
Prior to reading the article I thought it was going to be about the way smokers get an hourly break of 5 mins at work while non-smokers don't. That's always an interesting subject.
It happens all the time, in nearly every case involving wealthy defendants (and especially in cases between or involving corporations). It's the SOP for large-scale litigation firms; indeed, most litigation firms don't know how to practice law any other way.
Sorry for the barrage of questions, I want to know how far this is from release before spending time reviewing it. I hate the "enter your email and we'll get back to you" vaporware.
It doesn't matter if Joe did it or not. What matters is if Joe is charged and prosecuted for it.
It looks like these aren't quite ready for primetime; the JSFiddle on my Chrome results in a very jerky animation that looks much worse than just snapping to the new position would.
Funny enough, I just released my library to work with CSS animations from javascript: https://github.com/jlongster/css-animations.js

I think CSS3 animations are superior to transition, since they essentially take 2 arguments (from and to) instead of just 1 (to). This makes it much easier to deal with lots of use cases because you frequently have to worry about the existing state of an element with transitions.
I would have expected something like security.google.com, which would be pretty obviously not a hoax. As it stands, what stops anyone from making googleinternetsecurity.blogspot.com?
In practice, it's an open secret that grand jury proceedings are so biased in favor of the prosecution that they're merely a formality.

As if any grand jury could sift through a 360,000 page indictment anyway.
Microsoft also uses some kind of perforce based client (they bought/licensed some source code version of it many years ago).
Top universities are not going anywhere, nor is their
prestige. If that were the case, why would MIT/Harvard
/Stanford/Yale publish their courses in this manner? They
wouldn't.

Do you think, if university administrators thought online courses could bring quality education to billions of people worldwide while making their costly offline courses obsolete, they would move to block academics from experimenting with online courses? That's a rather cynical view, don't you think?
This was just talked about on EconTalk, a great podcast. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/pettit_on_the_p.htm... (link includes transcript if you don't like podcasts)

Ironically, the researcher being interviewed is pretty negative on the whole situation, given that we are still a world leader in incarceration. It's a useful discussion even if you disagree with her, because I think she puts some useful data on the table.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/fitbit-api/Intrad...
The moral hazard would make it too difficult (read: impossible) to price the risk.
Gambling, like drugs, is heavily regulated. Maybe it shouldn't be, but it is, and this is well known by every American. You also wouldn't start a firearm company or a brewery or a boutique cigar manufacturing without hiring a lawyer.

I don't know the law, and neither do you, and neither did this guy. If he had spent a few thousand of that $2.3 million on a lawyer he would be better informed and had someone on retainer.

Maybe he would have found out some simple way to comply.

Maybe he would have found out there was no way to comply.

Maybe he would have found out that he was already completely complying and this is just your "Operation Swordfish" scenario.

But, since Operation Swordfish has been brought up, I'm out.
Except anyone can create a blogspot url. So someone could just create something similar (for a short time at least).
I'm going to posit that the term "Growth Hacker" is meaningful. Anyone care to disagree? I'd like to hear a well-thought out argument against this.
Ask HN: How do I make a service that lets you borrow items from others w/ trust
I want to build a company that lets you borrow things from other people, how would you get started?<p>I could code it, of course, but I of course would need to build a bunch of people willing to lend stuff. How would you all gain the trust of future users?
Google recently turned shopping search into a paid service for the seller. You have to pay for inclusion in results. Maybe that's the icky behavior they wanted to go after?
Oh yes, pesky litigation. That certainly should be avoided shouldn't it.
I've watched them do an integration. It was stupid fast. They seem to recognize that if they scare developers off with a shitty SDK integration they're dead in the water so they NAILED that part.
They can also be daisy-chained together to form a much larger usable space...
That's not enough. Assets, however large, should not be frozen at all prior to trial.

Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty?"
Show HN: a free Stock Option Ledger to track grants to employees and others
For me it's less an issue of stigma and more a question of convenience. I use DuckDuckGo for almost all of my searches anyway, and having quality content from Punchfork integrated into my search results is much more convenient for me personally than finding recipes through Pinterest.

...but I'm not a Pinterest user (yet), so I ought to curb my griping. When it comes down to it, I can see the acquisition of Punchfork really benefiting Pinterest users.
See also, http://www.pro-football-reference.com/, but I'd love to see something on github.
Learning Python and buying groceries
Federal grand juries are stricter than grand juries at the state or local levels, but state and local grand juries will indight a ham sandwich (in many instances, grand juries have erroneously indicted the victim of the crime rather than the alleged perpetrator), so this is a very low bar. All the prosecutor has to do to satisfy the grand jury is show sufficient evidence that the defendant could have committed the crime.
I worked recently at a hosting company that gave most employees (esp. in-house web designers/developers & marketing staff) very flexible hours. They subscribed to ROWE philosophy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE).

Most folks on my team were in the office 2-3 days a week and worked from home F/T other days.

Coordinating/ collaborating/ managing team communications was actually pretty easy and greatly facilitated with AgileZen + HipChat. Access to these web services was the same from office or from home (on different computers & OS platforms), and we used them actively no matter where anybody was at any given time.

One of the dev guys had rigged up HipChat so that notifications from AgileZen (e.g. card completed or on hold) were posted automatically in team chat. HipChat also got auto notifications from GitHub (when somebody merged or pushed new files) and from our build server, TeamCity (when new builds started and finished, or in case of an error).

As an entrepreneur and self-starter, however, the ROWE environment was dissatisfying. I think it's only appropriate for mature professionals -- and most of my coworkers were not. Seemed like most of their "working from home" was spent running errands & attending to side projects. Despite access to fancy collaboration tools, these folks were only really productive when they were at the office.
Fatigue in the short period that the user will have the app open? They'll open it only while they're doing the specific task they opened it for. This app isn't for the gawping.
PHP^2
That parses. It just implies there's only one security camera. And you and the sign painter already know of and speak informally about it. And it's operating RIGHT NOW.
Very impressive.

(Still no fan control; and a few other features missing - but great progress has been made)
Show HN: My Heroku client for iOS is now open source
OT: Do you by any chance run Xcode on the MBA? 11 or 13?

I'm debating a yearly/bi yearly replaecment of a MBA instead of a bi yearly/triyearly replacement of the maxed out top of the line MBP.

How much is this going to hurt with two ACDs plugged into it?
Ditto. This might be related to the service itself, vs. an individual attempt to connect, which I suspect due to the speed of the error.
Automatically add QR code to a web page
Opinionated as usual, mr Heisenmeyer-Hansson. But his way is not always the only (or best) way :-)

Still I respect his opinionatedness!
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2012/08/rsvp/

:)
I Hope Your Kickstarter Project Stays Off CNN
Take a look at http://neighborgoods.net/
Come Design The Future of Work (Asana)
But since it's not my money I'm interested to see what comes from this. It'll probably be interesting even though it certainly won't be anything like what he's constantly promising.
From day one, by putting trust in your programmers to manage themselves and get the job done (of course with the help of web-based project management/bug tracking/issue tracking tools).
Do you have any facts to back up the theory? It's not clear to me that a public defender's office is any less able to defend one case over the other. Public prosecutors allocate resources based on the case, and I'd presume that public defenders do the same.
If you want to engage in criminal activities that will raise the interest of the FBI, is it really a problem that you wouldn't want to "stay in the US and play the game"? I don't think most people would want you playing those kinds of games here.
To put a more useful spin on it, how to solve the following problems:

1. How do we decouple material wealth from a justice system? Can we?

2. How do we prevent ratcheting effects as mentioned in the final paragraph?

3. How do we structure laws so that (1) may be, for example automated?
In his defense, he did say "near" :)
https://github.com/niftylettuce/node-email-templates

https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints
i like it :)

Note: Not useless
Modernizing .NET & Java: SQLFire Performance Test Blows Away Traditional RDBMS
Hacking education in Nepal
Some developments in this area are:

* Convergence.io

* DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) + DNSSEC

* Tack.io

For various reasons listed in [1] Convergence is not likely to be implemented (by default) in major browsers.

On DANE + DNSSEC, where the cert is authenticated via the information published in your DNS, Moxie Marlinspike has said it better then I can:

"CAs are sketchy, but this is a whole new world of sketchiness. Think,
sketchasaurus. Registrars were never built or selected with security in mind,
and most of them don’t have a very good track record in this area. Shouldn’t it
be laughable that the current first step in deploying DNSSEC is to create an
account with GoDaddy?"[2]

The 2011 BlackHat video[3] and blog post[2] by Moxie Marlinspike are great sources of information.

IMO, Tack.io is the most viable solution. It's compatible with the current model but removes the thread of one CA being able to compromise all domains.

[1] http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/09/07/convergence.html

[2] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authe...

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
Canadian Startup Ooomf Unveils 'Launch This Year' App-Building Website
I might try to use the data to create mock drafts.
The reason Joe the pickpocket isn't at risk of being convicted of a massively technical financial fraud scheme is that he isn't at risk of carrying one out.
Just use a form dude.
I have an Intel graphics chipset in my new laptop, and it makes a WORLD of difference being able to use open source drivers. They run on first boot, and even on live CDs. And no more funny pieces of software for configuring graphics-related stuff - all the DE/WM standard stuff can be used.
Shaking Up Job Search Space, Canadian Startup Neuvoo Anticipates Big 2013
Most of the money is spent on passing FDA approval and testing. Research is a small portion of the cost, you are correct there.

The real problem with patents is that they don't protect the idea, they put it in public and try to give a monopoly to a certain person or 'legal person'(corporation). The medical patents are designed to encourage disclosure so that the medicine can become widely available later. That is the real reason medical patents are beneficial to society. It's a deal that has to be made where both sides give a little and both sides gain a little. I know we haven't seen a lot of this in America lately, but it's compromise.

If you really want to keep something a secret, you don't patent it. I think the law should allow non-profits and things like universities and hospitals to violate patents and copyright for the public good. That would get rid of the "they aren't helping sick people" problem and still keep the profits for the drug companies.
I'd be very interested in it too. I've heard lots of good things about Canada, but there aren't many tech jobs there (at least compared to the U.S, I might be wrong)
I'm not necessarily set on Angular but I've used Backbone professionally for over a year but it's out of the question now. The other one is emberjs which I haven't played much with but all the literature on the internet that I can find supports angular over ember. I've also reviewed the ember docs and they make several decisions that I don't agree with.

I'm open to other client frameworks but if the Firebase+Angular combo works out it seems to me like the best foundation.
When the mafia is tying up taxpayers' resources on frivolities which do nothing but enable the mafia, it should be avoided.
Expedia and Concur team up for $30 million funding round for Room 77
I know of a cool way he could test the unlimitedness of his resources.
Master of Magic. Alpha Centauri. Civilization & Colonization. Master of Orion. In that order.

What makes MoM special? It's PvE. It's so much more replayable than anything else.
What makes Alpha Centauri special? There are no things about Alpha Centauri that aren't special.

Also, to the lesser extent, Heroes of Might and Magic series.
Hex grid wargames (Battle Isle, Fantasy General, Battle for Wesnoth) are nice too but, having no economy, aren't so interesting.

I don't know what do you mean by puzzle games and why is that a bad thing.
If you make it a routine requirement of business deals it'd soften the moral hazard.