skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should teach both some keyboards layouts are awkward when it comes to the [ key.
YES! then I was like... huh?
This logic works until scale, then it's the same 'signal to noise' problem all social networks have. Tumblr, Wordpress, and Blogger all claimed to help build communities around user content at one point...and now Quora is throwing its hat in the ring. I use all four for blogging and rarely get any attention I didn't create the old fashioned way (self-promotion).

I think what's been built here is cool and wish you the best, I'm just doubtful that the proposed value prop allows Glipho to differentiate from the pack.
Meta for those interested: Based upon the format, it apparently uses a version of the HN code base.
I think it's more just a matter of most people coming to the realization (after several years, for those who didn't realize it right away) that relational databases are what they want, and what they need.

There are very, very few situations where NoSQL databases are truly of any use. For practically all other cases, any time or effort savings promised when using a NoSQL database don't materialize in reality.

Take the claim that not having a schema is a benefit. This claim quickly falls apart when a huge amount of time and effort is needed to track data format/type/availability/constraints/etc. in an ad hoc fashion throughout all applications accessing the database. This is a huge amount of effort, and often duplicated code, in anything but the simplest scenarios. It's much more effective just to use a relational database and its support for defining a schema.

We see the same when it comes to querying using JavaScript. Maybe it works for simple queries, but those often aren't what we encounter in practice. SQL is by far the best we've got today when it comes to writing complex queries, and relational databases offer the best support for it.

Then there's ACIDity. "Eventual consistency" just doesn't cut it in the real world. Relational databases make it far easier, more practical and much safer to work with data in a transactional manner.

Many of the supposed strong points of NoSQL databases, like their sharding support, becomes irrelevant when using the replication support offered by so many relational databases.

It's not that NoSQL databases have been declared "bad", but instead it's just people realizing that the relational databases being used all along are really the best choice in all but a handful of cases.
That's what I thought it was going to be when I saw the title.
Maybe this is what added to the delight of playing minecraft. Every world was a new adventure, waiting to be explored.
Asm.js: Alon Zakai's talk at mloc.js
...and it's back down.
TBH, I really hope we stop calling the current era the information age and instead start calling it the automation age. It's more accurate. Information is now no longer being used by humans but by computers. In many cases now, we simply generate too much informations for humans to comprehend, parse or analyze without computers doing more and more of the heavy lifting. The information is instead being parsed, analyzed and comprehended by computers who then act upon the understanding that has been programmed into them.
As far as I can tell, SSH is my VPN. What would I get from a VPN that I don't get with SSH? And whatever VPN solution I used would still have to offer me a way to log in to the VPN from random public IPs, on a standardized port (or via some standardized discovery mechanism) - so I don't see how it could possibly be any more secure.
Definitely - although the idea itself is a nice surprise.
Is github down for maintenance?
Yes, I was very intrigued by the way they represented off-line play. Its almost like you can continue to "play" on your mobile device even when you are not fully engaged in the universe proper. If they can pull this off it indeed would be a game changer.
What I wanted to share was the fact that there was a noticeable difference to begin with, so it's something worth paying attention to.

The exact pattern will depend on the audience. If it's VmWare emailing IT people, then the open rate is probably going to be the same through the workdays and zero on weekends. If it's some hobby stuff, then it'd be in reverse. For my particular project, it just happens that Saturday sucked, which is a good thing to know.
Eligible is an awesome service. We plan to use it in our up coming product .. Keep up the good job !
Good question. Parent seems to imply Hip-hop/R&B charts are just from Hip-hop/R&B radio (e.g. "which means this is getting played on actual rap radio"), but Billboard's description of the charts says it is across all radio formats.
It's written in python, which takes about about 2m-5m just to get out of bed with nothing loaded or running. (I don't consider that a lot BTW, not a ding on python.)

There's about 200K of source code, but basically all the overhead is the python runtime.

(The memory usage of python doing nothing varied on different machines, but was always virtually identical to the usage of fail2ban.)

Also, the virt usage is mostly large memory mapped logfiles, not actual swap usage.
Your break-even point depends a lot on how much you drive each year. I drive about 3000 miles a year (primarily to get to mass transit) and my car gets about 25 mpg in local driving, using 120 gallons of gas a year. At around $4 per gallon, that's only $480 a year or $4800 per decade. My car is 12 years old, so I'd expect a car bought this year to be more efficient.
I think the next biggest thing in gaming will probably be Valve's Steam box, so I was a little surprised that they didn't mention it at all.
ok, after that comment (and the others about that) we:

- laughed quite a bit;
- decided to change the gender symbols;

Totally right.
This is basically what I was talking about.
Is their logo for 'Free Art' just the NBC logo mirrored and with other colors? Even the pecker is in it ...
Wonderful news. For the occasional contributors on my team, I can't tell you what a pain it is for them to remember CLI switches and for me to have to constantly remind them. I love SourceTree on the Mac.
Believe it or not, what follows is meant to be a SUPPORTIVE comment.

> I wanted to be one of those founders, you know, the type that gets silly valuations and love from the name brand ventures firms, the type that gets written up by the tech press, the sort that powerful angels vouch for and send around glowing intros for as being “the next big thing,” and the sort that jets around to conferences.

I truly hope you've come away from all this and understood that the problem isn't 'them,' it's you.

Once you focus on identity — worse yet, how others perceive your identity — then it's just a hop, skip and jump to narcissism, when 90% of your effort and emotions is about projecting and protecting your identity at the sacrifice of making things happen, or worse yet, forming relationships.

It SOUNDS like you figured that out.

On the other hand, since you've already found yourself vulnerable to identity focus, you should watch yourself and make sure this "I Don't Care!" thing isn't a new way to form a (fragile) identity in need of propagation and defense.

Focusing on other people, and your work, is the way to avoid this trap.
If you're trying to tell the rest of us something you're going to have to be more concrete. So you "don't treat it like a public service". Great. What does that actually mean? ("I don't make it accessible on a public port from the public internet" was the most obvious technical interpretation, but it sounds like you didn't mean that)
Currently there's blogo del narco, borderland beat and a few other places online to read uncensored stories

I have read a few of those stories and what I saw haunts me to this day. Never did I imagine that people would do such a thing to another human being.

but almost all have the writer's name

Part of me wants to call it bravery, but to me it's way too dangerous. You simply do not take any chances with such savages: they'll kill, rape, torture and then chop up you, your wife, daughter /son and everyone else dear to you. For all practical purposes the narcos have unlimited money, they have thousands of 'soldiers' in USA and can either pay them, wipe a debt off, initiation or just call in a favor. One phone call and it's done.
Yes, if you re-ran the experiment 10 times, it could be completely different. The presented data is based on a single campaign.

Perhaps something was happening that Saturday, something that the post failed to take into account. Perhaps something happened during those weekdays, causing more engagement than normal.
I recognize that Git is complicated, but what part of the complexity is unnecessary? It seems to me that Git is complicated because version control is inherently complex.
I think a big part of this is also using technology to eliminate products that shouldn't exist. If two products exist in a category and one provides equal quality (def: fitness for use) for less money, then it provides greater value and the other product is essentially noise and shouldn't exist. Marketers, sales reps, dealers, etc. all serve to prevent product and service darwinism. Reviews and recommendations like on Amazon are going a long way to render many agents of misrepresentation ineffective. Which is the way it should be.
I'm sure I do or I wouldn't have felt the need to exorcise it in public. But I do definitely care that my business makes money and that what it costs us to make our product is less than what what we get paid for it. That is just running a business and answering to the market.
I put the "engagement" clicks into excel and looked at the chi-square test to determine the likelihood the data differs significantly from a random distribution: http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/stats.htm

Expected range: 36.2 (average of the clicks)
P-value: 0.14

Typically you look for p-values of less than .05 to indicate statistical significance. So unfortunately this one test suggests the data falls within the range of normal (random) distribution.
Instant integration with over 700 health insurance companies across the country. Healthcare companies use us to query for real time information on their patient's benefit plans. eligibleapi.com
Ask HN: Good chatroom software for a website?
I am looking for chatroom software for a website. Does anyone know of good plug-and-play software I can use? I'd rather not reinvent the wheel. Basic requirements are: custom skinnable, usernames use the same ones as on my site, and only JS/CSS integration is required (I don't want to have to manage running my own server just for this). Pay per month is expected so long as it's not too high. Thanks.

For example, Stripe has a chatroom, looks like they made it themselves with Socket.io:

https://support.stripe.com/chat

...I'd want something like that, but without anonymous users, and automatically using the same username from my authentication system, and never having to run my own server.
I absolutely love this idea. As I've traveled to different places I've learned how amazing it is to people able to speak to people in their own, native language.

It breaks down barriers between cultures, ideologies and preconceived notions and makes us all just humans.

As an American, it pains me that so many people in the US don't or aren't able to travel to foreign countries and don't make the effort to learn other languages.

For me, it's been a life-changing experience.
<i>This is a severe abuse of statistics.</i>

I don't think that's the case if I am reading your numbers right; the suicide rate among 65 or older in 2010 is 377% of the rate in 2000. The population increase of 65 or older only went up 70% (i.e. is 170% of the population in 2000).
Yes, you are correct. The Billboard Hot 100 is across all formats and the genre charts are for genre-oriented stations only.
This is not related to your business at all, but what is it like living (and working?) on Treasure Island? Are there restaurants, bars, etc? It seems like such a weird place being a former military base. Admittedly the only time I've been is for the yearly music festival.
Krooshal SDK: Keeps your app running like new
This is a huge exaggeration. Most games target the majority (which, duh), but it's not remotely all games. For example, Valve's two most recent games are a puzzle game and a MOBA/Action RTS. The highest-rated game of 2012 was The Walking Dead, an old-school adventure. Probably the most hyped game of 2012 was Assassin's Creed 3, a stealth action game. If not that, then Diablo III, a dungeon crawler. The game that AFAIK is the biggest around right now, League of Legends, is not a shooter.

Shooters are the new platformers. If you don't like them, you won't like most games. But there are other games.
Well, it's not hard to add a link but can easily get overlooked when developing a product with tons of priorities. Since it's always exponentially harder to develop a product than writing a review about that product, when I write something I usually try to be constructive and add some value (especially when I'm negative).

You should try it.
http://www.olark.com/ perhaps?
Why no Thursday/Friday? Those are slower days at many work places.
Ask HN: Butterfly Labs BTC Mining Rigs, Too Late?
If I don't get one until June, will I be able to make my money back? Thoughts?
Nice service, no love for Hungarians. Can you please add it?
I really liked SourceTree when I tried it, but my god is it slow on my iMac at work. It's still useful for complicated operations I don't want to (or know how to) do on the CLI, but it is not fast enough to be my main version control interface.
For a number of common health insurance transactions (verifying/checking health insurance information for a patient, procedure eligibility, patient demographics, claims status) that are part of the standard HIPAA transaction set, Eligible replaces legacy X12 EDI with a modern API.

Basically, if you are building any healthcare tools that could use administrative information from a health insurance company, you should probably be doing it on Eligible's platform.

http://eligibleapi.com
Eligible is a Health Information API that launched last summer (YC S12, I think). This sample app is a basic demonstration of the API's ability to instantly show patient eligibility information for specific medical procedures. Prior to their API one would have to call insurers and other groups to verify eligibility, rates, etc. They are doing some very cool stuff to normalize health data across many different systems.

They also used to have a consumer app to do this.
I'm saying that less drag and less engine speed are giving the fuel efficiency gains. I am saying that, typically, braking wipes out all of those gains and more. I am saying that regenerative braking often reduces the negative impact of braking enough that the gains -- from lower drag and engine speed -- aren't completely undone by braking.

I ride a low-power motorcycle. On the freeway, I get about 50 mpg. On back roads, with braking and generally higher rpm, I get 60+ mpg. For my low-power bike, the drag at freeway speeds takes more effort to overcome than does the varying speed and braking of back road riding.

And that is without regenerative braking. If I had regen braking, I'd get even better economy on back roads.
Unrelated: I love those SVG-graphs that they have on their status-site.
This only makes sense for high ticket items. For low ticket items, it's simply not scalable because being able to effectively frame product relevance means being about to truly understand the customer and his problem. In many cases the only information you have to go on is the customer's search query. Beyond the search query, all the other information necessary to determine relevance is effectively trapped in a buyer's head. Unless you have an effective way of extracting enough data about the customer's problem or need, you are pretty much S.O.L. when it comes to determining product relevance.

For low ticket items, the questions now are "How do we capture more information beyond a simple search query?" and "How do we further promote product darwinism and eliminate the influence of advertising, marketing, salesmen and other product misrepresentatives?"
Seems to be working fine for me.
Wonderful suggestion the Turkish one. As soon as the wave of HN fade we are going to deploy the fixes and add the new language.

For the Google login, the login process has still some problems here and there. After the login we don't have, yet, a page explaining what to expect next. That why nothing happens.

We are already working on that, next deploy we will hopefully be ok.
Jainism has been advocating fasting for thousands of years as a way to purify the soul, but with the knowledge that it has numerous health benefits, many of which you discussed in your post.
Great read.

This part left me a bit shocked:

His response, "And you found all of this information just by looking on the internet? Incredible." Let me repeat that, this is the former Deputy Director of the CIA.

I hope to hell that the guy was a just Washington bureaucrat and it's not indicative of the CIA's thinking.
It would be interesting to see how many languages you could nest before the interpreter becomes too slow to be of use.
>In general, game developers make less than your average software developer.

Interesting. Can I ask where you read that or how you came to that conclusion?
As the author is establishing background for the story, which took place from 2004-2008, he writes "'White collar crime', and the attention that it receives today, did not exist."

I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was being facetious. I suggest that he reword that phrase.

Google ngram of the phrase "white collar crime" http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=white+collar+cr...

The OED lists uses of the phrase "white collar" from 1919 onwards.
The likely result of that would be that a smart hacker would cross you off his IP list upon discovering you are running a bunch of sshds. After all, if you are devious enough to do that, it's unlikely your real sshd will fall to his script in any case. You are a waste of bandwidth better spent chasing low-hanging fruit.
Part of what makes a community like this is the diversity of intellectual stimulation. If all we read about was hacker stuff, we would start to suffer from homogenization of thought.

Another huge benefit of non-hacker submissions that you clearly overlook is that it gets hackers out of the Silicon Valley tunnel vision and starts to get them thinking about other industries, cities, countries, and problems.
Bruteforcing 65536^3 sequences is trivial compared to bruteforcing an actual ssh login; what protection you get comes from the fact that the attacker doesn't know there's port-knocking at all. So it really is just obscurity.
Mere contradiction -- "No, it doesn't" -- isn't convincing.

Your argument doesn't pass a simple-logic smell-test: why would law enforcement want this, if it doesn't give them any new capabilities?

Organizations that are expert in the legal implications of such bills, like the EFF and ACLU, disagree with you about the effect. Their concern is that under CISPA, "these combined power and immunity provisions would override existing privacy laws like the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act." [1]

Imagine there were a law which said, search and seizure without a warrant or probable cause is bad, but any evidence so collected is always admissible in court, and law officers who collect such evidence may never be disciplined in any civil, criminal, or administrative fashion. That creates a de facto new power, because it shifts all the incentives, and agents may then search and seize with impunity.

The concern of the EFF and the ACLU is that CISPA does something similar. It sets up a system where doing the federal government the 'voluntary' favor of sharing information -- even in contravention of other laws or contracts that could create liability -- is always the safe and easy course. So, agencies wind up collecting far more info that people expected to be private.

There's an old joke that "national security" is the root password to the Constitution. Well, CISPA makes "cybersecurity threat" the root password to every private service-provider data set.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/cispa-privacy-invading...
Not quite. (I actually use something similar to Olark already)

What I mean is: I want all the users of my site to be able chat with each other from a single chatroom, using the same username they have for my site.
Show HN: I built a tool to solve App Discovery
This is appropriate for posting on a private blog. It is not a good "Ask HN."
I would shorten that to just: "We help you learn foreign languages by setting up one-to-one meetings with native speakers."

I'd also strongly consider testing a question-answer type headline. Something like:

"Want to practice a foreign language?" Second line: "We'll set up face-to-face meetings with native speakers."
It was for a couple of minutes, but it came back quickly.
It's funny how content doesn't play into whether a song is censored or not... I mean this song is about shopping.. and a few 'bad' words are censored.. It's also probably one of the more innocent rap songs out there. Maybe we can drop this censoring bullshit when people realize the words aren't really the thing thats bad..
I wondered what the present value of people's expected gas expenses are, i.e. if you told a random American you'd give them free gas until the end of their days (given they consume gas at the author's rate), how much would you have to set aside today into a safe asset to cover the future expense? TL;DR about $100 000, without hedging longevity and fuel price volatility risks.

The median U.S. age in 2011 was 37.3 years [1]. Thus, the median year of birth was 1973 and cohort life expectancy 74.7 years for men and 79.5 years for women, or 77 years on average [2]. Let's assume 39.8 (best 29.8; worst 49.8) years.

Let's assume the author's $250/month petrol expense. U.S. city petrol prices have increased at an average (standard deviation; CAGR) of 5.5% (19 percentage points; 3.2%) from 1980 to 2012 [3]. Let's use that (best -13.5%, 0%; 3.2%; worst 24.5%) as our expected gasoline inflation rate.

Linearly extrapolating today's 10y30y [4] to 40y we get a crude discount rate of 3.8% (best 3.2%; worst 4%).

Thus, those cash flows are worth $167 934 today, though this varies from $16 765 for the best case, $56 038 for the best case assuming flat nominal petrol prices, $106 732 for the base case with CAGR, and $218 031 for the worst case assuming 5.5% petrol inflation (using the worst gave a nonsense result for nominal gas prices).

[1] http://www.census.gov/popest/data/national/asrh/2011/tables/...

[2] http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Tbl_7_1970.ht...

[3] BLS APU00007471A (U.S. city average, gasoline, all types, per gallon/3.785 liters)

[4] http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Bonds
Thanks for this! The fact that I got wrapped up in constructing the identity of a company (thank god not the actual product or how we related to our clients) to be appealing to someone that wasn't its core client was definitely my problem and not theirs!

While I can't deny that I was responding to a certain kind of risk/reward perception that has a certain value it wasn't right for what we ultimately wanted to build as a company.

And I think this happens in so many areas of life. How we date, how we pick our hobbies, how we choose our education. Because forming a core identity and a core business is actually tremendously hard. Picking up one that is already socially validated seems easier. It just isn't a recipe for long term happiness or success.
"I went to kindergarten, I know how the alphabet works!" :)

Interestingly enough, nothing was happening on that Saturday. That I actually checked.

I obviously don't disagree that there's a lot of variables in play and some vary faster than others. What I meant by "10x" was that if the list were 20k subscribers instead of 2k for this particular experiment - what would've been the chance of the Saturday open rate jumping up.