skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I have always wondered about: how do you obtain/afford health insurance? (This is most likely a US-only problem)
This looks like a great initial weekend effort from a launch48 (London) environment: http://matchfounders.com/search?accounting=1&business=1&...
This reminds me a bit of Mary Rose Cook's story, "When I died": http://maryrosecook.com/post/when-i-died-2
I think this is an all-new low for the word "hacked". You can call any 911-response center and provide a phone/address for them. No need to even change your caller ID, just hide it. No need to dial 911, just find the local 10-digit number for your PSAP. You can probably even just call the police line, and say that 911 isn't working because you're on a VoIP line.

Edit: I had a similar experience, when one of my license plates fell off. I filled out an online form on the police site, never got a response. One day, cop pulls me over, then draws on me and gets 4 other cops as backup. I was under the impression you don't point guns at someone unless you're ready to fire, so I'd assume that if I had made any sudden movements it could have been fatal.

The thing is, I could have filled out that form with anyone's information. There's not even a callback/confirmation. So if you fill out a form for someone who has a concealed carry permit or something, you could probably cause a severe incident.
It does, because it uses the debug information generated by the compiler. both clang and gcc produce a good quality DWARF (http://www.dwarfstd.org/), which contains everything needed to unwind the stack. In Bacward-cpp I do use the unwinder provided by libgcc, which is in fact extracting all the information from DWARF. This is as accurate as GDB can be, it uses the same debug information.
I'm (only a little bit) sorry to be so pedantic, but I've grown weary of this modern misuse of death for hyperbolic effect.

You didn't die. You weren't dead and you aren't now resurrected. You experienced a very serious medical event, and you almost died, but didn't. Even metaphorically, you didn't die: you're still around. Robert Pirsig can claim that Phaedrus died; you cannot, because you're still here.

I don't know why this small untruth bothers me so, but it really does.
I was recently part of a brainstorming session where it was decided that we needed something that could do exactly this. (The way we described it: something like the "Joyride" feature in Zurb Foundation, except it could also highlight the relevant section.)

Keep this simple and fix a few of the bugs, and I think you have a winner.
I completely agree with you. In fact, in certain states/cities, there are legal ramifications for calling businesses or references asking anything outside the realm of 'Did they work there, yes or no?'
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I can see no way that this will end up with useful and/or actionable information.

You haven't actually done this. As I mentioned in my parent comment to your comment, I actually have. That was very helpful to the public school district where I was serving as a community volunteer for knowing which superintendent candidate to hire. By the way, the personnel director of our public school district reported to the school board last year that when teachers leave the employment of the district, he almost NEVER hears reference check telephone calls, which he would be happy to answer, from any subsequent employer of those teachers. He thinks that is seriously weird. Don't people want to be careful when they hire teachers of young children?
> There is a difference between showing up with bullet-proof vests and handguns, and showing up with full body armor, assault rifles, and grenades.

Yes, there is.

The full armor, assault rifles, grenades, etc. come into play because of past situations like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout where cops had to raid gun stores for rifles because their handguns/shotguns weren't cutting it.
In fact, in many industries, the most that HR people (and sometimes employees) are allowed to say is the employment start and end dates
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this is awesome! it would be even more awesome if it was created as components (github.com/component/component) so people can use individual pieces (and better over-all organization)
Ask HN: I need help with MYSQL and timestamps
I'm using an RSS parser called SimplePie for an RSS reader I built. Unfortunately, SimplePie does not insert a value into the db for items without a timestamp which is making things very wonky for users with certain feeds.

I need to add a default value (the time of insertion) to items without a timestamp. I'm new to PHP, but an RSS app I built on SimplePie has been getting a lot of users since the Google Reader shutdown and I need to fix this, ASAP.

A recent timestamp looks like this... "1326009170"

Using MYSQL/PHPadmin, can I set a default timestamp for this field that matches the format above?
The paramedics arrived and walked slowly down the length of the pool to the gym. This was procedure, they later told me, they didn't want to run and cause alarm.

That shocks me a little.
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I'd rather the police have and use sufficient gear than find themselves in a situation where they're outgunned or harmed.

At the same time, they need to know when, where and how to use their weapons, so we reduce or eradicate unnecessary casualties.
I'd really be interested in hearing about the stupid things puppet and chef let you do. I'm a puppet user and quite happy with it at this point. Chose it over Chef because I don't want to write Ruby anymore and like the language. Glancing at Salt Stack, I'm certainly interested right off the bat because it's python and will probably take a deeper look.

Still interested in your gripes against chef/puppet, but probably more puppet.
DevOps doesn't imply constant maintenance. A basic configuration on a site with low/constant traffic will probably not require many updates.

If anything, using something like Chef will make it easier to perform those updates if the need actually arises.
From the Google guy's post...

" I'd like to integrate those ideas into future versions of many Google products, and try to capture that value."

... ugh. No! I don't want all that crap pieced out across many different apps. Just give me a damn reader. Charge me for it or use my reading habits to inform ad targeting, I don't care, just find a business justification to keep it around. Don't try and put some half-assed version in G+ or Youtube or gmail or wherever.
Wow! Google appears to be out of touch if they haven't actively been doing user research and surveys. Makes me wonder if it's not arrogance...
tcputils from Debian does precisely that, allowing you to extend a UNIX pipe over a TCP connection. It's not generally available as a package in other distros, but you can easily grab the source from Debian and compile it yourself.

Consequently, tarballing to stdout and piping over tcputils is by far the fastest and most efficient way to send a large number of files over a network.
Haha I was thinking the same thing.. I had 700k when I got in line, still have 375k ahead..

Hopefully the acquisition by Dropbox speeds up the line, maybe?
This is not demonstrably false, as the Quora post you linked to is 3 almost 2 years old. (For comparison, the latest answer is right around when G+ launched.) The large majority of the population doesn't even know what RSS is, let alone use it for their day-to-day reading.
This is bad. Facebook doing this can potentially lead other devs following, and if this happens we'll end up in a ecosystem mess where every app does whatever it well pleases.
> Can you insert [X] into a running pipeline?

Yes [0]. It needs a bit of tooling to be more user friendly, but even the gdb stuff is pretty self-explanatory.

[0]: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/02/27/redirecting-output-from-...
We talked about this in a CPR class once. The biggest reason paramedics don't run is to avoid injury, which would obviously impede their ability to help.
Can see no cats pushing cats on this link.
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This was my biggest problem with G+ and why I haven't used it since last year sometime.

Facebook by comparison is a network of people you know irl, so you kinda care what random stuff they're up to.

G+ on the other hand is more like long-form Twitter where you subscribe to people, whether you know them irl or not. Its network based more on shared interest than real life connection.

But when people you've subscribed to because you're interested in what they have to say about programming start sharing their vacation pictures and other personal stuff, it can quickly fill up your news feed with noise.

It would be really nice if G+ could implement tagging and filtering by tag, or some ML that learns what to suppress in your feed from whom, or something along those lines. Anything to enable people to continue posting whatever they want, but to allow their followers to selectively receive only the portion they're interested in.
If I ever found out a potential hiring company went around my list of approved references to find other opinions I would immediately cease negotiations and start warning colleagues about that company.

It's rude. It's invasive. If you are incapable of determining if the person sitting infront of you is a fit for your organization without serious spy work, you shouldn't be sitting in the hiring chair.

References are doing a favor for the applicant. To cold call people randomly trying to dig up dirt is sad and pathetic.
Yeah, that means that people's propensity to panic results in the victim having to lose more precious seconds, which could easily result in brain damage or something.
Sorry. We used to have a way to show more than the top 10, but it seems to have been disappeared. I'll make sure that gets added back to make browsing easier.
Somewhat related, but I remember watching MC Hammer on Oprah.
Oprah was interviewing him about his bankruptcy, fall from grace, etc, and at one point, he said something to the effect of "Please, I don't want anyone to feel any sympathy towards me. Even after losing everything, my worst day is better than most people's best days. I'm still blessed."

It's really easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to fall into the "Poor Little Rich Boy" syndrome as well. I'm currently trying to buy a >$1M house in the Bay Area (very common), and have gotten outbid by $100k+ time and time again. One of my friends said "I heard you're having problems trying to get a house." My response, thinking exactly of that MC Hammer interview, was "Not having money to afford a place is a problem. Being in the position to be outbid on $1M houses is a really lucky."

I guess after reading the author's post, we in this industry should really feel blessed and know we're living a life that most people on this planet would think is a dream. It really puts things in perspective, and we hopefully shouldn't need a life-threatening event to come to this realization.
Because death is really serious business. Misinformation hurts.
So... Google got Sparrow, Dropbox got Mailbox...

Now that leaves Apple and MS...

I have one hell of a startup app idea. Anybody out there good with objective-c?
I think that Dropbox wants to be the company on the internet where your stuff "is" and email is probably part of that.
Yes, the possibility of libel without burden of proof or ratification by the applicant.
There is a much simpler explanation: the lead of one project is looking to improve his project however he can. In this case, he sees the ruckus over Reader as a chance to get a bunch of feature requests. It's kind of like a vulture picking over a carcass, but hey, circle of life and all that.

It's important to remember that to Google products like Reader are blips on the radar. Every second they spent scheming about Reader cost them millions in Ad Sense revenue; hence, there was no scheming.
I'm still using Sparrow on my mac. It works great.
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The latest Gmail app is pretty nice.
Acquired before I've even got my invite! :) Still another 276,000 people in front of me. I really hope Dropbox keeps it around (and from the comments that seems to be the case).
It assumes that those who are responsible for replacing Reader were part of the decision that it was going away. In large companies, the people who decide such things are often not the same people who engineer them.
> They don't even beta test when they build products.

Uh... Gmail pretty much started the "launch your web app as a beta" craze.
Monads are basically continuations are basically GOTOs. If you have a useful type system (like Haskell, not like Java), you get the formal verification of correctness done for free by your type checker.
This is excellent, thanks so much!
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Mailbox uses Google's Gmail OAuth...
I understand this is sarcasm, but it seems in this case it would have been easier and clearer to express your point directly.
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yeah, I actually checked to see if they still had a queue, they do, pretty insane..
slighly relevant onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-social-media-startup-la...
Yes, that's why they have criminal background checks performed and are licensed by the state.

The risk of a defamation lawsuit is a very serious and real thing.
A more appropriate title would have been "What it's like to wake up after dying". Glad he's feeling great.

He's mainly lucky someone who know CPR was around soon after his cardiac failure. That's the main reason why he defied statistics and it stacked odds in his favor. Otherwise, more than 4 minutes before intervention and you're almost guaranteed to be dead or at least brain damaged.
I wanted to reply, but then it asked me to sign up for Google+.

Then it hit me: That's exactly it. Google+ is Google's way of controlling an entire ecosystem of replies to topics. That's exactly the problem with Google+.

Google Reader was great because it gave you a window into the internet. A window that you could shape however you wanted.
Good luck getting police to show up to anything involving armed criminals without all that kit after the L.A. North Hollywood shootout of 1997 [1]. Not to mention the Dorner police slayings or the two homicidal maniacs in upstate New York in just the past few months.

If you want to respond with anything less than the best possible tools available to ensure you survive the event then you can certainly make that choice. But I couldn't in good faith tell someone else to make that choice. If you're a bystander near a heavily armed criminal the only safe place to be is far away.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
If it came from an executive or a press release, perhaps I would have assumed that. But it came from an engineer.
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Web apps do not have read/write access to the file system. So let's say you wanted to write a text editor web app. You can't modify a user's local files so you are forced to store their data on your servers. You are forced to create some UI for integration with GitHub, Bitbucket, etc. You are forced to add a lot of stuff Sublime and TextMate don't have to worry about... you are forced to build an IDE.

This would improve a lot of that kind of thing.
That makes sense if the area around the pool is slippery. It's just that given the tremendous downside of risking the victim's life or brain damage, it seems that the paramedics wouldn't be risking much by hustling a little, rather than "walking slowly".

Unless it was really slippery, or if they thought someone was going to flip out to the point where it seriously interfered with the CPR, taking your time doesn't seem like the best thing to do for the victim.
I'd flag this, but the OP is getting lots of deserved hate and that would stop the pile-on process, so I won't.

Thanks, HN.
1. The popular RSS readers all seem/seemed to be moving toward looking like Reeder and Flipboard, moreso than Google Reader's Web UI. It seems that UI is/was only necessary for a niche of the niche.

2. And yet there were non-trivial complaints Google Reader lost its original sharing/social functionality. So clearly not everyone prefers the social-less implementation. And fewer still would seem completely off-put by a social panel they can tune out and ignore (as they already were ignoring it on Google Reader's rise).
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/data-type-defaults.ht...

"The exception is that you can specify CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default for a TIMESTAMP column. See Section 11.1.5.5, “Automatic Initialization and Updating for TIMESTAMP”.
Brilliant.

I needed something that could easily explain application workflow to the customer - and this is it!

Thank you.
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Oops, good catch. This is what I meant.
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Beyond all of the complicated integration/feature scenarios people are proposing, what shouldn't be forgotten is the fact that email is the primary way most people send and receive files. Combine that with mobile fast becoming the primary computing device for most people, and you have an extremely sensible acquisition.
Fair enough, those are really insightful points, and I'll check them later. I'm pretty quick to jump to defend China, because i usually find sheer ignorance, and not a well researched point behind whatever anti-chinese statements there are. "China is evil cause it takes our jobs", "Chinese eat sh*tty food, like dogs and cats", "Chinese are evil because they are all, every single peasant, covertly plotting to hack our computers, every single one of them".
And when you get bombared with stuff like this all the time, your trigger finger becomes quicker. Also, no offense intended, but your choice of language made it seem like a giant conspiracy, which I would object to believing in given the lack of proof or points in your first post.

And on a site note, I'm actually really intrested why the chinese would indulge in such attacks. Economical harm to a Nation you're codependent on doesn't strike me as politically savy. What incentives are there for Chinese hackers to attack sites like Github, and the other busineses and infrastructures you mentioned (Google is obvious, so you can skip on that).
I've been using the new AWS OpsWorks service for my latest project. It's great. You still have to learn chef if you want to write custom recipes, which I did, but overall for just deploying stuff to the cloud it's hard to imagine Heroku coming out on top when you really back out the costs.
What has happened to humans??? millions of years evolving to a truly miraculous level of efficiency and agility and we still don't think that possibly moving a little quickly to someone who's heart has stopped is a good idea? Since there were paramedics (plural) it wouldn't impede anything if they ran, and it would most certainly increase the chances of saving someone.

To me this is disgraceful, it sounds like OSHA got involved and made policy something that must surely be counter intuitive. Yes, I know the statistics of small risk- done often, but this is such a sad condition for our special to have reached when people carrying life saving equipment don't move a little faster to save someone.
The value of Startup Weekends isn't in build a new startup from scratch (very few startup ideas that originate at SW last past the weekend), but rather from the fact that you spend a weekend working closely against a deadline with people who are potential cofounders. You get a much better feel (both at a personal and at a professional level) of someone from working with them over a weekend on something random than from a networking event.
There's still a few bugs, but we're working on ironing them out. :)
Obligatory "I wrote something similar" post. But my tool is written in Java, doesn't run in the browser, but does use @example.com for the email addresses.

https://github.com/mindcrime/dummydatagenerator
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I don't get it either. I mean, if he really wants to make me happy but can only build in the context of G+, make a "Reader" tab and open up Reader in an iframe that takes up 90% of the page (outer frame optional). There's nothing about G+'s layout (or mission?) that will be conducive to feed reading.

This is like asking me what I like about burgers so you can make a better salad.
This is the piece of "advice" which jumped out at me as being completely horrible.

What if the job search is going out without informing EVERYONE at the prospect's company? What if the prospect hasn't informed his boss that he is looking yet? There is a real chance that talking to some random person at candidate's current job could put their current position in jeopardy. You could also happen to ring up some vindictive asshole who just wants to sabotage the prospect's chances.
A neat feature, another step towards GitHub becoming the development IDE.
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The funny thing is that I think Mailbox has put much care and ingenuity into their iPhone app than Dropbox has. The 2007 four tabs at the bottom UI is not the best way to browse your files.
How about open source solutions? I've been looking into ResourceSpace… does anyone know of any viable alternatives?
Also, it wood be nice if peepol proof readed there blogs a little more often two.
You missed the point of my comment. I was speaking about the hype, I wasn't putting down deep networks or making a technical analysis of the algorithms. Anyway, here are my major reservations, including my technical analysis. You're oddly demanding in a casual non-technical online discussion about a topic you don't seem qualified in, so if this isn't enough for you we really aren't going to find common ground.

There isn't great library support for deep networks. This is a big deal, I don't want to spend tons of time building my own library or working with buggy/poorly supported/infant libraries. In production systems we prefer extremely well-established libraries that work in our language/environment of choice. Also deep belief networks are a couple orders of magnitude slower than linear models (probably the most commonly used type of model in industry). They require more parameter selection. They're not even useful for a lot of tasks - if I'm already spending tons of time building useful features (often a requirement in industry for non-technical reasons, like reporting or legal constraints) deep networks aren't going to be very useful. Much of their utility is taking raw, unstructured data and creating useful features for a supervised model. You can't easily interpret them as models unless you are working with visual data, they are a black box.
I agree. I never answer the security questions with a truthful answer, because things like "first company you worked for" are too easy to look up. I treat security questions almost the same as passwords. I generate random answers per question and store them in 1Password, just like my passwords.

A side-benefit of this is that if someone calls me and asks me to answer a security question, I won't know it. I'll be forced to call them back after I've opened 1Password and pulled up the record with the security questions.
Why should Dropbox have a message client (or email client). I fail to see how they are connected. I feel the same about Twitter launching a music service.

There used to be the joke that every software expands until it can read mail. Nowadays I think we need a new saying. Every software company expands until... it has rebuilt every other software product (not as catchy).
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