skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quit my job about a month ago to build stuff. Here is the first thing I'm releasing into the wild.

It's an API directory and search engine. This is a basic MVP but I plan on this site being a valuable tool for both API providers and consumers.

List your API for free! If you have a favorite API you would like to list that you don't own, you can do that too.

Every hour, a bot will tweet a newly submitted API. You can follow that Twitter account here: https://twitter.com/apiforthat

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions please let me know.
Yeah, I want to know what they're doing internally with these insane URLs. It's just ugly -- poor craftsmanship IMHO.
We are using opcode caching.

"PHP 5.4.13 with APC, PHP-FPM, nginx"

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=environment

We've had a lot of input from the PHP community about setting up the PHP tests properly, but if you have a suggestion for an improvement we'd appreciate it.

Memcache isn't used because none of the tests are caching database results. A later test will use caching.

We'd be happy to include Yii. Submit a pull request. :)
Actually, as soon as a lot of db connections are involved, PHP jumps to the head of the pack.

Which means that in most common web use cases (which are db heavy), PHP is as fast as any of them, since all the slowdowns (initialization, slow Zend engine etc) are dwarfed out by the fast db handling.
The lack of interaction with a lecturing professor isn't a downside at all if you lacked the course at all before that.

Yes, a single social justice course would be bad. Consolidating the thousands of Algebra courses might be a good thing. It's really a strawman argument as MOOC's actually expand the number of courses available. You could choose between multiple versions by the same professor, potentially, not to mention other professors. Small schools with only one course offering of Obscure 101 would have alternate options. Everyone getting taught one thing is hardly a problem.
Do you have internship opportunities based in your London office? Moving to New York would not be compatible with finishing my PhD here.
Ask HN: How did you get started in sales
1. I like programming but it is not something I can see myself doing 40 or 50 hours a week. I know the full web stack (HTML/CSS/JS) as well as backend (Python/PHP/learning Node)
2. I love working with people and am a better communicator than I am programmer
3. I have about 2 years experience as a support specialist

How would you/did you get started?
Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins
I imagine most of the hardware is reasonably cheap, and at scale the price is probably quite low on a per unit cost but if they do come in a spectacularly low margin it'll make it tricky for others to catch up.
In really scalable sites, you need sharding. Unless your database itself is doing the scaling (such as with Riak), you're going to sometimes hit multiple shards. With PHP and other languages that can't do async, you're going to have to query the DB sequentially, increasing latency proportionally to the number of shards you have to hit. With Node.js and other asynchronous apps, you don't.

Disclaimer: mysqli does have async capabilities, but most people such as myself use PDO for its other benefits. And mysqli only works with MySQL.
watch out for the Year 292,277,026,596 problem
If somebody is going to do malicious hacking on glass or a glass-like device, I would say that displaying offensive material is among the least of our worries.
Chicago, IL

Help MarkITx[1] build the software systems that will track, value and trade the world’s IT infrastructure. Working side-by-side with our CTO Ben Blair (that's me) and our head of product Shawn Kelly, you’ll design and build a web of distributed systems sitting atop our AWS infrastructure. You'll have full ownership of your projects and the systems you work on. You'll never be micromanaged.

We're looking for engineers who have built, deployed and managed large distributed systems. We're pragmatists, not purists. We try to use the right technology for the job, with familiarity being a tie breaker. Some things we use today: Node.js, ElasticSearch, Redis and CouchDB and a slew of AWS services.

The types of project you might work on:

- An automated market making system for wholesalers

- An inventory import that can identify products in anything from poorly formatted spreadsheets to scanned invoice PDFs to photos of asset tags

- A public-facing API for asset valuation and trading

We Offer:

- Great work environment + generous equipment budget

- Base salary in the $110 - $130k range + significant equity

- Raise to $160 - $180k when we close our Series A

- Benefits including health, dental

About MarkITx

MarkITx is a B2B exchange for buying and selling IT hardware (anything that goes into a datacenter). We are disrupting the $350B secondary IT market by bringing simplicity and transparency to a process that is currently painful, ugly and untrustworthy. We are a well funded startup, working out of 1871. We are a very talented, deeply experienced and tight-knit team. We have some of the best backers and advisors in Chicago. We’ve proven the model, with over $60MM in orders and over $150k per month in transactions. We’re just getting started, and we need your help to scale.

Our culture is driven by a simple constraint: every colleague we add should make the rest of the team happier and better at their own jobs. That means talent density grows as we grow. It means we have zero tolerance for ego-driven BS. It means we’re in awe of what our colleagues are capable of. It means we have complete autonomy to identify and solve the problems in our domain. It means we care more about the win than we do about who did what to get us there.

Email me at ben@markitx.com if you're interested and tell me about what you've built.

[1] https://www.markitx.com
Really. They don't need to outperform exceptional lecturing professors. They need to beat out all those awful TA's where the professor isn't lecturing at all.
I know the following is small, but surprised Pyramid didn't make the cut. I've used it for a couple of projects outside of work, and among the several other web frameworks I've worked with (Struts, Play, Django), it seems relatively mature and well documented.

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.4-branch...
Incorporating a Social Enterprise: a Simple Legal Guide
OK, so Intel codenames are seemingly random geographic features usually within 1000 miles of the design team. But the point is the codenames show no evidence of coordination with the features of the chip itself.
I bet that if you looked at household income and working hours and worker conditions at the beginning of the industrial revolution you wouldn't see great improvement. You've seen that only after the workers movement gotten worker rights.

That's to say that those metrics are wrong to measure technological advancement per se. But of course what's important is standards of living.
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=motivation

"As with the previous question, we'd love to. We have heard tentative word from a reader/contributor that a pull request may be incoming soon that will include several .NET frameworks on Mono, which we assume will be as easy to include as any other pull request. One challenge we face is that the test infrastructure we've built assumes a Linux deployment that we can automate using ssh and Python. To do a proper .NET test on Windows Servers, we will need to work on adapting that platform to automate Windows Servers as well. Community assistance on this would be greatly appreciated."
Spark Core: Wi-Fi for Everything (Arduino Compatible)
I wish there were more options at the low end of this poll, even if those options don't represent economically viable options. I want to know how people value the product given what they know today.

I know it's still early, but it's hard to imagine Glass being more significant to me than my first smart phone, which gave me an incredible amount of information in very convenient form. So it's hard for me to imagine paying even near the same price for it.
Drones Hit New Turf: U.S. Farmland
I only see it mentioned on FreeType’s website, with no details:

“Some products which use FreeType for rendering fonts on screen or on paper, either exclusively or partially: [...] iOS, Apple's mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads”

http://www.freetype.org/

iOS (née iPones OS) never used subpixel rendering, and since the introduction of HiDPI it isn’t needed anymore either. I can imagine that using parts of Freetype instead of using the whole of OS X’s Quartz would’ve made the code for iOS more compact.

http://bjango.com/articles/subpixeltext/

Given that all of the iPhone models and many of the iPad models have HiDPI screens nowadays, I doubt Apple will be using Adobe’s extension, since it’s mostly a problem with low resolution displays.
Sensitive Army database of U.S. dams compromised by Chinese Hackers
For me, the problem is creeping privatisation. Were the NHS better funded and supported by government I would feel a lot more like it had my interests at heart.

The problem for me isn't the NHS on its own, which I think is great ... but rather political interference diluting the mission and redirecting it for economic and populist ends.
Time to reread my favorite pg essay: http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
> pornography implies objectification and a very different power relationship

that's way too general. There's enough pornography out there, recent and old, where people are just having nice sex without there being some sort of power/dominating relationship nor where things get objectified to the extreme.
SEEKING WORK - Boston, MA or Remote

Front end developer :: loves to code single page web apps. Over 10 years exp, command line junkie, vim FTW!

Preferred stack:

* front: HTML5, CSS, Javascript, jquery, knockout

* back: ruby, sinatra, nginx

Currently playing around with aws, redis, jquery mobile

http://hspindesign.com/
I'm no anthropologist, but the document leaving religions were social organizing at broader scales (market communities and early cities) than the basic coming of age rituals/education that were best left to family, clan and kin (hunters, herders and farmers).
If you want the watch form factor, get a pebble (getpebble.com). They're developing pretty rapidly.

Places I'll use my Google Glass: Sport bike, skydiving, hiking, sailing.

$1500? I'd pay $2K.
Oslo is turning garbage into energy and is running out of garbage
The Smallest Details Matter
> Technology has been replacing workers for a long time, but unemployment hasn't been steadily increasing over time.

I think this line of thinking is unfortunately sanguine in light of the Wests youth unemployment levels and the uncharted territory we are heading into with robotics.

The beauty of the basic minimum income is that it leads to a more efficient economy. 1000 men with teaspoons thinking is a great atrocity, I don't know what else besides a minimum income will stop politicians from pandering to their constituents in this way.
Any chance you could add JEE6?
The two major JSF 2.1 implementations MyFaces and Mojarra are both missing. I don't expect awesome performance numbers, but since JSF2.1 is the 'official' (sigh) web framework of JEE6, it would be interesting how awful they are compared to some of these other languages.

I guess though if this is only testing JSON serialization, it may not make sense. Perhaps adding JAX-RS implementations like CXF, Jersey, RESTEasy, and RESTLet would be more appropriate.
Anyone know when those of us who "won" access via the social media promo will be able to get them?
Touring your photo collection at breakneck speed
Unbound & Dropbox
>I haven't found a way to turn off annoying dock animation of Adium

Yeah, my one peeve with Adium. I ended up going into the application package and replacing all the PNGs that make up the animation with the first one. Problem solved.
Not until all the IO12 Explorers get theirs. I'd think a few weeks at least.
Nothing original, but the minimal design is mastered (i don't know if i can say this like that, bad english sry)

You should try, nothing to lose and it's not ugly.

If your site is accepted you got 100000 visitors :D

Maybe you should just add some pictures... imho.

Good luck
Any chance of seing the python frameworks behind uwsgi instead of gunicorn?
Same here. I've been trained to always define one's acronyms. This case is particularly egregious as the acronym is part of the headline. Seems a missed opportunity to educate new readers.
An interactive map based day tour of Kings Landing (Game of Thrones).
Show HN: First Two Weeks on Mac
I own 2038K.com, if anyone has interesting ideas on what to do with it besides making money from ADS, let me know. I bought it as a retirement hedge with the evil plan to drum up doomsday scenarios to drive traffic. Wait, I am sure the media will take care of that for me when the date approaches.
Hello Crunch?
It'd be great to see a metric of "completeness". For instance, while <semaphore.h> declares support for unnamed semaphores on OS X, the platform does not have them.
Unless they overlaid a big opaque black block while you were driving at high speed...

(Granted I'm sure they'll think about that during the design phase, and maybe not allow 100% opacity or something.)
Say you have $10,000 set aside to start a business. If you invest $1,500 in a domain name, before you truly validate your product, then you are throwing away 15% of a very limited budget with $0 in cashflow. Now say your business has been validated and you're making $100,000 per year. If the price goes up to $15,000, you're still in a much better position since you have proven cashflows to legitimize that expense. The original $1,500 was actually much more expensive, relative to your cashflows. You would be buying off the assumption that you're business will succeed, rather than when your business is succeeding.
How do we deal with our increasing load of collected visual memories?
I would never use it. They are devices that are designed to be rude. By wearing Glass you are nonverbally asserting "I am going to record you whether you like it or not. If you don't like it, you probably will want to just avoid conflict and therefore will be more likely to avoid me."

No thanks.
try our RingoJs: it's JS on the JVM. Scripting Java with JavaScript.
Evomail is here
Exactly. The "drug users" one, for example, leads to an article explaining how a police officer said that. Anyone hearing secondhand about that story and wanting to learn more about the incident would probably Google that phrase.
You're such a joker.
Raw PHP (with no framework, no ORM) does well in the 20 query test, but unfortunately you have to go down pretty far before any of the PHP frameworks show up on that list.

If I filter to just show PHP, the 20 query test shows that the first framework is less than 50% the performance of raw PHP.
I really don't like these benchmarks. Its like benchmarking Fizzbuzz or something. Frameworks don't do anything. No one chooses a framework (at least I don't) based on performance. You choose one framework over the other because you like the API and/or language. I myself am a framework author (giotto, a python framework that was not included in these benchmarks). If my framework had been included, I'm sure it would end up dead last. When I built it, I wasn't thinking about performance, I was focusing on building a framework that would result in applications that are easy to understand/debug and fast to write.
That quite defines how I think about it. The current "me" is as different from the me within a second from now as from a theoretical me at the other end of a teleportation device that delivers me there within a second. The three selves are all distinct from each other and in fact are as distinct (and as close) to each other as from any other human being, with the caveat that the 'me's a second from now inherit all the memories and physical state from the current me, whereas a different person does not.

But in terms of selves, of consciousness, they're all isolated phenonema. I think consciousness is merely an illusion, we think we have continuity because we inherit the memories and thought processes from the self from the moment before, but all that exists is a moment of awareness (the "now"), which is analogous to a clock of a computer processor.
I'm glad to see that there are good places for the mum & pop shops to get websites without having to go through working with a wed dev agency. When I worked for one I know it would have been better for both sides if there were tools like this so that they could just make something as small as they needed whilst I could get on with larger projects.
Plows were usually drawn by animals, not people. If this hypothesis holds, horses and oxen should have even higher status than men.

This is all an exercise in intellectual wankery that reminds me of the bit in Cryptonomicon where Randy's girlfriend publishes a paper correlating Unix beards with female oppression.

Oh, and by the way, 'twas Margaret Mead -- a woman and hardly an apologist for the patriarchy -- who put the lie to the myth that preagricultural human society was matriarchal. There have been matrilineal societies, but in these the property tended to pass from father to daughter's husband rather than father to son.
Only if you are careful to not let flies in.
Linux amd64 is the dominate internet serving platform; supporting a non-free OS for the benefit of a single test entry seems dumb. I'm all for a Mono entry however.
Windows uses 100-ns intervals since 1601 (start of the current 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar at the point where NT was designed) which offers good accuracy and should last for the foreseeable future.
Fashiolista - Amsterdam, NL. Python/Django developers, DevOps.
Full time, on-site in our office in the center of Amsterdam.

We are a funded startup looking for Python/Django developers and sysadmins with AWS experience.

As Fashiolista is growing rapidly, we are on the lookout for new team members who can help us scale the site and keep up with our growth.

Although we are in the fashion industry, a love of fashion is not required. If you love hacking open source applications and scaling high-traffic websites, you'll fit right in.

We encourage our team to work on open source projects where possible, and attempt to open source many of the components we build ourselves.

Our stack consists of, among other things:

- Django

- PostgreSQL

- Redis

- Memcached

- RabbitMQ

- SOLR

- Celery

- AWS
I'd prefer most government sites not designed at all, rather apis. And for whatever sites actually needed user input, etc just a header and form tag will suffice. I'm also in the minority which finds most modern web design intrusive. I want to use the service, not look at your art project.
Apple avoids potential $9bn tax bill
It's not useful. It provides no advantages over my smartphone and tons of disadvantages. It takes away all forms of input other than voice and eye movement. It has a tiny display.

And it looks so, so stupid when you're wearing one. It's one of the only things you can put on and even though you founded Google 90% of the people looking at you will wonder if you're an idiot.
$40. Right now it represents an ultra cool toy, but I think life would feel different in a not positive way.
The amount of hate against design work is high in the last days.
For every programmer here trying to be a DESIGN CRITIQUE: Do you know that annoying type of intern that thinks he knows more than you about programming even when you have 20 years more experience?

You right now.

242 points means that the Design is a success. So stop being a dick, you're not better than anyone for pointing failures that doesn't exist.

If you really want to critique Design work, at least make sure you understand everything said here: http://ia.net/blog/learning-to-see/
I have had a standing desk for almost 6 months now and I couldn't be happier. I have lower back herniated discs and sitting exerts way more pressure on my lower spine than standing. The added benefit is that I get to move and stretch more easily then I'd do sitting.

I do not stand the entire day though. I take short breaks by sitting on a high chair. I stand for about 2 hours and then sit for 15-30 minutes. This has worked way better than any ergonomic chair for me.
They were not tested because no one has submitted a pull request for them.
It could create a replica that's exactly the same atom-for-atom, but it would still be a replica. Destroying the original at the source would make it a 'teletransporter', and not destroying the original at the source would make it a 'duplicator'.

By any external measure the replica could be functionally and physically identical to the original, but so long as new matter is used it would still be a replica.
Dynamic Testing Tools for C++
HN doesn't use racket. It's a custom lisp based on scheme.
One person can get out of the way more easily than 10. Of course, abstract hypothetical questions don't answer what one would do under real circumstances, e.g. there's a difference between seeing an athletic, aware guy on one track who you know can get out of the way vs. a blind lady.
You missed the point. The idea is management and investor confidence, buy-in.

Here's how it works in most companies: MySQL goes down = something seriously bad happened. MariaDB went down = that database that Ted suggested sure is a piece of shit.
My view of ethics is that it's basically just a (often vague) set of principles in our minds. Some of ethics is in our genes, some of it is cultural. Different cultures may have different ethical principles. Fundamentally, it's about feelings – something is good, because it feels good.
With a few more small features/improvements/tweaks (better call quality, more apps, longer battery, maybe fold-able, that type of thing)I would want it to the point I could afford. I think that puts me at the $500ish.

And i have to consider, do I prioritize buying a tablet (or camera/netbook) first? A tablet may or may not be more functional... These are pretty sci-fi/magic though...
I agree with your strategy to solve the actual problem (son't forget the predatory student loaning business), but that's like asking for a complete solution to the TSP (only half joking, social problems are wicked problems, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem, that may actually be harder to solve) whereas an approximate solution may suffice in its place or in the interim. I think the MOOC's present such a solution.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't attack the problem you mention, though.
Looks like the HN account is working again.

There have been a couple of quick updates I posted on the linked page. First, SDF does accept Bitcoin for validation.

Second, SMJ is personally upping the prize to $100. See the link for details.

I am very happy with the result of this stunt. So far this page has gotten over 100,000 which works nicely towards the goal of driving more users towards Tor and SDF.
I guess I'll put $1500+ since i've been invited to the explorer program and I'll be buying it at that price...
The best and most honest commencement speech I've ever listened to was David Foster Wallace's to the Kenyon College graduating class of 2005 that has since been published as a short book. It's called "This is Water." There's a heavy liberal arts slant, but it's a great speech.

http://vimeo.com/57350121 (audio)