skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of PHP in the clouds... fun fact: you can push PHP files to Heroku and they'll "just work".

Do it in 30 seconds:

mkdir ~/testypoo && cd ~/testypoo
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > index.php
git init
git add .
git commit -m "woohoo php in the cloud!"
heroku create
git push heroku master

Now enjoy your insanely simple + free PHP hosting. I was pretty excited and surprised when I discovered this.
That's exactly what it does, except for $9/mo :-D
The site doesn't seem to include drinks. Do you plan on adding them?
I have this feeling that the other shoe is about to drop, and we're going to find out something big is missing from the reporting, they they had a friend working at the company.

I doubt it - all that he would have had to do to discover this bug was to accidentally press "change game" at the point where it offered him the double-or-nothing, which would be easy to do if he was intending to press "no" then "change game" in quick succession.
Obviously, these lists aren't comprehensive: I have commit to Rails, am helping to write a book on Rails 4 [1], and it's not listed, either. ;) AWDWR is actually tested as part of each release,[2] so it obviously gets a big shout-out.

1: http://www.manning.com/bigg2/
2: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/RELEASING_RAILS.r...
You should include "I have access to one that I can use".
I would love to be able to use on on a hourly base
Of course we have no way of telling that the voidnull website is by the same person as the voidnull HN account used to start this thread.
Thats one problem with being anonymous, anyone can impersonate you, I can't think of any way to have a 'verified' account which is also anonymous.
Had access to a commercial 3D printer at a hackerspace. After the initial few cool test objects, the annoyance of dealing with broken STL files and waiting hours for tiny fragile parts overtook the "convenience". But I think those will both improve with time.

My sub-poll question would be: for those who do have a 3D printer, do you create your own content or print only third-party STLs?
I bought a Makerbot Thing-o-Matic two years ago because I thought they were neat.

For certain kinds of people, having one would really be helpful. Some of the designers in the 3D printing space obviously get a lot of use out of them, and having to order all that stuff through shapeways and wait for the designs would be slow and expensive.

I find that now that I own a 3D printer, I use it more than I thought I would. There is a ton of cool stuff on Thingivierse, and it's fun to just print out someone's cute little design. I've taken to painting them like little models for fun.
Can someone explain why some websites I visit still manage to make popups appear ?
You're right that there's a lot of work before having even something basically functional - the first version of the site only had about 50 foods to pick from that I entered by hand, all very basic (e.g. ground beef, avocado), and it would throw them at you in a random combination. Then I found the USDA food database, but their formatting is a mess and I spent a couple weeks cleaning it up by hand. The recipes are almost all crowdsourced, and it's probably one of the site's weakest points right now since there aren't a ton of them.

I'd definitely like to integrate with a larger recipe site, but the biggest issue is matching their ingredients to the USDA foods to accurately guess the nutrition - tying it to individual foods rather than just importing the recipe's nutrition makes it easy for users to modify the recipes if they want. I'm working on some stuff to make it happen though, so hopefully soon!
What are the chances that in the next month pg publishes an essay calling for why more startups should be doing hardware, bitcoin, and/or 3D printing?
It is worth noting that that presentation was from a few years ago. According to someone I knew that worked there at the time but doesn't now, the culture went downhill after.
I agree with your definition. I rest my case as it is pointless to engage in an internet debate.
if it's any help, would love to host the site on hpcloud.com (hp's public cloud). drop me a line if you're interested pratik.jhaveri(at)hp.com. Not saying this is an issue with your hosting provider - but perhaps it could help.

* I work in the hpcloud team. this post does not reflect HP's needs/opinions.
wow, beautiful app! i had a similar idea with a different slant as a side project, centered around the idea of writing a letter to your future self. am currently testing whether or not people would pay to get letters printed and mailed to them.

take a look here:
http://www.tymdrop.com
The problem is that there's no bright line to be drawn between bunny hopping and glitching through a wall. It's a continuous spectrum of larger and larger glitches.

Just out of curiosity, I assume you'd also consider abusing the "minus world" glitch in Super Mario Bros to be cheating, assuming it happened to let you finish the game faster? That glitch is nearly identical to the Half-Life case you described.
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When I set my meal options to only show vegan meals, my recommended protein intake went from at least 101 g to at least 61 g. If anything, being vegan requires me to eat slightly more protein (assuming plant proteins are harder to digest than animal proteins).
While it's harder to get protein as a vegan, I don't think that means the protein goal should be lowered.

Also, I agree with others that you predict user behavior very well.
I agree. That's why I wished him the best of luck. Like I mentioned in the topic, it is pointless to trying to keep someone when his/her heart is not here - just like a romantic relationship , no salvage possible.
Well according to GitHub it's either JavaScript or Ruby (PHP is only 6th) https://github.com/languages﻿
Reminds me of "are we an effective team" from Oblivion :-;
In that article under "Exemptions and Treaties" [1], it says that Canada is exempt. Does that mean Canadians can work at SpaceX?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
We need to get your Rails 4 book up there then Steve :D

I actually would love to see a comprehensive list, obviously can't all fit in this short release post!
Yep its like making all the bug fixes priority 1
Adding frequently requested features to your product is now "desperation"?
This is pretty neat and well executed.

But does the algorithm work on meal combinations that make sense? Two of my generated meals, one was chocolate mousse with a side of bacon & tomatoes, and the next meal was beef stew with a side of fruit salad. Those things may make sense to eat together by raw data, but in all practical sense they sound like pretty terrible meals...
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Walking up to people and paying people for goods and services is a good measure of how useful something is as a currency.

Right now, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that bitcoin is fairly useless to most people as a currency, a hard truth for some.

What is it not useless for? Well mainly as an investment/get rich quick scheme as well as money laundering, drug deals and soothing the paranoia of hard money cranks.
After working at Google for a while, I think this person, unless he is really lucky, will end up looking elsewhere to find a more satisfying job. You could pick any random Engineer at Google, and end up with someone unsatisfied with what they are doing. If they are good, then you can steal them away. Or maybe not. Maybe they are constantly spammed with job offers.
"the term “disruptive innovation” comes to us from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen and his excellent 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma."
The unit of bitcoin is currently 10^-8 bitcoins, or about one ten-thousandth of a penny. A smaller unit can be adopted at any time if a majority of the network starts using a client that supports a smaller unit.
Anonymity is not a concept to whistleblower protection; in fact, the opposite - whistleblower protection is a protection of your non-anonymous actions.
Got fired, told I was going to be vested and now they want to rescind the offer
I was fired from a startup 6 weeks before my first year of vesting, (my guess is mainly because they are running out of funding and I was the most expensive employ) but I was told in the exit interview that they would make that day my vesting cliff, because I had worked very hard and deserved (their words not mine).

Two weeks later I get a call from the CEO telling me that they wont vest me. I have the exit interview recorded stating that they would vest me. Is there anything I can do?

I am in a state were its legal to record voice conversations: http://www.vegress.com/images/vegress/notification-map-550a.jpg

The two options that I am thinking about is to either lawyer up, or right a blog post so future employs know what kind of people they are dealing with, or both.

Thanks
Most of these models make a critically flawed assumption: that everyone gets the same thing out of the content, and accordingly, that a one-size-fits-all solution will accommodate everyone.

We need to think more deeply about the statistical distribution patterns in consumption of journalism (or of content, period). For instance, many of the recent experiments in selling content -- music, movies, games, etc. -- online have resulted in an interesting dynamic, something like a power-law distribution. Approximately 5-8% of all users will account for 80% of the revenues generated.

Instead of trying to beef up that percentage, we should think about tailoring a power version of the product to that power userbase, then charging them the price they're willing to pay (which may be much higher than a mass-market price). In the meantime, everyone else gets the basic version of the content for a more basic price.

If this sounds like freemium, that's because it basically is. Freemium is a fancy word for what economists call price discrimination, i.e., charging different prices to different customer bases depending on different channels and/or needs. Saving journalism will mean getting really deep into the weeds on nailing the power law curve for any given type of content.
I haven't got one. I'm unlikely to buy one for myself. (My son is 2 and a bit. I may buy one for him when he's old enough to make use of it.)

I am interested in them and I love reading about stuff people are doing with them and I see that they're an important innovation. But I'm happy for other people to be doing that stuff.

I have seen some 3d printed stuff that I wanted to buy. Someone made some ceramic mugs, and the first iteration was cool and clunky and not neat shaped. There are some cool puzzles and math toys too.
Github is a representative sample of published open source software, not of code being used in production.
One Bitcoin can be divided down to 0.00000001 BTC.
I like how that say that it is " legitimate surveillance software". In my opinion, there is no such thing, regardless of its legality.
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Freedom of anonymous speech is not a right in any jurisdiction or country that I'm aware of.

For very good reason, I might add.

In fact, most anonymous speech can safely be discounted as nonsense.
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I would love to see one of the pro plan options to have a 3rd level domain like yourname.resumonk.com so it would be easy for people to just CNAME the address ( resume.personalsite.com )
Even if every transaction has a new address, you have to get BTC in to the wallet somehow, and the most common method to do this is to buy BTC online with a credit card.

You could buy BTC with cash of course, but then why not just send the cash direct?

I suppose you could also use washers but I'm not sure how reliable those are.
REMOTE - Must me Fluent in English. Must be an US resident.

Protocademy.com is growing. I need a hacker who enjoys teaching others how to hack. Great hours, and benefits. Good pay. No shenanigans. Better yet, Protocademy.com is profitable.

Here is what you need to know:

Various languages.
How to work with frameworks.
How to explain things.
How to work with source control (Git, etc)
How to setup servers for deployment.

You need to be patient, and must enjoy helping others grow.

Protocademy.com has been operating in stealth mode for months. You have not heard of it. In fact, the blog is not even finished. But it is quickly growing. Gaining a good amount of paying customers every day. It is on its way to silently take over this market. Your paycheck will be safe. No weird wait-30-days-until-cashing-it-in. I can also pay you through Paypal.

Just email me (in profile) with questions. I'll gladly talk to you about it.
Actually, I think mseebach's point was the opposite: that this challenge, even if nobody claims the prize, does not prove that tor + sdf-shell-paid-by-mail is secure against leaking your identity.
How do people get around the fact that so much of what you would want to do has a well-supported solution in Python while in Clojure you're to a large extent on your own?
I think 3D printers are firmly in the "Linux desktop" stage for now. You will hear it's revolutional arrival announced every year, but it will never materialize.
None of what you say answers the question posed. Your concerns seems to be with the right of free speech, which is valid, but has nothing to do with being anonymous.
It's a little farther behind the others, Ryan had updated it for Rails 3.2, and I'm updating it for 4, and my editor and I are going over the first half of the book's updates now. AWDWR is already 100% updated (and I think CRA is too), so it makes sense that mine didn't get mentioned; it's hard to both work on Rails and work on writing a book on Rails.
I find it hard to believe that Google made a major feature decision based on one person's feedback.
Just completed coursework at Uni where we used a CNC router and an FDM machine to make a prototype of an adjustable egg cup.

The egg cup manufacturing cost using the FDM was only £7 for the material.
As far as I know, there's no such thing as an "ionic wind fan" on the market. If you're referring to "bladeless" Dyson fans, those actually still have blades in the base. And then there are fans with negative ion generators, but those still require blades to move the ionized air.
OpenBSD's documentation needs some work once you get into less well-traveled aspects of pf and routing. For instance, getting reliable external interface load balancing to work is maddening. (The example at the bottom of http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html does not work and is not the best approach.)

Other than a few esoteric situations like that one though, I agree: OpenBSD's documentation is pretty darn good.

I like them primarily because they're sitting in a corner quietly doing their own thing, and their own thing happens to be a very stable & very reliable network service operating system with an emphasis on security and performance. It's a refreshing change from the ADHD present in the development communities of other operating systems.
It's fun to speculate how this bug might have come about.

My suspicions are that each sub-game maintains separate state about the last game played, but that the wager amount and "has the win been paid" flag variables are global, shared between all games. When the double-or-nothing option is disabled, wins are paid immediately; but when it's enabled, that flag doesn't get set until the user either declines to double up or the result of doubling-up is determined. This leaves a window for the user to switch games, changing the wager in the process, and have the payout recalculated because the win has not been paid yet.
No, if I can't run it on my machine then it's just an idea. I didn't say it was a simple or obvious idea - I said it's just an idea.

Anybody can make something pretty in Photoshop. If he was serious about getting people to implement his mockup he should have spent a few days writing a quick and dirty implementation, with real code that could be improved upon later.
Adium and Transmission are the only two software that I really miss from OSX. I wish someone would make an equivalent on Windows.
I got together with 15 of my friends and bought one for us to share. We each had to pay under $50, which made it very attractive. None of us use it enough to justify owning one ourselves, so sharing was the obvious solution.
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You already received much praise on the service itself, however I wanted to congratulate you having such a clear and short TOS. TOS;DR would be proud of you.
Yeah, my ratio was about 80% and given the volume of recipes I wanted, that wasn't good enough. So I started coding an normalization solution that would highlight questionable recipes and make it easy to reformat them with structured data, but even that was really hard. It was honestly around that time that I lost interest and ditched the project.
Most hacker spaces offer rental of maker bots (3D printers), laser cutters, powder printers, and more:

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
Print one out at a friend's house!
Right and that's what I meant, by saying "according to GitHub".
> The conversation list, and the conversation views themselves, feel very much like the much-maligned "gigantor" Skype update from a while back.

mixed with facebook message since you can view a preview of the messages as well. I think this is how Skype should have done it.
I am in the process of acquiring a 3D printing machine because I have some factories interested in buying plastic parts from me. These are not for precise machining, but mostly maintenance parts. You don't need to compete with CNC machining, because there are so many things you can do with this that its ridiculous.
That didn't come off as condescending to me at all, I appreciate the comment. I'm not entirely sure if my classmates use it to gain popularity or simply use it for fun but then again I'm not exactly "popular" myself so I'm not sure.
I think the best way to go about it is on a per-occasion and -person basis. A Mother's Day bouquet and card is different from a wedding RSVP.

The best way to frame this product could perhaps be in terms of convenience and design rather than personalization. This scales really well for "batch" jobs, if you're sending thank-you letters or answering fan mail, for instance. In that case, there isn't really a problem with the quasi-analogue aspect of it, especially since people know that it's taken the person time and labour to craft the letter.

The tricky aspect of it is that you are basically selling a product to two different demographics: the sender and the recipient. And getting the first one on board is, as you say, not that hard with such an interesting product.

A good rule of thumb could be to use this in general, but be cautious of using it for annual events where it already feels like we are forced to extend cultural tokens of gestures towards each other?
Are you guys looking for people to work from home, or only considering people who will relocate?
At least when you are being advertised you actually get something out of the deal. If I convince someone to voluntarily empty their bank account and give me everything in exchange for nothing, that would make me a shitbag. Or a televangelist, I guess.
Because it would be _not_ legitimate for the government to _stop_ us from doing so.

One could argue that the ability of anyone to know what and with whom they are dealing with in everyday life is essential, and therefore the role of the government to attribute an action to a source is paramount. We place a tremendous value on reputation and authenticity. I highly doubt you would send an anonymous source a large sum of money, for example.

As an aside, we already do this with our legal systems (assuming western ideals). Everyone has the right to face their accuser in a public court. (I appreciate that right has been degraded in certain cases over the last 20 years or so.)
Yeah. I just bookmarked it for later, because this has me really excited! Good luck!
ouch, that is cruel, but strangely relevant...
I agree with this. I'm not sure I'll ever buy my own, but the one I have access to at the local hackerspace sees much use from me.
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Yes, that is a very good idea.

I'm sure some apps will fail anyway because they just never expected a contact list of 0 entries, but the list should be much smaller in that situation (mostly limited to those who do virtually no QA).
I'm not arguing against free speech, nor is free speech in any way related to non-attributed speech.
I don't have one currently. I sorely do want one though.
I don't know, all my close friends and family are running Linux as their main OS. You might just wake up one day to realize that Linux on the desktop has already happened.
I do the same in C++:

myClass::myClass(int aa,int bb)
: a(aa)
, b(bb)
, p(new int[aa])
, c(17)
{}

Yes, that looks weird at first, but you get used to it (and, to be honest, everything in C looks weird at first).
Or, in the flip side, a white male who says stuff that embarrasses or offends people who have US Attorney cellphone numbers on speed-dial. Examples include Assange, Weev, the two girls one cup guy, etc.
How is App Engine as a product currently unjustified?
> Now enjoy your insanely simple + free PHP hosting.

"Simple" and "free", sure, but "enjoy"?
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The end of the article has a great idea, combining both the voluntary donation model and adding a lean component by asking what people would want to read about. I feel like it might not be a success though as readers want you to just know what they want and bring them something new rather than asking you to do research. Maybe choosing from a selection of ideas though, that could definitely work.

I'm putting my money on tablet magazines as the future of journalism. Technology has made it so we don't need as many journalists reporting the same news, so it makes sense to redeploy them to niches.

On digital magazines the payments are also more frictionless as Apple/Google have already set it up, and I have a theory that the reading style is different too. On the internet people want quick, shallow bites of information, but when you're holding a tablet you probably have at least ten minutes to really get into the deep, quality articles that professional journalists excel at.

On my project (issimomag.com) we're having to really push our journalists not just to write but to become true digital natives by finding pictures, videos, soundbytes, mini apps, etc if appropriate to go with all stories. At an event? Get your phone out, or better yet have a camera. The platform can handle a gallery of thirty pictures effortlessly whereas traditionally you'd obviously need to find space for them. In fact the pictures could be the entire story, no more needed. Honestly its a bit of a struggle to change the culture after decades of stagnation sometimes but it's one that journalists need to make.
In my former lab we had two.