skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an established secondary meaning of the word optics.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/optics
2.( used with a plural verb ) the way a situation, action, event, etc., is perceived by the public or by a particular group of people: The optics on this issue are pretty good for the Democrats. Administrators worry about the bad optics of hiring new staff during a budget crisis.

The English language is full of words and phrases that just make writing look more fancy.
Nodejs does "real-time applications" now? Whatever that means.
How we will all work with numbers in the future
I don't quite get it.

Was there sales growth of 200K or not? Yes/No - it's that simple.

It seems like this would be the main thing to look at.

But instead the post goes into hypothesis - almost like either:

A) The answer is so blatantly No that it does not need addressing.

B) He's trying to sweep the above question away because he dislikes the idea of Affiliates driving previous visitors back for more business.
While i appreciate the start of this post, there is no need to attack others or resort to name-calling.
I think it's a noble effort, but I'd be strongly concerned with the ease of use/digestion/maintainability of something that strives to cover most major cloud APIs. This stuff moves fast, and I can't imagine having to try to keep up with multiple larger platforms.

While we were getting Pathwright launched, we contributed a whole lot to boto, which is primarily (but not exclusively) catered to AWS. It grew Eucalyptus (not a huge jump) and Google Compute support, but they were badly documented/tested and still seem to see much less maintenance than the AWS stuff. The situation has improved slightly as Amazon has hired a few more guys to help the maintainer make boto awesome, but they're still playing catchup with the core competency (AWS). This isn't to talk badly of boto, it's more to illustrate the magnitude of the task of keeping up with even one aggressively developing vendor.

I worry that these "mega-cloud-libs" are the wrong approach. The OpenStack stuff will probably end up with excellent support, but the others are likely to see much less attention, documentation, maintenance, help. The neglected areas of the codebase get to be embarrassing and not up to the quality standards of the primary focus (OpenStack in this case). Perhaps they end up falling behind in API versions for some vendors, limiting their utility.

This is definitely not to poo-poo the effort, I think it's a really neat ideal. Personally, I'd love to see them focus on making a kick ass OpenStack Go API with top notch documentation and tests, and leave the other services to their respective communities. That alone would be noteworthy.
I remember when people decided to leave Xbox Live after the Xbox One/PS4 press events, and how much everyone agonized over figuring out how the hell to actually undo their subscriptions.

Live subscriptions must be huge income sources for Microsoft the same way subscriptions are for AOL whose customers probably forget about the subscription and won't bother with the hassle of unsubscribing.
The Meanings of Googliness
How to Engineer a Better Software Development Process
Yeah well until it's in Oxford it doesn't exist.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yolo
Spotify Acquires Tunigo
https://recurly.com/ handles some of that I believe, but I would always roll my own system using something like Stripe
Chrome is at the latest version. Even adding the "--ignore-gpu-blacklist" flag doesn't make it work. It does output some debugging info: "(0) : fatal error C9999: marking a sampler that is not a scalar
Cg compiler terminated due to fatal error"

Enabling WebGL in Safari has bugger all effect. Well, not entirely nothing... it keeps refreshing, freezes while loading or displays the message that "Safari can't display this webpage", reinforcing my very negative opinion of that browser.
I jumped for joy when my new phone didn't come with preinstalled facebook!
yass.js ftw - http://yass.webo.in/
Larry Ellison not confident about a Jobs-less Apple, talks Larry Page and NSA
Newsflash: when people are presented with a "us vs. them" scenario, they tend to operate in perceived self-interest favoring the "us" group.

Frame the question in a manner excluding "we're all in this together", and the consequential responses tend to exclude "we're all in this together." Go figure.

Interesting the article fails to address the corollary question of which groups tend to default to "we're all in this together", and which groups tend to default to "us vs. them" without explicit prompting.
How about having a blue spot on the page where the promotion says to click, so it doesn't say "COUPON CODE"
How to help your clients ship
The news isn't free
>except the ones that take years to present, and are things that we don't necessarily understand well yet.

This problem is not also not currently addressed by standard dietary practice.

>Just because people have bad nutritional habits doesn't mean that soylent is the answer.

Okay, don't participate. Or wait and see. Or seek out some expert you trust.

>Surely better education

Never hurts

> and a redistribution of farm subsidies

No point in arguing that the Nanny State can't do a better job. It can and should. Is that Rhinehart's responsibility? Or is it even within the set of things that an individual could affect?

> to nudge people towards healthier lifestyles is a more complete and safe route?

Government intervention hasn't worked well yet. It is anybody's guess as to how much better/worse it could be.

>But yeah, soylent does allow people to feel that sense of achievement of playing armchair scientists.

Some people do like control of their lives. For some people, any action, even though there is potential for harm, is better than inaction.

>There is an assumption amongst educated and knowledgeable people that others are equally so.

Other people are free to do as they wish, so long as they don't bother me. Your freedom to swing your fists ends where my nose begins

>Some of the people who participate in the soylent trials wont be knowledgeable enough to be able to make good meaningful decisions about what they put in their bodies.

Their mamas ought to have taught them better.

>Sure, it's their choice, hell they can suck lead paint off walls if that's their thing,

But, you've just been arguing that someone ought to save them from themselves!

> but the whole point of food and supplement laws and safety regs is to prevent people doing themselves harm, particularly when they are not themselves cognisant of the harm they might do.

Is it? Maybe that was the point, that's certainly the way it gets sold to us. Would you argue that those laws and regs are particularly effective to that end?

>Add to that the hubris of those who know just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be cautious, and something is going to go terribly wrong eventually. Perhaps not for the originator of the idea, but certainly one or several of the participants.

How many? Half? A quarter? A percent? Less than that? People makes similar policy compromises all the time, the gov't does it for us too. None of these people are abandoning medicine, they will get medical checkups (if they don't, they really are fools!) It obviously isn't acutely poisonous, people who don't react well will either discontinue, or consult a physician. I bet most will abandon drinking goop even absent any negative outcome.
Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software
I'd be interested in hearing what you disagree with Chomsky .. in my opinion he is one of the most enlightened American academics we have right now, and I personally wish more Americans were exposed to his point of view - it would certainly calm a lot of fires if the average American realized the true, human, cost of their empire.

As far as calling Americans terrorists- how else would you describe the 80+ military actions that America has taken, in the name of its people, since the end of WW2? I mean, policing the world is one thing; bombing certain cultures to absolute oblivion is another thing entirely. What could it be rather than the mass export of terror to the non-militarized world, when American drones act with impunity, American agents operate undeterred in foreign governments, and so on? I think that anyone 'disagreeing' that America engages in terrorism clearly needs to take another renewed look at the situation .. America is most definitely one of the most terrible nations on the planet, in terms of its value of human life. I say this with sincerity, and I do truly believe that America has a lot of positives; however, they are far, far outweighed by the negative impact on humanity that the American people have, and continue to have daily, on the world at large. Every single drone strike is a crime.
How do I run it?

Crashes Firefox 23

No effects on Chromium 28.0.1500.71

>Error creating WebGL context. three.min.js:412

>Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'getExtension' of null

Linux Mint 15 x64
What "tracking"? It's a website where you make purchases, it would take a special effort to not have a record of your purchases.
Challenge: First HTML/WebGL/JS implementation of Zelda wins 1,000,000 nerd cred (or Rupees?).
The obstacles brought up in the article will certainly be technical challenges, but to write the entire project off as "impossible" is simply closed-minded thinking.
The Time I Picked Up 2.1 Million Dollars
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crashes my browser firefox 23 on ubuntu 13.04
Note: author of Ansible here.

I'd be interested in feedback as to what that was specifically, can you stop by our mailing list perhaps? If it was the 0.X conditional support getting that in line was a very major priority, to streamline it so we all have something we like going forward.

In general, we take a pretty hard line on backwards compatibility -- though some things with regard to "only_if" were pretty legacy and I think you'll like the newness a lot more. Anyway, please do stop by the list!

Thanks!
Ask HN: These people want my GitHub credentials - should I?
Hi all. I was contacted by this company (rpair.co) and they told me that they offer direct, developer to developer consultings. All I have to do is to sign up using my GitHub credentials, and other GitHub developers will be able to ask for my help, and pay me directly - assuming they appreciate my work (not sure how this arbitration works).

The company apparently gets 10% of the top (they say "including credit card fees", not sure if this means I get 90% minus credit card fees, or whether I get 90%).

Are they credible? Has anyone here worked with them?

Thanks in advance.
> Is there a reason for the constant HN state change?

Yes, and it's a good one. The idea is that, because an HTTP transaction is stateless, the HN server has to maintain a database of active connections and their context, based on the visitor's IP and/or a cookie. But the database requires both storage and processor time, so if a transaction goes dormant, after a set time interval it's purged.

The alternative is to extend the timeout interval, but this means the database must be made larger, and grows more or less linearly with the timeout interval -- ten times more time, ten times more storage.

It's simple economics.
No, your data isn't secure in the cloud
A/B testing is still solid - my thoughts are that A/B testing is assumed. This article appears to push people to consider beyond that: new things.
Show HN: 90 second launch video for Non-profit IndiaLovesPakistan.com
My experiences building Spine
If your goal was to cause mayhem/reveal war plans/take down a bank, wouldn't just hacking it be easier than advertising an AQ Data Scientist job posting? This attack vector is the obfuscated c contest of skullduggery.
Yeah check out the API chapter of the docs, there's information about all kinds of dynamic inventory scripts.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/plugins/invent...
You Can't Do Binary Under Pressure
Forgive me for my naiveté, but as this library is so small and limited (in focus) and seems to not worry with older browsers, why not use plain old JavaScript?

EDIT: I should add—I am legitimately curious. I've only been learning plain JS for the last few months, and I'm wondering what pitfalls I might uncover.
Why would you break the masquerade? Velvet gloves are useful.
I saw this a few days ago (also first time I'd heard of "straight pride uk").

DCMA seems to work the same way as patent trolls - the little guy just gives up, too expensive, and only the bigwigs can fight back. :/

(to those suggesting a british student sue a british organisation in a US court, please think about how insanely expensive that would be, for someone without a job.)
Pirate Bay’s Anti-Censorship Browser Clocks 100,000 Downloads
Let's just ignore the fact that you do not actually need to be guilty of copyright infringement to have your blog / website / video / etc. forced offline by a DMCA notice. There is no court involved; it is a guilty until proven innocent process, and most people do not have the resources to sue a large corporation or well-funded organization of any sort.

The DMCA is a textbook example of how the US caters to big corporations, not how to write good laws. The few redeeming qualities of the DMCA are vastly outweighed by the harm that the DMCA has caused and is continuing to cause.
I've done the same. The coupon code box screams, "You're a sucker if you don't have a code to put in here."

I go searching for a code. I find a few great ones that have expired but nothing active right now. Now I can continue my purchase and feel like a chump or abandon my cart. The latter usually wins.
Convincing the TSA that I'm not dangerous when I set off the scanner
I'm sitting here in a lab with a vacuum system that is in the process of being repaired for use in testing some new spaceflight components. 1/1000 of the atmosphere, even on this broken, leaky thing, is nothing. Mind you, it's also runnng off of pumps that are a decade or two old and cobbled together from various other labs around here.
Thank you for the feedback - there is definitely a risk of lowest common denominator, and some truth that a generalized toolkit won't be as "good" as a domain-specific tool. For openstack specifically there's goose/juju right now.

We (rackspace) have had great success with Fog, jclouds, pkgcloud, libcloud, and other multi-cloud toolkits. For openstack / Rackspace cloud we also have php-opencloud, openstack.net and pyrax (which uses the python-XXXX clients from openstack core).

It definitely is a fine line to walk; a good abstraction though means that you can use the most common features easily and float through providers, but you have access to the advanced features if you need or want them.

Commonly those advanced features (on a provider level) mean a greater level of vendor lock-in which is why they may not make sense to expose in the higher level abstraction.
This is just one example. The problem is that different sites / products attract different types of persons. In our ecommerce site, we noticed almost no difference in conversions.

We use coupon codes to track our marketing efforts.
I am really late into this thread, but the way I got around this exact issue is I just renamed the field from "coupon code" to "referral code". Users dont mind skipping over it and it does the same thing.
The parent was me. I like maglev but it's hard to deny that as a mainstream transportation method it was completely trounced for the first 30 years of its existence by more traditional methods.

If California ditches its HSR plans for hyperloop today and ends up with a 700 km/h line running in 30 years' time, busiest lines in Japan and China will have been upgraded to maglev or another 500+ km/h technology and they would have had 300+ km/h technology for the interim 30 years. Meanwhile California would have had what, driverless car trains on freeways going 200 km/h 5 years from now?
Looks like we're entering the Mechanical Turkination of graphic design. At first blush, I think this is awesome, especially for small consultancies/businesses/side projects. Converting a logo to vectors, for example, is something that would probably take me at least an hour and I'd be more than willing to pay someone $15 to take such a task off my hands. It's no replacement for an actual graphic designer, but often you don't need an actual graphic designer.

(The caveat, of course, is that the commoditization of graphic design relies on the assumption that you can treat graphic designers as commodities; if value swings wildly from one of 99design's members to another, then the attractiveness of the service plummets.)
We use Mailchimp and find it works well.
This is exactly the info I needed for some work I am doing. Thanks!
>The information carrier is exempted from legal action, the party that filed the false DMCA notice has made themselves liable to be sued

Sure, just prove that they didn't believe they were filing a valid claim at the time.
You have two comma splices in your comment. It's really bothering me, because it ruins your entire argument. I mean, you might as well have wrote everything in Latin! You are stupid and wrong. I am the arbiter of the entire English language; you will abide by my rules!

...See how ridiculous that sounds? If you understood what the author was saying, there's no need to nitpick his use of a single word. Languages change, bud. No amount of bitter internet comments will stop that.

And let's stop shitting on people who work at Subway, kay? Pretty sure they're doing more with their lives than someone who trolls HN to complain about nonsense.
Modern Spice Routes
Pakistani hackers hit Indian Eastern Railways Website
Try with the Inspector Console:

This will remove the overlay:
document.getElementById("TB_overlay").remove();

This will remove the annoying window:
document.getElementById("TB_window").remove();
I suppose a lot of it goes unnoticed because there is so much of it. Who are these people who are not speaking out?
The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
Travel advice: Why you should wait before boarding that plane
aye... opinionated he is :)
If you don't know, use each() and only() to act on the results. They're always available and don't care if it is an element or array of elements.
"is it worth losing all WP.com hosted blogs just to temporarily keep one online?"

The outcry from WP's users would help to push our politicians toward a real solution to copyright rather than another hand-out to well-connected corporations.
That's good advice, but I still think it's useful to know the company valuation at grant time -- just as a baseline.
Celebrate HN: Happy Left-Handers Day
How did they do this? Facial recognition? Did you create a profile, upload one picture, and they said "these might also be you?" How did it work?
So they broke the rules by doing exactly what HBO did. It's a good plan but not a novel one.
> The high speed rail wasn't going to stop at B through Y anyway

Untrue [1].

[1] http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/newsroom/fact%20sheets/High-Speed... - all but the "Northern California Unified Service" and "Amtrak Surfliner" runs are planned HSR lines/stations, and all (including those) are getting upgrades/improvements or new rail/connections as part of the HSR project.
That's fair, but my understanding is that employees don't get liquidation preference - investors do. So yeah, if there's a lot of stock out there with liquidation preference, your employee options can be worth a lot less. But as far as I know, there's no way to determine that ahead of time.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/spellcheck/american_english...

You might want to rethink some things.
It's not easy to do something like that without sacrificing decentralization, which is a cryptocurrency holy cow. It would easily become a competitive advantage to remove the charity cycles from the mining client.
Props to the ansible folks. After trying the more established tools I quickly appreciated not having to install their various runtimes and servers.

Also I came across an new alternative the other day which I find even simpler (maybe too simple) called pave:
https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave ... anyone else heard of it?
So, to address some questions.

(A) Definitely file tickets on bugs. If there are things we don't know about we can't fix them :)

(B) Role dependencies I think are what you may mean. They are on deck for inclusion in 1.3 which is out this month.

(C) I would agree that core modules aren't subclassable by design though this is largely an artifact of how we are engineered to not have any dependencies for getting things going on remote nodes (zero bootstrapping). For the most part it works well and I'm fine with moving get_url into module common.

(D) Yay variable scope thread! No doubt, I do have opinions and we want to fight to keep things minimal. There was a recent proposal to inject role variables into the local namespace that fixes most of this, this is also something we are going to do in 1.3. I think that will eliminate most of the "prefix" ideas when you have variables defined in multiple places. I still think group_vars/ is a great place for defaults :)
Content is immediately reinstated when a counternotice is filed, and then the issue goes to the courts.
check on the upper right corner after you did the Konami code
If you really want to do that way you can, they explicitly call out that kind of functionality on their APIs and Integration's page.

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/api.html

> Advanced programmers may also wish to read the source to ansible itself, for it uses the Runner() API (with all available options) to implement the command line tools ansible and ansible-playbook.
I think it is a pretty fair question, even though I am not entirely sure of what is the definition of minority on this matter. What is the percentage of people that the system should take care of? There are always outliers for which this (or any) transportation will never be a possibility.

Now, I am sure that some variations on the system (have one row with only one chair for obese or no chair to allow people with wheelchair) would increase the % of people that can use the hyperloop.
U.S. Challenges Merger of AMR, US Airways
It only averages to 10 minutes if growth is flat. Growth isn't flat.

This means that lots of ASICs are out there in the wild. This is a good thing for bitcoin and the bitcoin network.
I appreciate all the attention. Just FYI, i was not ready to start publicizing this, someone randomly found it and started that ball rolling without me. There are a bunch of changes in the pipeline for the near future. (see the github source for what's happening)
Agreed, that VentureBeat article is very useful.
There are a ton of email service providers out there. For that size of a list, you will probably be spending at least a little bit of money. My favorite ESP is CampaignMonitor - http://campaignmonitor.com - but a lot of people really like MailChimp, Emma, or CakeMail.

I would recommend doing two things to announce it - (1) Add something on the community site. If you have a sidebar or area on the front and other pages - add a section with a quick blurb on what it is along with a signup form. (2) If you have the community users' emails, send them an email with an invitation to sign up for the newsletter. Since they already signed up for the community - this would fall under the umbrella of transactional email - so you don't technically need permission from them to send them email - I just wouldn't use this list for the actual newsletter list - just to ask their permission to get on the newsletter list.

If users have a dashboard page or something similar, you can always make an announcement there as well. The main thing is that you want them to give you express permission to start sending them newsletters. Don't just start blasting to that list.
Looks like this got merged an hour ago :) (Thanks James!)