skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, a Show HN: is always a good idea, but it seems hit or miss. I'll openly admit that I have no clue how HN works. We recently submitted a side project of ours, it got some upvotes and it ended up #15 or something after a couple hours. Then suddenly, in a matter of seconds dropped into the 100's and was never seen by anyone again. I have a hunch that single players on HN have a ton of influence. So basically, cross your fingers that none of them down vote you.

I think the subreddit would probably be a little better for exposure of side projects:
http://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/

It'll sit for longer and allow for discussion/more eyes to see it, instead of the all or nothing that HN seems to be.
Every time I got an email asking to join the beta, I asked the same question. I'm sure I'm getting annoying, but I'll ask again:

When can US customers start charging UK customers?
I think everyone accepts that the CAP theorem (as proved) is true. The issue is what conclusion you draw. The theorem just says you can't be perfect on all three axes. Some people conclude that we must throw everything away, and e.g. use a key-value store.

To my mind, that's a bit like learning about random bit-flips, and giving up programming.
I don't know. Even engineers who don't know right from left seem to grok it. ;)

(http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013...)
In case you didn't know, MP Clair Perry is a British Member of Parliament, sadly. She is one of those people who know better, than us "plebs".

IMHO, she is ignorant(1) and irrational(1), and there for scared witless of the internet, so she seeks to control it. I don't think she knows how wrong she is, there for I don't see her as evil, as such. However, it does seem our vote whore of a Prime Minister listens to her every word, hence the attempts to block porn and make people opt in to avoid the blocks, since her position ties in to an awful lot of right wing voters, who are equally, if not more, ignorant and irrational. They are the kind of people who genuinely believed Rock and Roll was the work of the devil, and that black people are a different species.

(1)I use these words for their real meaning and not the insult, judgement, or political value. I honestly think many people literally do not understand the technical issues, and act illogically as a result. I believe this is a lot to do with the traditional media, who politicians rely on, issuing scare stories about the internet because their business were and still are threatened by it. My "evil" in this is those who spread the lies, ie, the media. I hate to admit this, but in many ways I see the likes of Clair Perry as well intentioned victims and mules of the media.
Hi,

I'm the creator of this web app.

This is a spinoff from my previous side project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668813

I was reported that some people were using my client side app mentioned above for a small companies (as it allows multiple account). It was actually designed for personal use.
I guessed there might be a niche market for IMAP backups. Here's an MVP I created in my spare time.

Let me know what you think.

Currently on the pipeline:
* Easy attachment search
* API to tie up with existing email server plugins?

PS: I'll be sending out few invites as they come.

Regards,
Suhas
Do you know of any UK bank that will provide a US-routable USD bank account?
Basically the Cloud is a stepping stone on your way to greater things. You may outgrow the cloud or you may find you have economies of scale where the cloud is becomes the expensive option. Recognise it and change your set up.

TBH you should be doing this with all aspects of the business. Start in a room/garage, move to serviced offices, then rent your own building, then buy your own building (should it become financially viable).

I think this is basic Return On Investment analysis.
Wow, perfect timing. Just last week I started teaching myself Android development just so I could write something like https://github.com/nyaruka/android-sms-relay. Any chance for MMS support(receiving and sending) in the future?
You would think that equipment valued at $12m would have safety features to prevent damage from rogue commands. Interesting.
Oh, is there a book by that title? She just told me about the idea at some point; apparently it's an up and comer in the food / eating psychology world. Her research and therapeutic work is focused on eating disorders.

I understand the utilitarian approach. I've done it myself.

My current diet is goal-directed.

But that doesn't mean I think I'm smarter or better than dietitians who read more than the abstracts on pubmed. I haven't entirely replaced food. I just have a dozen or so meals that I can make quickly, scale up or down, which have known macronutrient breakdowns and which I can rotate according to my daily whims and tastes.
Is cancelling a phone interview a common practice?
I was supposed to have a phone interview last week, and nobody called (allegedly the interviewer was in an important meeting). After 30 minutes of waiting I contacted the HR, they apologized and rescheduled for today. However this time they sent an e-mail 30 minutes before the interview was supposed to happen, cancelling the interview and saying they already found the applicant.

Is this kind of behavior common? Should I even reply to this kind of message?
Reminds me of http://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/spiked-eamonn-fin...
Owning your hardware? Quite high. Renting dedicated servers rather than paying by the hour for cloud servers? That's cheaper pretty much from day 1.
Lenovo's mobile sales eclipses PC sales
I don't think governments that permit waterboarding of suspects will care about that? Let alone criminal organizations.
More Americans Giving Up Passports
I would love to use this but the pricing is a bit of a problem. The Visa credit price per transaction is only a little bit higher but almost half our transactions are Visa debit which are charged by our existing provider at a flat rate of 34p + 10p for the gateway. The Stripe cost for a £60 transaction would be £1.64. The pricing needs to take into account the higher rate of debit card usage in the UK.
What I look at is how consistent your demand is: if you're spinning cloud instances up based on bursty traffic, it'll probably make sense to buy servers only to meet the consistent load and figure out the best way to share data with on-demand instances.
well, it's actually a very easy thing to quantify, but the cost/benefit analysis is different for every kind of company and computing requirement -

the REAL problem is it takes experience in running your own datacenter or at least colocated hardware to perform this analysis, and almost nobody does this because they all work for large internal IT orgs or the cloud providers themselves.
It can give the same performance, but it's more work. For a lot of devs, that's all that matters.
The Netflix Tech Blog: Deploying the Netflix API
Ideally build a space elevator.
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> And that is the real issue. We are now in permanent war. The constitution is a dead letter.

> Wasn't it helpful to have a "liberal" Democrat in the White House to make the final stroke of the pen and abolish the constitution?

I literally do not remember any president in my life who hasn't been accused of making the last stroke of the pen and abolishing the Constitution. And we've been in "permanent war" since, at least, the beginning of WWII (admittedly, you wouldn't notice it was anything other than normal war until well into the Cold War, but the "permanent war" isn't something that started with Obama, or even with Bush the Younger's "War on Terra".)
> Web Design: ...Specific skills would be design-tools-of-choice, HTML, CSS, and light JavaScript.

I've worked in a startup, and at a few design/web agencies, and I'm yet to see a single "Web Designer" write HTML/CSS, let alone JavaScript. A Web Designer does just that; creates designs for the web. There are some designers that like to write mark-up, but they never class themselves as designers without mentioning that they can handle front-end development too.

I find it safe to say that if someone classes themselves as a designer, they design. Writing mark-up is not design.

One other issue I have is with the prefix "Lead". Senior indicates experience, whereas Lead states that they lead a team. My first full-time job after university was at a start-up and after six months I became the Lead Developer. I was in no way Senior, but the title Lead was correct as I led all development, along with the decisions that came along with it.
> There is zero competition of ideas in political science.

It's hard to compete when the government claims a monopoly on violence and will use it against non-violent citizens.
It's also important to note that this isn't a forbes article, it's a blog on their site that anyone can write for.
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Sorry - I'm afraid you were wrong on almost all, if not all, counts.

Tunnel is pressurised - wrong.

Use of the word "loop" means that something is 'recycled' - wrong.

Parallel tracks used for acceleration - wrong.

Carriages help push each other - wrong.

Internet analogy - wrong.

Summary: scaled up pneumatic tube - wrong.
A Web Master is still a real role. More among smaller businesses who don't have a web team, or bigger businesses that outsource most the technical aspects of their web presence.

A Web Master generally does upkeep/maintenance of the website, minor modifications/customisations, content updates, maybe some social media stuff. "A little bit of everything but not a lot of any thing".

People sometimes give it a different title these days but I don't see why Web Master isn't still valid.
They didn't, it was the first one I looked for:

_______ Hacker - Cheesy for anything with the possible exception of a job with the specific responsibility of finding security exploits.
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tl;dr -- whether "lost decades" is a misnomer or not, evidence on the ground suggests something is going on, and it doesn't seem to be good.

Some anecdotes from someone who has lived and worked in Japan on and off for about half of the past two decades:

- The quality and quantity of jobs available to young people have dropped precipitously. Twenty years ago, university graduates from good schools seemed to have a choice of offers from high-prestige jobs (the one's they were after) like banks, megacorps, airlines, etc. These days, you see some good graduates selecting from much farther down the prestige chain (e.g., small, local corp., cram school teacher, etc.) with fewer choices (if any).

- The overall quality of students seems to be lower in schools that have the same prestige. Even Todai and Kyodai students, while still impressive, don't seem to be what they used to be socially, intellectually, or academically. This isn't really directly related to the economy, but the universities are the feeders into the economy.

- The corporate folks seem to complain that the quality of applicant has dropped over the past two decades, and the quality has sometimes dropped (they say) to a point below a threshold of acceptability. As such, they do not hire, hire temps, or hold their nose and hire. Some of this is certainly hubris, but none of it bodes well for the workers, the corporations, or the economy.

- The number of small businesses seems to have dropped precipitously. The most obvious is bars/snacks and restaurants (e.g., once popular nightspots now seem dead even on their busiest nights), but the number of small support businesses (e.g., small light industrial shops, distributors, etc.) seem to have decreased as well. Some of this is due to legal changes that took away legally-mandated middlemen, but other parts of it seem to be due to lack of demand.

- Everyone is worried about money and jobs.

- The famous savers of Japan seem to be mostly the folks in their 50s and higher (maybe 40s), but the folks in their 30s and younger seem to be mooching A LOT off of these savings and not really saving as much on their own.

- There is a massive generational gap between people who came of age before the bubble crashed and those who came of age after. The older folks seem to think that the younger people are lazy and just need to be more disciplined, and the younger people think the older generation just don't get the new economic reality. This tension is ripping the social fabric of Japan and seems to create a lot of inefficiencies.

- The velocity of money seems a lot lower. If folks are interested, I can give some examples in a follow-up post.
You forgot the most likely explanation:

6) All of the profiles for guys who are 9s that she messaged on those dating sites were fake. If a guy is a 9 or a 10, he rarely needs a dating site.
Fixing tests by writing more tests
Because it will be killed off by the massive old machine which needs the status quo to survive.

Might be a stretch, but take Cuba for an example.
You can already charge UK customers, but I presume you mean UK customers in GBP. This is on our roadmap to add. (Most of the heavy lifting is already done for the reverse in the UK.)
The Best Companies Don’t Do Accelerator Programs
Someone please correct me, but isn't the FBX SDK a proprietary licensed software?

If blender want to redistribute Autodesk software, they would need a license. The FBX SDK looks to be under a restrictive, individual, non-transferable and non-shareable license which also expires after 30 days. That would make any redistributing of said Autodesk software a crime (copyright infringement).

The only way blender could legally give users access to the proprietary FBX SDK, is to provide a download mechanism where users themselves download and agrees to the license, and then have their software being disabled after 30 days.

So I must ask, what does this have to do with GPL? It would still be equally impossible under BSD, MIT, or add-your-own-license-here license.
They have not shipped any product. They have shipped prototype mixtures to interested, unpaid volunteers that they have mixed in the kitchen, but no product.
Reliability and redundancy. We always recommend that each client has at least two PSPs enabled, with PayPal typically as the fallback/secondary. SagePay have a long and sad history of "we broke it", which is only just made up for by their low costs. You lose way more margin being unable to transact than you do on processing fees.
Ideally you want to pick the set of numbers that's least likely to be shared with other players. However, the data used to derive any algorithm you use to determine that set of numbers will be publicly available.

That makes me wonder what's the best meta-algorithm to use when deciding on algorithms to use. Any good way to improve your number generating process is likely to be used by other people, ipso facto. And even if you try to derive a process that takes that into account, the more powerful your process is, the fewer the number of people it would take to moot your strategy.

And yet some processes--pulling numbers off of a fortune cookie--are genuinely horrible. Which seems like a mind-bendy paradox to me. There's this odd space between using a simple random number generator and using some kind of smart algorithm to do it that seems good. But the very fact that an algorithm exists to choose sone set of numbers seems to negate its value, so it seems almost beyond us to beat a random number generator.
I know a lot of people who would get offended if you said UI designer is a synonym for Visual designer. Is it really common to interchange the two?
"Libertarian" used to be the opposite of "authoritarian":

"The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians." -George Orwell, 1948

Because of the debasement of language, "libertarian" can now mean "creepy rightwingy person" or "antigovernment nutjob", depending on which flavor of Statism one prefers.
There's also the matter of how long you expect to maintain certain things, and how fast you're changing stuff around. The cloud is optimized for changing things really quickly, where hardware is optimized for long-term cost effectiveness of relatively static assets.

For example: The Obama campaign famously ran almost entirely in the cloud, because it was run like a startup that knew exactly when it would be shutting down. But the DNC runs mostly on physical hardware, because it's expected to function indefinitely.
I'm going to say something bald here: JSON people often dont know what schema based interchange formats are, and why they are fast. Such as protocol buffers, or facebook/apache thrift.

speed: use thrift or protocol buffers

ease of implemention: json

xml has best of both worlds. And therefore it is most of the time not suited. However the fact that it can support schema (XMLSchema), document translations (XSLT/XQuery) and query mechanisms (XPATH/XQuery) makes it a format very well suited for big enterprises. Where specification is important.

This is why cluncky protocols such as SOAP are built on top of XML. It is future proof (extensibility is more difficult in json). It is schema based (parsing, validation and language binding is easier).

JSON for example doesnt support references between nodes. You can built it in, but its not standard.

JSON is the easy peasy solution, the quick win, the fast enough one, and therefore the winner. However XML is the big beast that has it all, and therefore its complex. But that doesnt mean it sucks.
> There is zero competition of ideas in political science.

This is definitely not true.

> Mostly variations of the same thing happening in every country (big powerful state, mixed social/capitalist economies).

That's politcoeconomic engineering, not political science. And its not the same thing going on everywhere -- you see lots of things that don't meet that in the world, as well as a pretty broad range of "socialist/capitalist" mixes with pretty divergent poles -- its just that the succesful ones look pretty similar.

But then, that's true of successful designs in many engineering domains.
Writing Haskell every damn day
Given that he has the source code to the controlling software it's probably a home brew system.

He's no doubt learned some important lessons, but I can't find destroying $12 million in equipment in any way funny. [c0deporn has updated his original to the more accurate and appropriate "interesting".]
Thanks, I'll add it to the README now.
You could use http://gumroad.com then.
You mean yaml?
> Defining people as "sociopaths" is a stupid pop-psychology trend.

Yes, on the ground that it has no objective definition. Anyone can be assigned the label based on the right choice of anecdotes.

It will be interesting to see how neuroscience deals with such labels, as more objective causes for human behavior are matched up with effects, over the coming decades as psychological interpretations are finally set aside.
And on the flip side, if you are a freelancer with a title of "Web Designer" then it is expected that you can also build the webpages that you create. Businesses want someone to design & build them a website and if you can only do part of that job then you can only make part of the money they want to pay. I don't know anyone doing web design consulting/freelancing who can't also write HTML and CSS.
There are tons of problems with Hacker News. Unfortunately it's a monopoly (network effects), so there's basically no market pressure to improve the site. The site has remained practically unchaned for years and there are so many things that could be improved:

* Real-time notification when someone replies to my comment (or when someone upvotes, turned off by default).

* More openess and transparency.

* Speed. Just tried to open this comment page in another tab: 8 seconds. Seriously?

* Collapsible comments (I have to use an extension for that).

* Limit the max width of a comment text.

* Show newest submissions in some box on the homepage.

* Highlight new comments since last visit.

* Show top submissions for a specific day.

* Markdown support.

And many more.
Haptix Lets You Transform Any Space Into a 3D Multitouch Surface
Edit: The kickstarter available here:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/haptix/haptix-multitouch-reinvented
Quick Blind TCP Connection Spoofing with SYN Cookies
I've updated the README with the OSX directory.
Yep thanks, everything looks fine again!
I would cynically guess that it is because the original event is irrelevant, and now used as an emotional patriotic excuse.
Missing "full stack code monkey" and "jack of all trades (master of {none,all,missing deadlines,you decide})" titles.

I use those from time to time, when I'm totally positive the irony be understood correctly.
Will companies located in other EU countries than the UK be able to use this?
Gmail User Happiness Survey
I think Visa Debit works but Maestro is unsupported.
Here are a few examples:

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/how-to-beat-the-cap-theorem.html

http://dominictarr.com/post/44516618714/working-around-the-c...

http://scale-out-blog.blogspot.ca/2012/04/disproving-cap-the...

Not everyone accepts the CAP theorem yet, or some have an understanding of it that is flawed enough that they think they can beat it.
They didn't build a whole infrastructure for crypto; they just implemented Sun's one incorrectly.
1. Don't tell anybody because it will give you a sense of achievement and you will loose your motivation.

2. Do one thing at a time, like next 20 days for x project/habit/task.

3. Do't just plan it will give you sense of relief that you have done enough instead identify risks like what I'll do if I spent time on Facebook instead of doing x task and take action for the same.

4. Choose small task

5. Do it daily even for 10 min.
"Devices are not going to be coded in JS any time soon"

http://technical.io/
Forgive my ignorance, but is this the PayPal replacement/alternative I have been waiting years for?

If so, I may experience the rare emotion of "happiness".
Good point about a home brew setup. I suppose my "funny" statement was insensitive. I only meant it was an interesting situation.
>I'm not sure what products you're talking about

The ones referenced in the post I replied to.

>Soylent have no dieticians on staff

Yes they do.

>So far all product has been produced in their kitchen

No, it hasn't.

>Several mistakes in formulation have been made

And you seem to be under the misconception that it is still some guy tossing stuff together in his kitchen. That is not the case.
No. No war was declared. AUMF is NOT a Declaration of War.
>If this is taken to extreme, it's actually very bad. Leaders who don't care for their followers cause a lot of anguish.

Yes, this is called being a sociopath.
I think improving efficiency is indeed useless because it does not address sustainability. I don't care if its 99.999 'efficient', you're either depleting the earth or you're not. Something 10% efficient could be 100% sustainable.

And since nearly every post I see on here is about efficiency, and not sustainability, I'm compelled to offer another view point.
AmEx seems to high higher merchant fees pretty much everywhere, including the US!