skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the idea. In fact this is in keeping with the spirit of the idea I submitted a couple of weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6201511).

It didn't pick up much traction at the time but I know (as this submission demonstrates) that the issue is one many members of the HN community would like to see addressed.

Part of the issue lies in the fact that HN is essentially a loose collective of special interest groups. Show HN submissions are competing not only with Main stream news (as you suggest) but also the large variety of other submissions ... and visa versa.

I genuinely think that a curated summary (in whatever form it may take, whether that be directory, ezine or podcast) from a couple of interesting people with different opinions would infer so much value to the HN community. Keep posting!
In the article, the author mentions sending "1.2 terabytes in a few hours" with 10ms latency. This sounds like a gigabit network with a few router hops in the middle. Maybe 100mbit if "a few hours" is interpreted longer than I would. So we're talking about connecting two machines, possibly in different buildings, but likely within a thousand kilometers.

It's honestly the use case I have the most often, and certainly one useful to have tools supporting the use case. This person seems to be worried about off-site backups, so I'm thinking "enterprise", not "cross-country home user".
Would you be willing to share the link?

Also, was there any significant reduction in the spam posts after installing reCaptcha?
It should go without saying that keyboards are highly personal, especially for developers. Having said that, this keyboard looks pretty terrible to me - nothing novel and all the things I dislike in standard keyboards. Really, a keypad?

Look into a $100 10 keyless cherry switch keyboard for a big improvement (filcos are particulary good). Or my favorite layout, the happy hacker keyboard pro.
If you only need Linux then simply get a System76 or a Lenovo one.

But, if you want a total integrated experience, one of the best laptops ever and some of the best dev tools out there, the MacOS X and the AIR are simply heaven sent.

No, seriously, I went from Linux, to MacBook Pro 17" to MacBook Pro 14" (1650x resolution) to a MacBook Air 13" (1440x resolution, i7 with 8GB RAM and 512SSD) and it is really the best laptop I've ever owned.

You got all of the best things in one machine, it great to carry around, the keyboard is simply awesome and it is extremely fast.

Best buy I've ever done.
I don't think these are supposed to be useful instructions prima facie; they're just a set of things you could look up and understand in ~30 minutes or so, and then use in 5. Sometimes the hardest part of solving a problem is just knowing that a solution exists and has a name you can google. Of course the names are all gibberish until you know what they mean; telling you "you can solve that math problem with eigenvectors" is gibberish, but it's exactly the missing link you need to go look up eigenvectors and see how they solve your problem.

(For the case of "just start a front company to launder", though--I imagine that advice is directed toward people who are using Bitcoin for criminal activities anyway; fraudsters already have "start a front company" as a low-level primitive in their thinking, on the same level as "start an EC2 instance." You can ignore that one if you aren't in that "industry.")
Checkout these guys out ,100% server side solution http://www.codewithsnow.com/portal/snow/gettingstarted
I am going to download tomcat version now ....

Nice emulator: http://codewithsnow.com/emulator/
Wow, I have to defer to you then :)

Is there anything you've got offhand that I can read further about this? I didn't know you could actually game them.
That's not fraud. Let's look at the full definition.

1. a representation of an existing fact;
2. its materiality;
3. its falsity;
4. the speaker's knowledge of its falsity;
5. the speaker's intent that it shall be acted upon by the plaintiff;
6. the plaintiff's ignorance of its falsity;
7. the plaintiff's reliance on the truth of the representation;
8. the plaintiff's right to rely upon it; and
9. consequent damages suffered by the plaintiff.

The idea of this being 'fraud' dies at the very first point. He would have to outright lie to the salespeople, though explicit or strong implicit action, to say that he was planning to buy the product. The normal expectation on a cold call is that the person listening was not planning to buy at the point of contact, and will only buy if they are very convinced.

(Yes this is the US definition but it makes it much clearer what kind of threshold you need to throw around criminal words.)
There was reduction. Like I said, I had several dozen in a few hours, and then it went to about several dozen in a day...

The link is http://wtpaf.com

FYI, I have cleared out everything just a few minutes ago while working on the site.
This is awesome and well deserved. When we were looking at what collaboration tools to use at Kicktone, Lechat (as Kato was then known) was the one I was most skeptical about - after all, why wouldn't we just use IRC?

Today, it's the tool we can't live without, which has saved our arses more than once, which we happily pay for and will continue to use as we grow.
I skimmed that bug report up and down a bit, but I don't understand what piece your codifying as part of the browser..
Did we just get shaken down by a Nigerian prince? But he gave us a receipt.
> wouldn't want to create viruses for the systems they use

I can guarantee you that most malware authors run Windows. It's terribly difficult to cross compile software on a *NIX for a Windows environment, and even more difficult to test and debug said software if you don't have a runtime for the given executable.

Linux hasn't ever been a major malware target (in the Windows sense of malware) because the consumer install base for a desktop system has always been extremely low. That said, look at how many times a Linux web server gets compromised through the application it's running (RCE, SQLi, etc), and the possible value of the data lost through those methods and you'll see that there isn't a need for researching exploits and developing malware for those targets, as we the web application developers, design those exploits for them.
yep.

It's also worth making one of the key assumptions of the post explicit.

the author says

If the funding platforms cannot attract the best deals, then investors will not make any money.

the key assumption that's baked into that statement is that everyone universally recognizes the 'best deals'. Of course that's not certain. The wisdom of the crowd may be better than VCs at recognizing the 'best deals'. I can easily imagine 'best deals' that the crowd identifies that VCs wouldn't fund.
Scientists grow miniature human brain in a lab
Hey, thanks! Guy who wrote the article reporting in, I just registered so I can reply.
You're right, my English isn't the best (working on it, mostly through lots of reading, though I wish I had the chance to speak it more often). Either way, the story felt like an easy one to write because so many fascinating things happened in so little time. I'm glad you like it, it really means a lot. I'll make sure to jam at LD28 as well!
Did you ever do that thing in primary school where you put one finger in each corner of your mouth and say "My Dad's a national banker"? If you didn't, I acknowledge that it's weird, but it was funny when I was eight.

Anyway, back to the point! We can now do the same and say "John Key's a National banker".

Not that I dislike the National Party in general. Just the current National Party.
Why can't we change the size as well? All the "boarding pass redesigns" I see are still impractically large.

When you fly domestic in Japan, you get a passport-sized ticket. Also, the boarding pass text itself is 100% for your eyes only, any agent will just scan the QR code to verify it in their computer/security/the gate.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8007/7479125670_41c5c95e31_b.j...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6623056045_f9409ac300_b.j...

Receipt paper boarding passes are quite common now, they fit easily in your wallet or wherever http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6169/6195235898_80072f2858_b.j...
San Diego Hacker News Meetup 45 this Friday (8/30)
Sure, but consider adding a feature to download the tex script.
I miss emacs more than I like Sublime Text… never really liked it as an OS though (bash is better).
I have a friend who endorses people for "Bikini Waxing".
Because you bottom out. With some practice, you can use a mechanical keyboard with never hitting the bottom because you can tell when the key engages (e.g. with a click or change in pressure). Some people believe this can reduce stress on the finger.
This isn't a trustworthy arrangement. It may be true for a short time that a company holds true to its promise to delete logs, but especially in the US the government can and does issue subpoenas that require companies to keep all logs, and also prevent them from disclosing that they have received such orders.
Hi I'm the Mozilla intern that developed this and would really love some feedback! It's super-experimental right now, but feel free to try it out! I plan to release a more formal post later once some more bugs are squashed.
Right.

Factor in the reduced interruption cost of receiving 10-20 fewer calls/month into the cost/benefit calculation. That's one less interruption per 2-3 days.
I used to work in customer service at Nintendo. I didn't keep any statistics but I wouldn't be surprised if the most common reason for a DS repair was a broken hinge.
AngelList has an invest online feature which groups smaller investors into a single LLC. Those investors also get fewer information rights than regular direct investors, IIRC. Not many startups there seem to be using this feature yet but it seems to me it could be an effective way to deal with the issue of many small backers if that changes.

And at the end of the day it's equity. Your clout is generally proportional to the number of shares you hold, share classes aside.
I have nothing technical or special insight to offer; I'd just like to say I teared up a little reading that. I don't know why. I hadn't heard of the game until I saw this article. Never played the game either. The game character is just a made up character with no background story and is nothing more than simple ajax and timers.
Any psychologist care to offer some opinion?
Obligatory: If you think you don't do this, take this test and get back to me:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Exfiltrate Files with DNS Queries
Mixing services can be anonymous, and their physical location or corresponding legal entities unknown.

As others have said though, the law could just require you to reveal to the authorities where you got your wealth from.
And the work on preliminary thread support is well under way..
Might not hurt to put "AM" after times before noon.
Developer creates tiny, working version of original Macintosh
I am sorry! It is likely due to WebRTC's inability to connect to others when difficult NATs get in the way. TURN servers can mitigate this but Tin Can is not set up to use a TURN server (yet).
Scientists succeed in growing human brain tissue in 'test tubes'
It's the man's private life, leave him alone.
Thanks for sharing!

The only thing I can think of maybe is that after submission, the results could be shown to you.
If you're asking then it's worth it. This may seem like a lot of money now but in the overall scheme of things, you will be on this computer 10+ hours per day so if it makes you happy just do it. If you have to get a new computer anyway, then you're talking only about $500-700 more. Plus you can do iOS development!
And what's the point of that?

Particularly when there are much more effective scripts to use, such as asking where your number came from, and requesting the TM not contact you and pass that request upstream.

Or get a call-blocking app/service / Google Voice number (not that I care to feed Google any more personal data).
+100! It was awesome to be an intern!
So, Tara from YC told me that the problem was that the post set off the voting ring detector.

We don't have anything like a voting ring, but we obviously did tell people about launching BitBalloon in a Show HN. Seems we shouldn't have done that.

This might be a reason ShowHN posts seem to be penalized in general, I imagine it's the norm to tell your friends when you launch a whole new product...
They have the technological underpinnings, but it's not properly exposed via SQL. In practice you wind up having to do it all by hand.

What the F1 guys seem to have done is said "well that's just silly, let's take advantage of it".

Oracle is my day job, I've been saved by a flashback query once. A DBA misunderstood a request I was making and applied a dev change to production.

> I don't know what the logistics of keeping an infinite history are.

I'd say they're not much different than asking a database developer to be able to generate reports for any given span of time. Or keeping a complete audit trail of changes. Or, more broadly, complete website logs, complete source revision history etc etc.

That is: in theory it creates an infinite downside. In practice it is more valuable than not, especially with the ever-plunging cost of storage.
Show HN: Mobile feedback your users will love
Intel C++ Compiler v13.0 for Android (free)
Agreed. Typeless, completely unsafe, treats RAM as a contiguous byte array with a dictionary growing one way and data stack growing the other, allows using the return stack as scratch space... it's very asm-ish.
Bitcoin wiki spells out exactly what to do:

- avoid reusing addresses
- keep inputs separated using separate wallets or coincontrol
- use mixers

This is coincontrol:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144331.0

Read the wiki:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity
Just to be sarcastic for a second about this title: "Fastest rotating man-made object created"

My answer: "No shit"
The whole endorsement scam completely destroyed my trust in LinkedIn. I find that they are out soliciting endorsements on my behalf from my professional network without my knowledge to be a heinous misrepresentation and a horrible breach of trust. I haven't logged in there in more than a year.
Such as?

I mean the next step IMO is to borrow inspiration from some computer game peripherals and allow buttons to be physically laid out in a different way.
This made more sense in the days when 80 column by 25 lines were all that one could see into a computer, and BSD Unix shells had no sensible response to arrow keys ...

In those days, having three or four Emacs buffers where one could have a couple of files being edited, a shell session, and the output of the compiler was considered a blessing.

The rest of the "OS" moniker referred to things such as email and NNTP clients written in Elisp. It was really possible to start the day in Emacs and never leave, and I saw some people do it, although it was never quite my cup of tea. Fortunately, megapixel displays and window systems soon came to the rescue.
In case anyone is interested here is a HN page-mode for Conkeror I wrote a while back: https://github.com/legumbre/hackernews-mode
It makes the site a bit easier to navigate.
Not really,, fraudsters use stolen identities and fake/and or stolen bank accounts to move money around, they wouldn't touch bitcoin, no need to. The banking sytem is insecure enough for all their needs.

Go on any Russian fraud forum (simply google 'carding forum') such as infraud (google it) and you won't see bitcoins anywhere. They are using stacks of stolen prepaid visas, and networks of fradulent accounts, no reason to use coins.

Edit: I voted you down accidentally, fail smartphone is fail.
Maybe something like Zapier's API Status Board, though I'm not sure how realtime and whether it only applies to site's APIs rather than their general websites.

https://zapier.com/status/
Gun Related Murders as compared to Video Game Consumption
Could someone confirm that this will still keep my existing endorsements just in case I want to show them again later?
Captcha seems to be working fine. Normally, you don't see bot bypassing it that easily. Can you record the user-agent for each submission?
I'm tired of seeing everyone call every damn company a business cause it isn't so. A startup is a company designed to grow fast. It's can be profitable business who's been around for years. Making that distinction, while a side tangent, is worth making.
That wasn't necessary. They can be purchased, brand new, from the same factory.

http://pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD
This is also why people should hire Ryan Seys when he's done with university. Oops - I didn't just say that! Hopefully he'll be coming back to Mozilla :)
I find it beautiful that people could come together --- even for a pointless cause. And I find it tragic that their overzealous response led to the failure of their objective.

Even though the game was "pointless" (aren't all games) I think it lends a surprisingly deep allegory for life, community, and collaboration.

I think the game (and our collective response to it) is fascinating. I would love to study how adding/removing game elements affects players' and observers' emotional responses.
Doesn't KickStarter screen all their campaigns? Does IndieGoGo do the same? If not that explains why IG has so much more failures.
What did the tech CEO say to the worker he wanted to automate?
In case you don't realize it, the reason your Uncle did that is because LinkedIn prompted him to, by fraudulently showing a message that looked like it was from you, asking for endorsement. He was probably no more comfortable endorsing you for that than you were in receiving it, and you are both losers from it (him for looking like he endorses anyone for anything, and you for looking unprofessional to your "real" network who actually know that you are not qualified in that skill but now see you "claiming" it on your profile). The only "winner" is LinkedIn, who get to sell more ads and referrals to their recruiters.
Wefunder has the same feature. We've found that using a single-purposes LLC to aggregate smaller investors mitigates all the concerns that top-quality startups have. That, and a high bar for curation.

Disclosure: I'm a founder of Wefunder.
Yep, that game was on the back of my mind too...and your comment reminded me I need to fund its IndieGogo http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gods-will-be-watching

...unfortunately I'm too late but looks like they surpassed their goal substantially
Have you tried pentadactyl? wmii has vim keybindings too.

Sure, it's not the same as emacs OS, but it does feel like at least vim-keys-everywhere.
I agree with article, but we run A/B tests for our landing page year ago and those "As seen on" logos increased our conversion rates.
It does seem like a fantastic idea to choose a standard size like a passport. Many people have passport wallets / holders. I can imagine a thin plastic credit card sized token in the future that will display the relevant information on your phone when it is near.
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+1 parsing skill
From wiki: "A typical magnetic region on a hard-disk platter (as of 2006) is about 200–250 nanometers wide (in the radial direction of the platter) and extends about 25–30 nanometers in the down-track direction". It's not trivial to say "Let's get X and miniaturize it to this scale".

Flash memory uses standard semiconductor techniques, and HDDs simply employ platters with tightly controlled properties.
Dan Kaminsky a couple of years ago did a talk about this, as well as using DNS to cache files...

http://byteworm.com/2010/10/27/free-content-delivery-network...

Exfiltrating using DNS, or VPN over DNS and the various other techniques are not new.

They do show how difficult it is to police data from leaving ones network.
It's a cool project, but...

>>It regenerates every hour, providing a constantly updating snapshot of air temperature around the globe.

Once per hour is not "real-time." It's "once per hour."
You'll need to point to the data.
All those workers are still a small minority of the people who receive it, otherwise junk mailing would be completely cost prohibitive.

Of course, even if they weren't, that's still not a good reason to keep it. If we're going to pay just to keep people employed, there are better holes to dig and fill up again.

Disagree. Is there a survey that shows this?

Why, yes: 81% of Americans support the creation of "Do not mail" lists to reduce advertising on their postal mailbox[1].

: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-survey-americans-mail.html
What a beautiful concept. It's sad that it met such an unnatural end. I think it's more than possible that this game could have lasted much, much longer (perhaps even years).

Stupid webhosts. Why doesn't everybody use AWS? ;)
Is the spam very specifically targeted at your site? If not, just implement your own very simple captcha system and see if they can handle that.

Spammers generally use captcha solving APIs which map to humans in low-wage countries. They pay ~$2/1000 solved captchas (a few years ago, not sure what it's like now.)

If you're not a specific target, changing your captcha might be enough to no longer easily be a victim of such a service without changes to the spammer software.
It is also worth noting that Indigogo has the option for projects to keep the money raised even if it falls below the goal (for a higher cut of the money IIRC). Not only would that alter revenue numbers, but I think it would also influence how projects set their initial goals. Wouldn't you be a little more conservative on your Kickstarter goal since it is an all or nothing situation?
"That mobile device
don't work 4 Rich.
Use a real machine."
That would be great, very likely won't have time to participate in the Scala FP course this session, but would love to see the videos regardless.
Southwest's boarding passes used to be a plastic card with a number on it. When you got to the gate, they check you in and give you the next card. People board in order, and the cards are collected as you get on the plane to be given to the next set of outgoing passengers.

The system worked quite well, but airport security rules changed to require checkin be outside the checkpoint.
On Flextel you can set 0871 numbers up to a menu, which means that auto-diallers just hang up, but real people can get through.

They don't pay as much money though, but some 0871 numbers are free.

I think you can also set a divert on anonymous caller (number withheld)

You might be able to set two numbers to transfer to each other endlessly, unless the right pair of menu numbers is pressed.
Yep. And the sad thing is, it's one of the less shady and fraudulent things that LinkedIn does on a regular basis.
Great feedback. We made the site on an incredibly short timeline so we glossed over a number of things trying to create an MVP, minimum viable punchline :)

with one more day we could have had it work on mobile as well :( we were able to respond to people's tweets with subdomain sites though :) rishi.work4rich.com

thanks for sharing.
I have only seen one outdated blog post benchmarking upload speed of the various services being suggested here.
http://www.proposedsolution.com/downloads/online-storage-ser...

As a Dropbox user, I find that the files get synced very quickly and I wonder if these alternatives (Spideroak/Wuala) being suggested will match that speed. That will be a factor as well to consider.
An article I read the other day about human consciousness touched upon our tendency to project consciousness/will/agency onto non-living things, like the puppet controlled by a ventriloquist. I wonder if game elements promote similar response.

Said article: http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/how-consciousness-wo...
no mobile, part of the joke.
It applies to their APIs specifically. It is realtime within ~5 minutes.
I don't think most people working with R and python for data analysis are doing 'Big Data'.