skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might look at what RPM you are shifting from 1->2. As the other poster said, 1->2 stalls are uncommon because the vehicle is in motion and the power from the forward inertia coming up the drive train into the engine is frequently enough to spin the motor, even if its shut off. However, if you upshift too soon, the engine with the 2nd gear ratios will be spun too slowly for the engine to pull itself out, and will instead drag the car to a stop.
Am I missing something here? Things like IndieGoGo and KickStarter are inherently risky, but not for the payment processor, for the one doing the backing. If you back a project and it goes belly up or for whatever reason fails to deliver or under-delivers that is not "failure to provide service", that was the risk you took when you decided to back them. That money is gone, the horse has left the barn, you have no right to request a chargeback in that case. That's part of the reason why trying to weed out fraudulent campaigns is such an important thing for both IndieGoGo and Kickstarter, once the money has been paid out, unless you can pretty concretely show that the campaign was a deliberate fraud, you're out that money.

Unless your CC was stolen and used to back something without your knowledge I see no reason at all why a chargeback against a campaign should ever be granted (or maybe if the campaign is proven to be a fraud, but in that case I'd expect IndieGoGo or Kickstarter to eat that cost).
this is really cool. would love to see one breaking-down wankel engines as well.

though i'm not technical by any means, i've always sort of got the high-level around how reciprocating/piston-based engines function. wankel engines seem a lot more efficient in terms of design but also weirdly complex. still kind of a mystery to me as to how they work and unfortunately there aren't too many cars around these days that run on em to check out..
The inventor of the diesel engine based his design on the fire piston technology.
> Water boil at exactly 100 degrees Celsius

Few people live exactly under 1 atm for any length of time.
Yes, it was kind of a tongue in cheek statement alluding to the fact that both sides tend to support the spying programs.
Also http://html5gameengine.com if you're looking for a list of engines. It's limited to the more popular, actively maintained engines and has reviews, links, etc... for each.
Psh I think is a viable solution (there is a pay for / shareware package of running a shell command on a remote machine)

I seem to remember doing clever things with WSI for just such a thing curiously I am pretty sure there will be examples of both on StackOverflow ;-)

Edit : oh yes WMI and psexec - amazing how quickly things drop out of your brain.
Yahoo Looks Ahead With A New Logo, But Users Still Prefer The Older One More
Any reason large number of libraries should even know about they're using evented/async IO? I believe most of them consist of purely sequential actions (say, "connect then send then receive then process then return") and gain no benefit from non-blocking (function-wise, not program-wise) IO. If the core is smart enough to run them as coroutines (for example see Python's gevent.monkey) that yield back to event loop on waiting for IO, they'll automagically do the right thing without being infested with CPS callback ladder hell.
Effective marketing often relies on either finding new mediums to reach an audience or presenting the message in a a new way. Oh, and it's easier to make marketing more effective when you can measure, test, improve, and iterate.

I don't really care whether growth hacking represents a new discipline or methodology, but it's easy to claim the superiority of your discipline when you include two common paths to success as part of the definition. Calling yourself a "growth hacker" seems a lot like calling yourself a "football winner" rather than a "football player."
"My ISP contacted me on Wednesday afternoon to let me know
that the federal opposition party's lawyers were demanding my personal details. Despite this being a personal project not paid for or endorsed by anyone, I gave them permission to hand over my name, address, and phone number so that the site could stay up."

Is political speech regulated in Australia? If you have an influential website like this, are you required to register publicly to prove compliance with, e.g. campaign spending limits?

I read there's a blackout on political ads, but it doesn't apply to web ads:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/04/no-media-black...
When was this?

~70 events per second doesn't sound like much to capture and aggregate. How much of this parsing did you need to perform in real time? Creating a unique token to pair requests/responses shouldn't add much overhead at all.
Google’s browser becomes a true platform with today’s launch of Chrome Apps
If I had two white characters in a comic strip, with one being a stereotypical "loser" being arrested by the police (let's say in a comical manner, over a single joint) and the other one joking about it, is it racist because the issue of the war on drugs primarily affects minorities?
Thanks for replying. I still don't ultimately see that much of a difference -- if the Node server wants to accept the connections in a queue instead of disconnecting them (but not turn on echoing yet), that's still pretty easy to do with a couple of lines of code.

And looking up socket.write, Node actually tells you with the return value, if the data was written immediately or queued in user memory, plus there's a callback when it gets written. So you certainly do have flow-control mechanisms.

In the end, maybe it takes a few more lines of code with Node (since you have to take care of the queues yourself), but you're also getting a lot of flexibility in handling things exactly the way you want, it seems.
He did link straight to a definition.

http://www.aginnt.com/growth-hacker
Wait, people actually install apps to shop? Every time I've used a store app I've found it inferior to their mobile website which was, in turn, inferior to their full website.
Having just been attacked by a bunch of credit card fraudsters and having to try to unwind the fraudulent transactions, I'm a big fan of moves like this. Thanks Braintree!
▶ BANNED VIDEO OF 4 STAR GENERAL,WES CLARK SPILLING BEANS OF US PLANS
If you were advocating for killing them then yeah that feeling would make sense. As it is, you are saying you would like their disability to not exist, which I hope is the case.
I'm a fairly happy Linode customer and have been for 3 or so years. (Yes, security/transparency could be better). We've got a nodebalancer and ~10 nodes. What longview lacks for me is a mechanism for notification & alerts. The value of monitoring is only half the equation. Step two is something that either has sensible defaults or easily adjusted settings and notification when limits are exceeded or below acceptable limits. I don't want to have to constantly watch longview to see a problem.

Anyone know if it provides this, or if there are better monitoring tools or services that do?
It would be nice if the apps they recommended (wunderlist) actually worked. I have attempted 5 times to "sign up" for the wunderlist app, every time I hit the button the app freezes on the load screen. Not once has it made it past. I also have not received one email verifying my attempt to sign up. My first experience with app launcher and one of the apps would be horrible. Better get on the ball if you really wanna change the web in such a dramatic way.
"chromeless" Chrome windows have been in Chrome since the start as far as I can remember: Tools > Create Application Shortcuts.
Ah. So, it sounds lower risk for Amazon, but I don't really know how indiegogo and paypal interoperate, so maybe it's the same exact pattern.

Sounds like a fantastic racket for Kickstarter!

EDIT: I've read more of the comments and it sounds like IndieGoGo has nothing to do with Paypal. They were separate funding efforts, from the same landing page. "You can pay by IndieGoGo or Paypal."

I presume the reason I couldn't figure this out from the Mailpile website is that they stopped mentioning the PayPal option when it was clear that Mailpile wasn't going to get paid by PayPal in any kind of short order. You can pay IndieGoGo or you can send Bitcoins.

That's how I'd run my business if I didn't have a product yet. You'd have to be crazy to use PayPal for that.

EDIT2: I guess IndieGoGo does offer the PayPal option. I don't understand enough about how this is put together to have an informed opinion. If PPUSD and credit cards are all handled by PayPal, then it would seem that PayPal does indeed have some risk. Maybe it's actually accepting credit cards that's crazy. _THOSE_ have some serious anti-fraud guarantees, and there's more to fraud than simple non-delivery.
"swiping upward to remove an app from the switcher completely disables that application as if it were uninstalled from the device"

I doubt this statement is true. Some technical resources would be nice.
Heh. If Newkia becomes success. Nokia might buy Newkia in 2015 when it is allowed to sell phones again. That would be great comeback.
> It's not that all taboo topics are off-limits for humor.

Unless it's rape, then even mentioning it is 'poking fun at people who've been raped,' right?
[Robinson Crusoe was] our first realistic portrayal of the radical individualist

I'd say the Taoist ideal that emerged in China ~2000 years earlier would better fit that bill.
[Statistical parsing](http://nlp.stanford.edu/courses/lsa354/) is often used in Natural Language Processing, where can't decide which how to arrange sentences into trees, so they pick one at random among acceptable choices.

I've gotten very frustrated writing rules and regexes and exceptions. This method seems really great when scraping data which is structured but a little bit noisy.
If I could use the Hangouts extension as an app, I would be so happy. I don't like the implementation of the extension on my Mac.
This is exactly what Shai Agassi tried doing with Better Place [1]. Sadly they're bankrupt now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place
> I'm saying "paypal doesn't carry a lot of risk in the first place".

They do in the first place, which is why as an immediate second step, they protect themselves against that risk by keeping money in an escrow.
In that case they've buried the lede, as this is arguably more noteworthy than the microcontroller. Has anyone done a production-worthy JS-to-Lua compiler before? The idea has come up many times because the two languages are so similar. But I've not seen anything as complete as what they must have if they're running Node. (What about the non-JS parts of Node? Can those just be handled with a standard compiler?)

JS-to-Lua might not be well-suited to this sort of platform, since it is so easy to just write Lua instead. But it would be useful if you want to get existing JS code running on new hardware, or if you want your program to be able to run in a web browser as well.
Linux HID arbitrary heap overflow
> I know many people who have Down's Syndrome (and other learning disabilities) and me welcoming this research feels a bit like me saying those people should not exist.

I was waiting for this sentiment to appear. I think if you carry that to it's logically extreme you'd also be against teaching them life skills and training to make them more independent because that would change who they are.
Hmmmm...not viral enough. Doesn't sound like you're disrupting anything.
Internet speed test from the command line
'write' could also transparently fail (not that that is usually advisable).
starting at the dickwolves comic and jumping to open hostility towards victims of rape is a giant leap
Zero Downtime Database Migrations on Rails
Can you suggest a good article about this or walkthrough about how to secure it? Is it more difficult than other databases?
Nice! You're missing analytics - Google Analytics, Snowplow, MixPanel etc
We tried Nagios a while back, before going to Orion. Nagios has some great structural ideas, but fell down in other areas (don't know all of them, that was before I came on board).

We use Puppet to manage our Linux infrastructure and are testing Desired State Configuration for our Windows systems. Puppet and DSC solve a different problem than monitoring.

Our tools span the gamut of aggregating and presenting data, to doing "heavy lifting" of things like installing patches, managing our load balancers, and removing bad query plans from our database servers.

Our in-house tooling fills in gaps where existing tooling wasn't responsive enough or made it difficult to deal with certain edge cases. General purpose tools like Orion satisfy 80% of our use cases, but we are fanatical about performance and functionality so we want to fill in that additional 20%. In fact, the majority of our Orion monitors are custom script monitors, which we have to create ourselves as it is.

If what we do can work for others (I've worked in several environments with Orion and had the same issues in each environment), that's a bonus.

We've found we are building a significant number of these projects and that's why we are looking for a dedicated developer for our team.
are you seriously suggesting that there is an interpretation of the 4th Amendment that allows for prism? Even the author of the patriot act disagrees with you.
One of my AdSense accounts was just banned (testing cloaked traffic to made-for-adsense sites), so I beg to differ.
Hard Learned Lessons From Building a SAAS Product
I don't see how considering the social implications of scientific change is a diversion, YMMV.
Isn't that how medicine works?
Even the older breed of chrome apps had annoying flaws, IMO, when I was playing around with their APIs to get a feel for them about 6 months ago.

I was mostly surprised how it felt that in many ways you were actually more restricted than you were with just a normal web app. Also the documentation was trash and confusing in a lot of ways because even prior to these changes they had made a lot of other changes via deprecating APIs and their documentation was poorly managed to the point where it was really difficult to determine which APIs were deprecated or not without trying to use them in the latest Chrome and having them fail on you. Also, there wasn't a clear roadmap as to what APIs you could expect to be pretty stable and what ones they might suddenly deprecate, breaking your app.

Hearing that the "new breed" has some of these same flaws and some new ones makes me very disinclined to bother checking in with the current technology.
In 1997 I got my first job at the local Safeway.

To sign on and off, I would enter my 6 digit employee number into a pin pad, then scan my right index finger.

It worked about 99% of the time, and mostly only failed because I worked in the meat dept. and often my hands would be extremely hot and wet from soap & hot water, or frozen and numb from handling meat all day. Then I would just use my left index finger.

It worked great in 1997, I see no reason it can't in 2013.
Parse Developer Day Conference launches five new products
> -Previous installed chrome app matches the HTML5 api, the new chrome apps has a lot of restriction where you have to totally rewrite you code in terms of storage. i.e. Chrome.storage instead of localStorage; All chrome storage is async.

I belive this is only localStorage right? (indexedDB is still available afaik)

Firefox OS had mentions of disabling localStorage, its been a huge problem due to its synchronous API, I dont think it did end up being disabled though, I would really like to see localStorage being (slowly) deprecated and an async api (possibly even just a helper for idb) being promoted as an alternative full web standard as opposed to chrome specific API's coming in here
"For example: more men than women in the U.S. are raped"

Where does this stat come from? Most stats I've seen on this issue say that about 9/10 sexual assaults are crimes against women.
There is no performance difference here, map etc. are producing the same garbage. Scala isn't Haskell. Also note that there is a HUGE performance difference between appending and prepeding to a list. :-)
This looks neat but I find it weird that they targeted the iPhone first instead of the iPad. Isn't reading on iPhone hard?
Yes it is. ControlPersist was introduced in openssh 5.6.

Centos 6 ships with a patched version of 5.3.
iphone only, meh.
Ask HN: Share your projects and the stories behind them (Pt. 2)
Part 2 of : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6294650

Conditions:

- all posts must include a story explaining why you care about the project

This time, the conditions are enforced! Last time people weren't giving feedback, so I built something to fix that!

http://showhnkarma.meteor.com/

- if you post, you should give feedback to 4-5 other posts
Very good read. I like his approach and how his company has evolved over the years from one thing to the next.

We went through similar transitions, starting as a mobile app shop, getting more into innovative web apps powered by our own stack and now as an ad-tech company with our own proprietary DSP.

Quite a transition and a lot of what he said rings true...and I wonder if the experiences he had ahead of where we are will occur for us as well.
I wonder if Apple's data shows that most people don't use passcode locks?
Oyster? Really? Like the Oyster travel site:

http://www.oyster.com/

Or the Oyster travel card:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx

?
I completely agree with you - I commented something similar before I saw this. Let me play the devil's advocate, though. Couldn't you argue that "growth hacking" has a lot in common with "agile programming"? Neither is promoting entirely new methodology - they're just built on existing best practices with a new image and name.
This is, effectively, bringing a ChromeOS-like app interface to Windows (and soon other platforms). The new app launcher looks just like it does on ChromeOS, putting Chrome Web Store apps on an equal footing with native apps started from a Start menu or equivalent.
This is interesting article. I was the initial and primary developer of another lake realty discovery site, that used some NLP to process MLS feeds and discover lake based properties. Lakeplace.com was the main competitor and our goal was to make sure that we have more accurate listings and more listings then Lakeplace. It's nice hear the lakeplace side of story.
Docker can now run within Docker
Don’t Give Me Your Resume
Before Growth Hacking, marketing people did PR, Partnership, Trade Shows, Ad Campaigns, etc. Yukk.

To me, Growth Hacking is a measurable engineering exercise. Data-driven and scalable - way better than marketing days of old.
> Not calling 'accept' pushes pressure back to the clients

To stop calling accept() you could remove or pause READ event for server's FD from event loop once the limit is reached and unpause once it goes down. Not a big deal.

> If 'write' is non-blocking _and_ always succeeds

Why would it always succeed? Obviously it should call back on completion.
Next we'll be correcting minor things like vision and hearing! Where does the madness stop?
Too bad it doesn't work on Cygwin. (I share my ssh config between Linux and Windows.) Too bad ssh doesn't have conditional configuration. (Yes, I know I could script this, but it's a little more pain than I want for this gain.)
I get that PA doesn't want to be seen as kowtowing to a mandate that they not push the boundaries of humor...but there were ways of handling this that are between the spectrum of being submissive and being "fuck you I do what I want"...and acknowledging that there is such a spectrum is not being a surrender monkey to the censors.

Similarly, I find it frustrating to see these debates devolve into "Well what, we can't ever mention rape except in serious legal cases, ever?" I don't have much to add, but here's what I think is a canonical example of how to include rape in humor, courtesy Louis CK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9q4sM1vmc
I'm yearning for the day somebody applies that business model to audio books... </wishlist>
Which would you recommend trying out?
fwiw, penny arcade also banned booth babes and generally seem reasonably feminist

my guess is that Gabe was taken aback by the (imo over the top) attacks against him and that comic by feminist bloggers and is simply going to blind in this area from now on.
I'm working on:

http://showhnkarma.meteor.com/

http://bootstrap3themes.meteor.com/

http://gmailunreplieds.meteor.com/

I built the first because I believe individual efforts of creation should be more highly rewarded on hacker news.

The second, because bootstrap is everywhere - and I think it should be easier for people who build things in bootstrap to make their site look different, and stay with the trends!

The last, because I don't want to miss opportunities in my email :)
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Watch Tennis
A WebView in a native app always seemed like a really hacky way of doing it, so a proper Chrome App functionality would be fantastic. Just like how Firefox does it (even on Android, in the Aurora builds)
The model is just too compelling for consumers: Pay a reasonable price, get access to all the content you want without having to own it

I quite like owning my books, actually. There's already an alternative to doing so, called a library; since the book sales business did quite well int he pre-internet days despite the widespread availability of libraries, I'm not sure why the author thinks a functioning e-book library is suddenly going to bring sales to a screeching halt.
Here's a thought experiment for you: Suppose your son, a DS patient, rejects the treatment on the grounds that they like having DS. As their caretaker, you have two choices.

- You can force them to submit to treatment, reasoning that their cognitive deficiency keeps them from understanding the implications of rejecting the treatment; or

- You can allow them to forego treatment and thus bear the (in your view) increased burden of taking care of them.

I ask out of curiousity rather than judgment. Which would you choose and why?
Please don't take it as a criticism of your work - but the fact that one small company (<100?) that does OSS as a side effect (plus recruitment retention effort) can be one of the largest OSS contributors in the dotnet ecosystem says its not a vibrant and thriving ecosystem.

SE has a very high reputation as far as I can tell so its not a quality issue - it is in this case a problem of quantity.

As someone commented the idea is to focus on Azure and mobile - but that is no substitute for lots and lots of developers in a culture of releasing stuff outside their immediate company and so driving each other to new heights
As an Android dev I can tell you this isn't happening in the next 5 years. They may add Chrome apps to Android, but it will be a niche option that won't be used by anybody.

My utopic wish is a new open platform that will combine strengths of the web and of operating systems (Windows, Android):

- Web: Great for documents, which it was originally designed for. Automatic updates. No installation. You can "fork" an app / document by middle clicking a link.

- Operating systems: Great for apps. Speed. More low level access to the hardware. Much richer platform than the web (window mnagment, human interface guidelines, ...).
The "Netflix for books" is, and has long been, libraries. And yes, almost all of them have an ebook program in addition to their huge supply of paper books.
Like I said, mean free paths will vary depending on your write profile. None of this alters my original assertion, which is that row operations are not isolated.
Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK
Dear GitHub,

Please setup local ssh termination to your network.

Thanks,

Alex