skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Best web search API(s)
I have previously coded a project using both Google search API and Bing API. Google was problematic because of query limits without paying. Bing addressed the issue with the query limits, but I figured I would get some HN opinions.

I looked into DuckDuckGo because I liked the idea of a search engine that did not collect info of searches, but my understanding of the DDG APIs are that it is not the full DDG web results but there "0 click answers" (I could be wrong but likely due to DDG's use of other search APIs for their web results). So perhaps another question of interest is what API(s) does DDG use?
Why does Hackbright only accept women into the program?
Most decently popular posts about functional programming seems to have a good deal of meta-comments about functional programming such as "is functional programming even useful?", "it will take over the world!", "My father didn't need it, my brother didn't need it; I don't need it". Sometimes, the discussion thread is almost only meta-discussion of functional programming. Just an observation.
With DRM, you can "lend".
That's to say, the second world referred to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations. None of which really exist in that form any more. Being from Australia/Canada, the OP was still part of the First World by the old nomenclature.
This method likely would have worked by itself. The method that worked sooner wasn't just "another photo" found online of her friends as grecy mentioned. It was a photo we had taken ourselves, and it didn't have anyone else in it. But I'm not ready to tell Justin more details about it.
The very existence of this data would imply the U.S. government isn't really bound by the constitution anymore, either.
elance, odesk, etc are fine, it's just that the signal to noise ratio is very bad. Filter through the projects until you find reasonable projects with reasonable budgets.

Post on the seeking freelancer thread. I posted on there for the first time this month and have received a few contacts but unfortunately took on a large job right after doing so, so I haven't been able to take advantage.

Put together a portfolio if you don't have one already.

Network. Go to local events if you can, developer meetups but also things like chamber of commerce meetings. Keep in touch with your clients. Eventually, the bulk of your work should come from your network.
I buy because the same. And trine look fantastic.
There Is a Man Wandering Around California With 3 Mules
How Winning Awards Changes People
That's assuming sharing doesn't handle this case. I'm guessing Valve has thought about things like this.
I don't think the HN FAQ was written with this situation in mind, and thus don't consider it a useful reference when determining a course of action for this specific problem.

Perhaps one submission should contain the sum of political discourse on the topic, and all other submissions should contain the technical discourses.
Why it’s great to be in Chicago: StartUp Wars
I never could use turntable because I'm in the UK but from what I heard a lot of the rooms ended up with a really narrow focus with people downvoting any music that didn't fit some ultra specific genre.

I've used similar sites that made it much harder to 'reject' songs (Collaborative Jukebox, Listening Room) and the experience is actually much nicer - you get to hear a much wider range of interesting stuff.

Turntable.fm is operating in a tough environment for sure, but I think one mistake they've made is that encouraging people to vote for and against tracks is an obvious feature, but not necessarily a very wise one.
I think there is just the right amount.

It seems like NSA stories kind of take over when a lot of interesting things are happening, and then they kind of taper off when nothing new is happening. There is a crisis happening now with all the spying, and this crisis is very relevant to this community. I would therefore expect to see lots of articles here when something new is revealed.
Considering the number of votes to see the content I find it odd that people wouldn't be willing to show the distaste within the poll and not flag down.

Pretty lame and trivial to pick off a hot topic - there's also no public way to showcase that this is in fact real people or artificial flags that slowly sink it. Unfortunate drawback in transparency by design.
Meet the researchers striking out against the criminal underground
that's all good and fine on paper but seriously, how would they ever know that the new add for McDonald's new menu item appeared beside hurrdrurr.com/the-one-with-midget-horse-and-tall-lady.html
Google rejects music industry request to remove Pirate Bay homepage
TIL that millions of geniuses around the globe can fathom the entire truth from a twitter feed w/o need for further investigation. Including the geniuses of HN.
Possibilities:
- they looked at signups at close.io after the evening, thus narrowing a list of female names for image searching. They could further limit this to IP's from the austin area.
- They bought the ad words 'justin gold', and 'justinbgold'. Then waited for her to google you, thus revealing IP addresses for further googling.
This looks cool, can't wait to rig up a display (maybe a flashing light) for the office whenever a new customer signs up!
Show HN: An email reminder service for your GitHub starred repos
but who would ever admit to it? Gee, I was trying to jerk off to some porn yesterday and I found our ad on the site.
WordPress before 3.6.1: PHP Object Injection
With the government spying like this, there will be no democracy left, very soon

I see where you're coming from, but such outlandish claims may be doing more harm than good.
Cool, you have a personal preference :)
> I meant I wouldn't make it public until after I heard back from YC, not just until you submitted it.

Publishing early is part of Gittip's "share as much as possible" principle. I don't have private conversations about Gittip if I can help it. :-)

> I'd add that gittip is already a global distributed team, but that you like living in Pittsburgh (family, friends, etc.), then.

Done. Thanks.

> It's essentially a hard requirement that you spend 3mo in MV for YC.

Understood.

> although if you raise money

We're not going to be raising money, because we price to cost and so we don't have any profit to offer VCs. PG suggested we fill out the non-profit application, even though we're not a 501(c)(3), either:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/376129437676228608
Simplicity of recipes (they're blurry, they're not chemistry) , and constant human oversight (your brain takes care of many things not written down) makes imperative instructions feasible for small tasks like a meal. It won't scale, but since it doesn't have to it survives.
Ranking above Facebook for the term: "{your name} Facebook"
The monthly thing really doesn't make sense, I'd rather pay a fixed one time amount for the license, and maintain fee ever year for upgrades.
So in the other post, you said you inadverdently realized you had a second photo of the target (which presumably contained key identifying info)...so, are you saying here that that second photo didn't come from investigating the event that she was at (i.e., if it had a meetup/lanyrd page, looking at all the attendee photos and seeing what looked like her?)
What about sysstat that provides sar (and iostat). I have this logging every minute in some environments and I can look back and find the root cause of performance issues over multiple devices and networks. kSar can graph this quickly.

vmstat is essential in it's own way, the run queue is critical in threaded environments like weblogic with osb/soa where a default install on a 2 vCPU instance won't perform.

Also; dtrace for linux and osx.
> I'm already paying you for social security and medicare that I will probably never be eligible to benefit from, and you want me to pay extra 'fuck you' taxes as well?

This was in response to a suggestion about what the government would do if it was interested in serving its citizens. If you would be paying the fees, serving you is very much not the point.

Though I'll point out that, by moving from employee sponsorship and charges (and pay limits, etc.) on employers for things like H-1B to charges to the prospective entrant, it means that the entrant has substantially more freedom (and potentially greater net income after charges, too, since instead of the employer paying a fee and dealing with wage limits, the employee pays a flat fee and a share of income, but isn't burdened by salary limits.)

> Aside from that, this wouldn't be simple at all because changing the visas available would in many cases involve renegotiating the deals that they made with other countries that got those visas created in the first place.

By definition, changing the non-treaty visas, as I specified, would not require that, and many economic visas (including the H-1B) are not treaty-based.

Obviously treaty-based econonmic visas like the H-1B1 (Singapore or Chile), TN/TD (NAFTA), E-1/E-2 (Treaty Trader/Treaty Investor) etc. are a separate issue, but at least in theory the government is serving citizens interests with those because of the reciprocal benefit US citizens have with regard to economic entry to the countries involved.
I think he is, maybe he doesn't know it yet.
4 month old giving daddy a hi-5
Surprised.
crossrider is already detected as a ToolBar.Adware by several anti-virus programs. doesn't help that it's sole goal is to plaster user with ads and cover the licensing fee a developer is supposed to pay up front. We've seen this model in the 90s .
Dear HN: Stop casually discussing working for a bunch of disgustingly greedy, full-of-shit, and downright evil sociopaths as if you hadn't noticed.
Why stop there ? I definitely want to know HN's opinion on knitting, kite surfing, food preparation, Game of Thrones, car maintenance as well.

They are equally relevant to worldwide "hackers" as US-only politics.
Well, they essentially have to allow it-- especially in the case you disconnect from the internet entirely. There's always a way around it, and offline mode is likely going to be allowed.
I think that is a stretch. One can certainly enjoy reading opinions from people they place no special value on. I enjoy reading the opinions of idiots just for comedic value. ;)
Which is a pretty reasonable restriction. If you're going to both get the simultaneous value out of a game, you should probably both pay for it.
There are many stories about what we know but not enough about what we don't. Put me in the camp of more disclosure, even repetitive, is better than none.
> You'd have to include some form of protection for the employer on the expenses associated with H1B process, otherwise it's not really worth the risk

I thought increasing the risk in the H-1B process (and thus making not choosing that over spending resources retraining domestic workers) was exactly the point of the suggestion.
After all this, you believe that? Sorry to say, that your level of naïveté is remarkable.
This is not my primary news source; I've been reading about the NSA elsewhere - yes, directly on the websites of the Guardian, NYT, etc. I've read very few of the blog entries, though I've sampled a few. Having said all that, I believe that the NSA stories should be allowed to rank naturally. And I do enjoy the more technical comments found here.

In response to some of the comments. . .the tech community is not the only community (within the general public) with a high level of interest in the stories. Even if you leave out "conspiracy theorists", there are privacy advocates, advocates of limited government in general, advocates of limited government at the federal level, . . .
Coase Suggests Big Companies May Vanish
guess nobody got the Dragonball reference. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My wage as an E3 (ie, it's just like a H1B, but only for Australians) employee in the States was quite a bit higher than the prevailing wage at the time, FWIW.

Note that the wages being offered are supposed to be pretty much common-knowledge:

http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/h1b.htm

"On or within 30 days before the date the LCA is filed with ETA, provide notice of the employer's intent to hire H-1B, H-1B1, or E-3 workers. The employer must provide this notice to the bargaining representative of workers in the occupation in which the H-1B, H-1B1, or E-3 worker will be employed. If there is no bargaining representative, the employer must post such notices in conspicuous locations at the intended place(s) of employment, or provide them electronically."

We did spend a fair bit of time looking for the least conspicuous of all conspicuous places within the office to post my wage though. :)
Increased immigration is just another one of the public subsidies to which corporations think they're entitled.

The demand for subsidies is easy to see with oil companies, who lobby for tax breaks and for the U.S. government to fight foreign wars to maintain their access to foreign oil sources.

However the basic dynamics are present in the tech industry too. How often do tech companies talk about the need to produce more STEM graduates? Throwing aside the warm fuzzy ideas attached to public education, this is a naked demand for subsidy: train more workers for our industry at the public expense.

Increased immigration is in the same vein. It would be expensive to retrain all those expensive workers (this goes to pg's point elsewhere), so better to let India and China subsidize the education, and the U.S. subsidize the process of acculturating and integrating the new immigrants.

I'll offer a potentially controversial statement: immigration policy should have nothing to do with transient labor demands. It is simply an orthogonal issue. Immigration is deeply and inextricably tied up in questions about culture and acculturation, democracy and the composition of the body politic, the long-term, sustainable, growth of the population, etc. Immigration limits and the countries from which we take immigrations should be based solely on those issues.

Immigration limits and targets should not be based on what particular industries want as labor inputs. That's a sop, that's a subsidy. That's the public undertaking an obligation in order to subsidize private profits. It's a long-term fix to a temporary problem. This is not an opposition to immigration, mind you, but rather an opposition to the criteria being used to evaluate how much immigration we should have.
Yeah, I don't think "not currently a 501(c)(3)" is a showstopper -- you probably could become one, and even if not, gittip is clearly a legitimate project, not "a non-profit app to throw a party for my younger sister" or something.

Making the app concise and memorable is important for p or np just the same.
"_might_"

is unacceptable in this case.

If it "_might_" happen, then this particular sharing agreement should be scrapped. When it comes to this sort of thing, we need to operate in an environment of guarantees not one of assurances.
"Winners could be following in the prestigious footsteps of computer pioneer Alan Turing"

And we all know what happened to Alan Turing.

"with a salary between c £26k - £60k"

I would love to work for a spook agency nobody likes and take an 70% to 90% pay cut.
Sorry about that! Has to do with some anti-fraud tools we've built into Stripe Checkout. Should be fixed now, so you shouldn't see that again, Ghostery or no. Feel free to let me know (evan@stripe.com) if you (or anyone) still sees it.
For such a simple filtering methodology, it seems to be satisfactory. Some low-quality links get through because everyone is excited about the NSA leaks.
Git Immersion is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git
They didn't actually try it, so there's no proof.
They're every week.
I'm not going to hire you. Here's why.
BSlider - A Backbone.js based slider
http://karun012.github.io/bslider/
It is possible to PXE boot a full blown OS, not just OS installer, Live CD or CoreOS.

The product usually used to do this is:
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/technologies/pvs-pr...
It is just a nice GUI that ties into PXE and TFTP and just streams an image from a disk file.

On a 1Gb network I have booted over 300 physical machines in under 2 minutes simultaneously.

For those curious, unfortunately PVS is packaged with XenDesktop so you have to buy XenDesktop to get PVS. Citrix does not seem willing to separate the two as different products even though I have deployed PVS for several customers without even download the XenDestkop bits.
Hackers Courted by Government for Cyber Security Jobs
Vonnegut: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Without impostor syndrome nagging at me constantly, it's likely I would be an insufferable ass. (Well, even MORE so.) It's weird, but I like it.
Actually, if you read the fully reply, that's NOT how they did it. They ended up finding her via another approach. Phil mentioned the other approach which he thought would have worked.
I run my ubuntu VM off of a SSD. My VM performance is (unbenchmarked) seemingly faster than many laptops and netbooks running Ubuntu. It's blazing fast performance that I believe is better than most native Linux installs on spinning drives.

I don't have I/O benchmarks to back that up, just anecdotes from my usage, but I'd be shocked to find that my ubuntu VM was 10% of native performance.
from the title I thought somebody had discovered a way to run an operating system on just a thin sheet of metal
Resiliency to your NFS server falling over is one. Sane atomic updates and locking is another.
> I'd argue Android's ecosystem and investment is
> enormous compared to Youtube, and they take a smaller
> cut from apps/in-app purchases than Youtube.

You can do some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations on the storage and bandwidth requirements of video and applications. It's very expensive to process, store, and serve video at YouTube's scale. See http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html for some numbers.

> There's just something slimy about taking that much of
> a cut from someone's work. Its disgusting.

When media hosting sites take half of revenue, it's not out of sheer greed. Most of that money goes right into paying for bandwidth and compute to keep the service running. For example, iTunes Music is believed to have profit margins in the low single digits -- based on Apple's financial statements, it's barely break-even. Apple's App Store is much more profitable, despite taking only 30% of revenue.
The second photo that we later realized we had was one a teammate had taken himself and didn't have anyone else in it. I think it was doable with just 1 photo, and I'm not ready to share with Justin how the 2nd photo helped. :)
On the Mac with Time Machine, I can lose at most an hour of work. Not saying that to praise the Mac; I'm saying that because that's how all computers ought to be.

This would be a swell time for Dropbox to offer Linus a free large business account so he can store everything.
I have a Intel 520 SSD. Fantastic thing I must say and I don't think I can ever use a HDD again, but somehow -- and I realize this may just be baseless -- I don't trust it as much as I trusted my old Seagate HDD, which lasted 7 years.

SSDs are getting better now, but are they as reliable as HDD? Can anyone shares his/her expertise on this?
From the engineer in question

"- Facebook Graph Search and LinkedIn with the criteria we knew didn't help."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6369519
Awesome! My favorite part is this: http://coreos.com/docs/pxe/#state-only-installation

which would enable you to run CoreOS in memory only (loaded from PXE), but still store all of your containers on filesystem. It liberates me from having to install OS on a cluster, but still lets me use persistent storage.
The general public knows as much as they want to know about the topic.

And wake up and smell the coffee here. Nobody cares what you, me or the rest of the "tech scene" thinks about politics. It's the pathetic arrogance of people in the "tech scene" who walk around acting like they are the only enlightened ones and they are somehow uniquely qualified to educate people on the subject.
If you give access to real drive/partition it is native.
Maybe her phone's contact list, call history, Facebook, Instagram, etc. or her business/credit card were visible in that picture?
You don't have a reliable option. It's that simple.

If you value your data, keep backups. And if you want to avoid hiccups in productivity, use RAID. Data that you don't have backed up is data that you don't have.

And keep in mind that RAID, while useful, is not a backup. It doesn't protect against theft, whole-computer destruction, human error, or many other things.
> That's an insightful comment and an important point. Because the underlying computation is physical, there's no such thing as side-effect-free computation. Any attempt to treat programming as purely mathematical, i.e. pure FP, is going to run up against this physical substrate. You can't abstract it away completely, and it gets complicated if you try. So I don't think pure FP is likely to be an ultimate solution to the core problems of minimizing complexity and building scalable abstractions. It would be, if programming were math, but math is not executable.

Oh come on. Is the fact that your processor emits slightly more heat from computing your pure functions, and once in a while a cosmic ray may shift a bit or two, really such a big hindrance? You sound like a die-hard purist, ironically. We might as well ditch the whole idea of applied mathematics since there is always going to be a mismatch between the real world and mathematics. Triangulate? You can't do that, because the degrees you measure isn't going to be measured to the 'infinitely' precise decimal point. The whole theory behind geometry is based on practically unatainable ideals; surely Plato would be turning in his grave if he knew that cartographers had been using geometry to make those (fairly inaccurate) maps. shudder
You have just nailed it. I used to work construction in western North Carolina. The large crews paid far, far less than the crew I worked on. Nobody who didn't live in a home where all the bedrooms were shared could make a living on the wages offered by these large crews.

The big argument is whether the cost savings passed onto the people buying the homes (construction is a notoriously low margin business) benefit the economy more/less than the wage reductions for the people building them. In this part of the country, the homes were huge mansions for the 1%ers. I doubt it is a net gain for the economy, and certainly results in neighborhoods where there are not-quite developed world living conditions.

But what about produce? American born citizens are not willing to pick produce for the wages currently offered, so farmers turn to illegal immigrants. (Why pick vegetables all day when McDonalds pays more per hour?) If farmers were forced to use Americans, they would have to pay significantly more per hour in wages. This cost would be passed on to consumers. Not sure how much more tomatoes would cost in this scenario, but it would be more.

Personally, I think I'd rather have significantly higher wages for a larger portion of the population combined with marginally higher prices for a huge portion of the population, rather than the opposite, which is in effect the WalMart model.

When money gets concentrated into a smaller and smaller percentage of the population, you start to get similar effects to a Soviet style planned economy. Rich idiots who delegate management of their money to the Morgan Stanleys of the world, while the working classes can't make enough to start a savings account and maybe start a business one day.
Urgent != important. Urgent means time-sensitive.

Quickly developing events hit the mainstream outlets quite quickly, but with stories about newly-revealed but long-term stuff like this they can usually afford to wait a few days to get the story polished.