skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/ ---
"In defense of Experts Exchange" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406373

But (I think) he means as a product, not a service (i.e. for bounties, only the asker pays, so it's a service; though it's true that everyone else benefits too).

I like this idea. The big problem, as always, is the boundary or interface of the module/component. (1). The buyer has to specify it, which is usually the difficult bit and writing it is usually easy. (2). For a market, you need to find modules that many people need, that people can search for and find, and that are difficult enough to implement that people would buy rather than build.

Maybe it's possible, for things that seem one-off or too specialized to a person, if you reduced friction enough, in a SO way. They've solved the search problem.

I guess an example would be a square-root function. I wouldn't know how to code it, I'd have to look it up, test and debug. It would take at least hours, I'd think. Of course, it's such a useful one, it's already done. That's the fate of all generally useful functions. The exceptions are new ones and niche ones.

I guess you could just add a little "debugged code" box for SO, and the person keeps coming back to it, to support it. This might be a useful addition; but I think you're right that money would spoil it. However... if you imagine a spectrum from one-liner to massive library, there's probably some level where the amount of work would make it reasonable to pay.

Conclusion: to see the value in the idea, leave money out (build something people want). How would you modify SO, or start a new one, to provide this value, or reusable functions/code snippets?
Depends on how serious you are about learning to write well.

The Lord of the Rings is 473k words. [1] If you type it out at 50 wpm, that's 157 hours, or about four work-weeks of typing.

That's a lot if you're just fucking around. But if your goal is to write your own successful epic, burning a month or three on really thinking closely about each word is a reasonable investment against the 5 or so years you'd spend writing that epic.

[1] http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/1869
[Non-valuable contribution, removed]

Edit: I apologize for the rudeness of my comment. However, it is my understanding that the evidence available today points to things like TV being damaging to the development of the very young (1-3 years old)
I'm as weary of motivational writing as the next person, but I thought this was unusually full of actual good ideas. As just one example, it offers a framework for understanding why I feel so frustrated: I'm only in year one.
Total novice question here, but is the idea that you plug in the sensors you want to this board? Would a catalog like the one at Adafruit's be a place to start looking at what sensors are available for the DIYer?
1. How is this creepy?

2. How is this in any way relevant to HackerNews?
> We have no plans to bring Macaw to Linux at this time. Once the Mac and Windows versions are released we will look into Linux.

damn it.
Edit2: I'm not convinced of the above anymore. It doesn't look like the IE compat list is abnormal, but it could be a fluke interaction between Google and IE11.

On the other hand, it's very strange that it suddenly occurred in the past day, when I've been running 8.1 release for over a month.
Time Warner, like, the movie company? I would never want internet from the guys that are trying to break the internet to enforce copyright.
Stereotypical judging of others and self-promotion does not equal a cheat sheet for reinventing yourself.
Show HN: a simple command-line rss reader great for browsing unobtrusively
Ask HN: My startup is launching in a few weeks and I'm terrified. Advice?
Me and two friends started a company right out of college developing a new social news site that we had an idea for. The thing is, when we started, none of us really knew how to program, at least not anything more sophisticated than simple scripts. So over the past 10 months or so we've been working on our site and developing our skills and are close to having something we can put out there.

However I am still very self conscious about our inexperience. I constantly worry that we're making rookie mistakes that will lead to serious problems with our service. Or that we won't be able to put out fires effectively enough.

What can we do to compensate for our lack of programming experience?
Absurd how?
This is a simple command-line based rss reader which is great for browsing your favorite sites unobtrusively, without having to open a browser window.

Unless people look really closely at your terminal window, they will think you are compiling code or doing some other low-level work related task.

It's great for meeting rooms and work environments where other people are able to see your screen easily and without warning.
It is true that the drug control we have now is based on the 1970s legislation, laws governing drugs of abuse go back much further than that.

It's not accurate to say that sedatives and stimulants were widely available in the 1950's. Laws controlling benzedrine were mostly in place by WW2 and opium laws back in the 1920s.
>How is this in any way relevant to HackerNews?

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
So, for the simplest tasks such as writing a README you need a Ruby gem these days? Or is it some satire which I didn't get yet?

(Just to clarify my position: I am all for automatizing daunting tasks as much as possible, but this seems to be a little far-fetched.)
It's more than a submission title problem. The tagline they're using for the product is actually "the code-savvy web design tool". Perhaps I'm just an unreasonable person (it is just a single world, after all), but I have trouble getting behind any product for which the creators can't accurately describe.
My website http://5000best.com/tools/ may be relevant. It lists mainly the most popular SaaS tools, but a few categories include widely used software components (non-free software only - no open source):

http://5000best.com/tools/Modules/

http://5000best.com/tools/Software_Dev/

http://5000best.com/tools/Specialized/

http://5000best.com/tools/Wordpress/

http://5000best.com/tools/Joomla/

http://5000best.com/tools/Drupal/

http://5000best.com/tools/Magento/

http://5000best.com/tools/E-commerce/
Vivo teases world’s first 2K resolution smartphone
It's different. Viscayne is located downtown Miami which lacks the restaurants / culture/ yuppy-ness of places like Brickell and Midtown. There is a small outlet mall type thing at Bayfront park -- but the shops and restaurants there overwhelming cater to the bus loads of cruise-ship tourists there for a day. Downtown is a ghost-town during the weekend, as most places are closed. Bayfront park itself is a nice walk, and has pretty views. It's pretty safe there too.

West you will find the courthouse and the feared overtown -- which as I mentioned elsewhere -- isn't the safest of areas.

Brickell is a short (15minutes or less) walk. There you will find better restaurants and droves of young urban business professionals who probably work in some form of consumer banking.

Wynwood is close, but you can't walk there because you'd have to go through Overtown which is, again, a really scary place to be even during daylight hours. It's full of artists , trustafarians, and some tech people. But mostly hipsters.

To get to any beach you will need a car.
I have a counter-example. I built an OSX application for remotely tailing logs on servers (http://www.remotetailapp.com/). Originally I did it to scratch and itch when I was administering a bunch of servers over SSH. I added Heroku log support when I started working on a Heroku project. I had dreams that it might grow into a self-sustaining side project, but it hasn't really taken off. The key lesson that I learnt is that the technology just solves part of the problem. Just because it is downloadable software rather than SaaS doesn't mean that you don't need to put effort into marketing and sales.
A new water park doesn't seem to fit that.
Sometimes visualisations are useless overillustrations. Other times, they are enough to put a complex argument to rest. One of the latter ones:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...
We've got a twitter list of attendees - direct links to it don't work apparently, but you can find it from my profile https://twitter.com/austenallred (click on lists - startup school 2013).

Ping me if you'd like to be added.
Now you can build a startup community almost anywhere leveraging the benefits of the particular area.

We're doing it in Myrtle Beach, SC: WhyNotTheBeach.com based off the low cost of living, high quality of life, big city amenities, fiber to the home, etc.
Do you even have kids?
Facebook Feminism, Like it or Not
Phishers using CloudFlare for SSL
I can understand not paying any mind to linux for other developers. It's a mostly unused platform for almost all demographics... except actual developers.

This is not the kind of application I was expecting to "not support linux". That said, They're not actually supporting windows right now either, so I guess for designers only. Oh well.
Ask HN: After NSA fiasco I don't trust Google. Where should I look forward? 
Where should I look forward to substitute Google services like Google search , Gmail etc. etc.
The efficiency of cooling is proportional to delta t, so it's much better (for the computer) to cool a computer with cold water. But how did you produce that cold water? Probably with some energy-intensive refrigeration process. Thus AFAIK it's more efficient overall to use a higher inlet temperature (presumably with a higher flow rate).
Come say hi over in Myrtle Beach, SC: WhyNotTheBeach.com
If you support 99$ on kickstarter they will give free. There is no pricing option they mentioned other than that :)
Face it, category theory is a waste of time
Exactly what's creepy about this?
It doesn't seem to be useful so much as a way to make README writing easier, but rather as an easier and more modular way to keep it updated. This is important - stale docs are a PITA for anyone trying to use a library, and it's very easy to let them fall by the wayside.
hopefully scaling issues are your biggest problem. most sites problem is not enough visitors. the other problem is financing it until it's big enough to make money. assuming advertising is your revenue model. digital point is advertising 1 cpm which is $1 for a 1000 pageviews.
Their language was slightly more optimistic in this October 10 comment:

> There is definitely a chance we will port Macaw over to Linux. We are working on getting the Mac and Windows versions out first then we will re-evaluate.
I didn't like his book and I didn't like this post, mostly because it involves a lot of 'magic functions', black-box advice, and repeated (boring) information. Most of this self-help stuff can be abstracted out to "Discipline, Knowledge, Connections, Capital", plus or minus a few things depending on the field.

Do you need an echo chamber of motivation to keep yourself motivated? That's fine! I think there's a real and useful effect to doing that.

I'm put off by things like this in this (and other's) post, however:

- Everything is a mentor. $METAPHORS

- When can you say, “I do X!” where X is your new career? Today. (Don't lie to yourself. Find out the requirements to get started and go do them. Painter? Buy paint and canvas. Now you're a painter. Programmer? Install the language and a text editor, compile a program. Now you're a programmer. Doctor? Yeah, don't lie to yourself; you need a bit more for that. Some titles are worth the wait and the work)

- Reinvention will boost every healthy chemical in your body: serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin. (A scientific claim. Is there data to support this? Where is it?)

- What if I’m shy? Make your weaknesses your strengths. Introverts listen better, focus better, and have ways of being more endearing. (As I was corrected by someone else a while ago, introversion != shyness)

- What if I get depressed? Sit in silence for one hour a day. You need to get back to your core. If you think this sounds stupid then don’t do it. Stay depressed. (Or, get advice from someone that's qualified to treat depression or other mood disorders. If an hour of quiet time fixes it, it probably wasn't depression.)

Disclaimer: I'm not financially successful.
Dedicates IP's aren't required for SSL certs anymore unless you're concerned with old IE's in Enterprise environments. Every modern piece of browser software will send the domain with the TLS handshake. Doesn't look like these guys are targeting the entrenched enterprise, though.
It looks to have been fixed already. I'm on Win8.1, with IE11, and get the same Google homepage I get in Chrome. I haven't touched any settings.
Not really far-fetched.
Look at Sinatra README for example: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra

There are 11 versions of Sinatra’s README which don’t share any general templates. They should be manually edited after each release. This is kind of thing that needs automatization.

Plus, it is much easier to inject badges by a mixin, not by copypasting and manually changing some elements from your old READMEs.
Sure! You’ve got the idea.
Especially appropriate for this article given that the top comment is "It's﻿ A:\Trap".
My apologies, I misread you earlier, thinking you meant a "resume" and a "portfolio" were interchangeable.
Penetration testing practice lab - Vulnerable apps / systems
I'm in second year, and I'm getting solid first marks. You probably could spend most of first and second year socialising if you don't have a job, but I do. Living on £1 a day in London including rent? That's not possible, even with very cheap place to live, £400pm for arguments sake, although that's probably not realistic you're already at nearly £13 a day. Even cheap halls at £99pw are more expensive than that. To live on £1 a day just covering rent with no extra costs, your rent would have to be at a maximum £28 p/m. You certainly can't socialise on that kind of money.

If you meant excluding rent and bills, say they cost £15/day (which is still unrealistically cheap), plus your £1 for living expenses, that's a monthly cost of £480. Per academic year, that costs about £3840. While this is well within the threshold of the maximum student maintenance loan, remember you'll still have to pay travel costs (you can't really stay within walking distance of your house for the entire time you're in London), buy books (which can get very expensive), pay for other materials for coursework. At a minimum. University, and living in London generally is very expensive...

Mostly, I'm just thinking, how do you even eat on £1 a day? That's pretty much one tin of baked beans plus a slice or two of bread per day. Or maybe some rice. Luckily nobody has to pay medical costs here...

Also, I'm interested as to whether or not you think a gap year internship is still really important if I'm already working? I've had two jobs so far, that's quite a lot of experience for someone who's only in second year, and a lot more than many graduates I know...
I'm pretty comfortable always blaming UA sniffing when there is an interaction between it and something else that causes problems.

It sounds like Microsoft screwed up their list, but IE saying 'MSIE' is not a bug by any stretch of the imaginations. The bad code here is all on Google's end.
Well since he was asked to make a "mini google" speed and parallelism are non-concerns.
Blackberry app lets you publish on iOS apps in real-time
Ignored the "Do not exceed the recommended dosage" warning eh?
I spent a good bit of the summer of '89 writing C code to drive a tape punch for programming CNC machines.
Mapping Einstein’s brain
I had a little switch to bypass the optical notch-detector on my 1541 drive.

I still think the single-sided disks were from the same production line as the double sided ones, and it was all market segmentation.
I agree, but why not use existing program like M4.
Windows XP is still running on about 1 in 5 computers in the US. Internet Explorer is still the first or second-most used browser depending on whose market share methodology you prefer. SNI does not work with any version of IE on WinXP. SNI also doesn't work with Safari on XP, Android 2.x browser, BlackBerry browser, Opera Mobile, etc. No major sites use SNI and it's not because they have enterprise audiences. The compatibility isn't there yet -- if you're using SNI, you're throwing up errors on the screens of 10% or more of your visitors -- desktop, laptop, home, "enterprise", and mobile alike.
Cocos3D
Perhaps a fair observation for someone living in biblical times. (And with no knowledge of several technological upheavals that came before or after.)

OTOH one can do what people tend to do with religious texts rightly or wrongly, look beyond its obvious falseness and charitably reinterpret this. Maybe this is even an expression of conservation of mass; that we are not creating newness, simply re-arranging matter. Or perhaps it says that despite technological change (possibly deemed surface-level change even if nontrivial), some essential part of life and society continues to resemble its former self.

I will say this part is much more accurate:

> No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

I'm often bummed out by descriptions of famous and important people from 100+ years ago. Name after name of people you've never heard of, all deceased. It can be depressing to think of our present, or even our future, and the future of those that will come long after us, as appearing in the same light.
Your assertion would be better phrased as a conflict between short term and long term interests of the advertiser. That is, the short term interest of making money at the expense of the long term interest in retaining users. In the long term, consumers and advertisers interests are aligned: consumers want the best service they can find and advertisers want to give it to them.
Is this a serious article?

Iterating over a hash slightly wrong when writing code in a google doc during an interview is such a stupid, trivial thing to be judged on, whether it's you or someone else doing the judging. It's clear from the "My lame attempt" example that the basic concepts are understood, and if he's written a series of articles about the Enumerable module then he probably knows it better than the majority of professional developers working with the language.

If this is a serious article, then it really highlights everything that's wrong with tech interviewing.
should be fixed now, thanks for letting us know!
How to Meet the Rich, Famous, and Powerful While Sitting on the Toilet
not a bad read but please less "failcatz" pics on the body next time. maybe they can be tiled on the side or something?
Make sure you and your co-founders have found a product that truly solves a user pain or need. I like to follow the Lean LaunchPad method of interviewing at least 10 potential users each week (minimum). It shouldn't be hard, heck, it is actually very fun because you end up learning things about your product from actual users. Here's the trick that my co-founders and I do: every time we pay for a service (eat at restaurant, buy groceries, etc), we always make it a goal to interview 1 person. Try it out! You will better understand your users AND if you truly have a product that amazes your users, just develop and you will see results. Good luck on your venture!
I would rather it use the API rather than email.

I think it's also prone to misconfiguration, since you have to explicitly check a box to alert when back up.

It just feels like a second class citizen.
Usually, when discussing human diet: carbohydrates, fat, and protein. These comprise the energy content of food.
Some people are really into depictions of North Korean life because it's truly alien to them.
Yup, it's serious. I'm don't know for certain that I've been ruled out of a follow-up interview, but I got that vibe by the end.
Yes this is interesting but isn't it more of a reddit post than a HN post?
wouldn't that traffic eventually get routed via asia?
lol I'm a 36 year old hacker who forgets quickly myself. After 4 iPhones, I used a Galaxy S3 for a few weeks. When I got the iPhone 5S, for several days I kept pushing the right lower side expecting a back action.

On my iPad mini, I keep trying to unlock it with my fingerprint.
God I feel old. I'm getting flashbacks of a quarter mile sneakernet between my friend & my house where we transferred MP3s on a floppy disk with multi-disk zips.
Show HN: Redesigning the Tesla Instrument Console
Crazy registration line was crazy
Sorry, I don't understand. If you meant PaulHoule's comment I'm not sure how that answers my question, and I didn't find any other comments by you. Do you mean because cancer isn't a simple, isolated thing like polio or TB?
Show HN: Chat Meatspaces
Because it is not designed for this purpose?
You're right, that is confusing. I'm not sure how it's exploitable in 0.8.
Has the live stream started? I'm getting nothing here.
Er... where, exactly?
I tend to go with more humourous bits like that on weekend posts; that's my style.
How is that a good answer at all? If I was asking a candidate that question, I'd expect them to make an inverted index
Microsoft Releases Remote Desktop for Mac and iOS
Node.js: Am I just doing it wrong?
On Low-Res devices running Linux or Windows, that is.
To hell with Vitamins. Eat fruits and vegetables.
Ok, just what I thought. But how does processing destroy them?
SAP to halt development of Business ByDesign
Similar project, but already available:
http://www.panstamp.com/products/wirelessarduino

pamStamp has a different focus on home automation instead of broadcasting to the internet, though. However, one could also set up a mesh network with a bridge to the internet using these tiny modules. As an advantage, their battery boards use regular AA batteries, so no special LiPo chargers are required.
Someone at the NSA just pressed the wrong button...
The Darkest Place on the Internet Isn’t Just for Criminals
This article is nothing but propaganda. I'm no defender of NK and all the screwed up stuff they're doing (political prisons, torture, inequality, threatening their neighbours, et al) but they're trying to turn a story about NK opening a nice little waterpark into this dark conspiracy. Plus labelling it "creepy" is frankly just bizarre, and simply does not fit.

If you want to take digs at NK you don't have to be this disingenuous, just remind people of all the screwed up stuff NK actually does to their citizens (like real, honest to goodness screwed up stuff).

Plus traditionally aren't articles about children and women the go-to topic for propaganda pieces? You know, play up the emotive side of it to the point that no rational discussion against the propaganda can take place? Nobody is going to get emotive about a damn waterpark.
He means phytonutrients. Those components of plants that are more complex than protein, carbohydrates or fats and which are known to extend human life by largely unknown processes.
Yeah, my doctor recommends 5000 IUs of D3 for the north bay area.