skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite easy to build your audience. All you have to do is search for conversations you're interested in and insert yourself. So let's say "lean startup" example. Find people who are talking about that now and engage.

The hard part is doing this at scale while still preserving the human-to-human relationship.
Personal analytics can help you decide e.g. if those expensive supplements you started taking last month do in fact improve your sleep, or if you burn more calories at the gym than when you go for a free walk. Sometimes the effects are obvious enough, but often life is too messy (and your thinking to wishful) to reach a correct conclusion without some help.
What about: Your most intimate moment broadcasted to a bunch if geeks at NSA
I'm looking for a job
Atwood's Ouroboros
Someone is working on a lot of that: http://humanapi.co/
Broken in wget.
how about when the government makes you renounce citizenship and waive your right to sue them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Hamdi
Maybe it's a dedicated data center for floating point operations.
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Nice write-up, but to be honest, I'm a bit disappointed to see HN become an open job-board.

The market in Melbourne is quite good, particularly for Ruby and Javascript developers. I'm based in Sydney, and often see interesting positions come up in Melbourne. I'm sure you won't have any problems getting a great gig.

Best of luck.
You probably want something like Zepto.js. I'd also look into Lo-dash, which is a better, more functional-friendly version of Underscore.js that provides a ton of useful helper functions.

Be warned: Zepto doesn't claim to support any version of IE, so if you need IE support you'll want to fall back to jquery (yepnope works. Conditional HTML won't in IE10+).
I am going to make a stand for all the developers working furiously on this, although I don't know any of them. I blame it all on management, and they have the worst kind - politicians. I write this as I am certain it is very similar to what happened here in Brisbane Australia with the Queensland Health payroll system fiasco. Under severe pressure from politicians, they pushed out a system without thoroughly testing it first.

Edit: The Queensland health Payroll system was quoted at $6.19 million, latest revised cost is $1.2 billion.
The vessel is already in the country/state, so the 4th Amendment applies.
Composures have been making "impossible" music for a long time. They just relied on _orchestras_ to play them.

Here's one that does sound pretty great just on piano, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tds0qoxWVss
Allowing inspectors into the restaurant is a requirement of the license to operate it.
> On a second thought, it must be common practice for various inspectors to sign NDA's since they see private corporate stuff.

WTF? AFAIK it is common practice that you're not allowed to talk about stuff you see in line of duty, as cop, or any other kind of government empowered inspector?

To me this sounds completely redundant -- either the coast guard employee in question is already under much more powerful obligation to keep quiet than some corporate civil law NDA -- or this is completely outside the law, and just a show of force by private corporate interest...
Is there a good documentary about alarm clocks?
Ah, nice one. I didn't know about SpriteSpin, really cool library.
josh owens.

your domain is literally "shingle" central

what? I don't even
Thank you and sorry about that. The GIF you were uploading was over the 2mb limit, but error messages as pointed out below weren't showing. I've hopefully fixed the error messages now, so it should be more clear if your GIF is too big.
Just tested, working. Wait, was this a trick to make us upvote your post? (Just kidding, there have been some css changes lately, do a hard refresh)
Intresting take. Could be ok for corporate and dev work.
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You'd think so, but unfortunately, our government disagrees.

https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-co...
On an old alarm clock of mine, the snooze started at 9 minutes, then went down to 8, then 7 and so on. this allowed exactly 45 minutes of snooze. Something from that may have been brought into modern alarm clocks?
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2014 Porsche 911 GT3
Just two years in, the new Porsche 911 lineup doesn’t lack for variants, and yet the GT3 still seems more exceptional than all the others, a naturally aspirated hothead stripped of the frivolous and prepped for track duty. It’s also the 911 most willing to slay a few sacred cows.
Great idea! Be careful about nefarious use (aka sex offenders) if that's possible.
Liveblogs are one example.
Yeah, and this will be noticed as "floating point operations are used in military planning, aircraft development and studies of nuclear devices"
House of Representatives passes bill written by Citibank to cut bank regulation
I just started using FB ads for a sports trivia app I launched (http://www.playhattrick.com). So far it's been surprisingly good. We had a big surge in downloads and usage today. Both news feed in in-app ads are getting about a 1% CTR which I consider good for FB.

It's too early to tell if I can make it profitable. Tying ad clicks to installs and in-app purchases (conversions) is also something I'm still getting the hang of.
Error on authorising Linkedin:

"Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$fieldOfStudy in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 99 Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$startDate in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 100 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 100 Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$endDate in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 101 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 101 Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$degree in /home/parth/public/yayaid.com/public/controller/signupProfile.php on line 102"
If this gets signed into law, then Google will be required to host Gmail in Brazil? If that's the case, does this also apply to any Saas business?
Is Brazil going to effectively make it prohibitive for 99% of Saas businesses to permit Brazilian users?
Que Feia ( How gross )
Interesting what kind of pricing model do you have in mind for this? Per minute, per agent, subscription?
It's a test question, duh. You struggle with it - you clearly lack field experience. It doesn't make you an idiot, it doesn't disqualify you as a programmer, it merely tests whether you have a particular basic skill or not.
The point is that is a possible distraction. You can only really thoroughly process 2-3 inputs per second. If something on Glass, no matter what, make you focus on it, you're down to 1-2 things, which might very well be the difference between a deadly accident and no accident.

I'm sure a lot of users would be able to ignore Glass when needed, but the majority wouldn't and that's why they're making laws.
> to control the world.

you left out a big part of the statement quoted. The tactics you listed would be commendable in comparison to pure force if the end goal wasn't world domination.

Since the end goal IS world domination, however, then no means is suitable from a humanity perspective.
Ok, so who the hell is in charge then? After all, The Affordable Car Act is the President's "Signature Legislative Achievement." So You going to simply say that the President isn't responsible because he has too many employes and can't possibly manage. That's a scary thought because the President is also in charge of another large organization -- the military. So your logic would suggest that the President isn't responsible for the acts of the military, yet in the same breath folks have no problem blaming Bush for Abu Ghraib.

As Harry Truman said, the buck stops here. By the way, Warren Buffet isn't the CEO of GEICO. Tom Nicely is and yes, I would certainly call Mr. Nicely incompetent is a website they had over 2 years of lead time to build faild, especially if it were part of Mr. Nicely's "Signature" achievement and grand promise to revolutionize auto insurance for the company's customers. Should Steve Balmer be blamed for Windows Vista? Balmer had almost 100K employees, so obviously Vista couldn't have been his fault.

Guys, it's a damned website! It's essentially just a guided questionnaire. The "tough" part is that it probably has to talk to insurance company APIs. Other than that, it was purely a greenfield project. I'm sure we could assemble a team of 10 guys (or girls) from right here in Hacker News and could build a better product in 25% of the time at 1/100th of the cost. Actually, I would go so far as to say that the basic functionality could be built with a team of 6 with a budget of $500K. Remember, this site ISN'T administering insurance. It's Kayak for insurance -- that's pretty much it.

There is NO excuse for this level of incompetence. If I built healthcare.gov for a private client I wouldn't have been paid. I probably would have been sued. Yet according to the person to whom I am replying, The White House bears no responsibility because the government is just too damned big for the President to be responsible.

I didn't elect the President to suck, but that's what's happening.
I think this should be mandatory every couple of years or so in order to renew your driver's license.

On the day I applied for my license, I visited my dad at the hospital and the guy next to him had a smashed face from a car accident. He had been in a car with a friend, who was driving, and his teenage girlfriend, who was pregnant. The girlfriend's baby died and it was considered unlikely that the girl would survive. The driver went mostly unharmed and was understandably very upset.

I swore that day to always remind myself of this before I get into a car. I used to, but now I don't. The impression fades.
I do not doubt that.
But to return to the original point, a good instrument has a soul, as a good musician has.
My digital-Kawai does not have one, my analog Hofmann has.
My musical skills have nothing to do with that.
Bilbo (sword)
Why would you even assume that they replied truthfully?
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The difference is that said municipalities mandate that this toxic substance be added to people's water. With soda, people have more direct awareness and choice. With communal water, many people remain trusting and assuming. Meanwhile, there is no hard, double-blind science backing any clear benefits of fluoridation; yet the negatives keep growing. The EPA lowers their "recommended maximum" continually throughout the years, as pressure for sanity builds. Sane countries banned fluoridation long ago. Furthermore, the more it infects the food chain, the more "a little bit" adds up. It doesn't magically stay contained in tap water alone. Sure, it won't matter to most people, even not on principle alone. It will matter to some people, though, in compounding their chronic health problems. And that matters to me.

Then there is ethics.

Ethics and choice matter. Even if there were startling net benefits to this very toxic substance, using or ingesting it should be exclusively on an individual basis: personal choice, OTC, or per a physician. Advocating for needlessly and forcefully "medicating" (read: it's not medicine) other people through their communal water supply is, in no uncertain terms, blatantly unethical. It seems to stem from either psychopathy, greed, or sheer ignorance. It's on the same order as an industry and some physicians promoting nicotine cigarettes for health, once upon a time, and other such barbarities of an era.
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I don't blame the devs either. I know they crap with which they must deal. It must be like the movie Office Space mixed with endless meetings, thousands of pages of specification docs with the agility of an 12th century stone wall.
I think the parent is insinuating that Google is not only not shutting up, but in fact, these activities are part of the lead-up to some PR event.
They don't have the same aspect ratio. The Dell is 16:9 while the rMBP is 16:10.
They don't have the same resolution either. The rMBP is 2880x1800 while the Dell is 3200x1800.
Internet chatrooms can help those in distress, says study
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This is the first article I've ever read that managed to explain cryptographical stuff in simple terms without making my head spin.
So instead of measuring vibrations from a crystal, they are measuring cycles from the wall? Why?
Unfortunately returns a 403...
> and you want to write a mobile app that interops with WebRTC for doing some form of realtime video, you'll won't be able to use their source code without paying the MPEG-LA

You won’t be using software implementation in a mobile app. Hardware decoding is the way to go, if you don’t want to drain the battery.
Me too. This is the first time I've ever heard of alarm clocks with 9-minute snooze intervals.

The TIMEX clock I've been using since college has 8-minute intervals, and the alarm clock app I have on my phone has 10-minute intervals by default.
Fixed price or hourly?
Female Engineer Seeks the Actual Number of Female Engineers Working
internet trolls that attempt to shape public opinion through false choice questions
Offtopic, but there's a problem on this site with this kind of story now. I'm not sure if it's the flamewar detection, or flagging, or some other automated system, but stories like this which are very popular and not remotely a flamewar, but an interesting discussion, are disappearing off the home page too fast in my opinion. This is a topic that will define a generation's attitude to technology and the internet, and is particularly pertinent to silicone valley.

Yet this morning this story went from top of the page:

14. NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide (washingtonpost.com)
1395 points by nqureshi 15 hours ago | flag | 533 comments

To behind stories like this:

12. Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js (github.com)
232 points by binarymax 16 hours ago | flag | 129 comments

I'd be interested to know the reason, and perhaps whatever algorithm is voting this down could be adjusted, because it's clearly not working?
> What? Some clocks do count that way. That's why you can buy converters.

And it's also why your microwave clock is always off :)
I like your instructions for recruiters. Reminds me of real estate, where many sales involve both a listing agent and a buyer's agent. It seems you have a good listing agent.
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Reading this article is surreal, like living in an alternate world: "...and because there’s so much federal funding for science".

Reminds me of the joke:

Rabbi Altmann and his secretary were sitting in a coffeehouse in Berlin in 1935. "Herr Altmann," said his secretary, "I notice you're reading Der Stürmer! I can't understand why. A Nazi libel sheet! Are you some kind of masochist, or, God forbid, a self-hating Jew?"

"On the contrary, Frau Epstein. When I used to read the Jewish papers, all I learned about were pogroms, riots in Palestine, and assimilation in America. But now that I read Der Stürmer, I see so much more: that the Jews control all the banks, that we dominate in the arts, and that we're on the verge of taking over the entire world. You know – it makes me feel a whole lot better!"
I recently bought a new Macbook Air. My old Macbook Pro was 4 years old. Not that the old machine stopped working - it still works perfectly fine. The Core 2 Duo CPU was up to all tasks I threw at it (compiling C++ code). I just wanted longer battery life.

That's why I see no problem with the new Mac Pro being so "unmodular". Unless something revolutionary happens with CPUs that machine will be good enough for more than 5 years.
You underestimate how complex facebook is nowadays. Even the core is much more than just people friending each other.

If you mean "mimicking on or two of the features" I'm with you :)
MyMail sounds like a Microsoft product.
A phrase like 'Surviving Cobol programs' suggests you have the wrong idea. The idea that there is dinosaur code from the 1960's still chugging along, and occasionally in need of emergency repair by a highly paid grey haired wizard is a myth. There is still some demand for Cobol programmers because new projects are still being written in Cobol. You'd be surprised about their age as well. Often by smaller to medium sized shops, because they lack the resources to change course and retrain or replace everyone, like the big companies did.
SnapChat's success is a huge reminder to start by making something people want. Ever since watching Mr. Gadget, the idea of self-destructing messages seemed useful not just for cartoon spies, but for so many ordinary reasons.

I'm not a user of snapchat, but to my college age cousins, the value isn't in "sexting", though that happens, it's in the intimate, momentary connection.

This is the same reason, for aesthetic reasons, why I prefer not to take pictures of famous buildings & landscapes. I know I was there .. it's imprinted in my mind and I can go back and explore that experience with my imagination. I don't only visualize, but I smell, I hear, I feel what it was like.

Snapchat captures that zeitgeist, whether the experiences was funny, intimate, sexy, embarrassing, cool, awe-inspiring or sad.
It then goes into history, save the shared mindspace of 2.

That's something people want.
you sure it's exactly 9 minutes ?

I always thought it was 9 min and 59 seconds and 999- ms
Because as soon as you press the button, it begins to countdown the 10 minutes.
Actually, have you read the entire bill? If Government is controlling the insurance, they are controlling the care. And yes, if the Affordable Care Act forces insurers to leave markets, then the only thing left would be a call for single payer.

Harry Reid even said that Obamacare is "absolutely" a step towards single payer.

And, by the way, the calls for Single Payer because of the Obamacare "mess" are starting, Paul Krugman seems to be leading the charge along with others.

So could making the Obamacare rollout rougher than necessary prime the pump for a single payer push? I don't know, could closing the WWII memorial and Mt. Rushmore scenic roadside stops make the government shutdown worse than it needed to be to make a political point? The White House would never do that would they? That's just paranoid conspiracy stuff right? Strangely enough the Andrews Air Force Base golf course stayed open during the shutdown but the privately run Mt. Vernon (who happens to lease land from the Park Service) was forced to close. The even closed the Normandy beach in France! Yet, I had no problems getting a routine consular appointment during the shutdown in Marseille.

It's not paranoia if it's really happening.

http://www.healthcare-now.org/sen-reid-obamacare-absolutely-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2013/10/28/o...
The issue that I see (IANAL) is that these incremental changes to embedded advertising within search encroach ever-closer to a form of paid-search. When you own 60-70% of search, and you start requiring companies to pay in order to appear above the fold, we may have a problem.
Shortest code for random number between 1 and N in JavaScript
I love HN. Coast Guard denied access to Google warehouse: corporations have too much power. NSA suspected of gaining access to Google warehouse: government has too much power.
What is really horrifying is both sides of the aisle voted for this overwhelmingly.

Country is essentially owned by banks, producing nothing, just manipulating money for profit.

And they are voting against regulation that is trying to stop the same kind of disaster from happening again.
Very interesting discussion. Here are my 2 cents:
I agree, that how shell handles filesnames and confuses them with commands is inherently broken.

I would like to focus on whtat filenames are supposed to be.
In my understanding filenames are supposed to be like booktitles or labels on goods like in the supermarket.
So they are not supposed to contain random binary data. That is what file's contents are for. Filenames should however contain any printable character that you expect on a label. And no fake characters like beep or linefeed. But they should be fully international. I mean this is the 21st century! :-)
In order to define printable characters you also need to define a character encoding.
Unicode clearly defines 2 sets of control characters c0 and c1. I would exclude these two sets, but allow any other unicode character.
I now there is an argument about which unicode encoding is better (utf8, utf16, the way apple encodes unicode vs the way everyone else does, ...)
Maybe one could define the filesystem's encoding inside it and even give the kernel a translation layer between the ondisk encoding and the one visible to the user.
Might as well attach Google boilerplate to the bottom of this "article" and link to http://www.google.com/press/.

Summary: We know nothing and can't say.
Revenue possibilities for this app:

1) Give it to participants at conferences. You could partner with conference promoters and advertisers

2) Partner with baseball and football stadiums and "teams"

3) Partner with bands and gigs
I was asking if people should expect to be paid when contributing to OSS or how is the busines model set up?
Agreed. What's funny is we're wondering why people who still buy stuff from Sony don't seem to get outraged about the NSA.

Nobody ever cares about this stuff until it is way too late.
It would be really interesting to see the same test done with 2 and then maybe 3 dynos running. I'm wondering how well would that scale with more dynos running. Is it possible to buy dynos for shorter time than a month?
"The problem is when you start with something like rails then javascript was an afterthought - something bolted on long after the technology was built."

TCP: 1974
HTTP: 1991

Your point?
Zepto has an IE10 branch: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/tree/ie10
Again, this parsing is trivial if you use parser combinators of (almost) any kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parser_combinator

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/monparsing.pdf

Actually, when using such approach you have to fight the power of resulting parser. You have to restrict it or your parser will retain data for too long.
Wow, this brings back memories. I remember using PCA for feature extraction from image data to be used in SVM based image classification. Though as I recall, PCA added a huge tax on the processing time and provided, in comparison, a small boost in accuracy. (IIRC We split the data 4:1 into training & classification)
The fault lies with Sebelius, however the same logic would absolve Bush of Rumsfeld's errors.
In the past, the mains AC frequency was a cheap and accurate way to keep track of time. A lot of devices relied on the mains frequency.

Why does your modern day LCD monitor have a 60 Hz refresh rate? It's legacy from 1950's vacuum tube televisions that synced their beam with the mains voltage frequency.
Heh. Not having any idea what Kicksend does, I read "print" and "pickup" and assumed this was about 3D printing. Being able to order 3D prints and pick them up at Walmart sounded like a major leap, so I was rather disappointed to see the blog entry talk about photo printing.

Reading "Walmart has a wide range of popular print sizes you know and love, including 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10" made me feel somewhat underwhelmed. Maybe I'm jaded, but I'm not very impressed about the fact that they can print photos on different-sized papers (none of which I "love").