skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to sound dismissive, but this is very similar to the 'eyeballs' strategies that were bandied about prior to 2000.

If a million people use a link to go to a paywall site, that's awesome - except as of now the data shows that Twitter users don't become buyers as a general rule.

Can they make money? Sure. Can they make money with ads? Sure. Can they make money with massive vertical media funnels? Well...what will make them more successful than Apple, Google, Microsoft and TimeWarner who have all been trying to do the same exact thing for many years?

Not saying they won't...just saying I'd like to see some track record before I buy into an idea that no one has been able to make work yet.
For a simpler, open-source alternative, check out Skeuocard [1], I believe it was posted on HN previously.

[1] http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/

Edit: here's the original post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6143604
This is truly awesome, nice work!

I configured and launched a machine with redis and node in less than 5 minutes. Very cool.

How will you isolate instances from each other? My instance appears to have 24 GB of RAM and 12 cores, and it looks like I can use all of it in my instance.
Hi. Just saw this by chance. I'm going to get HN Notify setup so that I do not miss any more receive replies.

I cannot quite figure out what the issue is. I am not shadow banned, but it looks like my submissions got caught in the HN Spam filter. What's really surprising is that the submission was a simple Ask HN with no links pointing to an external site. The topic does not seem irrelevant either. Maybe I should post this as an Ask HN.
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When JS is not available, this becomes a regular HTML form with inputs and selects.
Oh, I'm well aware. In Australia, I remember seeing a number of the telcos advertising "mobile data with free access to facebook and twitter". One of the catchup TV services also has "unmetered access" deals with a number of ISPs.

I don't think that the world is going to end here, or collapse into some dystopian nightmare, but the question was asked: "what are these bad precedents?" and I attempted to answer.
The real name doesn't have to be neutral, it has the benefit of being the actual name and thus is correct to use when you are being neutral.
ES6 generators are (shallow) coroutines

This is the first I've heard ES6 generators being coroutines. Is this documented somewhere other than the PEP?
OS X solves that by using a separate version of Webkit for their webviews that's independent from Safari.
There is quite some chance that in the future, the total value of the worlds gold will be less than it cost to dig it up (especially if you are willing to calculate the cost in terms of labor and material inputs).
Interesting price point; it seems to be in a no-mans land where developers who can pay $300 would probably be in a position that they'd want to implement it themselves, yet it might be prohibitively expensive for smaller clients who'd better spend their efforts elsewhere and could use Skeuocard or Stripe.js for free.

Surprised to see the 'one website' clause, as well -- as someone who spends a lot of time working with Stripe integrations, I'd love to buy this once and then plunk it down everywhere. Still, this is a cool effort and I hope to see it succeed!
>"This is a distinguishing trait of every great manager that I've worked with."

If it's genuine, or at least convincing, I would agree.

I've witnessed a few attempts at this which clearly didn't meet that criteria and it was nearly the most off-putting managerial song and dance I've ever witnessed.

I get the impression there's a certain group of people who read lists like these online or in a book somewhere and go about mimicking them without understanding the underlying prerequisites.

Eating the failure and giving the success necessarily requires a total understanding of the actual successes and failures.

Without that, the selfless routine is doing everyone a disservice by hiding the actual problems and quashing further discussion that might reveal them.
Squipe!
Google to reject Chrome extensions outside of Chrome Web Store
The entire combined might of the 21st century computing industry has managed to make the dominant application platform provide a tolerably good application experience on a dual-core multi-gigahertz machine.

Whoopee.
I've contributed casually and anonymously in the past without problem, but it's been a while and I thought I'd take you up on your challenge.

But there's a complication: Wikipedia appears to be TOO COMPREHENSIVE. I can no longer find a subject of general interest which isn't fleshed out to near (or beyond) my level of knowledge. All my local landmarks are well represented, as are the interesting areas I've travelled.

Do you have any ideas on an article Wikipedia needs? I'd be happy to spend some of my own time on research and submit it anonymously.
Does that not prove his point? There is no functional requirement for gold in jewelry now that so many cheap stainless alloys exist. Why not make jewelry out of plastic?

The answer is: we, as a species, value gold far beyond its usefulness as a metal.

Do you remember the article posted earlier this year about how DeBeers literally invented the market for diamonds out of thin air? Before their campaign, diamonds were relatively cheap and not considered to be that special.

Like the dollar, or Euro, or gold, or even Bitcoin, the value of something is set by those who desire it.
I think it was Rich Hickey that said the document database is the worst of them all, because you are now married to that structure.

Having used Couchdb in production for two years, I have to agree with his analysis, and offer my own opinion that Couchdb is highly overrated. Not because it is not a good implementation of a document style database, but because the document store itself is not a good match for most use cases.

If the only requirement is a replicated JSON document store, it may work OK for you. But so would Riak, Postgres and some others.

If you need to update the data in those documents or ever need to query the data in ways you did not initially envision, you will quickly find yourself missing features which even traditional SQL databases are very good at. Development is slower.

Writing map/reduce for queries seems particularly cumbersome, particularly if you prefer not to use Javascript. And you have to plug them into a textarea in a webpage interface, or manually put them into Couchdb over http using curl or some library that abstracts this away. Either way it is a degree of separation that makes the data feel more out of reach than through a console interface like psql or mysql.

Consider the scenario where you want to update the value in an attribute on several thousand, or even just several documents that match some criteria. In SQL, you would simply jump in the console and in a few seconds or minutes complete that as a transaction with something like:

> update table set col=val where criteria.

There is no such feature in Couchdb. You will need to write code to filter and fetch each matching document, manipulate it as needed, then write the entire thing back. All to update a few bits that hopefully were not nested too deep as that really increases the complexity of the code you will need to write.

As memracom stated, the replication is not perfect. My experience even on a low latency network is the only safe way to ensure a client can immediately read back what they just wrote is to pass them through the likes of haproxy and use a sticky session. Otherwise you have a good probability of getting a 404 after a POST (create) or stale data after a PUT (update).

So for what it is worth, here is my advice on choosing a database from an ease of development standpoint:

1) has as many features as you can, even if you don't need them initially
2) has top notch libraries for your language / framework
3) has relation awareness - do not denormalize unless you must
4) supports consistency
5) supports in place updates - easily filter and change values (doesn't apply to Datomic)
6) has tools to make schema changes / reshaping data is easy, and can be done online

Maybe 2 years ago Couchdb was a great solution. But with memory and ssd storage being so cheap and so much innovation with traditional and NoSQL DBs, I don't foresee myself deploying Couchdb again. If I did need a place to dump some semi-structured data, I find Amazon's hosted offerings more attractive.
Do you have/Do you get to set limits on it? For example, automatically buy back if it reaches $15?
If anyone is looking to learn more about Bitcoin, I wrote a short eBook about it.

http://www.bitcoinbeginner.com

If you'd like a copy, gratis, just send me an email - john@bitcoinbeginner.com
A traceroute of their blog, or a server you just spun up? They don't necessarily have to eat their own dogfood.
I'd say that not requiring capital reserves for swaps like we do for other insurance is a lack of regulation that had a lot to contribute to the disaster that was the housing bubble.

I'd say that removing the regulation that separated investment banking from deposit banking also contributed to the collapse of one deposit bank after another in the aftermath, banks that were relying on insurance companies that barely held any capital to cover their swaps.

The fact that either no one in the financial industry committed a crime during the housing bubble, or there was no one to prosecute for crimes that were committed is proof that the financial industry is either effectively unregulated, or that there is no body that has an interest in enforcing any regulations that exist.
Burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Thats you.
Woman in Mozilla
I really liked Skeuocard. Skeumorphic design is on the out, but when it resembles what you're looking at while you input it - it might still be beneficial.
$149 is a extremely high price-point for this with so many alternatives out there. I also don't see the value vs. the price. I've implemented http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com/ with authorize.net with zero issues.

Good luck selling this.
Perhaps http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/
The Visual System as Statistician
American Energy Data Challenge
> Its major objective was to achieve separation of content from presentation which it achieved and I think you being unfair in your statement about CSS not being great for its original use case.

I have never seen this fully implemented except in the simplest of blog-engine layouts and toy examples. There is always some pollution of the markup, at the very least in the form of the ordering of elements.

A template-based approach would've provided the same semantics a lot sooner than a decade of half-baked CSS hacks.
Could you not hold forever?
It truly is tragic the way many people are simply thrown in a cell rather than helped with what is clearly an illness.

So true. The privatization of jails in the US seems to be the root cause of this. Private jails want to increase profits, so they lobby for “3 strikes” laws that play well for politicians who want to seem “tough on crime”. The end result is a lot more people in jail, but without the reduction in crime and certainly absent of actually helping people stop their drug habits.
It's interesting how Google got it mixed up as well. All the news stories for the stock are for the 'real' Twitter.
Perhaps you should Google the stories of Douglas Jackson and Bernard von Nothaus.

There is no free market in money. Therefore the problems we see in banking are not problems of a free market.

The entire market is sewn up vertically. The Federal Reserve, at the bottom, consists of the member banks. At the top, it consists of those who regulate those banks.

Therefore The System represents the ultimate "public/private partnership" where the entity that regulates, is the same entity being regulated.

The true purpose of their actions? To protect their cartel.
Using computer models to fight child sex tourism
It's a real shame that FFI-dependent Haskell libraries don't build out of the box on platforms other than Linux. If you really like the language, have you considered some workarounds for this problem directly? It may be a lot easier to do a workaround than to switch to a new language entirely.

It sounds like multi-platform support is important to you, how do you intend to deploy your software? In many cases, you can get away with rolling up binaries and not worrying about trying to actually build the software on your target machine.
- $149 per site

- only minified source provided

- not out of the box compatible with a module loader

- no public bug tracker

- doesn't handle all edge cases (for example, type some numbers, place the cursor after the space, and hit backspace).

Good luck.

On the other hand, this is a nice list of edge cases for someone to check when they implement the open source weekend project version of this.
Right, but as long as cable tv works and fast food restaurants are open the mass majority of people won't do anything about it.
Skeuocard still suffers from severe usability problems I outlined here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6143829

I still stand by what I said:

"That fancy CC form will not sell a single thing. It will however stop people from paying."
Nice. Can you add some links?
Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme
We built the SMS & USSD connectivity for last week's launch in Kenya with Airtel [1] using http://github.com/praekelt/vumi. Happy to answer any questions about this, USSD isn't used as much and as such largely unknown outside of the majority world.

[1]: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/25/wikimedia-foundatio...
I do not understand the value this provides.

Some helpful pointers and a nice example. Open source it and that's that. But $149?
"If Twitter is worth $50 bucks a share why were its investors willing to part with their stock for $26 a share only yesterday?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
Just to clear things: Pixate is a native framework (iOS, and Android coming soon) which let you style your application using CSS. Their ability to execute is awesome and they're moving at the speed of light. And with Titanium SDK support.
(Checks calendar) Yep, just about time for another HN Flat UI Whine-Fest (TM).
Doesn't handle Amex correctly for card that begins 3725
Reminds me of http://zero.facebook.com
The Safari picture is a bit more... complicated. The latest version of Safari only supports Mavericks(I believe?), but 93% of all online Macs are eligible for the free upgrade to Mavericks.
CIA pays AT&T millions for call data
Google says its latest PageSpeed modules help render pages up to 2x faster
After a decade in the U.S. Military, I always wondered how government got anything done. The mere idea of ‘conspiracies’ assumes a level of competence that far exceeds the capabilities of the largest, most bureaucratic organizations in the world. In the end, regarding the military and intelligence, the important thing is to be less incompetent then your opponent.

Often times the most glamorous thing about the secret squirrel outfits and organizations is the secrecy itself. Yet fewer and fewer Americans are serving in government or the military, so it is easy to assume a level of competence far above what actually exists. Hollywood helps a lot with this misconception. Are the inner workings more like The Bourne Identity or Jackass? Spend an hour at the DMV and take a guess.
Demo doesn't show Amex but I presume it is supported?
Barrapunto was important, but now is so boring sophisticated web. I prefer the simplicity of HN, to be honest.
Or http://zero.facebook.com :)
Having list iterators carry a field pointing to their container wouldn't help you determine the number of objects between two iterators when you splice, which is what you need in order to maintain the object count.

Storing an index in the iterator would not be a solution either. That would mean updating the index in all the existing iterators when you insert an object in the list.
Time Warner doesn’t want you to know you can get HBO without cable
You seem to be confused in believing that regulated industries do not merge with the bodies that regulate them. We see this same protectionism time and time again. See the health care "industry" for example, which is actually just a bureaucracy designed to protect itself from competition, by way of government force.
Pebble SDK 2.0 Announcement
It doesn't format my AMEX card correctly (uses the 4 separate 4 digit pieces).
(what they're really saying is "fuck you, thats what you get for isolating yourself")

I think that's not a charitable interpretation. Two alternative explanations, which are not mutually exclusive:

1. Most people don't like confrontation or rejection; they find it awkward and uncomfortable, even if it's done politely. After interrupting you a few times, they find that they are generally rebuffed, so they stop interrupting you. But that hesitancy will continue even in cases where they think maybe you would say yes.

2. They may not really understand why you're redirecting them to asynchronous communication; they don't have a good mental model of how you will respond. Without that, they're not able to assess what you will think is important enough to warrant an interruption. So they err on the side of not interrupting.
Someone commented on Reddit that space programs bring us (the human race) closer. The reaction I am seeing in the international press to India's mars mission is quite the opposite - instead of praising India or just reporting the news, all I see is "BUT THEY ARE SO POOR!" and skepticism. I don't want to say this, but I felt journalists were being almost "jealous" that India achieved this.
Aboat time: Santa to arrive in Newry by water
I started the default instance with sinatra running, but where do you see the IP address to visit it via a web browser?
the problem is you need to link local couriers and aggregate shipments at hubs nearby each one to make international shipments reasonable for small volume. there are a couple of companies trying to do this and provide one outward facing shipping brand, but navigating political environments, building the tech to tie it together and getting to volume levels that make this all possible is tough.
There are a lot of ways to make a LOT of money on payment processing beyond the basic transaction fees. But you've gotta get big first. Square is playing this perfectly.
Unacknowledged writes are disturbing but this can happen in any system: data hits the disk, and just before the server can send an ack to the client, it crashes.

That same blog notes Postgres is susceptible to the same issue: http://aphyr.com/posts/282-call-me-maybe-postgres
Why not make the Inspector app listen on a predefined port? With no configuration (like if launched from Xcode) the client-app could try to connect to inspector at localhost on that port. Otherwise, do what PonyDebugger does and allow you specify a specific host/port via a singleton object.
Ask HN: Questions on the HN Spam filter
A while back I put up an Ask HN, which did not get any replies. The post slipped off the "new" page in a matter of minutes. I figured it was probably a bad time to ask, so I posted it a second time (because I've seen others do it). Exactly the same thing happened. I'm not sure why I posted it a third time. Maybe just morbid curiosity. Same thing.

I forgot about it till I saw a comment today from samwillis telling me that my submissions were dead. My comments seem to be alive, so it appears that I am not banned. However, the three posts seem to have been either flagged manually or were caught in the HN Spam filter. I've seen the words "shadow banned" and "hell banned", but not too sure what they mean and whether they apply to me.

Since the post was an Ask HN with no links to any external site, (not a show HN) I presume the text of the submission is what flagged it down. Could it be the words in the title? I had to use the short form of words (difference and between) because the title could not hold all the characters. Could that be the reason?

Any ideas?

====================

My Three submissions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6555632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6539637

Comment reply from samwillis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608446
3:00 p.m. update (EST): The Joint Typhoon Warning Center has increased its estimate of Haiyan’s maximum sustained winds to 195 mph with gusts to 235 mph. The storm is now within a few hours of landfall in the central Philippines at peak intensity as among the most powerful storms witnessed anywhere in modern times. Widespread destruction, unfortunately, seems inevitable.

Gosh, those people are going to need some serious help after the storm.
Why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users
> I'd rather live in a society where everyone pays more in taxes than a society where people in need has to rely on charity.

Oh, I see: you'd rather send armed men to kill people who don't support the charitable programmes the majority of the populace wish them to. Very enlightened of you.

I'd rather live in a society where enough folks are enlightened enough to choose to support those in need, and only use violence in order to ensure support of who are not otherwise supported.
This remembers me of the sad incident of Brazillian Sattelite Launcher explosion (that killed 21 engineers and flattened the launch pad)

Lots of people around the world (including inside brazil) went: "Oh, brazil cannot do that stuff anyway, also why it is expending money in that shit instead of building x, or y"

It made me very sad, for example I bet most of these people don't know Brazil relies heavily on sattelites to control forest fires, find illegal logging, mining and farming, find uncontacted native americans that need protection, and so on...

In a country that is just huge, specially in relation to government resources and population, it is essential to use cheap tools to manage it, and sattelites are quite cheap in that regard (or people really think it is cheaper to fly up and down every square inch of forest with helicopters?)
Aggregating & plotting time series in python
First Managed WordPress e-Commerce Platform
You minified half of the Closure Library for a modest product. 50kb of inline JS for card processing, just to obfuscate. This is terrible, you need two libraries doing the same thing.

Very high price point, developers who can afford to buy it can likely code it themselves.
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I love this idea, and want to try it but I have no experience with Docker (on the todo list).

I wanted to spin up an instance of Sphinx Search but no idea how to go about doing it.

Maybe creating a set of tutorials will help with this. I can think of two advantages. The first being customers like myself will love it. Second, similar to Linode and their tutorials it will drives a lot of traffic and establishes your reputation as docker experts. Will probably build a lot of back-links too as people link to your tutorials.
Does not support 1Password, though
I'm in the USA and am keeping my money in a US bank. I'll stick with their track record and the FDIC before Bitcoin for the foreseeable future.
Instead of this:

lldb attach -p `ps x|grep MobileCal|grep -v grep|awk '{print $1}'`

You might want to try this:

lldb attach -p `pgrep -x MobileCal`