skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an email list of about 300 people, and I looked at twitter occasionally for people saying "Looking for freelance work"
I agree this looks very cool. As far as http://deis.io/ is concerned, we're focused more on the "operate your own PaaS" capability, whereas this seems to be a pure hosted service -- which is great for lots of use cases.

Best of luck guys!
Don't understand your negotiated prices apply to my shipments? I noticed that user is requested to create account at respective carrier. Could not use it since the server ajax is not responding.
PS -
Request URL:https://goshippo.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?from-dd=Orange%...
Request Method:GET
Status Code:500 Internal Server Error
Founders Are the New Rockstars
Oh my lord. Thanks for breaking the fragile new trust I had in Microsoft's improved embracing of the web.. They actually made it so that you now have to test and optimize for every IE version out there.
Don't blame on malice what you can blame on ignorace!
I think it is too early to start a campaign to raise funds. They first need to meet with their insurance provider to find out what is covered and what is not, then go to the public for funding. Unless they were grossly under insured and knew it, 1 day isn't enough time to determine what's covered.
It was offered at $26, but opened at 45, hence +20.
That would be pretty awesome. Currently I'm using campaign monitor and no other software.
"Docker-as-a-Service", simple, easy-to-understand pricing. Love it.

This is my favourite Docker offer so far. I've been looking for something to replace dotCloud's deprecated sandbox tier for just playing around, and it looks like this fits the bill.
HN isn't really the place for punny jokes. Take them to Reddit.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
> "Square, which makes credit card readers that plug into mobile devices."

Perhaps the worst explanation of Square's business model I have ever seen.
Maybe IE shouldn't be so tightly integrated with the OS.
With Philantro, we've addressed close to 27 issues. We'll be glad to write a post on our Medium account to go into more detail but here's a few. We've also addressed one with detail. We didn't want to turn readers off with a huge post detailing everything.

User Data Portability, Cost Effective Means of Donation Processing, Privacy, Social Collaboration, Data validation and Retention, Content Cross Pollination and more.

Issue/Cause Discovery:
Issues around the world are being reported in near real-time yet we don't know about it until it makes the front page. On Philantro there's trending topics. By aggregating all the content from these nonprofits across all their social networks, we see what issues are trending through repetition and commonality to help guide users.

Imagine a stock ticker but with issues from all the nonprofits in America who are on social networks. You're able to keep a pulse on issues instead of waiting for a tragedy.
I used to think that as well, until I tried to implement the equivalent of
<div style="padding:5px;margin:5px;">variable text</div>
in an iOS TableView.

CSS makes life much, much easier.
I always wondered why people don't transfer to offline wallets as soon as the trade goes through since most people are holding anyways.

On traditional banking, It also depends on where you live. I doubt people in Cyprus, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and a couple other places feel that safe with their life savings in banks post 2007. I know JPM recently put capital controls on transfers greater than 50k outgoing from the US (but accepting incoming), I wonder what that is all about.
Seriously. It bugs me when people take the '07 meltdown as proof that the banking system need to be left alone by the government. If the government's regulatory authority hadn't been curtailed, it wouldn't have had to rescue the banking system at all.
You're missing the second order effects. In the old days the route into the industry for non-traditional candidates was to start on the helpdesk or in QA and work hard and then get the nod to move across to engineering if you were good. One of the best managers I ever worked for got her start that way. But if this "menial" work is outsourced, where does that leave us in the West? Without one stream of high quality talent.
There is a difference between flat and (more) usable. While I strongly question the necessity of shadows and gradients as a means to convey structure, they more often that not help convey functionality to the non-rational part of the user's brain. Particularly the github example comes to mind: it may be a blue circle, but only with a smooth blueish shadow does it convey the meaning of an LED that wants the user's attention.

A blanket removal of usually carefully designed interfaces comes close to art vandalism :) It might do good in some cases, but destroys the hard work put in many others.
Meetings: Don't play the role.
That is true but the conflict is preserved in the database. So a change feed set up to monitor conflicts will notice it immediately. You do have to set up the monitor and conflict resolver.

From the CAP standpoint your system is available but not consistent for a short period of time because initially on a GET during a conflicted document you might get one version but after the custom merge resolve runs, it could end up replacing with another.

That is the price to pay for availability, and it works best if applications on top are designed to work with it. It is not always possible so this, so it is a tool that is good in some cases but not in all cases.
Exploits of critical Microsoft zero day more widespread than thought
Finally, an IPO for something that's actually useful.
Advertising platform + Web does not equal "tech company". I've never really been excited about Twitter's tech, since it's mostly just inverted IRC. You "join" people, rather than channels. And channels become hashtags. Then they centralized the entire thing and put a dot-com face on it all. The only way Twitter makes money is by buying out or eliminating competitors, mostly mobile apps. Any high fives for getting crushed by Twitter?

So the tech isn't interesting, nor is the business. The interesting part here is what people are willing to pay for it.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSZT41_Wl2s
My complaint is that a lot of people like CSS/HTML/JS. Because they have learned it and gotten comfortable with it. They don't know/understand anything else and their identity and sense of self-worth is challenged if you speak ill of these technologies. That's a big problem.

Pragmatically: I suppose that we embrace CSS/HTML/JS as object code. And I mean this in a much more dramatic way than CoffeeScript or SASS. This is finally starting to happen, thanks to browser support for things like source-maps. This is one reason I contribute to ClojureScript!

Idealistically: We should be pushing for lower level platforms for code distribution and execution, as well as host platform integration. Portable Native Client and similar efforts shouldn't be so controversial.
There have been attempts to fix this by creating languages which compile to each of those: HAML for HTML, CoffeeScript/Dart for JS, SASS/LESS for CSS. The language benefits tend to be fairly obvious, but there hasn't been much of anything in the way of native browser adoption that I've seen yet, apart from Google's plans for Chrome & Dart.
Can't wait to start my coke habit and wreck some hotel rooms! ;)
I have a similiar thought I always return to when I read news about big IPOs- what (if any) value is added by stock exchanges? The only thing I see is the ability to use stocks as long-term storage for excess money.

* After the IPO, money made by circulating stocks is of no benefit to company in question.
* Companies rarely pay out dividends (I usually see that in news, as if it was something special)- so buying stock in hopes of dividends does not seem a good idea.
* Publicly traded companies are then put under pressure to meet arbitrary analysts' expectations by majority shareholder(s)- which does little to help company meet it's long term goals.

None of this seems to create any value for anyone except stock exchange. So isn't stock trading just a legal way to gamble?

I can easily see the value added by banks (handling money transfers so we don't have to deal in cash, trading foreign currency when I need it, etc). Traditional investment is also (meant to be) of benefit for both parties- people with excess money can help fund businesses, which then in turn pay them back from their proceeds.

There sure needs to be something I am missing in the stock trading (the question being- what exactly?)
Larry is legendary for absolutely crazy ideas. One of his other ones was to remove all the buttons from the Google home page:

http://skrubu.net/2009/10/07/the-day-google-was-blank/

I think this goes to show that the secret to having better ideas is to have more ideas, and nobody cares about the million that suck, they care about the one that makes you a million.
And something that's actually profitable.
We are all founders now
I must be naive too, then, because this is what I thought at first. Anything that gets dollars into the hands of the archive.org folks is fine with me, but this is what insurance policies are for.
I wonder if policy in India on generic drugs has some relevance to treatment of tuberculosis. In any event, there is a grave threat to world health from multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis, and I hope they are correspondingly urgent efforts to deal with the problem in India, the center of this dangerous new infectious disease.
Ok - it looks like commenters are unable to see why he calls this "passive income".

It's because although the work is done by hand, he can eventually (in like a month) hand it off to his own employee or contractor for them to do for a fraction of the profits.

Starting it up himself allows him to formularize the entire business, build a following and keep costs low in the beginning. He probably also plans to start creating similar email lists for other verticals with high levels of contractor work - so not just developers, but also designers, devops etc.

If you read between the lines, you can see where he's going with this; it can absolutely be a passive income stream, and based on his traction, it may replace his need to work.

Edit: To commenters below - Most successful businesses eventually hire someone to run them w/o much intervention from the investors/founders. He can do the same.
Agreed.

We're feeling a lot of pressure at my workplace, especially for a team of new hires that only formed less than 90 days ago. We've barely had a chance to get a handle on this legacy codebase or form habits, never mind start cranking out new features right away.

I don't expect a factory to produce maximum widgets halfway through its own construction process.
I was wondering the same thing. The number of employees is around 2300, according to Bloomberg. I think you could run Twitter with a development/engineering staff of 100. What are all of those other people doing? Sales?
There is no good "flat" design. Removing all depth from a design is not good design.
If you pursued it, you might even be able to identify patterns common to high-quality leads and use those patterns to automate your process some.
I'm sincerely sorry about the server problems. We received an overwhelming response from the HN community today (thanks!) and the server became quite slow because of that. We didn't expect that and were unprepared with our MVP. Yes, depending on the courier service we're sometimes able to pass on our discounts.
Debating Software Ambitions with our App
Front-end stuff always seems to make the front page of Hacker News. I think it's because front-end is easier, and possibly more "hip" right now (as far as jobs go), so there's more interest in it.
> From my own experience, many don't give because they don't want to. Oh, they will use the excuses presented here or make them up as they go.

I thought the same thing when I read this post. I'm sure there are folks who don't donate because they're genuinely concerned about fraud or lack of efficiency, but my perception is that most of the people who have the means to donate but don't simply aren't interested.

Finding a great organization that is well-known and reputable is not difficult, and there's no reason that a person's generosity needs to be spread thinly across multiple organizations. Pick an organization that you like, set up an automated monthly donation via credit card (as you hinted, most organizations make this easy) and be happy. It's that simple.
Yes sorry. (Can't believe I didn't remember the title. I'm reading it right now and it's sitting on my desk. FacePalm)
I hope that stock image of dominoes is intended as sarcasm.
Currently with more market cap than Marathon Oil which hasn't posted a single quarter with less $250M in income since 2008.

Totally makes sense....... right?
You are not helping your point.
This would simplify my life for sure.
Diary: Never Been Half-Lifed, Part One
The words you're looking for are "I'm making money with a product that has fixed costs and variable income", not passive income. It's a pretty well known model used by a number of companies such as Microsoft.

You're also selling 'mining picks', so I'd guess your product has a lot of potential.
Unless you consider getting to go home after 8 hours the reward.
I've thought the same thing before. In fact one of my favorite founders literally used to be a rock star (Nate @ zingcheckout.com).

As far as rockstars go we're fairly boring. Mostly we sit quietly.
At first, I was concerned that folks would rather wait to give until they'd "made it beg" or were old. Survey results showed "waiting" as the least impt reason for people not giving to charity. Really reinforced the idea that people just need to have a more straightforward way to connect right now with causes they will love.
The unspeakable horror of Just Dance 2014
The US Government uses a program called Combined Federal Campaign for this. CFC is an organization that funnels money to charities and acts as a one-stop shop for the contributors taking the choice largely out of their hands if they want to. CFC takes a cut of the money as part of the service. Apparently they do pretty well because they are still in business and "CFC contributions" are a core metric for many federal workforces (which is terribly misplaced in my opinion). So there is precedent for this type of service.

Why don't I use it? Because it takes a cut out of my contribution and doesn't give me any indication that my money is being used towards good purposes. They have percentages of administrative overhead for each charity listed, but we all know that those are gamed.

In Sum, you aren't solving the problem of making contributors feel as though they are a critical factor in making a change unless they see EXACTLY where their money is going - just like any business person. So charitable giving is always going to be low for people who want a high level of control and don't have enough money to just blindly throw at a cause and/or do it for the tax benefit.
Handing off work to employees is not passive income, or every business owner in the world would be "passive income". It's just a standard product business.
The big point of Docker for me is that I can build the container on my machine, run automated tests on it, play with it and then ship it to the production machines when I'm confident that it is working.

If you build the container on a service like this testing it is hard or in some cases even impossible. For example acceptance tests with Selenium.

Gemfile.lock and similar version binding tools help, but prebuild containers bring the deployment stability to whole new level and is the reason why I'm exited about Docker and containers in general.

Do they support prebuild containers?
> Replication has been around for a long time.

Well yeah data copying has been around as long as there is data. Peer-to-peer replication in the database world, with consistently and openly defined protocol has not.

http://dataprotocols.org/couchdb-replication/

I haven't seen too many databases that do this well. And well enough to have other database product interface with them (PouchDB for example).

> They often present at conferences and write blogs on these topics so if you really want to UNDERSTAND replication, google for blogs and conference presentations connected to Riak.

I don't remember having too many issues. What exact issues did you encounter with CouchDB's replication? You emphasize UNDERSTAND, do you have any indication CouchDB developers don't UNDERSTAND replication?
Ink: A Responsive Email Framework from ZURB
Ha! I should have used larger made up numbers! How about $100/yr from 5% of their users? Anyhow, you know that the investors are betting that the numbers will grow.

My main point is, Snapchat has a lot of users who have formed the habit of opening the app and sending snaps, totaling hundreds of millions of snaps/day. Simply cloning the app in no way means that you can generate those kinds of numbers. The numbers are stellar, and the investors seem to think so as well.
Ask HN: Odd follow up question from a cold e-mail to Alabama businesses 
I'm doing some cold e-mailing of food businesses for my nutrition start-up, and the reply with businesses only in Alabama was:

"Where are you located at?"

After that question was answered, only then did we start a dialogue.

Anybody have any reasons why this would only be asked in Alabama?
Under Bayesian inference, past performance is the ONLY indicator of future performance...
It's not always so simple. Taking blame of others' mistakes can come across like regret for hiring or trusting that person. Sometimes part of giving people responsibility is letting them deal with the mistakes they make.
The Best-Case Scenario for Twitter
Only that doesn't work in IE10 :( http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
Sounds like you took the best parts of digital ocean and are trying to push it as a platform with docker baked in. I like. It seems like you're also trying to simplify using docker. I like even more.
Is the pricing for 1 dockerfile or unlimited dockerfiles?
Ketosis Improves Your Brain - that's why Dave Asprey puts Butter in his Coffee
There are, in-fact, and have been for a while several known ways do do this in CSS 2.1 this just being another with a similar long list of restrictions and context requirements.

http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/

They're all much of a muchness, at least we'll be able to just use flexbox soon enough.
If you do the math you suggest, it looks like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499111

Musk argued that TSLA was 5x less likely than a petrol car to catch fire on the freeway. That math does not hold up. At the time, TSLA was approximately equally (1x) likely to catch fire under these circumstances. Given two more datapoints, that data is now TSLA is 3x more likely to catch fire, not 5x less likely than a standard car in a fwy accident.

That actually seems like news.
Square isn't profitable... Even the linked article makes this clear:

> While the company is not yet profitable, Dorsey has done a number of things designed to generate profit within two years, including bringing on new board members.

New board members always means profits!
> partially for inspecting the product, and partially for teaching and inculcating cultural norms

Yes!

I would go further and say that - without discounting their value for catching bugs - the _largest_ benefits of doing code reviews are cultural rather than technical.
"You can create a Docker file with some easy steps we’ve created, or you can upload your own Docker file and create an instance from that."

Sounds like a yes.
I'm a full-stack engineer that started out on the front end. I don't think frontend is easier - in terms of the amount of background you need to know to produce something useful, being a frontend engineer is significantly harder than being a backend one. However, frontend stuff demoes better. If you do a fancy machine-learning analysis of some public data set but present it as a command-line app or a table on some bare-bones website, people will be like "Uh, what's the deal?" If you make things fly around the screen in cool patterns, they'll be like "Woah! I didn't know you could do that!"

A lot of this is also because a frontend engineer's job is to lower the cognitive processing a user has to do, while a backend engineer's job is to come up with useful things to cognitively process. In other words, when a backend engineer comes up with a demo, they make the viewer work to understand it, while when a frontend engineer does the same they make the viewer go "Ooh! Aah!"
The banking and financial industry is the most heavily regulated (and thus corrupt) industry that we have, surpassing even the health industry. Basically it's just a cartel.

Saying that Bitcoin "may need government regulation" is like saying that Bittorrent "may need government regulation." The question is, how on earth can you regulate such things, when they are designed to be resistant to such threats?

Let's not forget also, that policy consists of political decisions regarding the use and threat of force. Therefore we can never actually regulate Bitcoin. At best, we can only regulate how we plan to use violence against people who use Bitcoin.
I think it's important for designers to remember the purpose of what people refer to as "flat" design isn't to unnecessarily flatten layouts, but rather to avoid unnecessarily adding skeuomorphism to them.
Clicking on alpha/deploy leads to 404 :(
Ah, that makes perfect sense. With a logarithmic chart, each change is seen in the context of the current value. Each change is not equal to every other change. When bitcoin is worth $1, and it goes up one more $1, that's a much bigger change than when at $300 it goes to $301 but to have the line the same length is kind of misleading.
Facebook's new Boston engineering team
Show HN: YapMap - An art project aiming to recreate the world with dots.
Sell What's in Your Bag
I contribute to the poor every year. It's called taxation.
Position:sticky will fix that once it's supported in a critical mass of browsers.
This probably explains "earworms" (songs that get stuck in your head) as well. Usually the hook that repeats doesn't have a musical resolution, and/or you can't remember how the song ends. Just hearing or imagining a single chord that sounds final can help get rid of them.
The theme actually reminds me of the AdminFlare[1] theme on WrapBootstrap.

1: https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/adminflare-WB0246423
Fair, but lots of fires are from internal issues. I think only 60% of car fires are due to collisions. All three Tesla fires were from collisions. You'd have to have more data than my attention span will allow to calculate whether the collision-to-fire ratio is higher in a Tesla than a ICE vehicle.

You'd need the total number of collisions, and the percentage of those that resulted in a fire.

You'd likely have to do some analysis about driving habits too. Perhaps limit the data to comparable luxury cars. People bombing around in a luxury car likely have different collision rates than the average Joe. More because the car is faster? Fewer because the care more about the vehicle? I don't know...