skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible...

It worked back when we had a mailing list, CVS, and a web page because a single individual or set of individuals owned the top-level project infrastructure associated with the name in question.

Github broke that model by making forks largely non-subsidiary to the projects they fork. They exist at the same namespace, they have independent bug tracking, wikis, and author information.

This breaks the social economy of contribution that previously existed; even if you choose to not participate in Github, your project will be forked hundreds of times via published Github-based mirrors that look like every other top-level copy of the project.
I really can't wait for this project to launch! Yoga has been a sort of saving grace for me and this project will only further that. www.myyogapro.com/00226
Show HN: WhoSMS - check domain availability via text message
I don't think it's fair to say Mysql doesn't care about your data. For example,

> Perhaps you mistakenly insert "2013-10-32" into a date column.

Only with ALLOW_INVALID_DATES sql mode set. As of 5.0.2, the server requires by default that month and day values be legal, and not merely in the range 1 to 12 and 1 to 31.[1]

> Perhaps you make an error in a transaction. MySQL lets you keep doing subsequent things in the transaction.

If you care about transactions you should have STRICT_TRANS_TABLES on.[2]

[1] - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server-sql-mode.html#...

[2] - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html#...
I applaud you for doing this, and I think it's a fantastic idea. As mentioned by other commenters it's not quite as simple as releasing the source-code but it's better than nothing.

However, this isn't going to work for any SaaS that has any VC, as your code is part of your IP. Selling that is quite common practice when investments fail and investors want to recoup some of their losses.
Flexible Mobile Devices Get a Flexible Battery Made From Nanotubes
I answered you comment on by blog :)

"At the moment I'm tracking clicks on the title "Open-source warranty". But I will try to perform an A/B test later."
When I encounter myself in these sort of situations I feel uncomfortable so I kind of empathize with the author. And it's funny because I'm working on an iPhone app which is aimed at solving these kind of situations where you want to start new conversations with strangers. It's called Joiner ( http://www.joinerapp.com ) if you want to check it out (shameless plug).

However, I think I'm not only worried by how to approach people more easily, but also to find good conversations. If it's already very hard to start a conversation with a stranger, imagine finding a good topic of conversation. In my case, on most occasions I always talk about the same thing, like what I do, where I am from and what I have studied. Because I don't know what I have in common with the other person I don't risk pushing other topics into the conversation, which would be great if, for instance, I entered a room and could instantly detect people with similar interests in technology, music or whatever.

That's why we have created Joiner, to help removing the pain of meeting new people and by making it more engaging.
Jack Welch: 'Yank and Rank'? That's not how it's done
>In terms of energy density, you can just increasing the speed can't you? //

In which case you only need a tiny mass to start with ...

The speed limitation is presumably going to come in with the rate at which you can alter the magnetic field to still accelerate the mass. Also you'll get drag as it impinges on local fields (Earth's magnetic field) and there'll presumably be eddy currents and local electrical fields to cope with too which will become more significant at higher flux rates.
LOL HN: Electricity over IP
Well, I'd hardly call this something usable in a production environment. It's a lot slower to say the least...

Still, I applaud the hacking :)
What if you found that all phone cameras and regular Digital Point and shoot cameras you owned do not match you old film camera in speed.

The only thing that comes close are the Professional DSLR's.

Would that qualify?
You are missing quite a few vegetarian only restaurants. There are three I thought of immediately: The Gate in Hammersmith. or that place on Drummond St near Euston station (Diwani?) Rasa in Stoke Newington. All are well known enough to have had a write up in Time Out at some point.
Some things are just better left to the desktop and not the web, I'm afraid. FFmpeg is a part of most standard desktop Linux distributions, and can easily be downloaded for other systems. Apparently installing software locally is a horrifying predicament now.

Encoding videos on the desktop with the native FFmpeg code will not only yield better performance, but I can't think of a scenario why you'd want to use as a web-based service.

Create screenshots? Really? What a complete triviality. I guess using standard software and hitting the PrtSc key is too difficult in comparison to using the browser for everything. Making screencasts is a different issue, but also one you'd do locally.

Sorry if I'm not so passionate.
Should be "boat". Freudian slip!

"...and the community gets a bloat load of terrific open source libraries along the way."
My friends are ready to publish their game, and are asking for support to see their dream come true!
Cool - will check out the series.

You could be right, but I think the seed is a lot more interesting. If you simply wanted to generate the level, you could use a random number generator on the device and wouldn't care about logging it.

As you showed by varying colors, the candy distribution determines how likely the player is to win, whether they fall just short of clearing the level, etc. This will have a significant impact on whether they pay to continue, buy boosts, etc.
Crazy Things I've Done That Don't Scale
it will be great to use this -- when it comes out in a few months.

i guess they aren't waiting until its closer to production
Why Microsoft’s Craig Mundie Worries About Weapons of Mass Disruption
That's not a horrible semantic. There is one canonical truth value and everything else is false. It's the inverse of the Lisp semantic, where there is one canonical false value and everything else is true. I think it's better than the ad-hoc semantics of other scripting languages,[1] and more appropriate for a dynamic language than throwing an exception if a non-boolean is used as a predicate.

[1] And as a practical matter generates faster code, because it can be implemented with a comparison against a single constant.
This is getting to remind me of XKCD on standards. The wonderful thing about having too many standards is that somebody comes along to create a new standard intended to unify and replace all the other ones. Then you have N+1 standards to choose from.

That said, I do think adding an extra level of indirection to any customer/merchant transaction event is a Good Thing. Allow the customer to pay in any manner he chooses that otherwise satisfies the merchant. While doing so in a way where the customer can be confident his payment identity/authorization is not hijacked and repurposed, or reapplied, or TRACKED, without his permission or knowledge. We still seem to be in this era where POS payments are catching up with what software engineers knew at least decades ago would be a smarter solution.
Stop Catastrophizing Relief Efforts in the Philippines
Putting a Geek in the Middle of No Where with no Internet. Here's what Happens
Isn't that just the definition of "weak typing"? When you can do stuff like object + string + number and get an answer.
There is no point in having the ability to store energy in the battery faster than your solar panels can generate it, or to discharge energy from the battery faster than your house is using it. So it seems that you would be interested in the power rating of the motor, such that for a small system a 10 HP motor would be fine.

The torque and speed of the process are less relevant, as you'll just gear the motor to match the load (and possibly to keep the motor at peak efficiency).
what's the moral thing to do if the world's population was 250 billion?
Your mistake is equally as big.

Women who buy women's magazines are women who first and foremost are interested in reading magazines. Out of that subset of women, one can begin measuring who are interested in women's magazines. I would assume the percentage here becomes quite large. I'll leave it up to a potential child to find that magic number and whether or not it can be representative of women in general.

Although, quite frankly, I am quite tired of this kind of "woman analysis" as if there's something inherently wrong with women in our society.
What part of the world do you live in? What parts of the world have you been to? What have you done outside of work?
Have to agree with you. I'm a member of lots of active communities, and my "Scientists" circle has over 1000 people in it, which makes for fantastically interesting reading. It is not at all the ghost town that it is sometimes made out to be, but that being said, very few of my friends are actually on it.
This is a common misconception about the FOSS economy.

It is not about donation, it is about cooperation and net efficiency, and a good share of open source maintainers and contributors are very well paid to do what they do - they are not hobbyists donating weekends to the cause.
EU: Court Ruling Reinforces The 'Right To Be Forgotten' On Social Media Sites
Good feedback, thanks. And kudos for the neat charts.
mike at troupe dot co btw
Oh, I thought that was just an Instagram filter.
http://VegGuide.org provides a REST API that you could combine with this data. See http://www.vegguide.org/site/api-docs for details.
What I want to know was who was taking the photos?
There's also a lot of hospitality exchange groups that'll help you meet people and hopefully find a place to stay. Here's a list: http://wikitravel.org/en/Hospitality_exchange
Ask HN: Do you branch?
Looking for some use cases from people that use git branches effectively.

Do you branch when you are building a new feature? Or only when you are making major changes? Or never? What about deployment, do you have a specific branch for Heroku or AWS?
Have a look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLdDMDkwK1s and maybe it will inspire you and you will understand that not everything is about the money. Fuck Mark Cuban, do you really want to be gambling 10 million dollars in Vegas when every day people are dying around the world? At the end is about how people will remember you and how you spent the money on crap you do not need. Rich doesn't mean that you will have a better life or you will be happier...it just a state of mind saying yeah I have the money to buy that expensive crap that I do not really need.
Our decisions (including this one) is based on what's best for our company and customers, not any future VCs. And also, this clause is mainly an insurance for our customers during our first "risky" years. Hence the expiration on the clause (October 31, 2015).

Anyway, thanks for your feedback :)
I think this is the key question. Using the absence of a GitHub profile to dismiss candidates is one thing, but using the presence of a strong GitHub as a positive is a different story.
Wow, thanks for sharing this list. I wrote an app, http://follower.io/, which identifies people to "cold tweet". Very interesting stuff.
You should also look into software escrow. Large corporations often require this of smaller vendors delivering enterprise solutions (SaaS or otherwise).

Your agreement is great in spirit, but I believe the moment your company ceases to exist your customers will lose legal recourse over your commitments. IANAL, but I would assume that includes this open source guarantee. That's why there are a number of third party companies who provide escrow services. Iron Mountain is an example:

http://www.ironmountain.com/Services/Technology-Escrow-Servi...

Edit: Fixed formatting, wording.
I'd think you'd want to make a signed hash of each request, so the server can verify it came untampered from the client.
How many years did it take JavaScript to become a multi-vendor standard?

Let's see... Netscape Navigator 2.0 was shipped with it in September 1995 and ECMA-262 1st Edition was written in June 1997 and finally approved in April 1998.

However, the 1st edition was done entirely by Netscape (by the looks of it). So, this doesn't count as a multi-vendor standard since there wasn't any involvement by any other vendor.

Looks like you're being a bit unreasonable. Dart isn't even shipped yet in one browser and you're already complaining that it isn't a multi-vendor standard yet. Going by JavaScript's timeline, it still has more than 3 years for getting to that point.
I have another idea: just throttle the hydro and nat gas plants?
Uh, the one-child policy was introduced almost 20 years after the Great Chinese Famine. I question the implied causal link.
Working the smoking area is much easier than working the room. Best conversations of my life have been standing on a curb with another smoker. I quit about a year ago, but still use the ecig.
Redis basics - practice challenges
The unintended consequence of this ruling is that if we were all required, by law, to delete any and all data (including an email address) of a user who has opted out, how would we ever know if the user ever opted out in the past? Because there is a chance this user gets back into your data with a friend or someone else entering in their email address by mistake or maliciousness.
> Some things are just better left to the desktop and not the web

That list changes every year, too. As JS runtimes get faster, more and more is now possible in the browser that would've been fully impractical just a few years ago. In just a few more years, I predict that stuff like video processing won't be so far-fetched either.
Why 1 BTC should/would worth $392.928
I think this is pretty neat demonstration of the maturity of Emscripten. This reveals a lot of interesting avenues one could take with legacy software in the browser to me that I hadn't thought about before. Many kudos to the creators of this project who took the time and energy to show the rest of us what's possible with a little creativity. Keep on hackin'!
I cannot wait for this! I started to do yoga month ago and I appriciate this new platform for yogi at home. Thaks a lot! :-)
Thanks, will look into that. You don't happen to know what it might cost? Maybe I should apply for a free quote :)
as someone who is generally familiar with key political figures, i'd say this graph is awesome. it immediately quantifies information that you otherwise would guess at based on what people say about them. the time series is also telling.
Can't wait to read more, great start!
I'd also add that body language of a pair talking will tell you if you are welcome to stick around and converse. If they separate slightly to accommodate your presence and address you by looking at you when they are talking, you are good to go. If they stay facing each other and do quick glances at you, they are probably having a more intimate discussion which may be hard if you are standing there listening. Body language is the key - pay attention to it.
Hipster hate aside, that was fun to read. You have to admit, you were amused...
There are a couple applications running on top of glassfish at $DAYJOB but I can't say I've ever been involved with them. Care to elaborate a little on why it's so bad? I saw the admin console once and it seemed to run like a slug but it did seem to include a lot of features.
Yeah that doesn't sound bad at all. Still pretty difficult to think of a niche market or where to find a drop ship friendly supplier. But it's nice to know that if I stumble on that combo it wouldn't take much initial capital.
How is a flight to you for a date a perk? Sounds like a chore to me.
How does one get to the .ipa file?
I think that "completely new and innovative" approaches are preceded by toy projects that many consider to be impractical or simply hacks. I think that this is a pretty cool demonstration for what it is.
Don Jon: how porn is rewiring men's brains
Please make it so we can delete our accounts. I signed in for gitter because I like what I read and wanted to be on the waiting list, but when I got the message saying about Trou.pe I was curious to see what it was, not sign up. That's not cool, and now I'm signed up for some site I don't even know what does... I looked around after being force signed up and STILL don't know what it is. Now I can't delete it without going to Github and de-authorizing the actual account I did want. ಠ_ಠ
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738881
Being a Product Manager Doesn't Mean You Get to Do Everything.
Agreed, every MySQL project I'm on is actually a MariaDB project. While I prefer Postgres and have arguments to present to clients who rely on MySQL, a fear of Oracle is not one of those arguments because I just don't think it matters what happens to MySQL proper.
Did you read the linked article on the subject?

http://ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-th...

Here's some key points from it if it is tl;dr

Marginalized people in tech - women, people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, and others - have less free time for a few major reasons: dependent care, domestic work and errands, and pay inequity.

Women are far more likely to be a primary caregiver of not only children, but other ailing and aging relatives. 59-75% of caregivers are women.1

52% of women caregivers with incomes at or below of the national median of $35k spend 20+ hours each week providing care. The largest racial demographics in this group are black and hispanic2.

Women perform more unpaid labor (most visible in domestics and child care) than men. On childcare alone, mothers spend more than twice as much time per day as fathers do. On average, working fathers spend only 10min more per day on child care when they are not working, whereas working mothers spend nearly twice as much when not working3.

Due to additional pay inequity contributing to less access to paid childcare, women of color perform far more child care than white women.

Those with medical conditions requiring that they regularly visit medical facilities or perform other health-related activities such as getting additional sleep, regularly exercising, doing physical therapy, being away from backlit screens, not sitting in a chair for an extended period of time, resting their hands, etc are all affected by what becomes an extended workday.

Those with a longer commute have less free time. Those who make less money can't afford the same housing costs as those that make more and are able to live in a city, so they are negatively impacted here again.

Women earn 76-89% of men's wages. 6

Women of color earn as little as 55% of white men's wages. 7

I know many women that either don't contribute to OSS because they've been dismissed for being women - being too pretty, not pretty enough, being forced to prove their competence more than their male counterparts because they're women. I've talked to women who use gender-ambiguous github names and don't post a picture of themselves as their avatar because of how quickly this happens. In addition, the sexual harassment, slurs, and other derogatory language that are used directly or indirectly at these groups of people causes many to not want to participate at all.

Additionally, there are very public instances of assuming someone is male. with a link to this hacker news post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712954

Some research about how women get 25 times more harassing messages then men:

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/4243412_Assessing_th...

More research about harassment of women online:

http://indiana.edu/~tisj/readers/full-text/15-3%20herring.pd...
Before today's YC interview: Two founders on prep, hopes, fears
Videos of Absolute OpenBSD author, Michael Lucas, talk at mug.org
The 'support' button for trou.pe doesn't work. :(
Any chance you could setup a demo or provide some screenshots ?
This makes me think if there might be demand for a consultancy-like startup, which has the business idea of taking over a SaaS service if the company is discontinued, and running it for x number of months/years. The business model would presumably be charging the SaaS company an insurance-like fee, and the value proposition would be that they can advertise their SaaS as a "safe" service.
Is Google PageRank no more?
This year, lot of efforts seems to have been put on connecting websites with Google Plus profiles and no updates to the Google PageRank toolbar in months.

Does this mean PR won't be updated any longer and maybe something new like Author Rank is introduced?
I would honestly use this. Knowing there's a time limit I'd definitely pick it up/dial. This coming from a person that avoids phone calls like the plague. I hate anything that lasts more than 15 seconds to be honest.
Actually, if you have a smartphone with no plan (quite reasonable if you're travelling a lot), then you still get your map (Osmand), compass, flashlight, books, etc, and at the same time "get away from it all" from a communications standpoint.
if an ipad has a 40Wh battery and can run for 10 hours then it consumes 4Wh per hour so runs at 4W or 4J/s. 100kg dropping 1m releases 1kJ so will supply an ipad for 1000/4 = 250s = 4min. so a 100kg weight needs to drop 15m to power an ipad for an hour.

i don't completely understand the parent comment - what are "these"? but you do not need multiple weights and shafts to run an ipad for an hour. a single 100kg weight and a 15m shaft is sufficient.
It's behaving really weird for me. Initially the milliseconds go from 0 to 99 repeatedly. After click on play, the seconds start increasing and when paused it is paused but the milliseconds still go from 0-99 repeatedly. Similar behaviour with stop, it resets the seconds but milliseconds still go from 0-99 repeatedly.I'm on Chrome 31.

Aside from that, great work :)
Scientists centuries ago could not imagine our modern world, with people living vertically in the sky, in dense urban metropolises, eating frozen food, enjoying vaccines and generally having an awesome quality of life. Just as we cannot imagine advancements that have not yet come, and are led to believe we are doomed to starvation by our current mental constraints. Acting politically on this belief is incredibly dangerous and has contributed to many human atrocities over the years, including the Jewish holocaust, English subjugation and starvation of Irish potato farmers, China's misguided one child policy, and many more.

Be careful of this mental trap. If you'd like to see fewer babies, educate women and give them equality in the workplace and in political power.
We use 1password then, for those who are sensitive one we do store it in the bank and few ppl have power to access it.
An iPhone or iPad is a total minimalist thing. It replaces a camera, a music player, books, a mirror, a flashlight, a phrase book, travel guides. And that doesn't even touch on the communication benefits of having Skype in your pocket.
Compatibility document for the curious:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-compatibility...