skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually a very interesting use of Bitcoin: post-advertising monetization. Eyeballs are directly monetizable by mining, which of course continues even after all BTC has been "mined" via transaction fees. I've been working under the thesis that "programmable money" will be interesting even if I can't see the applications now for a while, and this is the first real use not possible with a traditional currency that clicks for me.
The closest thing I can think of to the removed word is not "of" but the Spanish "hay" (pronounced like "I"), which has no clear English analogue, but it means roughly "there is" or "the present state of affairs includes". The talks failed because hay politics (there is politics), the sandwich is delicious because hay bacon (it has bacon), you should go to the planetarium because hay space (there is [the profundity of our relationship to the cosmos]), where in the last case we also consider the context of the word "space" (nobody would here say "because cosmos!").
The shaking on the video is so disturbing that I had urge to close the video. It does not how to shake for all the video duration.
See Gibraltarpedia on Wikipedia. Whatever one thinks about the idea, the consultant did have balls and sufficient clout on Wikipedia to push the project through.
It's well known that Steve Jobs was a huge Dylan fan. As well as the Beatles. I don't know if he'd be smiling though. This is flash based after all.
Ask HN: Do you know any communities or blogs focused on B2B/Enterprise startups?
Most of the news I see are about consumer startups, but recently I've become more interested in enterprise startups. Are there any communities that are focused on enterprise/B2B?

Note: I'm using enterprise as a catchall term to refer to startups that sell to businesses, not restricted to huge companies.
The Hottest Companies in Tech Right Now According to Goldman Sachs
Embed Github gists using an Angular directive.
Single-Atom Bit Forms Smallest Memory in the World
There's something in your comment that confuses me. "I'm actively making money from my equity right now." How does that work?

Also, you say "… that's assuming your equity is actually worth anything" but doesn't that assumption also apply to the equity you're currently vesting?
The cr1.8xlarge Amazon 3 year heavy utilization should be 660/month with the upfront cost amortized over 36 months.
This is flash after all

That was great. Insanely great.
Is there any reason you couldn't actually pre-render the pages and then serve cached versions to the bots? That almost feels like cheating though, as far as SEO goes.
Yeah, SO is explicitly designed not to be appropriate for qualitative questions with nuance. The problem is that those kinds of questions can frequently lead to endless debate, there's no clear "right" answer, and so on, and anything where there's voting and marking "accepted" answers and which is designed to be a good resource for someone Googling something to be able to find an answer isn't going to be a good fit for qualitative, subjective, nuanced questions.

I am a professional software developer in real life, and I use SO to ask questions occasionally, and answer questions often. There are definitely plenty of cases where it is much more useful than just elementary "how do I X"; there are lots of cases of real, difficult questions being asked and answered, or lots more of people who are experienced developers but new on a particular language or framework or library asking questions about that. It's also quite good at it's mission, of providing fairly good answers for when you Google a question, rather than a forum post where you have to go to the third page to find a comment that almost, but not quite, actually answers the question, and then two pages further to find the clarification that makes it all actually work.

So, you have to use it for the right kinds of questions, but I find that it really does work fairly well for those. The two main problems are that there is a somewhat low signal to noise ratio, as on any popular forum (lots of beginners asking those basic questions that you mention, lots of people asking questions poorly or unclearly, lots of people jumping on people for not quite asking their question perfectly at first), and that people are a little hasty to close imperfect questions without giving them time to be fleshed out into good questions.

The moderation, voting, and closing of questions is supposed to help with that signal to noise ratio, but I'm a bit skeptical, as it seems to be suppressing a little too much signal, and letting through a little too much noise.

Here's an example of StackOverflow working for a fairly deep question, about the maximal possible asymptotic slowdown due to purely functional programming: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1990464/efficiency-of-pur...

Now, we saw the problems that I described at first (the question was a little bit vague, a lot of people jumped in with hasty and incorrect answers, and it was closed for being too vague), but since the system allows editing, voting, and re-opening of questions, those problems were fixed.

For a lot of questions, if you Google for a question and find it on StackOverflow, there's a very good chance it will be answered correctly. If you find a question that has no answer or was answered incorrectly, you are able to correct it or answer it yourself.

I guess what I'm saying is that StackOverflow isn't perfect, but you really shouldn't write it off based on a single bad experience. Just keep in mind what it is for; questions that are answerable, not just subjective or bikeshed questions, and you need to do at least some effort to ask a good question that has enough detail to be possible to answer.
Why entrepreneurs need to be a little delusional
Same with the Los Angeles salaries. It also won't let you sort unless you sign in with Facebook or sign up. As far as I'm concerned, this is essentially a spam entry on HN.
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The biggest problem with stack ranking, as I have read about it being practiced, is that it is implemented on a team-by-team basis rather than across an entire engineering department. The consequence is that differences in strength between teams are not taken into account -- the members of each team are ranked only relative to the other members of that team. This leads to people trying to game the system in various ways to make sure they're not seen as the weakest on their team.

Ranking all engineers in the department together would be more difficult. Managers have a hard enough time getting a read on the strength of their own people; getting them to agree on how their people rank against the other managers' people would take quite a bit of work, I imagine. But it would give a much better answer to the question of whom to let go first, and it wouldn't provide as much incentive to game the system.

And I agree with you that the ranking should explicitly emphasize how well each employee works with their teammates.
HUD-enabled ski goggles run Android
Our entire software deployment system across all of our servers is built on systems built on systems built on a command-line tool I wrote in my first month.

It's really useful because anything that you can do from our deployment panel you can do by hand by logging into the server (and actually, even more stuff which isn't exposed).

The one thing I haven't gotten around to doing is revamping the tool to properly support JSON output for all commands. It might require a new logging module to handle errors though…
Disclaimer, I am not an expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

First I would suggest you bring up your concerns clearly and make sure you understand why they won't tell you. Give them a chance to explain. If the company is 30 people you should be able to drop by the CEOs office and ask. Like I said they may not be saying anything because the financing is not final.

Alternatively if they are not cooperative.

Go in tomorrow and ask to exercise your vested options. At this point they have no choice but to tell you the FMV of those options. Don't exercise them, or do that is a separate topic and you have to watch out for tax liability.

Do it again after the financing finishes. The FMV of your shares will change. If it is significantly lower the options may not be worth your time.

They can't avoid telling you the FMV of the shares you have because you need to know to calculate your tax liability for the spread between the strike price and the current FMV.

Think of it like any other investment. If it isn't gaining in value it's not worth your time. If the FMV of your shares is say 4/5s of what you had before financing you did well. If it is 1/9 you got screwed or your company is doing very poorly (although why would anyone invest in it then...) In the middle it is more complicated.

If your company is healthy and not taking on a large amount of money for growth the FMV of your shares might actually increase despite the dilution.
> Refugee applications/admittals are normally counted per year.

Yes, but whenever someone says "Australia has less refugees than Germany", they are talking about total displaced persons. Germany rarely grants PR or citizenship to refugees, because they are mostly on TPVs (thus still refugees).

> You should know that 'resettlement' actually means 'sending to a third country', and yes we do resettle more refugees than anyone but the USA and Canada. That doesn't get counted in our refugee population because we sent them to another country.

Bullshit. Australia is the third country which they are resettled to. Australia (and the US, and Canada, and a couple of EU countries) accept the vast bulk of resettlements.
I was responding to this claim you made: "The only filter you apply by looking at github is social".
Show HN: Browser Logos API
I signed in with Facebook and it still didn't make any sense.
GitHub have two factor authentication - why're you not using it?
Yes, exactly. It's not always bad. Maybe the funding helps the valuation goes up, so .4% of the company is now worth more than .5% of the company before the funding. Should've mentioned that in my post.
This kind of invasiveness is standard for good anti-cheat protection. The fine stems entirely from stealth bitcoin mining.
I keep two text files open at all times: CurrentTasks.txt gets every new assignment and idea, sorted by priority order, most important stuff at the top.

Logbook<Year>.txt gets a date stamp every day, and collects the notes I take/leave myself as I go along, including any interesting command lines I won't remember later. I throw in any interesting error messages and other things I know I won't remember in detail.

Periodically, I'll garbage collect CurrentTasks and move the good intentions and other things I won't likely do over to the Logbook.

This is a corruption of David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' system, but it's worked well for me for years. I can't count the number of times the Logbook has acted as a ready reference for solving some obscure, occasional challenge.
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They probably use a HTTP Live Streaming-like approach to test the connection quality before serving you a set of clips. Changing channels is more like changing playlist files starting at whatever index.
I found a bug, when you generate a wallet you can press the clear and reset button and the generate button remains enabled. This allows the user to generate a wallet using an empty string.

This is using Chrome 31.0.1650.57 m

All tips greatly received : 1Li2Dq9L49mJmCYcEh4n2eSQ9B6eWKCgBv
What's frustrating is that questions are usually "closed" as "not relevant". How am I supposed to know that I shouldn't be posting to SuperUser or Serverfault if it happens to be a home networking issue?

I'd prefer my question being pushed into a "pending/WIP" state where they might be segregated from search visibility instead of having it become closed and thus unappealing to responders.
Show hn: version-tracking the gettysburg address
You might wanna check out: http://mehmetaliakyol.com.tr/play/bl/ It is a simple API, inspired by Paul Irish' work.
You can pay GB taxes in GBP though. Why must you assume taxes = US taxes?
This Adtech Startup Just Hired Microsoft's First-Ever Employee
OK, I read through the blogpost to read up on what "cores" mean. Is running a quick benchmark on each instance a possibility? Even something relatively simple and fast like geekbench. Also, if possible, test inter-instance interconnect performance with some kind of MPI benchmark? I would be willing to chip in to pay to collect this data.
Standard - Screen captures? I must've been out of the gaming scene for some time now.
No, because the company I work for has already IPO'd. I can turn around and sell my shares for cash on the market right now.

The companies that are offering me jobs with lower salary and equity are not public, have no viable exit strategy in the near future, and therefore their equity is virtually worthless. There's a potential that it will be worth the equity at my current company, but the likelihood of that is low. That makes the risk high, so in order for me to justify leaving my currently vesting/cashable stock on the table, you have to offer me something I can't get right now, whether that's a higher salary, more equity, or something else.

It's not entirely a money issue. If I really, really believe in your company or I really, really hate my current job, I could more easily be persuaded to leave my current job. I'm fairly content where I am, though, so that's hard.
It's an opportunity to improve performance as the abstraction gives you a caching boundary which is appropriate to the application.
Word Lens for Google Glass
How do you reasonably protect from brute force? Other than enforcing secure passwords.

You block IPs that make too many fail attempts - you block an entire NAT range i.e. schools. Kids like to troll each other.

Alternatives?
Let's put it this way. Just about any programming question I google leads me to SO. Just about every one of those links are "closed as not helpful by the moderators" (paraphrased). Google thinks it is a useful question. I think it is a useful question. The questioner thought it was useful, as did the people that answered the question before it was closed. If it quacks like a duck....
As we have discussed with you previously, we have come to
the opinion that , based on the evidence we have to date,
that agent(s) of your company have engaged in sockpuppetry
or meatpuppetry to, among other things, make it appear as
if certain articles are written by unbiased sources when
in fact those articles are authored by Wiki-PR for money.

I was not expecting to see "sockpuppetry" or "meatpuppetry" in a cease and desist! In general I wouldn't expect lawyers to use company-specific jargon in external communications. What are they trying to do?
This looks awesome, and I love Dylan and this song... too bad my internet is way too slow to keep me from enjoying this, it buffers every 5 seconds and it kills the effect.
Hey, this is really terrific! Extremely impressive, especially the fact it's so small (code size). This expresses a real retro sensibility that most "retro" style games miss: pixel art shouldn't take up megabytes of space.

I think you should do something with this. You've actually got something you could spread far and wide, in this. It's shocking how few Web-based MMO experiences there are like this. This is the point where I say "quit your day job." Unless this is your day job.

To whit: such a small MMO could become a nice little business for you. People will pay for cosmetic stuff, and they love to idle in virtual worlds...
Nah, when gamma photon is absorbed it doesn't matter whether its energy will be used for fungal metabolism or converted to heat right away. And in case of gamma absorption rate mostly depends on mass density, so fungi will be likely as good as water. Concrete not only absorbs more radiation for the same thickness but is far more stable than anything alive.
Maybe we're written in 30 lines of javascript, too. You can get - to us - surprisingly and beautiful complexity from simple rules.
Linode's "cores" is greatly misrepresented. I'm sure the AWS/GCE/DO core counts are equally misrepresented.
If you're assuming a known-good Python stack, then a pure-python solution will just work. Using Solr/Lucene means having a known-good Python stack and a known-good JVM. Python is installed with most (all?) Linux distributions by default, but Java is almost never part of the base install.

Also, a pure-python solution allows for an in-process index/search, rather than adding another external process dependency which needs to be monitored and maintained.
No, I agree. In no way did I mean to suggest that Google was going to take the role of a UN with teeth, to mediate between different countries.

It would be more accurate for me to say that Google has a demonstrated willingness to allow their employees to contribute to political activism using company resources. Absolutely, it has a selfish motive, but it's a central principle of capitalism to leverage selfish motives into public goods. (No comment on the principle itself.)
GitHub has rate limiting in place (for user logins), as it demonstrated when it counter-intuitively locked me out of my own account while I tried to regain access. The fact that multiple accounts were compromised through this attack (despite their rate limiting) and that it would be literally impossible to guess my password sans quantum computing indicates _their_ password was compromised, not the password of any affected account. The solution is for them to use proper password security.
A transaction should be the lowest level by definition e.g. it's not an API if you are just proxying CRUD on your db tables. Agree on smallest API possible (otherwise you will die in maintenance hell after you pick up a few clients) - but your API should be the only point of contact for your site and other clients.
Was out to dinner. Fixed it, sorry for the 403.
Hacker News interest over time
Well, if all we have to go by is this email; it's rather hard to make judgments about what Github did or didn't do.

I'd hope that github will do a post-mortem, and tell us what they know of the breaches.
It's been a shift in the last few years. They're rare now.
This is one of the funniest things I've read in forever. Some of those lines need posters.

"You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis."
WebGL (or OpenGL ES) is not written in JS (obviously). JS calls into it, but the heavy lifting is being done by a native library. Calling this a "particle generator in javascript" is somewhat disingenuous.
Dual photography using a camera and projector (2009) [video]
>"who has the best price per GB of RAM" ?

http://serverbear.com/

http://serverbear.com/compare?Sort=RAM&Order=desc&Monthly+Co...
This is completely dishonest, from the "What can I do with it?" section:

"Build...
A computer, powered by Raspberry Pi"
Yeah, it's a relatively standard anticheat method now apparently. Makes sense, it kind of works like Hostgator's auto-screenshot employee spyware works. If a screenshot is taken while a player is in-game and there is a radar or if the player can see people through walls, then that's pretty good indication of cheats.
See, here are my concerns.

1: I wasn't notified that there was any problem with my account.
2: I have no idea what the repercussions of being suspected of fraud entails. Will my sites be shut down and if so then when?
3: I was only informed that something was wrong when I logged in and tried to give you money.

So what would have happened if I had paid for six months of hosting in advance (like I have done in the past)?

For fucks sake. Send off a email so I am not frantically backing up databases while waiting for my ticket to get replied to.
Meh. U no support my 6 year old MacBook with crappy integrated graphics? Nothing on Safari 6.1, Firefox 25, Chrome 31..
FaFaFa (Flask / Angular / Foundation boilerplate)
> Interest rates would go down to match the deflation rate for that reason

The market clearing interest rate would probably go down, sure, as would the quantity of money lent.

Demand for credit would drop (that is, the amount that people would be willing to borrow at any given interest rate would drop), because the real cost at any given interest rate would be higher.

Supply (the quantity of money lenders are willing to loan at any given interest rate) would not increase, though. It might naively seem they would at first because the value of the payments on a loan with a given principal and interest rates would seem to be more, but in relation to the value of just holding the money in cash there would be no difference, so nothing to drive an increased propensity to lend.

So, while interest rates would probably go down, it wouldn't be a source of benefit to lenders, it would be a consequence of the decreased attractiveness of borrowing.

> Also many people argue the same thing about printing money to cause inflation being a continuous upward transfer of wealth.

Inflation is a downward transfer of current wealth (more precisely, its a transfer of wealth from net creditors to net debtors.)

Insofar as inflation has a negative direct effect on the less wealthy, its because it decreases the real value of income streams of fixed (or pegged to some index that grows slower than inflation) income streams, and the less wealthy are more likely to be dependent on such streams.

OTOH, inflationary currency is a big part of what makes such streams (defined benefit pensions, etc.) possible in the first place; so a deflationary currency wouldn't actually make that situation any better.
Ask HN: Should I focus on my job or my degree?
I'm a student studying in my final year of a Computer Science degree in a second rate department. My own time I spend as the lead web developer for a small, but focused software startup. It sure as hell, is an exciting world.

I can't help wondering, which of the two should I be prioritising? It's not a run-of-the-mill startup (so far we've worked with the NHS, the RAF and a whole raft of local businesses and innovators). I've had the chance to play with a lot of cool technologies (Nodejs, Go, MongoDB, Redis, Phonegap etc) and thoroughly enjoyed the entire experience. If we get off of the ground, there is a directorship waiting for me when I graduate.

Succeeding as a company however, is going to mean working hard for it this year, not something I can do alongside studying at uni. I can probably coast my degree and get a 2:1 or 2:2 or I can focus and almost certainly end up with a first. Which is going to count for more in the long run? The classification, or the experience?

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Thoughts and advice are very welcome.
Yes, that's the figure you'll get if you set the interest rate to 0 in the "Amortization period" section (and set the time period to 36 months).

By default, we assume a 10% cost-of-capital, which leads to the $706/month figure you see otherwise for cr1.8xlarge over 36 months. The difference reflects the fact that, all other things being equal, paying a lump sum up front is generally less desirable than month-to-month payments. You can adjust the interest rate parameter according to your situation.
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As it currently stands, this comment is not a good fit for our discussion format...
Screen captures while not playing seems excessive. But a screencap while you're playing seems like a quick and easy (albeit manual) way to determine if someone has gotten a render hack past detection. Right?
This would be really fun to do for a project I was really into. My only changes would be:

a) A week off afterwards without touching a computer to get sane again

b) An hour a day for exercise, because I would not be willing to let my health go that bad. Sitting 120 hours isn't good, but at least a little exercise would raise my sanity/health a little
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