skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal is to allow make the whole development process, from prototyping to deployment, easier.

It's AGPL. The commercial licenses are for people or companies who may want to modify it without releasing their modifications back to the community. If they don't want to contribute their code, they will at least contribute financially.
An Epiphany: Why I Kept Failing at GTD
>The ability to capture buyer's emails

why? I just want your book, why do you need my email?
Always keep a few coins! :)
Supposedly these ones.

http://blockchain.info/address/1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GN...
No. That's the point. It is a simulation of a complex system. The interactions between the mice are everything.
#noob_here also

If the bitcoins in the lost wallet never get recovered, does that mean that the amount bitcoins available for trading has just decreased? My small understanding of bitcoin tells me that there only a limited number of bitcoin available once it has all been mined.
Okay, maybe it's more like a pyramid scheme. As long as more people keep flocking to it, prices will go up. But you don't know how long people will keep flocking to it.
Anyone who has tried GTD on and off knows my pain. It can be frustrating when you feel the bliss that is a thorough brain-dump, but then fall off the wagon and see things starting to slip through the cracks. I had been on and off for years, then life hit me big time. Then came the epiphany.

I really hope this helps you out, and I welcome feedback, whether positive or negative!
UX/UI design - Paper Prototypes and Scenarios are cheap
Show HN: Discotech, an "OpenTable for Nightlife" launches in Los Angeles
Discotech is a mobile app currently available on iOS that serves as a "Virtual Promoter". Discotech offers users a simple and easy alternative to the hassle of calling and texting different promoters to find the hottest events or the best value for bottle service. Users can discover upcoming events, sign up for guest lists, buy tickets, and book tables at over 20 of the most popular LA clubs directly through the app. For bottle service enthusiasts, Discotech allows them to compare the exact costs of different tables on different nights, access exclusive promotions, and earn loyalty points that can be used to redeem free bottles and other enticing rewards.

The app is available now to download for free on the iOS app store at http://www.bit.ly/discotech_app, and an Android version with identical functionality is coming soon. Discotech plans to expand to Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami, and Washington D.C in the first half of 2014.

As an added launch bonus, Discotech is offering an “Early Adopter Promo” to readers of this blog – users who enter in the promo code “Ycomb” will receive a free bottle of champagne at any club registered on the app with their first table booking.
This Bitcoin rise rases some interesting questions for me, even if it rings alarm bells at the same time.

What is the value of a currency? Is it the inscription 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand...', which nowadays will not be fulfilled? Is it the power of the organisation backing it? Perhaps the simplest explanation is best - what can you buy in other goods you might want with this currency? But that leaves you open to manipulation as you are entirely dependent on your perception of what other people think this is worth, which can change in an instant as we have seen with stock markets or indeed government-backed currencies where confidence is lost. So a good confidence trick will be worth as much as or more than a solid currency, until a moment of panic.

If you try to base it on the current value of goods in the world divided by the currency in circulation (say 11m coins), Bitcoin has a large climb in value ahead of it if it were to become a world currency, and if no other currency were in use. What is the USD worth if you price it this way though with only 3b in circulation and ?

If you say the value of a currency is its ability to buy other goods Bitcoin is currently worth a lot compared to other currencies and prices in it are deflating rapidly, but it has crashed before and will again, because the only measure of value seems to be confidence in its possible future uses, and that makes it very hard to pin down the value. It would be interesting (but I suspect impossible) to try to calculate a value for each Bitcoin based on actual use to buy goods of known value at the present time (as opposed to speculative trading).

If you base it on its use value as a medium of exchange, I have hesitations about the utility of Bitcoin, because of its anonymous nature (not tied to verified IDs), lack of regulation, deflationary policy, and lack of backing, and thus hesitations about its value. As a result of the free-floating value and lack of regulation, I suspect Bitcoin prices will behave far more like stock markets (a random walk) than like a normal currency which is pegged to others to some extent, and thus will be difficult to establish as a medium of exchange because of the volatility.

I also find it hard to believe if it is successful that it will not be supplanted by some other digital currency which has fewer of its limitations and is more suited to transactions between people who do not value anonymity above all, and wish to be protected from fraud, and the govs and corps that would like to track them. All you have to do to set up a competitor is establish some rules and get people to use it - something which corporations or governments can easily achieve if their monopoly on the money-supply is threatened in a meaningful way.
Share anonymous disposable bookmark lists 
I developed a handy way of sharing resources you find using a disposable bookmarking lists. You just add a bunch of urls to a generated bookmark list url and send them away.

Once your done, just generate another list and add more to it.

Each list is represented via short url and a secret key that lets you add links. You can even share the key and let people anywhere add links to it as a collaborated list.

I did it as a weekend project to learn how to write a bookmarking service using node.js and a chrome extension while utilising amazon dynamodb norel for endless scale and alchemyapi to analyze the pages when saving them.

I open sourced everything and it can be found on the bottom of aychref.com so if you got new suggestions and just want to fork it and use it on your own go ahead.

I bet its not that secured and efficient so im open for suggestions.
Well, it's not really an introduction video. It's a video showing me building a contacts management app from start to finish.
I plan to make a proper intro video later. As a one man project at this time, it's a little tricky to prioritise. There are so much things to do: adding new features, fixing bugs, creating a proper website, creating documentation, etc.
Looks cool. But nothing related to Photoshop. They can say this something like iWeb or DreamWeaver, but not Photoshop at all.
~30%/Y
ISSE : An Interactive Source Separation Editor
I can't speak for the health care industry or medical research - but considering all the other places I've seen people "anonymise" data.. They probably store too much data, that can aid or completely de-anonymise the anonymised data.
I was really happy when I heard about SourceTree(back then it was not even released yet) but when it finally came out it was bulky to begin with.

TortoiseHg on the other hand always looked nice and clean.
Proposal for a vCard icon
We would like to share with the Open Source community our interpretation of a vCard icon.
It pains me to see how he repeats the same action for each subtitle-block element, doing the same thing 3 times total. Imagine you had a scrollable area with 20 blocks.

If it's a mockup editor, then it should be easy to customize from JS to make anything useful from the mockup.

If it's a site builder, better add support for templates, so that one would then be able to drag and drop data (e.g. json) onto the canvas and bind it to a template to automatically populate a whole set of elements at once.

P.S. No matter how slick your UI is, if it's not programmable, it's not useful.
Localbitcoins.com (cash transfer) can be less complicated than many alternatives
Ask HN: Most interesting events and conferences 2014 in the USA?
What are the most interesting events and conferences for you that will take place in 2014?
the price of bitcoin is skyrocketing.

why? "more buyers than sellers"
I have two, both collecting dust while running.

The first runs as domain controller using Samba4 for that. This was a major hazzle to setup since I needed to compile Samba4 to get it working (the one in the Debian distribution is somewhat shaky). For obvious reasons I never touch this one.

The second one runs a GIT repository and serves generally as tinkering box, such as setting up Apache for authenticating against the domain controller.

As servers, I wouldn't like to miss them.
... no it isn't? :)
Dick Costolo makes sense of Snapchat
Can anyone recommend a spam filtering solution (doesn't matter if free or paid) that can match Google's? Spam filtering is the main reason I'm staying with gmail and from my limited experience, SpamAssassin can't even come close to it.
> I don't plan on it.

Think about it game-theoretically:

If you live as if you'll die, and you don't, you'll have a much more interesting life, because you took advantage of it thinking you're living under the Sword of Damocles.

If you live as if life extension will keep you going, and it fails, you'll have a short, boring life, full of things you put off until it was too late.

Those are the extreme values of the matrix; if you work through the rest, I think you'll find that the most utility is always gained by living as if you'll die eventually.

(Living as if you'll die tomorrow is romantic and all, but it would prevent you from working towards any goal which takes more than less than a day to complete. It could also land you in prison, deported to a less-pleasant foreign country, or both.)
Polite: Sorry, but I have more important things to do.

Bro: Oh!, come on XXXXXX! You know I don't give a fuck about religion. Don't invite me anymore to go there. Tonite I will play with my PS4, you're invited! (bring beers)
Developers have completely lost touch with what an average wage is for a single person family.
Please see this figure: http://www.aosabook.org/en/mercurial.html#fig.hg.revlog

I hope you see the similarities between the storage layers of Mercurial and of Git: Mercurial has a changeset graph with pointers into a manifest graph. The nodes in the manifest graph points to the files presents in that commit. It's (also) not very complicated.

As for branches, they're very simple too, as I tried to explain here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6753477
Under this definition, every currency is a pyramid scheme
Gh-contributions: draw in your Github contribution graph
Agreed... rewriting history is a powerful tool that power users will want to use. Nothing more. That of course applies to all tools :)
that was it. the rest of the menu gives me nothing, the random button works fine :) great stuff.
Seriously? "vector and raster versions of all browser logos possible. transparent backgrounds."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

"Your item must be a non-media product (you cannot send in books, CDs, VHS or DVDs without stickers)."

It seems Amazon actually no longer allows co-mingling of media products.
Can't remember when i saw something like this last
Seems like the fact they sold 1 million units in 24 hours in NA alone should put these DOA failures into perspective. It's a tiny, tiny number of consoles not working vs those that are.
See also... Perl Résumé which works of your CPAN account (via MetaCPAN) - http://perlresume.org
A friend of mine setup a bitstamp.net account last week and it was fairly quick and easy. Took just under 3 days from clicking signup and sending over ID docs to being able to trade.
You could say that fundamentals have not changed, so it's a bubble. But the end-game is bitcoin becoming a major currency (although, if it does that, it will inevitably become the reserve currency), so the price should be subject to intense political risk and also a long way from it's potential peak. So it's not really like the tulip bubble.
The value you're providing is not obvious.

It's really easy to publish an infinite amount of books on the Kindle store; I haven't tried iBookstore but I guess it's not very hard either (and do we need to care about them? What's their market share?)

I'm not ready to pay someone to just sit between me and the Kindle store; and I certainly won't surrender any royalties for this.

There are things in your presentation that do sound interesting, though:
- early feedback as the book is being written (that could maybe result in good word-of-mouth marketing)
- "incredible" sales reports

But in any case, I think the pricing should be more inline with DistroKid ($20 annual flat fee, 100% royalties, infinite amount of titles).
As far as I know, yes, this works just fine. We rely on this in the BiocParallel package in Bioconductor.
The browser ponies make it all worthwhile.
TapTap Vibrating Wristband
This is fascinating; I was aware of hardly a third of these. I wish at least the lesser-known ones came with a tagline to explain the point of them/their major features, though that's obviously not the goal of the project.
What is this doing at the top of HN? Maybe that 4chan thread had something right.
> Abstracted reusable components to plug it into existing systems,

The problem is stuffs like that are supposed to run in the browser, the more bloated your code base is the worst performances you'll get.

Doesnt mean everything should be tightly coupled, my point is no matter what people say web apps are not desktop apps, web apps are slow,sometimes you need to trade decoupling for performances.

I think the last time a product like that got kickstarted it "won" more that 100K , so of course people are going to seek a similar amount of money for these kind of projects, though i dont believe these tools are that usefull in reality.
Discotech is a mobile app currently available on iOS that serves as a "Virtual Promoter". Discotech offers users a simple and easy alternative to the hassle of calling and texting different promoters to find the hottest events or the best value for bottle service. Users can discover upcoming events, sign up for guest lists, buy tickets, and book tables at over 20 of the most popular LA clubs directly through the app. For bottle service enthusiasts, Discotech allows them to compare the exact costs of different tables on different nights, access exclusive promotions, and earn loyalty points that can be used to redeem free bottles and other enticing rewards.

The app is available now to download for free on the iOS app store at http://www.bit.ly/discotech_app, and an Android version with identical functionality is coming soon. Discotech plans to expand to Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami, and Washington D.C in the first half of 2014.
It has changed, US Government is talking about it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-18/u-s-agencies-to-say...
No Push to iOS makes me stick with EAS solutions. Is there any way to have push on FM?
I think maximizing profit is what corporations do by definition. I agree with the poster something is changed at Gogle after Larry Page took over though.

Yet in the process of "making my opinion about a corp being evil or not" I enjoy measuring the amount and the quality of free software they release. For software corp, I think this is a good parameter.

By this metric it is easy to understand that putting too much hopes into Google is wrong. They release a lot of code, but that code is usually only "a path" for the user to their core products (which they do not release).

I encourage you rediscover those corps instead where people work hard to keep their "don't be evil" going, despite not marketing it that much.

Let me add something, maybe I'm not good enough for Google, but I'm employed by Red Hat and I enjoy what we do at Red Hat. And I could name a lot of others, in this context, doing great things.
Research problems in CV and ML with GPU computing
I just finished the Udacity course on GPU computing. I work in computer vision, I am excited to read some seminal papers to understand the research opportunities. Please advise.
By allowing unrestricted consumption of any kind of drug or/and substance you will see the state of civilization you are in.
Yes. Of course even the US dollar was backed by gold until 42 years ago. As you said, I can pay taxes with dollars. I can go to the NYC 24 hour USPS post office right now and buy commodities with a dollar. The government could privatize the Grand Canyon and compensate dollar holders thusly.

The kind of delusion thinking seen here about Bitcoins is akin to the delusional thinking I heard in 1999 regarding tech stock prices. Does anyone remember when Cisco's market cap was over half a trillion dollars? But Cisco actually did (and does) something that creates and stores real value.

There's all this talk of how Bitcoin is easier than this or that currency. Well it's (possible but) not easy to short Bitcoin. I certainly can short the dollar in a number of ways. I'm sure if Bitcoin was shortable it's price would not be where it is. It certainly means the inevitable fall will be harder though.

It's hard to say when Bitcoin's worth will crash, there's a lot of money sitting out there, waiting to speculate on something. But inevitably it will crash.
Where's my xxxterm/xombrero?
In which area?
I have gone through a couple of interviews at large companies recently. I have over a decade of experience, and I can tell you that I know what I'm doing. I have a real problem with these whiteboard handwritten algorithm problems. I'm not sure why companies insist on conducting interviews in this manner. It doesn't represent anything close to how I actually go about solving problems. Hell, I RARELY actually write anything down anymore, so the slowness and errors I make in writing just make it that much more distracting.

Why do these companies not just give you a computer and an editor, hell, even one with code completion enabled, and let you solve the problem that way?

I agree completely with this article. I have not once needed to write an algorithm to traverse a graph, or find the shortest path, etc. I have RARELY ever needed to implement a common data structure myself. That's what libraries are for. People that write library code wouldn't be able to properly write these data structures in the allotted interview time. It makes very little sense.

Something else to note. Traveling from one coast to the other for interviews almost certainly has a mental cost. I have noticed it personally, that the jet lag reduces my concentration and ability to process.

I'd be interested to see statistics on what percentage of hires were actually successful when coming from the same coast vs the opposite coast.
Because the value proposition is simple: provide an actually half-decent video conferencing solution as a way to boost G+ usage.
I use Apps for a personal account -- but there are often odd quirks when Google releases new products that make it slightly inconvenient. In retrospect, I think a better alternative would have been just setting up my domain's email as redirects to my gmail, and then setting up the Gmail "Send As". I use this procedure for secondary domains I also use for email (with my Apps acct).
Yeah, I can't tell how many of these are Webkit clones and how many are really novel approaches. The fact that so many of them actually have enough momentum to have a well designed and unique logo really blows my mind though. It's like there's a whole "world of browsers" I didn't know existed.
I pay out of the arse for Apple products precisely because the alternative is to pay out of the arse for Google products using the currency of personal information. And I don't trust them anymore.
Doesn't Facebook comments also show users profile picture? I've never seen anyone criticize the use of Facebook profiles for commenting, and I really don't see the real difference between this and using Google+ for commenting.
It's been said before, but the most dangerous date rape drug is alcohol.

GHB is new and unfamiliar, so it gets the worse rap, but alcohol has pretty much everything an date rape drug would have: It induces a loss of inhibition, a loss of motor control, a loss of language skills, and loss of consciousness with retrograde amnesia[0]. It also has one very important factor working in its favor: Social acceptance. Nobody gives it a second glance.

[0] Retrograde amnesia is a loss of memories formed before the event; in this case, the event is the point at which the person loses consciousness entirely.
Does anyone know if the old Chrome [1] and Firefox [2] logos are available too? To be brutally honest 3D is better than 2D.

[1]: http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/ugc/chrome-icon.jpg

[2]: http://people.mozilla.org/~faaborg/files/shiretoko/firefoxIc...
Haha driving a Renault

Made me laugh, thanks!
Just forward your email and only send mail from your apps email, that't what I did. But I also liked to start mostly clean slate since most of my stuff Google stuff was a mess.

I exported some email filters and all of my calendar events. It's also possible to export/import your email as well. For your google drive you can just share everything or save it on your pc and put it in the new Google drive folder.

The things I miss are really small. You might have a bit later or no access to beta's and new features are not turned on automatically (recently this was the case for webhistory, you had to push a switch in your Apps control panel).

Furthermore you should probably try using a catchall. I like it a lot, you can filter on specific sent to emails from different services. And you always know who sells your data. I use the format company-type@domain.com. This way you con filter on sent to emails that contain shop for all your online orders.
No, cannabis briefly became a Class C drug which did not make it legal, or even decriminalised. Class C drugs in the UK carry a theoretical penalty of 2 years in prison for possession and 14 for supply and production. Though the sentencing guidelines are nowhere close to that.

The police do have a system of "cannabis warnings" over here which treats being caught along the lines of an official "don't do this again" unless you're either a child, keep being caught, or the circumstances warrant a straight up arrest.
Infinity isn't a number to start with, it's an expression of a limit. i.e. if you need something, then how much you'll pay for it is effectively unlimited. The idea is, that how the price changes is basically only limited by how quickly your various agents can buy it.

You see the problem with this when artificial agents get into bidding wars - because they react so quickly, they end up creating massive price volatility because when it's worth buying its worth buying and when it should be sold they can't dump it quick enough.

In practice every thing has some type of limits - i.e. even computers operate over limited time intervals, and any individual actor has limited resources so eventually something exhausts itself (i.e. everyone might have dumped Currency 1 for Currency 2, but even if no one holds any any more, they'd still be trying to sell it off if they did - ergo, we never reached a finite "price" for it.
I'm glad that this repo exists. However, to play Devil's-Non-Lawyer-Advocate, is there any danger of trademark infringement for some of these logos (especially IE)?
In The World Of Digital Storage, Size Does Matter - Infographic
> synthonol

Synthehol. Synthetic alcohol.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Synthehol

(Not nearly as interesting to engineers as the real stuff, which is apparently at its best when it's green.)

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/By_Any_Other_Name_(episode)
Thank you for sharing. This will save me a lot of time.