skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Testing RESTful Web Services with IntelliJ
> "We were surprised that respondents weren’t better at identifying the gender behind the writings, and that so many were wrong on several of the questions. The participants who submitted handwriting samples were blind to the purpose of the survey, and the samples therefore weren’t intentionally misleading. Perhaps the average person simply isn’t as good a judge as expected."

Perhaps being spammed with a survey wall blocking the content that the user seeks, until they complete a survey (which is what survata does), causes many people to not try very hard. And perhaps the more technically sophisticated users who view survey walls as a signal for low quality, spammy content, simply hit the back button.
Maybe they sucked at dancing because everyone always told them to quit wasting time on dancing, so they never got to practice?
I like this. Instruments that look like debt (terms and interest rates) generally are the instruments of lower risk investors. Linking them to equity is the game of wall street arb desks. Turning the instrument into a warrant is more in lines with high stage early equity investing - giving folks an option on a potentially large upside.
New app will transform the infamous "Selfie" into an Interactive Photo Booth
PostUP will bring a new kind of party to your smartphone!!!

WHAT IS IT?: It's a REAL TIME INTERACTIVE PHOTO BOOTH and much more. PostUP members can host ONLINE PHOTO PARTIES. They simply upload a MUSIC PLAYLIST to play in the background. Next they add a BACKDROP, which will be used for the party scenery. Finally, they add a date, time, and password for the party. The password for the party is given to other PostUP FRIENDS(guest list). LIVE PICTURES, MUSIC, and CHATTING are all combined to create the MOST INTERACTIVE APP in town.

HOW IT REALLY WORKS: The apps main feature allows any person(wishing to PostUP) to take a photo of themselves against any white wall. By placing these photos against the same backdrop, this makes it possible to actually take pictures WITH YOUR FRIENDS. All pictures taken in PostUP can be saved to your phone.

HOW THE IDEA WAS BIRTHED: People enjoy being able to connect with each other while they are not in close proximity.

PostUP is currently being crowdfunded on Sellanpp's website. This is not a campaigning post, just an alert to the world to make room for one more great download!

PROBLEMS SOLVED: People are often separated by distance. This app bridges the gap between us, it will reunite/unite people like never seen before. It will erase the mentality, that all preceding social networks have created, of simply sharing aspects of your lives from afar. Instead it will bring lives back together.

THROW PAJAMA JAMS, ALL WHITE AFFAIRS, FORMAL AFFAIRS, WACKY SOCK PARTIES, COSTUME PARTIES...
I am not so sure. Playing a game on the TV is equivalent to what my kids do on their smartphones. Now, because their smartphones are Internet connected they do end up discovering new ways to entertain themselves and more importantly research topics they are interested in. However, most of the time spent is still for entertainment.
How Important Is A Bee?
Because the FDA is the one who ultimately wants this removed, and because by default most of society operates without seeking permission from the government to do anything.

And maybe because the FDA is stupid and thinks that the risk of people maybe finding out something inaccurate and going crazy with it is higher than the reward of people finding out something accurate and taking action to preserve their health based on this information. Ignorance is the only safe option!
You're being ridiculous. You're making this about me, and I am frankly not a very interesting topic to 99+ percent of the readers here.

It's not that I am especially important; however, my encounter with HN moderation has shown one of the mechanisms by which VC-istan protects its reputation. That is all. By observing those mechanisms, we can possibly make inferences about its health. If what is said on Hacker News actually matters to VC-istan, then it's not a very robust system.

I really think this should be the end of the conversation. Leave the inane personal attacks out of it.
As mentioned in another thread, I like this. Instruments that look like debt (terms and interest rates) generally are the instruments of lower risk investors. Linking them to equity is the game of wall street arb desks. Turning the instrument into a warrant is more in lines with high stage early equity investing - giving folks an option on a potentially large upside.
Thanks for such a well thought-out response. To be clear, I'm most comfortable working in the .NET framework (~5 years experience), but while I can see where you're coming from, I still disagree with the overall perspective.

The "jack of all trades master of none"

To me, the trade in question is software development/engineering. If we are tradesmen, then .NET is one of the toolboxes available to us. Yes, it's a very advanced and developed toolkit, but I don't view it as an occupation. Now if you constrain yourself and simply call yourself a .NET developer and not a software developer, I suppose that would be an exception.

Will .net last forever? I don't know. Older Microsoft technologies are still around and .net is still in active development. I don't see Microsoft giving up the massive investment they have made in .net any time soon.

My experience is mostly on the desktop side (application dev for medical devices) and it has been the opposite. Look at technologies like WPF and Silverlight for example. I don't think you can honestly say that Microsoft developed these to maturity and didn't to some extent abandon them.

Your language/framework defines the outer capabilities of your application, the performance of your application (read: scale), as well as what parts of your application can be reused from parts made available by others. They are things to be mastered. .Net takes a long time to master. The "jack of all trades master of none" attitude is what pains me. Show me that ruby is better for me in an area that .net is lacking and I'll learn it. Show me that it's better in all of the areas I care about and I'll master it. That will be a hard sell. .Net is a fantastic platform; well organized, discoverable, consistent in quality, exhaustive in scale, performant, and still growing.

I think it's a bit contradictory to say that you need to master a language to understand it's capabilities, yet you won't explore other languages unless it's proven to you that they have capabilities that .NET lacks. That said, I think your viewpoint is mostly valid if you have full control over what technologies you work with (e.g. starting a startup, or only applying to .NET companies). However, that is true for very few developers and this is where the whole idea of fretting over the future of .NET comes from.

In my field (medical imaging and devices), I have used plenty of .NET, but I could never rely on it entirely. The foremost medical image processing and visualization frameworks and libraries still reside in C++ and although there are .NET wrappers, they are almost always limited, several releases behind, and with a much smaller community (there are a few exceptions).

To be clear, I love .NET and even moreso Visual Studio. However, if I'm asked to propose a technology for a product, I'm going to do my research and pick the one that I feel is best-suited for it and not let my .NET experience be a guiding force in that decision (unless this is an extremely time-sensitive project and I represent a significant amount of the developing team, then of course it needs to be considered).
Mostly it amuzes [and targets] people who feel a never ending desire to prove their own worth by taking tests, and going through ladders, games and rules imposed by others, presumably "smarter and more powerful".

Someone has to say loudly "who gives a shit about this crap" and just move on.
It's the total emissions that matter, not per capita, and China leads the world.
There is something new here, Orwell and Huxley dont cut it.

This is a kind of global apathy that neither Orwell nor Huxley deal with, (in my reading) Orwell explains power very well and how oppressive regimes control and guide our very lives, Huxley is about the same but from a different angle - instead of active oppression by more carrots in the form of entertainment.

But where is this apathy coming from when facts are thrown in our faces about the misuse and abuse of democracy - in Orwells world it would be like an actor taking over the TVs and announcing even in double-speak so it cant be misread "You can make a change, its not all real, the power the state has depends only on YOU and YOU can take it right now, stop it all!" and the same for Huxley. The message is clear, we dont have to be oppressed - in fact the powers area afraid of us, we are masters of our own faith.

That has happened, and yet nobody seems to give a shit. Its like neither Orwell nor Huxleys methods were really needed to drive society in certain directions. Its like the common people dont want to be in charge of their own lives, like we have nothing to live for, nothing to stand up for, nothing to accomplish.

Then the question we now have then, what is it that would make us do things, what is capable of driving and changing society? What would the common man/woman in 2013 step up and stand for? Thats the piece that is missing.
Google killed Talk (XMPP), replaced it with hangouts, and is suddenly offering to replace my SMS app and send them all through hangouts. I get that this works as a direct competitor to Messages, but I'd really rather just see Jabber or something like it here.
Open-spec Neo900 phone heads toward production
Grading systems (at least in their contemporary form) are no more effective, because the grader can be very easily manipulated or show bias themselves. That and it's just a very flat method of measuring progress. It's systemic, ruthlessly bureaucratic and typically within the context of standardized testing.

Social equalization was no doubt one of the motivations behind uniforms, though it's also likely a symbolic tool to foster groupthink and a superficial cloak of egalitarianism. There's many different ways to show your influence and being of a higher class than through mere clothing.
The timing is a fair point, though I think you ignore one factor: While gcc didn't switch to gplv3 until 2009, gplv3 was released in draft form in 2006.

So I'll concede that it likely wasn't a direct cause of the move to and support of llvm, clang didn't come along until later -- and after it must have been clear that gcc would eventually be gplv3 licensed.

God knows GCC's codebase is a rats nest that few people really want to work with, but if it hadn't been for gplv3 do you really maintain that apple wouldn't have stuck with it as a frontend for longer? The early releases of clang (and gcc+llvm before it) were problematic for a lot of mac developers at the time, after all.
No, you're misunderstanding how 2-of-3 multisig works.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13841/how-do-i-us...
yawn

Anyone that has been tinkering with OSs for a while will understand they all have their benefits. As a web app developer, I run Arch Linux w Gnome Shell 3.10 on my personal computer and my company provides me with an iMac at work.

For an experienced user, Mac OS is a unix prison. All the cool tinkering and customizations I love about my linux build are usually locked down in a Mac.

When it comes to family members and non-tech people who ask for my recommendation on products though, I usually push them towards Apple. Apple products are essentially tech-training wheels.
funny. i was totally trolled for the first paragraph or two.

did anyone else immediately have to go check how big hello world builds?

elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ echo "#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << \"hello world\";
}
" > hello.cpp
elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ g++ hello.cpp
elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ ls -lh a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 elipse elipse 8.8K Dec 6 13:46 a.out
elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$

not half a meg, but still kinda big if you stop and think about it, but the c way with printf was only a couple of hundred bytes smaller...
Can you really tell me that you know after an exception that the other threads are really in a well-defined state let alone 'perfectly valid'?

Look at something like ZeroMQ that is being rewritten specifically to avoid the non-determinism inherent in throwing an exception.

Once you're using threads it's pretty much anyone's guess as to what state the system is in at any point, add exceptions and it just gets worse.
Awesome hacks from the Docker Global Hack Day
So, since there is no qualifying event, investors could get stuck without any ownership for a while. for YC this is most likely a non-issue, but most other investors won't be able to, thus providing YC with a bit of extra edge in attracting great entrepreneurs. Fair assessment ?
Interesting and promising! A few points: (for context, I'm a decent developer working as designer)

- Considering the usual use of PSDs (contract work, most of it is under some sort of NDA), online uploading tool makes this a bit worrisome. I would much prefer drag-and-drop offline solution, similar to Slicy app. That would fit into designers' workflow and we could see some improvements.

- Right now the "grading" areas are few, and somewhat questionable. Mostly questionable is the use of different fonts and font sizes. Many designs benefit from 5-6 different fonts, slightly varying in weight and sizes for best legibility. Some designs are only possible because of that. Much more meaningful insights would be, for instance, non-integer font sizes (23.989 instead of 24), or use of too many font families, opposed to just "fonts" (same family, different weights).
This tripped me up to no end when I had to implement a web proxy in one of my intro to CS classes. I couldn't find this mentioned in the standard anywhere and different browsers treated it differently.
Funny I never use the front-page and visit sub individually. I had never considered that I may be abnormal in this regard. Damn now I want to see metrics on this...
China has a lot of ghost towns, but remember that the ghost towns from 2008 are full of people now, so I'm guessing that the current ghost towns will up sooner or later. China has way less square footage of housing per capita than Europe, much less the US so building lots of housing is a pretty reasonable investment even if it doesn't pay off instantly.
May I ask what you mean with mad libs-esque? I did think about what you're saying while developing it but we kinda rushed things and didn't get to focus on the design much. Maybe for next year? :)
Show HN: Wanted to be reminded to do special things for my wife
I disagree that it's the only reality. Definitely there is a scale where paying a sysadmin makes more sense than paying a provider for their sysadmin skills.

There is another situation, which I would argue is the "enterprise" situation, where you will want to pay your programmers to make the changes because they're fixed overhead rather than capital expenditures. This scenario comes because of an internal push to save money (adding significant capacity costs too much), or because adding any sort of capacity increases operational complexity more than it increases code complexity. It's a much larger scale than where TestingBot is at, but a problem they probably hope to encounter one day.
Thanks for your take. The people calling Mandela a terrorist don't know what they're talking about.
Fantastic idea. Looks like a lot of fun.

I remember taking a psych course on early childhood development in university, and thinking how much fun it would be to have a baby and actually try some of these experiments.

As a new parent, though, I find I have a lot less time than I would have hoped to go trolling through old textbooks for experiments that won't actually just wreck my kid. (Old-school science is kind of awesome in how it disregards that kind of thing)

Anyway, thanks for putting this together. Definitely going to pick up a copy.
The more important question to ask is what do you think of yourself. Are you a good developer in your eyes? Or you are just trying to make a quick buck off a client who is equally trying to save a few bucks. "Don't run after success, go for skills and success will run after you."
All sorts of things require permission from the government. You can't even sell meat without a USDA inspection at some point in the process. The idea that a modern company could reasonably expect to sell medical diagnostic services without working with the FDA is silly.
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Most of the comments so far, this one included, evade one aspect of creativity in the sense of unconventional ideas. The risk associated with testing out a truely original hypothesis is often greater than we can actually comprehend even far into the experiment; but failure doesn't mean the hypothesis was incorrect. We often speak of an idea "before its time", etc., - sadly, in retrospect. These are the ideas we drown by not sharing the risk as a group, ideas that could spare us great amounts of everything from discomfort to pain.
This looks good to me, as long as it's enforceable (as in the state sees it as a valid, binding contract). It's still debt until it converts as far as I can tell, which is the only way I know of to give the company money today for securities that don't exist yet.
So, what are chances that TOR website was made from the start to announce that "talented" individuals had been found? And rumors about emails were just circulated by organizers.
yeah i mean theres a bit of a learning curve in terms of how the menus are arranged but its manageable. All the same basic elements are there (control panel, my computer, etc). I think Mac has changed some of these internal menu/organization too, that's what OSes tend to do.

I almost burst out laughing when I got to the Windows page and saw the "COMPLETE OVERHAULSSS" between each release... basically just minor changes to Start button / taskbar.

But all in all if Windows 8 is a big change or something I think it's cuz they're trying to now go with "OK. well. people are computer literate now. they know what an OS does. where can we go from here?" It may not be painless but to me the Mac approach has always been a dull wrapper shielding us from the true power of our computers.
There is no great writing, only great rewriting (Bootstrap 3 migration)
Markov Chain + KJV Bible + SICP
I think that's not doing DocumentCloud justice. While I realize this is a precarious argument, I find it hard to believe that Jeremy Ashkenas, an active HN member, creator of Backbone and CoffeeScript, and someone I've come to respect, would work for a company that offers no value.
This is why I view social status as currency to spend on speaking my mind as I see fit.
They didn't ask for it to be removed... they asked (repeatedly) for proof that it does what 23 claims it does.
Everythign old is new again. Remember the days of MSN vs ICQ vs AIM etc etc etc?
Tiger Direct 500gb drive $4.99 (think of it as a found usb..)
Not necessarily. The 'caps' on these warrants are likely to be lower to compensate investors.
I agree. I'm pretty much okay with any standard, as long as it's, well 'standard'. It just seems a bit ridiculous to have all these different apps essentially doing the same thing, but with different front end interfaces, and unable to communicate with each other.
thanks for pointing that out, all resolved!
You're not making things less worrisome by strenuously arguing that there's nothing personal about a comment that starts with "I suppose what has happened to my HN account...", and then going on to suggest that your "encounter with HN moderation" shows a "mechanisms by which VC-istan protects its reputation". The reality is that VC-istan, whatever that is, probably does not give a shit about you or me.

You are not being persecuted.

It is reasonable to be worried about what your comments, taken as a whole, imply about where you're coming from. It's totally possible that I'm wrong and you're just very shrill (you'd think that as a fellow shrill person I'd have a radar for that). But it is not crazy to ask the question. Are you OK?
If you are looking for an Enterprise SaaS app -- you might want to check out Aha.io

We put a lot of thought into it and sourced the best design talent we could find. Originally, we were going to go with a totally flat design, but ended up with a hybrid approach. We found that a semi-flat design improved usability in our early tests with customers.
I just found this interesting because it's a hard drive. Makes me think that someone could sell these things at bargain prices in order to instal some kind of malware or security breach.
So, average male's daily need in one 500 gram bag... How much does this cost again? I mean I'd be interested in replacing one or two meals with something like this, but only if it's not too expensive.
So as I understand it, investors want priority over equity holders in the event of a liquidation, but without the regulation and potential tax headaches of debt.

Since [convert] = [bond] + [option] what we do is make [bond] pay no coupon, and strike the option weirdly and make it look like it is a new (disruptive?) form of investment, when really it's tax/regulatory arb.

Caveat: I am not a lawyer or banker, nor have actually read the documents, though I did read the OP.
They addressed this here http://blog.soylent.me/post/66807143901/this-morning-vices-b...

>> We would also like to emphasize the fact that Soylent 1.0, the product for which we have accepted over $1.5M in preorders, will not be manufactured by hand by our executive team. We have signed a purchase order with RFI Ingredients, a contract manufacturer with over 20 years of experience producing FDA-approved food products.

I was extremely skeptical of these guys, but they seem to be addressing some of the major concerns I had. I still think there's a lot of testing to be done before this lives up to all the promises, but they get some definite kudos for their quick responses.
Next week:

Show HN: Saliva Road -- genomics as a Tor hidden service. We accept Bitcoins!

-DreadPostdocRoberts
I think it's interesting that they are still selling the kits at the $99 price point. They also haven't removed the health tab from their site. I'm guessing what they are doing is buying themselves time to prepare and discuss with the FDA. They might continue to run all the same SNPs on their already-designed chips and just try to justify to the FDA that those SNPs are medically relevant in the ways 23andMe says they are.
Congratulations, you just won the moocowduckquack memorial sickbag for Bigot of the Week.
It's been a long journey of playing around and never finishing small projects until I started this and then it suddenly clicked. I had a bit of PHP and Rails experience prior to this, but Node was pretty much new to me, except for the JS part. The whole async mindset got me in to trouble a couple of times on this project.

The courses on Codeschool helped me tremendously, and this was fun to play around with: https://github.com/rvagg/learnyounode. I read a lot of blogs and some books (will get links later if you want), but mostly it was just trying until it clicked.
I'm not sure what bearing an 18th century philosopher has on anything much. I find philosophy as a discipline to be rather self important and contribute little but linguistic sophistry to most debates.

That said I have heard of Alfred Whitehead, and his opinions on education (if he did indeed influence the forming of early compulsory/state education systems) seem so far removed from any idea of suppressing creativity and individualism that I'm not sure why you'd drag him out to support your point.

I'm not familiar with Finney.

Hanlons razor would apply to the wider situation regardless - you don't think that any of the army of educators would have caught wind of this nefarious plot?

It's nonsense.