skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. It is one the best application of 3D printers I have seen.

One nitpick: The name of the professor is incorrectly split in the article. His actual name is Vickneswaran A/L Mathaneswaran. I have learned that A/L stands for "son of" in Malaysia. Westerners get confused because many people of Indian origin have only one name and use their father's name as last name.
> 'national security' reasons

Which?

The email already has the image URL. What extra leak is there if Google fetches the image?
This page has been up for a while, but as far as I can tell this is still vaporware - nowhere to order, no prices.
Bloody great idea. Just implemented it too.

Adding a hostname and putting the log in a Dropbox directory means you can keep track across PCs easily.
Exactly so. They're now allowing the harassment to continue but unseen. I don't think people here have a thorough understanding of the naked hatred some people espouse on Twitter towards individuals. I'm constantly shocked at the abuse women I Follow get that they then RT to display it for others to see. Why don't some of you who don't think this is a big deal set up an account as a woman and start doing some pro-women tweeting? Your eyes might be opened very quickly. I'm a guy and I've had people -- OK, mainly other guys -- display sick stalking and Blocking was the way to put a stop to that. They didn't have the time or energy to manually copy/paste my tweets to keep it going. Now they don't even have that friction to deal with. They can harass people behind their back. Protecting an account has a penalty -- your tweets can't be RTed by Followers. This is the punishment of the innocent and the liberation of the guilty.
I personally don't give a rat's ass about the influencers. I come here for the articles and general discussion.
i think your salary formula is off - no way does drew brees make 975k... 9.75 mil?
Any plan to prevent trolling? Honest question... curious about how you plan to catch me giving crazy answers about a company I don't like.
When someone expresses the desire to be "long", they mean they want to buy an instrument, rather than sell it. I want to buy puts, which means I profit if the price goes below the strike. Selling puts means I profit if the price stays above the strike. Since my belief is that BTC's long-term value is zero, selling puts is the last thing I'd want to do.
Dear Gmailer: I know what you read last summer (and last night and today)
It is not because Yemen is a failed state which is another bit of nonsensical terminology invented by the genocidal US policy hawks.

It is a failed state primarily because it has corrupt leadership that is willing to take bribes from the US government and their armaments companies to engage in extra judicial killings of their citizens.
SF Housing Market Out of Control. Literal Hole in Wall Offered for Rent
SMB and NFSv4 have support for something similar in their protocols. Nice to see it generalized. The file protocol versions only chain RPCs on success. You can't operate directly on the result.
not sure how you would compute a pay gap between those who are working and those who have exited the work force. Isn't it like dividing by NULL?
I strongly prefer the postal service deliver my parcels. I live inside a locked building without an attendant, so to receive packages the delivery person has to come inside. But only USPS has a key to the front door. This means that when I have a UPS or FedEx delivery due, I have to stay at home all day. If I'm not, either they leave it and it gets stolen, or they leave a note and I have to stay home the next day.
...I wonder how many times competing teams have been used for something? It actually sounds fascinating.

The mythical man month never mentioned that. It mentioned multiple implementations of one architecture, but that was for hardware IIRC.
The Count of Monte Cristo .. not sure why it took me all these years to read it, but it was one of the best books I've ever read.
Taking responsibility for plagiarism
Going Feral Or “So long, and thanks for all the fish…”
>>>Stop posting publicly

In other words, get off the Internet. Do you recall a fracas from several years ago when several well-known (on the Net) people harassed Scoble's wife, Kathy Sierra, and some others? Kathy was basically driven off the Net. She's only recently come back to Twitter and now this happens.
Isn't the challenge of education-planning how to compel students, not how to agree that we need to?

Perhaps exposing children to more novelty and creative outlets presents more opportunities to hook their interest.
What's the change?
If anyone is interested in a full-featured library for this sort of thing, see MathBox.js

https://github.com/unconed/MathBox.js
Holophrasis
Google is starting to emulate the bullying tactics of Microsoft during its hey day. Don't be evil. not so much, I say.
Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake
Understanding mobile app store stickiness
Now this guy is the real MacGyver, doing all this awesome stuff from the rural South of my Country.

/me wants to meet him.
No, I disagree that the current business model needs an ETF fee before unlocking. It needs an ETF fee before terminating the contract, but that's not the same thing.

There's no issue with unlocking your phone and using T-Mobile while continuing to pay your AT&T bill (except to your wallet). Nor is that scenario outlandish - just replace T-Mobile with a foreign carrier while traveling.
Ask HN: Forming an IT service organization, how much do I charge per month?
I was formally the IT Director for a chain of Retail stores (150+) - the company was sold and they eliminated my position.

What I have discovered is they have left their franchisees out to dry by not continuing their IT support. I was sure they were going to hire someone else, but they didn't. They are on their own. They have to find IT support locally, which from what I am hearing has proven difficult for them. The software vendor doesn't offer quality after hours support. There is definitely a need I can fill here.

About 50% of the stores are using Quickbooks POS and the other half is using a industy specific point of sale solution which I am an expert in.

What I would like to do is call every one of the store owners and offer my services, introducing my new IT organization. They know me, they all like me, and would be willing to pay a monthly fee I am sure of it. It easily a $100,000 a year business if I only charge $60 a month.

Where I am lost is:

How am I going to handle issues that require physical intervention? (Sourcing local contractors) Should I charge a call out rate for this and pay my contractor a 1/3 or a 1/2 and keep the rest? Better yet, how am I going to find these contractors and present such a job to them. If I go through another company, they are sure to charge me a high market rate for their technician.

Is $60/month enough for such a service? The phone lines would have to be available from 9am to 9pm Monday through Saturday and Sunday 11am to 7pm.

I need to keep my employees local, I cannot outsource. So if I hire a $35,000 a year help desk employee - I've got approximately $6K a month left in revenue to work with.

Common issues would be: My receipts won't print, I can't find report X, my database is corrupt, I have these stupid pop ups, etc. Easy stuff.

Thoughts?
Thanks. Just updated it.
+1 I've found that the major bottleneck in all this for SMB's is Intuit's Quickbooks- whose terribly unstable sync/integration capability requires 5 different 3rd party systems just to receive an online order via your e-commerce cart, fill a phone order, input a purchase order received by email/fax..

And that's before you even get to pick/pack/ship an item and sync to your company file in QB, drawn down inventory on hand, send tracking info to your customer and update your CRM...

There seem to be a handful of startup software co's in this space but none can handle the entire picture:

methodintegration.com
lettuceapps.com
I work at a startup and when I started the job, my boss was concerned with the rate of progress. I'm the sole developer at the company and the only technical person besides the CTO. My boss said that normally when he asks someone to dig a hole for him, he can see visible progress being made. He felt like that wasn't the case with my work.

We took a service-oriented approach to building the software, so in the early days, my boss thought that no progress was being made because he couldn't "see" anything. He also wanted me to work between 40 and 60 hours a week, which I was doing until my overtime pay was taken away for "equity."

I've gone off on a bit of a tangent here, but I'm of the opinion that non-technical founders should learn a thing or two about architecture and the current state of web/mobile development before hiring resources. Otherwise, we end up with silly analogies where people think programming is like typing up a short story in MS Word.
I suppose people from Twitter will read this. You guys have a bigger problem to deal with than this disastrous change to Block. I Protected my account in protest tonight. And did it just in the nick of time -- over 1800 Follower requests poured in. My account was bombed again by fake Followers. This is the third time it's happened. It took over a month for Twitter to delete over 10,000 fake Followers I was bombed with the first time. And they still haven't deleted the latest ~2,000 from a few weeks ago. And now tonight it happened again. Twitter needs to get its priorities straight -- and changing Block is not that priority. Stopping the fake Follower bombing should be. [typo edit]
I agree. That would be very interesting - how much better is YC relative to the overall data set ?
If you need some help with developer events in the Ottawa area feel free to get in touch. I typically do Ottawa Javascript, Ruby Tuesday and sometimes the ArtEngine Modlab as well.
Ah yes, "these people".

All that fiction and still buying into "us and them".
Well, we can satisfy both our needs for geekiness and culture by watching Sir Patrick Stewart play Shakespeare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84
And Google could just mark any mail from sources who pull these shenanigans as spam
A Wealthy Teen's Defense For a Deadly Drunken-Driving Crash: "Affluenza"
U.S. drone strikes wedding convoy in Yemen, killing 14
The key word in “Data Science” is not Data, it is Science
I'm not familiar enough with Twitter, apparently. Why is having fake followers bad?
You want to read lines of text that are 27" long?
Who benefits from this change?
Not good; are we creating more revenge terrorists that we are killing with these drone strikes?
States exist to preserve internal security and impose the rule of law. Neither of these things exist in Yemen. It's a failed state by definition.

As for how it got that way, it has nothing to do with the U.S. It's the result of the civil war in the 1990s.
I reckon we'd move to 0.12 when there is a change that warrants a minor version bump. Whether or not there are such changes already in one of the development branches that are soon to be pulled into master, I do no know.
I think the OP relies on the notion that the overall drop affected people equally independent of gender.

The question remains: are men uniquely worse off?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned how this relates to spam fighting. One could speculate that by switching to this "shadowban" system, spammers have less data to figure out whether their accounts are being banned/blocked or not. This is pretty common amongst other large web properties -- Reddit and Yelp are two that come to mind. Even if the banning is on a per-user basis, one could imagine that twitter uses ban counts as a metric for spam detection and so if a spammer cannot measure this metric themselves, they won't know when to taper/accelerate their spamming to game the detection algorithms.
You know how long it takes gmail servers to respond to an invalid recipient with a 550? About two seconds.
> So when you get a car loan and buy a car, the bank can dictate where and how you can drive and service it?

Last I heard, they usually demand that you purchase certain insurance coverages... And insurers usually have their own rules about what you an and can't do with your car (if you want your insurance to be affordable anyway).
It's not because it's C++... this is just really ugly code.
I would try to explain it to people - and even show them in person - and would inevitably get 'why would I want to do that?'. And that sort of was a fair question, which I still don't have a good answer for. It really reinforced its position as a niche tool computer vs general purpose, rightly or wrongly.
If you're not using the AT&T sim, then you can never incur overage. I don't have the data to back it up, but I'm pretty sure overages are a significant part of their profits. If I'm wrong about that then my argument falls apart and I accept defeat.
Why couldn't google show images by default before turning on the cache? I assume it's a security issue, but would be interested to hear the reason in detail.
If you want to know if an email address is valid, you connect to gmail's server and send "RCPT TO:<example@gmail.com>" and they will tell you if it's valid or not.
The good point is that other hacked together quasi-compatible implementations now have an "official" reference implementation to browse. It could be a lot worse... I've waded through uncommented OCaml to discover how a certain shall-go-unnamed commercial, non-restful XML API worked. Or, Cisco could've never open-sourced it.
I'm very interested in the NaCl approach to server-side jails:

> To isolate user programs from Google's infrastructure, the back
> end runs them under Native Client (or "NaCl"), a technology
> developed by Google to permit the safe execution of x86 programs
> inside web browsers. The back end uses a special
> version of the gc tool chain that generates NaCl executables

I'm a bit sad that the article didn't discuss using NaCl for constrained execution environments a bit more. Docker/linux containers are still a bit heavy-weight for low-budget ARM servers, and it'd be interesting to check out NaCl as a more lightweight, per-executable sandbox.
And that more or less encapsulates the blindness our government has when it comes to combatting this so called war: blowback.
You might like to get in touch with Jason Scott: http://textfiles.com/jason/ He seems to "know people" when it comes to archiving computer history: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-sourc...
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch (enhanced my critical thinking)

The Wide Lens - Ron Adner (a more complete view for developing projects, foreseeing the inevitable problems beyond your immediate reach)

Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami (just awesome)

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson (tomorrow's world, written the day before yesterday)

And here's all the 40-something book I've read this year: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/562634
Apples and oranges.

There's no other comparable situation in which you'd make a public announcement and somehow expect some group of people who could hear it to not hear it. And let's be clear - every 'tweet' is a public announcement to the world at large.

Would you make an announcement on the 6:00 news and expect only some of the audience to see it?

Would you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper and think you could exercise control over who reads it?

To invert it a bit, would you flag an email as spam and expect you could not mail the sender ever again?
In addition to semver, it's worth checking out the Node.js docs stability guide:

http://nodejs.org/api/documentation.html

While semver is great for getting an overview of the stability of the API interface for a project, I think their guide is a great complement in that it helps people determine the stability of specific interfaces that someone might want to use. This is increasingly valuable as the API surface of a project becomes quite large (which is common for a framework).
Isn't that illegal? Or is that legal, because there is officially war between American and Yemen? (serious)

I thought the legal implications of terminating people from a foreign country remotely is either an act of aggression or already war, depending on how the affected political party sees it.

So either it means:

a) America would have to pay for the losses and families.

b) Yemen and America are in war.

c) Yemen capitulated against America.

Otherwise I don't understand. :-/

(Sorry, if someone feels that this is too logical, non-emotional. I'm of course, against killing and drone attacks.)
Anyone know which two are the 2013 companies?
Show HN: An extension that automatically blocks email tracking pixels
35 years of US federal minimum wage adjusted for inflation
> it would allow an instant check if the email address is valid.

What's bad about that?

Not to mention you can do it anyway - just try to send an email to an address and see if they accept it, if they do then send the server a reset command so it discards the email.
Of course you could fix it manually like that, although it's nicer not to have to resize your browser for each page you visit.

It's not just a matter of aesthetics or personal preference, there are actually studies on the optimal length of lines for the human eye, generally around 10-12 words or 70-80 characters.
Among other reasons, imagine me sending support@example.com an email with <img src="http://localhost:3000/carefully-constructed-url" /> if I knew Example.com was a Rails shop in January 2013. That could have been oodles of fun. localhost:3000 is one of the many, many examples of things that could be put there. Other examples include probing for internal redmine instances, attempting to compromise dev/staging servers which are firewalled from outside traffic, etc etc.

This is not a risk if Google proxies the image -- they'll proxy a 404, because Gmail's servers don't have privileged, cookied access to apps on your internal network, dev boxes, etc.
"...given that granting as many patents as possible is effectively the business model of the USPTO."

and the one that companies exploit a lot knowing they have backlog of cases. Each case should be examined carefully by the office. See how crowd validation can come in handy: http://patents.stackexchange.com/

I do not know the success rate but they have helped invalidate some patents in initial stage itself. A similar official and easy to participate program will be even more helpful.

PS: I would recommend watching the movie "Flash of a genius". It is regarding invention of time delayed windshield wipers, and how bigger car companies stole idea from a guy after he pitched them.
Yes. You can't use the subject of the image to advertise or otherwise promote something without the subjects consent, but the image itself is your property.

You could take a picture of a random person in public and publish it in a gallery, but you couldn't use that image to sell your brand of pop, iirc and ianal. Sorry I can't find a good link right now.
Paying the contract and using the phone are two different things. As long as you continue paying for your contract, why should the carrier get any say on how you use your subsidized phone?

There are plenty of great uses to unlock your phone even if you still want to keep the primary contract, like travelling abroad or maintaining multiple SIMs on a single phone.
Greg Gopman no longer CEO of Angelhack
Depends what you mean by subjective. The valuations are not just our internal estimates of the values of these companies. They're the post-money valuations resulting from actual investments, and at these valuations, invariably by institutional investors.

So while of course not all of these companies are going to succeed (a $40m valuation is roughly a bet that a company has a 10% chance of ending up worth a billion), the people making these investments are professionals at valuing startups, and they're betting their own future income on the accuracy of their estimates. There's always uncertainty when you have an asset appraised, especially one whose value is so hard to predict, but you can't generally get a more accurate appraisal than one by a professional who is actually willing to buy the asset at their estimate of its value.
Yea, that's the major factor. Staying home to take care of babies not only holds up your pay scale, but takes you off the track for more competitive positions very quickly. Women find it very difficult to jump back in on their previous career trajectory when they do return. It's to be avoided at all costs if you're an ambitious women.

Ideally, people having kids wouldn't cause the wage gap to grow. But the push for women to downshift is really brutal, and most of it comes from other women (mother in laws and sanctimommies).
Do you have any kind of source for that?
if you had a Gmail folder named "Ars Technica" and loaded e-mail images, the referral URL would be "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/Ars+Technica"—the folder is right there in the URL

That just isn't true on gmail. The whole service is served over https and won't pass referral information.

Not to mention your IP and whatever other information they feel like embedded in links will still passed along when you click. So theres still some tracking going on, but they miss out on open without action emails (which is of course useful information to marketers).
The GP was about life from the ocean surviving the geyser into space, as "long string of frozen droplets that could contain organisms" in orbit around Jupiter.
Currently reading Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath and it's easily one of my favorites of 2013. The introduction - Gladwell explains what actually happened in the epic biblical battle of the same name - is revelatory and an unforgettable piece of literature.

Malcolm Gladwell may be too popular to be 'cool', but he's a master storyteller. Haters gonna hate.
Thanks for the link, Nasa ames does look promising.
Yovigo brings Etsy to Facebook - Free Public Beta
Predicting Kickstarter Success From Proposal Texts
Heinlein would have agreed with the diagnosis, if not the penalty.

http://www.magma.ca/~yeti/troopers.html

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"Never mind. Long enough. It means that such punishment is so unusual as to be significant, to deter, to instruct. Back to these young criminals -- They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes. The usual sentence was: for a first offence, a warning -- a scolding, often without trial. After several offenses a sentence of confinement but with sentence suspended and the youngster placed on probation. A boy might be arrested may times and convicted several times before he was punished -- and then it would be merely confinement, with others like him from whom he learned still more criminal habits. If he kept out of major trouble while confined, he could usually evade most of even that mild punishment, be given probation -- 'paroled' in the jargon of the times.

"This incredible sequence could go on for years while his crimes increased in frequency and viciousness, with no punishment whatever save rare dull-but-comfortable confinements. Then suddenly, usually by law on his eighteenth birthday, this so-called 'juvenile delinquent' becomes an adult criminal -- and sometimes wound up in only weeks or months in a death cell awaiting execution for murder."

He had singled me out again. "Suppose you merely scolded your puppy, never punished him, let him go on making messes in the house ... and occasionally locked him up in an outbuilding but soon let him back into the house with a warning not to do it again. Then one day you notice that he is now a grown dog and still not housebroken -- whereupon you whip out a gun and shoot him dead. Comment, please?"

"Why ... that's the craziest way to raise a dog I ever heard of!"

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I'm reading this right now (in my 30's) and LOVING it! It's a hefty read, but the story--though I've heard the story before, seen movies, etc.--is so great it's fantastic.