skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my desperation I turned to /. and VentureBeat, because I can't browse 4chan at work.

And I don't have a membership to lobste.rs :(

So, instead, I read about unit testing with Karma.
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Techbrats Goldberg, Shih, and Gopman do not represent the tech industry
Predictive Models in R Clustered By Tag Similarity
coupled with their recent security fiasco, you really do get what you pay for..
this was already flagged off the frontpage yesterday. hacker news is not your soapbox. please stop resubmitting this.
Oops! Is there a way to edit the URL in the original submission? I know you can the title but it seems to not allow it from what I saw. Could a mod help please? :)
That makes sense, though given the result I don't think it was a bad decision. Congrats on open sourcing today in any case!
Basis B1 software upgrade; now tracking REM sleep, light sleep, and deep sleep.
I wonder how accurate this is going to be..
This is an excellent point. Most developers I've worked with don't understand the ins and outs of html5
Just gave you an internet point for having perspective.
ASk PG: Why do you suck?
dickwad
Hmmm, your blog post only shows quotes out of context and does not even include your own question that prompted him to mute you. What do you have to hide?

I get the distinct feeling your post was published not because of what you felt about the issue, but as some sort of revenge for shutting you out ('muting').

Their request wasn't to take down your post, but to remove the name of a person. I don't know him, nor do I work for google, but I know quite a few people who do, and I know this is definitely not a topic they're authorized to speak on, so your post was bound to cause trouble. Since you did not want to comply, they were within their right to take steps.

Your follow-up post says more about you than it does about DO.
I had a personal blog post about that story that someone posted to HN, and the top comment thread there was very helpful to us in the decision to open source anyway:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601712

sillysaurus2 and highCs made some excellent points about ignoring what the gaming industry as a whole was doing, and this went a long way toward allaying our concerns. Then we talked to everyone we could think of who might have reasons why this wouldn't be a great idea, including some good lawyers, and no one could think of anything.

For a startup like CodeCombat where the audience may be interested in the code, open source should be the default choice, and hopefully we can succeed in this and start to make that happen by example.
Publishing a candid conversation is a slimy thing to do. If you were going to write an article you should have told him up front. The entire page reeks of oppressed language when the reality is you did something obnoxious to a friend of an exec at digital ocean and he had no interest in helping you publish an article about it using a service he has a modicum of control over. I would have canceled your account personally.
Also, just want to point out the CLA specifies contributed content is still owned by the creator, but we're also granted the right to distribute and license it on our end. So creators can always do what they want with their content.
Since that XKCD was from today, pretty sure the question is from today too :)
Just so people who only read the headline or skimmed the post know the whole story, the author of this blog ambushed a random Google employee with questions about the treatment of Google contract employees in a private chat room and proceeded to publish quotes from the conversation out of context.

See post here: http://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/googler-speaks...

This is clearly done with the intention of embarrassing Travis Collins on the internet, which is in express violation of Digital Ocean's policy which forbids using the service to harass or embarrass others. The author makes a bunch of terrible, incoherent excuses for his disgusting behavior and tries to rally support for his cause on Hacker News.

Pretty embarrassing and deplorable behavior on the OP's part, all considered.
I'm honestly amazed at the idea of recruiting as a monetization strategy for a project like this. It seems to be a way to make money while keep literally everyone happy. I think the only thing that could be worrisome is if perhaps there will end up being a disconnect in how hard a challenge needs to be to make it worth it as a screen, and how good of a programmer the primary user base will be.
You have to be invited to join, and most members only will take a fizzbuzz solution or know sonmeone personally to send them out, however they do have unlimited invites. The "parent" that invited you can be penalized if someone is misbehaving. Also, the title link is not working properly for some reason and until its fixed: http://lobste.rs works as pointed out in the comments in another spot.
The whole article reminds me of IRC in the 90s....

They should just get it over with and start DOS'ing each other.
Tools like web browsers?
A Truffle/Graal High Performance Backend for JRuby
I can't speak for PG, but I think the general idea is that a slow influx of new users is less likely to alter the nature of HN as everyone has a chance to acclimatize (avoiding some sort of Eternal September), and the people who really "need" to be on HN (people interested in startups I guess?) will know about HN already, or be told about it. That last part might be a little "fightclub-ish" I guess, but it seems to be working alright.
Clarification: This isn't my post, I'm just preserving the original article title per HN rules.
What's odd is that if you look at your submission history, you can up vote your own submissions.

Maybe that's nothing new, but I just noticed it. Seems like a bug.
The time is automatically synced from your phone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452384
I saw the Googler Travis Collins turn up and decided to ask his opinion about a story that Gawker had published about how Google treats its contract employees. I gave him the link to the story and he provided some very candid responses, which I took screenshots of and used to write up this blog post. Travis had no idea that I intended to write up a blog post

What a dick.
We (meanpath) released[1] some crawl data which may be of interest to those of you hacking away on a search engine project.

[1] http://blog.meanpath.com/meanpath-january-2014-index/
Yeah, almost as annoying as posts complaining about posts complaining about posts. Check timestamps. When I posted it was nothing but negative.
Another niche for the html/css guru that is still valid is the ability to really customize something like twitter bootstrap. Anyone can throw together a site using bootstrap but actually wrangling it to look unique is another challenge in itself. You really need to understand css inheritence and how use the real power of the framework. Not to mention using 3rd party bootstrap plugins and customizing their look and feel to fit your theme. The ability to skin any framework or cms that has templating is a valuable skill to have.
I was bummed that the conversation around openstreetmaps got killed in the middle of it, and now I do not see it on the front page. Does anyone have a link to that thread or did it disappear?
SyncFusion E-books (Including 64-bit assembly, JavaScript, many others)
Adding In-App Screensharing to your iOS/Android apps
On the surface it seems fortuitous that the OP confessed to ulterior motives for asking the question, however it's misleading to bring this up, since that was not your original criticism at all - instead you accused us collectively of piling on and complaining.

Had your criticism been that lukeqsee is behaving lame and trollish, you might have been received much better. Personally, I couldn't care less who gets the stupid points for actually asking the question - I believe getting points for posting stories is a bug anyway.

And the question itself is so simple and minimal, it doesn't really make sense to think of it in terms of being nice or not. It seems appropriate to me to just assume by default that it is being asked nicely and leave it at that.
The amount or nature of abuse is moot.

The point is high-profile women on the Internet are affected by it disproportionately to men.

It's not a error on their part to be affected by abuse - it's an error on your part to dismiss their concerns because you don't understand them.
High-end CNC machines can't be moved without manufacturers' permission
Steam machines specs and prices
HN is indeed running on a single (10 month old) server, it seems [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364
maybe this will help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
My bad! Didn't think to check before I submitted. Thanks. Vote this on up and let the rest of the thread check out the comments there folks :)
Would you trust whatever peripherals you're near not to keylog all you type and screenshot all you see?
amaks: Gruber is a "fan boy" whom we can expect to say only positive things about his irrational religion, Apple.

jccc: Here are three examples (from three separate years) of not just criticism but particularly hostile points of view against Apple.

valleyer: Cherry-picking!

What amaks did not say: Maybe Gruber sometimes gives them heat for things they do, but he tends to favor Apple so take what he says with a grain of salt.

What jccc did not say: Gruber is totally even-handed and doesn't favor Apple any more than Samsung, Google or Palm.
I agree with the silver watchface with the silver metalic strap looking tacky, but having seen both the silver one and the black ones in person, I can definitely say the black one with the polished black strap looks amazing.

The silver one also looks rather decent if you put a better wrist strap on it. For example: http://instagram.com/p/i1r-EyNxSO/
for(var i=0;++i<101;)console.log(i%3?i%5?i:"Buzz":i%5?"Fizz":"FizzBuzz")

what's my prize?
Typo toward the bottom: "CES 2014 Announcment" (missing an 'e')
When compared to other "smartwatches" like the Galaxy Gear, 5-7 days is an eternity.
Show HN: A real-time crowdsourcing game that improves what you're writing
Why Google+ is a better platform for Bloggers
Cards for Humanity - Thought Experiment on Brainstorming Big Ideas
Zynga didn't do this
I....I REALLY, REALLY, have no idea where this came from...but it has my college filled in as "Epic Bible College" after I loaded my LinkedIn and I cannot change it to the actual college I have attended. I imagine this is it misconstruing "Epicodus", a programming bootcamp I attended. If you could help me out in fixing that it would be wonderful. Right now I'm just letting it be.
I hope the device is open and encourages hacking. But seeing that they're putting an app store on it, (I'm guessing for long term profit) they probably have little incentive to do so.
AT&T's Sponsored Data is bad for the internet, the economy, and you too
For whatever reason, I have no sympathy for the author. Seems their (he or she?) just looking for opportunity to create FUD on the back of other people.

The author's style reminds me of a stalker I once knew who'd just annoy people in chatrooms and forums to try and extract information he could use to make up dramas and shame people.

So all in all, while it sucks if DO did take side because of friendships, in this situation I don't care because Author seems to be a troll.

Actually, I shouldn't post this comment as it gives credit to the submission, and thus visibility to Author.
Clean water,public sanitation (my Dad used an outhouse until he reached his mid-twenties), Doctors washing their hands before operations/births, vaccines, all these were much more helpful in the past 100 years in reducing child mortality and adult mortality rates due to infectious diseases than anti-bacterial soap has in it's (what, 20 years?) period of commercial success.
I had the same issue. Checking all day. I saw that it was back up so I tried it - and it was still down.

Finally thought to try reload and it gave the page.
New York Times Redesign
A Year of Adventure #1: King’s Quest I
I gave you back an Internet point.
Just put in a mouse, and add three more keys.
Epilepsy drug helps adults acquire perfect pitch and learn language like kids
I finally added tail-recursion optimisation to my Lisp interpreter while HN was down. Unless I hear otherwise, I'm taking the Onion crown!
Cool. Congrats, and thanks, for opening everything up. It looks like you have not only opened it up, but invested significant effort into making it super easy to hack on (including a VM appliance!).
I lost 25% of mine! A whole point!
Show HN: Subreddit-based Product Recommendations (weekend project)
hydrogen peroxide would be better
How Facebook was used to deflect (and not empower) the Brazil June 2013 protests
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reader
Design has really never been Pebble's strong point.

Secondly (call me close-minded) I honestly don't get what use/niche 'Smart Watches' fill.

Got a notification? Whip out your phone.

Got a notification and need to respond? Whip out your phone.

Got a notification and need to respond but are 10 meters away from your phone? Sprint like hell to your phone...or conversely, wait till you find your way back to your phone.

Got a notification but don't want to obnoxiously check your phone in front of your significant other/friend/coworker/familymemeber/human? Newsflash: You're still being obnoxious when you check your watch/Glass.

Want to change your music? Come on, your phone lockscreen does that in one button touch too.

Want to check your "team's score"? Google Now. NFL app. Lockscreen changers. Etc.

Want to personalize your watch? Let me link you to a personalized watch store. http://www.amazon.com/Watches-Mens-Womens-Kids-Accessories/b...

Want to have a watch that works underwater? See above link.

Want to customize your watchband? See above above link.

Want to read it in sunlight? ...

Want to wake up (assuming you charge it at some other time) with it's gentle vibrations? Lots of smartphone apps ( and of course Jawbone Up, Nike Fuel Band, FitBit, etc) do that as well.

Want to know the time? Well...Sure.

I just don't really understand the rationale behind smart-watches [as they currently stand].

[Edit: I've read the below comments and I now understand.]
> You refer to perfect pitch and absolute pitch like they're different things -- do you realize that they're the same thing?

Are you referring to someone else's comment? I use them interchangeably in the first paragraph
I guess Bitcoin's finally made it to the big leagues.

It's similar to every single day's coverage of financial stocks -- "The stock is up 1% on the expected change in the price of tea in china."

Worthless.
Yeah that definitely looks better I'll admit.
At the facility I work at we're still migrating from Cent5 to Cent6. Cent5 is installed with Python 2.4 (released 2004-11-30, unsupported since 2008-12-19). Thankfully, we're juggling Python 2.5 and 2.6. We rely on a couple pieces of third-party software that include their own Python (2.6 and 2.7).

But even without the third-party software I'd prefer to use a separate install of Python. If there were a few Python scripts there and there, we could probably manage, but managing a large Python codebase would be ridiculous trying to rely on the OS version of Python. Transitions to new OS versions would be way harder, too.
An Old Problem Meets Its Timely Demise
Love writing and talking to people? Going up against Goliath? Come be our voice!
We are hiring a full time communications lead. We would like to pay excellent story tellers to come work with us for 2-10 days. Come work with us for a few days and see whether working with us long term is your thing.

Perks: Near market salary. Catered lunch everyday, including home cooked meals on Friday. A team of genuinely good people who love their work and each other.

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Our technology helps bring users together in unconventional ways and makes getting around easier and more enjoyable. Your job will be to show how we solve the world’s transportation problems - from the everyday commutes to unforgettably epic nights. You will shape our approach to marketing and communications in a way that only you can - with words that move people. You won't just write press releases and blog posts, but also the language IN the product.

Here are some examples of such work that we like:

• Convincing people that they can do their own taxes is no big deal http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fpP/turbotax-intuit), sharing your love of data-driven marketing analysis

• Taking risks while being authentic: http://blog.eat24hours.com/how-to-advertise-on-a-porn-website/

Interested? Send us these two things at ask@instantcab.com

(1) Your favorite story about getting from point A to point B.

(2) Other samples of your writing or communication skills.
Why don’t companies start in coffee shops?
Have been waiting all day to post this.. I built it over the weekend, using Rails 4 and Zurb Foundation.
Was there a black monolith nearby?
My Fitbit Force is pretty crappy, as a watch anyway, and it gets 7 days. Of course, it charges in (what seems like) a really short time, so it evens out.
Are you actually able to see 'top'? I'm still getting the error.

EDIT: (never mind, it was just cached)
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Yeppp a trivial test
Interesting.

The Quark core 32nm (14nm by end of 2014), x86, core power consumption under 100mW[1]. Assuming performance scales with size/transistor count, that's probably 1/5th-1/10th the performance of Atom (I'm guessing - they claim 400MHz as a max speed at launch).

That's very competitive with ARM at the same size, but ARM doesn't have this "complete computer on a board" at that size (AFAIK).

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7305/intel-announces-quark-soc...
Girl Falls Asleep Up To 30 Times A Day After Getting Flu Shot
No, you couldn't. However, I doubt trust/security would be a motivation at that scale. It's essentially equivalent to carrying around a bootable flash drive.
Looks cool. FYI a game called Cards for Humanity exists http://cfh.io/
This isn't bad for just Google. RSS aggregators were also getting the "everything's fine" message. I thought I had a bug in my aggregator until I went to the site and realized it was down.
The next great civil rights movement should be to get people with mental health issues the help they need so they don't behave that way in the first place. I can't blame anyone for being scared of the internet when they're threatened like the author described though.
Show HN: Visualizing my bionic partner's data with D3.js
The joy of building stuff
One solution for this already exists: P2Pool. From the wiki page, "P2Pool is a decentralized Bitcoin mining pool that works by creating a peer-to-peer network of miner nodes." The key thing is that since it's p2p, there's no owner of the network who can use it to perform a 51% attack.

P2Pool is not perfect, but it works and it shows that decentralized pools mining are possible. With some improvement, it (or something like it) could be a replacement for all centralized mining pools.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool
After clicking through I opened Facebook and was served a "suggested story" offering me $15 off a Pebble "Today Only" via retargeting (http://imgur.com/qcH42af).

Clicked through and got this message that the promotion "isn't active." (http://imgur.com/pOt9KsR)

Stop burning money, team Pebble. You're welcome.
I considered this as well (seriously), until I saw the lost data from the past day or so.
What a pointless comment.

Of course there are always security problems around using untrusted peripherals. Hell, there are security problems around using trusted peripherals.

That doesn't mean the possibilities shouldn't be explored.

(Incidentally, I don't think this is a very interesting use-case. We can already do that with phones, and I never see anyone doing it. But it isn't security issues that stop people doing it.
Text renders oddly on Windows/Chrome (lots of kerning issues)
Side effects of HN outage : HN Notify service sending multiple notifications
Now that the HN is up & running again I noticed that the HN Notify(http://hnnotify.com/) service I am using is sending multiple notifications of same comments again and again. Is that one of side affects of HN outage?

Also, out of 7 comments 5 are gone.

Here is the screenshot : http://i.imgur.com/bhSwrOg.jpg

Here is the link to thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7015082
Gave you a point so you can feel special again. Here's looking at you, kid.
Maybe more will be announced at CES, as hinted here:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-06/google-teams...
Sure, we'll use the embargo clause to explain this. The real reason is that, when you have machines capable of making new machine parts, you want to know when they move around and start building Skynet.
V1 was a few weeks ago and got folks pretty excited (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6908181). Would love to see if the rewrite works better: it's now really easy to sync up with partners initially by posting a text on to the public lobby. Players sign on and proofread your text, and it's surprisingly fun to meet like-minded people, get feedback in real-time, and help others.
Live link: http://goo.gl/exgYPy
Thank you, Udo.

(I would hope nobody misunderstands, but I am entirely serious.)

Edit: Udo edited his post, so I replied.

> lame and trollish

I partially agree. On one hand, it is both. On the other hand, like I said above, someone would post the question.

> I believe getting points for posting stories is a bug anyway.

I completely agree. Actually encouraging conversation and actively adding to the conversation is much better for the community. Perhaps 25% or 50% points for posts would level the field.
$249 is a lot of money - you're talking the cost of a subsidized high-end phone for something that has less functionality. My intuition tells me smart-watches wont sell in big BIG numbers unless:

- It's a phone, therefore it can be subsidized by the carriers

- It almost does everything a smartphone can, including having a lot of screen real-estate, but only costs ~$250 unsubsidized. Perhaps like a flexible iPod touch that wraps around your wrist

If someone can come up with a $200+ wrist-mounted device that sells in the millions but doesn't meet the same level of functionality as a smartphone then I'll gladly eat my Fitbit.
Google moves toward Chrome, away from Android
I heard it was because the last Son of Nebulus, ruler of the Five Realms had returned.
BMW hits the performance limits with its driverless car
Google cache has a partial copy[0]

[0] http://goo.gl/MnWNPw
I didn't mean it as a personal attack, but I do stand by the assertion that it was a pretty lame thing to do.

I'm curious - if you don't mind my asking: what are you thanking me for?
Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap
I just reached out to you on twitter. I found a LOT of bugs but really love the idea. Such is life with alpha software :) haha.
Here is what happens when you _mention_ P2Pool in Bitcoin forums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325737.0

Note that the subject of the post isn't p2pool but the responses are pages of anti-p2pool FUD.