skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting idea - but it has a few snags. I do not think that Government funding would sit comfortably with the start-up culture. Governments (and quasi governmental organisations) are required to be risk averse. Plus there are already a host of grants and similar available - although those come with all sorts of complexity and obligations.

How about a different approach? We currently have SBRI initiatives https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... that expose a wealth of interesting challenges and match them with direct funding to seek solutions. The snag here is that while the SB in SBRI is supposed to stand for "small business" in fact there is no such restriction. So some SBRI style challenges restricted to micro businesses and start-ups could be the seed corn needed to get a lot of businesses off the ground and a lot of real world problems solved.
It's interesting you say that! I have considered at least re building our demo product in Rails. Maybe this is a chance to at least show off to my own company that RoR would provide us with less headaches. I also completely agree about the patience side of things. I think my patience wore a bit thin today. I think I just thought I would use HN to vent my anger! haha. Thank you for the advice!

Cheers
OK, seems everybody wants to pay per copy, am I rite? I think that is a pretty bad idea that will slow down adoption and development. Yes, this is an open-source project and more developers could help out. I think developers are less likely to jump on the wagon to help out a duo that gets all the money.
Instead, don't try to monetize this now. Make adoption and interest grow. Then sell a hosted variant at lychee.io, Wordpress stylee. Or be more imaginative than that and come up with a better idea.

Great software anyways! Thanks!
I can really see this as a frontend to my crashplan data. They do have a nice API :)
Disconnect is open source, licensed under the GPL: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/
I understand that. I will try to publish to source code very soon then.
Exactly. Linux is my primary OS and I'm not a game developer but I still log on Windows from time to time just to play with Unity and make simple games.
Hey there!

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You are aware that Berlin isn't the biggest IT/software cluster in Germany? There are a lot more companies with a lot more revenue in the Rhein-Main-Neckar area[1](pdf, image page 3).

It's just that the "sexy, webby" stuff is in Berlin, so it has more visibility.

[1] http://www.softwareclusterbenchmark.eu/images/images/Downloa...
ama729 is right. I hate writing HTML and that's why I try to automate this task as mush as possible
There's some real gold in some of those blog posts on there. Well worth reading.
Utterly crazy as it sounds, he wouldn't be the first... http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6665
i did something like it 6-7 years ago with friendster when it got 'who looked at me' new feature then. i scrapped million ids of teenagers to below-age-30 women. my friend list went from below hundred to full 3000 (the max at the time) in a week or two. facebook was not popular in my country (not usa)

the scrapper was written in newlisp (save search result pages with curl, use regex to match and collect the ids). it's probably easier to write in other languages, but that's what i knew.

i used wget and curl to loop over the ids but it's too slow because they download the whole page. later i found out about 'curl -i' (header only) and a million ids was done in about hour or two (i moved my operation from my home's 64kbps to my colo datacenter mbps internet).

my account is no longer exist (probably banned); however, i do still have a screenshot of me having 3000 female-only-friends and 70000 non-hidden-females 'look back at my profile'

initially, i talked to any interesting woman; however, later i made a strict rule to only respond to women who wrote at me. there were just too many fake female-accounts.

i got a couple of dates from this feat; however, i met my wife in a traditional catholic youth retreat. when i let her know about this friendster thingy, she just laughed. now i'm happily married with a 15-months-old boy.
I have a feeling that approach is no better when compared with going on dates with a random sample of 88 women (within some range of compatible age/attractiveness), but I don't have the data to prove it.
> "Change the permissions of uploads/ and php/ to 777, including all subfolders"

> https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/blob/master/docs/md/In....
I don't think this is ok
Intercom's story has been a wonderful one to watch. They're a particular inspiration for those of us in Ireland; they've consistently aimed high, have set high standards for themselves, and generally raised the bar for Irish companies.

Their blogging has been interesting since before Intercom was even incorporated (at their consultancy company, Contrast's[1], blog).

They're also a bunch of smart, down to earth people.

Exceptional folks. Congratulations.

[1] http://contrast.ie/blog/
The Soul of Man under Socialism
Show HN: Quick way to share writing online
Yes. I was actually hoping that this would be working without a database. I think this is a good example: http://sye.dk/sfpg/
Perhaps not UI wise, but it the idea works well for me.
We want the Unity Editor not just the Unity Player.
Xcode is clang based
This could help. Here is how the php/config.php should look like: http://cl.ly/TVft
Well at least they notify first.

US police would just start beating you and throwing you into pens, if you are lucky you won't get coated in pepper spray or hit by a sound cannon.

Watch the DNC and RNC conventions next year for examples with their multi-million dollar taxpayer funded "security".

But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people for "watching".
I'm 'affraid' that's what will happen, hopefully pricing won't change very soon
With an optimizing compiler to boost its performance, I think PHP would still benefit from two things:

1) A resource like "PHP - The Good Parts", that guided developers through the dos and don'ts of the language at an early stage.

2) An overlay language (like Coffeescript over Javascript) that effectively hides the bad parts, but that might also be extended to bring some consistency to the library APIs (even a bunch of aliases that used consistent naming rules would help).

I'll admit that I have written anything serious in PHP since the late '90s but those are the issues we had bring new developers up to speed.
Talk Summary: Building Great Data Products
What is different from the intermediate code HHVM generates and the code that OPcache/apc stores? Is HHVM always faster compared to code that is cached in OPcache/APC?
CEO here, can confirm. Mail Pilot runs IMAP and SMTP directly to your email server and back; nothing in the middle. Our first client, released in 2012, did make use of a 3rd party server, but it made too many people uncomfortable, so we found ways to implement the advanced functionality of Mail Pilot without needing a 3rd party server (here's the blog post of the announcement that we were moving away from using a 3rd party server: http://mindsense.co/blog/6-major-announcements/).
Please elaborate on why Nimrod "looks awful" to you?
price performance wise the amd processor is in the lead, but if price is not an issue intel still leads. also check the memorycoin performance database: http://agran.net/memorycoin2_calc.html
The idea that the FSF (and perhaps more specifically, RMS) are holding back GCC technically due to concerns about people working around the GPL dates way back. As people have pointed out, GCC now has a plugin system but I imagine ESR is thinking back to exchanges such as this one, where RMS rejected the contribution of a Java bytecode backend to GCC purely on the grounds that it could be used with proprietary tools using the bytecode as an IR http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg00895.html
How to become an awesome blogger?
Not sure, If you don't run the server you can't see anything because often the templating is done by the server
Has it? I'm just about to move in an opposite direction (PHP development being 2-year long accident).
I never understood why people revile that decision, any time you side with the silencing of speech of another person or organization is just inviting them to silence you.

That is the important part of the First Amendment people forget, freedom of speech must apply to even people or groups you disagree with, especially those you really really disagree with.

A quote I read here or similar summed it up nicely, I despise the WBC ...

"Handing the power to silence the WBC to the government because I disagree with them is handing the government the power to similarly silence me."
Private albums with a random access token in the url would be awesome (instead of passwords).

On a side note, I'd donate 100 bucks for a Lightroom Sync Plugin any minute.
I'd actually prefer a linux version of the Unity WebPlayer before the editor.
Media buyers Vs. Accountants: who drank more over New Year's?
The problem is that to do something useful you don’t need only energy but low entropy. The easy way to calculate it is using the Gibbs free energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_free_energy . To produce some work and transform the radiation energy you need also a cooler heat sink to hide the entropy. The black holes are very cold, so you need something cooler. You must have a very tiny black hole with a temperature over the ambient temperature (25°C=77°F), so the heat flush from the black hole to the ambient and you can harvest a part of it as useful energy, for example with a electricity generator.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Handwritten Resume (1482)
Oooo, I didn't know that.

But going back to the original point, if that's true you could say that Apple was in a slightly better state than it might have appeared (in that it had leverage over MS that it could use that might not have been obvious at the time) but I don't think it significantly undermines the idea that Jobs did a fairly remarkable job in turning Apple around.

After all, MS and many other companies had far more resources than Apple even with the settlement and none of them had the same level of success Apple enjoyed during that period (or since).
Debugging platform-specific issues without a debugger is less than ideal.
Facebook will lose 80% of its users, according to a new mathematical model
if you are discounting this discussion on account of not being interested in the VM consider it's also quite interesting for the way they changed the language.

E.g. gradual typing with type inference, generics, closures, nullable types, generators and a lot of static checks and removals of "arguably dumb" php features.
C++ isn't good for embedded. C isn't as productive as an embedded language could be.
The article decided the odds were: 32 teams, each with a 50% chance of winning, so the odds must be 1 in 2^32!

It's obviously wrong, of course, but journalists aren't typically known for their statistical math backgrounds. Interestingly, this article claims you can actually get the odds even lower, to about 1 in 1 billion: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-buffett-basketball-bet... using some more sophisticated team/player data.
New technology aims to empty doctor's office waiting rooms
But, but... they took college classes. And they have a badge or something.
Good luck with it all. So your business model is to be a bit like Automattic / Wordpress?
if your looking for charitable people amongst those in cafes and such your looking in the wrong place. People who tend to those locations are more concerned about themselves than others.

You want to find the people that care, go to the Goodwills, Salvation Army stores, and the like. Its not hard to find the charitable people if you would bother to look where they are instead of where you are comfortable.

Besides, based on personal experience, many of the very higher ups in the companies I work for put more time into charity than the techies ever did.
Thanks for the report! I will look into it.
I don't think it's all that unreasonable, actually. I use Ubuntu and Unity has caught my eye. I would definitely try it if it had a Linux editor, but I'm not going to install Windows just to try it out.
Yes people still travel by hitchhiking. Yes it is possible to do so. I know someone who hitchhikes all the time.
A 3D printed house rises in Amsterdam
"first published in 1984" - such a nice coincidence...
I just had to deal with extending an absolutely massive C++ function the other day and it was a nightmare. The function was 2500 lines long and littered with several dozen exit points - all of which execute under slightly different conditions. Throw in a couple several hundred lines long switch-case statements and you can see what I'm getting at. Figuring out the right place to put a breakpoint that will actually fire due to a maze of conditions and returns took me a couple hours.

Of course, I've seen many cases where people take this to the opposite extreme and start breaking up functionality that logically belongs together and can't be reused in other contexts. It makes it pretty apparent that writing decent readable code is hard (for many people anyway).
I do not yell. I am just wondering. I am wondering, how people have been blinded. Maybe I have just to big expectations.
I'm running Koken right now and I don't think it's a Lychee alternative. Koken seems geared towards users that are building a photographic or design portfolio with a limited selection of images (and that's what I'm doing). I think Lychee is something else. A way to store and display photos en masse. Perhaps a way to share all your photos from your family vacations 2005-2013.
Good points, there are also biological concerns where your pupils shrink with brightness making brighter displays clearer.

Another semi-bio related issue is contrast. The net aggregate brightness of the display should be roughly similar to the surroundings. So a "white background" needs to be microscopically brighter than the room with black letters, but a "black background" needs the few illuminated glyphs to be incredibly bright to meet the same average brightness level.

I grew up on terminals and CRTs where for visual quality (and tube lifetime) you needed white text / black background but having the luxury of choosing for a couple decades now, I am happier with black letters on white-ish background.

I would be very interested in seemingly obvious neuroscience study if your whole visual system works better with light fine details on a dark background or the opposite colorscheme. There doesn't seem to be an obvious answer. For example a wolves eyes on a pitch black forest background should be highly noticeable, which sounds good, but it should also be highly stressful for obvious reasons.
In iOS 7, you do it under Settings/iTunes & App Store; tap "Apple ID: [whatever]" and choose "Sign out", and once signed out you'll be presented with options both to sign in under an existing Apple ID, and to create a new one. (I didn't actually do so, so there could possibly be a hoop or two to jump through which I didn't see, but I tend to doubt that.)
Jim Morrison said it best (screaming):

"You're all a bunch of fucking slaves." ...

"Maybe you like being pushed around." ...

"Maybe you love getting your face stuck in the shit." ...

"How long is it going to last?"
I doubt ESR was genuinely interested in changing GCC policy - that seems to be like a well written piece of concern trolling. If you want to make suggestions, you discuss it politely with the stakeholders, you don't make intentionally provocative suggestions on a public mailing list.
I'm an atheist, and I'd agree with that.

But if I were among the faithful, the answer that it's the intent and level of attention that counts seems the most reasonable. A computer using TTS to recite prayers at high speed wouldn't count for anything at all; a prayer wheel would, if the person turning it were using it meditatively (vs., say, turning the thing while thinking about what to eat for dinner).
I don't answer to posts that are not earnest. (I could answer to the first sentence alone, but it does not make sense to me to answer in the context of the second)
CalDAV most certainly is an API. It's standardized [1] and everything.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc4791
So why does the main function in this example violate the principle ... i.e. where is the dispatch table?
72-year-old grandmother passes a message from beyond the grave with this one weird trick
1) sort of exists in http://phptherightway.com/

2) There's been a couple of these, most recently Mammouth[0], but personally I don't think that's useful - the syntax is more or less OK. I do think that renaming the core functions and then providing an alias/compatibility library would be beneficial however.

Personally, the most inviting part of HHVM for me isn't the performance, it's the alternative team that seem willing to develop the language more in-line with what users want.

[0]: https://github.com/btwael/mammouth
I think it's about the comparison to PHP/HTML which might be usable in other areas but definitely not for 3d games/applications. It might be different with JS and WebGL but PHP is for a completely different use case than Unity.
SWAP iPhone Photo chat app
> But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people for "watching".

Combined with the "meta-data" collected by the NSA, they can easily probalistically identify the core members of any dissident group to focus their national security efforts on.
New pictures of the mysterious rock on Mars
This looks really good. A couple questions:

1) Is there any kind of RAW file support?
2) Does the software de-duplicate uploaded images?
> 1) A resource like "PHP - The Good Parts"

Not exactly the same, but "PHP - The Right Way" [1] is a good starting point.

[1]: http://www.phptherightway.com/
Note that these are MCMs, with multiple semiconductor die on the IC, so a large heatspreader is unsurprising.
I did the same about a month ago, just to see what it'd be like, an experiment of sorts, NY resolution style ... Deleted all my social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Google), Started using Firefox completely locked down with various plugins. If you're really paranoid you may want to look into getting a Raspberry Pi & setting it up as tor WiFi access point (Duckduckgo "Onion Pi"). After one month in here's my experience:

* No FB, Google+ & Twitter is easy, they were a waste of time anyway. Glad I did that.

* No Google: harder ... the search results from Google are still better than DDG.

* Always running your browser in "Private" mode: harder still ...I reverted to using one browser (Safari) for sites that require logins / cookies and Firefox for pure consumption.

* Onion Pi Tor WiFi: depends mostly on the network speed. On my home network I find the slowdown intolerable & often switch to the non-tor network. On a fast connection it is good enough that it doesn't bother me 80% of the time.

* VPN: I also have a HideMyAss VPN account which I use to bypass country firewalls. Here too the connection too often flakes out to use as an always-on solution.

* (Edit): I replaced Dropbox with Bittorrent Sync running on said Raspberry Pi. (I actually have two in different physical locations).

Verdict: While I'm glad I quit the social media nonsense & took some steps to protect my privacy, going into "Tinfoil Hat" mode all-day, every day just seems too hard.
> police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers

I remember that the dutch police some years ago already used so called "sms-bombs" to contact mobile phone subscribers that were around a crime scene months before.

It is simply inherent in the technology. You wear a mobile phone? (not even smart) So you are traceable with all consequences.

The solution? In any case not technical in nature. We will see.
Also about 2), haxe: http://haxe.org/doc/start/php
I will. Thanks for the notice!
"Except that your name is also put on your doorbell with a label-maker"

Never seen this in Germany. Not that I remember, but most places, no, this doesn't happen.

"downstairs/apartment building's set of doorbells also proclaims last names, and are often ordered by floor"

They thought of that. So they mix it up, or just list, it has nothing to do with floors

"In fact, it's advised that you don't put any first initials/first names on your doorbell"

Correct, they usually put last names only.
Privacy? lol-wat? 1990 is over.
Berlin is hyped because it's a cool city at very low costs with easy visa's.
Many developers have been selling support for WordPress for a long time. Even back when it wasn't as massively popular as it is now. I wouldn't mind contributing to an open source project where some developers sell support as long as I can fork away when there is a disagreement (read: permissive license).
JSON is much better name for a child than XML
your solution sounds really good.
Just want to emphasize this:

Germany has a __fundamental right on "informational self-determination"__ [1].

From the wiki article:

<< On that occasion, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled that: "[...] in the context of modern data processing, the protection of the individual against unlimited collection, storage, use and disclosure of his/her personal data is encompassed by the general personal rights of the [German Constitution]. This basic right warrants in this respect the capacity of the individual to determine in principle the disclosure and use of his/her personal data. Limitations to this informational self-determination are allowed only in case of overriding public interest." >>

This is still quite interesting in several current debates.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informational_self-determinatio...
I know SC2 is probably a poor example but it fits very well here. It's the difference between managing a team strategy in an RTS versus looking at the individual unit deaths/spawns, types of units, etc.
Captionss - Sensible CSS Image Captions
I would generally agree with your assessment of the situation, but the fact that the company decided to opt-in AND bill the customer $1850, does not make sense.

and this "WebLock enrolled customers" sentence makes it clear that only enrolled customers will have this service, so although it seems like you have no choice, I'm betting my virtually nonexistent reputation on the opposite.
I guess the time will tell.
That bothers me. That should never be necessary.

It looks like they intend everything to be in the webroot, which is a problem in and of itself. Setting everything in the uploads folder to be executable without any .htaccess directives to prevent that seems like a potential issue. If they're not validating images (properly) or sandboxing uploads, or thinking about mitigating directory traversal attacks, then there could be issues with remote code execution.
The exchange overhaul sounds good, since when I just tried to set it up, it wouldn't auto-discover my company's server.

I guess I'll give it a shot with gmail in the meantime.
Furthermore:

By making transactions in Bitcoin, you lose legally-mandated formal protection such as chargebacks and FDIC insurance.

Despite what Marc says in the article, I find this is a big minus for Bitcoin on a day-to-day transaction scale. Traditional banking is pretty robust against bad actors, but if I put my Bitcoin in the wrong place for just a second... it's gone.

A great deal of infrastructure is needed to solve these problems, which is partly why it's a good bet for Marc to invest: if successful, there is potential for an uncompetitive oligopoly even compared to traditional banking.
that's interesting indeed :)
our king costs 40 million a year :/