skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The signup UI is the worst: http://imgur.com/fD224S2
Databases must handle termination, that's right. But they may lose data doing that, and there's nothing wrong in that (it's even inevitable).
If Scandinavia is the "Dark Land" then the British model of society can only be called the "Black Hole".
Passwordless Products
Thank you for your information. I'm looking for tools to save my useful information like other people do. I have two problems with this type of archival tool besides the robots.txt issue:

1. The static snapshot can only give us an idea of what it looked like because it's not functioning, not updating. Better than nothing, but we may have no clue what we want to find other than a few keywords. If you need to search the entire context of the archival, everybody needs to install a mini search engine.

2. If it becomes popular like Google, so many people are going to use it, it will create so much data duplication on everybody's pc, which is helpful but not an efficient solution.

Do you like to have a self-organized personal private web on top of the public web via a few clicks? http://bit.ly/1c2DzN6
If bitcoin is outlawed, only criminals will use them. ;)
Another option: route traffic through an external (authenticated) proxy.
I knew this would happen when they demoed Mavericks streaming.
That's the coolest feature from Mavericks.
Normaly, it's not nice to lose uncommited data.
Thank you! Getting over the fear of failure has been a huge lesson for me in the past year.
Is anyone actually upset by this change? If so, I agree, but I don't really see anyone saying they are, kind of sounds like a straw man.
The UX isn't an utterly terrible developer workflow?

I write code all day. Git is awesome, and you can pry Vim from my cold dead hands. But Jekyll is fiddly and doesn't really match my preferred writing workflow.

Ghost workflow: Visit URL, mash password manager (occasionally), click "new post" and start writing. Change the title whenever I feel like it. A live preview of the post appears on the left, and I click publish when I'm done. Click a little button in the UI to view the finished post on my site.

Jekyll workflow: Open a terminal. Create a new file named with the current date and the post stub. Half the time I don't know what either of those are off the top of my head. Open Vim. Type out the post metadata block. Inevitably get something wrong. Type post. Tab to the terminal and start Jekyll's server. Navigate to local server URL in browser. Alt tab back and forth between browser and editor, hitting F5 every time I want a new preview. Rename file with new stub (optional). Git add, commit, and push. Navigate to my public site in browser to make sure everything came out OK. Mash F5 a few times because Github Sites hasn't compiled it yet. Delete the "We compiled your site!" email from my inbox.

Note that Ghost requires much less prep; the majority of my time in Ghost is just editing my post's text. Jekyll has a larger lead in time to editing, and while editing I have to switch back and forth between my editor and the browser for a preview. Jekyll requires more effort doing busywork that isn't writing. I found my output dropped way off after I switched from Wordpress because the barrier to starting a post was higher.
Dustin is a little too late on this one. Medium came along and scooped up whatever chance Svbtle had of becoming accepted by the masses. It should have been open from the start, Dustin's elitist attitude got in the way and I think it's only a matter of time before Svbtle dies.
I don't think programmers (writing about code) are Medium's main target market.
Small planes are death traps...
Thank you! Some days I can't believe it's been less than a year.
Question 1): What's the difference between using Tor and http://www.hidemyass.com/proxy/ 's Pro VPN option?

Question 2): Can't you buy a domain name and hosting using https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/mailing and mailing in an anonymous cashier's check / postal money order?

Question 3): Why not just (using Tor/VPN/Proxy) sign up for a Tumblr or Wordpress Blog anonymously and only logging in or editing the blog when using Tor/Proxy/VPN?

Where there is a need and a poor solution, there is an opportunity for a startup. Anyone want to join up and contemplate starting "TABlog" Truly Anonymous Blogging platform?
Replacing a defective part is no big deal, just incorporate an inspection of the part into a regular maintenance window every X cycles (a 'cycle' is usually one flight) and model its cost as an amortized per-cycle cost based on its mean time to failure.

The problem is when it's difficult to know whether a part is defective. Something like subsurface delamination might cause visible bubbling or warping, but if it's deep enough then it may only be apparent on an ultrasound or X-ray scan. That sort of scan might be more expensive than just replacing the part regularly, and shipping it off to a factory to be inspected and refurbished.

That is a maintenance technician's worst nightmare: an expensive and bulky part that fails in invisible ways, requiring either regular replacement or time-consuming inspection with expensive equipment.
Battling Silicon Valley Wage Suppression
This is probably where Tor would come in handy. Onion route to somewhere in Thailand or somewhere.
Welcome on HN

The new section holds every item posted, regardless of wether it is a "Ask HN" or not. The new section is sorted according to the time of the post — most recent first.

The ask section holds every item that is not a link. Consequently, it contains this very post. However, it is sorted according to the HN algorithm [1], which means your post will not show up on the ask front page until it reaches a high enough score.

[1] No reference in mind, but there are a lot of posts about it here and there. Just ask around.
Evolutionary incompatible approach like this will lead to defeat in the end.

Co-existence is the only way that is compatible with evolution.
Given the standard scenario in which fsck is used, the alternative name seems pretty appropriate.
If there was ever an example of frantically searching for a reason to take offense to something, this would be it. There are probably half a dozen legitimate reasons not to use GTFO in a spec, and this is almost certainly not one of them.
"The HN crowd" has become an online meme for man-child Silicon Valley programmers. So I'd say there is at least a danger of that overflowing to perceptions of YC - just not for anyone YC probably cares about.
Easy-express: Sockets.IO, SSL, Sessions, FileServer and MongoDB in 60 seconds
I tried Evernote. I can archive information pages into notebooks as groups and find by tags. But it cannot save dynamic product/service information with updates, and it's not self-organized. So like other online bookmarks, it's not popularly used.
That looks interesting, but I'd like to know a bit more about who is running it and how/why before I put my contact info in.
Really kind of frustrated with this.

Svbtle used to self-identify your work as selected to some extent. Now, what's the differentiator between your work and everything else?

Don't say "content" please. That's obvious. But a link was more dependable to me if it was from Svbtle. Not anymore.
Most languages get string processing (and its closely related cousin, localization) wrong, even the ones with string classes, so I don't really get my jimmies rustled on C's anemic native string support.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

On large enough projects, you end up with all kinds of custom logic around user-entered and user-facing strings, so the lack of native string processing is really only a drawback for tiny and proof-of-concept projects, which aren't really what you use C for anyway.

That being said, the right way to do string processing usually ends up looking a lot uglier than the way we are used to.
Likely some evolution of them, unless something profoundly better changes the game.
So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it. And it has a nice font.

My startup idea is that we sell chairs, but the chairs are nicer than some other chairs and they say 'chair' on them. Can I get $25 million too?
Better still, I'll recommend @kana's vim-textobj-entire[1]. This adds 'e' as an 'everything' text object, with 'ae' (around everything) and 'ie' (inside everything) bindings by default. Thus 'vie' would select everything in the buffer in visual mode. Likewise for 'Vie' (Visual line select) or 'cie' (change everything).

[1] https://github.com/kana/vim-textobj-entire
I really love when I see products take this route. I'm also currently working on something that is passwordless. I think there is a small cognitive hump that new users have to get over, but I'm working on ways to make it smoother. Nonetheless, I believe this route is the future & we will continue to see more passwordless products, which will increase the general understanding of how to use them.
I believe that the surprise would come from it not meaning "get the f* out." Which makes perfect sense to me - GTFO has a meaning, and re-backronyming it can only harm understanding of the standard. Also consider non-native English speakers, which is really important when developing international standards.

The fact that someone suggested a corresponding "HTTP TITS" should set off at least minor warning bells that "HTTP GTFO" is not a good thing to put in the standard. I certainly don't want to see HTTP LOL (Long Overdue Listen), HTTP WAT (Wireless Ask Transmit), etc.

Humor is great, but good standards are better.
This is Awesome
This kids are awesome look what they can do just simply awesome i cant even do a backflip
My guess is people would see the message, know it's an acronym, but refuse to believe that the UrbanDictionary results they got from googling were the actual explanation?

My favorite example of professional tool fun has to be the "Cowardly refusing to create an empty directory" result in tar (http://erictarn.com/post/393019949/tar-cowardly-refusing-to-...). That adverb adds a lot of character and justification to the message.
Fully Functional FileZilla Client Capturing FTP Login Details
@ig1 that app exists (I'm the CEO). It's called TwoGrand. You should check it out! iPhone: http://bit.ly/TwoGrandiPhone, and Android: http://bit.ly/TwoGrandAndroid.

And @rwu721, the Weilos refresh is super clean. Well done.
Who says you have to stop taking cards? But physically, there's very little difference between an NFC swipe and a card swipe.
Can't resist to add this:
“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” — Stan Kelly-Bootle
Could you elaborate on the unlock process with your z-wave lock?

Are you using openzwave, RaZberry, MiCasaVerde, or something else?
So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it.

Like Facebook, and Twitter, and all those other sites that are clearly and obviously different from each other and come on you're trolling aren't you please tell me you're trolling
I'm going to add more advanced filters so you can sort by things like price, category, etc. I'm also going to make a mobile optimized front end so it will be easier to use on fly. Some other thoughts I've had are adding the ability to make custom lists (i.e. My Fav Taco Joints) and promoting people who are active on the site.
What's that I smell? It smells like... opportunity!

Find a parking lot somewhere along the coast. Run a boat from there to Martin's Beach. Charge enough that you make a bit of money, but don't be greedy. You'll get to be on the beach every day, making money while you're at it.

Yeah, I know, you're going to have to get a commercial license and all, but... somebody ought to go for this.
What if I send you to http://lvh.me:10000/some/resource/?method=DELETE/ ?

edit: ok, it doesn't pass the socket.gethostbyname check
It's surprising in that it doesn't stand for what most people use it to stand for, and its definition can't be inferred from a lay-understanding of the term. (Whereas "GOAWAY" has a bit more of that "I bet I know what this is before I even look it up" feeling.)
I cant even do a backflip but this kids just AWESOME
The State of the Union address
I know you're being facetious but the world actually would be a better place.

Refugees from war torn regions need medical care, not yet another JavaScript framework.
Look on the bright side, my first interpretation of the subject line was "solder in a new chip" not "This can only be fixed via reboot."
In all fairness it used to be more of a waste of time (as mentioned in the post it got progressively worse and widely viewed as a waste of time) until the tribunal came along. Under that setup it's 30 minutes of 5 peoples' time once a month, which is pretty easy to swing.
I hope Apple loosens up their design guidelines. The Netflix app is terrible on Apple TV.
Is something actually offensive or profane if nobody actually cares?

Excluding people who "care on the behalf of people who might care" ("we shouldn't do this, not because it offends me, but because it may offend others"), is anybody actually bothered by the word "fuck"?

Well I mean, also excluding isolated religious communities in Lancaster county that still use minced oaths....
Look back; I never said the + operator wasn't type dependent. It clearly is. It's certainly true in C that no matter what, the + operator adds two numbers together. The exact nature of that addition depends on the types of the operands, but the rules for that are dead-simple, and most importantly, aren't extensible; I can't include a header file that will change those simple rules.

i.e. Once you understand how pointer arithmetic works, and you know how C's type promotion scheme works, the meaning of any addition expression is basically evident, and you have a few guarantees about the behavior of the program (for example, I can reasonably expect that my addition won't take more than a couple clock cycles, depending on what kind of casting needs to be done and the like). In languages that support operator overloading, + can literally mean anything.
Google Business Group Summit 2014
The GBG Submit Colombia Colombia, will be the most important event for technology in the country 2014
I'm detecting a slight note of sarcasm there.
Yes, it's far more professional to paint the bike shed blue, chartreuse is difficult to understand and conveys the message that those who bike to work are drunks which is certainly not what we should be trying to convey.
That sounds pretty cool actually. Assuming two servers had equal weight in MX records, such that mail had a 50/50 chance of going to either, you could unify it via fetchmail, or similar, if you polled both backends directly.

Usually it is a pain if you have mail going to more than one host - ie. no shared storage amongst all the hosts that receive mails, but if you were looking for redundancy and didn't mind the "manual fixup" this would be almost trivial to setup with 2+ VPS from different providers.
Booting up?
I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see HN jumping on the "repeating old memes over and over and over and over again" bandwagon. So moron, wow.
Yup, I did not mean to exclude Tor with my suggestions above.
They also have implemented anti-spying features into the communication channels such as hiding watermarks on forum pages that identify the user account of the person logged in. That way if you took a screenshot and distributed it then they could identify who the leaker is.

http://onebit.us/x/i/IxuCXyZK8m.png
http://onebit.us/x/i/cAk6RKogxR.png

I think they also used unicode characters as another method, so they would catch you if you copy and pasted text or took a screenshot.
Feds charge Bitcoin startup founder with money laundering
I'm less concerned about the professionalism side of it than I am the confusion one. Do non-English speakers use GTFO? If not we've just given them a hard to remember acronym for no good reason.
Yeah, I read this list and thought, "Shit, this isn't enterprise, I'll show you enterprise!"

Our application is a procurement tool; specifically, sourcing. Sourcing isn't what most people think it is though. When large companies buy things, they don't just run down to the market and buy them. They go through a process that is broken up in to many parts. Sourcing is the process of identifying vendors and acquiring a price, which will then be formalized in to a contract, through which employees will purchase goods and services... DEEP BREATH

This process occurs for any goods or services that the company spends large dollar amounts on. The threshold varies from organization to organization, but we focus on contract values of $500,000 or more.

We built a modern implementation of a pricing tool that showed up in the mid-nineties: reverse auction. Our software is built in Ruby on Rails with a standard CRUD portion for most of the document handling and administrative work, and a couple of javascript/api apps for bidding and observing during a bid. Our software and process works a bit differently than our competitors. Most reverse auctions run for days, kind of like eBay in reverse. Bidders can stop by and drop a bid in whenever they want. Our reverse auction events are run "live". We schedule them for 30 minutes (typically), and bidders compete in real time through an interface that updates immediately.

Becaues the product is complex, we have a heavy professional services component. We've got bid teams and account execs who work with our customers throughout the process. On bid day, there are people on the ground fielding calls from bidders, talking the customer through the bid, and generally making sure that the ball gets across the goal line. Surprisingly, it's really exciting work. Our sales guys always say it's the most fun you'll have in procurement.

We're 3 years in, bootstrapped and profitable from the first year. We're actually going to do some hiring in the Cleveland, OH market, so if you're in the area, and you know Ruby on Rails, get in touch with me through my profile.
How does surprise about what the acronym stands for lead to confusion about what it does? This question is hopefully more along the lines of what I wanted to ask and clearly didn't.

Edit: To further clarify I mean surprise about what it stands for when both interpretations convey a similar idea.
From the diagram, it seems they intend to put something resembling a microkernel stack in the browser app, which is a rather odd architectural choice. What exactly do you gain by piecing together low-level components inside the very high-level runtime that is a web browser?
I'm curious about this. Are you saying the 'places in Chicago' looking for programmers to build systems to facilitate trading or is it that OP could become a trader himself with that skillset?
French as well. Suspect English is an outlier here...
Are you sure it's because of the website change instead of the search engine dynamics? The search engine results are not organized, therefore it's unpredictable where a particular results may show up. If the website changes it's keyword combination in tags on the page, it may also disappear from our search results using the same keywords as before.

So we should save it in categories instead of using keywords only. Try the following link and search for "recipe" than click "more similar links..." may give you some idea of how to save an organize your useful information into your private web. (This site is in early beta, there are not much data available yet.)

http://usweb.bingobo.com/usweb/welcome.jsp
Maybe I'm just being silly but I really hope not. AppleTV is the only Netflix device I know of that won't automatically keep playing TV episodes (with no way to turn this "feature" off).
This is a bit of a false dichotomy here, as we do have occasional work from home which varies between positions and departments. That perk is a separate concern from the dog perk. I know of some employees who do choose to favor the former to opt out of the latter (working from home to be with their dog) because they don't want to bring their dog to work for whatever reason.
@ig1 - Completely agree with you. The great thing about progress pics is that you can motivate yourself to shoot a better next week, and also be inspired by what other REAL people have actually achieved. Real results definitely do take time though.

Users can post food pics, photo updates, and other text updates on the app. These actually make up a higher % of the posts on the app today.

Really great to see people supporting other like minded people on all sorts of posts!
I think people are much less interested in owning the content than they are in having their content promoted. The end goal seems to be internet fame, not having a huge archive of content. When viewed in that light, it makes more sense why people are doing what they're doing.
Booting up after your shutdown sequence was "The power went out and I don't have a UPS"

Ergo, "Oh Fsck!"
Using a language that eschews state to try and process the state in a modal editor tickles me.
Why do people seem to think they're the first to dream this up? Dozens of products don't use passwords because they use federated login, or they use Persona/BrowserID, or because they use a secure token via email. It's been done for basically forever.

Please just go the Persona route though, it's so much less annoying and less of a hack than the email a secure link route.
It appeals to the most common demographic on the internet (idiots). As is usually the case when morons flock to something, there's money to be made from them.

I feel bad for the people who are actually putting real money in to this stupidity.
And yet I've always pronounced it "fossick". Which seems appropriate for what it does (fossicking around the disk, looking for all the lost bits).
I had absolutely no idea my NFC reader on my Nexus could read my credit-card details, or other RFID stuff with NFC enabled -- rather scary!

To anyone who is interested, enable NFC on your 'droid, then on Google Play, download "Card Test" and voila...
Ask HN: Am I missing out by not being in a larger city?
I am often faced with this question of whether I should be in a larger, 'more innovative' city. Maybe not the typical SF or NYC, but even Austin or Boulder. I'm in a moderate sized town but it's nothing great (yet?). There have been no large successes here outside of enterprise companies and there isn't a ton of innovative thinking done by the people here.

I feel kind of left out and maybe like I should be in a larger city, but where? That's the question. I am young and pretty flexible. Not married, no kids, and I do most of my consulting remotely and I often am building an idea for a startup or helping others.
PJNATH – Open Source ICE, STUN, and TURN Library
WAT is a perfectly valid acronym, actually.
What is the Ukrainian "identity"? Here is a map of the territory of Ukraine acquired by Czars or Soviet leaders: http://i.imgur.com/LAc1emR.jpg.
And before the USSR it was part of the Russian Empire. Both Slavic peoples have a close and often intangible history, as far back as Kievan Rus' and the principality of Kiev.

As for myself, my grandfather was a Ukrainian with the surname Kozak, while my grandmother was a Russian by the name Svistelnikov. All the relatives I know were born in Ukraine, including those pre-dating the October revolution.

Furthermore, you mention Holodomor- yet this was allegedly the fault of Stalin, head of the SOVIET state. Are you implying Stalin didn't kill Russians? That Russians somehow benefited from Ukrainian misery? Or, that Russians also didn't starve during those difficult times?
They just made that feature optional:

https://support.netflix.com/en/node/2102