skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work on "human in the loop" classifiers have been around for a long time.

That said, this is very interesting. The real innovation here is the untrained humans feeding the expert system via simple visual identification. This requires a preestablished taxonomy to be defined, so you won't get any surprises, but it is perfect for any large scale classification that has fine differentiation (like biology).
Manipulating the RNG to obtain treasure in Final Fantasy XII
Having done most of the steps you mention above for multile clients, I'd contend the time overhead is not very large - most things can be automated, and once that is done an extra instance is just a matter of spinning up a server and deploying - also you can scale a very long way on one or two instances when the hardware is beefy enough (e.g. this website), backup, deploy, testing can all be automated. There are definitely some situations where a service like Heroku or AWS makes a lot of sense, but it can get expensive very quickly; you're trading time to setup/manage for higher ongoing costs forever. VPS is cheaper but requires some setup. That's a trade-off each company has to evaluate individually given the talent and money they have.
Life is a strategy game
It's also interesting that the account you replied to was created apparently just to reply negatively to this article. Is this becoming more common on HN?
I've been working on a space invaders style game in javascript. I'm hoping to release it sometime in the next two weeks.
He's really a PR genius. When he restores Flappy Bird to the app store next week, after a week of the media writing about how it was taken down abruptly, It'll blow up even more.
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It's interesting that this is exactly what a 'high risk' mixer looks like.
It doesn't matter if it should have been commented or not. The reality is it wasn't. If you get in the habit of explaining your changes in git messages, every line change will have documentation, or at least an owner so you can ask them about it.

If you do need to go git spelunking to figure out what's going on, you'd have to be insane to not add a comment afterwards.

Either way, "shoulda coulda woulda". If the code doesn't have a comment, it doesn't have a comment. These things happen, and you can't change the past. But with git, you can relive it.
You really shouldn't have to be relying on history for all of that context. It should definitely have been a function simply called 'triggerLayout()'. Then the exact and best method for triggering layout could be put in that function and used throughout the project where necessary, and easily updated if a better method of triggering layout comes along.

Code like this is extremely brittle with or without that git history, don't rely on it like a crutch as it makes the code obscure, and updating a line somewhere may leave other similar lines updated or not. If you wanted to update the triggerLayout function, you would have to go through the git commit log for every .clientLeft line to see if that one was or wasn't used for triggering layout...
Have you tried wxHexEditor? I found it as good as Hex Workshop, at least.
Currently working on Gophish (https://github.com/jordan-wright/gophish), an open-source phishing toolkit designed to help businesses and pentesters to quickly conduct phishing campaigns.

The project is being built with Go and Angular, so it will hopefully be a dead-simple application to install. I'm also blogging about it occasionally here: http://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/categories/gophish/.
It's a good example of a place where a comment should have been added. The user got lucky because the line's last commit happens to contain the meaningful explanation. He could also have stumbled along a formatting change, variable name change, file rename. The spelunking becomes harder than just reading the comment that could have been on top of that line.
n=1. Talk about missing the forest due to the 36 foot tree in the way.
I dont think its a PR tactic or anything. They guy just doesnt care for money or popularity it seems, for whatever reason. Just let him be and move on internet...
Ha. I got this both times I tried the game, and took it as a friendly suggestion that having been given the answer you would be able to recall it instantly the next time the same question came up.
In some regards, yes. In the larger sense, no. I chose HN because I'm a developer, HN is where I typically stop first for tech news, and the technical issues here are a good lesson for new startups.

When we build apps we need to be aware of "best practices". This includes customer service, feedback within the app when an error occurs, and billing standards. Login issues 4 years into development? Either their framework wasn't properly unit tested or their apps integration to it wasn't.

One thing I should probably have mentioned in my piece and which I'll likely add; despite the tons of email HowAboutWe sends, the only email I didn't get was one confirming my purchase or containing a receipt, although my CC was billed.
Popular Games and Suspicious Behaviour
This is a great opportunity for someone to make a (good) clone of this game and clean up!
These girls at very funny
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Procedural storytelling is something I would LOVE to learn more about. Are there any resources you've found particularly helpful or interesting?
Cached resources can actually make it faster then the packaged model you described.

For example I go to site A which uses jquery from the google cdn then I switch to site B which uses the same cdn. The browser doesn't even make a request for the jquery resource then, it just loads the cache. If the full site was loaded as a zip file we'd be downloading redundant jquery data twice.
I'd call it lazy or boorish. Disgusting is not the right word. Unhelpful, yes. Disgusting, no.
There are regulatory limits on fiat transactions in some US states. The list of approved states has never been one state long, and the expensive and time consuming, US-specific process of acquiring state-by-state licenses for the remainder is well underway. Overseas, in more logically regulated places such as Europe and parts of East Asia, there's no such barrier.
Well, this is great news for anyone who's trying to clone the game.
What is a resource exactly? Is GET /sumof/2/5 -> 7 a resource?
http://goodaudience.com is a domain I just won in an auction a few weeks ago. It makes your target market aware of your existence on social media and converts them into fanboys/girls (lead generation).

I started Instagram integration as a side project and now you can increase your reach to over 150 million monthly active Instagram users.
And in about a month or two Flappy Bird fever will wear off and folks will move onto something else.

Don't turn down millions of dollars because people are doing what people do! Someone remind him of all the folks who have downloaded his game and stopped playing nearly immediately...,
Personally, I am fed up with WYSIWYG editors; none of them work, though LibreOffice comes close. Word freezes up if you use more than a couple of pictures.
Bitcoin had these "gem" and "diamond" and "treasure" sites ad nauseum a year ago or more.
I don't find it fun at all, I find it a bit tragic. Looking from the chat it looks like it's a bunch of kids who don't have the sense to not engage with this kind of site.
TLDR: OP paid for HowAboutWe event and got locked out of account. Support takes longer than 48 hours to respond, so OP publicly declares HowAboutWe is guilty of fraud.
yea that may be the case too, although I would like to think otherwise :]
It's coming. That's what HTTP/2 PUSH is for.
Did they take the site down? The link is 404'ing.
This sounds a little bit like the sort of stuff `the eyeballing game' makes you do: http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html
Possibly...and it's an excellent opportunity to raise the price.
Mostly, it means using HTTP verbs on URLs to represent create/update/read/delete. (IE, POST/PUT/GET/DELETE)

There are other intricacies like HATEOAS (which sounds like a horrible breakfast cereal), but it basically mostly comes down to updating resources using http verbs.

Whee.

(Personally I don't get the reverence it gets since it's basically just about verbs and locations, but whatever, it works well enough).
Just testing that site (thanks to maxucho for providing the example :) ). Interestingly, even if I hold my mouse button down for a second or two before releasing it, there's still a perceptible loading time of maybe 500ms - 1s.

Not sure if that's expected as part of the design?
"is it safe to change or remove that call in the future?"

If you remove the line you should end up with a failing test.
that's probably the thing. Just think about what it is like to suddenly find yourself as a public known non-government guy in a socialist, underdeveloped country obviously owning a million bucks. D'oh. I bet he's been stalked a lot last days.
You're worried about three meltdowns, but not the 2,000 nuclear weapons that have been detonated since the start of the atomic age? Compared to bomb tests, the fallout from nuclear power is a rounding error.

But let's review those three meltdowns. Three Mile Island didn't cause a single case of cancer. Chernobyl was a ridiculously unsafe design run with incredible incompetence. The WHO estimates it caused 40,000 cases of cancer and 4,000 deaths from those cancers. That may sound bad, but pollution from coal kills around 30,000 people each year just in the US. Finally, there's Fukushima. It's expected to cause 100-200 premature deaths from cancers. Remember, the cause of that meltdown was an earthquake-tsunami combo that killed almost 20,000 people.

If anything, shutting down nuclear power worsens public health. Demand for electricity isn't going to go down, so we end up burning coal, and coal plants are much worse than nuclear. From http://squid314.livejournal.com/292620.html:

According to the Clean Air Task Force, coal plants kill about thirty thousand people per year in the US through pollution (which causes respiratory disease). There are six hundred coal plants, so that's about 50 deaths per plant. These numbers are much higher - maybe even by an order of magnitude - in Chinese and third-world coal plants, which lack the US' stringent environmental restrictions.

Even in the worst-case scenario, nuclear power still does better than coal:

When you hit a nuclear plant with the fifth largest earthquake ever recorded, then immediately follow that with a twenty foot high tsunami, and then it explodes, it still kills fewer people than an average coal plant does every single year when everything goes perfectly.

There are lots of things that cause long-term harm to the environment: toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and yes, radioisotopes. If we want to enjoy a first-world quality of life, we have to accept some pollution. The least harmful energy source today is nuclear power.
What I realized now: if you look at their BTC balance

https://blockchain.info/address/1ponziUjuCVdB167ZmTWH48AURW1...

plus

https://blockchain.info/address/14ji9KmegNHhTchf4ftkt3J1ywmi...

their "debt" - meaning, what other people have to bring into the system - is their balance + 20%. Right now, their debt is about 42 bitcoin.
Sorry about that! Digital Ocean ran out of boxes in the SFO region, so we've switched it to Amsterdam, but our release process broken for a few minutes. Should be fixed now!
Ported Github identicons concept for missing display pictures to Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davidhampg...
Working in ruby using git? Sounds horrible to me :)
A Framework For Analyzing Anonymous Communication Protocols
That would work, though it's less than ideal and machine learning, is pretty easy. The main advantage is you can get very accurate predictions on what the next rating will be, and you can easily add in more arbitrary data to make the predictions more accurate. This is the goal of ratings after all, to estimate the probability that a service will be good or bad.
Incidentally, Hanoi is a really nice town, and unlike most neighbouring jurisdictions Vietnam doesn't tax imported food and wine products to oblivion. Internet there's a lot better than in neighbouring China or Laos, and they don't have a Cambodia/Sweden style history of randomly exfiltrating hackers without due legal process.
Sorry about that! Things should be working again now :)
Artists: We’ve been thrown under the tech buses
On Ambiverts – in between introverts and extroverts
In 48 hours I received one email, a very brief email claiming I didn't have an account with them.
Giving Back to the Developer Community as a Junior
"Code happens". In reality, there's code that should have been commented all the time and even in the best codebases. I don't think there's a coder in the world who hasn't had a time when he's looked back on a piece of code and just thought "what?". If you get in the habit of keeping a well documented git history, it's an invaluable resource. I find on top of these benefits, having to explain what changes I made also helps me make smaller and easier to understand commits, which also helps with summarizing releases, finding commits where bugs were fixed or introduced, and so much more. A well documented git history is the closest thing to a time machine you can get.

Should these things happen? No. Do they happen? All the freaking time.
Does this mean one has to return in 36 days to comment on some posts, could work.

But are we talking somebody not associated/involved or influenced by the tragedy and just other people as with most things, relativity applies.
I suspect he'll lose out to duplicates.
It's not really a hardware limitation. The Galaxy S4 can detect an almost touch but there's no browser event for it.
My argument is that as you get more types that cover states or behavior of your program, one typically finds more code.

Is there an argument that these are beneficial? Of course there is. I just have not been privy to an example where it carried its weight.

Take the not-empty list. Typically the "cost of checking for empty" is so negligible that to push that thinking into the compiler just doesn't lead to any gains. Not even just marginal gains. It is nigh unmeasurable.

Compound this with similar types over the state of any other object, and you have an explosion of types that becomes unwieldy. Account, NotEmptyAccount, OverdrawnAccount, DrawingInterestAccount... It gets to be just crazy. Especially in areas where you don't care about any of those details, but now have to account for an inheritance tree.

And then you get into the fun of having to logic not just about how the actual program works, but how the interaction of various types works.

So, you keep saying the syntax I was referring to was due to purity. Which is kind of the point. These languages use syntax and types to help ensure purity. Which makes them more to handle for some algorithms. Less for others. And then just hard to really know the true computational cost for a lot.

Which is all to say that it is a design tradeoff. And should be undertaken as an informed decision. Not a "let the type system do the work" kind of one. More of one that "this is so important we need to make sure we can afford the cost of pushing it into the type system." Or, if you would prefer "this particular instance is so cheap to push to the type system, we should do so."
He seems to be a normal guy, not a PR genius. But, yeah, "The game with 50,000,000 downloads will be taken off the app stores in the next 22 hours" is brilliant.
> REST is an architectural style

This is one of the things I don't understand. Architectural style for what, interfaces?

> must employ hyperlinks

A weird restriction imho. Links make sense for web pages read by humans. But APIs? Yes, links are nice to quickly get to know the API, to test it via a browser but they're not that important.
We know. It's been announced for the past two days. Really need to post this on Hackers News?
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I'd be interested in how it differs internationally. The US must be one of the countries least comfortable about black humor.

[cultures which have gone through the worst seem to have the blackest jokes. Israel and Bosnia leap to mind, though much of eastern Europe has something similar going on]
This is quite possibly the worst post to ever hit #1 on Hacker News. Why are you people voting it up? Just because it admits that it's a scam (and "get your money plus 20% back for nothing ALWAYS ENDS UP A SCAM") doesn't mean that it should get posted here.
But this game's concept has been around since forever already, also on other app store titles, so... idk.
I'm trying to work out if this is some grand statement on the similarities of Bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme in the way it's deflationary, or just a quick way for someone to make a few BTC. Maybe it's designed as a way to teach people about Ponzi schemes?

Got to say, I pity the person who eventually deposits too much money at once, causing the payments to pause while they build up enough to cover his large deposit, in turn causing everyone else to think that the money has stopped paying out and causing no further money to be deposited. That seems like the likely end of this eventually...
Process Supervision: Solved Problem
Yet another article nullified by lisp.
Good luck writing a test that makes sure that the CSS animations get properly triggered on select browsers.
Have you looked at Oreilly's HTMLBook [1] infrastructure ?

[1] https://github.com/oreillymedia/HTMLBook
Great, that's exactly the answer I was looking for. Now everything makes sense.
Thanks for this tl;dr, very helpful. I read 2x the OP's tl;dr and 1x his post but didn't get his point at all.
Time and money are not seamlessly convertible at all, so, if this was the intended meaning of the comment, I think "cheaper" is misleading in comparison with e.g. "faster", "easier", "more efficient", "less time-consuming"...
That's awesome! I call it Freedom 2014 and I'm planning to release a product and quick my job, too!

Here's a blog post that's dated Dec 30, 2014: http://blog.hndigest.com/from-the-future/
Damn this is my dream, make a simple app with little effort, make millions.
Which couldn't possibly have been a mistake. Had to be fraud.
And it has nothing to do with the magnitude of the tragedy?
Unless someone runs off with the money (and in any case, unless you are the first, you never know if you are at the "beginning")
A ponzi scheme on top of a ponzi scheme. Brilliant.
There are no savings given the volatility. Since it can take days to convert to usable currency, you'd have to bake in 3-20% padding to cover volatility.
Article seems like a rehash of older news - for example http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21693140
What? No, it's got nothing to do with commenting. It's to do with basic code design: put your stuff in functions. A line like that should have been in a function to start with, and it should have been caught during a code review or as common sense by the committer before he even committed.
Lots of people saying it's symptomatic of everything that's wrong with casual gaming, ad-supported gaming, and general timewasting.

I have the impression the author saw it as a marker on the path to making more high quality games, and is horrified by the idea of becoming the CEO of Flappy Bird Inc., much as the creators of novelty songs that become one-hit wonders end up being permanently associated with something stupid that was done for a joke and/or a quick buck.

Also, I see a significant social stigma in Vietnam to exploiting 'that stupid game my kid is wasting all his time on.'
This would be cooler with one of those other cryptocurrencies that feature a Turing-complete scripting language: the code of the scheme could be public and run in the blockchain so that everyone would know the system is fair.
Just wanted to say that you should sanitize the leader board. Some of those usernames completely turn me off from the concept.
REST is supposed to mean systems compliant with the architectural style defined by Roy Fielding in chapter 5 of his dissertation: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...

Unfortunately, in popular programming it has become to mean anything and everything that uses resource-oriented URLs and at least loosely: HTTP methods as verbs to "operate" on those resources.

The misuse of the "REST" as a term, has required the creation of a new term: Hypermedia APIs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia_API
<link rel="prefetch" href="http://example.com/page2" />

More info at http://davidwalsh.name/html5-prefetch
wow did not expect that, my bad...

I just glanced over and saw all the automated responses and figured it's a joke.
I'm actually still not convinced it's not an elaborate joke
I put this together couple days ago to shorten my URL's and I've actively using it. It's a simple personal way to convey your own message while sharing links. I call it a better URL shortener for startups.

-- http://juts.co
Usually starts same day in the UK. We like our dark humour.
I think the word "resource" is a source of confusion. It doesn't make any sense to mortals.
yeah I agree, I've been trying to figure out a way to do it but people will always be able to get past it
Definitely not. May you tell me how old is your computer, and which browser/OS combination you use please? Either here or on GitHub: https://github.com/dieulot/instantclick/issues

Also please test how it goes when you press for like 5 seconds.
Pasteye (Pastebin monitoring as a service) - was trending on the front page for a few hours 2 days ago.

http://pasteyebeta.herokuapp.com/
http://github.com/shayanjm/pasteye
I thought bradfitz's Camlistore talk was interesting (from the Go devroom), so was the Servo talk (Mozilla), as well as the Mailpile alpha announcement.
I created and released Wrist Presenter [1], an iOS and Android app that lets you control presentations wirelessly with your Pebble Smartwatch.

[1] http://wristpresenter.com/
Architectural style for building scalable applications. Fielding wasn't talking about APIs specifically.

There's nothing "weird" about links in APIs. For an easy metaphor, think of "links" in APIs as you think of foreign keys in your database tables. Link doesn't just mean something you can click :)
Yup. Coming from Europe as well, I was shocked by the cost of healthcare (even when insured) in the US. Random googled link with graphs to give you an idea: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/health-care-costs-_...
I'm working on how to seed this system without defining the taxonomy in advance too. This would enable growing a library of classifiers that would eventually be able to do a huge number of fine-grained classification, without saying what those classifiers have to be beforehand. But setting up the taxonomy in advance makes it so you don't end up training two classifiers that do essentially the same thing.
NSF might correspond to DARPA, but not NASA. DARPA's remit is far wider than NASA's is.

For example Solar Designer's work on a password-based key derivation function has a DARPA funding component, but would hardly make sense for NASA.
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Indeed. Your neighbors are much the same.
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You can think of "resource" as an object in your application exposed on the web. REST actually talks about "resource representations" not: resources per se. This has to do with the Facade pattern and not tying your public interface with your internal implementation.

That said, for getting started you can think as "resource" being a web-addressable representation of an object in your application.
Even if it's not one person depositing a large amount, the backlog must grow larger and larger as time continues, this site actually has to grow exponentially to keep payout times constant.