skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predictions on how quickly adoption grows after 1.0?
If you read the post I was replying to, he was alluding to customers pulling a sustained 10Mbit on the connection during certain hours and that being justification for shenanigans. I was simply saying if I pay for a full 10Mbit (not bursted 10Mbit) then I expect to be able to saturate that and not have the ISP try to justify throttling some of the traffic or charging a downstream source for the 'right' to send me data over a connection I'm already paying for.
There are four rovers that have successfully moved around.

Sojourner stopped working in 1997, Spirit stopped working in 2010, and both Opportunity and Curiosity are still moving around.
What does "lightweight" entail? Only that the learning is online? What would still be awesome.
Hey ryanSrich, I'm Brian, an agent @ Kenvak.
I agree with you that finding qualified clients is one of the toughest if not the toughest aspect of freelancing.
The great thing about Kenvak is we have amazing relationships with some world class clients, of which we have vetted.
Kenvak will also be doing a weekly blog with coaching tips for freelancers.
I am only representing 10 web professionals, this is to ensure the highest quality service for each freelancer.
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[insert pun exerting parallel between science and teenager on a date]

Hay-o!
Thinking about I am pretty sure that it is an escrow. I haven't had to worry about collecting payments from a client in a while. I look at it more as a safety net for both me and the clients. Brian helps establish goals and milestones to make sure everyone is on the same page at all times. This helps to ensure no one feels cheated.
Perfect example from another comment: "I'm worried about DigitalOcean. I think their priority should be to try to approach feature parity with Amazon or Rackspace."

Maintaining/achieving solid quality and reliability with their current, or a slightly extended feature set, while maintaining their awesome price point is FAR more important than feature parity with the biggest VPS hosts in the world. We don't need another hosting provider that has every feature ever at a premium price. We need a provider with a smaller feature set that is more affordable.
I assume it meant "jumpable cliff" i.e. a cliff/tower high enough and smooth enough that you could jump off and deploy a parachute and land safely.
"Exit", short for "exit point", just refers to the place someone BASE jumps off.
49 Reasons Why the Universe Is Beautiful
I think it will be a pretty sizeable jump (100% growth?). I expect the next 0.8 release will make a lot of noise when they leave Handlebars behind and really ramp up the rendering engine side of things.
> Perhaps they'll uses the French model and make it illegal to say anything critical about the French government

Source needed. I live in France and you can say whatever you want about the french, but being silent (online or not) about their government is not one of their sins.
this one has 45 lines of code :)
Sugar is a simplex carbohydrate. Carbohydrates are a nutrient. Your body needs nutrients.

Alcohol is not a nutrient.
> Computers are not smart enough yet to understand why "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." is a complete, perfect paragraph. It doesn't have a verb and it looks like Lola is misspelled multiple times, so it doesn't pass the subset of grammar rules set up in the backend. But the meaning, the essence of the paragraph is clear.

Eh, this isn't so infeasible. Any wide-coverage, statistical grammar will have a TOP --> NP production, as well as the usual TOP --> S. i.e. the grammar must accept NP-only sentences; they're too common to reject as mistakes.

I think it's reasonable to have a linter that throws a warning for that sort of sentence though. By all means dismiss them. But it can help you catch things you didn't intend.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or agreeing or not.

Usually your comments are good so I am going to believe you are sincere here.

Somewhat related I am one of those people who needs to make a change as I get >1000 calories from soda a day. I did quit years ago (just cold turkey) and after the initial headaches and tiredness the biggest change I saw was that I was constantly hungry. Much like quitting smoking made me for quite a while.
RubyOnRails significantly under-performs frameworks in common concurrency...why?
Tips for High Performance Collection Looping in Objective-C
So wait, you can't just buy cream in the UK? What would be the difference than skimming it off the top? I'm also wondering if you can make your own non-homogenized milk by mixing the cream with the skim milk. Full fat milk is 4% cream.
It's easy to find a surprising amount out about people without even any 'hacker' skills.

It's the entire business model of Seisint (now owned by LexisNexis), ChoicePoint, and probably others.

We received some Seisint training. The idea was to use their service to uniquely identify patients, for electronic medical records. (The money people didn't pull the trigger, because they couldn't get the transaction cost low enough.)

My boss entered my name into the search field and says "Before I hit [Enter], is there anything you don't want me to know about? We don't have to do this."

Thank god I'm clean. It showed everything about me. Any public record any where was aggregated and collated. And showed it all in a nifty navigation hyper graph, linking me to every roommate, relative, job, residence, court document, etc.
Care to share your component sources? I actually did pick up a pair of the boards in a drop a while back, I just keep missing the full kit drops.

I just need a good price on MX clears, the case, and the rest of the electronics.
I immediately thought it would be cool to make some of my cronscripts send some messages to myself when something interesting happens. Sadly, the form used in this utility does not lend itself to sending to self, Messages.app returns an error when you try.

Turns out it's quite easy to get around, here's a gist that allows to you make a nice mini-commandline app: https://gist.github.com/aktau/8958054

(reproduced here):

#!/bin/sh
exec <"$0" || exit; read v; read v; exec /usr/bin/osascript - "$@"; exit

-- taken from:
-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11812184/how-to-send-an-imessage-text-with-applescript-only-in-provided-service
-- thanks to users @Senseful and @DigiLord
on run {targetBuddyPhone, targetMessage}
tell application "Messages"
set targetService to 1st service whose service type = iMessage
set targetBuddy to buddy targetBuddyPhone of targetService
send targetMessage to targetBuddy
end tell
end run

Now I can do:

$ imessage XXXXXXXXXX "gofinance: stock AAPL went up, possibly because of imessage..."

Where XXXXXXXXXX is my own number.

There are some other cool hacks with this, among others is a Lisp REPL with iMessage: https://46b.it/2012/hacking-with-imessage.
Facebook’s Trending Topics should be a beautiful map
22 year-olds still go into finance for absurdly high incomes.
Your solution was valid. The problem is, you didn't realize that the US Government already is doing what you're describing.

You're calling me close minded, when YOU are the one walking away from this conversation. As I said, you gave a valid solution, but this solution you're talking about requires a Government.

But if you don't feel like discussing it... sure, c ya later. I will say that this is the first time someone has called me "close minded" for calling their solution analogous to one of the most economically stable solutions known.
Yes, at this point my reaction was like "wait, didn't they say this several times already"?
Amazon Web Services as Metaphor
Brilliant!

I am wondering if it may be better and/or more profitable to license the Hemingway algorithm to be used in the dozens of writing applications via a Chrome/browser app initially I would suppose (starting with Google Docs up to Poetica, Penflip, Draft etc.)

The value proposition I assume is the suggestions and recommendation. Focusing on that instead of customer acquisition/user interface design for another writing app may be more rewarding.

Great job all the same.
Gotta love that US wood grain look. Nobody kills a the euro look of a euro car like the Americans.
I've been reading Discover Meteor. So far, the book's been very helpful, and Meteor itself has been jaw-dropping in terms of how if works.

I'm excited to see what the future of Meteor and Meteor-like frameworks hold.
>that's not proof that "it's all just calories", it proves the exact opposite

At this point we are just arguing semantics. If you eat fewer calories, regardless of how you accomplish it, you will lose weight. Yes, it is easier to lose weight with healthy diet.
"non of the institutions you've listed had anything to do with it". I agree, and I didn't say they did. What I did say is that they failed to stop it.

Look, the net has become a platform for large-scale trade, creation of news and social movements, dissent (e.g. occupy, arab spring), jihad (war on terror). These are all things that are of great interest to politicians, because they are either opportunities or threats to their power. Thats why so many of them (US/UK/FR/RU/TC/CN) have been attacking the net with censorship and surveillance. The Snowden revelations have brought this into the open and forced the issue of what to do. It seems to me that thats the context for this EU announcement.

Yes, the EU proposal is almost certainly an attempt at a power-grab, partly because thats what politicians do, but also because they fear some other group grabbing it first.

And the net has little power to resist any of this - because its governing institutions were not designed/evolved with that in mind. SOPA etc was only defeated because corporations with financial power [1] opposed it, not because the net somehow "defended itself". I worry that we might have reached a tipping-point where there net can't stay the same because the political pressure is too great, and all the feasible alternatives (such as UN control or full-on commercial control) are terrible.

In case its not totally clear, I'm not in favour of governments/EU/UN running the internet. I'd like to see a highly decentralised net, but I can't see how we get there from here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#Companie...
Why do smart students choose to work at big companies?
Or webfsd. or bozohttpd or...
Hitting the gym for an hour lets me check something off in my mental To-Do list for the day. A happy little mark to show that I did something productive that day.

Work related items on my mental To-Do list sometimes take more than a day to do, and it can eat away at me if I don't cross things off that list. "Bah! Today was a total waste of time!"
Well, the binary contains a lot of go.
Gift of the cursed? >:-)
This, and singular they[1], make me very happy indeed - all the people who "correct" my grammar are actually, themselves, wrong (or, at most, people waving an opinion in my face as if it were a fact.) <3

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Isn't this sort of protectionism that caused GM to slack and become non-competitive over the long haul, the first time around, too? Why repeat the mistake?
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Testing with Meteor
I wonder if 'blindly manipulate' just lacks precision.

Isolating a variable is, in some sense, a blind manipulation, but so is, "I see a plus sign, that means I have to subtract". As a first thought about a problem, they represent very different understandings.
I know it seems like it's not good, but I was thinking about it and even with Comcast's /64 aggregate, I have a billion BILLION addresses available inside my network. If you could scan at a billion addresses a second, it would take 30 years to scan all of Comcast's IPV6 addresses. That's crazy.
What do philosophers think about privacy?
The Erosion Of The Status Of Software Developers As Professionals
24 Books for learning Scala
The phenomenon of this game absolutely boggles my mind. I've read all the articles about this game, and just can't seem to get how it got so popular so quickly. I feel like it's a just a giant troll or something, although I know that's not the case. Also, I still haven't understood the whole "Super Mario World" graphics rip of it?
I think you'll find that the majority of the British isles, including some of what is now Scotland, was populated by one of two peoples - pre Celts (Picts traditionally being named as one of those peoples) and P-Celtic speakers. The P-Celtic languages are the forefathers of Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Gaelic is not directly related to these languages[1], and indeed the Gaelic speakers in Scotland mostly migrated from Ireland - Scottish and Irish Gaelic being extremely closely related. Your list of "loan words" is therefore pretty late in acquisition. You can probably list the amount of actual P-Celtic loan words in regular use on 10 fingers. There's a massive body of evidence that the P-Celtic languages took a while to die out. A Celtic language was spoken in Cumbria (Cumbria itself coming from the same Celtic root word as Cymru, the Welsh name for the country "Wales"), and the traditional Shepherd counting systems[2] based on the P-Celtic counting system are still used even today to a certain extent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera
Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2014 edition
Last year Sharjeel Qureshi started this thread on HN for discussing hosted useful services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137

The contribution in thread introduced many interesting SaaS services which can immensely help in deploying services as well as development.

A year has gone by. What do we have today?
Coke has a lot of sugar in it. Some people drink a small amount of coke, and get pleasure from it, and are not fat.

Increasing portion sizes (see for example the increasing sizes of servings in McDonalds menus) mean that people now drink huge quantities of this sugary drink.

The volume of drink, the quantity of the sugar, is the problem.

Two cookies are not a problem. Two packets of cookies are a problem.
There appeared a wonderful article on just this topic on the Inky Fool website a few days ago: http://blog.inkyfool.com/2014/02/less-fewers.html
Clickable http://k3oni.github.io/pydash/
What kind of mpg or kmpg do you get with that thing?
... because an anecdote about someone good being let go is data showing that that's the way it normally happens.

... because the person who was let go and who worked very hard didn't learn anything, didn't improve his ability, couldn't take the tremendous experience he had gained and apply it in a new job or gasp start his own enterprise.

No, this isn't an anecdote that should serve as a red flag signalling IBM's continued move downward.

Far from it. This is an object lesson on why we shouldn't even try.
Seems the most identical so far. The speed is perfect! I'm waiting for this... Good job!
Just elaborating. The 'basic pay' part of the salary paid by tech companies in India is usually very less. (And it isn't due to sinister motives but rather to maximize the non-taxable chunk in salary).

This 'basic pay' will usually be 1/5 or 1/7 of monthly net/gross pay. So, for an average worker (say 3+ yrs) in IBM India, the monthly gross would be around INR60K => severance would be around INR20K, which is really a paltry sum.
Twitter Account Suspension
My Twitter account was suspended last night because I was notifying people who've had interactions with @skippy (the peanut butter brand) about their practice of selling high value peanut oil from peanut butter manufacture and replacing it with unhealthy and environmentally unsound palm oil. I'll admit that I was posting a lot with the #boycottskippy hashtag, and a url to an anti-palm-oil website (with which I am not affiliated, even as a donor). So my question is, should my account have been suspended for this behavior, or could this be a case of a publicly owned Twitter protecting potential sponsors?
Agreed - a friend of mine who was part of an internal audit team at a large financial company was let go with similarly generous terms. We went on vacation for a couple of weeks, and she found another fantastic job a short while after we came back.

While it I have no idea if it would apply elsewhere in the world, I feel like giving people a window (doesn't have to be 6 months) where they truly don't have to worry can have a profound impact on their ability to move along with their career, even under these circumstances.
Yes, this is good! Also try it with some cardamom and vanilla.
So basically become an employee because 'Gosh freelancing is scary!'
Maybe he didn't list it because he was, in fact, exercising? It's possible to burn out and exercise, but for some reason every other comment on HN drudges up exercise with a routine to "help" everyone else.

This goes back to the post that said something about only giving advice when it's asked for.

I've burnt out before while exercising pretty heavily. The reasons he listed, after a while, can completely ruin anything your exercise does. Especially when you're "Free to wander" and just keep thinking about how bad the job sucks.
I definitely did until I was sadly disappointed looking at the source.
RFC 2616 is now obsolete
Well, Vladimir Nabokov did describe Hemingway as "a writer of books for boys".
> "Net neutrality" is the government "seizing more control"

Good point. Telling infrastructure providers they must treat all traffic the same and telling them they must prioritize certain traffic is the same thing from a government power perspective.

Being for "net neutrality" is one thing. However, being for net neutrality and being for less government control of the internet makes no sense.
It's not technically wrong, no. Nobody will accuse you of having bad grammar. But every good writing style manual warns against using it. Because the active voice is clear, bold, and more concise. There are only a few situations where writers should prefer the passive voice.
Can we see this as a Wordpress plugin, too? Or a Chrome extension for Wordpress (the way Grammar.ly works for example).
It was the tester's first time writing malware for a Mac - being able to target the JVM was probably just a simple way to re-use old code.
Service Gateway, the Windows Azure Application Proxy
What else you expect in country with poor labor laws? Layoffs is fine I think almost every company need to go through this phase one day or other for cost cutting. But there should be a procedure , a short 2 hours notice as seen in this article is shocking.
It frankly startled me how much more fun and amusing this was than single player flappy bird. I immediately laughed out loud when I saw the first second or so of animation. Bravo!

I've recently decided that, for me, if a game design can't be reshaped to being shared with multiple people, I'd rather not make it. To me, games are at their best when they help create shared stories and memories for multiple people. This little thing has glints of promise.
The first person to make something mbox that wasn't the format is the main culprit, but people after him are certainly not blameless either.
As far as I know voicemail uses flash messages to indicate the number of messages.
Is allowing submissions from weather.com a feature or a bug?
The anonymity I know
Well, the "fleshed out details" is obscenely vast subject that I just didn't want to contaminate this discussion with. If there are people practicing something more healthy than fitness then good for them. I am in it to look good and feel good.
Google paid Mozilla for a service the latter rendered. It wasn't a donation.
I grew up on that stuff; I didn't like the unhomogenized part personally.
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Ah! Well said. Almost made me spit-take my coffee.
Well, someone could be discussing in good faith, articulate a principle that they believe represents their morality, reason out a consequence of that principle and then observably act in a contradictory manner.

(now that I have written that, I guess part of what I am getting at is that the more often that actually happens, the more you have to discount the articulation of moral principles rather than discounting the people or the good faith. Personally, I'm pretty optimistic about people and pretty cynical about the things they say...)
Looks really cool. Are there any plans for exposing any of this information via a JSON API?

Would be really nice to integrate some of the key numbers from this into other dashboards e.g. Dashing.
Mike, its pretty sad that you had to close this down. I work at Cucumbertown, http://cucumbertown.com/ that’s pretty close to what you do but not exact. We don’t enter the search vertical but focus just on building this as a replacement for food bloggers.
Jef Miller (Punchfork acquisition to Pinterest) wrote something very similar for Pinterest http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/21/courtesy-of-punchfork-acqui... though not exact.

From my learning:
Build a solid BD team that can focus on taking your core value proposition to the masses. As a founder create the story. The market is flooded with recipe related products that exist since 1995.
Unrelated but I wrote the first V of Cucumbertown in C#. Then had to port to Python.

I hope you don’t lose the enthusiasm to continue keeping this open sourced.
nnx, I'm Brian, an agent with Kenvak.
We are only representing 10 web professionals at this time.
This allows us to focus much more on each freelancer.We spend a few days reviewing each freelancers work, our freelancers let us know their ideal clients and we match them with projects that they are excited to work on.
Ah yes I have this wrong! I was thinking of neutrality as being a natural state of the 'net, but of course that's not necessarily so.
Yeah, I've been super happy since switching to it. Javascript still has it's ugly warts, but overall I think time to develop apps has dropped dramatically!
Who says that the rules from the app are even right? Anybody acually eveluated them on real books by known good writers? I want statistics: how often good writers are outside promoted rules?
yeah as soon as i saw it was not using composer i knew it wasn't a "cool" framework.
A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013
What fresh hell is responsible for the scrolling on that site? I realise that he's used to seeing the world flash before his eyes at nauseating speed, but I'm not sure it makes for a great web interface.
The exit is the edge where you jump off to start your fall. You "exit" the building or cliff or whatever.
edit: If creator is reading this:

Please remove the bubble around the players bird - you have to judge distances really carefully in this game, and the bubble makes it even harder.

Also the rotation animation in this version is distracting. The original Flappy Bird only rotated slightly (nose tipping up slightly while flapping) unless really diving fast.

Good fun though.
Most amateur writers clutter their writing with unnecessary adverbs. Sometimes, a well placed adverb can add vividness to your writing. But most adverbs we throw around casually can be omitted without consequence.

Great writing rests on the foundation of bold verbs and nouns.
This is actually extremely hilarious, especially seeing how everyone else is doing, well done!
It's been a while since I've studied Buddhism, could you clarify what you mean by 'the collectivity'?