skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wireless and painless mobile user testing
> not everyone spends enough time on Reddit or 4Chan to have a clue about what a Doge or a Harlem Shake is

And they're going to be harmed by a meme in the URL to the blog post... how?
You love breaking this edge case to him as if it were the most important one. The adversary is more likely doing industrial espionage [1] and doesn't have those incomprehensibly limitless state-level resources.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
Turtl's future: An open source crypto platform
Right and I'm saying that while that crosses the line, spying on Merkel or her cabinet does not.
Great job Luke. Would be great if you github the code. I am not a d3 user but write code in JS. Would love to see my inbox as well.
Ask HN: Should I change my start up's name?
My start up is BugMuncher - I chose the name specifically because it's similar to rug muncher, which made me chuckle (and also because the .com was available).

At first I had a lot of people telling me they loved the name, but recently I've had a small number of people (only 3 in total) telling me they like the app, but the name is problem for them or their clients, because it sounds like rug muncher.

What I worry about is the possibility of people seeing BugMuncher, but not signing up because of the name - I'd never know. I really like the name, but is that just foolish pride? Should I just suck it up and rename to something that couldn't put people off?

Thanks in advance,
> > No natural phenomenon on Earth will be hotter.

> I am not sure about this one comment in the article submitted by OP. As far as I understand the temperature at the center of the earth should be as high as that of the Sun.

I think the most recent estimates have the core temperature of the Earth at about the surface temperature of the Sun, plus or minus a few hundred kelvin. (In the neighborhood of 6000K)

The core temperature of the sun, and the temperatures expected in the reactor described, are several orders of magnitude hotter, on the order of 10^7 K.
Lisbon is in Portugal. I don't think they have money for spying (unless they get financed by the NSA, which isn't that unlikely).
That doge reference in the screenshot actually made it there by mistake. :)
I'm ambivalent on this topic. The dogespeak in this particular announcement made me chuckle and envisioned the team as people I'd personally get along with. They're catering to like-minded individuals.

If I had opened an IBM-enterprise-blah wall of text, I'd probably have not spent nearly as much time learning about their product.
The cameras are already there.
Whatsapp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Zuckerberg
Yup.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/why-att-says-it-c...
Because D3 is javascript based, the code is already there:

view-source:http://luk3thomas.com/labs/gmail-archive-for-2013-20140224.h...

Just parse your data to look like his: http://luk3thomas.com/labs/data/2014-02-24-gmail-archive-for...
19 Fundraising quotes: The masters explain how to get funded
Ha yeah, sorry about that! Quick hack, etc. etc.
Ask the website owner when they will support IPv6! (and you can point them to tutorials like this one: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/making-co... )

It would be great if more websites supported IPv6. Like, oh, (cough)(cough)HN(cough)(cough).
Our new DC are all IPv6 enabled (we started launching them in December) with dual stack, and preference for IPv6. Only 1 of the DCs are online so far, and we're already pushing around something like 3 Gb/s of traffic over V6. It was nice how many things just magically worked atop V6, once we added AAAA records.

One thing that was sad though, is how poorly everything built atop, and around Ruby worked.
Yeah, I will probably work on fixing that :) quick hack, etc. etc.
Oh thanks, I didn't know that!
I remember loving the original X-Wing and TIE fighter games. Does anyone know why space combat games dropped so dramatically in popularity?
You can still have prestige mount for you flat screen tv but bulk of the market will go with standardised one. It's hard to standardise things that don't interoperate with anything else but when there is some interface with other object there's trend toward standardisation.

Plates to large to fit in a dishwasher or that can't be washed or microwaved didn't acquire prestige premium as far as I know.
Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Offers Hope for Power of Future (1991)
The True Identity of Andy's Mom Makes 'Toy Story' Even More Epic
"Net-neutrality" means different thing to different people.

If by net-neutrality you mean the system where a paying broadband customer can consume any content, irrespective of that content owner ability to pony up to cash to broadband provider, then yes, these two issues are related. More competition in consumer broadband market would keep providers in check.

In an ideal world (at least my ideal), broadband providers would strive to do everything they can to deliver content to me. In current world, it's well documented that Comcast is passively allowing interconnects to fill up, causing congestion, and forcing content providers to pay up for better interconnect.
Exactly. Claiming it's a move against the NSA might help sell it, but the dividends are going to be faster communication with one of the biggest economies.
Thankfully there was one next to your comment.
Indeed, there should be a warning in the title. This can cause seizures.
I am starting to understand the "because we can" mentality.

If my estimations are right, we should see a CSS-only version that doesn't use any javascript next month.

ps. in case someone needs css-only ideas http://liveweave.com/wC3DB2
So why does broadband in other countries not have this problem, like Scandinavia, or Korea & Japan?
Ng-react optimizations and Angular Track By perf
Could you provide an example of a real-time game?
Leak confirmed at nuclear waste dump in New Mexico
It's no different than using different CDNs for different types of web assets and it's very likely something they are doing already.
I thought the USA was the model of capitalism. However it appears the opposite, monopolies run rampant. The free market is killed rather than encouraged.
Taking your example a step further (and subsequently bringing it into a more modern context), what happens to those jobs when Google (or someone) builds a mass production driver-less car? Sure, a few thousand engineers will be employed, but that's barely going to put a dent in the millions of taxi/truck/delivery drivers that now find themselves out of work.

This is a matter of opinion, as none of us can predict the future, but I believe that one of the purposes and goals of technology is to replace and reduce the drudgery of human labor. If I was a VC, I would be investing in almost any labor-replacing tech startup that came across my desk because the market for the tech has already been validated (companies paying for the labor) and you are bringing a more efficient solution to that market. You believe that this process somehow results in more jobs. I believe, baring massive changes in the education and social infrastructures, that this process inevitably leads to fewer jobs.
I think WhatsApp is great, but is something that _didn't need to exist_. And by that I mean, the carriers structured their SMS fees in a way that did not mirror technical reality. "Data" was billed a more realistic rate as opposed to hyper-inflated SMS rates and allowed SMS type-traffic to flow over the data channel.

Had carriers priced themselves properly, WhatsApp would have never had a foothold.
Kinda similar in its spirit - here's my curses based adaptation for any vt100-compatible terminal: https://github.com/dos1/flasciibird
I've used this...it's way cool. Turns your web browser into an investing powerhouse. Nice job LikeFolio!
Pretty cool, though I noticed there doesn't seem to be a way to dismiss anno4. "Sweet" dismisses the modal background but the "tooltip" stays on screen.

This was in Firefox 27.0.1, didn't try other browsers.
This page is hard crashing Safari latest on my MBP 2013. Anyone else experiencing this?
> Subtitle: "New research suggests the rich may be smarter" It does nothing of the kind. No matter how many ways this kind of nonsense is packaged by journalists, a correlation is just that, nothing more.

That's what a positive correlation means.

> Wealth and I.Q. test scores are weakly correlated

Not very weak at the tails like billionaires.

Fulltext: http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/56143/wai-a...
first job in early 90s doing website for huge newspaper. fill elections page with outrageous but real quotes from the campaign. editor assumes a few are good to go and publishes. major shitstorm. team makes a standard to only use ipsum lorem or Nononono.
My C64 is a bit rusty.
But shouldn't that load command end with ",8,1"?
I hit "quick play" and it asked if I was connected to the internet... well played, game. Well played.
Windows 7: More and more for Windows users, there's no OS like an old OS
Me too, "403 Forbidden", which seems like a strange response. I could understand the site deciding to take it down, and showing a "404 Not Found", or getting overloaded and showing something like a "500 Internal Error", but this implies that they want it seen by some people and not others.

(Edited to add: it looks like the whole site is 403'ing, which suggests it's probably just a configuration error)
I went to check this out, and my first two questions are how is this significantly different from Code Combat, and any idea why quick play isn't working. I'm actually trying to play from a school network and it doesn't seem to work. I'll come back and edit my comment latter with more full impressions when I actually get to check it out.
Same. Hit it again and it works.
Ask HN: how to sell domain name fast?
Two years ago I buy a . DO domain - nerd(.do). I'm try build a video service for geeks, but finally we are not launch it. Now I'm want sell it. My question is - how do you sell your domain fast and how to determine real price for my domain?
In Germany the major cable providers are currently switching to DS-Lite which means native IPv6 and carrier-grade NAT for IPv4. The cable companies came a bit late to the broadband party and can't get any more large IPv4 block from RIPE now that they're having a large growth of customers.

Only the old DSL providers like Deutsche Telekom (which is still has the largest market share) can offer real dual stack (with a /56 for IPv6) since they have enough IPv4 addresses and no real growth anymore.
How about the version written in BrainFuck?
An Elusive Fly
looks so much fun guys.
Keeping a hand-written journal requires discipline and strong connection to your inner self. You have to be willing to have a reality check and admit when you are wrong.
Winner takes all, but can't we still dream?
Lua 1994
Icon 1977
How a Kingpin Above the Law Fell, Incredibly, Without a Shot
I was really hoping Munroe himself would publish the data. I'm glad someone else did, with the helpful explanations.
I was speaking in general, and I see a meme in a URL as an acceptance of the awesomeness of meme-talk. I've seen marketing emails, from allegedly intelligent company presidents, sticking doge-lines in without any context. As if they're trying to say, "ooh.. we're hip and with it, we get the inside joke!".

If I pointed a manager or client at a blog entry that contained grammar that was worse than what my 5 year old nephew utters, it'd reflect on me, or at the very least, the project. Again, I think graylog is a neat project, and their use here really is no big deal, but I think the idea of throwing out intelligent sounding communication in the interest of sounding cute is a very bad idea.
Great topic, I think it's a smart idea to ask questions, especially if you're concerned about risk, but in my opinion, with a change in approach you can get a more effective answers.

Most of your questions should be directed at the CEO, or at the very least a co-founder. Depending on the size of the company, the people you're interviewing may not know about funding issues and exit strategies.

Asking about Runway is a good question. If you're worried about coming into work one day and finding the office closed, ask point blank about your concern. This is a good test question to see if the company believes in transparency.

You're right, the company may not want to go into too much details on it's traction and funding, but they should be comfortable talking openly about your concerns.

As to new funding, you should be able to find out their last funding round, either through Crunchbase, or from SEC Filings. Startups tend to fundraise in the late spring, and the late fall. Come thanksgiving, investors are hunkered down for the holidays, and summer vacations make it difficult to get people together. So if you're approaching a company during those times, you can assume their prepping for a funding push later.

Despite what others may say, the CEO is always fundraising. Perhaps not actively, but working towards their next round.

Ask about milestones towards their next raise. If their a consumer app, what are their MAU targets. If their SaaS business, what are their Churn and MRR numbers. What are some other milestones that they're pushing towards?

Questions about potential exits aren't that interesting, because it's easy to judge a business that is poised for IPO, and those that are ripe for acquisition.

If the business has taken institutional money, then there really is only two viable outcomes: Acquisition, or going Public. Investors won't invest in lifestyle businesses.

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Your family's financial well-being hopefully isn't tied to a stint at a startup. Perhaps I'm a bit old school, but I believe in some amount of financial planning--something like a rainy day fund that can keep you afloat for 3 months without income.
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It's not just startups that are at risk for closing down. Irrational Games just closed shop and let go of all but 15 people, and that was despite releasing several AAAA blockbuster titles.

Losing your job at a startup isn't nearly as bad as you might think. There is a major shortfall in technical talent in most startup hubs, investors and founders are always looking for talent. After Zynga shut it's seattle offices down, a local VC here had an open house for the employees that were let go. So, if things go bad, many founders and investors will work to help secure you a position elsewhere. Plus, again, it's hard to hire people.
Coroutines => Fiber[0] (since 1.9.stg)

[0]: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Fiber.html
Well I get that logic but this time they are putting some serious money where their mouths are.

Even the USA/Russians could not come to an agreement to build such a project.
Maybe Portugal doesn't (I doubt it), but unless they have some means of preventing any traffic from going through most of the countries that do, it doesn't make a difference.

Well, it does make the BND happier I suppose.

EDIT: As it happens, a quick Google search reveals that not only does Portugal have its own out of control electronic surveillance program, it is also collaborating closely with the NSA as a Tier B nation.
Wildcard Event for Webhooks
why not "debug: "?
Most of the replies you link to were just pointing out your comment was incorrect, or that judging tech companies based on their name isn't a particularly good approach. I don't see anyone defending MtGox's competence or business practices.
Thanks, sorry about the mistakes. One good thing is that we can actually handle mistakes for the translation :)
I feel that many missed my point: It’s not to say causation never implies correlation, that there’s no common source or that latent factors are fiction.

In my experience many people believe something is true, just because of “math” or “data”. So, this is basically a variation of the joke that 73.37% of people put more trust into statistics, if the value isn’t rounded. Since you all critically discussed the topic, you are far beyond of what this can little project can teach you.

If you have suggestions on how to express this more clearly, please let me know.
Basically the only right we've agreed to protect for everyone no matter where they were born is the right of a people to not be exterminated by genocide. That's just about the only thing that will compel the international community to act.

Now, maybe there are other things that you think we should agree to, but the fact is we haven't. So I don't know why you say that this concept is "intuitive for everyone else" when everyone else, quite obviously, hasn't agreed to your world view.
How Standard Treasury Built a Founding Team
Quick server load issue, fixing it now
Thanks for the heads up
Thank you, more languages should be coming soon.
I get a MySQL error on the about page. May want to hide that, especially because it shows a username.
Yeah, I think I need to review this code + make it 'fairer' or at least somewhat smoother. The positive reaction here has motivated me to hack on this project again!
It becomes much harder to violate net neutrality in the face of competition. Here's an example:

Say you have two ISP options at your home. Firm A forces Netflix to pay $1/month for access to enough bandwidth to stream movies in HD to your house, because they want you to use janky-streams.com, which they own. Firm B keeps their peering infrastructure up-to-date without charging Netflix. Where does this leave you as a consumer?

All else equal, you'll switch over to Firm B. Why? Because Netflix works there even without paying a ransom for their data. It costs Netflix more money to provide their service to you on Firm A. They could pass that cost along to you directly (increase Netflix bill $1/month) or reduce the stream quality and blame the ISP. The end result is that you're paying more or getting worse service because of the Net Neutrality violation.

However, Firm A understands this logic. They know that charging Netflix would push consumers to Firm B. Thus they decide to play nice and pass along the data you already pay them for.
Is that level 2?
Bikespike is LoJack for your bike
It's not loading from disk, right?
There are several things that help. Firstly you're not just looking for a red light/green light significance. Since you're actually modeling the beta distribution for each conversion rate you not only can ask "what's the probability that this test is an improvement?" you can actually sample from both distributions and see what that improvement looks like.

For example I just simulated some bad data. A has 480 observations and a mean conversion of 33%, B has 410 observations and has a mean conversion of 37%. The p-value here is 0.0323 In the traditional A/B testing model we'd be done and claiming better than a 10% improvement!

However when I sample from these 2 beta distributions I see that my credible region is -2% to 34% meaning this new test could be anywhere from 2% worse to 34% better. No magic value is needed to tell you that you really don't know anything yet.

Another huge help is the use of a prior. Until your data overrides your prior belief you aren't going to see anything. Going with the last example, if I had a good prior that the true conversion rate on that page was actually 33% I wouldn't have even gotten a p-value of less then 0.05. On the other hand if I had a strong prior that the conversion rate was 50% that would imply that both A and B were getting strangely unlucky results, which would actually boost the probability that B was in fact an improvement.

On the philosophical side, Bayesian statistics are simply trying to quantify what you know, not give you 'yes'/'no' answers. Maybe the gamble of -2 to 34 is good for you, or maybe you really want to know tighter bounds on your improvement and aren't comfortable with any possibility of decline. Bayesian statistics gives you a direct way to trade off certainty with time.
Excellent!

Soon, you'll be ready for NodeJS.

:D
I don't know which century your Vienna map is from, but the Wienerwald, the Donauinsel etc. are all within city limits. As I said before, maybe you should considering moving to another district. It took me, erm, 15 years to move beyond the Gürtel -- i.e. closer to the above places. Today I'm asking myself what took me so long.
No, I believe he is saying that he had a downswing in his poker career during that time, i.e., losing a lot of games.
thanks for flagging this. looks to us like a server load problem, fixing now
At a basic level it's for a younger age group and is reasonably gender neutral.

I'm sat next to these guys at the moment - they're working away fixing some server errors to cope with the high load.
Don't worry, Ocean is working on a crappy Speccy port right now.
Sorry about this, caused by a server load spike. We're changing a setting on the VPS now to allow more connections.
Cool! That's really simple.

How do you source translators? Does someone proof-read the translation? Basically, I'd like to know more about "Unbabel Crowd Translation community" :)

While I'd say this is perfect to support an app/consumer product, would you recommend it for a higher price SaaS product?
I really need to jump back into the code, not looked at it for a while and take a look at improving how 'fairly' it benchmarks the algorithms. That's an interesting suggestion, will experiment with it.

Thanks for your kind comment on the code qual :) personally I only see the faults, for one I am sure I could improve perf... year-old code is often that way however! :)
How did you reach this decision?

IMHO such licences actually hold free software back.
Call me naive, but I think it was Junior surrounding himself with folks who wanted him to finish the job that Pops started. I think they (like most who start wars) dramatically underestimating the costs and complexity. I'm less inclined to believe that it has to do with gassing their own people (why start caring now?) or going to the Euro.

But I do agree with the above points that we spend an awful lot of time fighting symptoms, when we don't worry nearly enough about ridding ourselves of oil dependency. Energy independence is a long out problem with a lot of vested interests lined up against it - this is precisely the type of investment that does warrant government funding.
Using 'ported' assumes that you gained access to the original source code for Flappy Bird, rather than just recreating Flappy Bird on C64.
the creation of both happened without java, but both have been heavily influenced by java today.
I like the name, very memorable.

So you had 3 people say they are out because of the name? How many users do you have in total. 3 people opting out with only 5 users is a lot different than 3 people opting out with 5,000 users.
> but we were all paid so little we just laughed.

that summarizes the whole thread.
I think the project is a great one whether you work in an enterprise or wear thick plastic glasses and an ironic t-shirt from some startup no one has heard of.

"catering to like-minded individuals": yes, people with logs they need to analyze. That could be a 20 year-old with a MBA stickered up, or a 53 year old analyst working inside of a Active Domain enterprise.
Negative SEO is a very real thing. You can buy links off black hat forums that are specifically advertised to help knock off your competition.

It's the same with other social media as well. Want to get one of your competitor's fledgling Facebook pages banned? A service will spam out the page link in FB comments for a few dollars. Then when the FB mods come calling, the onus of proving innocence becomes your responsibility.

The ease with which you can spam and hack your competitors online is becoming a little frightening.
nice job Zach
Cool stuff. I think it's something that'd be useful to many people.
Damn, I'm really sorry about that - I didn't think of that issue - perhaps a mod could add a warning of some kind?