skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way have you seen Mark Karpeles public apology in Tokyo?

(20 seconds in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15IZtzWOzRU

So he is French, educated in Paris and living in Japan since 2009?

Speaks French, English and Japanese. Sounds interesting, he's no dummy.
I think the jury is still out on Tim Cook..and that jury will report the verdict some time early 2015. If Apple does not break into a new product category this year, it's clear that Tim Cook cares too much about operations and too little for innovation and pushing Apple products to the next level. You can tell by the particularly insignificant iterations of the iPhone. Either he has an excellent poker face and is keeping their new products a secret, or he just set out to turn Apple into a cash cow: sandbagging existing products to maximize profit.
I think we are forgiven for wasting our youth on navigating alt.binaries.* on Lynx. It was wild wild west where everything was still nebulous.
Who you believe you can fool with such a comment? 100% camouflaged ad spotted.
It forces people to worry about fitting the profile of someone who would be more likely than others to do something wrong. Maybe because you live in a certain neighborhood, or recently started biking to work, or have parents who are migrants from Eastern Europe, that thing moves the needle from a 4% chance to a 5% mean chance of committing a list of crimes and triggers police interest.

Not doing anything wrong ceases to be good enough.

Maybe they could index the civil liberties in neighborhoods or states by an index like that. Move them from stop-and-frisk through no-knock and so on to martial law.
I think I saw them experiment with something like this briefly.
Great demo. That's exactly how the handwriting UI should have been designed.

I have one small suggestion, if you don't mind: How about making the input box increase in size (maybe double in size) so you don't have to write so small? The resizing wouldn't need to reflow the rest of the page; it could turn into a modal textbox in the same location as the original textbox. It would make it easier for children, the elderly and people who aren't native speakers of the language, etc.
Is there any Android app that lets you post? The ones I've tried are either read-only or only let you vote.
One of those crammed to the brim with "in-app analytics" and other goodness? Certainly, I'll take two of those.
It's trivial to write your own stylesheet. Create a directory, put a manifest.json with a content_scripts and a css attribute plus a matching attribute and then your css file. Like this:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9311394

Then turn on developer mode in extensions and load the directory. I made this while writing this comment, that's how easy it is.
Congrats on your success! Its ironic that your product is a database of "vc's" yet you are bootstrapped. :).
>Yeah, an ancient fork of Litecoin with a meme name is going to save us.

Read the rest of what he says. Plus, how is "Dogecoin" any worse than "MagicalTux"?
My brother and I have been working on http://rukus.io for the past year. We've gone from a super simple linear rendering proof-of-concept to an architecture that scales to millions of renders/month. We're not living off this income quite yet, but we haven't given up any equity or taken any funding.

This has been one of the most enjoyable and rewarding things I've ever done despite having to make some serious sacrifices. Even if we don't succeed financially, my personal growth has been reward enough.
Agreed. Seems like a easy win for everyone. Are there any downsides?
I like! Signed up!
This sucks for the people concerned. But IBM's core responsibility can't be to maintain comfortable jobs that aren't sufficiently profitable. The world has changed dramatically and IBM hasn't changed with it. The longer you go without shedding the dead weight, the more painful it gets, but you still have to do it.

The article suggests that shedding jobs equals not investing in the future, while also mentioning several paragraphs later that IBM is investing billions in new business areas. Increasing EPS means freeing up more cash to invest.
“It’s a block away from all the tech shuttles,”

Sounds like the secret to making any area an attractive place to live is by making it covienent to mass transit. So, add more [fast] mass transit so people can live in more places.
All apps are read only.
Sometimes people who disagree with you just disagree with you, and are not astroturf spies sent by the CIA.

If you hold an unpopular opinion, people may want to marginalize your opinion by claiming that you aren't a real person.
Are you sure Remote is welcome? Your jobs site says everyone should be in Mountain View. I also assume Remote means anywhere in the USA?
A farmer's right to privacy, my ass. This law is big agriculture, plain and simple. These Ag-Gag laws are a farce.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
Thanks and yes, we get that a lot.

We're not religious about bootstrapping. We may raise funding at some point but want to do it when we find the perfect partner(s) whose interests are aligned with ours. Ultimately, we think bootstrapping and building the company up to be real gives us leverage down the road, i.e., we're not raising money to survive or test a hypothesis but to put more fuel in the tank so we can accelerate growth.

Because of what we do, our 1 requirement is that they have o have been a customer of the product. We need believers :)

We'll see. Right now, the focus remains squarely on the product, customers and the team. Thanks for the kind words.
Sarcasm yes, but mostly a real life exhibit of the slippery slope fallacy.

Sure, if we add comments to JSON the next thing it would be transormed into XML, and AJAX would be like SOAP.
Egads. The capital expenditures.
The "virtual PBX" market is pretty crowded. Grasshopper is a good introductory service. There are some Skype/Gvoice-based options like Zaplee and PrettyMay. Moving up a bit you'd find RingCentral and Phonebooth which are a bit more capable.
I built a stock screener to calculate the present value based on the past five to ten years of owner earnings for myself and family members. On a whim I put ads on the articles explaining how to use it. It's modestly profitable:

http://trendshare.org/how-to-invest/

It amuses me that most of the revenue comes from warning people about the risks of penny stocks.
> Saddam Hussein faced the consequences of law too

Rather - Saddam Hussein faced the consequences of trying to sell his country's oil in something else than the dollar [1]. As did Gaddafi [2].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeuro
[2] http://rt.com/news/libya-all-about-oil-818/
or just use http://ihackernews.com
I launched fbmusicgate.com a facebook musician fan page app about a month ago and have a handful of paid subscribers and a lot of free users. Haven't reached enough to cover all the expenses yet but hoping to reach that milestone this week. Averaging about 17% weekly growth rate. Just have to figure out how to turn the free users into paying users.
So the CA, while perhaps a circus, is necessary with current technology.

With current technology, it is not necessary.

Because of the blockchain (current tech) they serve absolutely no useful purpose.

You cannot claim that because web browsers voluntarily choose not to use it that it somehow disqualifies it as current tech.

Same goes for the EV cert and phone calls and all that jazz. Simply not necessary, and adds no extra value. In fact, it makes all of us less secure as the article points out.

If, to take one of my favorite companies as an example, Mozilla were to support the blockchain for authentication, they would register themselves there, and that's that. No phone calls necessary, they simply own their identity, and can, via established existing channels (@mozilla twitter account, their newsletter, their .com, etc.) declare what is and isn't official.

They can even get their .com into the blockchain, although that isn't yet current tech:

http://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1439
That doesn't materially matter. I know you don't want it, but it in no way effects the computation.
No, at least for android there are r/w ones. None ive tried been perfect so far though
NEW CATEGORY FOR SIMPLE GAMES IN APP STORE?
We just like many others in the gaming industry are trying to make very simple but at the same time fun games. There is a huge number of people not looking for fancy and complex games which require you to spend enormous effort, time, and even nerves to play them. But instead, they want to download and play simple fund games to kill off some spare time they have.

These kind of games we have been working on lately but have run into some very tough and as we believe unfair restrictions by the app store. We have created a very simple application/game called RUB in order for our friend to calm down after playing the nerve-breaking and frustrating flappy Birds game. The idea was very simple, just rub the screen of your iPhone and try to get the highest score among peers. And that simple idea proved to be very fun as we got more than 2500 downloads the first week.

But before we had to chance to publish this game for open public downloading we ran into a brick wall by apple. It took us 5 (!!!) tries to get the game published. Apple told us that the game was too simple and had low entertainment value. So after 5 tries to get it published Apple finally let us do so without any modifications to the game. BTW, this is our app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rub/id697927329?mt=8

The point is that there is a large number of “SIMPLE” game developers and they do get published from time to time and now there is a large number of such apps but there is no special category for these simple games. We believe that it would be very useful and smart for the app store to add a special category for SIMPLE but fun games such as RUB. It is a win-win solution – all of these simple and sometimes rubbish games would be put under one category and users wont confuse them with other games, and publishers like us would have an easier way of getting published.
I made an app. I give it away for free. People mostly seem to like it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.recollect

If it had 10x-100x the number of users, it might be worth trying to turn a profit. For now, it's just a side project.
Yes, I was able to do all that on the RT. I never planned on using it as my main machine, but I had no choice. Using an ARM powered device to handle an entire workload is not ideal. You are right it was not the fastest or best spec'd machine. When the time came instead of buying another RT, I purchased a Pro.
This doesn't mean anything. Of course they had plans for the occupation of Crimea - countries have operational plans for a variety of contingencies that they practice for: that's what militaries do.
Cele mai bune cai de a face bani pe net
Cauti modalitati de a face bani? Daca esti deschis la tot ce inseamna nou in viata ta, atunci poti incerca sa faci bani pe internet.
using this as my daily, great app!
European from where?It matters...West? You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
I'm iOS so I can't say anything about Android. All decent apps for iOS are read only.
! isn't as simple as that. CSS is cascading. If there are conflicting ! then rule specificity would be taken into account. If the rules have similar specificity the last one evaluated wins. I imagine user extensions are loaded at the end so in that case they would win.
HN needs more than that - enabling it:

http://imgur.com/9fetcE9

Throw the template and CSS, and some sample data on GitHub. HN'd have a working version in 24 hours.
Thank you for the reply. I don't have any proof for the automatic reissuing on hand at this moment, I've read about it on Bitcointalk forums where several people claimed that they observed this behavior.
Would that be tin or aluminum foil hat nonsense?
Gox mentions this on a number of occasions, not the least in 2011 when they detailed how their cold storage system worked with split keys.
We bootstrapped our products Codiqa and Jetstrap (http://drifty.com/) to profitability in 2013 with a team of 7 (though we just closed a funding round a few days ago).

In hindsight we could have gotten there a lot faster if we actually charged earlier and had a better signup/payment model. Oh well, lessons learned!
Where are all these horror stories?
I use http://ihackernews.com/ all the time on mobile and it's working perfectly. Might want to give it a try!
Or install Stylish, which makes it even simpler.
Let's talk, working on similiar thing except for platform, language-agnostic . email me (remove dots) j.p.d.75.0@gmail.com
SpeedCurve is proving to be very profitable for a side project. Paid back initial $3k investment in server costs and now growing at 32% month on month. Can't live on it yet, but it will cover a couple of conferences and a two week holiday in New York this year. Also just won $10k in a startup competition, does that count as profit? ;)

http://speedcurve.com/

For bootstrapped SaaS projects it's worth remembering how long it can take to grow the flywheel and see growth. It took Rob from HitTail a year after launch to connect with the right audience and Freckle took 5 years to get to $57k/month. It's a multiyear investment to grow something substantial.

http://unicornfree.com/2013/5-years-of-saas-growth-every-mon...

SpeedCurve has been in development for a year and available commercially for only 5 months. Haven't even started doing any marketing yet with all current growth via word of mouth.
Open Security Training courses online
I have a couple of side-projects as well as a startup.

The last few years, I’ve switched my side-projects to helping people with their backend infrastructure or architecture. This is definitely not profitable and most times I don’t even charge money. I like helping people and this is very satisfying work. Cold-email me (details in profile) if you like to discuss infrastructure.

My startup silota.com will be profitable as of April. I started hitting the road actively looking for customers in Jan of this year. The product isn’t self-serve yet and requires me to actively hand-hold people during the on boarding process. It’s been great and looking forward to the next few months!
Why isn't your user name visible? How did you do that???
> with proper resource management, layoffs can be greatly minimized.

This is a pretty bold assertion. We're not talking about a few jobs at the margin, eg. one report speaks of 25% of the hardware business.
I'm thinking that the point is that this:

Editor <=> File

is simpler than:

Editor <=> Copy/Paste Text Box/Save Button <=> File

It's a more cumbersome feedback loop while making changes.
http://hckrnews.com is rather mobile-friendly (and looks georgeous as well).
Last I heard, the pharmaceutical companies had come up with various ways of artificially manipulating the price they officially sold drugs for in order to take advantage of this, such as making direct offsetting payments to hospitals rather than discounting the prices.
I saw a comment on HN sometime back and can't seem to find it now, but thought it had some merit. The gist of it was that enabling posts from mobile might lead to lower content quality as typing on phones is tougher and we tend to focus on a quick reply rather than a thought out discussion.

I personally use http://hn.premii.com on mobile & it has a good reading experience.
I would never have considered an English (in a geographic sense) journal of any kind to use the spelling vise in this context.

Regards the other point if anything I would have said that was one of the worst "evolutions" of our language in recent times.
> This could be a good thing. I want to make it illegal for people to collect any kind of data of what I do on my property. If you want to come see, then you'll have to talk to my secretary and pay a million dollars for an exclusive interview.

Become rich; purchase laws like this one from politicians. Your dream is reality!
Mood Panda looks perfect for tracking how my dog is doing as I vary her meds.
I think I can also attribute my initial interest in programming to MUDs. Funny how, all these years later, they still give me satisfaction albeit through a much different tech stack. :)

> recite ritual of reminiscing
At the end of the day, the solution is straightforward and clear: build more houses.

The only problem is that humans in SF don't want more houses, especially high rise housing.
And don't forget the infamous SF NIMBYs.
If the author of the JSON spec and JSMin says it's the right tool for the job, I am inclined to trust him on that barring further evidence that it is not...
"Employees in the US, and in those small towns, also say they’re unhappy that IBM is shrinking in America while outsourcing to countries like India."

Aren't they laying off in India now too?
I started and work on a calendar listing tech events that is doing really well in Scotland. https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ The project is almost 2 years old and I get a bit of income on advertising.

I'm just now seeing if the collaborative wiki calendar platform I've created could be used by other groups. I've made a platform where anyone can sign up for a calendar at https://hasacalendar.co.uk/ and Open Sourced the engine at http://ican.openacalendar.org/ This side of it has very little income currently. The next big task to do is redo the home page to make clearer what it does and work on the design, this side of things is not my strong point. :-/

I decided to Open Source it just because in the end that is what I'd rather do. There are a lot of pluses and minuses each way that are hard to compare, but both Open Source and Closed Source are a lot of work and as I'm doing the work I may as well have it the way I prefer. It already has it's first Open Source install, a live Jazz music calendar.
This reminds of a TED talk about the expansion of empathy throughout history and how the reduction in mass cruelty over the centuries correlates directly with our ability as humans to include others (other villages, cities, states, nations, ethnicities, religions) in the same sphere as themselves and are thus able to empathize.
No news:yc allows you to post comments. It's available for iOS. Not sure about Android. Using it right now; works really well.
What we need to make machine general intelligence a reality
I've been running http://gkapp.com/ since 2010 and http://uselocksmith.com/ since sometime last year - they're both content protection tools for Shopify.

Which is not a niche I expected to be in. I made what became Gatekeeper as a one-off for a client at the time, saasified it, and threw it on the Shopify app store. I got lucky, but its success (five figures annually since then) has pretty solidly convinced me: there's value in solving your own problems and sharing the solutions. (And also that Shopify is a solid platform to work with. I love you guys.)
There are only two big opensource JS engines (Mozilla's whatever-monkey-it-is-now and Google's V8).

This means that a lot more eyeball-power went into inspecting those for security issues than into inspecting a messenger - simple reason: a bug in V8/xMonkey would fetch far, far bigger reps and money than finding a bug in Pidgin.

Always remember: given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow.
Is there an equivalent Python package to R's {stats}?

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/00...
I think that gets your point across much better. It's just that people are so sensitive around the issues of gender/race/what-have-you that one needs to choose their words very carefully.
I would suggest that the issue is that animals are not property. They can't just do what they want with them and get away with it.
For business usage, iPad does have User management and App store restrictions.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/it/management.html
He says it depends on how referendum question will be formulated.
No. !important supplied by the user is always higher than !important supplied by the author (and the opposite is true for non-!important), regardless of specificity. Specificity only comes into play when considering two rules supplied by the user or two rules supplied by the author.

If user agent style sheets are removed from the engine, then extensions will have to start considering specificity when adding style sheets to the end of the list, because they'll all be considered "author" rules. But user style sheets shouldn't have to worry about specificity, per the spec.
That's awesome. Never knew that, though admittedly I've not really immersed myself in how Chrome extensions actually work. Thanks for the example! Learn something new everyday :)
Probably too late for you to see this, but free objects are very common in Haskell-land. And free monoids are basically concatenation.
But you'll see all kind of monoids :)
I could write yet another boring comment about how hypocritical and stupid longtime SF residents are because they complain about rising housing costs or being priced out while simultaneously voting to prevent more housing from being built, but I'd rather ask a serious question:

Why do all these Bay-area startups and tech juggernaughts insist that all of their employees squeeze into housing on the peninsula? Of course many of their employees are going to have to work in SF but why is it so impossible to conceive of having a distributed, remote employee base? There are many successful tech companies (and YC startups) that have done this. It would ease the pressure on housing supply/demand, and also make salaries more attractive since engineers would be paid an SF salary but have more earning power by living outside the bubble.
What product category do you expect Apple to jump into?

The only viable one I can think of is wearable tech, and definitely not a damn watch. I think Apple won't cater to as niche a market as wearable medical, and let 3rd party use their hardware to attack that market space.
What are you talking about? R has some of
the most robust debugging tools I have encountered. You should look into the functions: browser, traceback, recover, trace, dump.frames, debug, debugonce, `environment<-`. What other language allows you to insert breakpoints (or arbitrary code) in the middle of a function's body without even having to re-paste the source code into the console?

If you're unsatisfied with R's debugging tools, you are probably not familiar with them:

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Exceptions-Debugging.html
Thanks! Shame that unlike Hacker News Droid, it doesn't have offline support; I like saving the comments for reading on the bus. Maybe I'll submit a pull request as a way of learning Android development.
Note that I am criticising the idea of "general" or "intuitive" correlation; actually useful correlation measures (like Pearson or Spearman) will be just always tied to some model of dependence. This way it cannot be directly tied to the obviously absolute dependence.
Rather like when the GMG (guardians parent) let those staff go in some of the local press they own when the margins went down for local newspapers?
On other note -

Is there an extension/app for HN that categorizes the posts into topics (based on some text analysis) & enables the user to filter them out from the feed? Feature akin to what lobste.rs provides.

This will basically enable me to filter out fluff stories that manage to rise up.
I tried this for a few hours some time ago. It made the site less usable on most Android and iPhone devices with normal smartphone screen sizes. Text in a number of places ran together and comments shrunk to one character per line a few replies down.

So it's not that simple. Real changes to make the site truly responsive are larger and I can't promise they'll come soon.
Disagree. I've had an R server running in production for real-time analytics under heavy load in the last six months, and I have had exactly zero problems. Literally no down time.

Additionally, weak scraping support is a myth: http://www.theswarmlab.com/r-vs-python-round-2-22/