skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may be good at prediction, but who writes their questions?

It's probably much easier to reach a successful prediction when a lot of the framing has already been done for them. If you take the Ukraine question, for example, there's already a lot of intelligence encapsulated, such as the City and Date when the CIA is expecting a Russian invasion. As a post mentions below, the questions may even be phrased/biased towards the right answer.

I wonder if they would be as good at prediction if they didn't have the resources and intelligence of the CIA providing them with the correct focus, prioritization, and framing.
Breaking Half of the Telegram Contest
I really want to suggest rewriting it in native code. A web based editor is a fine side project but if you want it to be a business people pay for, it needs to have native performance.

It's popular to claim that the web is near native performance, but honestly, it's a load of horseshit. Web performance is better than it's ever been but it still has a long way to go before it's anywhere near native.
Or one could think that second hand smoke is harmful, but that bans entail greater harm when all is said and done. I'm not saying I hold such a position, just that "I object to policy Y opposing X" does not imply "I don't think X is bad."
Linker.py: link dot files from git based on filename
Will we ever get to read the files that the NSA, GCHQ and the CIA are keeping on us today?
Ask HN: how do I get in front of art collectors online?
Hi HN folks!

I recently launched a website selling art online. All of our artists are Brooklyn based and so there's a strong local component to the business.

All the work is original and ranges in price from $150 - $12,000.

While we've had some success and momentum I'd love to ask the collective HN brain: how do I get in front of art collectors (or people who might want to purchase art at this price range) online?

Our site is here: www.fiercelycurious.com

Thanks,
Tom
re.1 - well, not as serious repercussions as implied in the comment above, that was my point. i'm sorry, but i cannot subscribe to the idea that i should either abandon Mozilla completely or never criticize it's choice of CEO. (no matter how many downvotes i will get on this site in the process...) that's what i wanted to say. of course, this could do damage to Mozilla's reputation, but that's not, by itself, grounds for dismissal of the discussion. the rest, however, are good arguments.

re.2 - it is, you are right. but i think one issue remains - is his sponsorship of Prop 8 at odds with Mozilla ideals? that should matter when choosing Mozilla's CEO.

re.3 - no. i think it would just be nice if Eich would stand behind his opinion, instead of dragging both Mozilla's future and the whole country of Indonesia into this. none of those Indonesian contributors are CEOs of Mozilla, so their political views do not reflect on the company itself. if a known anti-LGBT Indonesian became CEO, then I don't know, we would probably see a similar reaction.

and P.S. it is kinda racist to imply that all Indonesians are against gay marriage. his dragging that whole country into this is not cool.
FYI, BitDefender shows site as infected: http://trafficlight.bitdefender.com/info?url=http%3A//zedapp...

Might want to check it out, I got a bit red alert before I could visit the page.
I think you are misunderstanding how it works - you don't get every possible response format, that would indeed be silly. You get the response type specific to that version of the interface - which is pretty normal versioning.

All I was saying is that if you do run multiple versions of the same interface on different URLs then it's quite nice to have these versions themselves treated as resources you can find out about through the interface. That's what Salesforce do and, in my experience, I think it is simple and elegant.
A business we like does something we don't like: the NSA probably caused it.

Maybe companies are just capable of doing things we like and don't like and our liking them is just a cognitive bias of our historical cherry-picking of good things over bad.
Working From Home? Here's an Extra Shot of Focus
exactly! ..but people making those sites will eventually learn how to make a better web sites that fits into the phone. "performance" advantages of apps vs mobile sites will go away ( imho )
As mentioned below, giving spamm'ers a way to test a block of (presumably random/dictionary-generated addresses) for valid subsets isn't a very good idea.

It would be nice if everyone that actually allows unsubscription would set the correct headers. In my experience, only traditional mailing-lists do, and all the stuff you really want to unsubscribe to reinvent a new interface over http(s). Which isn't great if you're in an email reader, not a web browser.

If people could get their act together and actually supply an accurate text/plain part to all the "fancy" html crap, that'd be great too.

It always makes me sad when companies realize that they've not got an interesting enough offer that stating it in a short concise text is going to get any conversions, an then assume that if they format it so it's unreadable on a small screen, add a lot of images that'll be blocked for privacy reasons, their offer will be more enticing.

Makes me even more sad that it (apparently) works.
Manhattan: Real-time, multi-tenant distributed database for Twitter scale
QuickBooks Online. It's a much better tool than it was even two years ago, really glad we switched over to it and our accountants love it.
Give em an excuse to really switch to git and they'll GLADLY do it! :)
How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake
They survived a civil war and now they're broken
A recreation program without overnight + SPA package – Aya Maria
Aya Maria wellness & spa resort center offers a recreation program without overnight and SPA packages: medical consulting, armenian stream or Finnish sauna, psychological training, milk therapy in the barrel, peeling with vichy shower, massage, art therapy, cultural evening.
Also the new Embedded Windows.
And it's said a descendant of Reed Smoot of Smoot-Hawley terrible tariff infamy, and at least at MIT doing a good job of rehabilitating the family name.
Is SD a neighborhood, city, state, country?

South Dakota? Sudan? Santo Domingo? San Diego?
>TypeScript

Why? What's wrong with js?

>This rapid growth [of javascript] has outpaced the growth of the language itself, which lacks features that allow teams to communicate requirements and build applications safely.

what? I guess I'll just have to wait for the announcement.

edit: After further investigation: http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/

It seems kind of cool, but aren't they just reinventing the wheel?
Can you explain this more, how do you see this being operated? See a pdf, clip it, create your own reader with your own clips?
Get in touch with your local FIRST robotics team.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc

I am a mentor for my local team. The program is absolutlely wonderful. It inspires and drives kids at many levels. Mentors run a huge range, from scientists amd engineers to welders, makers and really driven Mom's and Dad's. The common thread, among other things, is to inpire the kids to learn and apply technologyy to solve problems. Highhly recommended.
You can also choose between m.fb.com and the FB app. There are also HTML5 games for the phone, you can also use web IRC clients for chat etc. But people just don't! People use the apps, which is exactly what the article is saying, or not?
Did the moon get its water from Earth?
Apple, Samsung trade barbs as new patent trial opens
yes I know that but how would you make it crawl links in your browser?
Xero is really good. Really useful if you arn't just doing simple accounting (for simple, non-double ledger accounting, I used to use FreshBooks).
The next big thing is small
But sometimes, there's just that much work to do, and in a 5 or 6 person company, the work load is just that much greater while they're bootstrapping their way to a product.
What is OOCSS? Our humble explanation
I assume it stands for San Diego unless otherwise specified.
Microsoft Skydrive launched in 2007, around a year before Dropbox.
Red Badger go way back with Elasticsearch: a guide to getting started
Total guess here, but you would imagine that since it is a project based on statistical prediction, they would continue to measure their ability to predict.
Based off the user's profile, it's clearly San Diego.
But there is no code for the server component. Only for the clients.
MILLIONAIRE-CREATOR-bestcbstore.com
Unfortunately I think that this was an act of releasing pressure from multiple person(s) that are against torrenting copyrighted content. Maybe we popped the popcorn too long... burning and leaving us hungry for more. Maybe we should try a better alternative?
Doug Stanhope has a good rant about these opinion polls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ryc...
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me... it's certainly not the most efficient method.
This is the first I'm hearing of Skydrive being considered a failure.

What is that based on exactly?
SmartAsset (YC S12) Seeks Senior UI/UX Architect
The point was that the MPAA can make life very expensive for GitHub if even if they don't have legal footing.
Why is that inappropriate, out of curiosity?
I don't think she was criticizing the actions of the food bank; it was closer to an opinion on the country as a whole. When she said "we", she meant the whole population, not the members nor users of the organization.

I think your point has some merit, but playing Devil's advocate, if one considers this an humans rights issue - which many people do -, isn't it close to every organization?
Only if you attempt to rise above your station peasant; Otherwise it will stay in the store room
GitHub has censored before. Their TOS permit them to do it.
One argument caught my attention in the article is that the HTML5 approach of Firefox OS is not working.

Actually I prefer the HTML5 approach, but as you said, monetising apps is easier than the web. I believe this is the key issue here.
Let me begin with a question for you:

What do you want a first time visitor to absolutely see/do when they get on the site?

In other words, what is that one thing that if the user sees/does, they will get how your startup benefits them & want to engage with you further?

The reason I'm asking is because the home page seems unfocused to me.
This is your prime real estate & your one and only chance to grab attention.
Because there's so much going on, I'm not sure what I should do - and specifically, what I should do first, that will get me to the "aha" moment of your offering.

Once you identify that one thing that new users coming to the site absolutely must do/see - everything on the home page should be focussed towards drawing attention to that thing (or the path to that thing).

Everything else is irrelevant (at this point) because if they are not wowed - and quickly - no matter what else you think is cool that they should see/click on - they are just not going to do that and will have already moved on.

Hope that helps.
I can see disabling new signups but not shutting the service down and erasing everyone's data - it doesn't bode well for Ubuntu in the enterprise or anywhere else trust and longevity are important.
My company decided to eat-what-we-were selling/telling customers to do and went 100% cloud (google apps + xero), it's been awesome.

We still use QB for payroll, planning on moving to ADP (or something else) soon.
For something as important as "file storage" 12 months would be a safer option to make sure everyone was alerted and reacted. Or Ubuntu may keep the files as torrents/tars after that for up to 12 months and ask for a payment of for download.
When Gmail first came out, I remember having to use Firefox or IE6, both of which were much slower on my 100MHz desktop than Opera was. The basic HTML version was super nice.
fwiw the search is called fuzzy matching

also, gl on the project
>This is a bit of a personal rant, but we're living in an age with multi-gigaflop CPUs and multi-terraflop GPUs, and we have somehow regressed to a point where scrolling is laggy again? IMO this is absurd, as an industry trend in general. For this reason, I generally dislike the trend to write everything (including local apps) in HTML/CSS/JS. These technologies really weren't designed to support this sort of complex dynamic UI. While it's quite impressive what's possible despite this, the stress of forcibly warping HTML/CSS/JS to accomplish some of these UI feats shows through as horrible inefficiency.

I doubt the issue is simply the use of web technologies...the fact is the more powerful our computers become the more demand is placed on them. Your web browser is just one more thing running on your computer, there are a bunch of other things influencing overall performance. You could replace the entire web stack of technologies and you would probably end up in the same place performance-wise.

I envision a future where we have even faster computers but then maybe your OS would have integrated a bunch of AI that'll bring performance to a crawl :)
US Supreme Court lifts ban on aggregate campaign donations
OnCoins.org: Helping Bitcoin Professionals Connect
Does anyone know if heroku will cut their prices after the amazon aws price cut?
The security services of the eastern bloc were terribly inefficient; just imagine how effective they could be today!
How can I self-host Ubuntu One?
Spredfast and Mass Relevance Merge, Forming Massive Social Marketing Company
I hope that more people who believe in a "new collaborative economy" for America come across stories like this.
There are multiple experimental groups in the project, which use different methods. One of the methods is a prediction market, where you can buy or sell shares of any given outcome, with the market price being the group estimate of the probability. For example, if the group thinks something will happen with 35% probability, you can buy shares for $35 (fake money). When the questions are eventually resolved, correct shares are valued at $100, and incorrect shares are valued at $0.
And to be fair WhatsApp has been around for years...most of these "rocketship" companies aren't in fact rocket ships and take years before they become famous, and then once they're famous gain traction seemingly very quickly.
ECommerce is The New eMarketing
> an altcoin that actually manages to crack the problem of CPU only mining

You may be interested in:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
WhatsApp Experiences Second Major Outage Following Facebook Acquisition
is there a way to check the size of your backup without having an account?
The only part of this article I agree with is the title.

> If you’re in doubt then you probably aren’t made out to be an entrepreneur anyway.

This kind of attitude is so childish and stupid it's hard to put into words.
Study: Crowdsourced Stock Opinions Beat Analysts, News
I've been thinking for a while about reimplementing a large CoffeeScript (horrible language) project that we have at my work in Haskell, just to see if it could work, how easy it would be, how much smaller it would be, and if I could get the same or better performance out of it without going crazy. One of the demands of the existing software is that it both run in the browser, and server-side. This project is awesome because I could reimplement it in Haskell, and run a binary version on the server, with a JS version in the browser. Very cool! Now if I could only convince my company to switch...

By the way, on the "Try Haste" project, it would be nice to see the generated JS output, as they do on the "Try CoffeeScript" page. Even though it's not really meant to be looked at in javascript, it's informative for those who know a bit about both languages to see what kind of transformations are taking place.
Email is great for read-mostly (or even read-only) things like email lists and various summaries and or editorialized contents -- if you have a good email reader that lets you clearly distinguish the two (eg: filter out mails with precedence: bulk/list-id set etc to folders that doesn't pop up alerts or get in the way of "actual people" trying to reach you).

I suppose part of the reason why I like email lists so much is the lack of redundant formatting. Just stick to the de-facto plain-text ways of formatting mail: star for bold, _underscore_ for underline (arguably redundant in itself), angle-brackets for quotation. Reply inline/below the person you're quoting. No graphical smilies. No suddenly changing text size. Just a strong focus on content and prose.

Granted, for actual news, I might want to see images -- and that's a bit of a challenge, sending out attachments to a large list doesn't sound all that appealing -- then again, we do have more bandwidth now than 20 years ago -- shouldn't actually be much of a problem.
I use hledger and hledger-web. It's mostly compatible with ledger with some nice features on top and a web interface.

Before that tried Gnucash, but that was just hassle to use, while pure ledger was not user friendly enough for me.
I was wondering "What the hell is SD?" as well, though the user profile page does make it clear. Still, could have saved many of us a click and some parsing time to just write San Diego in full.

Being a European on the Internet is really a first world problem :)
just fyi, I got -4 down votes by the moderators for this opinion. congrats to HN moderators.
Geek Squad founder has harsh words for Best Buy
With XP ending support, I see many corporate customers switching to ReactOS. Firstly it's free rather than paying for a Windows upgrade, and secondly the premise is that all your apps will keep working exactly the same way, so no compatibility problems, and hence hopefully little to no downtime.
If you're really enjoying working 80 hours a week, and everyone else on the team is too, I don't see a huge problem with it - provided, and this is a big "provided", that if anyone doing that wants to stop working 80 hours, or indeed take a bloody long holiday to recover, they can do so.

I know several extremely successful, productive people in different fields who work on the "work as long as you like when you feel like it, rest when you don't" principle.
Original article (also in Dutch): http://tweakers.net/nieuws/95169/politie-pakt-nederlander-me...
I think you mean Ramen. Roman noodles is just pasta you eat by the Tiber. :)
I don't think it's more that they push non-prod ready packages (yes, they do) but the fact that their update model doesn't easily allow them to fix bugs from upstream.

The vast majority of the packages in Ubuntu (more notably in the LTS releases) are all custom patched by Ubu-devs. Rather than taking the raw package and pushing it through, they have a semi-opaque method of testing, patching, and then releasing to the greater community.

I've tried several times to get an 'in' so that I could help with the process, but it seems to me like a 'club hangout' where outsiders are slightly discouraged. :(
Tarsnap won't be able to shrink your photos by using deduplication and/or compression. I guess users paying 10$/mo with terabytes of data stored, have massive advantages of both, but it all depends on your usage.

If you are going to store 100GB of photos with Tarsnap, I'd guess it would be close to 25$ as you said. If you just want your photo collection for disaster recovery, you could check out Glacier instead, which is a lot cheaper.
Thank you! Ubuntu One is a buggy, laggy mess and frankly an embarrassment to Canonical. What would be neat is if they made a GUI for BTSync, and sold pre-configured hard drive space for it!
Well, it seems to be considered kind of private in Germany: http://www.loc.gov/law/help/campaign-finance/germany.php

The parties, in return, must submit yearly financial statements to the legislature. In these, only contributors of more than €10,000 per year must be named. (...) In addition, the accounting responsibilities of the parties free individual members and candidates from burdensome paperwork, while the focus of the disclosure rules on large donors protects the privacy of candidates, elected officials, and small donors.

In general I agree with the view expressed by Kent Pitman (famous Lisp hacker) here: http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2010/11/06/on_the_pri... . Basically he says privacy outweighs transparency for small donations, but not large ones. In particular, he mentions Keith Olbermann being suspended by his employer for making a small donation similar to Eich's.
How can I self-host Ubuntu One? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516047
I understand your frustration. This is the 3rd editor I've got excited about by looking at screenshots (see also Atom and Brackets). Then was disappointed when I realised they render using a browser.

=Slow. Not slow enough to be unuseable. But slow enough to drive you crazy after working with it for a day. And perhaps 30% reduction in laptop battery life, because of increased power requirements.

I moved to Sublime Text. Millions of us did. It provided both fantastic usability and rocket-fast speed. That's the baseline. Any new editor needs to at least have BOTH those features!
What if tarsnap released a command-line tool that could be run on a directory to estimate its storage cost, pre-signup?
Coshx Labs is giving away $50k of development. No strings attached.
As long as the carousel doesn't auto-rotate, I could see a carousel + thumbnails working very well for a product gallery. The example on your site does it well.
As an avid TypeScript user, I predict with much certainty that TypeScript 1.0 will be released today.

TS has been in release candidate for some time now, and it feels ready for stable 1.0. I suspect we'll see that announced today.
Blink-dev: Intent to remove "style scoped"
Along these lines, the Botball program is a pretty amazing way to teach hands on engineering.

Bummer the OP just missed the 2014 Greater San Diego Tournament by a few days

http://www.botball.org/sca/2014/tournament
Agreed. I co-founded a FIRST FRC team during my time at high school and it remains one of the coolest things I've ever done. Program now is doubled in size and budget, and they accomplish some really cool things.

FRC league is for High School students. They have leagues for elementary and middle school students in Lego and Tetrix, respectively. FRC is the full blown CNC machined parts and rapid-prototyped/3D-printed awesomeness. (Or woodworking)
San Francisco Cuts ‘Cruising’ for Parking in Half With Market-Clearing Prices
+ "Time spent" as a sensible measure of everything was dead long time ago for computing. "Old media" still doesn't get it.
On a sidenote: don't forget to write the stolen stuff of on next years' taxes.
I've had pretty bad experiences with mocking frameworks. I try to keep all my tests straight-up python unittests. Forcing yourself to setup and tear down classes and their dependencies in a few lines of code while also keeping the ability to swap out dependencies improves my design by an order of magnitude.

I've had projects that were incredibly hard to change due to mocked out database and network dependencies.

That being said, I've occasionally resorted to mock when I'm stuck with crappy code that needs to be put under test before refactoring.
> I would but I love APT

As a near 100% RHEL/Fedora user I am always wondering if there is anything but a material difference between apt and yum?

From using Ubuntu extensively a few years ago they seem to have near identical feature set?
Does anyone else remember when companies were proud that they were the custodians of a file format?

No. When was that?
I'm not sure whether to trust that first announcement...