skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strikes me that this is intentional, not some thing that they are structurally incapable of doing - it is not as if there is a massive engineering effort for example, to support such a thing.

Never the less, I am in the same boat as your friends in many cases. In my consulting practice I do lots of SQL Server tuning work and have found very few cases where I can tell a client that going to Azure would be a net benefit for the database. Even with the new dedicated SQL instances, on-premise will almost always get you more perf per dollar. (though the Azure stuff does come with less maintenance headaches in theory)
Show HN: A lightweight JavaScript plugin to protest Mozilla's CEO
What is call tracking?
To stop leechers - couldn't you just, in your script >

(function(){
if(document.domain != 'mydomain.com') return;
// my script
})();
Not a prank!
Heh. Just the other day at work I joked that people might get so upset at this that they organize and deploy a better JavaScript substitute for every possible use case.

One can hope ...
Asseta (YC S13) is Looking for a Technical Cofounder
Asseta is building a marketplace for manufacturers to buy and sell used equipment. The incumbents are unscrupulous brokers and the industry has not seen any innovation in decades. That being said, it's B2B, so the status quo is extremely difficult to change.

If we are successful, we will empower a new generation of hardware startups. The next Jawbone, Nest or Soylent will use us to get started faster and with less capital.

If you're motivated by the challenge of building one of the first B2B marketplaces and are ready to manage a codebase, we'd love to hear from you. We've already raised a seed round but are prepared to offer >5% equity for the right candidate.

The full job description can be found below, but feel free to contact me directly, anton at asseta dot com.
https://asseta.recruiterbox.com/jobs/30769
Want a job? Deliver, or protect
William Shockley held some opinions a lot of people would dislike. No one is ditching the transistor.

Darwin thought blacks were quite inferior and not as evolved. No one is discounting the theory of evolution.

It'd be like ditching XMLHttpRequest because someone at MS was racist - it's simply not going to happen.
Plus IIRC you can't foreign key between them.
hey scott, met you before when I was working on Sponfed. kudos to open sourcing the software, wish you all the best buddy!
Take out the arbitragers and all the other participants as a whole keep more money. Spreads may increase, but one party to the transactions always earns the spread and the other loses it, netting out to zero, rather than compensating latency arbitragers (and paying to generate waste heat in their datacenters) which nets out to less than zero.

There is some value to keeping things liquid, but that value isn't tied at all to the amount of money that arbitragers get compensated. Consider that whether the latency is 1ms or 5ms, the fastest arbitrager wins. But to bring things down to 1ms from 5ms may require 10X more expense and waste, lowering the compensation to the arbitrager. In a competitive enough environment they simply burn up all of the spreads into waste heat and redundant fiber infrastructure.
Ok Cupid seeks to block Mozilla Firefox over gay rights
There is no requirement that legal marriage between a man and a woman involve child-raising. There is no requirement that legal marriage between a man and a woman involve love or sex.

If Albert, Barbara, and Charles go to San Francisco City Hall in 2008, and Albert says "I want to marry Charles", he's told no. If he says "I want to marry Barbara", he's told yes. The state knows nothing about their sex life or feelings about children. What is the rationale?
You're timing the market if, for whatever reason, you haven't invested in the past 5 years, and now that the market is at all time highs, decide to allocate 100% of your assets into the market.

I hold my suggestion to the OP, keep a portion in cash.
It could become a furniture maker too.
I really wish that, in addition to the camera, they'd include a sort of proximity cone (radar, sonic, something) too. Case in point:

Coworker of mine gets himself a Leaf - loves it to death. So, to partake of his joy, we all take a ride with him to Chipotle to grab lunch. Right next door to the restaurant in the strip mall is one of those UPS Pack-n-Ship places. We didn't pay it a lot of attention when we pulled in but right behind us, backed up to the front of the UPS store, is one of their short-length semi-trailers. Not an issue until we're backing out - dude came withing centimeters of smashing out his back window because he was relying on the camera which only showed the legs of the trailer and not the deck.

This isn't to say that the cameras aren't good, but they do have limitations and can lend a sense of false security.
Companies like Square and Stripe making it easy to pay with Bitcoin will have a huge affect on whether the general population accepts the cryptocurrency.
It was known to the NSA that it was bad before it was known to the public, obviously.
I didn't mean to imply otherwise: the phrasing of but his actions caused harm to a large number of people led me to believe there was something else that occurred of which I was unaware.
The product is for tracking inbound calls, presumably leads. From the looks of the screenshots, you can see who called, how they were routed, and listen to the recordings.

From the site:

* Login to your installation of Opencall and add the numbers you’ve just purchased on Plivo. Then define your rules (e.g. when someone calls number X, forward the call to my mobile number or to my SIP address).*

* When someone calls your Plivo tracking number, their call will get instantly forwarded to the number or SIP address you defined in Opencall. At the same time, Opencall will log statistics about the call and make a recording of the conversation (if you enable this feature).*

So basically, it's call routing and recording, to allow people handling inbound calls (e.g. customer service, inbound marketing, etc.) to track their calls, stats, information, review previous calls, etc.
You Don't Need to Kill Your Apps
Meh, this is an extremely poor bug report despite the super-serious introductory tone. The "proof of concept" makes no sense. Quoting:

1. Scrape email addresses from bitcoin related websites, and organise them into a large list.

This has nothing to do with Coinbase.

2. Test for emails which are actual Coinbase accounts, and extract their First and Last names, associated to the emails.

Ok...

3. All sorts of panic happens.

Huh? How?

To prove "panic" he then leaps to a screenshot someone posted to Twitter of a money request email he generated. However,

a) It's not clear whether this was sent via the coinbase money request feature or whether it was spoofed (or why it would even need to be spoofed).

b) It doesn't even show usage of a firstname or lastname to "assist" in the spoofing.. which was the whole point of the bug report.

So it remains to be demonstrated how the exposure of firstname/lastname could be exploited to significantly assist phishing, especially when weighed against the other design tradeoffs -- like accidentally irreversibly sending money to the wrong person.

The lack of responsiveness to the whitehat email is the bigger problem here, but now that they've joined HackerOne perhaps that will improve.
Alice – The AI Girlfriend
Sorry, I don't understand what you said. But I recommend Node, specially after reading Devrim (the CEO) reply.

If you want a mature answer, read Sandro Pasquali reply.
Marriage and civil unions embody the same legal rights in the US (at least, in the states that they were created so far), at issue is some people beliefs that marriage as in institution should not be changed. And I don't agree with that, "seperate but equal" is personally unacceptable to me.

I'm just trying to explain what his (assumed) beliefs are, and pointing out that his donation and beliefs shouldn't automatically label him as "anti-gay."
Back over 'accidents' don't happen because you can't see what is behind you. They happen because you are oblivious to your surroundings. People can't handle their own guilt so they try to pawn it off on society. Well guess what, 99+ percent of all vehicles never back over a child. It has nothing to do with the "visibility systems."
Visa starts its 16 digit string with "4"
Mastercard starts with "5"
Amex starts with "3" and only has 15 digits
Discover starts with "6"
Overcast: an open source cloud management CLI
Assuming malicious requests come from other countries would be foolhardy.
In sales/marketing language: it allows companies to boost their sales & ROI, reduce advertising budget wastage and optimise their teams performance on the phone by tracking inbound phone calls from their customers.
Amex starts with "3"
Visa starts with "4"
Mastercard starts with "5"
Discover starts with "6"
Or in this case, to have your users cut of their collective noses to spite their collective faces.
Here's a question not being asked: when did Nintendo allow for its IP to be used outside of their platform(s)? Is this just an extension of the animated show or is it an extension of the game? From the way this works, it looks like this is the answer to their current sales woes?

April Fool's joke or not, but it is quite impressive to see Nintendo's IP being used for a game of sorts outside of their own hardware.
Are you in British Columbia?

http://dailyxtra.com/vancouver/news/bcs-new-law-erases-line-...

> The qualifications for a common-law relationship, Dahl says, are much lower than they once were. To have a “marriage-like” relationship in BC, you do not have to share a bank account, call yourselves married, be sexually monogamous, file taxes together, or even cohabit all the time. To “hold yourself up to the community as a couple” and share a home is probably enough.

By that standard, it seems like it would be pretty easy for an ex-roommate to sue you for half of your wealth.
Kandu teaches kids to code without them realizing they're learning
I don't know, I see it every week a block from my house. Chevron drops the price of gas twenty cents and before the end of the day the citgo across the street has dropped theirs 21 cents.

Of course when one raises prices, the others follow right back up.
I have not experimented with HN's anti-duping, but couldn't you do something like http://macaw.co/# or http://macaw.co/?1
How Storytelling Rocketed These Startups Forward via Onboardly
On the https://couple.me/alice page, to make text appear a little at a time they setup a long series of timeouts set to trigger at different times (as you can see here: https://couple.me/javascripts/alice.js). They are not dependent on each other.

This leads to unusual behavior if you do something as simple as tab away while one of them is playing for about 10 seconds. On both Chrome and Firefox, that will result in, when you tab back, complete gibberish as multiple timeouts that triggered while you were away both begin "typing" their text. I think the correct solution here is to have all callbacks drawing text depend on the previous one completing (since there's no overlaps, this should work well enough).

That entire sequence also felt very trite to me, but I can see how it could be appealing.
That's really useful, thank you. The system will work with Twilio if you override the default XML responses when adding an advert, but for now that's not built in so I haven't officially put that it supports Twilio.
Beautiful parallax scrolling – effective to make you travel Swiss airways?
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A tale of the digital ebook in the tablet era
I think it's a shame that this comment has been downvoted to hell, because it's actually quite illuminating: the satire in it, such as it is, revolves around the assumption that FOSS politics is equal to or greater in urgency than any other kind of politics. Human rights violation? GPL violation! Same category.

The reason I think it's so valuable is that a version of it probably informed the board's decision to appoint Eich despite the already controversial Prop 8 donation. "Sure, there's this $1000 he gave and that's terrible, but look at all the great FOSS code he's contributed! The controversy can't last long, we're Mozilla, we're the good guys. Everybody knows that."

Lots of people out there do not think like this.

Lots of people care about social justice and see no problem using IE.
Silly axioms are usually included when someone says something isn't rational. Given modern human rights, there's no way to arrive at a no homo-marriage stance.

Your example statement isn't useful either, as plenty of same-sex couples are unable to create children. By the same logic, infertile people should also be excluded. If that was the point (marriage only for people seeking to reproduce), at least it'd be consistent.

Excluding poly-amorous people from marriage is a mean, anti-human thing, too.

>So are you saying if a CEO of a company believed euthanasia to be wrong you'd stop using that companies products?

It's more than just believing, it'd have to be that the CEO had performed actions to directly oppose euthanasia. And I generally don't boycott something unless I think using the product will directly contribute to hurting something and there's a reasonable alternative. For instance, buying a music CD directly gives money to a company that will lobby for DRM, against privacy, and for longer copyright. Whereas using FireFox is unlikely to directly help anti-gay campaigners. (I still hope there's backlash against FF and Eich, because screw his Prop8 stuff, and screw JS - but that's more of a "I just wanna see things burn" perspective.)
That suggests that our clients know smart and usable design when they see it. I actually think they're half of the problem.
If they wanted to, sure. They have all the infrastructure ("fat binaries") from the ppc switch.
Comcast has an abuse block list. Verizon has an abuse block list.

Between those two you've got > 50% of America covered.

Every ISP has a spam blocklist. Technically that's censorship, too.
I find it cool!
> * Bitcoin skyrockets until infrastructure comes under strain.

Source? Unless you consider the failure of Mt. Gox an "infrastructure" problem, then this is not the case.
To phish via SES, you'd have to get coinbase.com as a verified domain, which mean you'd need DNS access. I assume the same is true of other email providers.
I'm sure I could have, and I wish I could have thought of that before!

If a Hacker News admin would like to change this link destination, they are more than welcome to.
Why should I build on your API?
You miss many elements with this summary, not the least of which is Bitcoin reaching a point of maturity with regards to regulation and compliance. To a large extent, that's happening next week in DC.
April fools I assume =P
What are you talking about? RDS now supports MySQL. What would the difference be in terms of lock-in?
How else would you access it? I often access the toolbar in Sublime Text, for example, so I'd like to keep it visible.
> Love, jealousy, and affection are all emotions that Alice feels. Your responses to her affect her mood, and she will react as a real person would.

> and she will react as a real person would.

I have my doubts.
Bitcoin is pointless as a currency, but it could change the world anyway
My fiancé let me play special effects for this quickie
My fiancé let me play with her face with special effects with this Internet video quickie
It is not an issue at all. It happened 3 times with me during the whole winter, and I quickly wiped and cleaned the lens. The windows and mirrors get dirty too, we often clean them.
C# doesn't have K&R brace formatting... the first brace is placed on a new line (unfortunately).
Wow is that some tortured writing. This paragraph needs serious help:

> To say there is an uncomfortable air of fear in security is one (perhaps overblown) thing. To see the largest and only production of its kind, with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line and an entire secondary production company locked in silent rapture under lit signage for Mountain Dew, the entire project gloriously rupturing like the belly of the Bismark – that is another. To be ushered by muted fear and nervous glances, to stand in desolate directors rooms filled with black screens and empty chairs. Darkened judging stands. Color-coded team challenge floors, soon to be dismantled, but left intact in the hopes that some shimmering archangel would descend and reinvigorate the eleven indie developers currently revolting against Maker Studios inside their rented Winnebagos.
Someone should inform OKCupid of William Shockley's views on eugenics.
Lack of sexual interaction (consummation) can in fact play a role in having a marriage recognized, or annulled. It's been a factor in "green card" marriages, for example.

For another example, inability of consummate a marriage is grounds for annulment in some states.

http://www.colorado-family-law.com/termination-marriage/annu...
What about "we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together"? How do you hand-wave away that comment of OKC's in a manner that still allows them to be divisive?
Tax is a bit of a funny business and the laws vary from country to country and the enforcement of the law varies in random ways. For example if as a brit you buy some euros to spent on holiday and then the euro appreciates before you buy your tequila you've made a taxable gain. In practice no one declares that stuff and the revenue never investigates that stuff. At some point they start worrying - I'm not sure where. It depends on the mood. I recently had to account for the sale of a holiday home in euros and then converted into sterling and didn't bother with the change in pound euro rate as it didn't make much difference. Maybe £500 one way or the other. The UK revenue in practice don't really make a fuss unless you are off by serval thousand although they don't publish a fixed figure or else everyone would game their taxes to be off by just under that amount. So in practice with bitcoin if the gains are a few pounds people won't bother. If they are say £30k you should probably declare it or risk pissing off the tax authorities. In the US I don't know - they seem a bit more up tight about enforcing the letter of the law over petty amounts but you can only really tell by looking at what they do because if they published people would game the system.
Absolutely.

But that's a universal issue with JavaScript OO in that it provides no direct language support for encapsulation.

Developers have, for the most part, learnt to be disciplined about not accessing "private" fields in JS objects. That they (we) have not learnt to apply that lesson with respect to class hierarchies is evidence for how willingly we throw away good principles when we are working in a "special case".

It is also a lesson in why having language features that force developers into good practices is sometimes a net win, even though we might also rally against them (because we dislike their verbosity and/or hand-holding).
Bummer. On the flip side, maintaining a franken kernel for multiple years isn't fun either so one would think this be a pro in favor of 3.14.

Oh well, at least OpenSSH 6.6 made it in.
MOOC Launches Matrix-Like Device to Learn "Everything" Instantly
I think that the self-curating aspect is probably better at preventing elitism than an invite based system. That way it is not so much about who you know but more about how good you are.
> Each purchase of Macaw allows you one account. That account is used to log into the app. Users can login to the app on any machine.

I haven't purchased it, but that sure seems like an internet connection is required unfortunately.
The only thing safer about this that I see is it is extremely small. No high assurance design, etc. What am I missing here that makes them advertise its safety?
Money Monday: Office Mobile Does Well, Bitcoin Slips, BlackBerry Improves
Is this amateur footballer Australia's best?
Does he deserve a chance to become a professional? You decide.
According to Wikipedia there are approximately 254 million passenger vehicles in the USA. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Uni...

Also there are approximately 15 million new cars sold per year.

http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1567645#bmb=1

At a cost of ~$100 per vehicle for these cameras that means to get the entire passenger fleet compliment with this law will cost 25.4 billion dollars and 1.5 billion per year in additional costs. The article states that they estimate 58-69 lives per year to be saved, round that up to 70. 70/1.5 billion and we are spending over $21.4 million per life saved. That seems absolute crazy to me. How many lives could be saved with that amount of money spent in a more efficent way?
Awesome work! Will look at replacing some hand rolled stuff internally. One gap I see with a lot of A/B testing analysis is that it only solves for conversion. While conversion is a great metric for many tests, in my experience, revenue is often the metric that matters most. Whether it's traditional eCommerce or selling tiered subscriptions, a lot of testing is geared towards 1) getting the customer to buy and 2) getting them into a more expensive product or plan. In the subscription scenario, some sort of customer life time value model is even better. I don't pretend to know all the math, but the calcs I've seen focused on revenue (AOV * conversion) need order level data (as opposed to aggregate) so it's not as easy to solve generically.
The Rise of Hacker News Is Bad News for the Tech World