skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you treat it as a gamble, you can look at expected value (to determine whether it makes sense to play at all) and something like the Kelly Criteria (though my understanding is that it doesn't apply directly) to determine how much it makes sense to be betting. All of that, as Paul said, must be adjusted for your personal risk preferences as determined by your personality and situation, and you should keep in mind that your assessment of the odds is likely wrong (or you should be a VC).
Ask HN: Critique my landing page
Hi guys, I would like to get a honest critique of the http://buzzloud.com/ landing page. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Well, in all the C++ universe Visual Studio is a nice tool, but no one will hire anyone for knowing how to use it. It's the libraries and programming language skills that matter.

Qt is like VCL and it can be used within VS or without it. The Microsoft equivalent to VCL is MFC, but I don't think that's a very current skill to have. It's also the opposite of RAD, having to write lots of boilerplate to get something on the screen. I mean that's why MS invented .NET, MFC was unproductive.
I am planning to run a similar challenge, and I have been struggling with correctly naming it, since I won't actually be creating startups (no actual business plan, no nothing).

I think 12 sideprojects in 12 months would be more appropriate, at least to the approach I'm planning to take.

Regarding this project, I follow the creator on Twitter and he announced it yesterday I believe, and today I was thinking about it and ran into the same question "does the money go to the website or to the friend?".

Logistically, I don't think paying the friend would be something easy to do (does Stripe even allow for something like that?). Going 100% to a non-profit would leave no room for profit, so I would personally go with 80/90% to a non-profit of choice and keep the remainder as a fee.
I can confirm the same.
Searchable photo albums OR Google Image search for personal photos.

Basically a way to organize photos into searchable tags which are context aware and auto-generated. This way, I will not have to browse through tons of photos to find the ones shot at a concert, for example. What if I simply search for "concert" and all my photos shot at some concert are fetched. The key here is to auto-tag the photos as good (or near to) as Google does with their Image search.
interesting - seems like the reverse use-case would also sense. soldier with one of these uses it to block guidance and communication systems going into a drone. range would be an issue i suppose.
I'm actually working on something like this, though with JSON instead of RDF. Drop me a line (moritz@faui2k3.org) if you're interested.
Even though I haven't worked with this update much yet, I'm so inordinately happy about them bringing back local menus, I honestly hated the global menus and the update is worth it for local menus alone.
`ridiculously` might be hyperbole, but the two biggest ones I can think of are computer graphics and machine learning; these of which you can't even sneeze at without getting in linear algebra.
A Chrome plugin for Hacker News and Reddit that does only one thing: collapse all comments to top level comments.
I've seen this used to ensure the semantic of the operation. It hasn't add any value to pass true or false to the quit channel right?
The alarm band is a great one.. I put my phone in vibrate mode in my pocket for that, but of course, not ideal.
That would be a terrible turn of events though; law parternships have had to grow significantly (in number of partners) to survive. having a partner that wants to retire or leave often risks dissolution of the entire partnership.

You end up having to bring in more and more partners just so people can leave without sinking the whole ship.

This industry moves _way too fast_ for partnerships to really work and convert business equity into cash at the same time.
PlanetArray, a game to practice JavaScript array methods
I've tried to make a web game that helps you practice and learn JavaScript Array Methods. The game aims to train your ability to chose the right Method for a job. I've sort of separated what Methods do from how to use them. No typing, just chose the right one.

The game has a help button that displays a tiny cheat sheet for a few seconds. It describes all the methods except those that are to obvious (sort, reverse, length)

The idea behind the game was: The coder needs a bit of time to chose an instruction and type it out. You don't really notice which part is using the most time but typing code goes much slower than normal language, it requires more mental effort. I sort of appreciate what a chaotic mess human language is. The slow in the coding is probably not in the language but in how often we "speak" it.

We memorize things by repeating them often. Even if you write code all day, the interval of repetition could be very low, you could have a ton of code with just a few Array operations. When first trying it the questions in my game took me 3-4 seconds. For a game settings 2 seconds is slow, thinking for 4 seconds just to push a button feels like an eternity. Clearly I was on to something (how slow I was)

You get to feel stupid, then, if you just sit there bashing buttons for a while the stupid goes away and it is replaced with ohh and ahh, and the eventual "damn, look how good I am at this!" Many moons later, while coding, you continue to impress yourself with your cosmic array skills.

There is currently no world record because the game is completely new and has never been played before.

Enjoy!
Semi-related: has anyone read this paper which claims to have a WPA2 rekeying vulnerability and evaluated it? They published in a journal I don't have access to, and don't have a preprint online, so it's probably not very important, but I'm still curious.

Achilleas Tsitroulis, Dimitris Lampoudis, Emmanuel Tsekleves. Exposing WPA2 security protocol vulnerabilities. International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2014; 6 (1): 93 DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797

(Fucking journals are extortion; the system must be destroyed.)
Snowden documents (the ones Applebaum presented, possibly, if not others) confirm that US drones already do this in the countries our oligarchs don't like.

"In addition to the GILGAMESH system used by JSOC, the CIA uses a similar NSA platform known as SHENANIGANS. The operation – previously undisclosed – utilizes a pod on aircraft that vacuums up massive amounts of data from any wireless routers, computers, smart phones or other electronic devices that are within range." - http://privacysos.org/node/1323
Nice overall layout. The only thing I would change is the email address text box. I could not find where to fill in my email until I clicked around and discovered that the email address name tag itself is the input box. Maybe append a blinking cursor to it so users know where to input the address.
http://tempoautomation.com/ is working on a solution for the pick and place part. Maybe they know of solutions to the other parts.
Group Ride To Woodstock, West Virginia
You mean nitrous.io?
I think it needs to be a mix of user submitted entries (company name which implemented the idea) and automated tracking there after.
Chrome dev tools make testing RESTful backends with curl very easy: right-click on a request in network panel and choose "Copy as curl". Priceless little gem.
I actually like the payment system. Built-in monetization and no worries about how the project could be sustained.

If it went to the friend, it'd create a perverse incentive for your friend to not actively encourage/support you. Sure, most friends won't consciously respond to this incentive, but I think subconsciously they'll care less.

If it went to a charity, I wouldn't really feel bad about losing it. It'd significantly decrease the threshold of pain and thus decrease the incentive.

Since it goes to the "greedy" owner, I feel all the more pressure to get it done.
Thanks for saying so! That's exactly what we are hoping to achieve.
I wasn't thinking of spending that much :)
Related to this, a cost estimator for adding a cc: to an email. Some people might think twice if they knew what their mail really cost the company.
Lua, LuaJIT provide the same sort of kick, in my opinion. The language supports easy integration with pretty much any syslib, and well .. its a fine way of doing a lot of things. Anyway, its my '21st Century' Delphi, anyway .. haven't written much Delphi code since the late 90's, but I'm sure glad its still around and kicking.
CλaSH – CAES Language for Synchronous Hardware
>The point is that building the user experience of a video client is not trivial.

No, but "Sony" have done it before and it's been fine. PS3. (I've not tried the PS4's media player.)

>I can't even blame Sony, really -- a non-software company

Sony Vegas? ACID? Sound Forge? Sony is not short of software production, "Sony Creative Software" makes a few software products most people here would have heard of. Not to mention SCE, they've made quite a bit of software and no-doubt have some UI engineers.
Right, and it surprises me that nobody's ordered Github to take them down, since they presumably ordered the project developers to stop.
Holy carp on a stick, that was so easy. You've made my day today.

BTW, here is how I make files download with the filename that I want: https://github.com/capnmidnight/JWD/blob/master/html5/deskto...

The call to the "a" function on line 8 is just generating an HTML anchor tag. You should be able to figure it out from there.
Love it. The idea has been tried before, but I've never seen an incarnation this simple. I like that there's no requirement to create an account (for either me or my friend) and the UI feels perfectly sized for the complexity of the task.

Plus, it works. I'd been meaning to clean my desk for weeks, but after assigning $50 to getting it done today I finally did it.
I was playing with the color for the email field placeholder but settled with white (though some washed color would indicate that it is a placeholder text). Blinking cursor is nice idea, will try that locally.
Perhaps. But solving one evil with a greater evil can't be a valid solution.
I'm working on a project called Pointers (ptrs.io) that is exactly this.
The Footage of SpaceX's First Falcon 9 Reusable Flight Test is Gorgeous
You can enable vsync at the foss driver level by doing the inverse of this:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Turn_vsync_off

if your dri default had it off.
You still can't hit 100% of Earth at once. Co-60 has longer half-time but you still need to distribute it to everywhere and that is very difficult.
I guess this explains why my Fios TV app isn't working.
This pays off for them too. NTP DoS reflection attack this year didn't work on OpenNTPD which had removed test commands and extensions that were used by attackers. The BGP hijacking going on last year sending traffic to Belarus didn't work on OpenBGPD http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/repeated-attacks-hij...
A knowledge assimilator: it crawls the web and other knowledge sources and summarizes facts about any topic. The system is thus able to auto-generate a wikipedia-like page for the topic.

If employed in an corporate/enterprise environment, it reads all the documentation and then someone can ask it questions like: "What does the SDP 5.1 do?", "What is the capacity of an SDP 5.1?", "Can I connect an SDP to an SCP" etc.
Same, I didn't see the form at first.
I got a bit of cognitive dissonance here. But I guess it connects, in a way.

>> Under Stalin the USSR's economy was doing great. Khrushchev made a lot of changes, and problems began cropping up

OK, this was in the middle of the great depression in USA/Europe -- while Soviet had tens of millions of dead/prisoners (hunger, political executions, camps, etc) in the 1930s.

So I can believe there was a lack of workers and lots of jobs in Soviet... :-)

And since many of the new immigrants (some from Sweden) were executed and put in camps, the lack of workers would continue...

From a strict economic perspective, if not humanitarian, I guess that could be called "great"? In a similar way that the Nazi Germany had "great" revenues from stealing murdered/fleeing jews' belongings.

(The discussion of markets and valuation I leave for economists, they've been discussing that a long time. I tend to think the capitalist method is less bad than the alternatives I've ever heard of, even despite the bubbles ever two decades.)
Some of that is true, but making a huge company like Google a tiny bit better adds quite a lot to the world. There is a reason why they pay better than startups...
This Incredible Animation Was Made By Code That Could Fit on a Floppy
I wish people would think of the shell as just another form of UI that happens to run on text rather than graphical widgets.
“Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team
And now thank you Twitter. We have just lost our information stream. Our "legal goverment" is so corrupt that nobody cares legal documents, do not process prosecutions but you idiots bow to Turkish government.

Again thank you. Because I respect the HN community I won't swear here.

But feel what I am denying myself to say.
I have some sense of the linear algebra implicated in machine learning (I lived for many years with a comp. neuroscience PhD), but I have no visibility into graphics. So with my ignorance pinned to my lapel: the linear algebra involved in computer graphics is pretty simple, right? Just knowing how to manipulate vectors and matrices? Not a lot of eigenvalues, or for that matter orthogonalization?

I'm asking not to rebut but because I hope to prompt the sort of "sell us on linear algebra" statement that will make me study harder. :)
holy fuck, I am working in power plant.. what should i do? this is insane! Fly ash, bottom ash, coal ash every thing is here.
I'm on a side project right now that involves indexing recipes by ingredients and the like, making an api could make the jump to substitutions and other meta-like mods.
We could spend all day talking about the morality, possible government uses, and legality of all this, but I would personally just like to take a moment to appreciate how fucking cool this thing is.
Ordering prototype (3d printing, CNC machining, lasercutting) parts, reimagined.
It's a major pain just to get a few parts made- first you find a company that does that, e-mail them their design, they get back to you with a quote and you either accept it or go back to step 1.

What if you could just upload your design, select a material from catalogue and receive an instant quote. If you're happy with it, order the parts and then either pick them up in person or have them delivered.
I did the upgrade but I noticed no difference whatsoever to the 13.x that I had been using before.

I actually wasn't hoping for any changes other than being able to run 'skype' again (I broke the 32 bit libraries that skype 'needs').

Had it not been for skype working again and a small change in how the folders are rendered in the 'save file' dialog box, I don't think I would have guessed that my OS had been upgraded.

Maybe that is the future of upgrades - no perceptible difference whatsoever.
Were you on mobile or desktop browser? On my android phone submit button just goes into another row below input, maybe some other phone renders it differently. Maybe I need to change the form completely on phones.
I think overall it probably depends on how one defines havoc, who is behind such and where it takes place (some village in ﻿﻿pashtunistan or some university campus). After all, the same action being described in a another context could be called "peacekeeping" and be accepted as such by vast swaths of a population.
The reason why this doesn't exist, and can't exist at the scale of imgur is because of piracy.
ITAR applies to certain accessories as well (optics, some suppressors, and I believe certain muzzle brakes). That's only an issue for export, though.

(and the "lower receiver" vs. "receiver" part is only for the AR-15 or rifles of similar design; lots of rifles have a single receiver, and for handguns it generally means the frame -- it's in reality a circular definition, with the receiver being the serialized part which is serialized because it's the receiver...)

It's really interesting with firearms like the Sig P250, where the interchangeable piece is on the "fire control group" and the rest of the firearm is totally interchangeable -- this is specifically because German regulations restrict people to owning two handguns, and this lets you have one firearm in multiple calibers, sizes, etc.

(Amazon's policy is even weirder..."anything in the firing path" is prohibited, but a lot of other accessories are commonly sold, and the policy isn't really uniformly enforced at that.)

Plus, in some countries they restrict airsoft and pellet guns (like this one) based on muzzle energy (or sometimes velocity). 3-6 J is a common limit.
I won't give a subjective view, just concrete points.

1. The CTA is to enter an email but then the user is invited to click a register button. Which is it?

I would recommend simply having an input box (not a button). You knock one up for free with Mailchimp and embed it.

EDIT : Just seen that a box exists to enter a text string but it a) Serves no purpose and b) has nothing to identify it such as a cursor or colour

2. Free Trial/Reach More People is H6.

This needs to be H1 or H2 at the least and ideally boxed with text/colour differentiation.

3. Light grey copy text is not ideal.

Increase the weight/darkness of the text to increase legibility

4. Main value prop is long-winded

The text underneath Social Sharing should be bullet-pointed and immediately clear. I read to the fold and it was still no clear exactly what you offer. Do you manage accounts? Do you provide content? Engage with users on my behalf?

5. Slogan is poorly written

"Be above others". << Are you telling me that right now I am below others? As an encapsulation I don't love it - it is opaque and appears poorly written.

Edit: Just thought of "Elevate your Engagement". Just an example of a slogan using alliteration and a clear prop.

6. Sharing is inverted

You have a grossly disproportionate size of sharing buttons compared to the impact statement. Boxes are tiny but the statement is massive.

I hope this helps. Typed for brevity so please excuse if it sounds harsh.
Not sure what we'd be comparing this to. I guess the way you'd do the same thing in Windows, if you had to, would be to use regedit, which I think is super cryptic. The terminal is only cryptic to those unfamiliar with it. The more you use it the more you wonder how you ever lived without it.
I work for a company that targets dentists. I am always thinking if we could run a direct mail campaign with 3 or 4 other companies targeting the same audience we can reduce our cost by more than 1/3 and we can offer awesome packages to clients.

The same is true for paid search, facebook, etc...
A tragic event of posting a job on oDesk
In Brazil this is offered by insurance companies (it's called home insurance) for a long time.

Besides covering stuff like fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, theft, etc. they give you free home services like the ones you mentioned (hanging pictures, changing lightbulbs) and offer "emergency" services like locksmith, electrician and glazier.

It's way cheaper than your 500-1k range.

Here's one of the companies that do this:
https://www.itau.com.br/seguros/residencial/
Remind anyone else of the smart rifle in Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction
In addition to the habit-forming age (if cigarette users are aged 16-60, rational advertising would target 16, not 60), a point is that you don't show your target audience as they are, but you show your target audience as they wish to be.

If you target average 65 year old women, then you show gray-haired above-average-health 55-year women.

If you target average 45 year old men, then you show slim (but not too slim) fit (but not too fit) 38 year old men - that might plausibly be average 45 year old men, but are very much skewed towards the idealized goal.

If you target very overweight people, then you show people that are visibly overweight, but particularly good looking for that weight.

That's what works best, that's how homo sapiens are most receptive to be influenced.
Airbnb and the New York Attorney General
In a famous article, Joel Spolsky wrote about Linux and Windows in terms of cultures around, spefically, a culture of programmers vs. end users.

Withing the context of Linux so, it's perfectly adequate to sprinkle some technicisms.

The thing is, Linux has advanced a lot in the last decade, and it's even perfectly usable by the hmm "less receptive" users, so to see "cryptic terminal commands" is a good thing, because it shows that Linux has managed to be (so to speak) the best of both worlds, that is, the world of the casual users and the world of the advanced ones.
What resources does a highly migratory hunter-gatherer band actually have to take? The whole point is there is no surplus production. Also, how exactly would one band of hunter gatherers continually oppress another band of hunter gatherers over a period of time? It's not really possible, for a variety of reasons.

How is communism like how people lived 10,000+ years ago? Communism is how all people lived 10,000+ years ago.
Richard Feynman Didn’t Win a Nobel by Responding Promptly to E-mails
I've seen this as a payload for military UAVs (Hunter); it's a 700kg aircraft, though.

I don't think you could put the right electronics on a small quadcopter, but the gas powered quadcopters are perfectly capable -- anything which can carry a DSLR.

The nice thing about antennas is they're super directional (if desired), so really all you need is altitude, not necessarily maneuverability -- a tethered balloon or just being on top of a building would work fine. For SIGINT, you probably want longer loiter times than a small UAV will give you; a small UAV with wifi/cell would mainly be for tracking a moving target, or killing a target which happens to be radiating on a specific frequency (i.e. find/kill a certain cellphone).

In general the military cares more about cellular signals than wifi, at least so far.
Alternatively, the video alone is available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjWqQPWmsY
Navy OKs changes for submariners' sleep schedules
Laravel cookie forgery, decryption, and RCE
Glad to hear that! We'd love to get your feedback -- you can contact us at feedback@metacademy.org.
The dose you receive is very likely negligible compared to your other routine activities.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/
I would take #1 (housing, food, healthcare), add education and prioritize the efforts for children first.

I also believe that #3 (Strong A.I.) probably provides the best leverage for achieving #1 and #2.
Did you just read this on the Guardian too?