skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put some money behind it! Maybe you're right..

"Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent." comes to mind ...I was right two years ago but Google continues to surprise me with their audacity and ability to suffer no penalties by users and governments.

But eventually everything will be ads and someone might notice ;)
But for every socket, the webservice will open 1 thread?
For Rails apps I use Peek: https://github.com/peek/peek
Relevant and useful is a nice buzzword. People will also want unbiased and cheapest.
You can also build your own Remote Desktop if you wanted, since DesktopCapture [1] was released for extensions in Chrome 34 Stable last week.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/desktopCapture
For me it definitely varies by season. I don't use an alarm clock and I go to bed roughly at the same time every day (+- an hour at the very most). In summer I wake up around six, in winter I sleep until nearly eight.
The only other plausible explanation I can think of, is that some Tor exit nodes are running on high-end machines without their owners' consent or knowledge.
Can you explain how this is better than - for example - Google Drive with their 1TB for $10?
I use mini-profiler from the guys @ Stackoverlow
>we don't have a way to let you encrypt your data

Fair enough. But you should probably reach out to Lifehacker with a correction to their article. While you guys might not be responsible for what they write, that post is basically an advertisement for your service. Any customer who make a purchase assuming the service is as described by Lifehacker will end up disappointed.
do they quantify the joint too in terms of weight?
Oh right!

Thank you for the clarification, it might be worth re-wording it slightly on your site? (or maybe I'm just blind!)
Will this work with Rsync and allow me to automatically copy the contents of my seedbox (Linux) so I can stream it? My seedbox only downloads free indie movies...
Wouldn't it be trivial to code up a Twilio-powered bot to defeat the SMS verification?
Ah poor Marc, he only deals in real numbers. Wall Street is what it is but generally you can tell them don't expect much growth in the next 4-5 years and they'll adjust their expectations and share price. Coca Cola has a very different PE from Amazon and Google for example.
The instant I see the word "Unlimited" - I don't even bother to investigate further, as the project is either (A) Lying, (B) Unsustainable, (C) Rate limiting or otherwise bottlenecking you so you can't really use the service effectively.

I've seen dozens (maybe more) references to the "Unlimited" service, and with only a few exceptions, they always fall into one of those categories.

I'm wondering when other people come around to my perspective, such that companies just put what those limits are, or clarify what the bottlenecks are.

I.E. Flickr doesn't say, "Unlimited Photos" for free, they say one Terabyte. One Terabyte of photos is much, much more interesting to me than "unlimited". And, when it does say "Unlimited Uploads" - it notes that you are limited to 200 MByte/photo.
Palo Alto. I use nothing but Instacart.
Congratulations to Zumper. Hopefully your revenue growth is going to continue steady.

I estimate you folks probably have on the order of 200k~ users and 10k~ brokers on the platform judging by the numbers of the raise~
I've been working on a less-JS heavy declarative client-side library called intercooler: uses partials, REST-ful url conventions and declarative HTML5-style attributes to drive AJAX-based apps:

http://intercoolerjs.org

Hoping to get some video tutorials up in the next day or two.
Ask HN: F*ck HostGator. Can anyone suggest a better managed VPS alternative?
I'm sick of HostGator's constant outages, including today's. Can anyone recommend a solid managed VPS service not related to BlueHost/HostGator?

I'm currently paying $51.95/mo for the following and would like to stay in the same price range for similar specs:

2.3Ghz (1 core)
1024MB RAM
60GB Disk Space
1000 GB Bandwidth

I'd gratefully appreciate any input.
And you're still making an attribution error.

YC can't unambiguously tell whether or not a particular rejected candidate should have been in the top 50 or not, at least not for a significant number of those rejects.

My point remains: quality or success cannot be foretold in advance. Particularly when much of that success depends on passing prior selection phases.

In evolutionary biology, as a comparative example, there's no question that luck plays a role in evolution. Your ancestors had the bad luck to live in an asteroid strike zone, on a tidal-wave flood plain, or within the affected region of an ancient pandemic? Pity, you're not here now. So the influence on survival exists.

The relevant part to evolution though is that luck is not an inheritable trait. It cannot be selected for. It's part of the random noise.

Similar logic holds true for YC prospects: some are successful, some are not. Passing the bar itself comprises in significant part a random "lucky" event. Yes, that can be influenced, but you cannot eliminate the error.
My ex often slept only a few hours a night and my oldest son was born with sleep issues. I also had to do a lot to recover from being very ill and on a lot of medication, which completely screwed up my brain chemistry and sleep cycle.

Some things that might help you a bit:

1) Take your vitamins.

2) Instead of melatonin at night, take co-q-10 in the morning (about 12 to 14 hours before you typically sleep or need to sleep). This is the co-enzyme for melatonin. It chemically wakes up your brain and will also cause a small spike of melatonin about 12 to 14 hours later (stuff I have read says 12 hours but for me 14 hours worked better). Taking melatonin will not cause a spike in co-q-10 production. When my brain chemistry was seriously screwed, it took me days to stop feeling half asleep if I took melatonin. Co-q-10 was a gentler, more comprehensive means to heal my chemical sleeping-waking cycle.

3) Clean up your sleep area. I have suggested this to multiple people and they are often shocked at how much good it does. Do "spring cleaning" type stuff for where you sleep -- wash all bedding, thoroughly dust, etc.
Does the de-duplication aspect of it have any impact on DMCA/copyright issues?

For example, lets say somebody from HBO downloads Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay and then uploads it to Streem. We could assume that many other people on Streem also have that same copy of the episode uploaded. HBO then issues a DMCA takedown (could they?), would Streem delete the file for everybody? And does Streem then have to prevent anybody from re-uploading it?
The .net world has http://miniprofiler.com/ and http://getglimpse.com/ which work really well.

They will also show you the sql (useful when it is generated by an orm) and breakdown each queries time cost.
The odd thing with a question like that is how "most dangerous" is determined. Logically the volcano is the most unsafe environment, and people do die on them, but statistically far more dangerous, at least by death count, is the bed.

This is the kind of problem that would still cause issues for some people, especially if you had to scale them to produce identical captcha's relatively rarely (if the same one shows up too many times it can easily be hard-coded, requiring the most basic detection to solve it reliably) in that as you come up with more of these types of questions the expected answer gets rapidly more nuanced.
Fired Yahoo exec gets $58M for 15 months of work
How strongly do you feel about it being managed? What are you hosting?
We had a few developers who lacked the patience to deal with slower customers, or weren't really good at explaining things clearly to them.

Here's where we see "culture fit" is arbitrary.
Requiring SMS or email creates problems for users that wish to remain anonymous. SMS is essentially not an option and the number of free email providers that accept registrations sans-SMS via tor continues to shrink.
I imagine the 200mb limit per-file is to prevent their api/web servers from blowing up.
Show HN: My friend Vinnie has Leukemia, lets help him
Vinnie is an old friend of mine and a very happy + hardworking guy. I just finished visiting in the hospital, he's roughly half way through his first chemotherapy treatment and BCBS of IL is already giving him the run around about what they will and won't pay for. As a fellow survivor I remember my parents fighting with insurance companies tooth and nail to get them to cover their obligations.
Yes, with Kevlar -- to L2 or L1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator
How is this different/better than streamnation.com?
Ehh, maybe someone wants to hire the kid.
StackOverflow Meta split
And what about lossless image formats like .tiff or .bmp? These allow you to basically store any data in an image, and although the photo looks just like noise it's a completely valid image file with minimal overhead.

I do know some people that use that for backups on picasa and flickr, which have unlimited storage and 1TB respectively.
I think this conflates poorly designed studies and preliminary or hypothesis-generating studies. If not for uncontrolled proof-of-concept studies, or pseudorandomized designs such as those used for post marketing studies, we would a) not have any new medications and b) rarely learn about unanticipated toxicities. It turns out that us clinical trial folks are more Bayesian than the cult of p<0.05 would lead you to believe.

At one end of the spectrum, we rely heavily on uncontrolled single- or multiple-ascending dose studies to prove to ourselves that a treatment is likely to be safe in next-step studies, and to guess at optimal dose. At the other, we learn a great deal from post marketing surveillance about unanticipated toxicities - because our priors based on big phase 3 studies may still be insufficient to accurately estimate risk. Neither of these designs are randomized or placebo-controlled - and in neither case is it an indication that 'something is wrong', even though an RCT would be better in both contexts. Better, if cost were no object and patient safety were not a concern.

I realize my fellow Brunonian does include some offhand caveats - but it worries me to read comments about how this negates most social science research.
The Color of Fear [video]
My tip is to watch the queries "live". Just enable "general query log", and "tail -f" the log file
That's essentially the defining characteristic of a "syndrome". It is predicated on the condition or symptoms and not on the underlying cause, which isn't always known. As knowledge grows, more specific diseases can be removed from the classification.
Yahoo Nominates One Of Its Co-Founders, David Filo, To Its Board
Great article. Love to hear how other devs run their linter of choice during their workflow.
Growth Hacker for Your Startup
That's neat, but when you've already optimized your password reset as well as you possibly can, now you're just throwing time and money out the window because of a dumb company policy and probably pissing off your most talented developers too.

Some customers are just incredibly stupid. That's who Tier 1 support is precisely for: the kind of people who would suffocate in a wet paper bag. I walked into my manager's office one day and said enough. I developed 10 products used by over 250k users and I was the only developer at the company. Never again was I going to reset another password. I followed best practices and made it as easy as possible. Any further difficulty on the part of a user was not my problem.
- Native desktop filesystem integration. We don't make you go to a website to access your content; everything is accessible as a regular file in Explorer/Finder and opens/plays in your native player (i.e. VLC).

- Instant adaptive bitrate transcoding. Videos you upload to Streem play instantly on any device, regardless of bandwidth (slow connections automatically get a lower quality; if your connection gets better, we auto-upgrade to a higher quality). Streamnation has a large wait time before the video is transcoded and ready for playback.

- Streamnation has illegal features built in to their app (i.e. auto-scraping and uploading YouTube videos), which makes them much more liable for shutdown.
Obelisk.js in Node
That's one way to design it.
Nice layout. I'm tempted to use this same layout but for something different. Something that involves many elements like programming (programming languages).
This looks like a much worse deal than OVH's new service Hubic. At 10 Euro a month ($13.80), they offer 10 TB (an essentially unlimited amount of space) with no restrictions on file size or file type. You can actually encrypt your files before uploading (which you should be doing) and host whatever you want.
If they offer a video/audio streaming service, what happens if I upload an mp4 of a copyrighted movie, even if I own it? Do they check files to see if they are copyrighted? If they do, will files be deleted automatically or will notice be given?
David Nelson of FedEx on how he first heard of FIRST
Speaking of everything you own, I love Paul Graham's post on the topic:
http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Since there's no way to globally "publish" a file, I don't see how DMCA takedowns could work.
Out of curiosity, what pieces do you believe are missing from your dream of front-end development work? You can already get a WebGL context from languages like C or C++ (compiled to asm.js), which should provide all the necessary building blocks to largely duplicate the front-end development toolkits that you find in native environments.

I mean you're still hinging on some incarnation of Javascript to act as the virtual machine, and you need HTML to setup the basic environment, but those seems like minor implementation details. Nothing that should impact your creativity in any major way. But perhaps I'm just not thinking big enough?
With particular reference to database queries, if you're using .NET with SQL Server you're better off keeping the SQL Server Profiler open on one monitor with:

* Showplan XML (Statistics Profile)

* SP:StmtCompleted

* SQL:StmtCompleted

(I think there's an RPC:StmtCompleted that's useful in some circumstances but I don't use it.)

Personally I pay more attention to the execution plans [1] than execution times, unless you have lots of data (indicative of what's on your production database) in your development database all your queries will complete quickly (table scans, nested loop joins and all).

You also see the N+1 problem very quickly when you're presented with a wall of trace results.

This isn't a silver bullet, but it's been a very long time since I've let any significantly suboptimal query get to production.

[1] Some difficulty arises with small development databases, because SQL Server will frequently scan a clustered index instead of a non-clustered index + clustered seek/key lookup because it's quicker to do the one thing. In this case you have to understand that the query is not bad and treating the clustered index scan as "bad" is not correct.
Documentary and discussion on the life and legacy of Aaron Swartz  the roxie sf
Hi all -

My name is Jack Rice and I'm here [as an intern] representing the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. We're going to be screening a documentary about the life and legacy of Aaron Swartz, titled "The Internet's Own Boy" in six-eight weeks. We are looking to put together a panel to follow the screening with a discussion about Aaron Swartz and the free flow of information on the web. I'd be interested to know who might be best to approach about this/ if any of you might like to contribute to the conversation (either in person or via Skype.) Suggestions on important threads to consider in the discussion would also be appreciated.

Thank you so much!

Jack
This is an area I think IntelliJ really shines. The built in JSHint/JSLint makes developing and finding problems a lot better. It is still a dynamic language at the end of the day, but it makes itmore bearable.
What do you think of Yahoo's traffic acquisition and the fact that they like to state their financial figures excluding them?
maybe these guys? http://www.unixy.net/vps-hosting/
I have a library of media that is in the multiple terabyte range, and growing. The cloud storage services I've investigated have been wholly inadequate, or too expensive. For me, this one seems like the sweet spot, especially if I can get that early-user discount.
Which you can get with far better platforms and languages that compile to JS.

And a lot of the use cases aren't sharing code or even have a client/server setup. Like crappy non-parallel build systems being written from scratch using Nodejs.

This thread's been a bit illuminating. I guess I'm not missing anything technical. Some people like JS I guess and Node exists so why not use it.
Is anyone in this area looking at balanced block designs? There's a rich area of math concerned with placing elements in sets subject to various constraints (e.g. minimizing cardinality of intersections). It's been a long time since I looked at that stuff, but I don't remember how easy it is to produce solutions for arbitrary N, which you would want to be able to increase as demand increases.
Before people get too excited, this decision is subject to appeal by the Crown.
Is it possible that the highly affluent individual Trov seems to target would be too busy being highly affluent to use Trov? I don't mean to sound glib or naysay -- I just mean that that someone who's reached that level of wealth tends to have already delegated many of the functions Trov seems to offer via accountants and assistants. I suppose Trov's argument might be that Trov could disrupt/replace those delegates -- but I'm not quite seeing it. Just trying to puzzle this one out.
Perhaps they are doing some sort cap/peak on the inode count? Which IMO is not so bad, unless you need to store a lot of small files.
And they enter the intestine at both ends.
Soylent gets tested, scores a wholesome nutritional label
I think the only thing that will ultimately save us from this is to strengthen our contracts with our ISPs.

Anyone want to make some mass commitment to get Bell to add a clause prohibiting their participation in this? (whether or not this particular bill goes through) Perhaps we could all threaten to switch ISPs, or reduce our grade of service to one which gives them lower margins.
Yes, it's definitely causing me discomfort to look at them. I see the blurred area, and try and fail to focus on it. 3D effects really don't translate well to a 2D display. I get what they're going for, but I'm personally not a fan of the effect. I'd rather have the nuanced little details in the background, in case one day I want to see that too. The effect is lovely for extreme close-up pictures (of insects, flowers, water drops, ...), though.

I like the idea of storing the depth information (and preferred focal point) inside the image, and allowing the viewer to decide whether they want depth of focus effects, and if so, how strongly they want them enabled.
I'd have to check again, but I looked for specific versions of a JS file and found it repeated multiple times throughout the forest of node_modules.

If side-by-side is desired, then just suffix the folder with a version name. foo.js-1.1 and foo.js-1.0 can be in the root and reused by every package that needs either.

Maybe it does that and I didn't understand what I was looking at.
I want to know this as well. Google Drive also will stream your media, and allows files of any filetype for general storage. Also, easy sharing with anyone anyone on the web (even people who don't have a Google account).
I'm guessing there are expenses related to verifying someone's identity.
Security groups: yes. Why no stunnel on top?
The Benefits of Becoming a Technical Project Manager
> strong barriers (stomach acid, small intestine)

Just read this fun little page, and you'll re-think your stance on "strong barriers":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysentery
IMO, Crashplan's service is terrible. On a university network I was never able to max out my upload. With BackBlaze I was able to max it out. Crashplan's built on Java, which is the reason for the RAM usage, while BackBlaze is native to OS X and Windows.
Huh, so I could build a competitor to twitch.tv and host all the media for the website on your servers. Keep the small static html, css, js, swf, etc. files on some other cloud provider.

You'd charge me only $20/month for media storage+streaming and I'll probably only be charged perhaps $30/month from a cloud provider. $20/month for the server just being on and maybe another $10 for the bandwidth of the static files(which would be mostly cached client side after the first couple of heavy usage months).

Maybe another $10 or $20 for the CPU time to make a couple of url-routing decisions server-side; have to maintain my own database of users too.

Probably still much cheaper than whatever twitch.tv currently has to pay.
Google just invented super human eyesight
This almost seems too good to be true. Can you stream .MKV files too? Looks like there's no iOS or native apps yet. I guess we just use our browser and stream directly?
Sigh.

Why does every landmark case involving online privacy have to involve incompetent, unsavory, or sometimes even downright despicable people (e.g. child pornographers) on the defense side?

In order to force the legal system to take a serious look at the core issues (whether the Feds can compel a company to produce its SSL private keys, whether they can compel a man to produce the password to his TrueCrypt drive, etc.) instead of getting distracted by all sorts of procedural bullshit, the case needs to have a competent defendant and even more competent counsel who make no serious mistakes throughout the course of the trial. That's the only way we're going to get a clear, decisive precedent, because otherwise the procedural blunders will dominate the legal result.

Levison's failure to contact the EFF or ACLU the moment he received the first pen/trap order has led us all to waste a lot of time and resources litigating mostly peripheral issues, and probably caused a lot more hardship for Levison himself than he ever needed to get into. Meanwhile, we still don't have a clear idea of what the U.S. legal system thinks about forcing the disclosure of SSL private keys.

Of course, hindsight is 20/20, so maybe there are adequate explanations for why he thought it was a good idea to wave a middle finger in the face of the DOJ.

But in the grand scheme of things in the battle for internet freedom, I think we just missed a golden opportunity to get the courts to tackle some serious constitutional issues. Just like in all those other contempt cases where TrueCrypt drive in question obvious contained CP, or all those other surveillance cases where the defendant was a heavy uploader. Assholes, pirates, and child pornographers have rights, of course, but they usually don't make effective crusaders.
The title of the HN post is misleading (probably due to the 80-character limit). The bug only affects Windows XP systems running Microsoft Security Essentials.
CakePHP has the DebugKit Toolbar[1] which I've ported internally to our symfony application at work (it's quite a bit better than the symfony debugbar).

Example from google: http://blog.japanesetesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/d...

[1] https://github.com/cakephp/debug_kit/
Done! https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/releases/tag/v0.5
When does it become "long term investment" and not "speculation"?

I think your argument is thin here, too.
I think the most important part of this is in the comment - there is interest in graphs that go from lower left to upper right.

No graph, no traction, little future.