skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking, one should find some mortally ill people in whose name one sets up the repository and website (or just a straight site where you can download all the movies). In exchange one secretly pays their family enough in cash or bitcoin that they don't ever have to worry about money again.

If I were filthy rich and had more criminal intentions, I would totally do that ;-)
I built a prototype too: thingsy.co

It finds all the pictures on Instagram with the hashtag #forsale, post them on Craigslist, and contact the seller through Instagram when a buyer emails the Craigslist contact info.

Craigslist killed it.
Possibly I am using a jargon term that you aren't familiar with - assistive devices have a special meaning in this kind of context. They are designed and marketed to give renewed function or rehabilitation to someone with some impairment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology).

I'm making generalisations that may extend beyond this particular device for this particular user because its an entire field that isn't well serving its users at the present time. Implementation far lags technology because business and operations models don't exist to promote the development of these technologies. The kind of approach article is suggesting is promising, but not a complete solution.

The reason why regulation is needed is that the people making/designing/marketing the device have by doing so made an appeal that they are an expert.

Often, failure of these devices have far higher consequences than failure of typical consumer devices (maybe ice axes and crampons are also in this category!). Its the same reason why doctors need to be licensed to practice, whether it be for open heart surgery or to diagnose someone with a runny nose.

Probably assistive devices (and medical technologies in general) are over-regulated now, but that doesn't mean the solution is no regulation.
It looks like the powder is made by a physical process. Just as water absorbs into a towel. Ethanol apparently absorbs into dextrin powder and stays as a dry solid.

From the patent:

EXAMPLE II A 150 g. amount of the bulked 5 DE. MOR-REX dextrin of Example I was blended with 250 g. of 90% by weight water) ethanol in a Hobart mixer at speed No. 2 with a wire whisk for 2 minutes. A dry-tothe-touch free flowing powder was obtained that contained 56.2% ethanol and 8.3% moisture. The bulked ethanol containing flowable powder was packaged in air-tight foil envelopes and after 6 months storage had retained its flowability characteristics and its original alcohol content.

EXAMPLE III A teaspoonful (3 g.) of the product of Example II, when added to 10 ml. of water produced a clear, sparkling low-viscosity alcoholic solution with a nonsweet strong alcohol taste.
Reminds me of The Game movie [1]. Try not to read any spoilers if you haven't seen it yet.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/
If you want to compile static Linux binaries, Musl libc is your best bet. http://www.musl-libc.org/ - works with most things, and it is small. It has Mips and Arm support.
Fortunately, the accelerator that I've applied for provides both, a F6S backed application process, and their own.

The co-founder quandary is due to repeated past experiences of having my work being overly-criticised, so lack faith in my myself. Although, I'm now trying to overcome those hurdles I've set myself.
I'm originally from Missouri (wife as well), Mom's from Wisconson, Dad's from Boston, currently living in the Seattle area. Nope, never even saw one until I was in my low to mid 30s. We used stove top kettles.

However, dorm rooms often do allow them (heats up water for ramen), but it isn't universal, and I'm imagining most kids are like "WTF is this," looks it up and learns about it for the firs time.
Samsung seems to understand that TVs get upgraded at a slower rate than the TV's smarts evolve and that software updates can only get you so far. They have started to ship something named the Evolution Kit. For around $200 it allows the user to unscrew the CPU module from their existing TV and install a more modern CPU/software combo.

https://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs-accessories/SEK-1000/ZA
Applying based on idea, though I have a prototype that's on its way to becoming a fully-working MVP.
Yes! Well said.

It would definitely need to include:

* Web code editor for jobs (JS, Python, Ruby, Perl, Go, etc., etc.)

* Results served over an authenticated API (e.g., servicename.com/api/<username>/<jobname>/files/result.csv would get you the latest result.csv file generated by your script, .../<jobname>/20140419/files/result.csv would get you yesterday's, etc.)

* Jobs could probably be both scheduled (i.e., cron-like) or triggered via a webhook
It's telling when some of the most challenging interviews are done by Jon Stewart, the host of a comedy show.

Sort of embarrassing: http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1761108
To be fair I own several & most of my friends do as well.

The first time I realized that every home didn't own an automatic drip coffee pot, I was also aghast.
A Bulb That Glows Using Gravity
I love this because bootstrapping the concept is far simpler than an infrastructure build out, this is a super-service which can start out by sub-contracting all the individual services.

I am game, when do we start!

update: Some further thoughts on cost.

Looking at what I pay for my home (some of these I use, some I have had quoted; I also factored a monthly cost out of some of these which are quarterly). My home is upper-middle class in the midwest, about 5K square feet on 1/2 acre.

Lawn mowing: $150/mo
Lawn treatment: $40/mo
Pest control: $35/mo
HVAC maintenance: $30/mo
House cleaning: $300/mo
General maintenance: $100/mo

I would certainly pay a premium for a single end point for managing these services but that last one is the stickler. Some people will never call but you will have those who want a maintenance person for every creaking floorboard, dripping faucet and other little nuance of the home.

I think the idea has lots of merit, would love to know what others think.
Well, his argument is also that the attacker can easily circumvent it, which is true, but it is still makes it slightly harder to do, because the attacker needs to remember it.
You also basically described the movie The Game (with Michael Douglas). If you haven't seen it I suggest you check it out.

I always thought this was a cool idea. I'd imagine this couldn't effectively be done for less than a couple hundred thousand considering the number of people who would have to be working on this full time.
Sounds like you really want a part time personal assistant?
https://www.webscript.io gets pretty close.
- number theory underpinning almost all modern cryptography

- NFA/DFA underpinning regular expressions ( well practical regular exp are not in fact regular, but anyway)
From WP:

In 2002, the DjVu file format was chosen by the Internet Archive as a format in which its Million Book Project provides scanned public domain books online (along with TIFF and PDF).[8]

Fair enough but the main usage of my ePub files is reading them on an e-ink device. DjVu isn't an alternative to ePub then.
Oh I know, and I wasn't implying otherwise. (It struck me as a big misunderstanding, though I don't know all the details.) My point is, he's not banned and he's welcome. The comment upthread was at best ambiguous on this, so I felt obliged to say something.
Basically Yelp for transgender surgeons.

I've been working on making the decision as to who I'll get to sculpt new genitals for me, and researching this on the web is a mess - every site comparing them is out of date, triggers my mental sketchy spam site detectors, or both.

It'd be great to be able to go to a nice-looking site and say "all I'm interested in right now is MtF genital surgery", then see doctors who do that, and crowd-sourced reviews if their work. (Other people may be interested in FtM genital surgery, breast augumentation/removal, orichectomy, you get the idea - various manipulations of genitals and secondary gender cues.)

I think there's probably less than a hundred people who offer these kinds of services in the world, so it's not exactly a huge database to worry about.
Semantic version of Twitter.

Every tweet is RDF.
Hmm, would Atlassian count?
> An object can leave the earth's gravitational pull at ANY speed.

Yes, but as I have already explained without effect, science fiction is not the topic. You need to understand the topic under discussion before replying, not after.

In a discussion like this, it seems someone must always suggest building a beanstalk that reaches to orbital heights. Fine, but not constructive, and not the topic.

> Anyone with even basic knowledge in physics will know that you are wrong.

Please troll somewhere else. The OP asked for practical suggestions given the realities of present-day aerospace engineering, a field in which I am more than qualified. I can also wave my hands in the air, but that doesn't get hardware into space.

-- Former NASA Space Shuttle engineer.
Just wanted to reply - I just signed up and started working with it ... this is the power / analytics of a todo app that I've been wanting, well done! I'll send some feedback through the contact form once I play with it a little more.
It's just your kettle that's bad. An electric kettle made of plastic should not impart any flavour on the water. I have used a bunch, never had a problem (and I consider myself highly sensitive in that regard).
At some point you need to say, "This code is a mess, and pretty much anything we do to it will be an improvement."

I spent a couple hours with the OpenSSL source last week, and agree that a major cleanup is necessary. This means

- Rip out unused stuff
- Rip out stuff that obviously doesn't work
- Make big cleanups

I've done this in the past with token-level tools to ensure that I wasn't breaking things.

OpenSSL desperately needed to have a bunch of garbage removed. It needs good tests, it needs to be slimmed down and made clean so that the code is readable and maintainable.

Frankly I wouldn't trust fixes to the old version anyway, given its state.
Currently, yes. I don't think that excludes the option of someone creating a smart TV that doesn't require an additional device to plug into it though.
MetaData is already built-in to most modern file systems. On OSX (HFS Plus) you have the xattr command, and there are things for ext2, ext3, XFS, ReiserFS...
This is really neat thanks for sharing.
I don't think being well comped Google, Facebook or Twitter (a friend of mine recv'd $640k in RSU's) is settling for mediocrity.

Generally RSU terms are 1 year cliff, 4 year vest, so that's an EV of $250k per-year. More if the stock price increases.

I'd imagine that stock grants come as both performance bonus grants and RSU's, and that they come on an annual-semi annual basis.

But yes, golden handcuffs can lead to institutionalization, though that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Maybe they should just fork it completely, keep only the most used stuff, and call it OpenTLS - the "clean" alternative to OpenSSL. Then push for it to get accepted in server software. It would be kind of like the OpenOffice/LibreOffice situation.

Although if they're going to embark on such an endeavour, maybe it would be best to also rewrite it completely in a memory safe language like Rust (but in a year or two, after Rust becomes more mature).
This sounds very attractive to me as someone who just discovered my lawnmower won't start, a tree died over the winter, and 3 sprinklers are busted. I don't have time currently to deal with it.

Could it operate like Uber in a way? This service would attract a lot of handy/service men looking for work. It definitely would need a review system.
The article gives two reasons for why 'soft-fail' is required: Captive-portals, and OCSP server failure.

To deal with captive portals: have an SSL signed 'subdomain.google.com/you_are_on_the_internet' site/page that Google Chrome can use to check to see if it's captive or not. If it's captive, enable soft-fail. If internet access is available, set to hard-fail.

Websites these days are complex, with many (digital) moving parts - the database server(s), the static image server(s), dynamic response server(s), gateway server, probably a memcache server or something similar. If any one of those goes down, the site is unusable. Why then, should the OCSP server going down be considered any differently? Is a black-hat rented bot-net running a DDoS going to care if it's the main gateway server or the OCSP server?

But let's say we do consider disabled OCSP servers to be a client-side issue. Google could query and cache the OCSP server status, either with OCSP stapling or via some side-channel they build into Google Chrome.

The combination of both would allow hard-fail to be an option in Google Chrome.
Functional Programming is a vast subject.

I've really never needed an abstraction for semigroups, monoids, meet-semi-lattices, monads, comonads, arrows or catamorpisms in Clojure, Common Lisp, Scheme, or Hy.

These concepts become more relevant when I program Haskell, Agda, Isabelle/HOL, or Coq.

I'd say a stronger analogy can be made between reading MacLane's Catagories for the Working Mathematician and reading Hoyte's Let Over Lambda; you really only need to read a little bit of these books to get the core concepts. That being said, depending on what sort of functional programming you're doing, a strong background in category theory or meta-programming can enabling (or not).
You can just put this in the EXIF data block of the image. File explorers like Windows Explorer show this meta data just like any other meta data about the file like file size.
homejoy.com & handybook.com (and others) could head in this direction?

I agree that this is an idea worth pursuing.
This has potential , especially if you do it with the Matrix .
Great movie recommendation, thanks!

As for the full-time-ness? Yeah, totally. I think there's something to be said for big, serious roleplaying games which effectively can take up your entire life for a certain amount of time, and I think a lot of people would do it.

In some scenarios, it could be cheaper to do since you could involve multiple people in the same experience.
> At some point you need to say, "This code is a mess, and pretty much anything we do to it will be an improvement."

In software development it's often the case that the first claim is true, but the second isn't.

> Frankly I wouldn't trust fixes to the old version anyway, given its state.

It will be interesting to see if this get organized and properly funded, given this library's importance to international commerce.

> Frankly I wouldn't trust fixes to the old version anyway, given its state.

Clean slate! An admirable goal, and clearly the best solution. Let's see if this actually happens.
Might make sense to stick with JS to start with for the sake of simplicity.

I actually wrote a Node.js PaaS that I never open sourced & periodic short lived jobs was one of my use-cases.

Let's continue via email.
You are seeing this because they are working in public. Any of us would look like fools if you saw our intermediate work product.
Even a review on Linux can't help but mention some cryptic terminal command.
Most Android devices can be rooted and a VNC server run on them so you can remote in. Some recent VNC server apps run even without root.
The device is by IBM, not IIX. The site below has some better pictures of the device's logo (and some other bits of “IBM” hardware), along with lots of pictures of Kubrick's preference for san-serif fonts:

http://typesetinthefuture.com/2001-a-space-odyssey/
Ask moot: please respond
Hello HN, I come here for your assistance.

I, and with me a few thousand, are 4chan-users. Our administrator, Christopher "moot" Poole, refuses to respond to matters about 4chan on his own website. With little to no prior notice he implements features nobody of his users asked for and refuses to participate in meta disccusions about the quality of his decissions.

He throws unasked features at us, breaks third-party apps and alienates users. Then, completely ignores criticism and user input; he kills off all meta initiatives.

Hopefully HN can help. We know moot actively browses HN and participates in discussions here. When mentioned he responds, yet on his own website he barely stands up.

Hopefully the issues below can be addressed and in the ideal situation, resolved.

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- URL scheme changed with no apparent reason. Why? It leaks meta-data and is therefore a smudge on the anonimity 4chan entails

- Is the new URL scheme better for tracking and/or targeted keyword advertising?

- Why is the 4chan-JS repository on Github not maintained? Instead of third-party applications, developers can contribute to the official 4chan-JS

- Why was "Submit" renamed to "Post"? This button was perfectly fine for years on end - and all of a sudden it changes. Why?

- All the fuss about cookie-less domains yet MORE THAN DOUBLE the raw HTML size with the new responsive design - why?

- If bandwidth is of such concern, supply a fat Javascript-client with AngularJS or something - the APIs are already there

- With a "shoe-string budget", how come 4chan runs for years on end with no problem? Maybe some financial transparancy to silence all the jew-insults?

- Why isn't 4chan open source? Community input can vastly improve it

- Without metioned reason, page 0 is "renamed" to page 1 and maximum page count is increased by one. Other than semantics; why?!

- Why are all meta inputs removed? I.e. /q/
If I had the points, I would downvote this. Titles like this are rude and meaningless. Will not bother reading.
I think I misread your comment, and also that we are probably totally agreed about Maciej. :)
this seem like an interesting idea, but it lacks some "high level structure", or possibly a better search.

For example, I am sure there are general topics for "classification", "recommendation", or "similarity", but I wouldn't know where to start.
It's unclear whether, on gofuckingdoit.com, the penalty fine gets paid to the friend acting as a referee, or the owners of the site.
Good idea. The Matrix is definitely on the list of available experiences.

EDIT: If you take the red pill, you get to live Neo's life when he was still Thomas Anderson, go to his job and do all the stuff he would do. It'd be hilariously boring.
I think this is great. the biggest usability problem with Wikipedia for me is that I use it as a primer on a topic that I don't know about, but for some reason it is still stuck with the encyclopedia metaphor.

Academic subjects on Wikipedia are close to useless, if your goal is to actually gain a comprehensive knowledge of the subject.
Yes, I guess it does exactly same thing
Not for tea. There is a substantial difference in flavour if the water isnt boiling. It's one of the shocking things a british person experiences in america, handed tea made with a microwave. It really is quite disgusting in comparison.
Thing is, "best in class" means different things to different people (and companies).

E.g., which PC platform is best in class? OS X, Windows or one of the flavors of Linux?
Just take a look at the top post in this thread.

You haven't seen any of those problems, good for you. But the fact is that a lot of people do see them, which is the reason people give out for Linux being hard to use. I mean, Ubuntu is supposed to represent Linux for the average user, and look at the state of Unity, Gnome2/3 divide, Pulseaudio or Alsa? So on and so fourth...

I used to be one of those guys who made faces at OS X being all expensive and why would I use that when I can get the same thing to work with Linux. But the fact of the matter is, it does make a difference. A LOT of difference. I can still drop into Linux. I don't regret moving away from it one bit.
Awesome app and beautiful interface! I think I'll sign up for it tomorrow...
the source is really small but you can find it here. https://github.com/bechurch/Thoughts
12 startups in 12 months? That's just strange.
> "Playing with your kids" is not mutually exclusive with doing open source work. Linus Torvalds (of Linux fame) is a father and so is Doug Cutting, founder of Hadoop.

I think the context here is doing Open Source work in one's spare time. And I guess that Linus does it mostly during the daytime. (I think his diving software thing has probably been done in the spare time, though.)
Get close to this with BLE beacons at travel points of entry?
Flyway 3.0: Database Migrations for Android
Richard Garriott’s D&D #1 Contest
Indeed, it was often an infamy contest, when it mattered. Does anyone even read Time anymore?
What I don't quite understand is: what kind of person would rather pay 25USD to some -- for all intents and purposes -- unknown organization over a good friend whom they know will hold them accountable. Plus it'll be a whole lot harder to lie to a friend; with this, it's as simple as clicking the other button.
Or one startup that pivots 12 times a year.
your comparison isn't fair. you're making an argument against fn/int vs function/integer but the largest difference in the code is between index and n. I prefer the version with a longer variable name despite the length.

also shouldn't the returns be unnecessary here since the conditional is an expression?
GitHub for mathematicians.

For every theory, define its axioms and valid logical steps. Let anyone build theorems based on these (validate them automatically), and allow people to fork others theorems to create their own.

It's probably possible to get a lot of proofs from projects like Mizar and Metamath to start with, then let the community build on top of it.

Maybe even a crowd sourced bounty program for unproven theorems, like P=NP. Let people pledge and automatically pay to whoever proves or disproves it.

I think this can really change how mathematical research is done.
DND-1 Source Code by Richard Garriott (1979) [pdf]
I agree that this is a potential problem. Is it possible to making something flexible enough to fit the individual needs of lots of different companies? I feel like it should be, but I certainly don't know for sure.
A List of Programming Challenges
Yeah, Citymapper works well for me since I live near two different numbered line stops (ones that actually have live times). I can decide which station to go to ahead of time. I also have it push alerts to me when there are delays on my most common train lines.
For HTTPS to a web site, the common name is the site domain name. We're not talking about anything else here.
"apt-get install" is hardly cryptic.
> He throws unasked features at us, breaks thirdy-party apps and alienates users. Then, completely ignores criticism and user input; he kills off all meta initiatives.

So vote with your feet. It's not as though 4chan is the only, or the best, or even an admirable, social medium. There are many alternatives. If enough people leave, this person will either respond as his users hope for, or he will become a historical artifact.

You speak as though you have no choice about using 4chan. I suspect an addictive personality.
Only works in webkit browsers. Only I frame.
It is not very long. No need for me to submit a TLDR;

Everyone with rudimentary knowledge of European history can spot the stark inconsistencies between the official (read peer reviewed) history and this propaganda piece.

So somebody is spreading propaganda and lies. Absolute lack of references and sources leads me to believe that this pamphlet is a piece of propaganda no different from the drivel spread by the neo nazis.
Consider going to Thailand for this. They've probably got the most experienced MtF genital surgeons in the world.