skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious - how much money would you be willing to bet on that? At which odds?

I've been through the dotcom crash and minor disturbances after, and the jobs never "disappeared". Yes, there were layoffs, pay cuts and hiring freezes. But not all jobs disappeared, and most of the people who lost their jobs found new ones after a while. I'm not diminishing the pain and suffering of those who got caught in bad situations there, but it's not like the whole IT disappeared and people went back to abacuses and wired telegraph.
Disturbing naming ethos. Not even Demi Moore charming backing them up could stand that.

Suddenly... #HopeInHumanityRestored
Every time someone uses the service, they spend 30 seconds rating other people's images. There can be a countdown (i.e. rate 10 more to see your results).

It would also be important to make it very fast. Cache all the images before the voter gets there, and send the results asynchronously so they don't need to wait. One could easily do a rating in less than a second. It's all snap judgements.
Recently I found a service like that. I haven't tested it but they claim to mask cards- https://dnt.abine.com/#premiumreg
This is actually pretty interesting. I think many people have thought of a product along these lines and, as mentioned by others, there have been several versions of this tried.

I think the key is in the constraints you have outlined.

Obviously it's a mobile app. You take two pics and post. You then vote on other's ABs. Every vote you make on someone else's AB earns you a vote on your own. If you want a bunch of opinions on your AB you keep voting on other's. You can post to your social networks to get your friend's opinions as well. Maybe it ties into the social APIs and reads comments to extract out votes for A or B. Maybe some viral growth potential there.

I like this. I might use actually use it. Wondering if it is important to be able to choose a target segment of voters for your own AB or if the classification of "human" is good enough in most cases.
Phonetically it does sound identical. I've started documenting myself on the whole naming and trademarking aspect of online services.
If I have a nice list, I'll post the links in a thread here.
You mean like the personal finance Stack Exchange site?

http://money.stackexchange.com/
Httrack does this.
>within seconds

This is the part I don't understand. You would need to have a whole lot of scale and incentive for people to give their feedback this fast and often. Jelly can take a while to get a response, for instance.
what altcoins are you focusing on first?
Sounds like a UX nightmare and a huge pain. I'm glad that privacy maximalists don't design user interfaces...

Wow, this comment sounds a lot more dickish than it was intended to. What I mean is, secure design would be that the app can't even see repos that it isn't authorized for, which means the user has to go through some back channel privacy settings page to authorize it every time they set up a new repo.

I don't want to have to specifically authorize x y and z repos every time I touch the app, and I seriously doubt anyone else does either.
> Isn't that what your own name does?

I've never heard of anyone being able to send mail to a person using only their name on an envelope.

You would have a unique "ID" which you can assign to any physical address. This is all you ever give out. If you move, you update one record, and your mail will come to the right place.
A meta-data file over VLC player where people can add additional information about a movie so that others watching the movie can skip right to that part.
Say, a movie has a few funny scenes, or action or even sex, and you only are bothered to watch those parts. Then you can use this file to see at which time period these scenes exist in the movie, and jump right into it.

Not exactly a startup idea, but something that can be useful, eh?
It's been on my mind to create a WP plugin which allows you to upload a static version of the entire site to another location. Do you think that would do the trick?
There (was) an app for that. They were around for a few years based out of NYC but it looks like they didn't get much traction.

http://gotryiton.com/
Here is a very good example of the use of what you are describing: http://bigfreeze.com/demo/
Up voted .. karma grab, yeah, but I was just looking for this.
A website that allows maintainers of open-source projects to flag/create tickets where it would be helpful for others to help out.

I personally want to make more OSS contributions, but often I find it hard to find projects where I can contribute meaningfully. Meaning specifically that they are projects that have problems that match my expertise, are actively maintained (my patches will be appreciated), and have unresolved tickets where assistance would be useful (they are looking for outside help).

I imagine there are at-least some OSS maintainers who would like to recruit more contributors as well, and a site that would help match both would be beneficial for everyone.
The features look nice, but they don't really say WHAT they do or how they do it. Could someone fill me in?
You mean something like http://money.stackexchange.com/? :)
Bank of America has this - it's called shopsafe. You create temporary credit cards with fixed spending limits. You can cancel a individual number at any time.
I think Movable Type does this http://movabletype.org/
No clue. Just came across it a few days ago. Maybe they have a trial? Definitely an interesting space to be in.
That's closer! But the devil is in the details. They have you looking at one image, reading the question, and rating up/down and even commenting. In the image, they have a full body shot, with simply "Does this work?" Does what work? The glasses, the shoes, the dress?

This takes a lot more effort than simply tapping one of two photos without reading anything. A/B responses can be given in less than a second. It's all snap judgements -- no reading is necessary.
Sequences are guaranteed to produce unique values. Just manually configure each child table to use the same sequence for the primary key column. Yes, uniqueness won't be enforced on the parent table, but the values will still be unique (unless you manually update them in your queries)
This post holds that coding and managing a company are different jobs and that you can't do both at the same time. I don't find this any kind of shocking.
Feel free to checkout http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/ (it has a similar set of concepts to both of the mentioned libraries here, joblib and parallel python).
yup -- I believe this is a better user experience in terms of capturing ratings (by capitalising on the availability heuristic)

What you're describing technically would work when each person compares every item (and would fall into the domain of condorcet methods).

However in practice the election becomes a graph (rather than list or x/y table) with cyclical dependencies and conflicting comparisons -- it becomes quite hard to resolve -- but it can be.
It'd be pretty sweet combined with something like Oculus.
I was looking for it too. I posted it so it would help others. Not necessarily for karma. :)
> since "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a work of fiction

A tad older: "And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land." ( Exodus 2:22, e.g. http://www.bartleby.com/108/02/2.html#S2 )

A good portion of the titles in English are taken either from the KJV Bible or Shakespeare, not that there is much difference.
Google expands Play Store Merchant accounts to 8 new countries
In Israel, the same arrangement exists. I was very surprised when I learned that in the US you give to the company your account number and they basically can initiate money pulls any time they like and the bank does not have a list where you say who is approved and who is not. That seems to be kind of backwards and insecure. I know there are probably ample reasons for that but I'd feel much better if it was arranged like that. Paypal and Amazon Payments and other systems like this provide partial solutions but why banks wouldn't do that? Looks like something that belongs there.
I think a thing that has happened is that the community is actually full of people who have not learned all the fun computer science stuff that people like you and me take for granted, and that's why they're voting it up.

On the one hand, it's frustrating because, damn it, if you don't already know how to play with these concepts then why on earth are you calling yourself a "hacker", but then on the other hand http://xkcd.com/1053/
Didn't Neal Stephenson try something like this? Google is failing me on this, but I swear he tried doing some wiki based community built world.
Design of PUB/SUB subsystem in ØMQ
Please, point where in the Ads documentation where it explain that USER data can be seen by advertisers.
a16z has a great podcast. It's not listening to HN, but it's in the same spirit =)
There are two different things - contract cancellation and access to your account. They can be changed independently, and should be. Subscription contract usually does not transfer ownership, so you still own your account and should be able to deny its usage to anyone. It could be breach of contract but then they could use collections, courts, etc. to resolve it - that's different business.
I'm no database expert, but I don't think the features you want are possible, really. To get a unique constraint over multiple tables you'd have to lock them all, and if you lock them all you have lost the performance benefit of partitioning tables.

There are things you could do, like key on a GUID, that would ensure each insert has a unique ID in a lock-free way. But the semantics of that are going to be very different from a traditional autoincrementing ID.
As I read this I realise that the ambitions and dreams I had in my 20's have changed. Now that I have two children I have a greater fear of dying, which is more because I fear not seeing them growing up and not being there to protect them from harm when / if it arrives.

Funny how your priorities can change so vastly.
I would be startled if existing legal code was sufficiently rigorously defined to be encoded into machine-readable forms. I really think it wouldn't work! Someone prove me wrong?
I've thought about segmenting as well. For example, teenagers don't want to rate pictures of grandmothers all day -- they want to see people their own age. You could segment it by age and region for starters.
Notifications for hacker news comment replies (chrome extension)
GitHub are also working on enabling users to accept just a subset of the requested scopes, like just access to public repos, which will make using all of the more fine-grained scopes easier: https://developer.github.com/changes/2013-10-04-oauth-change...
Yep, they do. However not as a service. With Httrack, I'd need to download their software first, and then run it whenever the site's been updated. I'd like a online service that handles it all for me.
I definitely agree with you. It's guess it's just difficult with the HN community growing every day, both in population and the diversity of backgrounds.

I think I'll write a little plugin that will hide all wikipedia links and I'll be happy. Maybe something like "hide all wikipedia links unless #comments > N" would work nicely.
I envisioned starting with an empty list, and populating it with the user's comparisons as they come in. That way, you don't have to deal with unrated items.

Cyclical/conflicting comparisons are a function of faulty users, the algorithm can't take the blame for that! ;)
Maybe both services run on different data centers and the statistical model is trained with other corpus.

Google Translate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate

Microsoft Bing Translator works very similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Translator
It kinda would, however it would be limited to Wordpress. I'd like something that works with whatever CMS/platform the site's build on.
What's stopping us from making something like http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/01/29/best-keyboard-ever/? Samsung came out with a phone in 2010 with an e-ink keyboard (Samsung Zeal). Are there any unsolved obstacles preventing this kind of keyboard from becoming a reality?

I would imagine such a keyboard, even at a $300 price point, would be massively more successful than the Optimus Maximus ever was.

To entice users even more, it could probably be made water resistant by not including any ports and using appropriate switches. It could come with a USB-powered inductive charging matt that you place the keyboard on top of to charge.
Intel's 310, 320, and 710 were based on the X25-M G2 with firmware updates and newer denser flash. Other than that, all their 300, 500, and 700 series drives used third-party controllers until the 730 released two months ago. Of particular note is the fact that the 730 is the first non-enterprise drive to ship with a SATA 6Gbps-capable Intel controller. Intel's SSD controllers are what earned them their reputation for high performance reliable drives, and that's been missing from their consumer drives for a long time. Now, they're mostly just another Sandforce and Marvell OEM, with preferential pricing on IMFT flash and a longer QA cycle. The 730 isn't a clear winner like Intel's previous in-house drives, because the first release of that controller (the SSD DC3700) was so long ago that other vendors have put together and shipped consumer drives that can compete with the 730.
An online organizational space for HOA's. It would allow HOA members to view the budget, see the monthly meeting agenda, file proxy votes, see any open issues, and vote on board members.

I have the feeling (based on personal experience) that some HOA managers prefer to operate in obscurity, so it may be tough to market.
Here please read earlier discussions on it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4740540
I think this fits part of what you're talking about. In Brazil, there's Vade Mecum, a popular app (some Brazilian tech sites say it's one of the most downloaded local apps) allowing someone to take the law with them. It's searchable, and apparently popular because when a police officer or anyone annoying tries to get away with something illegal, one can just open the app and look up the law regarding whatever is being disputed.

http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2009/04/review-vade-mecum-...
Some previous discussion (in particular, I recommend the thread caused by ForrestN's comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4740540
I wonder whether this really is worth the risk of replacing a system binary. Showing these notifications feels like security theater to me: the agent never hands out the key but only signs a nonce with the key, so the operation it does is not really critical.

Additionally, ssh itself already prevents you from connecting to spoofed hosts (using the known_hosts mechanism).

So in the end we are left with a useless notification (which also only shows up after the action has been done and thus the damage, if you can call it that, has already been done) and zero protection against the real issue (key theft, which any application running under your account can easily do).
It can be configured to work almost like how you would expect a typical CMS to work – with different content types, additional fields in the forms etc: https://github.com/prose/prose/wiki/Prose-Configuration Which means users don't have to know much about Jekyll to add content to such a site.
No C++ does not specify evaluation order in this case.

Remember "<<" is just that, an operator.

Only && and || have a mandated evaluation order.
Some things (whether they be true or not), should be kept to yourself. You can make your point about stress without bringing in the guilt of your ex (when she cannot defend herself)
I'd love the LeechBlock extension for Firefox to be recreated as a Mac application. There are similar distraction-blocking tools but none that allow you to set time-based rules for the blocking to take place.
Collapse this for HN. I know this is redditty, but I sorely need it when I see an idea that spans a conversation longer than the page. Can't even tell by indent if I have got to the next idea. Sort by new would be nice as well so I can look for new ideas posted.
Thought Interfaces / Electronic Thought Are the Next Frontier in User Interfaces
Something like this? http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-deat...
>Language detection is based on lines of code
Every time you upload your own photos, you are forced to rate other people's photos before you get your own response. This is the incentive.

Rating photos is very fast -- just look at two photos and tap one. All network lag can be eliminated by pre-caching the images. I'd bet the average rating speed is one per second (it's all snap judgements).

As long as the app has 30+ people using it at every moment of the day, you'll always get a response of at least 30 responses within 30 seconds. Plus I suspect people would enjoy voting and would spend time doing it even while not waiting on their own response, meaning you'd get more than you put in.
I daydream about this periodically, but I can't quite picture how the community keeps the game rules balanced enough for there to be a game
I'm not sure if this will help, but I want to say that having such an existential crisis isn't just normal -- it's healthy. Staying up nights reflecting on your life and your choices aren't necessarily indicative of the need for a change: it means you're conscientious about the path you're taking (and relatively few people are -- which is important to note on a forum largely populated with people who want to make a dent in the universe.)

That being said, I think making huge decisions about the directions of your life before you hit a certain threshold of experience is like trying to solve a Wheel of Fortune round with only X's, V's, and I's on the board. It's a better utilization of your time and resources to educate yourself -- whether that's in a classroom or on an online forum -- to prepare yourself for making those decisions.
Second Life is like this. It works well, but the tool set could always be more improved and focused on MMO.
For screen? I didn't catch that since it appears the comment was referring to using a similar method for tmux. I can see how that would work, but the primary concern I was addressing was that in all likelihood, users are bound to update screen--and to their surprise find that they can't reattach.

Keeping the old binary would make sense, though. Evidently that possibility was lost on me. My mistake.
With the growth of electronic commerce and mobile commerce, fraud is going to be a factor for all businesses that have a web presence. Online fraud takes a variety of forms but charge-backs appear to be the most preventable. Using a multi-layer strategy of various prevention and detection methods (fraud scoring model, device profiling, new type of authentication), merchants install a plug-in and do not have to worry about monitoring transactions for fraud.

Based on a few sources, fraud has been staying around 1% of e-commerce revenues.
Yes, Ruby was very much "overrepresented" in the early days of github, so the decline in its growth relative to other languages is fairly normal sounding, rather than indicative of its actual decline.

Also, Javascript is something that is going to get checked in to lots of web projects one way or another. I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery.
My dad, age 76, collapsed at the gym while working out. His trainer performed hands-only CPR on him for 8 minutes before the paramedics arrived. After a few shocks, the paramedics got his heart going again. He spent 3 days in a medically induced coma with reduced body temperature. From there, he spent another 10 day in the hospital and 60 days recovering.

As mentioned in the article, it's extremely rare for people to survive cardiac arrest. My dad is alive for two reasons:

1. Hands-only CPR. It works, and it's dead simple. handsonlycpr.org

2. He was extremely healthy before the incident. He may have been 76, but he also worked out and climbed mountains. Exercising and eating right not only prevents cardiac problems, they also improve your recovery. His body was in a condition to repair itself better than most individuals his age. Being healthy is not just about prevention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralization_%28chemistry%29

There seems to be an established name for what you call mixing an acid and a base: Neutralization Chemistry.

Even freshwater lakes like lake erie ar pH 8.4, yet for some reason when articles are published about pH variance, it is never referred to as "neutralization" but rather "acidification"--with no mention of the net-alkalinity of the solution. The latter would paint the former phrasing as self-evidently awkward, of course.

eg> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-08-16/news/ct-met-gr...
This looks like commercial ecosystem (Java, JavaScript) migrating to GitHub rather than hobbyist ecosystems (Ruby, Python, Perl) being on decline.
I think I fundamentally dislike the topic of this submission, but I've got a piece of juicy gossip. (It's the kind of thing that you think everyone knows until you realize that you might be one of a relative few privy to the secret):

The world, and by extension the tech industry, is largely comprised of good people trying to do the right thing and make the people around them happy.
this is really good stuff, its very fast to navigate through different files and edit content. it will work really well with my up coming gem.
A browser-based chat where the messages are encrypted in the browser so that only the conversation participants can see the messages but not the server, it's just storing them. The messages would be encoded by AES and the key exchange can be done with RSA. The database would store the encription key for every user for every conversation but encrypted with for example the user's password or RSA private key, and the private key would be also encrypted the same way, and when these keys are needed, the server sends them to the browser, the javascript decodes them with the user's account password and voilá. So it would be a browser-based Skype with Mega-like encryption.
remember to go against your instinct

So far I had formed the impression one should be going with their instinct. Are some instincts bad and some good? What's the test for telling which is which?
Damn good idea, but as you suggest I can't see the managers being too keen on it.
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