skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't you hire someone to do it if you don't have the time? Just curious.
This is the main area where I suspect Google's greater reliance on clouds leads them to castrate their operating systems. Last time I checked Chrome OS still didn't even support Bonjour mDNS. (Still the case, and it's related to this first mentioned in 2009: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13573 )

The Android stuff alone is an inconsistent trainwreck (because not all hardware supports all options on a given version of the OS either) and it took them a long time to get there.

Apple really have been leading the sane local peer-to-peer world ever since Bonjour first appeared, and the new developments have just extended their lead.

It will be interesting to see just how this difference affects the nature of their respective wearables.
why couldn't something like this also disrupt eBay or Craigslist?

I thought the same thing. This should be started as a general marketplace for anyone to buy/sell anonymously; it shouldn't come out of the gate as a drug store.

I would love to use an anonymous ebay and there are plenty of normal things I would like to buy without it being tied back to my real world name.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656522
Purpose - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257019/

While entertaining in its own right, it's interesting because (some people say) the movie somewhat chronicles the history of the Internet Solution (http://www.is.co.za), the South African internet service provider co-founded by Ronnie Apteker and eventually bought by Dimension Data. Ronnie wrote the script for Purpose. He's up there with Elon Musk and Mark Shuttleworth in terms of his impact on the South African tech scene.
Of course I get the point, I just found it a bit strange he explained the blurry screen the way he did. Blurry screens are indeed very useful when designing UI's.
tl;dr: Old idea. Accelerate half way there at g, decelerate the rest of the way at -g. No way to do this with current or even remotely foreseeable engine tech. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Just sold https://bitflop.me
still no ADC on board :(
http://www.oneqstn.com - has around 200 - 1,000 daily visits. Very popular in Saudi Arabia (no idea why), could do with some time spent on promotion.
First sex-determining genes appeared in mammals some 180 million years ago
How Salon.com Rewrote My Headline and Turned Me Into an Internet Troll
... whoops.

Fixed.
Sounds interesting, I sent you a reply.
I believe Haskell has deeper industry adoption than Clojure does right now. You just don't see it a lot because haskell people aren't as focused on evangelism.
I don't understand what's being reported on here.

"The reason for the change was more thorough epidemiology. The earlier studies tended to be "retrospective," relying on people to remember dietary details from the distant past."

So what? Which are the studies that are invalid? If none of them are invalid, then why disregard any information they might give us? 4000 studies with similar observations is not "scant evidence", unless you can rule out every single one. And are these 4000 the only studies which have similar conclusions? Probably not.

"These results were often upended by "prospective" protocols, in which the health of large populations was followed in real time."

I don't know what this means.
Dumb scammer
> "But Vim and Emacs could be much more popular if they put some effort into improving the first-time experience."

I think you are wrong about that. Distributions of vim that aim to do this (such as Janus, or Cream) get no significant traction. Things like GVim exist, but the only place I've ever seen anybody use them is on systems that don't have a modern terminal emulator installed.

Any attempt to "friendly-ify" the default Vim experience would do nothing but alienate current Vim users. The temptation to throw all your existing users under the bus to reach a hypothetical larger market should be avoided; giving in to those temptations kills open source projects. Open source developers should feel a loyalty to their users, not meaningless "sales" numbers.
http://www.moredrunk.com - Lists alcohol from different bars and grocery stores in order of Alcohol Content/Price. Haven't touched it in over a year and the parser needs an update. Not a lot of traffic currently but perhaps has a high potential.
Because I feel like it doesn't make sense.

Are you up for it?
India based government jobs and exams search/listing engine.
http://www.findjobexam.com I built it as hobby project few weeks ago but it looks awesome and has potential to become kick-ass product in its niche i.e. Indian students.
Cool project.

There are already a couple of Machine Learning libraries[1][2] written in Go and some of them are actually more mature than GoLearn.

Also just curious, I always thought Go is not really a good language for DM/ML stuff due to lack of good matrix library and generics. If someone here actually tried to write any ML library in Go, what's your genuine feeling about it?

[1] https://github.com/huichen/mlf
[2] https://github.com/xlvector/hector
So random order in Go1.3. Sounds good to me.

Tried anyways with ten items, the results are interesting:

http://play.golang.org/p/dVZvmBOu_g

With ten items, it seems to randomly (?) alternate between two iteration orders.

Local Go1.2.1 has similar behavior.
Posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:35 am PT. Has Gram actually done anything since then?
Eric Wahlfors of Soundcloud telling 4 stories about early phases of Soundcloud and bootstrapping. Especially how they reached their core user base of electronic musicians by (accidentally) organizing the coolest parties in Berlin.

http://vimeo.com/11420397
The options aren't 800billion for NASA or 800billion for Burt Rutan. The options are 800 billion for NASA or a slightly lower tax rate for millions of people and corporations, mostly the wealthier ones (as those pay the most tax). Do you still think those dollars would have generated as much innovation in the private sector?

I agree that NASA hasn't done the best use of its money, the space shuttle was particularly useless. But the solution for that isn't to not have these large well-funded research programs. It's probably to make more efficient use of the private sector to run parts of them. But even NASA does that already. This article itself was about an underwear company designing a space suit because NASA contracted it out. Do you think these guys would have developed the technology they did if it wasn't for the Moonshot?

Even your article just seems to argue that NASA is late in letting go of now mature stuff and letting the private sector take over. Do you actually think we would have ever gone to the moon without the USA/USSR space race? Even the aviation comparison is suspect. How much of the technology in the modern airliner is the result of large governments funding military aviation?
"Just an accusation"? If you refer to the domestic incident, he pleaded guilty to two charges.
Just out curiosity, how much are you expecting to get for a site like that? I really have not clue how to calculate something like this. Hope it's not rude to ask :)
Getting Real: Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps
Perhaps, but I'm getting analogous results when running exactly same code locally.
The core idea behind your concept is basically breaking risk-management apart. However, a good team should be on the same page with regard to risk management. So, wouldn't the player-end-refinment of sorts on this game just be teams who more or less have a uniform, systematic view of assessing risk?

I think you have an interesting idea, though.

Maybe it would be better for poker teams to transfer chips to each other in between hands as a two-player mechanic instead. If there is a tournament and both team members are seated at different tables, then the optimal strategy might be to allocate more chips to the table where both players think they have a larger edge. However, by moving chips to the other table, that becomes a signal to other players that would could cause them to shift gears.

I think there is something to your rough concept though, and it could be a lot of fun.
You need to weight them by quality, from experience in my field of E&M the papers with 2k citations are correct and the ones with 4 citations aren't.

Also 4k papers is too much to go through by hand, so something else was done.
it looks pretty good. Why do you want to sell it?
Good idea, but added an arrow (?) to the future. Made a sketch, what do you think? http://cl.ly/image/2m121A351M0F
The real estate situation there sounds pretty sketchy to me too. I've bought and sold several properties, and never seen or heard of anything like that. I think a lot of issues are wrapped up in his "dream home" and "save the house" statement. There is no property that is so great that you should ignore basic principles to get it. Trouble getting a clear title sounds like a reason to run away fast. You can generalize it even further to say that you should never allow any business deal of any kind to reach that level of importance. Always find alternatives and keep them available, and if there don't seem to be any alternatives, then there is probably a serious problem with the market that you're in.

There are still 2 real take-aways. If you're going to freelance, be prepared for cash flow issues. Have a buffer, charge more, structure deals to get money sooner in the process, and walk away if there are any problems with the money. Also, don't use freelancer.com. Not that I had ever heard of them before today anyways.

Actually, I see "but I liked the project and the client" in there too. Does this guy have a history of accepting business deals that any reasonable observer can easily see are bad ideas, and making up reasons why he's doing them anyways? Is there maybe something in there about having a tendency to being taken in by con men? It seems pretty clear that, if you're having cash flow issues, you should look for a full-time W2 job first, or if you have to freelance, find a client who will pay you directly, up front.
I think remote code execution and the easy method for payload delivery warrants a high level of concern.
I prefer using oDesk over all other freelancing sites as it is very straight forward. And plus clients there prefer quality and are ready to pay high prices rather than choosing the cheap bids. I remember a customer paying me 400$ for a 10 line python script as he wanted it done quickly without problems.

Wish We could do something to help you, like may be bombard freelancer's facebook page to resolve your issue.
The notes seem to be written in French, but Quickscript is much more appropriate for English, therefore I don't believe it's Quickscript. It's much more likely to be one of the several shorthand methods used in France throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. List here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9nographie

I'm personally betting on the Bertin method. The full book describing the method is available here, if anyone wants to go learn it: http://books.google.fr/books?id=q-hirCm0ec0C (in French, though :))
Somebody date the title, this article is 2 years old(!)
If you're talking about https://www.pagebox.es I see it as a good competitor to Trello (I always thought of using Trello's API to build a simple idea-tree note-taking app, but their trees have depth limits, yours don't, so I could use yours), but, at the same time, I don't know if your site will be up and online for a long time, so I'm not sure if it is secure to put all my data there.
Pac-Man (walkthrough)
Checklists have been proven to work, but the software I write (low-level high-security/crypto software) is less repetitive than (most) surgeries. I haven't managed to use anything checklist-like while writing code; however, quickly pattern-matching against a mental library has been exceedingly useful when _reviewing_ code.

Here are some sources I would recommend to people building their own mental checklists:

- The Art of Software Security Assessment (thanks to tptacek); I actually learnt most of this from bits 'n pieces scattered over the web, but it's a very convenient collection;

- Common crypto flaws. Always look for authentication, _then_ encryption, _and_ replay protection. (The latter is often forgotten even in otherwise good protocols.) If a password is used anywhere, consider bruteforcing it (bcrypt may stop such attacks - or not.) Check that IVs are used as demanded by the mode (in particular, that CTR or GCM IVs are not reused.) Look for timing attacks; the easy-to-spot and high-impact ones are use of memcmp() with HMACs and use of CBC on unauthenticated data (padding oracle).

- Buffer overflows may be bad, but integer under-/overflows are much more common (in decent code.) Basically, you need a check before any operation involving a user-supplied length, and this is very commonly forgotten. (Using functions with internal overflow checking, like a decent calloc, helps.)

- Consider the wider context. Spotting a buffer overflow is easy. Noting that you forgot to <? include auth.php ?> is harder. You likely won't notice that the latest "cleanup" leaves the firmware updater open to the internet unless you actually spend five seconds thinking about the wider system.

(I'm quite interested in other's tips; the above is clearly very slanted. Also, I feel vaguely guilty about doing all of this in memory instead of from a paper checklist - does anyone have positive or other experiences with those?)
moreover comparing the "hustling" in Lyft to the traditional "hustling" of taxis makes it seem like a vastly superior improvement (instead of comparing the "hustling" in lyft to the 40-year-secure jobs that americans of the 50s had).

The 'hustling' imperative comes about from inflationary economics. While we had inflation in the past, the general security of previous generations was financed through debt expansion. As the total amount of debt is maximizing the social capacity for trust, we can no longer finance the security of contemporary generations. Ironically, 'taking care of' previous generations came at the cost of stealing it from present generations.

Not to worry, Europe will be seeing this sooner or later (probably not the Nordic countries, as they have low headline inflation rates).
I'm committing the intellectual crime of saying "Well why didn't they just do [obvious thing X]", when I know almost nothing about local conditions, here, something that I've criticized others for doing on HN before, but man

Why haven't they installed elevators?

It's century-old technology, can be operated manually, you could use a gasoline engine on the winch if electricity isn't available. You could install the winch spanning the elevator shaft at the tenth floor or something, if 40 stories of cable is too heavy for your winch. There's a "landlord" collecting rent, so there's money, and the elevator shafts already exist. If you're worried about safety, then just use it as a cargo elevator.

What's missing?
>(because that's all that exists)

Well, that's not true. Neo Freerunner and GTA04 both exist and Neo900 will soon join them. None of them needs any bizzare "rooting" and if you want to port some OS to them you're ready to go. All you need to have that's not openly available to everyone for free is a device.

Of course they all have some flaws, but as a consumer you do have a choice.

Also, GTA04 and Neo900 should both be perfectly capable to run Firefox OS.
Evil mode for Emacs is the only "vim mode" that I have seen that is even slightly acceptable to me. Viper was fairly shit, and everything else that I have seen and tried was just awful. The most you can typically expect is some loose emulation of a divide between insert and normal mode, and maybe half of the normal mode commands implemented, most incorrectly (not taking counts or not combining with movement keys correctly are the most frequent oversights).

I do mobile development. About 95% of my time is spent in Vim, the other 5% in eclipse for the few things that it actually makes my life easier for. If eclipse were actually more useful to me, that percentage would probably drop as it would cause me to bother setting up Eclim (I can't be arsed to right now, since that 5% is so low.)
And how do you trust the second, when you can't trust the first?
Discuss... Crowd-funding for independent game developers
I would be much more inclined to read those papers if you gave a short reason as to why you think it got some things right, where others have failed.
Typical Mistakes in Java Code
spendology.net/calculators - Several online financial calculators including a smart budget calculator, rent vs. buy calculato, and a gas vs. electric car calculator. The website his in a partnership with Bankrate Inc. to serve advertisements for banks, brokerages, insurance companies, and credit cards.
I think Gram is working on smart TVs.
BTW I don't think the compiler is "smart enough" - but the Http API has 2 (probably more) overloaded methods for each type you may want to pass to it. Go doesn't have method overloading by design. If that's something that is a must have for anyone, Go is simply not for them.
Just wondering. You say it is basically untouched, and it generates a fair amount of revenue by itself. Why would you sell it? Why not just let is be and get the income?
https://exp-resso.com/ - shopping cart CMS plugin (PHP), ~100k p/a revenue. Could probably be a full time income for someone looking to escape the 9-5 and work from anywhere in the world.
Some advice for Go debugging with gdb
This is interesting, do you have a ballpark figure you'd accept? Feel free to email me, contact is in profile.
I don't even think it needs to be dated. From what I can tell, they announced this name then never did anything. It's not like this is an interesting article from the past, it's just nothing. Unless Gram has something new, there's no reason for this post at all.
My side project is http://storifi.it

I dont have the time to work on it anymore, but i'd still like to see it do well.

Would prefer to discuss a large controlling interest rather than a complete sale for reasons i'm happy to discuss.

Contact mastermind at storifi.it
The primary thrust of the article seems to be that because (1) the American Association for Cancer Research conference had a very small number of sessions on diet and cancer, and (2) a single follow-up study in 2007 concluded there was little link between diet and cancer that it must be true.

This is only one view and hardly comprehensive. If you read http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/vegetables_cancer.aspx by Joel Fuhrman, MD, you'll get a perspective on why the devil is in the details with many of these studies and why broad sweeping headlines like this one are often inaccurate.

Based on everything I've read on this subject -- The China Study, Eat to Live, and a few others -- I side with the Fuhrman article over the one published in the Star Tribune, a statewide newspaper for Minnesota.
That clip is from part 3 of Moon Machines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
Hi Tom, I sent you an e-mail.
http://mmabuzzsaw.com/ MMA News aggregator. 12,000 uniques per month. Aggregator / 30k pageviews. No ads right now, but could easily add them.
I'd actually recommend against giving a 10% discount for payment up-front. 10% is a lot of money. Giving it up because of cashflow issues is not a winning move most of time. And while non-collection happens to everyone, if you're regularly working for clients that you fear won't pay you, you're not in the best situation anyway.

What I would recommend instead is: 1) charge more money. This will get you better clients. 2) save up some of that money, so that you're no longer in a situation where not getting paid this week is a big deal. 3) stop extending a huge discount for cash up-front.

Another reason not to insist on cash-upfront is that some customers are not going to be able to bend to this. Corporate clients might be able to pay with different terms, some of the time, but you shouldn't rely on this. Instead, get enough savings to give yourself flexibility.
I just posted link to your article as comment(page posts are disabled) on all major posts on freelancer's facebook page, they will probably block me but hope it will help in some way. :D

http://www.pastemehere.com/bbkm4sk5
http://www.gemsinthejungle.com/ website+iOS app.

Product discovery for amazon-aholics. Don't have the money to invest in marketing right now, so I'm sitting on it till I have the capital and focusing on other projects.

ROI was a little under break even. I was marketing via amazon-fan subreddits. Theres a super simple CMS powering it as well (a google spreadsheet hack).

Willing to sell for 30k or looking for investment partners in the $5k range.

-Aakil

aakilfernandes@gmail.com

www.aakilfernandes.com
It's not just that. There's a huge problem with selective bias here. People think that "healthy foods" automatically means good health, and bad health is automatically a result of processed foods, "bad health habits", etc. Bad health is your own damn fault for profoundly insulting mother nature by feeding your body Kraft Diner a few too many times.

News at 11: cancer is a natural occurrence. You could exclusively eat prime quality fish, raw organic fruits and veggies and still get a heart attack at 52 and cancer at 58. In other news, I seriously question the idea that paleolithic humans had incredible food wisdom and perfect health. They probably ate whatever the hell they could find at a given time of the year in their immediate environment, and that was probably hugely lacking in nutritional value when it's the winter, all the plants are dead and most animals hibernating.

I agree that making an effort to eat well is a good idea, but it doesn't make you immune to diseases, and diseases are not necessarily a result of bad habits. There is also a huge amount of conflicting information as to what is healthy food.
What I wouldn't give to have a freelance site that paid instantly. oDesk takes 5 business days to release funds (plus another day for the bank deposit to go through), so I often find myself paying rounds of bills, all with late fees (my gym's is $20!). Due to various financial struggles in the 2000s, I have not used a credit card since early 2008. So even though the amounts of money I'm dealing with are small, not having them can be expensive.

This country comes down hard on people who choose self employment. But there is an honesty to humble living that I’m not ready to give up. I remember back to the vacuous state I was in while working for other people, fighting every fiber of my being to simply get up in the morning and face people that I vehemently disagreed with. It’s like racing with the pedal to the metal but the transmission is stuck in first gear. To me, underemployment is a wedge between the life I have and the one I wish I could lead. Even though it’s hard at times, liberating myself from other people’s expectations was one of the best decisions I ever made.

So why backpack around Europe when you can experience everything life has to offer right here in the US? Become a freelancer today!
Not sure what area you're in, but standard real estate practice in Houston is that the potential buyer pays 1% or so in earnest money, escrowed through the title company, up front, with various contractual conditions for who gets it if anything goes wrong, and an option fee, usually around $200, paid directly to the seller, in exchange for the right to have 10 days or so to inspect the property and walk away from the deal if they find something they don't like.

I would regard anything outside of that as very suspicious, though.
You mean like this, also from 2012?

http://www.webosnation.com/gram-working-lg-open-webos-tv

I haven't heard a thing from them in years. Is there anything new?

EDIT: I take it back, I have heard something from them that was just over a year ago: http://www.webosnation.com/lg-purchasing-hps-webos-division-...

Gram got bought by LG, so they're not even at HP anymore. Useless post.