skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the research I've done says you're wrong: http://www.informationintersection.com/2014/04/discovering-c...

It's more expensive and more complicated, but it's not crazy.

To quote the article "Stay tuned – this is a fight that will happen over and over again, and there will be more guidance provided by the courts in the coming years."

As long as the data exists, there's a very real risk someone is going to want it. If it's managed by an off-the-shelf SaaS vendor, where and how that data exists is entirely outside your control.
I've been working on a simple news scraper to make a custom news aggregator for the websites I usually read.
I published an alpha version today on npm, and would really appreciate your feedback.
https://github.com/anmonteiro/mns
The desperate hustle as a way of life
Simple photoalbum sharing service to host on your own (I use it for friends/family). Main purpose was to allow groups to collaborative upload and create albums. Also wanted to test some new things (koajs, reactjs). Feedback appreciated!

http://imgur.com/a/92W2u

https://github.com/rverton/circlephotos
We spend the better part of two decades focused on the JVM, and then another decade on CLR.

Give it time.
Don't forget all the false summits along the way. Right when you think success and the summit are within reach, you crest it only to realize, you have a long way to climb to reach the finish line (liquidity!).

Great analogy - thanks for sharing.
I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.
Is that satire? I can't tell, but I don't think it's meant to be that.

There's no justification for the assertion that "A good theorem should read like a good novel." Why can't it read like a good travelogue or biography ... or ballad, for that matter?

Then again, I can't watch Hitchcock films - I can't stand contrived suspense.

For what it's worth, one of the rank top detective series in the US is/was Columbo. Quoting from Wikipedia:

> Almost every episode begins by showing the commission of the crime and its perpetrator; the series therefore has no "whodunit" element. The plot revolves mainly around how the perpetrator, whose identity is already known to the audience, will finally be caught and exposed.

So it seems that the suspense could be in figuring out how the details go together, and don't require keeping the end-goals hidden.
Did you even read the article? It's about the difficulties of DHS in particular, and in the very beginning of the article, explicitly makes a distinction between it and the other three letter agencies: "the department is vying with the private sector and other three-letter federal agencies to hire and retain talent".
Given that 'You are forgotten.' takes a long time to 'solve,' it could be a reflection that even the greatest will eventually be forgotten. (Say, if the human race manages to survive millions of years, and colonizes different planets light-years away.)
IMHO I think the best response to that would be for Netflix to charge the ISPs that want to carry their service. Reverse subscription if you will. The demand is there, ISPs would be reluctant to alienate the customers even more.
I agree that it dipped briefly after the first season, but lately the show has had amazing maturity and depth. as well as being hilarious in a slightly less zany way.
nah, I think it would be closer to 1-2 trillion.
http://www.watchcartoononline.com/anime/adventure-time
Hello, Stranger
I'm really partial to this site for visualizing: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.htm...
> the platform independence story of the JVM really is the best of anything out there

Serious question: Is this still true, and does it even matter anymore?

If you are building web apps you can run whatever platform you want. 40%+ of smart phones don't do Java. Arduino doesn't have a fully functional JVM. Java in the browser is non-existent due to security issues.
I 've been working on 2 things past week:

1) http://i.imgur.com/S6gv2Gt.jpg

http://hopgenie.com/ - Community for travelers with travel tips, advice, questions etc.

2) http://i.imgur.com/DI2sO5o.png

http://sciboards.org/ - News aggregator / Q&A for scientific research
Note that the loss of confidence was because a) it went on for 45 minutes, b) the financial loss was large enough that it seriously threatened the ongoing business of the firm. A kill switch would absolutely have helped them as it would have solved both a and b. No, they shouldn't stop fulfilling orders (which, incidentally, happens with order fulfillment. Outages and glitches happen), but the alternative was clearly much, much worse.

And to the backout, they reverted the code on the 7 servers while erroneously leaving the revised configuration, so it wasn't really a kill switch at all. It was frantic fumbling that made things worse.

They would have been better off just shutting the servers down at the first hint of trouble.
If your definition of "seeming like Reddit" is links to long, well-written, thoughtful, and thought-provoking articles, then Reddit sounds awesome!

On a more serious note, analyses of unique creative endeavors are absolutely in scope here. Running a show is a lot like running a company - it requires vision, execution, and a lot of hard work. I thought reading about this show (which I had never heard of until the moment I clicked on the link) was akin to reading about start-up companies, except with more compelling source material and more interesting writing than the usual start-up story.

Open your mind, man!
I don't think you're an idiot. I used to do this all the time on my 1280x800 MBP.
Great site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.
There's one very important service the publisher provided, which the author missed: assessing whether the book was likely to be a successes. Telling people who won't be successful not to bother (or at least, not to bother with an expensive campaign) is costly, and an important service.

Ironically, the people who pay for this service (i.e. the people who are successful) are the ones who don't really benefit from it.
Not sure how you can separate DHS from any of the other 3 letter agencies... The cultures are all pretty much the same....
Thanks for this insightful answer.

About operator overloading, some languages have seemless bignums without allowing users to overload operators in their own classes. For containers, this could have been restricted to the index operator.
Looks great! I had the same problem and then I found HypeMachine (hypem.com).
He has a point, though. The entire clearance process is a gigantic pain in the ass, and it takes WAY more time than anything else the DHS (or any triple letter agency) would throw at you. I, personally, been waiting for 15 months and know firsthand just how annoying it can be.

That is one of the bottlenecks here; it is something that prevents the government from hiring the best and the brightest, and having them actually do useful work.
Looking at the percentage of authors making more than $500 a year is misleading. It's never been easier to publish a book, so the pool of marginal books will grow. This doesn't necessarily reflect the prospects for serious authors.

I'm a self published author. I make around $10,000 a year from print sales. My books started as experiments. I already had e-books. I decided to turn two manuscripts into print books.

I spent about $500 and two weeks on formatting and design. I didn't copy-edit beyond what I had done myself. And I waited to see if it sold.

It did, so I turned more e-books into print books, and made new books aimed at print.

But if the books hadn't sold, I would be classed as one of the poor authors making less than $500 a year. But that would be a misleading data point, because my initial foray was rather tentative.
Lucky to Be a Programmer
http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png

Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations.

Docs: https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation
Guessing the use of docker is to mitigate possible harmful student code executing in the server?
Life Goes On!

A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles.

http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg

This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/)

I thought that after the game launched I would have some time to relax. But support, bug fixes, responding to media requests, and planning next steps has kept me very busy.

http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com
Neat tool. I think it could definitely be enhanced with some visuals though, maybe on the cluster page you could graph related addresses or something.
Been working on my first Rails app for a few http://sixtasks.heroku.com because I think the idea of a to-do list is powerful, but the concept needs refining.

Also, I wanted to be able to track my productivity in a tangible way, and Six Tasks helps me do that: http://i.imgur.com/5bbLxJo.png

Trying to add features like smarter task recording, and maybe tagging list items, idk I'm just making it up as I go along
http://imgur.com/ax8oMxe

A semi-social stat tracking website for DOTA players. More advanced statistics than gathered by DOTABUFF, but those aren't shown in the screenshot.
The Chernobyl Lava "Medusa"
There was time ,maybe a year back, where Microsoft turned out to be one of the Top contributors to Linux Kernel. They had to fix some issue on Linux kernel to run on HyperV

Let's be very clear on this subject, though: Microsoft was doing it for their own benefit. It wasn't altruism.
The legal test of what IP would belong to your employer is that if the IP you developed was at the direction and expense of your employer. By expense, would also mean if you used knowledge gained specifically by working for your employer.

That is usually interpreted to mean... That you are building competing or complementing products to your employers.

For example if you build a great CRM system... And you work for a company that builds a word processor... They probably dont have a claim.... But if you build a specialized font system... They would probably have a claim based on the fact that you used knowledge gained by working with them.
> But what's getting them to the threshold in the first place is a damaged economy, and harmful public policy that has forced millions of people to look to odd jobs for sustenance.

Would be nice to qualify that statement a bit more. Articles like this seem to think that we've hit some minor blip in the history of Western economies, ignoring the vast amounts of evidence to the contrary. Unlike previous industrial revolutions, technology-driven solutions are now rapidly replacing human-capital across every industry, leaving little to no options for those being displaced. This trend doesn't show any sign of slowing.

Ideally, the sharing economy can evolve into the larger economy as a whole, shifting the nature of how compensation and payment take place between people, and shift the idea of what is a "job". Combined with technological advances, and a society can emerge where we don't require every single member to spend the majority of their time producing economic output in order to generate a sustainable amount of resources. That may sound naively optimistic, but no more so than the quaintly nostalgic dream this article professes, along the lines of "why can't things be like they were back in the good old days?!"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png

Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still very early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and buggy multiplayer mode.

The server is based on Scala & Akka, the client is plain JavaScript and WebGL/ThreeJS.
I'm out of the edit window, but he's actually fine :-)

https://twitter.com/mxech/status/460058856216072192
Co-founders wife getting in the way
I beg to differ. As someone who has not taken the trouble to learn Haskell, but who knows Common Lisp, I find it helpful.
Pay-walled. Didn't read.

Why are these being submitted? I can't be the only one who is not interested in signing up just to read a story.
This is sick. I haven't looked into other website localizing solutions, but how is this approach better than what's currently being used in industry?
Thanks! I'm usually much more cautious about branding/naming but for the life of me, I couldn't hit a sweet spot.

So I went with whatever I could think of.

Open to suggestions :)
Yep, it can be nice to have algorithms visualized. I'm also fond of http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/
Thank you extrapolate and ajaimk!
Yes, the backend is suffering a bit - but it will be back in a few minutes.

This is just a very limited demo of what BitIodine can do! For more info click on "About" or wait till new features ("Get insights") make it to the web interface.
Points taken :)
I bought that table in 1996 at Pottery Barn. It was ca. $800 then, but worth every penny. It’s nice and large and easy to move since the tabletop can simply be lifted off the wrought iron stands. Once a year I treat the wood with orange oil which makes it look like new.

Likewise, whenever I have (code)writers block I go or bike along the Hudson waterfront here. Love it.
Yes, and they can open same ports, same message queues, semaphores concurrently without problem, and makes it easy to define custom build environments. As a bonus, students can replicate my exact environment, so they cannot say "But it works on my machine"
A web application for my Computer Science dissertation (I'm writing up the report at the moment).

The idea was to produce a web app that you upload your bank statements to, the system categorises the transactions and then predicts how much money you will spend in each category next month.

Underneath the system is using machine learning techniques to model the spending, deciding whether or not a particular transaction will occur and triple exponential smoothing to predict how much would be spent.

Screenshot of the homepage (fake data):
http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png

I'm currently seeking research participants if any UK based (not tested with non UK data) users would like to give it a try: http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register. There's a survey link on the home page.

--

Edit: I also put together a biblatex checker which I've been using to validate my reference files for my report.

http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png
https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check
Neat. I just posted on reddit so I guess I'll just grab the same text.

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This is still an expense tracker "Spendy".

- Multiple currencies are handled smooth. You have one main currency but you can add multiple others and set up exchange rates for them. You can add expenses/incomes for them in any currency and in the log-view it will automatically show you both the entered currency and a smaller converted amount in your main currency. Perfect for travellers.

- Easy, quick. Non verbose UI.

- Data will not be locked in in any way. Dropbox sync, email data in CSV etc.

- Pretty? Color theme can be changed.

- Basic basic basic charts for now. 14 days overview is implemented. Will do more later.

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So I've worked a bit more on the app and I thought I'd put it here again.
This is the previous version: http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg

And this is the new one: http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp (excuse the layout and/or the large res)

I'll see if I can sum up the changes:

- Changed color to green, although I've made the color-theme chooseable by the user (see the bottom). The color theme is on the buttons, the "tints" (such as some text colors and etc).

- Made the Money log entries bigger/more space.

- Less stuff in the menu.

- Added a "settings" panel.

- Chart is now colored and includes both incomes and expenses.

- Before I had alertviews for lots of things. This has been replaces by inline buttons (see: delete/edit). These are also affected by the users chosen color btw.

- The tag-view is still bare-bones, but centered and alternating row-colors.

- The Currency-view is completely remade, see the bottom for how it looks. I tried to make "more" out of virtually no info and I do think it worked pretty well.

Any feedback is welcome!

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And a short GIF of the app in action. http://imgur.com/PFnRae7

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EDIT: Format. Sorry about the length of this text.
Why would the worst case change if you use a random number for choosing the pivot?
Same thing will happen in some countries in latin america, as people run away from socialist governments.
> Give it time.

I am:

> I'd have thought that it is still too early to say,
But it's not just about indexes or certain containers. Sure, C++ makes things unwieldy, but the solution is not to drop operator overloading in its entirety. Rust wants to take on C++ head to head. For graphics programming and certain applications, operator overloading makes life a lot easier, and is a very welcome addition.

Take a look at Scala for an arguably worse implementation of operator overloading. Though still, the IDE helps a lot there.
The entire "clearance" stuff is a steaming pile of bullshit waiting to blow up.

IIRC millions of people hold various levels of secret information clearance - even assuming a low probability of 0.01% you have thousands of potential leakers, and a lot of them isn't employed by the government, but private companies instead.
> It's considered disqualifying for most jobs to be convicted of a crime

This is not even remotely true.
Poll: Do you have a Tattoo?
Just got to thinking about HN's demographics and my guess is a very high number of regulars do not have tattoos. so let's find out.

Do you have a tattoo?
Yes - I have a small, non-visible tattoo or tattoos.
Yes - I have visible tattoo(s).
Yes - I have many visible tattoos such as entire arm(s), neck and/or face.
No - I have no tattoos but plan to get one someday.
No - I have no tattoos nor do I plan to get one in the future.
No - I will never get a tattoo.
On why learning to program is hard
Ask HN: Resources and Discussion on Back-weighted Vesting
My co-founder and I have spent a good amount of time and thought towards incorporating a vesting schedule for founders and employees. This has been on the top of our minds for the last week - since sama's blog post[0].

While the HN discussion[1] has some great comments on challenges faced by early employees and sama's post has discussed some alternate structures that benefit early employees (and founders); the discussions is a little light on resources on how a founder could make use some of these structures and any challenges they may face as a consequence.

The obvious choice would be to ask a lawyer - unfortunately most lawyers I have spoken to do not have an opinion/advice or have not done this before or find the idea ludicrous.

Would you use back-weighted vesting at your start-up? If not why?

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7610527

(For example, 10% of the grant vests after the first year, and then 20%, 30%, 40% in the following years.)
A flaw that makes the Tiobe index easy to game is it uses the maximum results from querying several search engines to calculate the ranking, not the sum.

That's how in Oct 2013 Groovy rose to #18 in the index from outside the top 50 only 5 months earlier (May 2013). 3 months later (Jan 2014), Groovy had dropped back out of the top 50 (#32 in Nov, #46 in Dec). According to Tiobe's Janssen [1]: "It turned out that the data that is produced by one of the Chinese sites that we track is interpreted incorrectly by our algorithms. After we had fixed this bug, Groovy lost much of its ratings."

Someone is also using a Chinese proxy to exploit Maven, boosting the apparent download figures for Groovy to target rankings like Redmonk [2]. Click on "country" and see where 85% of those downloads come from.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/c-pulls-a...

[2] https://bintray.com/groovy/maven/groovy/view/statistics
Haggle – Buy and sell things near you.
Why do same/opposite electric charges repel/attract each other?
Addendum (4/26/2014): My focus is from a Computer Systems and Engineering perspective on the blockchain as a distributed database with trustless write access and it’s potential as a major component for new applications. Bitcoin, the application it was designed for, isn’t the focus here.

From a technical standpoint, the blockchain doesn’t open up any new ‘technical’ attributes. The blockchain does not enable any new sensors, nor does it enable an order of magnitude increase in bandwidth, storage, affordability, that doesn’t also apply to any other types of distributed stores of data. In fact, performance will be most probably be worse and at best will not be any better than existing trustful distributed datastores. In other words, any system built on a blockchain can be built on any other distributed datastore.

It does open up new ‘social’ attributes where trust is distributed away from existing central authorities, and there’s a line of argument that existing central authorities slow down innovation in regulated areas. We already see activity around finance and a new form of DNS. My point here is that trust is not magically removed from the story. Trust (in an economic sense) is simply transferred from an existing central authority to a new oligarchy of coredevs and early adopters.

Authority is a different sense, and in the cleanest arguments for blockchain’s potential, authority is transferred from humans to mathematics (any blockchain-based system transferring power to another set of humans is just not that interesting). My line here is that more important transactions tend to be ones that are disputed and thus regulated. Enforcing these decisions (especially in cases of real property and physical assets) therefore tend to be a function of the government. In one scenario if we follow this line to completion, I imagine a computer authority with drones and robots enforcing all contracts. This is perhaps a more trusted government because the blockchain-based datastores will be ground truth and there will be no need for human intervention. I don’t have any qualms against such a future. In this case, authority and trust is transferred from existing governments to properly carry out the will of the people (which a lot of people at any given time don’t think is happening), to authority and trust that every component of this humanless contract enforcement apparatus being properly implemented. But in the immediate and foreseeable timeframe, it’s unclear how this new authority will play with existing authority, and that’s really out of scope for this particular commentary.

Thanks for the responses and discussion!