skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goes to show the power of knowing the right people, or in this case, coincidentally meeting them on a plane.

It's funny how air travel, in some regards, actually turns out to be somewhat egalitarian, especially on Southwest where you have no "First class cabin". You can go for "Business Select" but that just means you get in line earlier to get on the plane, but it doesn't put you in any special area.

Amusing anecdote... I was flying back to NC from San Francisco last week and started talking to the guy sitting next to me. He mentioned being in the beer industry, so I asked who he worked for, and he said "Miller-Coors". Later I happened to ask him what his role there was, and he replied "CEO".

Turns out he's from North Carolina and we had a nice talk on the way in. And as it was, I wasn't trying to sell him anything (we mostly talked about beer), but it's funny that I got to sit and chat for an extended period of time with a big-shot CEO that I never could have gotten a meeting with otherwise.

So yeah, air travel can definitely result in some interesting chance encounters.
The Entrepreneur's Shares: A Balanced Approach To Founder's Equity
Neurons that respond to faces show stable behavior even as the brain changes
Show HN: Sleio – Nonprofit Google Alternative
Based on http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html I asked myself what would it take to build a Google-like search engine? What would change people's minds about using different search engine than Google and then it hit me out of the blue.

I would love to use nonprofit open-source search engine. That's why I built Sleio (http://www.sleio.com/) -
a search engine that donates 100% of its profits to causes you love. It's powered by Google at the moment, but I believe it's a good start.

I am eager to hear ideas how to make this happen. Your feedback is very appreciated.
Again, are we certain about the FCC's intentions? I dont know the gory details of this issue, and I dont want a slow lane, but I'm only seeing vague accusations and little evidence. OTOH, the FCC said clearly and explicitly, and directly to the face of big-ISP that slow lanes are not being proposed and will not under any circumstance be allowed. In the chairman's latest speech, to the NCTA, he said "Put away the party hats"... and "Let me be clear. If someone acts to divide the Internet between “haves” and “have-nots,” we will use every power at our disposal to stop it. I consider that to include Title II."

Edit: http://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-tom-wheeler-remarks-nct...
Interesting, my experience with hosts files has been that they do not block ads nearly as well as ABP. A lot of the ads I see are served from the same host as the content. ABP also blocks things like youtube ads that I don't think can be blocked at the DNS level.

I'd love to move the ad filtering out of my browser though, either into a proxy like privoxy or DNS filtering, if it worked well.
So the base feature of phone torches is backup for power blackouts. I always thought it was to be able to just use the phone for a few seconds when the light in the building switch off while you are at the stairs. Or to quickly read some note outside in the not so light place. Using phone LED instead of real battery is really poor bad, since it drains battery very quickly.
(CoreOS eng here) We no longer have a Chaos Monkey. Since the beta release, the "Chaos Monkey" can be disabled via configuration. See the "reboot-strategy:" in this post. This is the recommended way to do that:

http://coreos.com/blog/coreos-beta-release/
freeslugs did you make this? If not, why are you tagging it "Show HN"?
When you held your iPhone 4 wrong and the connection dropped, people didn't claim that there was no antenna.
This is great. I just implemented it and I can already tell that my web experience is going faster.
This seems like a muddled UX to me - either it could all be integrated/aggregated and filtered or it should be more focused to start.

I'd also say from the UX perspective there's a bit of an expectation that [ left side in a list right side in expanded view ] tends to denote a relationship between the two when in fact there is none.

Feels like an aggregator that didn't want to just be an aggregator. It does look pretty, though.
I think they change the ratio of LDL / HDL , i.e. they increase the HDL level which is good since, there is less cholesterol in periphery arteries to clog them. i also remember them having an effect on triglycerides (overall decrease), so i still don't think that omega 3 effects on cvd is BS since those are some of the key factors of the genesis of arteriosclerosis, so it might not help the Heart itself directly , but i am pretty sure there are huge vascular advantages and that's mostly anyway what's messing up the heart in the ende.
I think it depends how tightly your business logic and your view are bound and how well your business logic is abstracted. I use Angular at work and 90% of the bugs we get can be caught by a unit test. On a rare occasion something will be mis-labeled on the markup and the two-way-binding "fails" silently, but usually our bugs are errors in the logic.

Whenever you fix a bug in your code, try to cover it with a unit test. If you can't, ask yourself whether it might be because the code is poorly abstracted.

I think there are definitely varying degrees of value in unit tests. Your example is definitely not super valuable, but unit tests on higher level methods can save a lot of trouble. When I code I want to rest assured that the different pieces I am using work. I want assurance that this class I'm about to use has an API that does exactly what it says. If I want to change modify the class, I want to see exactly what assumptions I'm breaking that users of this class might be making, and I want to be able to do this in under a second. This can have a drastic impact on developer velocity. I don't know of any other way of doing this than unit tests.
Much nicer is a really big word for some scrobbling and suggestions.

I pay money for tracked stuff you say, but they're basically tracking what trakt.tv already does, hooking into their recommendation engine, and then serving the result in some nice sauce.

I think marketingwise this is brilliant, but I would never pay money for it. As said above, this is a nice to have feature on top of a lot of other things. Content availability being the most important IMO.
Great article. If I'm understanding it correctly, it seems like the advantage comes from mapping your domain actions to the standard HTTP actions on each domain object. Once this is done, your API is simply the media types and the interaction with your service can be done through well-understood HTTP actions rather than learning a bunch of method calls as in an RPC approach. Correct?
The time pausing mechanic also lets someone who has not played FPSs for half their life have the experience of being a god-like player who avoids all shots and gets a head shot every time. As someone who normally hates first person games and has no interest in practicing them for months on end, this is cool.
Same here. The first three were a good start. It was a little annoying that there is zero feedback on the peer assessments other than the grade. The third class starts off slow but by he last week is at about the same level as the R Programming course. My biggest complaint ( which applies to all of these courses) is that the lectures are just narrated PowerPoint presentations. Are all moocs like that? I'm not expecting polished videos at the same level as Kahn Academy but these lectures are just a small step up from fading the slides myself.

Now I'm taking the next three. They are a good continuation that picks up where the first three left off. I was looking forward to the Statstical Inference class. It has been almost 10 years since I took intro to stats in college. For someone without any stats background this course will really step up the difficulty. I was even more disappointed with the lectures on the stats cours. The yellow highlighting as he reads each line on the slide is extremely distracting. But the content is exactly what I was hoping for.

I've done a little hacking with R for data heavy analysis at work when excel couldn't handle the data. I'm really glad to be taking advantage of this opportunity to get more experience with it in these course. My day job is implementing the 'production' side of this kind of data processing with java and hadoop in the healthcare space. Hopefully this specialization will help me better communicate with our clinical/science teams.
> "After Facebook acquired Instagram they were really clear that they wanted them to stay independent."

Snort. Giggle. Boy have I heard that one before. Everyone says that about every acquisition that isn't an acquihire. Hell, a lot of the time they even mean it.

I have yet to see a single acquisition that promised independence and autonomy actually maintain it for an extended period of time (say, multiple years).
I totally agree with that.

(I did upvote the comment but I want the creator of the extension to know that more people are interested)
Show HN: EnduroSync – Mobile Data Synchronization Made Easy
Battery life on the 520 is pretty great. Lasts 3 days easy.

The dual-sim 630 just came out in India [0], but the price appears to be closer to $200. It has a 4.5" gorilla glass screen, but keeps the 512MB of RAM, and has no LTE support (that's in the coming-soon 635).

See my other comment on this thread for thoughts on how a 512MB WP device might provide a better long-term experience than a 1GB Android device in some ways.

I find this low-end market fascinating. Personally I use and prefer a Nexus 5, but as a WP developer it's eye-opening to see that fully 50% of our active WP8 user sessions are on a 512MB WP device (and almost half of those are 520/521).

[0] http://www.ibtimes.co.in/nokia-lumia-630-india-price-reveale...
If you think everyone or even most people out there want to upgrade their computers every couple years, and go for models with lots of RAM in them.. I'm sorry, you're wrong. Some geeks might have 16G or 32G but that's it.

Besides, whatever happened to Web browsing being a lightweight activity accessible for everyone even on his grandma's old PC?
If I saw this more than once (i.e, if it was on multiple websites) I would get quite angry at the webmasters, not at the FCC/Comcast/whoever you want me to be angry about.

Un-dismissable twenty second delays to people reading your website will only serve to upset your audience, and in my opinion, shows a lack of respect for your readers time.
I thought that was only the chrome version, since google does not want to implement features to allow adblockers to stop requests.

Firefox does support it, and I know that in the past adblock did stop the requests rather than hide elements.
I can't think of any recent acquisitions where the same type of lies weren't uttered.

"We're so happy to be joining Billion Corp. We feel that they will let us stay independent and stick to our goals. We will continue to provide the same awesome experience you all came to know and love before we sold out."

"We're so happy to be acquiring talent instead of finding it. We will totally not, not make their project theirs instead of ours, depending on our lawyers, and our shareholders. Frankly, we're just glad we didn't have to actually spend time building a good product and hiring people like these folks, since they would've never joined us in the first place."
Right, and maybe that's tough to do from the onset, but as you learn those lessons you can and should adjust.

So if your conversion rate is X and you offer Y and you're losing money, you probably need to reduce what Y costs (or can cost) you.
I felt like Neo from The Matrix ! :-)
If I were to describe what somebody does in an FPS, I would say they doge bullets.
Shared an apartment with a guy in YCS07.
As a recent Austin subscriber to AT&Ts GigaPower, I opted to let them snoop on my traffic for the discount. I really didn't see the difference in what they were doing versus Google or any other search engine. That, along with the significant price reduction ($320/mo versus $140/mo - they didn't let me bundle any services without the deal) led me to allow this.

As another poster mentioned - if I get really paranoid, I will eventually set up a VPN, and tunnel all of my traffic through that.

I did want to add that once Google Fiber comes to my neighborhood, I will be jumping ship though. We have had two significant outages in the first month of GigaPower.
Without exploring what you do too deeply, is there a way for you to monetize the freemium/free trial accounts? Can you apply some advertising to them automatically unless/until they upgrade?
What's Up With Apple's iBeacon A Year After Introduction?
I'm all about seeing new ideas about how to approach networking architectures, but this one makes me worried for anyone who decides to adopt it.

Networking is an inherently complex problem. Attempting to simplify the problem by ignoring those complexities, rather than actually deal with them, misses the point entirely.

This library in particular demonstrates an unfortunate lack of understanding of why Apple has designed its networking stack the way it has. As a result, it needlessly duplicates interfaces and functionality of built-in classes.

Not exposing NSURLRequest means that there's no support for caching policies, or HTTP pipelining, or setting an HTTP body stream, or control over cellular access. Not using NSURLCredential or exposing authentication challenges means that you lose support for digest auth, NTLM, and kerberos, and leaves the user vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks for lack of certificate pinning and verification. Not exposing other delegate methods means no backgrounding support, no cache control, and no extensibility beyond what the original author envisioned.

AFNetworking is modular and composable. If you don't want to deal with its complexity, you can ignore a lot of it. If you don't need much, just use the built in NSURLConnection or NSURLSession classes (they're actually quite nice). But seriously, don't settle for a wrapper library that dumbs down a problem; you'll regret it soon enough.
Pentagon gives initial support to Manning transfer for gender treatment
I do the same thing with my 6 year old daughter. She feels like a game designer and comes up with super crazy game ideas. Shark Salon? Sure! Let's do it!
Use Bluhell Firewall and NoScript for Firefox instead of ABP.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bluhell-firew...
You'd probably end up paying a lot more than $5/mo for a VPN that is actually able to keep up with gigabit internet speeds and downloading habits.
So unless you win the Google lottery you have a choice between having AT&T watching your every packet or Comcast's Standard "Oil" Cable monopoly in progress. No Google for me so it's essentially a Hobson's choice for me.
Or you could pay an additional $5/month for a decent VPN.

TIL another reason why Ma Bell doesn't like neutrality. If they get their way we can expect performance on unobfuscated VPNs to suffer.
This certainly was an issue in early days of P2P, but I thought it was already solved for good.

Doesn't P2P works nearly literally everywhere nowadays and aren't there loads of NAT-piercing and/or tunneling libraries that Just Work™? (Well, possibly, unless put behind some truly abysmal corporate firewalls where even plain outgoing HTTP isn't working all the time — but that would be another story.)
Apiary is also a good option ( http://apiary.io).
My airline charges me for the flight, then prints out an ad on the boarding pass. I wasn't aware that businesses had to pick one way of monetizing users. I don't like that this has become the way the internet is bankrolled, but all my data is being snooped the minute it leaves AT&T's network, so what do I really care if AT&T gets in the game too?

> And they're making billions from it, too.

I don't find this argument wildly compelling in light of Facebook's 25% profit margin, versus AT&T's 11% margin.

> You'd pay $744 per year to use Facebook? You don't say.

As a 30-something with a kid, I have to admit my primary use of Facebook is sharing pictures of my daughter and my friends' kids. But Facebook benefits from powerful network effects. It's the only site my parents, my wife's parents, and my family in Bangladesh regularly check, and they demand regular baby updates. As a practical matter, I have more ISP choices than social-networking choices.
Good stuff! It's still not pulled in any payments for me (I tried reconnecting).

On the VAT rate it wouldn't matter which way I (or other customers) preferred to do it. That decision would have already been made when the payment was taken otherwise I'd have to process another payment via Stripe - very messy for accounting. The example could have also been:

A $60 payment in Stripe from someone in the UK, France etc should result in an invoice for $50 + $10 VAT

A $50 payment in Stripe from someone in the US, Canada etc should result in an invoice for $50 + $0.00 VAT

Something like this should do the trick (I guess you have the second half of this already):

def get_tax_amount(stripe_payment)
if stripe_payment.metadata.tax.nil?
if customer.auto_eu_vat_on? && EU_COUNTRY_CODES.include?(stripe_payment.country_code)
return stripe_payment.amount * (EU_VAT_RATES[customer.country_code]/100)
end
else
return 0.0
end
else
return stripe_payment.amount * (stripe_payment.metadata.tax/100)
end
end

Critically with my current payment mechanisms I only find out the customer's country when they checkout with Stripe. I don't want to ask them before that to keep the form field count low and work within WuFoo's constraints. I don't know if I need to charge a customer VAT until after they have paid. (I conscious that I'm effectively either my giving EU customers a discount or charging non-EU customers a premium but that's not a concern at the moment.)

The only cases I can think of that would require metatdata are:

1) A $60 payment in Stripe from someone in Germany where the company's EU VAT number is provided in metadata should result in an invoice for $60 + $0.00 VAT

2) If I'm selling products that have different VAT rates. That's unlikely if your market is primarily software / digital products like Stripe's market.
Issue #86: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/86

Would be nice if someone forked and start to adapt to Firefox. I would of course work in concert as this would allow to identify parts of the code which is browser specific and which parts can be turned into an independent library.
Then once the law passes, the FCC chairmen steps down and a new puppet gets implanted.
I'm not a deep user of Instagram, but I'm wondering if Facebook's places database is better (more meta data, better accuracy, more user feedback, etc) than Foresquare's location information?
Unit test are more useful for refactoring, making sure the system works the same before & after.
To be pedantic: That's not blocking, it's just hiding. They have vastly different implications.
Which is why I don't use it anymore. It's nice to use in the beginning, but it starts to get detracting every time you open a nice tab.
Nintendo set to launch first app, but don't expect gaming
Math plus dance creates success for girls in STEM
As a marketer working with SaaS companies, I would caution you against reading articles like this.

They make big generalizations (free trials are bad!) based on hindsight reasoning and very few data. For every article you find that says you should do X, you can just as easily find one that says you should NOT do X.

With that said, two good sources of information are Jason Cohen[0] and Patrick McKenzie[1].

[0] http://blog.asmartbear.com/
[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/

And if you're looking to have someone in your corner who has done this, give me a shout!
No, protection money is when someone threatens to do something illegal. This is offering a discount in return for viewing targeted ads, which is something, e.g. Amazon does with their Kindle, among many other companies.
Portal was definitely more than one clever gimmick repeatedly reused though: puzzle design, plot (short as it was), and atmosphere were very well thought through. I recommend giving it a shot if you have a couple of hours spare next time the original is dirt cheap in a Steam sale.

It is worth replaying with the "commentary track" option afterwards: it is quite an education to find out how much play testing and rework effort goes into trying to get everything "balanced just right" even for a game of that size (which in turn explains where a chunk of the massive amounts of money and other resource ploughed into some larger titles goes, and why naively cheap game based kickstarters are a often bad idea).

If with this game the creators can wrap the other elements around their core gameplay artifact(s) in the same way then it'll be well worth a go, if they can't then, well, that is always the risk of kickstarter and it is your choice (valid either way) to, or not to, take a punt on that.
It'd be interesting to dive into parts of e.g. Linux source to see how it tests domains against the hosts file. It probably isn't doing anything as clever as Bloom, though, but who knows...
it has the aesthetics of a raw edgy antichamber, albeit completely different game mechanics, it definitely looks like fun, secondly i am a sucker for indie games and their unusual approaches, and with an oculus this will probably be the bomb.
This is related to what we mean we we say 'legacy' systems, do we mean it's simply an old system inexplicably holding out in the modern world, or do we mean that it's a tried and proven stable system that have continued to perfectly fulfil it's use case for 32 years?
The 2nd edition of Double Your Freelancing Rate is out!
Not so sure; it could still be encrypted (also bad practice)

Still, if you receive your password back, that is a giant red sign screaming insecurity
By meetup
To all the people automatically assuming that this is a result of facebook acquiring instagram, what if this actually improves the user experience? What if instagram always wanted to integrate with facebook because they knew it was a better user experience and yet didn't because they knew facebook was instagram's #1 competitor? In that case the acquisition enables a positive.

I, for one, could not give a crap about foursquare and yet use facebook on a daily basis. I understand foursquare has its community of supporters but I don't think any objective person will argue that foursquare is on a solid trajectory. In that case, it'd make sense to go with a more established player.
At the very low end, $1-2 is a lot in terms of the production cost of a mobile phone. I'd wager that's why Nokia dropped it from the 520 as well, since they're at $70 off contract now.
I worked at Justin.TV. My impression is early yc companies used it as an internal reddit that just got more and more external over time.
That's the point of the testing pyramid at the end of the article. My rule of thumb is this: if you can test something at the unit testing level with mocks and feel confident about the behavior then do so. Otherwise, start moving up the pyramid (isolated integration tests > end of end integration tests > UI tests).

The higher you get the more time it takes for tests to run, the more difficult it is to identify where a failure is, the more brittle those tests will be because of inter-dependencies, and the more complex it is to write the test. The difficult part is understanding your system well enough to know where your unit tests aren't sufficient.
Wit.AI (YC W14) is hiring full-stack engineers – Clojure lovers welcome
I can't speak to the British auto dealer experience, but in the US, salespeople are often undertrained and don't actually know enough about what they're selling.

Volkswagen can't really push its influence onto the salespeople directly, it would need to go through the dealer.