skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ferd did a pretty good webcast that goes over some of the design points for erlang-node deployments:

http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/2877
4 Signs That You’re a Natural-Born Project Manager
> Because it seems to have close to zero points of interest.

1. Go to osm.org
2. Create an account
3. Add the PoIs
4. Save changes
What are the worthwhile alternatives? I used to think along these lines, but anymore I'm not as sure. I think there can be advantages to the traditional structure, and I'm not sure the more bottom-up structures bring enough concrete benefit. I think maybe it can become a kind of "we are so enlightened" exercise in back-patting. But I'm always waiting to be convinced back to the other way of thinking ....
Startups: Let Us Pray… for Net Neutrality
"Internet of Things" pretty much requires IPv6.
The y2K problem was very real as well. A lot of the systems were still in place, and a TON of work happened at the end of the 90s to solve the y2K problem. The fact that not many of them failed showed the success of the Herculean effort to solve the problem.
Computational photography comes into focus
> It is about 8 years behind in my neighborhood.

Like I replied to the poster up-page; it's eight years behind because you haven't gone and added that data. Jump to it!
would like to know a bit more about comparisons with other realtime & offline-syncable BAAS like: Meteor, Firebase, AngularFire etc -
As a non-dev, this looks very appealing, but before I start learning I wanted to know more about the strengths/weaknesses compared to others.
I think you severely underestimate the effort it takes to run and maintain a successful community site.
Magic Cube 4D
You've entirely misunderstood both Banksy's quote and the conversation on this thread. He's talking about the co-opting of _public spaces_ for advertisement; Walking down the street is an activity that anyone has a right to do with no contingencies, and he sees being "forced" to see advertising as an intrusion on that activity. Whether or not you agree with him, that's certainly an internally consistent view of things.

On the other hand, what we're talking about here is explicitly choosing to request content from a webpage and then complaining that the ads are an intrusion. There's no analogue to "walking through a public space": no fundamental right to view content that other people made on exactly the terms that you deem acceptable. As poor a comparison as it may be, the comparison to shoplifting is FAR more accurate than the comparison to what Banksy is describing.
Is that thing with the two wheels on it some sort of high-density, digital storage device? It looks like a Mickey Mouse robot head.

There was one at my local second-hand audio shop in a dusty corner. I bet they didn't know they were sitting on such a device.
That's like saying that walking isn't an alternative to driving because there's no wheels. It's different, has a superset of functionality, and a different interface. It isn't a fork of ABP.
Name fixed, thank you for pointing it out.
[german] Hochlastseiten mit PHP, MySQL und Apache am Beispiel stern.de
List of open-source Android apps

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124002
Damn, basically fired by a computer algorithm. We are living in the future. But is Google too powerful?
Zero Downtime Frontend Deploys with Vulcand on CoreOS
Why I'm a Mentor at Lean Startup Machine Bangalore
Lean Startup Machine is coming to Bangalore, India. LSM has held 150 workshops in 50 cities, across six continents, for over 25,000 aspiring entrepreneurs around the world.
Looks neat, I might try it out but I don't see any pricing information.

Don't want to invest the time until I know it is something that would match my budget. Is that detailed anywhere?
OK, I stand corrected, after further testing I agree the inter-page navigation doesn't work right.
Only kinetic energy does not contribute to mass. In fact, it's even narrower: only the kinetic energy of the center of mass does not contribute. For example, heat energy is really just kinetic energy of the constituent particles, and heat definitely contributes to mass.

The essential idea is that mass is Lorentz invariant, which means it does not change under changes of coordinate systems. So mass must be independent of velocity and orientation, which are just artifacts of how you measure anyways.
Heroku Platform API now GA
My laptop has a single core and 768MB RAM with a spinning-rust architecture.

Know your user base is probably the answer here.
Twitter reportedly considering purchase of SoundCloud
Hoodie does server-side validation of untrusted data.
Are you saying LLVM has a problem with producing unaligned accesses, as in you can't prevent this?

That would be pretty awful; on how many architectures do they still cause exceptions?

ARM says the ARMv6 was the first architecture to support this (http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....).
I just commented on HN yesterday on the success of Metafilter's model of charging a gatekeeper fee for posting. Maybe a one time fee is enough to keep spam at bay but not enough to pay moderators.

The bigger issue seems to be Google's algorithm changes. I don't think anyone would argue that Metafilter is a low quality site or that they should appear below some of the spammy and generally worthless sites that continue to stay near the top. Relying on ad revenue is difficult, especially when your core audience is the crowd that is typically running ad blockers and search traffic changes at the whim of a search engine.
I wonder where they would be today if they took a monthly or yearly as opposed to a one-time fee. It seems to me like recurring revenue would turn the main problem into keeping users, rather than recruiting them.
Great insight.

I really like the taste of Nutella, but it is extremely sweet - which may have something to do with its popularity. Hershey's and Jif have released similar products (hazelnut spread) recently too. I think there may be more consumer demand for a more nutritious chocolate/nut spread as you suggest.

Interestingly, Nutella doesn't do well in warmer temperatures. So their ability to reach new markets in warmer climates (C./S. America, South/SE Asia, Africa) may be somewhat limited until they figure this out.
Giving full email privileges to the client is a terrible idea. Even if you do rate limiting, you're essentially allowing anyone to get your mail server(s) blacklisted and all future mail from anyone marked as spam.

In general, most people would be naturally apprehensive about federating their entire user authentication system through a third party. However, I suppose that by using hoodie you are supporting a group of people whose only job is to ensure security and fix vulnerabilities in your login system. It's also open-source, so you can vet it for yourself.

The JS library needs more work though - I could think of several basic use cases that it can't handle. It would also be great to see some full examples. Overall this is very cool stuff.
Why is "State of MetaFilter" upvoted? "LOL, I USE METAFILTER, SO I BETTER UPVOTE THIS"?

Why is "Pokemon Crystal disassembled source code" upvoted? "LOL, I PLAYED POKEYMON SO I BETTER UPVOTE THIS"?

What is your point exactly? People upvote what interests them. Don't like it don't upvote. What is the point of complaining just of its own sake without adding anything to the discussion.
Yup :) — We are aiming for the Google Docs sharing model eventually. It is specced out and we are slowly implementing it bottom up based on current use-cases.
This is not correct:

"Earth’s Roche limit, the distance from the Earth where its tides could break another object apart"

It's a very common error. This limit is for an object "held together by gravity alone"! The moon is not held together by gravity alone - the dust on the surface is, but the rocks in the center are all fused together.

Additionally since they assume the moon will continue to have a synchronized orbit (the same side always faces us) it won't feel the tides in the same way. It would feel some constant stretching, but not the severe flexing caused by rotation.

The closer side would fall "down" and the far side would fall "up". Only the center would be in free fall. I suspect the moon could survive that - but I'm not sure.

If not, it would spread out into rings.

There's other errors too: In a situation like this the Earth would also synchronize it's orbit. A day would speed up and the moon pushed higher until the two matched. This would stop the flood, burn scenario in the article.
I'm more the frontend guy at Hoodie, but what you'll be able to do is to allocate roles to users and based on the roles you can give read/write access down to document level.

If you have a specific scenario in mind, I'm happy to elaborate.
Hoe kan je slakken op een natuurlijke manier uit je tuin houden?
I didn't try very hard, but I didn't see links to any maps from the main page (maybe this is on purpose, I don't know, I was curious what they looked like and no example was obvious).

The shp export from phillytreemap.org doesn't include trees.shp. Nor does a search in Grand Rapids and another in Seattle. Am I misunderstanding how the data is organized? The other formats seem to include the trees, but they are not especially conveniently organized.

For version 2, I tried to download "Edgemont" from Edmonton, 150 trees. The preparing box came up and nothing happened for several minutes and I gave up (well, really I tried it in a different browser that has a cleaner profile, but it didn't work there either).

I don't need the data for anything, just looking at how it works and what comes out.
"Those who are doing this in China are most likely not doing this for China - they are taking advantage of state resources to benefit themselves and their cronies"

Quite the contrary. Odds are that the people in China that could access computers, and the people that could spend months doing this ARE working for the government of China.

It is the Government of China he who has resources, not so individuals.

Individuals in China could be at much script kiddies. Education is poor at the moment, and most people are so poor that just buying a computer is a sacrifice.

But Government is very powerful there.
Comcast plans data caps for all customers
If someone manage to break into your server, won't it open up access to all your customer's servers?
Not that we are aware of. Could you please open an issue at https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-server/issues/new, and post your error messages? We're happy to help
The two biggest experiments in human nutrition currently happening are in the /r/keto and /r/paleo subreddits. Well, not really, they are lots of people not in reddit who are also part of them.

Example of their influence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis
Great point. Client-side can't do any meta analysis about the data, unless it fetches all the data. Which is a big waste of bandwidth and cpu.
How can I get aggregated hourly visitors from Google Analytics?
They really need to update their site for mobile. I couldn't read anything
Thank you. I wish this was more obvious.
Full disclosure: I live in Vancouver. Searching for "startup" on meetup.com returns 78 groups for Vancouver and only 31 groups for Toronto. While Toronto is said to be better for startups the difference is small enough that it comes down to a personal choice of schools and lifestyle.
Honest question why would you care about the speed of a static site generator?
As long as it generates the site in a reasonable time I'm fine with it.
I'm interested in the technology they use for this -- record on-site, requiring someone in the country maintain a pretty decent hard disk farm, or send every call back to the US over expensive bandwidth?

For the Bahamas, you could clearly do either, but for the Philippines, sending back all content would be seriously difficult. Which is why it looks like they just do metadata from the bigger countries.

For the unnamed full-data country, I'd probably bet on the Caymans. Antigua or another small Caribbean nation would be a possibility.

I assume there is another entire program for actual jihadi communications (Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc.) under different cover and pretense; the other countries in MYSTIC appear to be DEA LI based.
Depends on what "basic PHP" really mean. Modern PHP can be overwhelming for people from PHP4 / 5.0 eras.

I would (arbitrarily) reduce your choices to those two :

- Your project is not public and/or not likely to evolve much beyond the initial requirements : get Bootstrap and use a "basic" PHP script. You can already do a lot with raw PHP with the SPL (autoloader etc), filters (http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.filter.php), etc.

- If you need more, use a microframework like Silex or Flight. The learning curve will be steeper, but you'll also get more feature out of the box, if you need them.
No it's fine, changing is needed in a community.
"The name is a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law." - from the linked Wikipedia article; emphasis mine
Inside the Roche limit[0], the Moon would begin to disintegrate (depending on its relative strength compared to the disruptive forces) and the Earth would end up with rings.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit
In the last 5 years we've seen both Quora, StackOverflow launch and gain serious traction and Yelp has consolidated its position as a top destination for local search.

AskMeFi likely is seeing the results of going up against massively VC-backed competitors. It's hard to imagine Google's search updates were aimed at prioritizing "worthless sites".

Edit: And Reddit & Imgur have exploded. Those have probably had even bigger impacts.
The same encrypted communications that the NSA tries to subvert or sabotage with bribery and legal extortion?
Predictive Sales Tool 6Sense (YC W13) Raises $12M
There's a pricing page once you are signed up: https://<yourusername>.commando.io/pricing

Looks like the smallest plan is $18/month for "12 servers and 5 users". I'd love to see a smaller plan for maybe up to 5 servers. This would be neat to quickly deploy servers for weekend projects etc.
I hope she has something bigger, better, and more exciting to move on to. She's well-respected due to her role in shaping Metafilter to what it is today.
Any evidence that this is for funding terrorism, or is just wishful thinking?
What teraflop said. cortex here, one of the mefi moderators.

I totally understand where arguments along the lines of "automate and eliminate human costs" come from and there is absolutely value in finding ways to simplify/streamline/remove work, and we've developed a lot of custom tools for the site over the years to do just that. It's something that we'll have to do more of now as we transition to the smaller staff, taking a lot from what we've learned over the last several years as guidance.

But the fact that Metafilter has attentive, thoughtful human eyes on the site and hands on the till is a defining part of the culture and nature of the site. It's not a question of whether it's a good business expense, it's a question of whether it's what makes for the kind of community we want to maintain.
A successful deep integration between these two services would be block buster. If they pull it off, it would be an absolutely amazing pairing.
OP here. I don't know of a feed that does this.

However, something like that should be relatively simple to build.

HN's API (https://hn.algolia.com/api) can access all comments in a post. Should just be a matter of collecting all top-level comments, sorting by points, and sticking the top few into the RSS <description> element.

I'll consider adding this as an optional feature in hnrss. Would need to add caching, though, as each feed request would generate 20 separate API requests.
Puppet provisions fine on an EC2 micro instance. It's no heftier than the software you'd want it to install to run your site anyways.
Although obviously much simpler, I've always been a huge fan of csshx. https://code.google.com/p/csshx/
Besides the points already mentioned, Meteor is VC backed. Hoodie is an open source project first, that we founded & bootstrapped a company for to sustain its future, and that we will eventually turn into a non-profit. We are and will be not accountable to any investor with questionable interests in an open source project.
I'm guessing the other unnamed country is Afghanistan. It's a major drug producer which would justify DEA's involvement but also has general terrorism/national security concerns for the NSA's own interest. The word length also is a good match for the blacked-out area.
I agree. Being acquired by Twitter just makes it more likely that SoundCloud will fail, to me - have Twitter actually come up with a decent monetisation strategy yet?
I think it would benefit from an option for 'Online routing when available'.
I have always wondered about the Moon in geo-synchronous orbit. Over the ocean it could create a water mountain that didn't move. And geo-synch is nicely outside the Roche limit :-)
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> For example 'cars' many more 'good' uses than 'bad' uses, 'bombs' many more 'bad' uses than 'good' uses.

You don't think that's a little over-simplistic?

Last year, cars killed ~1.2 million people around the world.

From explosive incidents, it's hard to tell, but doing some quick Google it seems to hover around 50,000 per year.

Cars also probably cause climate change, bombs don't. Cars get us around quicker, but at the cost of our health.

Bombs can end wars, and we quickly reached nuclear neutrality after the cold war.

Bombs are great in comparison to the automobile.
Until not long ago there was a nice, growing attempt in Radix (redigo is basically the Redis library for Go now). It was barebones but did some of this.

Either way, I'm glad there's some work on another, although this looks like it's essentially a RESP parser rather than aiming to ever be a Redis interface.
Tripping (Kayak of Vacation Rentals) gets large Series A
Very cool, is there any ETA on parallel execution and background execution (ex: Currently, you have to stay on the page while the recipe executes.)

Additionally, it seems that the more servers you have, the more you pay per server. Our use case would be several sysadmins (less than 5 users) accessing 50+ servers, which would mean we'd be paying ~$3/server/mo, whereas on the lower plan it works out to literally half that, at ~$1.5/server/mo, is pricing already finalized?

Thanks!
So the constant cry by the government for better STEM programs is just a sham? It should be just renamed to TEM.
I considered that option when I wrote my comment. There are only a few countries with the resources to detect an ICBM launch. These are also countries which can detect orbiting satellites and determine their orbit. For that matter, there are amateur organizations which track satellite orbits, and are usually the first ones to report when the US has put up a new spy satellite; doing so within a few days.

Yes, it's possible to shift the plane of the orbit when over, say, the South Pacific, and get an element of surprise. "Just enough" is still quite a bit. The Shuttle and Soyuz use air breaking, and take about an hour from the deorbit burn to landing.

Any country that can detect an ICBM launch, with 30 minutes of warning, can likely also detect the ionization trail of a craft/vehicle/weapon going through reentry. Also, said craft won't be able to use any external targeting guidance like GPL until after getting through the blackout.

If I read http://www.spaceflight101.com/soyuz-tma-10m-mission-updates.... right, there's at least 10 and more likely 15 minutes of warning from ionization trail detection to hitting the ground. By comparison, https://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/sgs/pdf/3_1-2gron... lists a sub-launched Trident as being able to hit a target 3,000 km away in 9.8 minutes.

Also, it's easier to launch a missile from a sub, and easier to test sub launches than it is to test satellite-based attack deorbits.
Over 130 ft long, new sauropod may be the largest dinosaur yet discovered
yeah, he's referencing the size of the flash rom dump that the cartridges came with.

edit: oh, I didn't notice your question can be answered two ways. For the other half, I am unsure if it was 4 people on the whole project.
Hey nodesocket,

Just fired up a beta instance as I am quite intrigued by your tool-set. looks very nice on first shine.

Getting some permission errors when trying to get ssh access to an Ubuntu 12.04 server. I'm in touch with y'all via your intercom dashboard.
I see no proof on that page. I just see the word of a reporter, on most of his other reports there were links to slides or documents.

I hope this part is true:

>"What we do not do, as we have said many times, is use our foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of – or give intelligence we collect to – US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line."

Sounds like they are capturing data like this but not giving it you. What would they need it for? I dont see an honest reason or response.
Would hate to lose the Big Blue :(.

A site I've visited at least once a day every day for over a decade.
Not yet. https://github.com/espy/hoodie-plugin-tutorial

"This document describes functionality and features that don't exist yet."
Sure. For what it's worth, though, we've continued to see steady signups for years and years; the concern over the ossification of a conservative site design is a reasonable one and one we chew on plenty, trust me, but as far as that goes we haven't all else aside seen active new-user interest go away.
Show HN: Cold Call Manager
Ask HN: I am looking for a server monitoring tool featured on HN
Hello HN,

I am looking for a tool I saw on HN about a or two month ago. I believe it was a Ruby app that you installed on a server. Then you were supposed to tunnel via ssh and visit a localhost website. From there you could look at the server's performance including CPU and RAM. It was kinda like New Relic, but self hosted.

If this is the wrong place to post this, let me know. Sorry in advance for disrupting your Monday.

Marshall
> You can't live off those products alone, you would miss out on important nutrients.

As you would with Soylent, as others have pointed out in detailed analysis of how it provides, in many nutrient categories, only a single (and often the least useful) one of a broad group of related nutrients.

> AFAIK Soylent is a food replacement.

Well, its marketed that way. That doesn't mean its actually good for that.

>
Get your local transit provider to publish their schedules in GTFS! (Or maybe they already do? http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/ )
For a real example see Pluto and its largest moon Charon. And as you probably already know, our moon IS tidally locked to us ;)

Then, there's the question "What if the earth was a torus?": http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2014/02/torusearth.html
There is supposed to be a softer Panda algorithm coming soon (Matt Cutts announced it in March 2014 - http://searchengineland.com/google-working-softer-gentler-pa...). Maybe that will help?

Google definitely caused a lot of collateral damage with Panda, especially to large sites with user generated content. And unlike algorithms that target aggressive use of links or ads, it's still very unclear how to fix a site that's been hit by Panda (I should know, my car review site was hit by Panda, and never really recovered, despite 2 years of improvement work).

Now that content farms are not such a pressing problem, Google should be able to dial things back a bit, so that good sites like Metafilter aren't ranked lower than they otherwise would be.