skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India should buy this company or do something very similar. I mean the country India, the government. This could be a big step towards solving hunger. We should look for optimizing mass production. And it reduces cost of wood or gas, distribution and packaging wastage, spoilt food and the like.

To take my country's example, this should just be free. If people are hungry, get our desi version of solyent. Nobody is forced to have it, yet they have better nutrition than anyone else right now including the rich people eating unhealthy fried stuff.
Is business idea validation bullshit? (or do we need a more effective approach?)
Can't you already set Firefox (and Chrome?) to only keep cookies around for the session?
Using SVD to Obtain Regression Lines
You are not crazy. The single page app trend is solidly in the "peak of inflated expectations" phase of the hype cycle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle ), which is why there exists a subculture of developers who are trying to use the approach for everything, even where it isn't appropriate.
This deletes cookies /during/ the session. After you close a tab, any cookies unique to that tab's history are cleared
Is there any difference in functionality or added benefit of using your service over prerender?
But what if they start making it out of people?
David Rees and Blackwing Pencils: Artisanal Pencil Sharpening
Dear N00bs, SPA works great w/ SEO.

Hashtags! (ex: https://github.com/puppetMaster3/ModuleBU/blob/master/latest... in AppBu section, github has examples).

Just because twitter or Facebook programers don't know how to do it, but then they do hire 0 experience out of school.

Cheers.
It's Fortran. Placing a "C" in the first column means Comment [1][2].

This burned one of my teammates once because he used Emacs to edit a Fortran file and in trying to type C-x C-c he accidentally added a "c" to the front of a line of code. This broke our application in production.

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/class/me200c/tutorial_77/03_basics.h...
[2] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/805-4939/z40007332024/in...
If the government of Indian bought it and then managed it like the existing ration system that would not necessarily actually improve the lives of the intended beneficiaries.
This is a very good extension, I have been using it for a while. It is very much the best of both worlds, using cookies to login, then deleting them when you leave the site. You don't have to worry about whitelists, etc.
You really think that some countries want to solve hunger? No one cares.
Ah, well Prerender does use a single file, which means they haven't broken down their middleware into 3 components. All SnapSearch middleware is broken down (OOP style) into Detector, Client and Interceptor.

I recognised, that this OOP strictness leads to a bit more verbosity.

Therefore, for PHP I build a Stack interceptor.
For Ruby, there's a Rack alternative.
NodeJS has the expressConnector.
Python doesn't have a single thing that brings them together atm.

These integration points, make the entire thing a one liner to integrate.

If you're referring to node, here's the connectInterceptor. Usage is on the README: https://github.com/SnapSearch/SnapSearch-Client-Node/blob/ma...

Also sure, I'm going to get a blog up soon. Thanks for the advice. I'll do one on comparing pricing.

But do note, that the fact that we use Firefox instead of QTWebkit means that we get 6 week release cycles so our scrapers keep up with the latest development HTML5 unlike the slower QTWebkit of PhantomJS. So we do have a technical advantage :)
Atmospheric drag absolutely is a liability... That's the whole point of an evacuated maglev.. To make an artificial atmosphere with lower drag. Note how the mockdown chassis cross section is small relative to the tube... That's also a drag limitation; and note how hyper loop has a nearly full tube cross section.
Could anyone better versed in cryptocoinage tell me how this differs from darkcoin[1]? DRK is another cryptocurrency created for anonymous transactions.

http://www.darkcoin.io/
This article was
by Ludwig, not Lustig.
They may one day. But it's a big computational overhead from straight curling to running a JS VM for everything. Right now SPAs are still a minority on the web. But I guess the question is will you wait for Google to support your site and lose out on the awesomeness of single page applications?
Links which are nofollowed are still seen by users & can still impact that user's experience with the website. Yet those are fine, even if they point at spam, because they don't have a significant impact on Google.

So then what's the difference between disavows and having the links removed? Getting the links removed costs far more time & money. And it gives Google a data mining stream of feedback they can leverage to dish out further penalties.

Google requires some of the links to be removed not because it improves the web, but rather their goals & interests are aligned with punishment. They want to add cost & uncertainty to SEO in order to discourage investment in SEO from entities not formally connected to Google.
Ask HN: How to store images/video as fast as possible?
How does Imgur (and others like it) store images so fast? Do they do it via background processing? I've been experimenting with S3 and it's incredibly slow. Any tips?
Not exactly. You have to quit the browser. Using this FF extension, you just have to close a tab. So there's no such option available in Chrome.
Because nobody wants to store and maintain a local copy of the blockchain. Simple as that. That's why I use blockchain.info for everything and not bitcoind.
Piketty on why stated U.S. GDP is so high
Sure. I am not disagreeing that management needs to improve.

What I'm saying is that the future of rationing should be this, not the current system. The current system does not ensure nutritional value and there are other expenses involved in preparing a meal. As a country of 1.2B the basic meal (a packet of desi-solyent or whatever) should be free.

This of course applies to all countries and all such public distribution systems. I just used India for an example.
The story about Thomas Drake was fascinating and very sad too. He went from being a senior executive at the NSA to being accused of violating the espionage act (all charges which were later dropped) and having his entire life ruined. Spent his life savings fighting the legal battle, his wife left him, and he could only get work at an Apple store.
I don't think its a "social skills selects orthogonally" problem. Its a "to want this job selects for low intelligence" problem. One of the counterexamples I have in mind chose to pursue the alternative despite being brilliant because as a professor she wound up in a place where the red tape was unbearable and the median quality of postdoc and grad student she was getting was impossibly low to achieve reasonable results, but like I said, I think she is an exception and she rails about the difficulties she has as an administrator (but at least it pays better than professor)
Top Haskell packages seen through graph centrality beer goggles
Best of luck staying off of Google properties. It gets more challenging by the day.
http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-bec...

Don't like YouTube's copyright claim issues on video game playthroughs? Use Twitch. Oh wait, what's that? Google is trying to buy Twitch.
http://kotaku.com/report-youtube-is-buying-twitch-for-1-bill...
Oooops.
Ideas on daily salvaging of web project bi-products
Cisco CEO lashes out at NSA, tells Obama to stop bugging IT hardware
Here's a shortlist of differences and benefits:

1. SnapSearch uses load balanced Firefox, this allows us to keep up with the latest in HTML5 unlike the QtWebkit of PhantomJS

2. SnapSearch does metered billing, this comes out cheaper for average sites, or sites that have lots of pages but dont send out tons of requests. We charge on usages, not cached requests, and not on cach storage.

3. SnapSearch's middleware is more robust, with 200 robots that it checks, and regularly updated robot list. There's a lot of flexibility in the code.

4. We provide you a bit more analytics in the control panel, so you can see things like request portion from multiple domains, requests/usages from search engines over a month. A progress bar on usages bar. A cache storage list of all the snapshots you have so you can precache pages if you wish.

Try it out, it's free for 1000 usages per month!

Also note that our API supports custom javascript callbacks, which allows you to do all sorts of interesting things prior to the caching of the snapshot.

Furthermore, we also support soft 404s and redirections (including meta tag, header and js redirections (synchronoous and asynchronous). All of it is explained on the documentation.

Flash support coming soon too.
Hi TT.
This may help you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aaron+swartz+mit
Hipsters is approaching synonymous with young people at this point. If you're curious as to how young people in Detroit are making a living, I will give you some very concrete examples:

1. Me. I am the biz director of a fantastic startup.
2. My friends started a very popular band and play gigs profitably and organize parties.
3. Many people work in Quicken family of companies, many in real estate.
4. Many are web developers.
5. Some grow medicinal marijuana.
6. Several of my friends have started food trucks.
7. Many are servers or bartenders. I know a couple strippers too.

I could go on like this for a while. Though I know some young people who are on their parent's insurance or receive some help paying down their student loan debt, I know of very few people who live off CCs & their parents. They do exist, but they are very rare.
would be interesting to see by how many order of magnitude morse-code would beat this...
oh. contempt from whom, and why?
As the saying goes. Their isn't a food shortage, just a distribution problem. I am well aware my statement veers away from the original post.
I think there's a significant difference in that Ensure and Jevity aren't meant to be sustainable as a long term food source, and don't optimize for cost per meal.
I'm bothered by the amount of maltodextrin. (Among other things. But this jumps out at me.) Assuming this is correct:

http://blog.soylent.me/post/68180382810/soylent-1-0-macronut...

That's a lot. As you can see it's the #1 ingredient in Soylent:

http://blog.soylent.me/post/74770956256/soylent-1-0-final-nu...

They claim that the overall glycemic index (with fiber, etc.) is "rather low", but I can't find fasting vs. postprandial glucose readings that would substantiate this. By itself, maltodextrin has a rather high GI. I do see that Rhinehart posted about this concern a while back:

http://discourse.soylent.me/t/effects-of-soylent-on-diabetic...

...but does anyone have more recent info? Without more data, diabetics and prediabetics should best avoid this for now.

edit: A clarification - blood glucose testing won't actually tell you the product's GI, of course. And the important number to look at is glycemic load, but that is easy to calculate given GI. The Soylent folks have not yet shared the GI afaik. (They would need to send it to a lab for testing.) Diabetics should already be monitoring their glucose levels anyway, so I assume they will figure out pretty quickly if this stuff spikes their blood sugar. It's not something you would want to replace all your meals with if that is the case!

Whether or not you are diabetic, it would be a good idea to go to your doctor and get complete bloodwork done before you start using this if you are planning to drink the stuff on a daily basis and especially if you replace the majority of your meals. Get tested for the sort of things they check when you get a physical, but within a few months leading up to the point you start Soylenting. Test again 6-12 months after you start and compare the numbers, then kindly make a spreadsheet or something and share your results.
Django Update – 2014-05-04 to 2014-05-17
Surface Pro 3 – some specs and pricing are revealed
How is Soylent any different than mass gainer products or protein+carbs supplements like muscle milk?

Yeah I know, it cost 5 times more, taste worse and gives you tons of gas.

So why should I buy it over well known products?
My suggestion is try to work it out then leave when you are ready.

Possibly a temporary regimen of anti-depressants. I am sorry for you loss and have experienced something similar (I didn't take anti-depressants but realized later they may have helped when they were temporarily prescribed to someone else in a similar situation.)

Your father is gone but your life goes on. He would almost certainly wish you to make the best possible use of it.
Cat Tracking using Bluetooth Indoor Positioning
I switch browsers more than I switch underwear, mostly between Safari, uzbl, Firefox, Chrome and TOR Browser (FF fork). When I write extensions I do it for the browser I currently fancy, so I've got a few ones for Safari, Firefox and Chrome. But when I switch I lose the old ones, until I switch back.

Right now I'm in Safari (silky smooth rendering), and can't use this. That sucks. But FF, Chrome and Safari extensions are just JS anyways. Why can't they be automatically ported, or something? What's stopping Mozilla from enabling Firefox to run Chrome and Safari extensions, and vice versa?
Google Rubik's Cube Doodle
That headline still seems overstated given that other stories are contradicting it.

I suppose I should mention that I have zero information about this, other than what's appeared on HN.
Resource availability is a very important component to economic growth.

But I might point out... they had more resources than we do now in the 1700's. So there are other components. Technology being one of them. Can anyone predict what we will be able to do in 50 or 100 or 200 years? Or what else might happen between now and then?
I don't know the specifics, but they already have been for years (at least to some extent). Several of my clients have found content deep inside public-facing client-side apps indexed in situations where we didn't care if it was indexed, but assumed it wouldn't/couldn't be.
I am going to cite Clarke's [0] first law.

| When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
Flappy Bird Is Back?
Because they interact with different APIs.

Different browsers provide similar APIs in different ways sometimes, and usually web standards support differs between browsers.
Is This Man Going to Be China’s Elon Musk?
I always wondered how those 'YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED' ads actually were profitable. Now I see. A very informative article. It goes to show that some simple social engineering can outdo a vast amount of actual computer engineering when it comes to using technology to scam people.
I've heard that they had no nutritionists onboard...
I would bet Matt's IQ is easily far north of 140. He's one of the most perceptive people I've ever met.

Think of some of the stereotypes of engineers. Many can code but struggle to communicate. Matt can code, has his name on many patents, leads a team, makes hundreds or thousands of videos, regularly keynotes at conferences & interacts with thousands of people, was GoogleGuy for years, participates in the comments here, was an expert in some of the past lawsuits against Google ... he has basically had a near infinite number of opportunities to put his foot in his mouth & yet how many times has he ever done it? Almost never, if ever.

About the only times I think he has potentially missed at all was the "breaking their spirits" bit on TWIG, and then two minor bits in a few YouTube videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZuX9OaMLo&feature=youtu.be&... "We got less spam and so it looks like people don't like the new algorithms as much."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jap11IIxfw
"the gap between what you can get away with and what google says you can get away with is getting smaller all the time"

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Who do you know who has as much media exposure as he has had who hasn't repeatedly put their foot in their mouth? For me, that answer is nobody.

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What makes Matt's performance even more impressive is how scummy some of Google's policies have been, even as he came off smelling like roses. There are endless debates on how reasonable it is for Google to infer intent on links & so on, yet at the same time some of the past Google executive emails have quotes in them like:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/google-faces-new-pres...
"As with all of our policies, we do not verify what these sites actually do, only what they claim to do." (for AdWords advertisers)

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-...
"I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this. thanks Eric"
Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
It does create a really bad image. Someone once traced the scammers all the way back to the Indian bank they were using. Do you think the banks care?
Agree, to build website maybe not the best solution but i think it has it place for internal and no exposed apps like (CMS, andministrators, dashboards, etc) that normaly the public viewer wouldn't ever see.
I've lived long enough to see a few ideas emerge from fundamental research -- the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary and the Chicxulub meteor impact particularly. The data for the impact came from a 1979 geophysical study, first disclosed to the public in 1981, and dating and likely planetary impacts not disclosed until the early 1990s.

More generally, it's astounding how much human knowledge and understanding have progressed in the past 250 years. I've been going through James Burke's programs, especially Connections and The Day the Universe Changed (the first Connections series is better than either of its sequels, but TDTUC is amazing). And looking at how and when specific inventions and ideas were discovered is really telling.

Another mind bender was the series based on Daniel Yergin's The Prize, telling the story of the discovery and development of oil. I had a similar response to yours: numerous things I'd considered to be perpetual aspects of the landscape were really quite recent. And other aspects -- railroad oil tank cars come to mind -- are largely unchanged from their first emergence in the 1860s.
Thanks for the feedback :). I'll look into it. Did you know the bolt is also a tiger stripe? That's why I got the tiger theme.
Peter Thiel: The US as we know it depends on us rediscovering our innovation
I disagree. If that happens, a new solution will emerge to replace the telecoms. To name a few, decentralized DNS, open wifi, google fiber etc.
Yep a sitemap can also work. But it's not needed, since Google will follow your anchored links anyway. SnapSearch in the future can also create sitemaps dynamically.
do you happen to have a list of either the colleges with the most Turing or Nobel Laureates?
Apparently that name is already used for a popular DIY variant of Soylent.[1][2]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/12/140512fa_fact_...

[2] http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/basic-complete-soylent-bachelo...
See also: grunt-email-boilerplate [1]

[1] https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate
This is pretty cool; we've put a lot of work into sendwithus to solve many of these same problems (inline css at send time, staging versions of templates, and multiple types of api keys).

Kudos for having a README that actually makes sense.
Do you have any examples? Because I've been building single page apps for 2 years, and none of it is indexed. Also indexing for search is not the only thing, sometimes clients need google adverts, which require the google media bot check your site's content. One of my clients could not get any data out, and the site could not get approved by Google for the adverts. But with SnapSearch, the google media bot was able to extract the necessary information.

Check your google webmaster tools, and you can force a scrape from google bots, and you can see that SPA sites are not discoverable.
>Muse uses 7 finely calibrated EEG sensors to detect and measure the activity of your brain. This sensory input is translated into real-time feedback on your tablet or smart phone via Bluetooth. The result is a rich, real-time audio and visual experience.

Calibrated for whom?
As long as we are concerned about the organic structure of markets...

How do you feel about Google sponsoring educational seminars for market regulators where they do not disclose their sponsorship, actively conceal it, and request the entity putting on the sponsorship do the same thing?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transfo...

It is also worth mentioning that when Google was lobbying against regulation they indeed DID control & manipulate the placement of favorable media masquerading as regular content:

"the staff and professors at GMU’s law center were in regular contact with Google executives, who supplied them with the company’s arguments against antitrust action and helped them get favorable op-ed pieces published, according to the documents obtained by The Post."

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Another thing with the line of thinking based on pureness...should companies which have repeatedly been caught rigging actual physical markets (e.g. municipal bonds, California energy, LIBOR, interest rate swaps, forex, etc.) in the real world get a penalty by Google for it?

Or is it reasonable that they take their outsized gains from their market rigging behavior & invest some small portion of it into buying out smaller competitors, lobbying & writing regulations to harm smaller competitors, buy some feel good brand ads & do various charity donations to paint a picture of themselves?

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I also want to quote the following past statement from a Google executive about the AdWords ads Google puts directly in the search results:

"As with all of our policies, we do not verify what these sites actually do, only what they claim to do."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/google-faces-new-pres...

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and, some icing on the cake, ... ;)

check out the keyword rich deep links to some of Google's affiliate offers on BeatThatQuote.com (for credit cards, car insurance, etc.)

Google bought BTQ & then put a bunch of cross-site keyword rich deep links on it. is that natural? how is that any different than buying links?
Yeah, I don't understand it either.

And for the record, anything that incorporates unnecessary obscurity into the basic premise of its mystique as something "new" and "cool", particularly by way of acronyms and jargon is a clue that adherents are just wasting everyone's time by playing the exclusionary elitist card.

Seriously. Does "Work Out of the Day" honestly deserve to be acronymed to "WOD"?

I mean, for fuck's sake. It the exact same amount of sylables. Just sound it out:

Duh Bull You Oh Dee (5 sylables)

Work Out Of The Day (5 sylables)

But, wow, I bet WOD saves so much time as a TLA when drawing UML diagrams on a whiteboard, and blogging about your awesome new rotator cuff injury (AKA: RCI), right?
The desktop and the developer
I have to admit that when I first heard of this product I thought it was ridiculous and would never take off.

Considering it's now been officially launched, I have to say "Impressive job Rob!" and will publicly eat my words.
One of them is an academic paper and the other has a website that mostly consists of "coming soon" pages. But seriously, DarkCoin appears to use CoinJoin[1] which has a smaller anonymity set than SNARKy systems.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
How to backup you web code on git:

cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "yourname@example.com"
vi ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
#copy this into a new key https://github.com/settings/ssh
#now create a new git repo https://github.com/new
cd /var/www
sudo apt-get install git
git init
git add *
git commit -a -m "init"
git remote add origin git@github.com:yourname/repo.com.git
git push -u origin master