skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, sorry about that. It is direct result of startup advices "launch before you think you are ready" and "don't worry about building a great design on your first landing page, buy a theme on themeforest".

I see the flaws, but I don't regret following those. It is sufficient to validate a few things of the core product for now!
Seriously - posterous was awesome.
In a recent interview with Democracy Now[1] Greenwald talked about the status of his relationship with the Guardian at the time he went to Hong Kong to meet Snowden, and it made me view his move to create The Intercept in a very different light. Here's a quote:

"I had only worked with them for eight months. My deal with The Guardian was I write whatever I want, and I post it directly to the Internet, and you don’t interfere in any way in what I’m writing. So I had barely worked with any Guardian editors at all, let alone on a story of this size."

[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/right_out_of_a_spy_mov...
I think at this point, in the age of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Tumblr acquisitions, it would be disastrous if Twitter's strategy is anything but let soundcloud continue as a separate entity. The more you leave big and established platforms well enough alone, the better.
The price is $10/month. But we are planning huge discounts for some campaigns. Try it for the 2 weeks free trial; if you want to buy it, send a email to the contact with your HN username and you will have a great discount!

EDIT: And about the backup, we are already building the feature to export everything to Excel!
Whose to say it wasn't with the consent (or strongarmed-consent) of the Bahaman government?
More than 90 people nabbed in global hacker crackdown
What's wrong with disruptive innovation?
GPS is part of the cloud? Seriously?
Not truly zilog z80. The GB processor lack the IX/IY registers and associated addressing modes of the z80 and it added a few instructions. It's closer to the i8080. The GB did use the z80 assembler syntax (thankfully!).
U.S. Charges Five in Chinese Army With Hacking
I dont see anything in the article someone else brought up linking to a Snowden doc. I want to see the Snowden doc that talks about Petrobras specifically.

Glenn Greenwald didnt even write that article, thats another reason I am having problems with the credibility. It sounds like a Fox News type channel in Brazil is making accusations but I want evidence not hearsay.

Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
I've seen number 2 on the market.
No! Please don't.
Measured how? Overall harm is what we're interested in, not usage and not necessarily crime related to a specific drug.

In any case, I don't want to suggest that the alternative is some kind of anarchic free-for-all - so enforcement wasn't a well chosen word (sorry!). I mean prohibition specifically, not just any kind of regulation.

If anything, I think existing "legal" drugs like nicotine and especially alcohole could use more regulation, not less.

The saying perfect is the enemy of good pretty much sums up my stance here :-) - don't bother aiming for complete abolition despite the fact that that might be a "perfect" solution if achievable.
I think it's more like physcologically conditioning customers to use less data.
Darpa Wearable Tech Suit Could Help Soldiers Run a 4-Minute Mile
Well, you can deploy it with a simple web server. No server side processing.

Theoretically this is the best scaling solution.

Practically it makes the site slower for every client.
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I wonder why "\r\n" and not just "\n" is the string separator in RESP. I get that it needs to be human readable but \n should be enough to make it readable in any text viewer. Or is there something more to it?
I won't list them all, but here's a selection:

A hobby web site I was editing where I got stuck on some css, a (long) video I want to watch, research for an audio program I'm designing, data about an electronics hobby project I want to start, 2 pull requests I need to follow up on, an appliance I need decide on and buy for my kitchen, a web forum I need to integrate into a site of mine, a couple bug reports I need to follow up on, an amazon page of a video game I heard was worth my time, etc.

So...just random stuff. Some are personal, some are professional, some are home related, some are just key nuggets of info to remind me of something I want to look into at some point.
gorgeous -- curious, what is the backend tech? Fabric +/- stuff like ansible/chef/etc?

NVM - just saw it's MEAN stack based.
> the more is offloaded to the client, the less scaling demand is placed on the server

If you're using an ordinary static site generator, your server scales the same: it's just sending static pages to clients either way. In fact, if you're like me, you don't even run the site generator on the server; you run it on your own machine, and upload the generated HTML files to the server, where they act just like any other static web pages.
Why don't you add it?
Hey all,

For anyone interested in health tech/startups, I created a HackerMed team on Slack (really neat chat app), with a handful of rooms that'll make (hopefully) for some interesting discussion. It's informal, and I figured a nice place to hang out and meet others.

You'll need to click on the link above and submit your email address for an invitation (that's just how Slack works).

Anyway, it'll be an interesting experiment. A few health hacking sites have gone up before but have received little activity. Maybe something more casual would work better. We'll see.

Hope to see you on there!
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From what I gather, their main revenue is ad money. The fee to join is mostly a gatekeeping thing. It is not a big part of the revenue model. Matt managed growth really well (from what I gather) by limiting new memberships and what not. It is a community and limiting new memberships and putting in a gatekeeper fee seems to have done a lot to avoid eternal September and what not. That's the main thing you need to do to make money from a community: Keep your eye on the prize of making it a good community. I have seen that failed elsewhere.

I don't know much about google algorithms but if you don't have the good community piece of it, you have no business model for this. It is not HN, HN is the funnel for applicants for Y Combinator, so it is part of the business model here but it is a very, very different model. Mefi exists solely (as I understand) to be a community and not to serve some other business need the way HN does.

I think they should make the donate button much, much more visible but I am not a fan of recurring membership fees. But I don't have time to write more at the moment.
I think I would start working very late (with 35 or even 40).
Switchcam is dead
Why You Should Redesign Your Office For Introverts
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Hoodie has plugins, so you're not limited to client-side only logic.

http://hood.ie/#plugins
Honest question: Why would/could they not? There has been a ton of research published on extending HM type inference to support structural subtyping, row polymorphism, extensible records which very closely model many (but not all) of the concepts in Object Oriented systems.
I've been working 100% remotely for a large US firm (tens of thousands of global employees) for a few years now. Prior to that I worked for the same firm in office. My current role is physically in a separate state from the others, so it's not possible to do a few days in the office and a few days at home (I think that is the best of both worlds).

I have a home office with a door on a separate floor from where most of the family is. Even though I wear headphones, being able to close the door indicates "dad is focused" as opposed to just having the door open which means interruptions are okay. Occasionally I'll work remote from being remote and hit the local coffee shop. I find that a simple change of scenery helps me focus/

We use both google hangouts and hipchat text/video for meetings as well as email and other solutions. We also conference call a lot on mobiles. We don't do daily status (I've never offered and no one asked). People sync up as needed. The only thing I miss is being able to stand in front of a whiteboard and draw things for group feedback, but I've adjusted.

I work my own schedule which is loosely based on the standard business day. I'm consider myself "in the office" from around 630am to about 5pm, but I take breaks during the day to eat, play with the dogs, go the the gym or run errands. As with most places, it's more about what you deliver than working a strict eight hour day. I'm more of an architect than developer so I'm not pair programming or working directly with someone every second. Asynchronous communications have been fine.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that I'm out of sight and out of mind. I miss hallway chats, impromptu meetings, etc. I consider it a fair trade off for the lifestyle. I'm not sure it's hurt my career, but it probably hasn't helped it.

We use corporate computers with VPN's as needed for patching, internal access, etc.
Militarization – "The Fifth Domain for Warfare"
agreed. the constantly shifting background colors gave me a headache. navigating the site wearing Muse would break the product.
I hope they buy it and write a better UI for it. I love the idea but the UI is a big drawback of using it.
Mist? https://mist.io/
That's why I wrote that a new theory can "refine the modelling of reality".

Whatever good predictions the phlogiston theory and whatever phenomena they explained didn't stop working the moment we switched to a next theory. We only found a (much) better model for the observable reality.

My point is that if we replace QM with something else, transistors won't suddenly stop working. The old models and computations will forever remain as good as they're now.
I think "going commando" is hilarious... but its kind of unprofessional.
Well, Pitfall! II on the 2600 is 4 KB, and run in 128 bytes of RAM, and has 256 different levels.

See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBT1OK6VAIU
The article you linked to only has allegations of when a competing company lost a contract.
The Longitude Prize 2014
> Instead, I would have loved to seen a tool that automatically disassembles a user-provided ROM to the equivalent of this repo.

Well ain't you fancy.

Look at the commit log. Please. This stuff can't be "automatically disassembled" into the great looking codebase it's currently presented as.

Whatever though, I guess asking some people to think for more time than it takes them to click a link is a bit much these days.
> Everything stored in a single 700-line bash script, how cool is that?! ;)

A good rule of thumb:

If your bash script is over 100 (sane) lines it's an indication that what you are doing is probably best not done with shell scripts.

But... to each their own.
Open question: has anybody ever considered or tried publishing updated versions of evergreen content? Textbook publishers make a great living doing this so I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to apply this same technique to essays.

For example "A guide to better salary negotiations, 2014 edition", etc. with some minor updates to reference new examples, anecdotes, popular businesses of the day, etc.

I think this could have the dual effect of reengaging previous readers with content they've already read as well as keeping your content fresh and giving you the upside of having a brand new article to (re)publish. In my own experience, I don't mind and actually enjoy rereading articles I've read before and enjoyed so I don't think as a reader, this would bother me at all.
The population of the Bahamas is only ~400k. Lets say everyone talked to each other for 2 hrs a day, 200K * 2hrs. And their conversations are recorded using Opus [0] @ 32 kbits / s (we don't want analysts ears getting tired from compression artifacts)

32kbits is 4KB/s ~ .24 MB/minute ... turns out to be on the order of 6TB a day on the high end.

This 9U server can hold all of the Bahamas voice traffic for 30 days.

http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/systems-raid-nas-...

The calls never have to leave the island and they probably have a nice spotify/splunk style web page for playing back conversations.

[0] http://www.opus-codec.org/examples/
I know, right? People wanting to talk about a common subject among their friends via social media!! And those people talking about the weather in the elevator! Simpletons.
What way is that? Reddit's staff are intentionally hands-off and it really shows. In fact, the only successfully moderated subreddit of any significant size I can think of is r/askhistorians.
Okay, but the key design decision in any data syncing library is how it resolves update conflicts. Is it last-one-wins, report an error and try again, diff merging, or maybe some kind of operational transform?

Since that's the heart of the problem being solved, it's weird when the docs leave it out.
Yeah, but you're going to see a <form> that POSTs to some target URL, with username and password as fields. The only thing protecting the plaintext password from leaking is SSL. POSTing a XmlHttpRequest is equivalent.
Twitter, Soundcloud and Instagram are about the only networks I actually enjoy using. (YouTube is used out of necessity and FB is well...FB).

I'd like to see twitter pick them up just so Google / FB doesn't do it.
Xprivacy is what you seeks. Curtails feature/permission creep, and support random or preset "fake" data feeds to app.

See https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy#xprivacy
As an engineer I don't see any of the commercial desktop software I use going away any time soon.

SolidWorks, L-Edit and CoventorWare are expensive and require a lot of interaction on the desktop. They are unlikely to be replaced.

Some big software, like Comsol, would be a good candidate for a move to the cloud. Simulations that take a few minutes to hours to run really should be on an elastic cloud server, and should stop being sold as desktop software.
Cool to see the whole story, illustrated. Makes me wish I had an artist or ability to draw cool stuff. What I wonder if where did the funding come for two years ago coming up with ideas?
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I will suggest that MetaFilter may be a victim of its own success to some degree. Growth of a forum always introduces new challenges and you solve those or experience die-back. I have seen it often, in other forums. though none were supporting multiple full time staff members.

Yes, I realize Matt thinks it is largely due to changes in Google algorithms and that may be true. Or it may be more complicated than that. (In my experience, it is more about the community. Everything else is secondary.)
The word "character" is used to describe them because they are certainly made of characters. The most generic term for everything but the macro characters themselves is "form". The dispatch macro is a special case that is not a form, but represents reader macros that are applied to forms as they are read. Same goes for quoting. But all of the specific cases of #_ or #{ or #" etc. are more than just characters.

And the docs do in fact give plenty of examples. I'm not sure how you can say "no examples" when there are examples for most of the things described on the page.

It may be dense, but the writing is clear and you can just read it start to finish.

EDIT: I see what you mean about "macro characters".

Just to be as clear as possible:

# - a macro character which dispatches on the next character

#{:foo :bar} - a hash-set literal form

#(...) - an anonymous function literal form

' - the quote character

'foo - a quoted symbol form

-> - the threading macro (just a normal symbol)

(-> x inc str) - a form using the threading macro
A Life Beyond 'Do What You Love'
Ask Metafilter used to come up often in my google searches for esoteric questions. Not as much lately.
Nice UI, but not enough value add to justify a monthly pay SAAS. Would recommend one of two courses of action: Sell as a library for inclusion into existing CRM's where cards can be pre-populated with a call list, or build this out as the centerpiece of a CRM with tie-ins to voIP and data import, something akin to close.io.
There's certainly a lot of crappy sites out there! I think they probably got hit just as hard.

VCs wouldn't be pumping money into the Rap Genius' of the world if they weren't seeing big wins there. Eventually a site like MeFi gets crowded out.
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Most of the tools are written under the assumption that you're behind a firewall or airgap that will do all your security for you, and the controls are very weak and poorly enforced in the younger projects. Even in the mature ones, there's hasn't really been a cohesive model of security across the stack that meets the needs of stricter organizations. That's improving - I'm doing some work with Apache Sentry (incubating) that lets you apply more sophisticated security policies to fine-grained data in Hive, Impala and Solr (and in the future, hopefully many others). There are also projects like Apache Knox that, as I understand it, is a gateway for your cluster - so taking the idea of having an external tool protect your cluster, but at least one that understands what's happening in the cluster and handles authentication, etc. Multi-tenancy is also in it's infancy for Hadoop - but I'd expect as more of the projects start integrating better with YARN's resource management this will also be improving in the very near future.
Must do, the art is all very compact. 2 bits per pixel - so 4 colour palette or 2-bit grayscale in the first game. All you need is black, dark grey, light grey and white and you have Pokemon Red! Music is also pretty small, as it's synthesised you don't need to store samples, you can loop repeated sections to save space and so on.

This is the entire overworld for Kanto, for instance.

http://socks-studio.com/img/blog/tumblr_lkshcyoNE81qhydr5o1_... (Red/Blue)

http://1morecastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MQ2-612x49... (Crystal)

It's not as big as you remember it, I'll bet ;)

Even Johto isn't much bigger:

http://members.shaw.ca/dwarkentin/Webpage/graphics/mpics/joh...

And as the person below also mentioned.. No, the credits for Pokemon are extensive. There may only have been four coders, but there were level designers, sprite designers, etc, etc.
Verizon’s new double-capacity “XLTE” network now covers 250 cities
Obviously, bear in mind that (comp foo second) may be preferable.
Reddit had fewer than 8 people when it was seeing orders of magnitude more activity than MeFi. I understand fully why its great to have humans doing this work, but this downsize could be a good thing in the long run if it forces them to find novel ways to make things scale better.
Are there plans to support Softlayer?
Well Twitter made about $665 million last year, with much larger projections for this year. I would say that qualifies as "decent".
I'd argue that the 'fantastic' video is not actually fantastic. Why is the moon transparent?
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I’m a Hoodie developer, I know what Hoodie does and doesn’t. That disclaimer is just there because some of the things don’t yet work as documented. The particular feature is definitely in existence :)
Walking from New York to California to transport 15 tons of perishable cargo VS driving a truck with a refrigeration unit.

Your analogy fails.
Problem with PuPHPet is that it's really buggy. I've used it more than 10 times (also recommended it to colleagues) and we managed to provision a box correctly maybe on two occasions.

Every time there was a different bug. Either something didn't install, or the config files weren't being loaded etc. I ended up learning Puppet because of it, so I guess some good has come of it ..
Great idea your second option. Thanks!
So I'm looking at their "Account" api, and I wonder if something similar like that exists for node just for the backend.
I don't see how this could kill mosquito larvae. Aerating the water will just make it better for the aquatic animals.

Ripples on the water surface might stop some mosquitoes from laying their eggs. But this would need to be tested. I doubt a small device could continuously create big enough ripples.
Yes, they do - and the setup is fairly easy. I made a guide for it on my blog: http://vancelucas.com/blog/using-dokku-to-deploy-php-applica...
Excellent point. We will make this more clear.

Conflicts are detected for you, like in version control systems. You need to resolve them yourself, or you can implement a server-wins/client-wins/last-write-wins scenario, if you want to.
Twitter may acquire music service SoundCloud
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Of all the years I have been part of the HN community, I think that this is the first time something has hit the front page that truly made me go "wtf am I reading?"
Are there any e-commerce platforms that trust the client to do all the business logic for an order/checkout? If so how do they prevent client side tampering with the business logic without redoing it on the server side?
Thanks. Sorry to hear about the trouble at Mefi. I'm blackleotardfront there. It might be superfluous to say but we are all 100% behind the staff and site and whatever you guys decide is the best course of action we will support to the best of our ability.
It's... beautiful.
yes, and part of the reason this took so long could be that google maps was free/ very cheap for a lot of that 10 years. Once they got more expensive people had more incentive to switch....
Sounds a lot like we need some volunteers to build a better UI for simple (adblock mode), a 2nd option to do a noscript equivalent, and a 3rd option for wild-west-browser-firewall mode.
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For the past couple weeks I have been able to IM from inside the hangouts app to non-google XMPP users this includes the reverse, wherein I get notifications from them too.
Thanks, I was looking in the wrong place for potential donation links.
I'm on my second year with a paid pro unlimited account and would probably reconsider renewing it if they were bought by Twitter. SoundCloud is already moving into a direction that I don't particularly like and this might be the last straw.
What are other similar companies? I came across some few days/months back. But I just cant find it anymore, I think it concentrates more on ecommerce websites like amazon, flipcart etc., they too are b2b that provide them with services like identifying potential customers from all data they obtain.. Something like that.
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Have not used it, just browsed the site for 40 seconds. What was interesting is that the /visual style/ jumped at me shouting "To be acquired by Dropbox". Anyone else have the same?
Hugo is a fully featured SSG written in Go. It's considerably faster than other SSGs and has a very easy installation.

http://hugo.spf13.com
Why are silicon wafers round, instead of rectangular? (2006)
As discussed before here on hn (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5514284), this seems like a great successor (or at least a well-maintained alternative) to CouchApps and Kanso. I will definitively give it a try once PouchDB becomes a dependency :)
> I don't remember ever noticing it in a search engine result.

And yet it's easily shown that Google highly values MetaFilter in its results:

http://www.metafilter.com/134827/New-Spammer-Panic#5333774

The problem is it's kind of a niche-topic site, a bit like NPR. It needs lots of external support to keep going.
Most of the time the country in question was in central/south america or africa. I would never have expected Finland to be a counter-example. Thank you.

But pretty much everyone else in your thread here disagrees about the tools part.
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Extreme Irony, NSA Edition