skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Gittip and Shields are in cahoots? :-)

http://blog.gittip.com/post/59396458675/gittip-has-acquired-...

Re: stories, I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074.
http://regex101.com/r/aR5xM2

I used this tester posted elsewhere in the thread, it seems like since the lazy components expand "as needed" to achieve a match, it will succeed on "abc1".

EDIT: I wrapped it in a group for clarity.
Turning smartphones into 3D scanners, seeking beta testers
What would you use it for if your smartphone just needed an application to scan objects?
Extreme Poverty Has Dropped in Half Since 1990
Serious question. At what point do you think the public truly hits a tipping point and lashes back at the government? Or are we just going to sit unorganized and go back to our facebook and nightly entertainment. Personally I think it will have to be an economy downturn worse than the housing bubble to get the public to organize.
It is not a trend, it is just people comparing a new tool to known tools.
Amen to that. That's a big issue with most charities, actually. I wonder how the cost/benefit works out, though? I'm guessing it's probably still worth it to send the mail.
How does an asset with virtually no underlying value remain so remarkably stable for long periods? (...) There are those with huge holdings who have an interest in stability for the sake of its adoption as a currency, and its long-term value.

Long periods? Long-term? When has ever Bitcoin experienced this? Looking at the graphs, I don't think I can find a single month where Bitcoin remains even close to stable.
It is possible it refuses to fail because a lot of people are heavily invested in it financially and monetarily and are still able to artificially prop it up. Support like that cannot last for ever.
I would love if it showed up in-browser instead of a pop-up :)
If legal, they should make recordings of the reactions.
True but a single measurable criteria is essential. It won't completely capture 'poverty' but it's a step in the right direction. Once the first poverty measure is completely reduced, we could examine the next. I'm amazed that this doesn't exist.
Poll: Does your company have a hack time?
Yes, we have designated hack sessions (hour/day/week).
No, but occasional hacking or experimenting on company time is encouraged.
No, we don't have designated time for hacking or experimenting, nor is it encouraged on company time.
Something else. Explain?
Benign in the sense that it has zero effect on the political situation of the country. The monarch plays no political role. Yes, it is a position destined for people born into it, but I see it as a symbol of both our history and the stability of our system. It's also a symbol of our shared heritage across the Commonwealth. I consider my country (Canada) to be a proud standard-bearer of our British heritage through upholding the Westminster tradition that we inherited. In some ways I feel like we are more British than the British are, when it comes to the realization of ideals. The Crown is what binds us to both our past and to our brothers and sisters around the world.

Sure, its fundamentally also a symbol of inequality and it is the ultimate anachronism today, but the role it plays in daily life is so low that I don't think it even matters. Do I feel strange being reigned over by an elderly German lady from across the ocean? Perhaps. But the alternative is radical and unpredictable change, and that I am not so excited about. I like the idea that ultimate power in the country is invested in someone who is fundamentally disinterested in politics. The Crown has no political side, only what is best for the country. I understand why people are so uncomfortable with the notion of the monarchy, but I believe it is in the best interest of our country to maintain it.
Very nice indeed, but the popup makes it hard to use.

I'm back to using Adium (Pidgin) since it also supports IRC.
Called the number - surprisingly real sounding, nice execution.

Still, seems like a jerk-move. I can see this backfiring in some way or another.
Well, design is a slippery word. We are capable of producing children that grow up to be intelligent.

In fact, I think it is quite clear that we are capable of designing systems that are more intelligent than an unaided human (or even group of humans). One of the first such systems were writing. I also tentatively claim that new means of recording and arranging knowledge (which we do today by means of computers) is another step towards superhuman intellect in the strictest sense of "more than mere human".

I think it is an open question what will come out of our playing with genes directly. I certainly expect we'll able to produce some change in the human condition, I hope some of that change will be for the "objectively" better. I have no idea if it will directly impact our intelligence.
"created on the weekend" is not very reassuring. Why would you tout that (if you wanted users vs showing off)?
Google wants to put ads on car dashboards and refrigerators
I asked a Swift engineer named Greg about this yesterday at a Swift lab at WWDC -- he said that it is forthcoming, but gave no estimates or timelines. Exception handling, however, doesn't seem to be on the roadmap.
Sure.

The picture shows the President queuing behind a member of the public to use the ATM.

As far as I know he's not required to do this, of course. He could have someone go for him etc.

In the UK it's very unlikely the Head of State would queue for an ATM and people who prefer the pageantry, pomp and ceremony of Royalty might feel this kind of behaviour demeans the office and is not worthy of a HoS. On the other hand, people holding more republican values might feel proud of their choice in electing a person who lives as they do.

I hadn't noticed the security thing. Ireland is neutral, guns are stringently controlled and no existing paramilitary group has a motive to assassinate the President. The security is probably there to mitigate the slightly increased risk of a 'lone nut' attack and not much else.
I just signed up. What's the easiest way for me to put a gittip badge in a Readme.md on Github? I'd recommend putting that front and center unless I missed it.
Thanks for the support, Carl! Loved having you here! :D
Not really. The question was whether words are more or less secure for a given level of ease of memorisation. I'd say 5 random characters are about as easy to memorise as 4 random words.
I made God's temple, like Solomon. I will very likely be crowned king. Get yer head out of your ass and verify the National Institute of Standards random number beacon. Go to that computer. Make it as secure as possible and I will do a miracle. And you will crown me king.
I believe chesstempo.com and chess.emrald.net generates their problems this way, or something similar. Decent results.
"Ughhhhhhhhhh people keep emailing me to offer high paying jobs and I have to click archive."-The most first world problem in the history of the universe.
Workspaces have been available since XP.

It's available as a Microsoft "powertoy" as well as countless open source and free programs.

Virtual Desktop Manager. Sorry you missed it for 12 years.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/xp-downloads#2TC=...
Why would going into debt to get a degree magically create a job?

This is a classic display of macro vs micro economics. On a micro scale an individual always gets ahead of the competition by becoming over credentialed (and over educated helps too). But on a macro scale, all the local waitresses and bartenders already have fluffy non-STEM bachelors degrees so more education would merely make the average waitress a little older and deeper in debt, or make the high school grad janitor unemployed in favor of the new poli sci grad janitor. Its not going to deliver my food any quicker or make the bathrooms at the bar any cleaner, no economic gain at all other than bank interest (socialize losses and privatize gains!)
A policy of essentially not allowing new construction in SF has led to a huge increase in costs. This topic has been hammered on repeatedly.
Agreed on both points.

In addition, I don't know why anyone would think Google is going to make all the AI, just because today's most notable, state-of-the-art AI systems are made by a few big companies with the resources to fund large teams of experts for years. Fifty years ago this article could have been called "Untapped opportunities in software" (or operating systems) and talked about IBM -- is there software IBM can't or won't write for us?
Growth is only one of hundreds of factors that affect poverty. Looking at only one factor without considering others is misleading. Poverty rates have been steady in the face of the disintegration of the family unit - perhaps growth is what is keeping it from skyrocketing? Unless you know what poverty would have been with no growth or negative growth, you can't measure and make the assumption that growth isn't positively impacting poverty.
I saw that; it looks incredibly excessive. If the emulator runs as a Java app, is it really not enough to just download a .jar and run it on whatever OS I happen to be running on my workstation? Or are there so many custom dependencies and configuration requirements that such an approach is infeasible? They could probably shave that footprint down considerably if they didn't bloat it with an Ubuntu VM.
Please exit of my brain. You exactly transcripted my mind into your post ;)

The keyword is "computed trust". This is a freaking awesome huge - never seen - feature. I just hope the tech behind is solid enough.
At this point, it's almost certain that the benefits outweigh the costs, considering that non-profits still compete, and every non-profit I've heard of sends tons of mail.
I'm glad that others are voicing their dissent. Gittip has went from an idea of giving open source developers a way to supplement their income via time spent writing software. Instead, it's been hijacked by toxic social justice warriors. One is even for someone supporting their legal issues (unrelated in any way whatsoever to tech). I'd love to see a statement by someone at Gittip responding to this.
Do you by any chance know any elected officials or career civil servants?
Where did he make this statement?
Instagram API /tags/tag-name/media/recent min_id not working
Code that has been working unchanged for literally 2 years has stopped working today. It seems the /tags/tag-name/media/recent query is ignoring the min_id.

Request with and without the min_id are returning the same data. Test for yourself: http://instagram.com/developer/api-console/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24028968/instagram-api-tags-tag-name-media-recent-min-id-not-working
Using Git to refactor vCloud Tools into separate gems
Weird-looking, but highly effective, wind turbine
We're still very early in the bitcoin story. Every "chicken and the egg" market gains traction like this - the start is fueled by early adopters on one side (btc buyers and miners) while the other side slowly opens up to it (venders).
I haven't had an old school desktop[1] in a long time. Laptops have been it for me for years. And I've always had an external monitor attached to it. I find the multi-monitor taskbar in Win 8 (at home) to be pretty useful. I've tried several apps to add that to Win 7 (at work) but they all sucked. So I gave up.

[1] Technically, I've never put those computers on the desk... as it has always been under the desk. It seems strange to call those desktops but that seems to be the standard name for something that is not a laptop.

Edit: Yes, I should have clarified that I am fully aware of computers going on top of the desk. I even had one that was meant to but I used a stand to hold it up right and placed it on the floor (I guess like a tower). But that was with floppies and not a CD so it worked out just fine. I was just saying it was weird for me to call my old computers desktops since I never put them there. Also, there are a good number of systems that are not really meant to be put on the desktop but are still called desktops to separate them from laptops... which are more often on the top of my desk than on my lap. :)
Does anyone have experience with using this versus THREE.js?
This is a great story and congrats for getting into the Intel accelerator!

Regarding the post, $2,300 is a bit misleading since you don't factor the value of your time (assuming you consider your time worth something).
I didn't mean to be as dismissive as you've taken my comment to be. But for a country of 300 million, a shortage of several hundred thousand construction workers is a source of mild friction, not something demanding pervasive policy changes.

(I'm being sloppy with numbers, but you've highlighted a larger, growing county that is ~3,000 workers short, and there are only about 3,000 counties total, many of which are smaller than Larimer and experiencing population contractions)
It's a design decision, not a tax/regulatory issue. We've had one-off tipjars for decades and they haven't changed the game. My mortgage is recurring so my income needs to be recurring as well.

We currently have an "Other Ways to Give" on your profile where you can link a bitcoin address or Venmo account. That's an outlet for one-offs. We may mix in first-class one-offs eventually but we're not in a rush. See https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/5.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511781

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7210779

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7183323

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455063

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3351272

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235856
Rosetta Comet Comes Alive
A large curved screen with a decent tiling window manager would solve the problem of real estate much better.
Well, it's nice for them, but the article doesn't expand on the headline... there's no cost breakdown other than

" - We're a small team

- We've been working on this over nights and weekends for the last year

- We all have day jobs

- We keep our costs low. We've spent only $2,300 over the course of the last year"
Amazon CEO Bezos Makes Annual Campaign Contributions, Votes Rarely
The Declining Fortunes of the Young Since 2000
This spreadsheet has data from all the current comments as of this moment.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1mljWkxjTCoj5BfqW40...
Eh, I don't buy that.

> Because you are being served content from other people's servers. If one of those servers fails, the whole site you are trying to load fails.

Say what?

Many of those things are just tracking pixels. There is no way to serve them from the site host, that's the whole point. And if they fail to load, nbd.

And sure, if some substantial piece of JS or CSS doesn't load, that could cause problems on the page, but in most cases it wouldn't cause total failure of the site loading.

Public CDNs for shared assets makes a lot of sense.

These things are nothing like hotlinking somebodies image.
They're actually dealing with recruiter spam on the other side. "I see you need people, I have 'great candidates' for the roles that I would love to setup for interviews."

And they said some go to the lengths of calling the mobile number of every engineer at their company. So basically the recruiter is just an extremely persistent salesperson who distracts the entire company in hopes that they'll find a way to sell their product.
Sorry for the tangent, but does this guy look to be 30 years of age to anyone? I'm having a hard time believing that based on the photos. I'm not implying that someone who is 30 isn't capable of these acts, but perhaps they have his age, photo or identity wrong?
What If There Was A Bot That Could Detect Ugly Websites?
You can create a filter for this in 30 seconds. Click the down arrow in the search box. Type the domain in the from field. Click "Create filter from this search". Label them. Done.
Designer/Programmer call
MySQL doesn't have them, it has some POSIX version, which is way less intuitive. Plenty of people use MySQL.
I've had multiple but I find I am going back to single monitors on all my computers. They're not small single monitors (27" or 24"), mind you.

I find that I've been suffering from information overload with multiple monitors and that it's been too hard to focus. I would always have my email open on another monitor and whenever I found myself waiting for a build, or stuck on a problem, I'd glance over to my email and lose myself in that for a while.

With a single monitor all the distractions tend to go to the back; while they are still easily available to me I now do need to consciously move to another task, rather than have my context switch because of a sideways glance.
I hope they're keeping statistics on how long people are on the line before hanging up.
I guess if pushed hard enough they will just criminalize the information or such, in other words they will hold it as it cannot have rights to be violated. If all else fails, national security it?
Flappy Bird Using Apple’s New Programming Language Swift
Depends on your perspective I guess.

You know about the corporate lobbying. I don't think any of us have the slightest idea what influence the Royals have over the wonks, men in grey suits and senior members of the Government.
That's not what's happening here. The recruiter is contacting 42floors to try to get them to hire their candidates.
Awesome, thanks! :D

See http://shields.io/ for README badge. I've added a +1 for you to https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1145.
"people keep emailing me to offer high paying jobs and I have to click archive."-The most first world problem in the history of the universe."

I agree 100%

However, he has the opposite issue, he has job openings and he's getting spam from recruiters proposing candidates.

OTOH, there's one type of recruiter spam that annoys me: the ones that spam with openings where I explicitly say I'm not authorized to work, so, surprise surprise, if you're incompetent to see that, I don't trust you (It's the "no brown M&Ms of recruiting")
The issue is that, from the charity's standpoint, your most likely donors are those who have already donated. It would be nice if you could volunteer a higher donation in exchange for a promise not to be mailed / emailed for a year or two (or ever). I donate to a public radio station on a monthly basis, and some months I feel like they're putting that entire donation into efforts to market to me.
Wow, regex101.com is very nice, but I never would have noticed that debugger pane if I hadn't gone looking for it after your comment. Incredibly useful tool.
Wait till we have bad actor autonomous corporations. What a nightmare.
So what. Release it. I'll take a copyright violation.
1. The recruiter is not contacting him to help him get a job, he's contacting him to provide candidates and get paid if 42floors hires them. It's the other way around.

2. A recruiter never emails you to offer you a job, he's asking you to apply for some position. There's no guarantee you'll get the job. If he's a good recruiter, he studied your profile and knows you're a good match. That's pretty rare. Most of the time, recruiters are just spamming a list of emails addresses of people working in the general field when just a quick look at the linkedin profile would be enough to see that it would be a very bad match.
> You almost make it sound like proprietary per default is or can be broken while open source is not, that's a bridge too far

Personally, I figure it might as well be; no way to fix it. I'd rather drive a beater that I know I can fix myself (or take to a local auto shop if I can't) if it breaks down than a high-end sports car that has to be taken to the dealer for something as trivial as an oil change.

No software is perfect (beyond a trivial "Hello, world!" exercise); that's why being able to look for and potentially fix flaws is important :)
Indeed. Usually the best accountability mechanism is internal to the organization (or the person), but George W Bush demonstrated unequivocally that if you absolutely refuse to hold yourself accountable, there's literally nothing anyone outside your organization can do. It was like discovering a superpower.

Loyalty is everything, principle nothing. So vilify whistleblowers, hold the line against criticism. The important psychology here when behaving unethically and illegally on behalf of your org is to remember that the org is defined to be good and if you criticize it, you will be defined to be bad and moreover, there will be real-life consequences on the order of lost career, imprisonment, or death. Another important feature these days is the use of secret interpretations of law that justify breaking it, providing a soothing balm to those who's consciences need it.
These aren't job offers, but offers from recruiters to find candidates for the positions which OP posted. Just clarifying.

Also, the "First World Problem" meme is so tired by now. A problem doesn't need to be as bad as starvation to be worth solving.
Unified application routing over WebSocket
The party lifestyle will age you.
if you want to be able to get your data out into the web then the answer is: yes
This isn't about developers getting recruiter spam.
Migrating Your Objective-C Code to Swift
You need some sort of cost/benefit to go off of to make decisions on which features get included and which get cut.

One way: consider how many Windows users would switch OS's or not chose a Windows computer as their next purchase due to the lack of multi-monitor taskbars. I don't need any sort of study to say that it's probably not a very high number.
SIG: Social Icon Generator
Hacking the trust network of the world's banking system. The network is only as secure as what is connected to it.
Ambition (YC W14) raises 2M For New Ways to Gamify Sales
Yes, I do plenty of similar things.

Format a load of data using regexes first, then use it hard coded as string to do quick one off script to update the database. It beats trying to parse Excel directly, as you never know what data type a cell will return.
Count me in the "happy to not have exceptions" camp.
Show HN: Graph Search for Instagram
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphsearch/id842961117?ls=1&mt=8

I built this app to allow everyday users to be able to make queries on their Instagram that they usually wouldn't be able to do.
"Good exception handling style in languages with sane exceptions normally means almost never catching exceptions except for high level orchestration routines; reacting to unwinding by cleaning up resources; and generally taking a transactional approach to operations."

I agree. Except that is really really really hard. How does your orchestration routine know to close the file handle that was opened 6 levels deep in the code? How does it know to return 404 not found to the request that was being handled 4 levels deep? It can't, and if it does, then you're breaking encapsulation.

The reality of the situation is that the only place where you have the knowledge to clean up after a function is inside that function. I suppose in theory you could write a whole crapload more code to create auto-clean-up objects and transactional frameworks.... and that'll take a lot longer and be a lot buggier, and be a lot less flexible than just handling the error near to where it was produced with boring, straight-forward code, which is how it works in Go.