skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so! You write that other language (e.g. python) directly, then call it from vimscript.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/extending-vim-with-pytho...
Study says Earth on brink of mass extinction event [video]
Ok, I didn't claim that starting Yo was easy, or that merely contributing to important problems is harder than starting Yo. I meant that, e.g., solving the energy problem is much harder than starting Yo. Basically, those big problems are so big that even if everyone at Yo devoted their careers to one of those problems, the chances of that being the difference in solving it is almost infinitesimal.

There have been a lot of brilliant efforts at curing cancer. You could spend a large portion of a brilliant career following up on one lead. Odds are, that lead won't yield a cure. Cancer is that hard.
Yeah, there is no way I'd trust Google with something as important as domains.

At this point they create and destroy products on a whim. They have 900 products so who cares if a million users get pissed.

Like Google Play Music All Access or any number of modern Google Things, this is something they're doing because "what if we don't", not because they have anything special to provide.
Withings Activité is a fitness tracker disguised as a designer Swiss watch
We've been using Cloud66 for a couple of months now. You may find yourself tweaking the manifest files, though. It's not immutable architecture, but rather, they deploy over and over using Capistrano. So over time you'll build up some artifacts/cruft, especially if you're doing anything that generates a lot of log files. Not a problem, but you'll want to configure it to use instances with enough storage, which in a default config is often only 8GB.
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Welcome to the retargeting party! We wish you the best of luck.

In fairness, we've been offering this since 2012 via our Segmenting API. Anything that can fire a JS event can be used to trigger retargeting. It's awesome and is in production all over the place: http://support.perfectaudience.com/knowledgebase/articles/21...
That take-home isn't realistic. Even in Texas, you are still paying substantial federal taxes.
Pointless to do for short events with small bets. You just kill the golden goose. Why not just a biz and accumulate ongoing revenue? Anyways, deposit risk is low. Sports games last just a few hours.
It also spins up other server types like Selenium. (I do alot with Selenium, and even have an accepted pull request in Rubber's Selenium implementation)
It would be fun if the general solution was making online classes absurdly hard. Unfortunately, it's hard enough to stop cheating on exams in physical lecture halls, so once a high grade guarantees students job interviews....
Kinect Programming
I'm interested in doing a small side project this summer using the Kinect. I'm still thinking about what exactly I want to do. Are there any good resources/tutorials other than those from Microsoft's site that would be beneficial for me?
One of the best use cases of Bitcoin: illegal gambling... in addition to online-enabling other vices.
Even if there is a capex drop, Heroku's focus is simplicity. 5 or 10 cents an hour is part of the value prop; it may be hard to translate a 55.4 to 49.8 cent/hour drop for an AWS instance into their pricing model and not lose that simplicity.
I think that's a very generous interpretation - assuming that you mean the goal is long-term, else it basically is a claim anyway. Elsewhere he talks about "building up technology stack that is needed" in two previous products, which is now "in definitive form" - suggesting that the "goal" is in terms of a succession of products of which this is (close to) the pinnacle, rather than a long-term goal for the current product. He also outright states that this language is [now] "a new type of programming language" which "makes feasible for the first time all sorts of programming that were basically absurd to consider before" (emphasis mine), which is along the same lines as "redefining programming".

As a Wolfram Research employee I suppose you are in a privileged position regarding what Wolfram meant, but that's what I'm reading from what he said.

Oh, and I'm not outright stating the language does not redefine the process of programming - depending on your definition of "redefine", and whether the language lives up to the hype (I have barely tried Mathematica and certainly it looks very powerful in some areas). Nor is wanting to do so unique to Wolfram - things like Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming" attempt to take up the same kind of mantle. I am merely criticizing the idea that Wolfram didn't say it does.
Given that there are a lot of non-accredited schools filled with teachers and curricula that we don't take seriously, so I'm sure a homemade college degree by someone who thinks university is job training will go over well.

"Oh you graduated summa cum laude? From where? ... your house, you say."
I had a drive in one of Cruise's prototypes a few days ago. This technology works.

About a year ago, my family had a car crash that shook up my 3-year-old daughter so much that she still talks about how scary it was. This technology is important.

Congrats to Kyle and the Cruise crew. I'm very impressed, and you guys should be very proud.
They weren't bought but in the past few years the CEO and founder left the company and they did make some acquisitions, including in advertising (mobile in particular) which is where a significant portion of their revenue now comes from.
And this is one of them.

Oh wait, except for the "expect to have" part.
I think you're confusing JS minification with obfuscation. Minified code looks obfuscated, sure, but it's not done to deter "hacking", just to make the code smaller.
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Doc...
It's a JS visualization library. I don't see any special "anyone can use it" features. The demo sure seems to require the user to program in JS.

What am I missing?
Hi Brad ! Congratulations on the acquisition. We're trying to replicate what you did with the API, but with an interface that non-developers can use on their own. What do you think ?
Get "Tour of C++", a new book from Bjarne only with modern C++11.
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It's interesting to see how project like this gained attention for the HN crowds because it's written in Go while in platform like Java, client-side REST library like JAX-RS is a done-deal-dont-have-to-talk-about-it-lets-get-things-done.
Almost daily. All over the place. Meetup.com is flooded with them.
Appnexus has extensive documentation if you want to build your own bidder
I looked in more detail and if I average it out over 2.5 years and only include actual code I care about (not importing OSS packages, which I also review), it's more like one a day.

I was too lazy to calculate a histogram, but let's go with ~100 lines a day.
At $12/year, I'm not leaving GoDaddy, which pricing nobody can beat. With the Domain Club pricing, I get .com at $8.19. The only thing GoDaddy lacks is an API, but can't pay 50% just for this luxury.
Except that it's not Khruschev's apartments. The building which interior we see on the photo is obviously not new, and Khruschev was in power for only 8 years, 1956-1964. So it couldn't be in that poor state in 'early 60s', those blocks have been brand new back then, or most of them, not even built yet.

'Khruschevkis' have been built since ca. 1959 through in fact, late 1970s (and very little, mainly in Moscow, were built before Khruschev was ousted), and they actually had thin walls through which you can hear. Most people in Khruschev's era lived in wooden temporary buildings (many of them stand till now, completely uninhabitable) built right after the war, or dormitories, or communal apartments (which were build in Stalin era and were normally very well built, except a family got a single room in 6-8 room apartment). Very few, upper class people could get a whole apartment of that kind. These indeed, had thick walls, high ceilings, were well-designed and still form a highly sought after part of real estate in Russian cities (while not many were built).

And yes, Khruschevkis were a good thing because they, as primitive and oversimplified as they were, were the only way for most families to move to the city from countryside, or to get their private housing for the first time.
Or a badly seated network cable that managed to vibrate loose. Had that one happen to me, and there's absolutely nothing that can fix it other than feet on the ground.
All the issues she mentioned are HUGE parts of building a successful business that absolutely everyone will go through.
So this is like the hip, overhyped version of any [1] number [2] of [3] public [4] CTF [5] and [6] hackme [7] sites [8]?

1 - http://overthewire.org/wargames/

2 - http://www.hacker.org

3 - http://smashthestack.org

4 - http://3564020356.org

5 - https://w3challs.com

6 - http://sys.warchall.net

7 - http://canyouhack.it

8 - http://www.microcontest.com

(Seriously, there's a ton)
Why can't a company the size of heroku do maintenance at 1am?

I've worked for 2 previous startups doing this. US -> Australia -> UK makes a pretty good global coverage strategy. Once you can afford 3 people this can become a very effective way of ensuring 24 hour coverage.

Between all the countries in australasia and Europe 24 hour coverage is not that difficult. Not to mention rates for a lot of those countries are cheaper then FTE's in the US and if you bring them on as contractors, you still get to avoid having a business presence in those countries (for Tax and what have you).
Thank you for writing this. I've bootstrapped my business. For the first 2.5 years, cashflow was tight. You've described the fears I had of seeing it all crumble, not necessarily because the idea was bad, but because the friction was too great.

I hadn't heard of your startup before this post. But from reading the comments here, you and your startup are very well regarded.

I doubt it feels that way right now, but I think you have a bright future ahead of you. Take some time to process and relax. Good luck!
A better approach is to stop counting calories altogether and realize that by simply focusing on calories rather than how your body processes & utilizes food is a completely outdated way of looking at nutrition.
When we were switching a contained part of our codebase from Mongo to MySQL, we ran both in parallel and stored a key in Redis to let us turn off the MySQL backend (we re-used our feature flag utility for this).

This turned out to be quite useful. If we were throwing exceptions in the new MySQL code, or even just suspected the new system of causing problems, we could switch it off. We also switched it off so that we could easily run migrations without taking down the site.
Hmm, so maybe our blogpost was unclear about that.

The BlockSpring library just lets people post their own work onto the BlockSpring home page (www.blockspring.com).

Our library just lets you specify variables in your code that a user should be able to input. Then when you push it to BlockSpring, we generate a forms and other inputs so users can change these variables.

Truth is the BlockSpring library works just as well with non-visualizations. We just figured it was more obvious to have people changing colors in a graph, then adjusting some other input in a js script.

Does that make sense? We're still working on how to phrase this idea :)
> Highway driving would be even more monotonous with this product

I suspect it would actually be the opposite. If you can take your eyes off the road for say 15-20s every 15 minutes or so, the drive is much less monotonous, and likely safer.
PipelineDB (YC W14) is hiring developers to help build a streaming SQL database
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This inherently involves solving many big problems, many of which are novel. We’re looking for creative engineers who appreciate the value and freedom of choosing their own projects, approaches, and working with other top talent in a low distraction, streamlined work environment in our new SOMA office.

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You can do that in many languages...
I tried looking this up and didn't find much. Could you point me in the right direction?
I'm on the same page as the parent comment. It literally looks like any other Javascript graph framework.

There seems to be no additional tools added to make it intuitive for non engineers. You want them to run web servers, save text documents and edit JSON markup. Not a single one of my non engineering coworkers would ever make it through this on their own. Further, if they make a mistake in the JSON syntax they're going to be ruined. Absolutely no chance that they figure out what's wrong. JSON syntax is pretty straightforward for engineers, but others aren't going to understand the requirement of quotes, escaping, etc. The JSON markup has a ton of parameters that aren't explained and aren't super obvious.

I understand what you're trying to provide by what you've just stated, but this product definitely isn't that, unfortunately.
There is also http://ifconfig.me
When your family is also a tech startup
> just like they did to Manning for what he revealed.

She, not he
Self-driving cars will not be able to catch on without legislation limiting damages to manufacturers.

Proponents of self-driving cars predict ~90% reduction in fatalities. What this means is that over 3000 people per year will be killed by self-driving cars. This is way better than what we have now, but in fatal car crashes, often the driver at fault is killed, and juries tend to assess much lower damages against dead people than against large corporations.

Combine that with the fact that there typically aren't any damages at all awarded for single-occupant single-car collisions where the driver is at fault, and it seems entirely possible that the total damages awarded for traffic fatalities could stay at the current level, or even go up, leaving the manufacturers of self-driving cars to foot the bill.

Now, I generally think that laws to cap damages are not good policy, as it does make it harder to discourage negligence or even malfeasance.
I think the missing piece is BlockSpring won't help you code your visualization, but using the API auto-generates a UI so non-engineers can load in their own data, customize, etc.

Here's a link to a finished product: https://www.blockspring.com/graph_templates/83
> There's nothing inherently wrong with right on red

As a pedestrian I disagree, because right-on-red means that I have to constantly keep scanning for vehicles that may not have been at the intersection when I started crossing.

The second aspect is that the drivers of the vehicles are invariably looking to their left for oncoming traffic, rather than to their right where cyclists and 'crunchy' pedestrians exist.
Why not have engineers in different time zones?

12:30am on EST is 3:30pm AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) and 7:30am in London.

That way you have skilled people awake all hours should a major issue develop. These people can fix the problems while US based clients are sleeping and non-US clients aren't stuck with waisting a day with less severe faults because the engineers only work 9 to 5 PST.
Got it - just updated some language in our blog post since this was clearly confusing :)

Also added a link to the main page.

When an engineer does all that code, it gets posted to the front page of blockspring.com. That front-page definitely does not require code to use.

Thanks for pointing this out
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San Francisco orders parking spot auction app to cease-and-desist
I think this is more about California culture than the Bay Area specifically. Are L.A. Or San Diego really that much different?
(the order of my links is incorrect)
Woah this is even more intense!

http://ifconfig.me/host for the hostname is a great option I wished curlmyip.com had
Aren't std::functions effectively using something like vtables though?
NameCheap still doesn't even have DNSSEC.

People have been asking for, what, five years now?
Is there any reason there should be some limit on these kinds of sites?
My 2010 Lexus had "lane keep assist" and adaptive cruise control (which used radar). It would bring you from 60mph to stop if needed without you ever needing to press the brake.
How long ago was this? It matters, a lot. Tuition doubled at my school while I was there. I ended up with ~$72k in debt. And it wasn't any Ivy-league school.
Good article, yes. However what the heck is it doing on hackernews?
Some of the bets are not just single games, but the outcome of a whole tournament. And ongoing revenue is only 1%, which relative to the other 99%, won't be so enticing after customer growth has peaked. Eventually, the reward from a "retirement attack" becomes very enticing to an anonymous biz operator (and easily blamed on an admin account compromise).

Its quite dishonest to claim that "money cannot be stolen or seized by anyone" just because the bets/order books are decentralized. The outcome admin/judging is still centralized. Whoever controls the judging, effectively controls the funds.
Take a look at the RFCs coming out recently. DANE, in particular.

DNSSEC is an important trust root that can be used to pin certificates in addition to PKIX (CAs), or, in some practical cases (such as mailservers), instead of them.

Are you still running Telnet?
Can you give done examples of the types of things these micro services do?
You've completely missed the point. The site is for developers who make visualisations to be able to allow users to use the visualisations with their own data. It requires you to first create the vis code, then use the Blockspring API to wrap the data source, then the website auto-generates a data upload form that populates the plot.
If this is true, why didn't that person anonymously leak proofs to the FBI or wikileak?
Blahah got it right! Sorry but it's our bad. We're updating the post right now to clarify.
I think your startup was doomed to fail because your business idea just sucked.
The crazy thing about the ZPU is that it is extra _small_, speed is not its goal, so running DOOM on it is kinda a weird choice. It is a stack based cpu that uses half the number of logic blocks that a typical small soft microprocessor would use.
pretty simple solution. I'm surprised no one has posted it.
I think this is a cool idea, and the blog post made sense. This is a really nice way of making visualisations reusable.

Judging by how others have missed the point though, you might want to work on simplifying the pitch. How about starting the post with a simple diagram explaining the flow like:

(code your visualisation) -> (add the BlockSpring API) -> (we generate a web interface for your visualisation) -> (now anyone can use their data with your visualisation)
Sure, but the feedback loop is still slow, also adding support for a new app is much more time consuming, I would much rather have an api call and a git push and get back to delivering value.
Hey! This site makes strange sounds, which drove me crazy - I've thought my hard drive is going to die..
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In other words, Google wants to turn Nest into a platform for the house, some kind of Android equivalent. Looking forward to seeing their next steps. If I'm right, some kind of appstore I would imagine.

So far they've focused on big brands, if this fails it would be because of insufficient trust from developers, but Android shows people can look the other way if there's enough of an incentive.
> Once you can afford 3 people this can become a very effective way of ensuring 24 hour coverage.

How can you run 24/7 with 3 people ? In Australia that would mean you would have to be above the allowed 38 hour working week as it would be a 56 hour working week, overtime and possibly penalty rates would apply. Even if it is on call a lot of companies in Australia pay extra for that.

> Not to mention rates for a lot of those countries are cheaper then FTE's in the US

I do not know who you are employing in Australia but I would suggest that there is only about 5000 - 10000 USD p/a price difference for mid-level guys.
I don't even think the screenwriter for Idiocracy could have planned Yo! as a stock symbol.
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And also run through a script that uses different words for everything that you are used to.
8 Ways to Use Docker in the Real World
> and not lose that simplicity.

Very interesting point
As someone unfamiliar with the product entirely, this point was very non-obvious. Especially since nothing on the original page linked to the main ui.
I have not always had the luxury of running on EC2. When you run on your own hardware this is not a given.
I've been experiencing the same problem all day. The server keeps sending 500 errors and complaining about being down. I've been excited about this launch all year, and naturally trying to access the app all day. No dice!
Same as http://icanhazip.com/
How did this make the front page of HN?
'he' at the time, dysphoria nonwithstanding.
Ah well that is a relief .. as long as we can boot it without having to go through arcane enchantment, we can fix all of that. I wonder why MS decided not to implement the Type Cover keyboard as a standard USB device, seems pretty weird to me, but then again maybe they've created a new accessory market for themselves, yet again ..

Good to know Ubuntu at least boots on the thing and you can get on a network. I guess it'll be a matter of a small amount of time before the rest of the device works. When that happens, I'll seriously consider getting one ..
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