skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ExpressionEngine? All all the cool kids are moving over to Craft CMS. The ExpressionEngine template parser is a mess of a find and replace engine while Craft uses Twig etc.
What UX fads?
Next in the series: "Lessons in server capacity learnt when we got more traffic than usual". The page doesn't load for me.

As an amusing aside "dom kop" (same phonetic as their domain name) in Dutch or Afrikaans translates to "stupid head"
You're wrong http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28js8v/i_am_julian_ass...
There is only one way to find out and that is to try it out.

It's not a complex app so shouldn't take you more than a few weekends.
From p. 15 of the decision:

"The method claims do not, for example, purport to improve
the functioning of the computer itself. See ibid. ('There is no specific or limiting recitation of... improved computer technology...'); Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae 28–30. Nor do they effect an improvement in any other technology or technical field. See, e.g., Diehr, 450 U. S., at 177–178. Instead, the claims at issue amount to 'nothing significantly more' than an instruction to apply the abstract idea of intermediated settlement using some unspecified, generic computer."

I don't see this decision as being too far removed from previous decisions. Regardless, this is a step in the right direction, and is a(nother) blow against the patentability of abstract ideas, and a blow against the patent trolls.

Separately, no decision on ABC vs. Aereo issued today. Aereo lives to see another day, then. Good.
Balsamiq does a nice job for mockups, but doesn't constrain you to a certain style. I don't have any connections to the company, just have used it on a number of projects.
Digital Encryption and Random Bit Generator
So Mozilla's a web development company for hire nowadays?
Regardless of how successful this project ends up being, I find this to be its most interesting aspect: instead of building or buying a proprietary system, the New York Times is retaining a not-for-profit, pro-open-web organization to build what I can only assume will be a free, to-be-open-sourced platform.

I like that.
We switched to Redshift for our data warehouse because it was MUCH cheaper, declarative, allowed us to retain the relational model, and abstracted away most of the admin. Very happy so far. ~5,000 tables, 7-10TB all maintained by one guy in his spare time.

The workbench options weren't amazing so we made this for our BI team: https://github.com/zalora/redsift/
with identity management (so people can be anonymous)

love this.

It will be amazing when faceless, nameless people are allowed to comment without vituperative editing/obfuscation on anything the NYT publishes--given NYT is a brand around telling people what to think.

They are currently the ultimate "don't talk back" old-media platform.
My school required all fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups to have something like 50% (or was it 80%?) of their members TIPS certified (alcohol training) in order to hold events with alcohol present. I actually found the training fairly useful.

It would be interesting to have an alcohol license marker on your state-issued photo ID, similar to how most states make a motorcycle license an extra indication on an automobile license. It would have a snowball's chance in hell of passing in the US, but it would be interesting.
“Simply appending conventional steps, specified at a high
level of generality,” to a method already “well known in the art” is not “enough” to supply the “ ‘inventive concept’ ” needed to make this transformation [into a patent-eligible invention].

How does this differ from/alter existing law? Is this ruling just a clarification?
I would argue that tricking people into thinking you were doing nothing is what Diplomacy is all about.
Mozilla's mission is to promote openness on the web. It is both easy to articulate and easy to understand.

Their mission is not to build a web browser for the sake of building a web browser. They build a browser to protect the web and you.

This project fits in with that mission too.
Well, some things are just hard, take time and can't be divided into vertical slices. That's usually not the case with web technologies, if my impression is correct, but it certainly is the case in many other disciplines.
Paid Vacations for Freelance Designers and Developers
Our team is proposing something a bit different at http://plainmade.com/paid-vacation -- A way for freelancers to go on vacation and earn 25% or more of the estimate and we do the work. I'd like to know what the HN community thinks of this idea.
I think the key sentence is this.

"claims, which merely require generic computer implementation, fail to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention"

In other words, start with an idea that's not patentable because it's abstract. Merely specifying its implementation on a computer doesn't make the original idea more concrete or more patentable. Therefore the claim on the idea is invalid, therefore other claims based on that one are too. So what's left?

If the application to a computer is itself both novel enough and concrete enough, then that might still be considered patentable. Is that possible? Isn't the application to a generic computer still basically an abstract idea? Must it be an application to a specific type of computer to qualify? I think questions of this sort are going to be the new battleground. The war continues, but the front has moved in what seems to be a good direction.

Disclaimers: (1) IANAL, (2) I have a bunch of patents both granted and pending through my employer, so this decision might actually hurt me financially.
This is a rather long quote, but it's relevant:

>Finally, many important things are notable for their absence from the cost-density table. Even in the twenty-first century, we still can’t buy true love, respect, or fulfillment.

>We can’t even buy decent replacements for biological adaptations that go wrong—artificial eyes, brains, hands, or wombs. Our bodily organs are the most value-dense items that we can call our own. They are beyond price, but we take them for granted until we lose them through accident or age.

>Our inherited legacy of adaptations is literally precious. Even the poorest parents give their children vast riches, in the form of senses, emotions, and mental faculties that have been optimized through millions of years of product development. They are so reliable, efficient, intricate, self-growing, and self-repairing that no technology comes anywhere close to matching them. The human genome is the ancestral vault of riches, the secret Swiss account. It is very important for consumerist capitalism to make us forget this, to take for granted what we owe to life itself. Beyond our true necessities and luxuries—our biological adaptations—we get only a little added value from market-traded products.

— Geoffrey Miller (from Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior)

In other words, your health is worth much more than your startup's expected value. Drop everything else and fix it.

Also, you mention that you need new glasses. If you drive, you are endangering others.
Show HN: Dead simple Bitcoin payroll
Hey everyone! We're the folks from Codelitt Incubator. We pay several of our employees either entirely or partially in BTC. This is a huge pain every month when we run payroll. Normally it consists of a wire to Bitstamp (which includes a steep fee), buying the BTC on Bitstamp, sending to our company wallet, collecting receiving addresses, and then paying our employees. Because of this we're building a dead simple BTC Payroll.

Our main goal is to make it easy for you to request that your employer pays you in BTC (partially or completely).

We don't hold any money nor Bitcoins. It all happens in real time. Security, simplicity, and user control are our main priorities.

Employers - Sign up, verify bank account, add employees/contractors name and email, and choose date to run payroll (if you opt in for automatic payroll. Also an option to run manually).

Employees/contractors - Receive email after your employer adds you, setup account with bank account/BTC receiving address, and how much of your paycheck you want in USD or BTC.

Incoin.io (that's us) - We ACH debit company bank account, purchase necessary BTC, then credit employees/contractors with USD or BTC depending on how they choose. We'll maintain records so that when tax season rolls around, you're all covered.<p>We would love some feedback.
What are your questions?
What are your concerns?
Are there any cryptocoins besides BTC that are of any interest?

We are very close to launching our beta. We're looking for some companies who would like to participate in our beta. You can sign up here for beta access or just to be alerted when we launch (very soon.) We'll open it up quickly though after that. You can sign up here: https://www.incoin.io/
alphapapa, your points are indeed valid. And your alternative tech suggestions are quite close to what we are doing, while still protecting our code. Just hold on till we divulge more details :-)
You can see the page here: http://plainmade.com/paid-vacation
Startup Studios – are they a thing?
Julian Assange: AMA on Reddit
Care Travel offers cheap flights to Africa, Ghana countries, buy cheap Holiday
> Then years of development went into these. But only after I saw people use the core functionality.

The WP and NYTimes allow comments on articles already, so there's been plenty of time to see people use the "core functionality" of a comment system. Since I assume that you knew this already, it's hard to see what your point is.
They're probably moaning about Firefox 'copying Chrome' or something. Though they're not copying Chrome; Firefox has its own distinctive style and I much prefer it to Chrome's.
This basically seems to be a verbatim repeat of Bilski v. Kappos.
Hormone treatment for hypothyroidism is provided free by the NHS in the UK [1]. I'm not sure about the conditions that migrants to the UK have to satisfy to qualify for non-emergency treatment though.

(I am not a doctor, the following does no constitute medical advice, etc)

Hypothyroidism is a life-long condition, so you need to get your medication sorted out asap. Someone close to me has this condition, so I know from their experience that determining the right dose can be difficult, even with the help of blood tests and a doctor / endocrinologist. Be cautious about trying to do this yourself, although I appreciate you may have little choice.

Finally, T4 is not usually prescribed in the UK because it has limited effect. Nevertheless some people claim it helps them in combination and they often obtain it privately from Mexico. The same may be true for synthetic T3, which is the conventional treatment. If you do this then be extremely careful.

Good luck.

[1] http://www.thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/NHS_Information/prescription...
Managers lying to subordinates in the financial industry to juice returns! How preposterous! Now wait here while I make a verbal agreement to buy a mansion.
Here are the maps from the silliest game of diplomacy I ever played: http://www.jefftk.com/p/dip-space-nine

There are many rule variants, but Star Trek is just too much.
Edit: OP was claiming that the choice of Dan Sinker to lead the project was some how an uncritical fad pick because Sinker had been on the Colbert Report (years ago) & has a popular twitter account. Which is about as unfounded a speculative ad hominem as you can get.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Dan Sinker ran an indie publication for years (Punk Planet), was a journalism professor at Columbia College in Chicago, and has been running the OpenNews project for 3 years during which time their fellows have launched projects like http://tabula.nerdpower.org/ . He also started projects like Tacofancy (https://github.com/sinker/tacofancy ).
a concurrent not dissenting opinion was filed so it wasn't a 5-4 split or something, the other justices came to the same conclusion just via a different route.
Thanks Felipe! ;) Take care!
I wouldn't think of it that way. Being nice actually adds value to the transaction, for both sides.

It sweetens the deal without actually costing anybody anything. Even if nobody takes home any additional dollar bills when the business is concluded, if everyone is trying to be nice, it may be worth going ahead with it anyway, just to build mutual trust and confidence for some future transaction. Though you can't ever spent it directly, and it is difficult to measure, reputation does have monetary value.

Essentially, it's like having a magical purse of silver coins that is never empty, but you can't ever spend even one of them yourself. You can only give them away to other people. Is it better to hoard those coins to yourself, or to give one to everyone you meet?
I agree. This really seems like a product you'd want to get out there fast and fail a few times with.

As far as I can see, there isn't even a clear Best Way to handle online community they could build towards. Just like every voting system has side effects and weird incentives, any system that chooses what opinions and information reach people will, too.

At the very least, I hope to see a public discussion of the different designs they've shopped to the news orgs, and the side effects they anticipate. That way the project can at least be judged on whether it satisfies the goals the organization decides to pursue, because a perfect online comment publication system seems like an impossible goal.
My experience migrating prismic.io PHP kit to Facebook's HackLang
Ok, but what happens when they go bankrupt, or get bought out and have the rates doubled or service halved or otherwise ruined? What happens when they have downtime, and your customers complain, and you have to give them the excuse, "Sorry, but Filepicker is down," and they say, "Huh? Pileflicker? What's that? Just fix it! I need to upload now!"

Every external dependency or middleman you require hands over some control of your product or service to someone else. You put yourself in their hands and are at their mercy. And for what? Convenience? Laziness? When there are standard, proven, tested FOSS solutions that don't depend on middlemen, that you can debug and fix yourself?

Web sites are becoming far too interdependent. It wasn't many years ago when web sites had ZERO external, third-party resources, except banner ads. Now every page loads 35 JavaScripts from OTHER DOMAINS, all of which run in the context of the site the user is actually intending to visit. And several of them usually are required, or else the site looks horrible or breaks completely. It's madness.
NICE - the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence[1] in the UK - issue evidence based guidance for English health care providers. Commissioners and providers and clinicians don't have to follow this guidance, but they'd need to show they have good reason not to.

I submit this because HN has endless subs about diet and nutrition and lots of them are awful. It is weird to me that HN readers are really susceptible to biases and poor quality science. (And this flows both ways - people saying "just diet you lazy fat fucks" don't get it as much as people saying "only eat lard and you'll be fine").

This sub has two parts. I subbed the news announcement. The actual guidance is here. http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=byID&o=1453...

I felt that I had to sub the news release first because I thought that the thread would have been flooded with people who didn't read all the guidance before commenting. :-/
For those who want to read about real tests of how various common software fares under network partitions, here is some amazing work done by aphyr and his infamous Jepesen tests:

http://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen

This post has some info on elastic, but nothing in excruciating detail:
http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable
xemacs looks dead to me. 2009 was the last official release. See
http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/index.html#Stable
These type of articles baffle me, you're comparing a high-performance analytical database to a batch-orientated SQL engine.

The whole point behind these query engines on Hadoop (Hive, Presto, Impala, etc) is to separate the database from the query engine. With these engines you can project schemas over raw data in its original form, without having to load it into a table. With Redshift, or other similar analytical databases, you're forced to define a schema, and then load the data in row by row...bulk inserts are very slow in comparison to Hadoop technologies.

Regardless, Hive in general should nver be used for interactive analytics, that's not what it's intended for. Where Hive shines is when you can dump 250TB of raw text data into a folder and then run a SQL query to extract useful information out of it. The extracted data could then be loaded into a RDBMS like RedShift for real-time reporting.

With all that being said, if you want to run SQL queries on data in Hadoop at the speeds of Redshift, you should have used Impala with Parquet, which is known to be even faster than Redshift in many cases, and is based on the same technology Google uses (Dremel and F1). The benefits of keeping your data in Hadoop are enormous, not every problem can be solved using SQL. The same data you're querying with Impala could actually be used to do machine learning using Spark or Mahout. Maybe you want to start indexing one of your tables into Solr to provide search capabilities on a subset of your columns to your users...or maybe you want to use Giraph or Sparks' GraphX to do parallel graph computation. The data never moves, there's still only ONE copy of that data in Hadoop, and you can bring any kind of workload to it.
Enabling comments in newspapers and website that have world wide reputation and high quality articles will reduce the number of pages visited by a single users, and will affect the final perception of the reader on the article that he read. witch in a long term will affect the future articles wrote by journalist making them targeting "narrow low minded" people that are the general stereotypes who comments on articles by letting their hidden violence go out through subjective violent comments.

please don't do that.
I would hate that, gives too much strength to the southern powers.

Italy was my favorite country to play as. You absolutely need a strong ally, but if you don't get one, you can be a thorn in everyone's side.

I only really enjoy playing face to face. I just started a one move per week game at the office. Should get interesting.
$3.9m over 2 years?
Give me 2 years and I'll build that for $3.8m.
Show HN: An "easy button" for event marketing.
Summary: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/06/claims-invalid-section.h...
Beautiful and simple way to log trips! It never occurred to me to do it, but your app made me want to! Honestly think you can charge a buck more, and I rarely buy apps. Well, unless you have competition.
They are few and far between, but this is a gem: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28js8v/i_am_julian_ass...
clickable link - https://www.incoin.io/
"Matrix of Services, which I will call MAXOS, is the secret weapon that Silicon Valley is using to disrupt and destroy competitors."

I think i will stop here, thanks.
Spaces make zero sense for indentation. Why would you want to use them instead of tabs, which were invented for indentation and make perfectly logical sense (3 indents, 3 tabs and editors can dynamically adjust the width of your tabs). You get none of that logic with spaces.
I can't speak to the other games, but similar to Chess and Go, I love Diplomacy because there is zero chance involved in the game. Nothing ever comes down to a dice roll or coin flip.
Stop autoplaying your Gifs
This blog has 460 posts. In some of them, I need to show video clips demonstrating some feature or browser behaviour. I found that it was much better to do that in an animated Gif. However, they play automatically which is kinda annoying. Imagine that we have ten Gifs on the page and while you are reading they all blink or show moving content. It's like having a page full with banners.
Sold! Seriously. This is what I wanted for the last two decades.
How many of these[1] functions can I write in Go without doing a bunch of casting? Probably less than half.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/Data-L...
Well, most comments on the net are utter shite. I don't blame them. Hacker News is different, but you don't have to go further than arstechnica to see the start of rapidly declining comment quality. A mainstream publication like NYT? Hats of to them if they manage an open discussion that's not just trolling, hatred, keyboard warriors and bigotry. I'll believe it when I see it. Just read the comments to The Economist. You'd think such an archetypically highbrow publication would have highbrow comments. You'd be wrong. Only niche websites have good comments.

I guess some spamfilter-like technology could be applied to filter out bad ones, though. Wikipedia also has an engine to filter out bad edits. Should have lots in common.
What languages are dominating GitHub and StackOverflow?
Nerds don't necessarily prefer fantasy/scifi to historical settings. You may be conflating nerds with geeks.
A good time to know Verilog.
If you're using Bitcoin as a means of payroll, you may want to look into the tax implications.
(Very short) concurring opinion is there because those judges believe all business method patents should be abolished, just as they believed so in Bilski v. Kappos.
Not ExpressionEngine per se, but CodeIgniter that came from it.

Thanks for the Craft CMS pointer. I did not spot that when looking for something more modern that supported custom content types last year. I played briefly with Bolt CMS, but it didn't quite feel right to me.
OCSP-must-staple. Solves the revocation problems in web PKI?
Yes. I'm going to add song length on the next update.
This may be huge. People will use the FPGA as they use the GPU now, but FPGA has the potential to greatly reduce the programming complexity associated with GPUs.

In the end, the success will boil down to how easy the development is, and how well designed the libraries will be - if the framwork will be capable to automatically reconfigure the hardware to offload CPU-intensive tasks, this has high tech potential for widespread adoption, not just datacenter-wise.
Sure. There are certainly some things which don't lend themselves to regular achievable goals. If you were tasked with building a bridge, you'd probably be hard pressed to put out anything within the first few days, let alone a prototype. That can happen in software too, but I suspect that situations where that is the case are in the minority. This isn't fighter jet avionics, it's a glorified discussion board.
I work with the folks who built PDW. It's all SQL Server now. That said, I'm often amazed at how many commercial db products are based on Postgres and other open source dbs. Postgres has a nice page on their site showing all the products derived from it - for example, Netezza or Pivotal's Greenplum. Relational dbs and SQL (especially SQL) are far from dead.

Link: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_derived_database...
Why exactly do you or OP assume that this project can't or won't iterate and test?

And why are you assuming anything about the existence of voting systems?

Dan Sinker even says in his piece "We don’t see this project as a single product, but instead as building blocks for engaging communities throughout the web."
I use my Wacom Bamboo al day. Have a look at http://www.smudgeguard.com/ This helps for both Wacom users as well as 'on-screen drawing' and even on iPad drawing.
I like this one, just because it's so stupid
https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3266