skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah. Downvoted because my comment (which I cannot now delete) refered to the original editorialized post title, not the current corrected title. The original title claimed that updating Flash auto-installed this extra app.
Refriending Facebook
Bummer, but thanks for the reply. FWIW, I'd prefer compression of nested comments over having to scroll horizontally, back-and-forth, to read anything on the site.
The problem I have with this selector source code is that it is incredibly complex to execute.

How is the NSA able to do this in realtime for all their interception points?!
Do you feel there might be information that they can't publicize? I skeptical and sympathetic to that at the same time.

I really would say that it's a question of risk aversion & utitility. Even targetting a whole class of people the odds are probably astronomical of finding someone planning harm (1M:1? more than that?). To me it comes down to the negative utility of privacy invasion * the number of people targeted ??? the probability of detecting & thwarting the one malactor, where ??? is an inequality.

Maybe it's good we have risk averse and non risk averse groups, that the balance of power between those groups can change over time as necessary.
>'If there is a better way, I'd like to do that.'

I gave this a little thought a few years ago, it's an interesting problem in.

There are lots of variables generated (estimates) and validated (bills) by disparate sources (dealerships / independents) which are not at all inclined to share. Though some vehicle owners do share I'm not sure I've ever seen anything more prone to exaggeration and selective reporting.

Folks like Mitchell [1] surely have loads of great information obtained via the usage of their shop-facing products, but as far as I know they don't offer a data service.

Also, standard maintenance items like brakes, fluids and tires aren't terribly interesting or costly. The really noteworthy maintenance concerns are the brand and model specific time-bombs like plastic cooling system bits in various BMWs.

Coming up with a way to collect or somehow infer these things would be a killer feature for any service of this sort.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_International,_Inc.
Does this average include all the 6 year olds of the world?
QinetiQ and Qualcomm are both deep pockets.
Ha. Great reference.
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Stop calling it skill. It’s really just luck.
The impending death of the YouTube mashup
Getting a Wii U development unit costs around $[2000,4000]+import tax. It's free for the first n months (1 or 3 I can't remember) and then you have to pay to keep the unit.

If you plan on releasing it on the eshop you will have to pay an exorbitant sum to each countries ESRB equivalent which is a complete racket.

So yes, it is a developer hostile company. Then again, Nintendo has always been behind with keeping up with the latest tech trends and features. For example just look at their online services:
* No party chat.
* Very little 3DS/Wii U cross compatibility for NNIDs (and don't forget the horribly long FCs).
* No cross licensing between 3DS/Wii U. If I want to buy Super Mario Bros 3 I should NOT have to pay for it twice.
* No remote play support
* No 3DS controller support (besides Monster Hunter)
* Digital Games on the eshop aren't priced competitively as you can almost always find a physical copy cheaper. This part baffles me.
Show HN: QList.cc - quick, easy lists, simple to share
This is great! I'm going to put a few pages there that I obsessively follow anyway. RSS isn't available (or good) often and I don't want to create social media profiles to get updates.
Hungry Hungry Hacking: How to use XMPP with Path to chat with every brunch spot
As a short-term stopgap, maybe create a "appreciation" field for maintenance to go up by a certain percent each year?

In any case, thanks for the calculator! I'll probably be using it alongside others to help me buy a car soon.
Clean room design
Yay! Great change.

It's no secret the quality of discussion has decreased. I was fine with PG's stick approach with moderation - I couldn't think of anything better. But this looks like a carrot approach that can work. Very clever and elegant solution.
Huh, that seems pretty douchey, not a very nice way to do business.
They also make really great Linux machines. :D
"Who are you" also gives a nice response.
"I am a natural language question-answering engine."
You can always demand even more proofs, but it's not probable that they'll come easily -- it's obvious that such leaking is extremely dangerous. This is still significantly more that public knows now than it knew before the article.
Show HN: Solo - An app for sharing solitude and loneliness
"Certainly you can see the appeal of being able to live on a river that isn't polluted, or being able to drink water that isn't contaminated?"
That's called damage to property (my body, or my section of the river), or possibly an act of aggression. Both are covered by anarcho-capitalist and libertarian philosophies.

"The only reason you can do that is because big brother uses those ("taken by force") taxes to keep the poor factory owner (who just wants to be left alone) from dumping his mercury where ever he wants."
Ah, yes... I see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
Show HN: Tinder for GIFs
Dumb question: what is the status of the un-owned (un-vested) portion of shares in the first years?

Suppose two people, A and B, are equal partners each vesting towards 50% ownership in 3 years. After the first year, they both have vested ownership of 16.6%, what is the status of the other 66% of the company? Does the corporation as an entity own 66% of itself? Do they both really own 50% of the company, with an agreement that new shares will be created in a year and distributed to them? It seems to me like this scenario would mean they both own 50% of shares outstanding, and each year new shares are created which dilute their original holding's equity, but the shares then go to them (so they initially hold ie 10,000 shares of 20,000, then later hold 20,000 of 40,000).
How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups
In the longer term, I'd like to read the entirety of the web and build a complete semantic bayesian map matching a maximum of knowledge items. Also, it would be nice to have access to a visualization tool for the different answers available and their frequency across sectors of opinion, thus solving the problem of subjectivity (which Wikipedia deals with by completely ignoring it).

If you haven't already, check out Massimo Marchiori's ideas for his (now defunct) Volunia search engine [1]. You are definitely onto something potentially revolutionary here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Marchiori
When I saw the HN title for this I thought it was going to be extremely lame. I'm glad I read it. Here's what I learned:

- You chose a name and started a company and based your branding off a name when you knew you didn't have the .com domain.

- You bullied a guy that had a domain and was working on something. Even threatened the guy with legal action.

- The 'how' in the title was never actually revealed beyond the bullying. This was a self-congratulatory opinion article.

- I will never, ever recommend SocialRank and will actively recommend against using your services or doing business with you.
Where does it say that's how they ended up in the filter?
Sounds like LNKD or FB (don't mean to pry :) -- congrats!
Like someone else mentioned, there are better tools to calculate static ownership costs. This is definitely a good start.

I'm working on https://www.maintenr.com and we allow you to calculate your service and fuel expenses dynamicly.
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> Well you and I disagree on the risks involved. And to what degree any organization can contractually exempt themselves from law.

Its not an issue of "contractually exempting themselves from law". There's no law providing general liability to a user for an ISP taking down material. The only liability that would exist for doing so would be for breach of contract. Which would mean that there would have to be a contractual obligation not to take down the material for there to be a need for the DMCA safe harbor. Which ISPs routinely already avoided, before the DMCA even existed, by having contracts which expressly included provisions indicating that the ISP could take down material in their sole discretion. As regards to the user facing side, the DMCA safe harbor is, therefore, usually irrelevant. (There are no doubt some exceptional cases with atypical contract schemes where the contractual relationship is different --
but they aren't usual ISP or other content host to typical public user agreements.)

> My point is that the DMCA can be used as a get out of a lawsuit free card only if you comply with it. In all other cases you are exposed to a 'question' of compliance which requires the involvement of a finder of fact.

That's almost 100% backwards. Asserting an immunity to liability based on compliance with the DMCA is asserting a defense which requires the involvement of a finder of fact -- compliance with the DMCA is a question of fact. But whether question is relevant requires there to a basis for legal basis for a claim under which you could be held liable before considering the DMCA safe harbor -- which is often what is missing on the user-facing side.

> However, if you comply fully with the DMCA you cannot theoretically or otherwise raise any argument against the ISP under copyright infringement or unlawful takedowns, period.

Incorrect. You get to raise the argument first. The provider/host can then use its compliance with the specific DMCA safe harbor provisions relevant to its liability to you as a defense against that claim, and if it does so, it is immune from any liability. But they don't have to show that they "comply fully with the DMCA", they have to show that they complied with the requirements related ot the claim being advanced. If you are a copyright owner, they show that they complied timely with the takedown notice to get out of the copyright claim. If you are a user, they show that they complied with the counternotice to get out of whatever claim (presumably, contract-based) that the brought. But you first have to have a claim that doesn't get thrown out as a matter of law before raising the DMCA safe harbor defense even matters.

> That is a lot of risk to assume

Really? A lot of risk? Can you name one case where a succesful lawsuit was brought against any content host, ISP, etc., for failure to restore content subject to a DMCA counternotice? Or even for policies that involve more drastic than takedown penalties -- like contract termination -- for suspected copyright violation without any advance notice or opportunity to respond?
You know, this reminds me of some old Web 1.0 services that would kind of do the same. You'd register an address, and if the site changes any content, you'd get an email. I used to have dozens of pages registered, mostly news type sites and always kept up-to-date with things.

At some point they went away, I think RSS killed them, but RSS never seemed to work quite as well for me for some reason, too granular I think.

I'm really glad to see something like back again.
I read about it as well, and I found that one's behavior is also coded into genes. So, you have as much say in your destiny as your ancestors.
This is a fair point, but begs the question: should a CS degree include, or not include, learning about software project management and software development processes? I teach in the business school (an MIS department) so it's not controversial that we'd teach about project management and operations management here. I don't know what the prevailing opinion is in engineering schools.
Thanks! I will be launching an example application within the next day or so. I'll post a link in the readme once it's live.
This is really interesting! I created a simple app to CRUD Cities and Countries and it works as you expect it to. Code is also what I would have written given the simple spec.

Uses the latest Rails and clean code generation. Well done!

If you're curious see here: https://github.com/sergiotapia/prelangtest

I'll use to launch my next project because Facebook+Email authentication is a pain in the ass to implement.
Naming things is the hardest part of writing software. Really it is.
Thank you all for the amazing support! I'd love any feedback you have, both positive and constructively negative. :)
Thanks! A deploy process like that is coming relatively soon... I've been working on it today in fact. I'm glad you think that would be valuable.
It's not so much that it's intrinsically bad, but just like with new, man-made chemical compounds that has never existed before, there's a possibility that there are adverse effects that we can't anticipate and won't be apparent for many years to come. After all the experience we've had with persistent pollutants, I think we're right to be cautious.
Hey everyone,

I submitted our startup a month ago when we first launched, and received some amazing feedback (which we've since iterated on). We're excited to announce that our content categorization and post scheduling features have been completely overhauled, and given that Show HN is now a real feature, here it is again :)
I find 7x8 one of the easiest to remember, because I was taught to remember 56=7x8 (5-6-7-8)
Ask HN: You hired a CTO to replace a founder. How did you do it?
It seems incredibly hard to replace a leaving founder with a suitable CTO. If you managed to pull this off, how did you do it? Is an acqui-hire the best way? Did a headhunter poach someone from the competition for you? Please share your stories / recommendations.
I also suffer from Ménière’s disease (thankfully only in one ear, as an acoustical consultant having it in both ears would mean the end of my career) and while it was never bad enough that surgery was considered, my impression from speaking with doctors at a couple of prominent Boston hospitals was that the surgery itself and ongoing side-effects could be rough of patients so it truly is a measure of last resort.
You are also an atypical worker. Less-skilled labor faces a much greater potential threat from uncontrolled immigration than you do. Also, many potential immigrants might decide to live in the US based on mistaken, outdated perceptions of opportunity and social mobility, but later wouldn't have the financial resources to relocate again if reality didn't meet expectations.

Emergency medical care is provided freely, and has its costs, as well as public education. Also you can't discount the risk of turf wars and violence with the "native" population, especially during times of economic stress or other instability.

Don't get me wrong; i'm all for immigration streamlining and reform, as well as equal legal protections for all people regardless of citizenship status. But immigration control remains a complex, multifaceted issue, that does not necessarily lend itself well to fully idealistic, ideologically pure solutions. Even the most liberal (or libertarian) of European countries have border control and non-trivial, exclusive requirements for immigration, with many policies and requirements being even more restrictive and byzantine than those of the US.
Corporate ownership is determined by shares outstanding. Reserve shares retained by the company do not figure into ownership calculations.

A company cannot directly own itself, but it can indirectly, if it contributes some of its shares to another company that it wholly or partially owns. (This is not permissible in all jurisdictions, such as the U.K.)
One of our products is advice tools for farmers. The free version gives information about historical and predicted weather over a very precise area - farmers can select their exact fields from a map and get information via web, apps, or email. You can sign up and choose whatever land you want to monitor: http://www.climate.com/products/climate-basic/

The paid product takes more inputs from the farmer (crops, planting information, etc) and gives recommendations based on crop, weather, soil, and hydrology models specific to those crops, land, and planting. More details here: http://www.climate.com/products/climate-pro/
I think you've misunderstood my point, and in the process of doing that you've made one about which you are, in my experience, wrong.

1.) My point was to answer (here, I'm quoting)

> And it doesn't seem clear that finance firms pay that well:
> The average base salary for a software engineer at a finance firm is $92,000

by saying (and here I'm quoting the first sentence of my post)

> The best in finance have most of their compensation on a perfomance-bonus basis.

which is a relatively straightforward clarification, and on which point I went on to cite 100k base + 200k bonus.

As to the second point?

2.) I've yet to meet anyone "software engineers at software firms" who "make tens of millions". Or maybe that's just biased to my age group? But the best from my circles turned a 200+ offer to found a startup, and then a year after that didn't work out, has since taken a 300+ offer. I can assure the level of talent required for something like this is, indeed, atypical.

But I also can't say that you're wrong, since I can't say I'm familiar with every outlier case. Just that your experience has been different?

Well, at risk of sounding nasty, I actually don't think what you're talking about -- again, people working as software engineers at software firms making annual incomes measured in multiple 8-figures -- exists anywhere, even as an outlier.
Point it - The picture dictionary
I haven't tried Spectacle, but I'm happily running Divvy and Cinch on my 10.5 PPC Mac. :)
I think if people really want something like docker on Windows or MacOSX, they should go out and write themselves one. For docker guys, obviously, they don't find it an attractive market.

Who will run MacOSX in server farms anyway? If you're using Windows already, why not spend more for some fancy virtualization or container like products, say from VMWare?

Mono is more like a different implementation of interesting languages. If you like C#, you can use mono to write and run on Linux. If you want to write Windows programs, you won't use mono.
Almost makes me wonder if there should be a karma requirement to comment on Show HN posts. I hate restrictions generally speaking, and I don't know if it's safe to assume longer tenured members inherently have more class when offering feedback.
in germany we have "club mate", which is a yerba tea.

pretty much turned into the national hacker drink
Hence the entire second part of my post.
The Facebook Prison Experiment
Ask HN: What are your essential tools you wish you had discovered sooner?
Someone recently suggested I try iTerm2, after I tried and dismissed earlier versions years ago, and now I'm wondering what else I'm missing out on.

By tools I mean anything, even physical tools, not just software, and not just for software development.
I'm not personally afraid of GMOs, but I do not fault people for being skeptical of them.

Completely synthetic foods and food processing have a mediocre track record, and in many cases have caused actual harm (e.g. trans fats) for a long time before that harm was uncovered. Even in cases where there is no active harm, heavily processed foods very often have lower nutritional content than their less processed "whole" cousins. Take wheat for instance. We bleach it, denuding it of its nutritional value, and then try to add back the missing nutrients. Why?

Obviously that's apples and oranges -- GMO foods don't do the same thing that food processing, oil hydrogenation, etc. do... they're totally different technologies. But for the average person who doesn't deeply understand these issues, it's easy to look at the poor track record of "better living through chemistry" and be skeptical.

The general perception is that anything that "messes with" food is either reducing its nutritional content or adding something harmful.

Another reason for skepticism about GMOs stems from the poor track record of medical studies on the relative benefit or harm of various nutrients and foods. Take saturated fats for example, which were demonized for decades. Instead people were encouraged to eat trans fats like margarine, which turned out to be worse for you. Now apparently saturated fats are not too bad in moderation, or something. I don't know. That will probably be reversed next month, then reversed again, then reversed again, and each time the media will trumpet the news. Each big new finding about nutrition seems to contradict previous findings, leading to a general view among many people that nutritional science has no idea what it's talking about.

We can't even figure out after decades of study whether or not fat is bad for you and you're telling me we're absolutely 100% sure GMOs are safe...? Get the picture?

Finally, I think there's a problem of institutional trust. I've asked some organic hippie type friends before if they'd be more open to GMOs if they were made by non-profits working toward the public interest, if they were open source, and if all results of all studies were completely public. I've mostly gotten nods to that. People don't trust closed for-profit companies not to hide negative results, engage in research study "payola," push things to market that have known problems, etc.

The trust issue is huge. Any time this comes up around here I tend to post and bring it up, and for the most part nobody gets it.

People are afraid of GMO foods and parents are not vaccinating their children because the Bush administration lied about Iraq (to give one example). For some reason that is just flatly obvious to me. Why does nobody else see this?
Names have power. Why would I want anyone to be able to summon me so easily?
>Fire in a crowded theater

This is a quote by a judge in a trial that put someone in prison for passing out antiwar fliers. It's good to know the source of our philosophies.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

When we accept that "shouting fire in a crowded theater" isn't protected speech, we're backing up an argument that was used to put someone in prison for non-violent anti-state speech. Not token prison either; 6 months. That is not a good thing, and not an acceptable baseline to guide us in the examination of other issues.
I came here to say something very much along those lines: treasure the moments and the things you have while you have them, but don't cling, because you will lose them. All of them. Everything.
Show HN: Open source log collector Fluentd
I know of at least 3 people who would kill for this feature. Imagine generating a starting point and have it deployed immediately. Wow. Gamechanger!
This isn't how vesting works for founders.

Typically, in US startups, the stock is sold to the founders up front, with the company having a repurchase option corresponding to the vesting period.
It sounds like you can swap school to avoid learning anything! Seriously, it sounds like a good way to avoid memorizing historical or political knowledge.
Sketch, Framer.js
This gem & module look really well thought out and well designed. Security is impressive and well designed given the tradeoffs that are associated with it (ease of use versus time to implement). I look forward to integrating this into my app.