skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm deploying with the email gate removed now. If I don't hear back, I'll just make a new "Show HN" post.
From the filename, I thought this was some kind of X window config file for key remapping.
Yo dawg, we heard you like "show hn" posts... :)
I launched http://BeatsImporter.com a few weeks ago.. like some others it's a side project so profitable is a bit different for me. in a month of "operation" it's paying for itself using Adsense. really not sure how else to monetize something like this (maybe a 99 cent app kind of thing?) At any rate I have done a few small sites that scratched an itch for me and none ever went any further than scratching my own itch. this one (BeatsImporter) is the first to go beyond that.. so pretty excited.. :-)
Depends how you define "smart" then. Viewed differently, nominal smarts + arrogance = lack of big-picture smarts = at the end of the day, just not all that smart.
I think you may be generalizing from your experience. Just looking at some of the openings for these companies they are looking for MongoDB, HTML5, Rails, etc. I didn't see any mention C# or other MS specific things.
Show HN: Js WebDAV/CalDAV/CardDAV client to power Firefox OS calendar
It got the Caribou coffee question of the day,
"what battle ended the civil war"
"surrender at Appomattox ended the civil war"
We'll be launching a jobs board soon. The map will be on there. Also, each profile is tagged with a part of town (e.g. Downtown, South Lake Union, Bellevue, etc).

I'll take this into consideration as we make improvements to the site. Thanks for the feedback!
How does this work? Do you pay per 'fight'? Pay a fee per 'pay'?

Sounds like a great idea, but there's not much info on the app store or website.
It's a predictable way to raise revenues.

Capital gains tax is more or less voluntary - if the tax decreases my ROI too much I simply won't sell.
Show HN: Make apps for people without smartphones
> And partway through the meeting, a shareholder puts simply: "I do not understand video games and I even feel angry because, at Nintendo’s shareholders’ meetings, the shareholders always discuss things relating to video games or such childish topics as 'what the future of video games should be,'..."

You're a shareholder of a video game company, and you're wondering why they're talking about video games? Seriously?
I'm sure a legitimate extremist would want to use something like TAILs.

I'm more worried about the fact they are tracking people who access articles about tails by the media than I am about that particular component. If you read one article on linuxjournal containing 'tails' you are flagged:

$TAILS_terms=word('tails' or 'Amnesiac Incognito Live System') and word('linux'
or ' USB ' or ' CD ' or 'secure desktop' or ' IRC ' or 'truecrypt' or ' tor ');
$TAILS_websites=('tails.boum.org/') or ('linuxjournal.com/content/linux*');

So they aren't really "monitoring extremists" they are monitoring anyone with an interest in security [even if its just a hobby].
Why does data need to have sex?
I guess I lived in a cave for too long, but what is "Zuckerberg's case" exactly?
The link should be second from left.
Sure! Email them on.

The site is almost 4 years old, and it's starting to show its age. I would do much differently were I to start over.

Yes, currently the reviews are from me. I let the site slide for a long time because I only wanted books that would still be good ten years from now, and you don't see a lot of those released each year.

Interesting problem I ran into with the site? Gushing reviews. Turns out if you only review the best stuff, you quickly run out of superlatives. That was the main reason I didn't finish reviewing all the entries.

The challenge I took when building the site was to do as much as possible without a transactional database or realtime back-end system. The site compiles from an MS Access database to JSON, which is then stored on the server. I found with a semi-static database and rich querystring, I could do a lot more than most people would imagine. It made me start deeply thinking about app architecture -- completely changed the way I look at it.

But the UX? Not so much.
I see both of them as complementing each other
It shouldn't matter whether something is a drug, vitamin, or dietary supplement. What matters is whether there is scientific proof of efficacy for what you are trying to accomplish.

I have long struggled with social anxiety, and under stressful situations severe panic attacks. I found out via examine.com (fantastic website for getting scientific info on supplements) that inositol (vitamin b8) is potentially more potent than SSRIs in treating anxiety disorders. I bought a tub of the stuff and sure enough there has been a dramatic dose-dependent reduction in symptoms.

Unfortunately, because it's "just a vitamin" there is limited data available, so I have no idea how safe it is or whether it has any long-term effects.
In what ways do you think the communities will diverge over time?
Too stupid means, for instance, that they could never begin to fathom programming a computer in C or C++.

It seems you're confusing "could never begin to fathom X" with "just not all that interested in X."
Many posts on PH aren't submitted by the creator of what is being posted. The main idea behind Show HN posts is posting your own creations. The public here is also more tech oriented than in PH - more product oriented.
You could approximate by saying that a gallon is a kWh of energy. set up the Fuel Price per Gallon to electricity cost $0.1(a), 3(b) MPG, and a much lower maintenance cost...

(a) 10 cents per kWh (depends on where you live),
(b) 3 miles per kWh (or 333Wh/mile, depends on the actual EV)
Happy to put Show HN back in the title.
Hey James I have been following you guys for a while, great concept and looks pretty smooth. Reminds me a lot of Habbo Hotel, great market with lots of revenue potential. Keep it up.
Will you be posting any statistics on users personalities? (Anonymous of course)

P.s. Your name is hazardous bra
Show HN: VidToy - Experimental YouTube Search Interface
The link should also say "Show HN" rather than just "show".
Beyond good and evil?
Just FYI, there's a typo on the homepage!

"Connect to Exmas"
I can't think of it off the top of my head and Google is failing me but I seem to remember some website that will flight your traffic-related tickets for you, and you only pay if they end up saving it. Does this ring a bell to anyone?
It often seems to put two vowels together, which works for "oo", but not reaylly for "yy" or "ii"
I agree 100%.

In addition, a friendly reminder to us all...

When you see a Show HN, assume that whoever created it, perhaps not unlike you, is working to drive his or her dreams into existence. Each post represents a dream, a personal story, a literal piece of their Life.

For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, that means grinding at the mine during the day, returning home after perhaps a long commute, spending time with and cooking for our family, our significant other, etc... then, clocking back in at 9:00pm or 10:00pm to bring it for the next several, precious hours, working to make the dream real... then catching some sleep, waking up and turning around and dropping the hammer all over again.

It's just something to remember as you comment to someone about their work.
I wrote this a while ago to add some little details to HN: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/HNImproved

It lets you give specific users a specific color, if you want to call dang out specifically.
I think it's pretty interesting. If I write both those names in cursive, they look surprisingly similar.
Check this link - http://foundersolutions.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/what-it-tak...
Is There A Second NSA Leaker?
How does the app gather information about your outstanding tickets? Do you have to input them by hand? Does it scrape some public database, and if so do we have to wait for you to add our city in order for us to use it?
@grimborg can you please email us at support@getblogo.com (or submit a ticket via our website) with this issue? We can help you better at our support channel. Thanks!
So let me get this straight... you take all the good reservations then you either cancel them or sell them. Way to create something that benefits the people of San Francisco.
This seems pretty damn sexist. Even though the concept may be sound, the positioning undermines any argument the creators might have.

What if I'm a man who wants to wake up to a man's voice?
What if I'm a woman who wants to wake up to a woman's voice?
Phew looks like we generated some statistical controversy here....so re: the complaints that our sample doesn't actually capture "who reads xkcd" but rather "who tweets xkcd" - we hear you. Unfortunately the crux of the problem is that there doesn't appear to be an easy way to draw a random sample from the xkcd population, unless you are Randall Munroe or have access to xkcd traffic logs. Any API you use will probably lead to a biased sample, and given that there's no physical location it's not like we can check who checks into xkcd on foursquare either. But that being said, if anyone knows of a better way to sample "who reads xkcd", please hit is up!
Imagine yourself describing a democratic republic to people that have never heard of one. Now imagine that every one of them, down to the last man, suggests that your system will inevitably result in a zombie apocalypse that destroys every living thing on the planet. Also imagine that certain oddly specific details, such as the color and consistency of the zombie blood, is common across all people you talk to.

That is what libertarians experience whenever they describe libertarianism to non-libertarians. It always ends up with people starving in the streets that don't exist because no one built them.

Your scenario, in which one person buys all the streets and then prevents everyone else from using them at reasonable cost ends with that guy getting his head caved in with a chunk of asphalt dug out of one of his own streets. Rule number one for any civilization, regardless of its form of governance, is to not be an asshole. The release valve for people abusing the system is other people ignoring the system.

If you antagonize everyone, then no one will help you police your many miles of streets, to make sure no one on them has not paid. You have one cop car, but no one pulls over when you flash the lights, and if you try to issue a ticket, people crumple it up and throw it in your face.

This is completely independent of the laws or governance. If you don't help other people, they eventually stop helping you. If you coerce other people by force, eventually they start fighting back.

In reality, most people are not jerks, and road investors will likely find that they could have lost less money by buying a boat. The only profitable roads would be in the commercial districts and the highways, and those would probably make more money on parking, advertising, and rest stops than they ever could from direct charges to businesses and the public. Sensible investors would avoid them like the plague unless they already owned some sort of business related to them. Your city roads will be maintained by McDonald's and Wal-Mart, and your highways by ExxonMobil and Chevron. Major bridges and other large capital investments would have associated tolls.
You probably want to change the text. It's copied word for word from - http://www.salesinvaders.com/ (Unless, both the companies are owned by the same guys)

All the best!
Can the G.O.P. Be a Party of Ideas?
Show HN: Flask-MongoMyAdmin, a MongoDB frontend as a Flask extension
Maybe I'm missing something but this game didn't work at all for me in Firefox
It's all through the web.
Show HN: XERQ - Real-Time Discussions
I really like that idea; enough so that I do all of my private browsing through Tor.

Of course the downside to that, besides all the inconveniences of Tor, is that it gets associated in the public mind with both extremist criminals and porn. Maybe the NSA isn't so concerned with the latter, but Tor's image is bad enough has it is. I doubt this would really make it more politically savvy to support it.
Show HN: Furry Jump – Jumper game for WP
I have an Irish "Mc" prefix name. There's a 50/50 chance someone will pronounce it with the wrong stress, and there is no "correct" way. Just tradition. So that's fun. I don't think this service would help though, since people think they know how to pronounce it.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73900/when-does-t...
You genuinely won’t believe why this community wouldn’t drink clean water
Wow, that's amazing. Was $4.17 in Chicago when I filled up a few days ago.
AmpHours are not similar to units of energy. They are not subtly different from units of energy. They are completely different. The difference between a drawing of a house and a house.

Note that lead-acid batteries are rated in amp-hours AND a voltage. With those two pieces of information together, one can compute their power capacity. Your boss only had people show A·h in the tool, b/c most people working with lead-acid batteries know the voltage of their batteries. The voltage of the Helium device under question is unknown.

The fact that people are downvoting EEs below makes me weep for the future.

Note that your boss was also overly pedantic. One can clearly see Ah is valid on the wikipedia page [0]. It follows the same form as Nm or N·m being valid for Newton-meters [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere-hour
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_metre
The article commented has the whole context.

It really doesn't. In spite of repeatedly claiming things like that people searching for Tor are "monitored" or users are "tracked", it's completely vague about what that those terms actually mean and provides zero examples.
On Leave
Only as good as the inputs, yes. But if it's a halfway decent filter, it will include machine learning, e.g. a Bayesian filter, and if "is Muslim" turns out to have low correspondence with actual criminal activity that input will quickly be deweighted. Or perhaps paired with other aspects- e.g., perhaps "is Muslim" is of no consequence and "Googles Jihad" is also of no consequence, but "is Muslim" && "Googles Jihad" gives you a point. Just as one example of the patterns a good filter could recognize.

Machines can't be racist, so the arrest score going after lots of poor, Black men must mean that there's something to it.

If a learning Bayesian filter targets a certain demographic, there probably IS something to it.

That really would be amusing/pleasing, if all this work we've spent developing spam filters became the lead-up to an accurate, learning crime filter. Perhaps the fork to spamassassin will be known as crimeassassin?
http://www.getfixed.me
Guido Van Rossum - PyCon 2014
I've worked both in the Valley and in Seattle, and in my experience the startup mentalities have been pretty much the same. There may be a lot of former MS people working at the startup, but they don't seem to have any attachment to it. If iOS or Android are where the numbers are, that's where they go. I've also never met a startup in Seattle solely focused on developing something for MS, although there probably are some that exist. Whatever trend you saw in the northwest previously must have changed, from my limited perspective.
I have also used Haskell in the past. Been using Nimrod for a couple of years now. I agree with defg: the differences are huge. But the great thing about Nimrod is how flexible it is. That's precisely where metaprogramming comes into play, while some features found in functional programming languages are missing from Nimrod they can be implemented fairly easily using Nimrod's macros. For example I have recently implemented syntax sugar for anonymous functions using macros (http://build.nimrod-lang.org/docs/future.html).

I do however find the imperative style of programming more efficient, when working with Haskell I always felt like I was fighting it. So perhaps Nimrod may not be for you, but it's still definitely worth checking out!
> This needs to be done by larger companies. Right now all a person has to do is claim copyright infringement, and companies take down.

Yes, see, that's the law. That's the way the DMCA is written. If someone files a DMCA takedown, companies have to take it down (or risk liability themselves). Right.

To change it, Congress would need to change it, there's nothing larger companies can do.
It answered both "Who was Klaus Nomi?" and "Why do pigs fly?" correctly. That's a lot better than I usually get with these things.
What version of Firefox? The game works on every browser newer than IE8. As long as there is HTML5 Canvas it should work. That being said, Firefox does tend to have the worst performance of all of the major browsers.
There is a lot to like about your site and I'm sure a venture like this solves a pain point. However, I wonder if you'd have more luck if you got rid of jargon like this:

Arm your marketing and inside sales teams with leads and information that help them lift conversion rates and increase velocity across the funnel

When I read that, I immediately flash back to every negative experience I've had with flashy, used car salespeople-types who are brimming with jargon. If your target market OS startups, you might do better if you wrote the above differently.
It's $1.97 where I live (Dubai). You should see what that does to the traffic!
I wonder why his doctors haven't recommended surgery. "surgical procedures are performed on the endolymphatic sac to decompress it."

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/balance/pages/meniere.aspx#5
Show HN: Cotton Bureau — A curated, crowd-funded online t-shirt community
> Time Warner Cable has started charging $5 for anybody who wants to talk to a human being regarding billing[0].

Having just done this a couple weeks ago, the message was more like "$5 for talking to a human for anything that can be done with the automated system". For my case it was paying the bill with a credit card. You can type it into the automated system, but if you insist on tying up a human just to dictate your card number to them, then they charge you the $5.

When I talked to the human to explain something on the bill that I wasn't understanding, they were helpful and didn't charge me the $5, even when we discovered I needed to pay a little more and I paid it through him.

This is similar to banks who charge people for doing ATM class transactions with a human teller. Personally, those types of things don't bother me at all, since I'm the type of personality that pretty much always chooses the automated way over talking to humans.
Isn't the problem already that the areas in question are of lower economic means, so it's not reasonable to put subsidized transit into them?

I doubt they could afford to pay premium cab fare if they couldn't afford regular buses.
If you review the screenshots it shows http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple6/v4/02/4a/3f/024a3f20-8... indicating that you take a photo of the citation.
With this one person can encrypt a file to another without agreeing on a shared secret in advance. You can't do that with AES.
You can claim damages against a false takedown, it's just really hard. The only notable case I know of is OPG v. Diebold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPG_v._Diebold
It looks like AAA releases some data about that:

http://newsroom.aaa.com/2013/04/cost-of-owning-and-operating...

That said, I would never endorse AAA to provide money to. They were horrible towards me as a claimant.
Native JavaScript library for use two way bindings
They're not using the Google implementation; it looks like they rolled their own.
You just need to take a picture of the ticket. That's it. Most cities have the same process to follow, so we support most of them. Otherwise, we'll let you know within 24h that we can't process the ticket.
Hmm... Even 5 hours is pretty low compared to what I get under OSX with normalish usage on my MBA 11". I've also found that I get markedly better battery life when I connect to my Apple-branded wifi base station than when I connect to wifi just about anywhere else. This makes me wonder if Apple doesn't have some proprietary power scaling stuff with the wifi. Still, 5 hours is good enough that I might consider a more thorough checking out.

EDIT: I should add that I've only spent time in 10.9 on this MBA 11 2013 model. I've been told the battery life in 10.9 really is quite a lot better than in 10.8.
Completely inaccurate. Neither Sam Tarantino (Cofounder, CEO) nor Josh Greenberg (Cofounder, CTO) were at all involved in Greek culture during their short undergrad careers.
Show HN: BabyDigest - Share photos and videos of your kid
https://www.getbabydigest.com

In the spirit of Daniel's post, I wanted to share a project I've been working on since my kid turned one during the nights and weekends.

BabyDigest is for parents who are looking for an easy way to keep their kids pictures in one place and share them with family. KidPost, recently featured on ProductHunt, does something similar but BabyDigest will actually find past baby pictures/videos on your feed and sync them down. Parents can also upload directly to the site (via the web or email) and maintain a timeline for their kids.

I also used this as an excuse to learn AngularJS and Mongo. Happy to answer any questions about how this was built.

Would love feedback from fellow parents on HN!
I've noticed a marked change for the better since dang came aboard. Links are generally more informative with less controversy and comments are overall good and nice with less flaming trolls. Just great to see the efforts really paying off for a fantastic community. Thanks Dan!
I'm flagging this post because it contains bad advice.

For information on this topic from someone who actually knows what they're doing, please read "An Introduction to Stock and Options" by David Weekly:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Stock-Options-David-Weekl...
Show HN: My first Android app - NutriHawk
NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists"
Clickable link: https://www.getbabydigest.com
Hilarious. I was wondering how to pronounce Dusan this morning and couldn't find out on You Tube.

http://namez.com/search?q=dusan
Yea, my specific instances may be speaking to too narrow of a sampling of Seattle Start-up scene, and it may be that the vendors we do business with are a bit more mature than what is featured here.

Mainly, I was wondering if there is any sort of outreach by MS to any of these small companies. I know they have a presence in the Valley and have MS Ventures to nurture fledgling companies with start-up capital, but as far as strategizing to keep new companies in their ecosystem long-term, I was curious to see what sort of efforts they are putting forth to address this.
When we're talking about minimum wage however (other comments he made), that's just patently untrue though. Even if a service job could get by with fewer labor hours without impacting their sales negatively, there are always plenty of other businesses who couldn't.

I mean, I worked those jobs when minimum wage was like $4.25. I haven't noticed a drop in employment at the franchise or small business level. Have you? From a practical standpoint, these places aren't just spreading around labor hours willy-nilly today. If they find some "fat" to trim, they do so, so the management can take home a larger slice of the pie.
Sanitazi

http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/129877.html

Tampermonkey

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf...
Interesting video about them using openstack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgahKksMZis
Google Implements No Porn Ad Policy
Seriously. At this point it's either we use the biotechnology that many scientists have made their life's work, or millions of people starve.