skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is better because you can limit requests to friends of friends. IIRC Orkut didnt have that setting until Fb had already won.
Hi gverri. We believe in creating a tool for all bloggers, despite their OS. :)

Sounds good?
Lately I've been writing some small scripts in Python to automatize some work and learn the language too, so this site is just what I needed. Great stuff.
Although a prototype was demo'ed at SXSW, we just managed to finish everything needed for a public beta last week and showed it off at a Wearable World Labs FashTech event.

Right now an APK has to be downloaded from the site and installed manually, but we're working on polishing it for submitting to Google for the My Glass panel.

Thanks for any feedback!
We've been using it internally as a debugging tool for the Geotrigger Service (https://developers.arcgis.com/en/features/geotrigger-service...), which is a geofencing API & SDK. We can make a mobile device spit out location updates and see them mapped in real time, see what the headers and content of the POST are, and figure out what needs tweaking. We wanted to generalize it as a free service to allow others to do the same and also explore how else it could be used.
> 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?

There are some cases, like Golden Rice, where it's relatively easy to be 100% sure of the safety. In Golden Rice, the rice is engineered to produce beta carotene, and because there is lots of beta carotene e.g. in carrots, we can be sure that beta carotene is safe to eat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
I take contention with your first sentence as if you find a good enough mechanic, you'll be able to ask them to see what their cost is with parts. They'll be very level with you & show you what they get as far as dealer pricing. You're right that this is still a variable in & of itself as Joe Schmo might get completely different pricing than STS Tire or (Insert Chain Here).

But, I digress. You can easily look up the cost estimates for a lot of stuff like this, but it still depends on the "skill level" of a given mechanic. I've pulled the time required to do certain jobs on my car saying it's a 1.3 or 4.5 hour job when the mechanic I was talking to said it's double that, or half that given you know some tricks.

Lastly, model specific time-bombs are becoming more obvious as people complain about a given part (see carcomplaints.com) - it's just a shame it's hard to get access to the relevant TSBs for a vehicle unless you have access to the right networks.
No, generally the credit card company receives a message with the following data - card info (duh), amount, merchant ID, merchant category. So they don't have to guess if 'McGuffin ltd' is a pharmacy or a restaurant, and they may know that you shop at mcdonalds often, or have never bought anything from a pharmacy, but no more than that.

I don't recall if a single merchant may/must offer different codes depending on the type of goods sold (i.e., a gym selling a membership vs selling a soda). I believe not, but it might be an option.

The only place that would get such itemised info is the multi-store loyalty cards; those do link a person to itemised purchases.
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I would've loved to have had this resource when I was starting out and so desperately wanted to move to Python from PHP, but had little idea how.

Also, there's so little mentioned of Pyramid, which in my opinion is the most elegant Python framework there is.
Plague-level is actually the degree of risk we are dealing with in regards to GMOs (not necessarily in likelihood, but in impact). In regards to the famine argument, consider the following:

"Invoking the risk of "famine" as an alternative to GMOs is a deceitful strategy, no different from urging people to play Russian roulette in order to get out of poverty. While hunger is a serious threat to human welfare, as long as the threat remains localized, it falls under risk management and not the PP [precautionary principle]." [1]

[1] "The Precautionary Principle," a paper coauthored by Nassim Taleb of Black Swan fame. Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/...
Also referenced elsewhere in these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985787
Posts like this is what I like about Hacker News! It would be great if there were other examples like this where organizations share their setup for real-world projects and presences.
which would be a good exercise if done in a controlled environment to then catch bad guys when they get that clever (hint, they aren't)

the problem is that some incopetent person paid with our money choose to list the Linux journal as a extremist publication just so he didn'thave to bother creating the system for his training. while also gaining information illegally to further help him be a lazy mofo. all while being sanctioned by even more incopetent (or ill intentioned people) above him.

anyway, off to scare some kids from my lawn now...
You really thought that I was accusing you of being hit by a car? Mind blown. Point noted, I'll try to be more careful next time.
I personally agree. I was speaking to the general perception that most people have, and to its social and political roots.
Net Threats | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
For the most part you can use WHOIS to check availability. They don't really place restrictions on their WHOIS lookups.
Currently SSL is not supported with the starter webpage. You can insert your own customized HTML and a limited number of whitelisted tags, but we haven't gone full-blown as a happy medium between XSS prevention and customization.
You smug bastard. Joking, but i'm in the US and have had so many issues in my life with huge medical bills and debt collectors, denial of care, insurance refusing to pay because a doctor messed up the paperwork, insurance not covering certain medications, or saying the dosage needed to be changed, that i'm almost not. :-p
Thanks for the kind feedback, phaer!

> Maybe someone from the team could say a few words about the projects organisation, plans and communications.

The Freeciv web client started as a fork of the Freeciv project in about 2007, at the time called Freeciv.net. Today the Freeciv web client is a part of the Freeciv project. However, the code-bases are still separate, so the Freeciv web client is maintained in Github, and has code in Javascript, Java, Python and C, while the Freeciv project is mainly implemented in C and is still hosted in SVN on gna.org. As for future plans, I hope to continue improving the game and making it work on more mobile devices. There are also plans for a WebGL version, but that would take much more work.

> Because any issue tracker would make it easier to discuss the details of the task at hand. Or is there a mailing list/irc channel which gets used for coordination?

There is a TODO-file, but the main issue tracker is on gna.org here: https://gna.org/bugs/?group=freeciv

> I would be especially interested in the client-side code which is readable but, on first sight, a bit overwhelming[3] for something one would do after a regular day job.

I would be happy to help anyone setup a development environment. It is quite quick to setup a Vagrant image if you follow the description found on the Github page.

The Freeciv web client is a volunteer non-profit effort.
However, all our services run on a single server, so we absolutely appreciate donation to keep the server running:
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Donations
Some moments alone shouldn't be shared...
I don't know - there's been times when I see something cool, beautiful, weird etc and would like to share it, but don't want to share it with people I actually know.

Sort of like how a lot of people use Tumblr vs Instagram - but this has (probably) less friction than Tumblr and is more about sharing a moment than Tumblr is.
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I'm sorry to be that guy but... what's Product Hunt?
> "It's those numbers near the middle that kids find the hardest - the sixes, sevens, eights and nines," says Flurrish's director

One problem with getting kids to memorize times table the English way is that those numbers are near in the middle, not at the top. The 11 and 12 times tables can be worked out by the same process as for multiplying by 13, so why memorize for 12 but not for 13 ? Children should finish memorizing at the easy 10 times, so they have a sense of having nailed the numbers, instead of a sense of dangling at the difficult 12 times tables and it can only get harder.

Also, when reciting tables, why should children recite both 7 x 8 and 8 x 7 when they could be practising the commutative rule. They should only memorize multiplying when, say, the second number is higher than the first, so memorize 7 x 8 but not 8 x 7. Children would then feel like there's less needing to be tackled, the only really hard ones being 4 x 8, 6 x 7, 6 x 8, 7 x 8, and some squares.

I suggested the second number being higher than the first for memorizing multiplication instead of vice versa because children also need to memorize addition tables up to 9 + 8, and because they'd do that before times tables, it's better to for the second number to be lower than the first for that. Another benefit is kids wouldn't even need to say "plus" or "times" when reciting, just the two single-digit numbers because whether it's addition or multiplication is implied by which number is greater, e.g. "3, 2 is 5", "7, 4 is 11", "2, 7 is 14", "7, 8 is 56", "6, 6 is 36".
I will have to check this out for the next version of Sixtten Colors (an ANSI and ASCII art gallery). We use a similar font, but it is far from bootstrapped.

http://sixteencolors.net
set your debug flag off :S!!
> How often do you need to do arithmetic - multiplication, in particular - in a hurry with no aids?

Every couple of minutes during my day I do some kind of mental calculation relating to my software development work. Anything from sense checking calculations when debugging, estimating file sizes/memory usage, worrying about when numeric overflow/underflow might be a problem. There are countless situations when being able to do quick calculations comes in handy. Of course I rarely multiply two numbers like 7x8 in isolation any more, but I am immensely grateful how Mrs El Guindi, my fifth grade teacher, drummed into us all fast, accurate mental arithmetic. Thanks to her, I can now look at a spreadsheet of numbers and immediately spot which ones are out of place.
Invoiced is hosted on Linode and relies on several other third-party services. I spend ~$110 per month for everything excluding yearly stuff like SSL and domains.
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Thanks for writing it down, I couldn't be bothered ;-)

And not only could the particular actor destroy their own environment of empoyable people in the long term, they also through some bad luck could get into a position where they themselves end up in the role of the (un)employable people, which also might make it "long term rational" to hedge against that by supporting a different culture. So, yeah, I meant only that self-interested actor with a particularly short time horizon.
Just paid $4.99 in LA last night.
Of course, was a joke. But there will always be more work that we can possibly do. You are never really done in a successful business. So I feel sad that he made these sacrifices at the expense of his family life. The saddest part is that the code he wrote will probably be a distant memory in 20-30 years.
Here are some of the files referenced in the takedown

https://code.google.com/p/mobile-research-lab-nid/source/bro...

https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-msm-ma...
It looks like there was a Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK that originated these files.

https://developer.qualcomm.com/mobile-development/add-advanc...
Pretty cool, but unplayable unless I was doing something wrong. I couldn't move the minimap unless I was careful where to click (dragging doesn't work) and everytime I tried to select a unit everything disappeared. Looking forward to playing when it works a little better!
So much this. I recently posted a question on reddit about a technology stack I've been using for the last 10+ years I think (a long while) because there were specific aspects of the stack I had always avoided due to the way it forces you to work (and later versions of the tooling on top of the stack moved away from the approach, meaning my interpretation of it wasn't completely without merit).

So I have a client of a client ask me to help out with a problem they're having, the problem is, the tech usage falls right smack dab into the hole in my experience because of my earlier decision not to use the tech stack in this way.

So I ask a fairly specific question about it on reddit. The top voted comment was a snarky reply in which the respondent implied I was the one who created the initial problem and because I don't have the experience necessary, I should hire a freelancer with more experience in the tech stack.

The issue is that person in question was so far off base about what the problem could potentially be, I ended up solving it using exactly the methods they stated were bad assumptions on my part. This poster colored the entire question such that I got pretty much no good input out of it, and instead simply had to rely on what I did know about this aspect of the tech stack to piece together a solution.

It's a bit long winded, but I guess the point is that people are amazingly short sighted with respect to asking questions. The poster in question took my willingness to ask a question as an indication that I had no idea what I was doing.

And it's this propensity that causes everyone to put forth such a persona of arrogance. If my reputation is linked in any way to my financial success, I cannot be seen asking such questions publicly. That's just reality.
No questions, just wanted to say that this is magnificent work. The "X miles to Baghdad" is an especially nice touch.
Thx :) Working on it.
Yeah I really value having a library of music that I've collected and curated over time. Being able to listen to this music whether or not the streaming service continues their contract with the record label, or if it decides to block me for whatever reason, is very important to me.

Very few of my friends share this feeling, which makes me concerned for the future of ownable music. On the other hand, I'm enjoying the rise in popularity of vinyl. I've been buying albums and downloading the digital copies that they come with—best of both worlds.
Hi there. We have plans to integrate with many platforms and partners. At this moment we will focus on WordPress to validate and iterate faster.
The non free food is better yet at your dinner table, with your significant other.
He created Coffeescript, Backbone.js, and Underscore.js.
Now works at NYT.
The demo video looks fantastic. Great work you guys.
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https://www.phishtrackstats.com/stats?entity=tracks&timeframe=all_time

It's a tool I built to identify quality tracks based on play count in the vast Phish catalog (~27k tracks).

It's also a way for me to play with some new tech: Elasticsearch & angularJS.

What do you think?
thanks, it's great to hear! I created the site because while I was learning Python these were the resources I would've loved to have learned from.

Regarding Pyramid, I completely agree. It's a great framework and definitely one I need to adda page for it as soon as I get my hands dirty with a project so I can confidently write about the differences compared to Django/Flask/Bottle.
Ask HN: What causes a top 10 front page post to jump to slot #79 in seconds?
Seriously mods, this is taking things a little too far.

We went from #9 with a vote, submission time, and comment count matching a current top 10 post to all the way to #79 in the matter of a minute. Linked is the screenshot showing just how disproportionate the ratings are.

http://imgur.com/g3PdsNL

I'm sure some HNers have an idea of how the algorithm works or what went on here. Needless to say I'm very disappointed.
It's not just you, and I agree that it's awesome. I hope that trend continues, it might be the push HN needed to bounce back from becoming slashdot, going back to its roots as a news site by and for entrepreneurs. With which I don't mean that HN should be 100% 'Show HN' posts, but more that HN should be generated by the sort of people who appreciate Show HN posts.
Have you ever filed a claim that would would send the expected value of your account negative? Since that's a tricky calculation, here's an alternative: have you ever made a claim that (even momentarily) sent the value of your account negative?

Insurance companies are always polite, efficient, and tolerant when they're taking your money (including making small payouts). Why wouldn't they be? But that's not where they add value to the equation. If it was, everyone would just self-insure. They add value when they have to pay out a lot of money for an unlikely adverse event. By definition, only a small fraction of customers ever get to judge this part of their insurance company, even though doing so is really the only way to judge the quality of the product they were paying for.
I was with you up to the last sentence. Dropping the operator just seems to obfuscate things unnecessarily.
I hopefully read the article to finally learn why some products are harder to remember than others...but no why in there.
Which browser and device are you using to play the game?
The controls in the game take some time to get used to, hopefully you should get it to work with some practice. Please let me know how it goes!
I don't think that the transition from physical to digital/streaming music is the only explanation. There's also plain simple demand and supply. There's never been so much music available as now. It's never been easier to create, publish and distribute music. The digital supply is just immense. The demand just can't follow.
> "new, man-made chemical compounds that has never existed before"

GMO cultivars usually do not contain new, man-made chemical compounds.

For example, Golden Rice contain beta carotene (occurs naturally in e.g. carrots).

The virus resistant Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya contains a protein from the virus' capsid, effective "vaccinating" the plants, resulting in virus resistance.

Bt Cotton contains a chemical from Bacillus thuringiensis, a common bacterium in soils, that is harmful to pest insects.
thanks, I'll make the change based on this link. I'm coming primarily from a Django & Flask background so my description of Pyramid isn't from a position of knowledge. I'll have to write a Pyramid project to get some experience with the framework.
labelling it as smarter is a bit of a misnomer, they may very well be more knowledgeable and experienced than you in the field you're asking questions about.

You can question someone's assumptions without being 'smarter' than them.
Almost recursive... a neat feature.
I wondered this too. From the link provided by dsplatonov:

"On founder equity (we couldn’t miss this one!): All founders must be on vesting schedule. Mark heard nothing about vesting at the time when they started the company. They just divided equity, and then his co-founder Eduardo left."
Maybe with a little more time off you'd get something more like a Ferrari or Porsche? :-) You need to take some time off to get some creative juices flowing. It just seems like some sort of empty existence, you work for the sake of working more?

Take a bit of time off and you'll see it's not so bad.
A really handy one a colleague showed me yesterday was the /dev/fd/0|1|2 files, which are stdin/out/err respectively.
Means you can use that file for utils that expect a file only.

E.g echo "This would be contents of file" | someCommand /dev/fd/0
About half the preview images are returning 404s. Screen shot here: http://imgur.com/aiqgX97

Regardless, this is an interesting concept. Currently, you have to pending hours carefully crafting a web site layout or choosing from a selection of pre-built templates. Instead, in the future, it would be awesome to provide a set of parameters that are then used to generate a compelling site.

One thing I've noticed - the templates look very similar to each other. And it's hard to find one that "looks good". Have you considered incorporating human feedback? Something like Hot or Not, but choosing between themes instead of faces.
A Strange Peanut-Shaped Building Designed by Algorithms
Can insurance companies legally access credit card transactions? Like the fact that you shopped at a specialty medical store for a pre-existing condition?
I see CDs as a sort of offline backup of the FLAC that I will rip from it; also a collection item. Some music can only be bought as a digital download though, if it's on Bandcamp or other shop with no strings attached, that's great. Perhaps not necessarily iTunes.
Hold on folks, it's now #181. It seems as though some form of exponential decay has been enabled by moderators.

I'd like to propose formal explanations whenever things like this occur. Accountability should be the name of the game. I want to know who performed the action, what action was performed, and why.
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Is this in partnership with the listed restaurants? Otherwise it is almost like ticket scalping... :\
I think publishing a book also may have "unpredictable systemic effects" (there have been several books that have radically altered the course of history), so it should be approached with extreme caution, don't you think? However, Taleb has published several books, so I don't think he lives like he preaches.
As someone who secretly fears they suffer from exactly what the blog author stated, I can tell you unequivocally that your interpretation is not what I fear.
The article seems to be taking things further than is necessarily possible right now, but while it might be hard to know precisely what you buy at a supermarket, it's a pretty fair bet that if you made a purchase at McDonalds you were buying junk food; if you made a purchase at an off-licence you were probably buying alcohol. And so on.

The data might not be perfectly accurate but it can leak a lot of probable information.

If you ran a machine learning algorithm on the data, without knowing how much anything cost and just wanted to correlate certain purchase amounts with whether people tended to get sick or not, you would probably find correlations with certain amounts that happen to correspond to things like cigarette purchases.

This is especially likely because people often tend to buy only cigarettes, or maybe a couple of other things, rather than only buying them along with a larger group of items that would tend to disguise the purchase.

It should be pretty easy to spot the difference in average prices between someone buying a packet of cigarettes, vs a bar of chocolate, vs a weeks' worth of shopping. It might not be super accurate for each data point, but given enough data it's likely some fairly consistent patterns will emerge.

In fact, one of the things about ML is that it's good at spotting all sorts of correlations. Those don't prove the existence of a causal link, but often that doesn't matter: the fact a correlation exists is enough. So simple things like buying patterns might be correlated with certain tendencies or risk factors, regardless of what the contents of the purchases actually are (of course this is purely hypothetical).
28, 29 or 30. Divide by 4, 100 and 400 to figure out 28 or 29.
> fossil-fuel-based fertilizers

About that, would you like it better if it was nuclear power based?