skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I'd have to spend a lot of time dusting off my C skills before considering contributing to git core. If enough people find it useful it's always a possibility.
This looks very interesting, and if I'm not mistaken, slightly reminiscent of how apps are built with Om (using core.async for dispatch and atoms for storage).
Barter.li : Find books for barter near you
> He paid for disgusting, dehumanizing ads.

No he didn't... he funded an organization (with a one-time $1,000 donation) that was against same-sex marriage. That's a far cry from directly funding adverts.

And, at the time, his view and contribution was in the significant majority here in California. Today, maybe not, but back then, his views were shared by a vast majority (almost 60% in the vote). That's not to say it's right... only to point out we are chastising an individual for past beliefs that were popular at the time, but have gown to be unpopular today.
This is intuitive - Startups that follow all fail - Investing in startups should be the same

Curious if there are patterns in why the hot ones Fail ?
One New App
And for us agnostic theists out there that don't believe we can prove it to you, but do believe there is a God? I'm definitely not an atheist, thanks for telling me to suck it up.
Works really great on Chrome for Android.
I'm the author of Fluxy and would be happy to answer any questions here. The big benefits of Fluxy vs other Flux approaches is that
1) Stores are built on top of immutable data structures (via ClojureScript / mori)
2) Server side rendering is baked in (or will be as of 0.4)

I'd also mention https://github.com/spoike/reflux as an implementation.
Very relevant is the timing. The first stable version of Scala 2.12 won't be released until Jan 2016.

Also, no source compatibility breakage is considered without a migration tool available, also mentioned in the timeline.
Some plants, such as ragweed, mustard, oilseed rape, sunflower, cabbage, and duckweed (for semi-aquatic gardens) are metal hyperaccumulators.

If you have contaminated soil, you can grow these plants in the contaminated soil, then remove the plants and dispose of them safely. This will take several growing seasons to bring toxic metals levels down to acceptable parameters, but it has the advantage of being extremely inexpensive. Urban soils polluted by leaded paints and vehicle exhaust will likely be usable after one or two seasons of phytoremediation, but extremely polluted waste sites could take decades, starting with a narrower range of hyperaccumulator plants that can survive the initial high levels of contamination.

Adding mustard to your regular crop rotation is also useful for pest and weed control.
A bit sad, as a member of a big project on github, I'm sure that "starring" could be a handy way to know what people are interested in. (And avoid a lot of "me too"-comments, from devs and other users alike).
I generally eschew "outside the firewall" file sharing (although I have a dropbox for exchanging files with people); I use AeroFS.

However, I think he has a point, here. SpiderOak's approach is much closer to the best one could do for privacy. Dropbox seriously prioritized ease of development and convenience over security. That may be the right commercial decision, but kind of sucks after Snowden.

The problem with SpiderOak is the UI/UX sucks, compared to Dropbox (which is stellar in that regard). This is a persistent problem with security tools. If I had $+inf, I'd donate design/UX/etc. time to various security tools -- that, plus code review and documentation, would be a lot more meaningful a contribution than just creating yet another PGP.js or whatever.
The problem with the lead-crime hypothesis is that the cause of lead and the effect of increased crime are 'too far apart' with many intervening links in the causal chain, to paraphrase Steven Pinker [1]. He calls the hypothesis 'provocative, but far from proven.' The intervening links in the causal chain involve a lot of sub-causal links and hypotheses that are as yet, unproven.

[1] http://stevenpinker.com/files/pinker/files/pinker_comments_o...
Actually, I've been reading and I might have jumped the gun.. Its programmer panic, sorry.
You are right, it looks like a different type of system.
I actually support all the providers Jclouds provides: Openstack Nova, rackspace, EC2, AWS-ec2.. more.

Whats more ozone does not store any state, rather it stores it in a zookeeper/etcd cluster so you are in control of your meta-data.
I've seen it used to decent effect in Javascript templating libraries.
In science class, we played with mercury. After school we had BB gun battles. We stood up in the front seat of my dad's pickup truck; the one with the metal dash. Bicycle helmets hadn't been invented yet. I weep for the future of children now.

//Edit: OK, people, the comment about weeping for the future of children was meant in jest! Nearly killing ourselves as kids wasn't helpful. The notion that we did all right is survivors bias.
>Besides, it's never a purely technological advantage. There needs to be doctrine and well-trained troops in place too.

I was a Soldier for over a decade. Engineers and computer scientists are what makes our military great. Most nations have well-trained Soldiers. Many nations even have larger quantities of highly trained Soldiers than we do.

The average citizen seems to think of basic training like its the Special Forces selection course. Basic training is incredibly easy. Its supposed to be easy, that's why its called basic training.

Don't get me wrong, there are lots of good Soldiers in the U.S., but there is nothing inherently superior about the American fighting man. That kind of attitude makes it sound like we are some kind of master race.
React: Flux Architecture Video Lessons
Even more so in proto-spreadsheets.
Agreed, having to dig through the AWS documentation to see what whether updating a particular value requires replacing the resource it applies to is tedious and error prone.

Another things that excites me about separating the plan from the execution is that I can periodically run `terraform plan` to check for configuration drift without risking making a change. I've been bitten by the following:

1) Someone creates an ASG with the desired number of instances set to 1 via CloudFormation
2) Later, they increase the desired number of instances, e.g. to 5, via the EC2 console or API rather than CloudFormation
3) I come along and apply an update to the stack via CloudFormation. This resets their ASG to 1 instance, terminating the other 4.

If anyone from AWS is reading this, please steal this feature for CloudFormation!
What happens if you get hit by the main beam of a particle accelerator?
That strategy only makes sense for markets that are close to "informationally efficient", e.g., the public stock market.
Is Reddit sustainable while it is bleeding money? How many sites are sustainable bleeding money? I'm serious. How is losing money a sustainable business model?
Old retread of fosspatents scaremongering
We do have a lot of cubes. Juice boxes. Cereal boxes. Wine boxes. Cylinders are pretty much only used when you need to fake larger capacity for consumer preference (cardboard nut containers in super markets vs. plastic cubes of them at Costco) or you need to use metal for some reason (e.g. tanks of pressurized gas, holding liquids with the top off, etc.). I think he kind of misses the point that cubes are superior in terms of space usage then goes and analyzes how space efficient something we are only forced to use for other reasons is.
Linux is for atheists. God's temple is for God's people.
Debugging in Git with Blame and Bisect
Two feature requests:

1. hiding issues

2. CC people / stop notification

For example as more and more teams are using Github, and although the spirit of open source is collobration, sometimes security bugs are probably better handled if they are hidden until resolved.

There are two ways to do this now:

* email

* bugzilla / bug bounty site

Wouldn't it be awesome if I could just let people report security bugs on Github except they are hidden as opposed to managing and tracking tickets from multiple places?

I know now you can CC people using @ but what about muting notification? As a bugzilla user, I can stop being notified if I remove myself from the CC list.
The reason this project (and many others like it) exist is pretty obvious: Lots of people have to build different kinds APIs using rails, get some experience with Rails, discover it sucks for building APIs out of the box (to much anti-DRY repetition, doesn't deal with auth/permission dichotomy well), and then proceed to roll their own API layer/Auth layer/Permission layer because either:

a) information on existing solutions is hard to find/not obvious or otherwise in the world of unknowns to the author

or

b) existing solutions are too generalized or otherwise structured in ways that don't work for whatever real world particular business cases.

I ran into this with permissions in my current project. Nothing obvious in my realm of knowledge fit (sometimes I suspect this happens because projects only advertise their basic features clearly). So I now have a massive custom permission layer.

Sometimes you also end up with things like this by accident - you need one thing, it's not worth going whole hog to begin with, but then suddenly stuff gets tacked on until you have a whole system you never set out to build.
You put into words something I've experienced throughout my life--a sort of "spatial topical memory"--and it's refreshing to see others often do the same.

I like digital reference material for the advantages they possess (ease of searching, bookmarking, etc.) but dislike them for the same reasons you illustrate and others, such as thumbing through. It's strange how tactile feedback can become so important. It's also one of the reasons I wish publishers would do something like what Pragmatic Press does more often: Offer both the physical and digital versions of books (although if you're buying both, I'd rather the digital copy be a bit less expensive).

Since there are advantages to both, I'm reluctant to say one format is better than the other, but each is good at something the other isn't. Whenever I've read reference materials in a digital format, I find I suffer from a similar problem to yours: Recalling things in proximity becomes jumbled with other reference materials and works. There's definitely something to be said for a physical medium even if it's not near-instantly searchable and required physical bookmarks.

Then again, I can't plug headphones into a dead tree and read it in complete darkness. (Setting it on fire doesn't count.)
Although I agree they have a good attitude towards deprecation and backwards compatibility, I do not believe their progressive attitude works necessarily implies a lax attitute to backwards compatibility.

Investigation is underway for more sweeping changes where backwards compatibility can be broken on the fundamental level. This is the Dotty project [1], which will influence development of Scala 3.

[1]: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty
Have been using this to pair-program on a project recently. It's probably the best collaborative coding solution out there at the moment, but it still has some issues. Most notably, it inexplicably deleted an entire directory from our project between coding sessions at one point, causing us to delete and recreate our 'workspace' -- luckily it doesn't affect the source project of the collaborator that shared it, but still caused us to spend about an hour trying to figure out how to 'refresh' our projects. Another minor quibble is that you can't tell what file anybody is currently viewing/editing, which can cause some confusion when talking in a hangout call.

But overall it's pretty effective for those times when you just need to look at code with someone remotely.
It will be interesting to see how the home value estimates play out. Zillow and Trulia each have their own methodology for determining a home's value and the disparity between the value of each service lists can be significant.

I purchased a home two years ago in Portland, OR (South East). At the time of my purchase, its price on Zillow was listed as ~$70K less than it was appraised for (I had two appraisals and both were within $1K of one another). Trulia listed the value within $1K of the two appraisals.

In two years time, the value on Zillow is listed as the original purchase price. On Trulia, the value is ~$60K more (it is based on an average appreciation of 8% annually of homes in my neighborhood).

I know a home's value is only what someone is willing to pay for it, but the disparity in estimates between those two services has always bothered me.
Apples-to-oranges-- true. But somewhere early in the race discussion in our country, some companies stopped hiring people who were openly racist... Likely these companies had constituencies (customers, employees, neighbors) who were unusually liberal. Unsurprising that a company in SF (15%+ LGBT, very liberal, etc) would be the first.

"what if this hypothetical racist had an established work history of not letting his/her racial opinions impact management?"

I'm not sure that's possible (bias creeps into just about everything we do-- and this is a pretty strong bias). Is it possible for someone with these views to not have them creep into promotion discussions, pay raises, meeting invites, tone in emails? Even if it is, having an opinion that is abhorrent to a majority of your potential hires, partners, reporters, and customers makes it pretty hard to lead.
Yeah I thought we're gonna talk about things like space elevators, or other megaengineering projets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megascale_engineering
We use the app for machine learning purposes. When you get a call that cannot be identified, we ask the user to input the name of the caller.

Additionally, if we identify a call, but the resolution has low confidence, the user will be prompted to vote it up or down. This feeds directly into our identity graph, recalculating in realtime the connections between identities and contact information.

We also use the client app to enhance the existing connections in our identity graph. Each edge in our graph has a confidence level, and by using the data available to the app we adjust and recalculate the confidence levels of our directory in real-time. We never publish data points like photos, notes, etc. from the address book of our users.
Unfortunately I can't find it, but if you dig around the CIA FOID documents on their website, you'll find a story about the fake shuttle documents the CIA "allowed" the Soviets to steal. They knew the Soviets were digging around, so they created a honeypot with technical documents that were oh-so slightly changed, but would be non-functional.

Too bad I can't find it, it was an interesting read.
>News shouldn't be a thing which I am allowed to filter based on my biases.

I'd say the opposite: News shouldn't be a thing where other people can tell me what I am "allowed" to read or not.

I left my job at CNET/CBS earlier this year to found a bay area startup -- http://recent.io/ -- with a news recommendation engine and accompanying Android/iOS apps. You can choose to read personalized "Recommended for me" articles, or certain topics, or top news articles, etc. The Recommended category is unique to you; the other categories are common to everyone.

I've shipped the alpha to a few testers, and you're welcome to sign up for the beta. After using it for a bit, you might have a different opinion about whether you should be "allowed" to select what you're interested in, or delegate that in part to a recommendation engine.
The associated benefits cannot be overstated: education, beauty, community, a connection to nature, health, and most assuredly tasting better. Urban community gardens are a very worthwhile pursuit. People should be encouraged to garden with their lawns instead of using so much wasteful, non-native grass.

Long term I hope to see LED-powered warehouses for urban produce production: http://www.ledinside.com/news/2014/7/japanese_farmer_partner...

Fresh, local, efficient, and no need for pesticides.
Probably more reasons, but a few off the top of my head:
1) Multiple stores can respond to a single action
2) Single action listener may call multiple store methods
2) Can reduce the number of places a store is modified from
The Changing Face of Marketing
I feel like this post makes it pretty obvious that the profile profile is the most important factor. It even says that "the text is less than 10% of what people think of you".
The Good Traffic: Ways to Increase your YouTube Channel Visits
Sam, could you (or any other Angel investor) talk frankly about the money your put in and what your exact returns have been. How much have you had to reinvest in later rounds too. I can't find any really experienced angel to talk frankly about this with me.
That's under the DMCA's no circumvention clause (in the US at least). It may not be illegal in other jurisdictions.

Interesting that the DMCA essentially slapped fair use squarely across the face.
To survive a hazard (as you, and to some extent I, did) is best of all. To suffer the constraints of protective encumbrances is next best. To die of the hazard as a child is worst.

There is a balance to be met, sure. But in choosing safetely measures we are taking out insurance. We prevent the worst, at the cost of preventing the best.
"Reframing the problem" is often easier in the virtual world. When someone does come along with a good reframing in the physical world, the results can sometimes be very dramatic though.
Version 3.0.0.2 was released and binary builds for various platforms: http://wxphp.org/wxphp/blog/v3002-binaries-and-installers
It's the new thing. Pick a noun or verb that's only marginally-related (or sometimes not even remotely related) to your product and take ownership of it.

Like Aerospike, or Uber.
While I don't disagree that Google support is abysmal, they do respond if you know the appropriate channels.

I've gotten support for both Adwords and Adsense and can successful claim I've been unbanned from both at different periods of time. That isn't to excuse your point but wanted to put this out there that while difficult, it is possible.
Executing x86-64 opcodes in Python – Genetic Programming case study
How are SAFE investments playing out?
Just curious how the whole SAFE experiment is working out? Are investors outside of YC getting comfortable with them (just had a non YC group force a company back to a standard convertible note in lieu of a SAFE)?

On a more detailed level, since they are "contracts" for future equity, are they being treated as such? I had one lawyer suggest they could be classified as income to the company, similar to how the purchase price for a futures contract can be deemed as inducement income for the selling party to enter into the contract. In that sense, is there risk that the whole investment amount is actually inducement income and therefore taxable?

We've invested in a handful of Clerky/SAFE rounds and find them really convenient and easy, just wondering about the rest of the world?
Talent vs. Training in Runners
I'm still confused by the inability to do prioritisation. Why does Github so stubbornly not have a way of doing that including sorting on it? I am aware you can create arbitrary labels, but that doesn't help with sorting.

We long ago gave up on Github issues because of this, and use Trello instead where priority is simple drag and drop. The other problem is that you can't easily copy/move/link issues between repositories. This becomes necessary when you have different repos (eg a server one, an android one and a web one) and something is reported against the "wrong" repo. Not the reporters fault, and very tedious to correct.

This is all one area where Google Code does things so much better (yes you can prioritise and sort). Each project can have any number of repositories and they all share the same wiki and issue tracker. That is a lot easier to deal with. Of course refusing to take money, and apparently losing interest means it can't be used.
I can't get it to work(it detects my white shirt, the shoulder area as a face, but not my actual face). Is this a repetition of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM
We should remove this thread because some people can't read. Goodbye internets :(
The percentage is insanely fuzzy.

I often endure rage fits from one of my buddies who shows me example after example of cases where, for example, he answered "often" to a question a lady answered "usually," resulting in a mismatch.

The only good thing about it are key individual questions that let you judge someone's intelligence and determine if they're racist. The scalar number is a crock.
Privacy and the Pool of Information
But Facebook already displays posts based on an algorithm; it doesn't do it chronologically, and it's actually almost impossible for me to find a specific post in my timeline. Especially from the mobile site, it's very common that I see something in the moment between opening the app and my timeline updating, and never being able to see the update again.

Facebook is already making the decision as to whether to show you a post or not, and they make that decision based on what they think you will want to see and what you will engage with, all of which is fuzzy and subjective. They already manipulate things you see to encourage engagement; for example, if their algorithm shows that your engagement is dropping and you're about to leave, they'll show other people your profile and say 'do you know this person?', because someone adding you as a friend boosts your engagement.

So if you think that showing you posts which are happy or sad is manipulative, be aware that Facebook is already filtering your potential-friends list and showing you people solely to boost engagement (either yours or theirs). Looked at another way, this means that it's possible their algorithm isn't currently showing you people you might know because it's not as beneficial for them to make that connection for you yet.

So the purpose of Facebook's site is to get people to interact and generate behaviour, and now they're experimenting with that; which posts do we show? which do we hide? They haven't shown them all for ages, so this is just a tweak to their algorithm that they were testing.

What's really interesting here is how this could actually be used for good. Someone feeling crappy? Show them fewer negative posts and more positive posts. Maybe that will help. Show negative posts less often, and make society in general a little more positive.
I couldn't get through to Google help pages for adsense because their webforms block on my (real) surname.

Mildly frustrating.
> A distinction without a difference.

There is an enormous difference between you reaching out and contacting the outside world, and the police coming into your private space.

> That's the nature of the prevailing wireless telephony technology.

Then the prevailing wireless telephony technology is inherently incompatible with privacy under the 4th amendment.
Yeah, building a space elevator, or a practical SSTO space shuttle plane. Handling server monitoring hardly seems worthy of such a title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-stage-to-orbit
Seconded; please share the story, or if your grandfather feels like it, maybe do an AMA on Reddit. That will be one hell of an amazing read! :).
Having tried out SpiderOak, it seems like a fine substitute for Dropbox.

Anyway, it's too bad this post is getting censored (a story with less points and yet triple the age of this one was just on the frontpage). Oh well.