skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked into jumping into this space recently, and doing my research it seems that all the companies doing this exact same thing (and there are lots of them) make the same mistake that this one does: Involve the customer in the loop.

This requires Joe AirBnB User to actually sign up for an account with the service (and a dozen others) and tell it about all the places that it should agglomerate reputation from. That's precisely backward.

This service's customer should be AirBnB, eBay, etc. And if the big ones don't immediately sign up, you'll need to go convince (as in, pay) them to partner up from the start. Customers get matched up with profiles behind the scenes automatically and end up with a "credit score" assigned to them that they have no control over.

The company that builds that product will win. The other twenty will die, as they are currently in the process of dying, because nobody is going to wake up in the morning, Google "centralized trust service", sign up, and spend an hour filling in information.
So I was looking for Basis to maybe release next version of their device, then they got acquired by Intel and I was hoping it will not die horrible death, yet from your description this is what is happening.

I am using Fitbit and Basis is what I really need. I think by next year we will have something along the lines that Basis promised.
Parent comment assumes one inverter per solar panel, my comment suggests it's more like one per 19" rack unit. Today's inverter vs. the kind of size they're looking for is a difference of perhaps 4-10TB per U, or approaching enough space for an extra half petabyte of spinning rust per rack
Yes you do get charged for incoming calls and text. However most wireless carriers are now pushing plans with unlimited talk, text and data.
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If you're getting spammed you just tell the mobile phone provider and they remove the charges. In my experience it's pretty trivial to get large clearly repetitive charges removed.
Yep. Dwarf Fortress players seem to revel in the abhorrent UI. It's not even just the abysmal graphics, it's the arcane controls, too.

A sane interface with even the most primitive 2D tile-based GUI would make Dwarf Fortress better by orders of magnitude.
Doesn't Yelp do a reasonably good job of this? I've certainly gotten recommendations from both tips and its "frequently talked about" algorithm (i.e., "carnitas" shows up a lot in reviews of this taqueria).
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We don't get much SMS spam in the US.
What? A parent's work appearing in a child's science project?!
I think my iPhone was repeatedly asking about it for similar reasons to yours, as the connector is worn and it can take several plug attempts to make it even charge. However, a malicious USB socket could cause repeated prompts by just briefly dropping the power from time to time to trigger it. (n.b. I'm sure my experience wasn't a sinister attack on my phone, just stating that this is possible to do)

The "Don't ask again" is a little tricky - is there enough information present for the phone to tell if it is plugged into the same or different computer?

A better UI would be for the phone to always default to not pairing. No popup choice would be shown at all. After all, how often do you need to pair to a new computer?
> based on nothing more than a joke

None of your examples demonstrate this.

The joke is always a footnote to some other, primary complaint.

You failed your burden of proof.
So use iterators? Sometimes loops are just the clearer way to express something.
They still charge 10x what Twilio does to send text messages.
The web app doesn't handle markdown, does it?
> You can't build an Android or an iOS app without using the toolchains the platforms provide.

That's because of the way Android and iOS were designed. The amount of crap around coding is not a constant, it's very easy to inflate it with things like XML manifests and IDEs.
This is a good point. It's true that for the high-performance frameworks and platforms, the database is the bottleneck. Or, more accurately—considering the trivial query and small payload—the overhead of the database driver and the wire protocol are significant factors. That said, there remains a fairly broad distribution over the Single-query test and Fortunes tests. For the low and medium-performance frameworks, the overhead of their ORM and other factors are more significant than the database. I find it can be illuminating that in many cases, the ORM code necessary to marshal result-sets into usable objects is more costly than the underlying queries.

Meanwhile, the 20-query test is a bit pathological as it runs into a brick wall with the database wire protocol and efficiency of the database driver. Many otherwise high-performance frameworks and platforms become bottle-necked waiting on those 20 queries per request. But you and I agree, a 20-query-per-request scenario should be the exception and not the rule. When developing a smooth-running web-application, it's common to aim for zero queries per page load. (For those who find this to be crazy talk, note that I'm saying we aim for that ideal, and may not necessarily achieve it.)

I too particularly enjoy knowing the high-water mark set by the JSON and Plaintext tests. When we add the next test type (caching-enabled multiple queries), we should see some interesting results.
I love the taste of coffee and tea, both of which have caffeine.

Curious, why 10+ minutes of sun at noon?
Quote from the article:

"It's rarely—if ever—a full copy, but rather a massive chunk specifically designed for a specific country or region, depending on what's available and what's popular."
Let's just say that compared to 0$ for a bank transfer (at least where i'm from) it seems like a bad deal.
Using Knockout For Progressive Enhancement
I use it on the client side to show a country icon and credit card issuer, and use Stripe on the backend.
Great points. We've actually talked to folks whose total fees were about 6% after all was said and done. It's crazy, but it does happen.

In your example, what I'd ask is if the web studio would be willing to pay $400 to get that $10k weeks earlier than they otherwise would have. That might be a good cash flow outcome for them.

All that being said, you're exactly right, the fee structure makes transactions of a certain size not make sense if you're doing more regular invoicing. That's why we want to add more payment methods over time that are lower cost.
Show HN: Web browser for Android Wear
How does that answer the objection I raised?

It doesn't. It's pure ad hominem. And for that, you lose by default.

Thanks for your time, anyway.
Seconded. Every word of it.

I was a fan of AppEngine in the early days, and built a couple of small projects with it. There is a reason they remained small.
How would you feel if a government agency or ISP or some other adversary used such technology to censor all your online communications -- so you couldn't ever contact anyone, through any protocol -- because it considered you to be undesirable/objectionable/dangerous for its own reasons?
That would actually be interesting to learn about people who have a much more different lifestyle than people in your direct area !
Is there a use case for sleep interruptions due to bathroom trips for enlarged prostate? That would affect its utility (for some).
Yes, it will crush a core.

It actually is a concern as DF in game (dwarf mode anyway) does a huge amount of pathfinding for the little buggers and other creatures. Not to mention item tracking and other bits.

This means that once your fortress gets somewhere around 200 dwarfs you start getting into FPS death because it doesn't scale. So it actually as is a problem, and development of the game is going against the grain of modern computing.

I'm not downing on it at all, DF is Tarns forever project, and a damn good one. He, by design, doesn't owe anyone anything. But the reality of it is that it only gets less and less playable over time and will not be able to reach the mass civilization simulation that many of its players want as more features are added and core speeds remain relatively unchanged.
This is completely ridiculous. Nobody is going to be building a backdoor into a product only a handful of people use when there are products that millions of people use that are just as easy to backdoor.

If the NSA, CIA, a foreign government, competitors, your own company, your mother, etc. wanted to listen to you and other people en masse, they're going to be backdooring a piece of software which is used by more people. A niche product like this wouldn't warrant the time necessary to bacdoor/collect data.
Will do, what is STR?
It seems like some baseline talent is necessary to make the strategy work. I don't claim to have any ability to judge musical ability, plus it seems many artists aren't writing their own songs anyway, so I'm not trying to comment on her merits. Just noting that she's chosen to shift attention from her actual music to these antics, which is a strange choice from my perspective.
Show HN: Balances – Mint for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Vitamin D I would guess
The original researcher spoke out and complained, so I it is safe to assume they to some degree consider discussing this helpful.
Yes, of course you can exhaust the heap, but there are some tricks that can be done to make it not much of an issue. For instance, "Guile arranges to return the unused part of the stack to the operating system, but without causing the stack to shrink." [0]

So, thanks to that, we can define map the clear and easy way:

(define (map f l)
(if (pair? l)
(cons (f (car l))
(map f (cdr l)))
'()))

Instead of the more wasteful, less readable way:

(define (map f l)
(let lp ((l l) (out '()))
(if (pair? l)
(lp (cdr l) (cons (f (car l)) out))
(reverse out))))

[0] https://gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/Stack-...
Though I agree with you that OP appears to have seized on the wrong meaning here, there are some folks here that do do security research. Isn't Matasano pretty vocal on HN?
Thanks for the feedback. I plan on adding other forms of login in the future; Facebook just has the largest user base.
MailPoet Vulnerability behind massive amount of WP site hacks
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Right now I'm using a combination of leiningen, guard, livereload, compass and a shell script to handle my specific build workflow.

I'm confused as to why you think leiningen has to do it all.

I'm also not sure what you mean by auto rebuilder (for clojurescript I use the auto feature of cljsbuild ...). My workflow starts with starting a REPL.

Also, I use vim very happily, many people use Cursive happily. But the reason there seem to be fewer editors in use is that REPL integration is so useful that only those editors with good REPL features end up being used. Clojure's ecosystem isn't stopping anyone from using other editors, those editors just haven't implemented a specific feature that is extraordinarily useful when writing Clojure.

I may have misunderstood you but it seems like you are seeing problems that don't exist because the solutions look different than what you expect.
I've found Trader Joe's "smooth and mello" decaf blend to be the only decaf blend that tastes like actual coffee. I can recommend it. I now drink about 2-4 cups of that stuff (french press brewed, and in the summer, cold-brewed overnight for iced coffee) and an espresso a day (the espresso machine at school has a caffeinated blend and I love espresso too much to stay away from it). This limits my caffeinated total to less than two cups a day (since decaf still has some non-negligible amount of caffeine).
To quote myself from the last time I commented on an article about DF:

I will continue to have no interest in Dwarf Fortress until it has an actual UI instead of whatever insane random combinations of controls the developer felt like adding on any particular day.
Thanks! That's an oversight on our part. We'll make that more clear in the next iteration of that page.
Why don't you use any frameworks? Not that you have to, but don't you feel you have been reinventing the wheel most of the time? At least a simple ORM would not hurt.
I'm saying that psychology and psychiatry, two state-controlled religions, are regularly abused by those who wish to use it to hold power over others.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiKMmrG1ZKU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_psychology

(See also - http://psychiatricnews.wordpress.com/)

>If you're saying that psychology had severe abuse in the system early on then we both agree.

Nope. Still the same as it ever was.
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I know a more experienced engineer. He told me when engineers first invented texting to communicate with each other it's essentially free for telecom companies so yes we Americans are overpaying like crazy for texting.
Sleep Cycle already does this - without the need for any extra items lying around... can't see how this improves on it.
>Am I missing something?

Yes, integrity.

The easy thing probably would have been to leave this whole thing alone. But the easy thing to do isn't automatically the right thing to do.
Have a look at these guys. They found a nifty way of getting people to sign up once.

https://www.trustpilot.com/

But yeah the problem is still to get people to me active providers rather than just ad-hoc.
> It's about how it is different from what men get and about how it is more than what men get.

It's about that, but it doesn't prove that. Not at all. Not one bit.

Four anecdotes aren't proof of anything.

Come back with stats.
Forex and Fixed Odds
http://www.forexandfixedodds.com | The site is about investing in Forex(foreign exchange market) and use of different systems in different market conditions
> Rape threats are significantly worse than death threats,

That is such unadulterated bullshit.

Would you rather be raped or killed? Quick! Choose one!

Exactly.
I'd add in that you should avoid computer screens (or use some software like f.lux on the maximum dark setting) after the sun goes down. I'd also recommend watching your alcohol consumption in the evening as that significantly disrupts your sleep cycle.
Dwolla goes “wearable” with new Google Glass integration
Objection? I think you mean denial.
I want to pick that one up once I've gotten most of the way through The Seasoned Schemer, or if I see it through the window of the MIT Press store and can't resist.
I have another apt application of this already-stretched analogy, but I think it works well w.r.t. the pain of doing large projects without the right tools:

A bicycle ride to the next town is enjoyable. Paddle boating across the Atlantic gets old fast.
I have a mini framework of my own that I've been using, so I usually don't re-invent much, if anything. I want to eventually learn backbone and laravel, but there hasn't been a need since my mini framework has worked well on everything I've thrown at it.
I don't think they can change prices or discontinue the service the way you imply.
It's not scientific though. It's an anecdotal story. Which can be useful but shouldn't be taken anymore seriously than any other documented story about abuses of authority.

But there's no good control to make scientific conclusions on why the abuses occurred.
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We are looking for a front-end UI developer in Boston
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If you are interested please email me at sambady@bostonfinancial.com ASAP!

here are the requirements:

- Develop JavaScript using standard frameworks (jQuery, Knockout, Angular, etc.)
- Ability to use advanced CSS tactics, HTML, and JavaScript libraries (JQUERY, JSON) to work around browser limitations.
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> essentially free

The marginal cost per message is essentially free. The costs of building, operating and maintaining telco infrastructure are unfortunately not.
Android: Buck 10x faster than Gradle for incremental builds
Thank you all for the comments!

For those interested in the design process (both conceptually and visually, here's a graphic I made with some of the phases:

http://riquardo.com/dropu_evolution_small.jpg
I wish people wouldn't report bugs by leaving 1 star reviews.
That's what we're hoping to prove. We've had early customers get paid in less than an hour (compared to 3-4 weeks). It was worth the 1% to them to get their money (averaging about $2,000) faster.

Now, with increased traffic and user from things like this Show HN, we're hoping to show that we can sustain those positive early indicators at greater scale.
??

Twilio is $0.0075 (.75 cents) per message,
Plivo is $0.0065 (.65 cents) per message

...and I see many rate centers at .45 cents in Plivo
Can anyone explain why an ISP would push back Netflix installing one of these boxes? Does the ISP want Netflix service congestion to better sell its own media assets/distribution (i.e. cable TV)?
A number of comments express surprise that US carriers charge for inbound SMS traffic. Note that this announcement is with regards to an SMS gateway service, not regular end-user SMS traffic.
Both sprite mods and even isometric view are available. Tarn has made it possible for others to do this work and they did:

http://code.google.com/p/stonesense/

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/40d:Graphics_set_repo...
Silicon Valley's Strange Reverse Commute
Ask HN: Do long, [funny], descriptive URLs help?
Looking at sites like

wherethefuckshouldigofordrinks.com

evenjesuswouldbuythis.com

Does this novelty effect _actually_ help ideas? I'm considering trying this "ploy" with some of my little side projects. Can anyone with experience running such a site provide feedback?
This is, sadly, advice which gets ignored by an overwhelming number of people in our industry. I know so many otherwise smart folks who buy a FitBit and track their caloric intake only to then drive (not go outside and walk) 2 blocks to get lunch at McDonalds or someplace similar. You don't need a product/app to live a healthy lifestyle... most likely if you are trying to solve a health/lifestyle problem by purchasing something, that is just symptomatic of yet another unhealthy aspect of your lifestyle.
Thanks for the feedback. I plan on adding other ways of signing-up to serve the folks without an FB account.

Even if you don't have a lot of friends, you can still collect feedback and add badges, which will increase your score. The social aspect is just one component.

Regarding fake reviews, I have a background in Spam and Abuse. I look forward to tackling the fake reviews/users. Unhelpful reviews will be ignored and removed.

Regarding the algorithm, that will be continuously tweaked based on feedback.
One month on Mars
To understand how jealousy works, take a look at your dog
I think Nexmo had free incoming sms for years. You only pay for the virtual number.
The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks (2009)
Incoming/Responses are free on Nexmo
Sure, earlier payment might very well make it wortwhile. Maybe, if you have validated numbers, that should be part of the pitch on the invoices page? (x% of our customers get paid in x weeks)
I have a feeling that your sensitivity for "pretty intelligent" might tuned a bit tight. Sure there are a few "massive donation" students but otherwise HSW students in particular are pretty much exclusively 99th percentile types, both "objectively" (GMAT/GRE, Undergrad Institution + GPA) and from career progression standpoints. It's surprising that you would find so many of them to be merely OK or worse, so I'm kind of curious what you're looking for when you judge people's intelligence, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
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Love this idea!!
Webhook is now open to the public
Me too! (I'm a customer). These guys are brilliant, and the science behind what they do is (usually) way over my head.
What's your capacity? Are you just looking to do one of these every two weeks, or do you have a team? Assuming the former, it seems to me like an absolute nightmare way to make $130,000 a year - assuming you were fully booked. Given the specification stage of each project (which realistically is probably a week of emails, phone calls, baffling sketches from your potential client, etc.), it doesn't sound like you could really book these back-to-back anyway.

I'm also interested by your payment clause - are you really expecting people to have paid 100% of the cost without your having finished the project? I'm used to a half upfront, half on completion model, but it seems very ballsy to me to ask for all the money when you're only half done!

Best of luck with it, anyway.
You're missing out. I mean, I assume that you're doing other things with your time and enjoying them instead, but Dwarf Fortress is a unique experience well worth a few hours every couple of years.
Can you have your friend send some ideas my way? I've been looking for a good idea for a long time now.
From what I've read, the idea doesn't actually work very well. Since they're in orbit, you only have a relatively small window per orbit to get it to hit any particular place. If you want to be able to hit any particular place with that kind of notice, you need like dozens of them in the same orbit. Maybe a bunch of orbits, depending on how the cross-range capability is. You could well end up with a constellation of hundreds in orbit.

You're better off putting those weapons on surface-based ICBMs. It'll take a little longer to get to target than the idea case in orbit, but you can launch all of them at a small area at once if you need to. They're a lot easier to maintain and decommission on the ground too - worth considering, since I think we'd all rather not ever have to use the things.
Ask HN: What to expect in final round of accelerator interview?
I recently got invited to final round of interview at an accelerator in SF. Interview will be with few partners.

What should I expect at the interview as a B2B SaaS founder with some revenue?
Very good points about user friction, which should be minimized. The plan is to make adding information from you accounts MUCH easier. Stay tuned.
"All for the ad dollars" I think mischaracterizes the motives. The people voting up the story on Reddit or sharing it on Facebook aren't doing so for money. It's the same impulse with writing/publishing a feel-good story.
The OP most likely copy-and-pasted the all-uppercase blog post title.
One problem is that WiFi is completely opaque, especially but not only on Linux. You get no low-level and no debugging information. It just connects and you get some bars, or it doesn't. I never know where to start when debugging a bad connection, and I wouldn't know where to start if I wanted to improve Linux WiFi.

For example, sometimes I can see a network, but can't connect. Why? I'd like to see something like "sent 100 low level packets, checksum failed on 88 of them, disconnecting".

Or I'd like some way to see whether receiving or sending is the problem - do I get garbled packets, or do I get good ones, but no answers to the ones I send.

Sometimes I know a connection is WPA2, but it stubbornly tries another encryption method. Why? Does the AP suggest it, or is it my configuration? Sometimes I can't enter a text password, it only accepts a fixed-length hexadecimal string (happens on Windows a lot). Again why? There is no good central low-level log file or debug tool that lets me see what is going on.