skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mainly focused on websites, but you can launch other items that don't require any ports exposed:

http://www.octohost.io/data-stores.html

I added some "magic" Dockerfile comments - this is the one to add in order to not expose anything via HTTP:

NO_HTTP_PROXY

I am not a huge fan of volumes where data is stored on the box - but you can do it the same way I've described on the page.

I think of octohost boxes as app servers - if you have data on it, you should likely have it stored elsewhere. I've used Heroku to store additional data sometimes:

http://blog.froese.org/2014/03/17/using-octohost-with-heroku...

We've also used remote MySQL servers:

https://github.com/octohost/mysql-plugin

There's lots of ways to do it.
The two key differences for me:

(1) FancyHands, having been around a lot longer, has far better execution and delivery. Email, phone, an app, recording through the app--many ways to give a task assignment. I usually don't want to text them, I forward them emails to take action upon or simply leave a voice message.

(2) Jarvis is unlimited tasks. THAT is a big one for me. If there ever were a service that were at or somewhat approaching FancyHands quality with unlimited tasks, I'd be on it in a heartbeat. For the time being, I've been using Visa Signature Concierge for tasks that don't require a FancyHands level of attention paid to them, since they are unlimited and free if you have a Visa Signature card.
> CEOs can resist short-term investor pressures and Bezos clearly falls into this category

Amazon's P/E is currently 503. The P/E for the S&P 500 is around 19. The "investor pressures" are strongly supporting Bezos.

I'm one of them. I'm long on AMZN, with my own money on the line, and it's done well for me. I plan on staying pat.

Whether I'm right or wrong about AMZN's future is irrelevant - what is relevant is that a high P/E is a sure sign of investors betting on the long term future of a company, and not being obsessed with the next quarter. The CEO doesn't set the P/E, the investors do.
How I went from launch to mentions in Huffington Post, ABC and Gawker in 8 Days
My twitter stream is now full of people, some of whom I am sure do not have the skill to evaluate if something is a JavaScript security threat or not, who have copied and pasted a random script they read on the internet into the developer console. Granted, this one is pretty simple and easier to evaluate than most, but still… you really get why Facebook hacked the console to warn people not to do that.

edit: This tweet said exactly what I was thinking when I saw all of this. https://twitter.com/s_m_i/status/493609377958723584

"Also this uber thing shows folks will copy and paste commands they don’t understand without a second thought if the incentives are right"
“The 10 Traits of Successful Startup CEO’s I’ve Backed”
The fellow holding the plutonium hemispheres apart with the tip of a screwdriver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin had previously distinguished himself by going swimming in an active nuclear reactor. Possibly no-one will ever surpass his achievements as likely the greatest eejit in the history of nuclear engineering.
'The web is littered with the corpses of "comment on any website" apps.'

There is one "comment on any website" tool that has existed from the beginnings of the web and still thrives. The way it works is, you put the comments on your own website.
It's actually remarkably similar now to what it was really early on. There's a lot more refinement and polish now.

Here's a video from about 2 weeks into the project (it was codenamed Fractured at that time):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeMt9UJIPS0

One key mechanic in the game now that isn't in this video is the auto-panning after the user makes a word

(there's a bunch of other stuff too, like the timing mechanism, size of tiles, size of game grid, etc.., but that's more gameplay rather than mechanics)
Exactly this. There is an article about how the super rich in Germany keep very quiet.

Wealth lists are only on what people can find and often exclude royalty.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28472884
I wonder about this all the time.

Sometimes I comb my hair, or bite my fingernails. What if part of it fell on the floor and some random person steps on it. Stuck on the bottom of their shoe. A bunch of coincidental stuff comes up and my DNA is tested against a fingernail/hair under victim's shoe... match. I'm doomed.

Indeed, I fear the mentality that DNA-match = Guilty.

How many people have been sent to jail/put to death based on false DNA results or even accurate but not via the crime they're accused of.
A few month ago someone introduced me to appstore SEO which basically is old-school key word optimization and other tricks but for apps.

So in a way you can improve your discoverability.
>The deal breaker is usually lazy modding.

This is pretty much it. There are some important cases I could point out to this as well. For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/comments/1z9fco/atte...

This particular subreddits mods wanted to get more subscribers (their reason being they were almost at 30k subscribers). They made an advertisement of sorts and put it in another, larger, mainstream subreddit. They prepared for it. And all the new content and comments were heavily moderated. The regulars also helped the moderators with reports for those comments against the rules.

Another good example of heavy moderating is http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience . They don't tolerate any crap. Jokes, anecdotes, or off-topic posts are quickly reported, downvoted, and deleted. Most questions are labeled to the pertinent field. They are also a default subreddit.
I worked on a PHP compiler: http://phpcompiler.org. Although it only supports PHP 5.2, it has a really nice parser, which had a lot of work put into it (a ton of edge cases in particular).

It's not in Go, but it does a lot of the interesting things you asked about: static analysis, dead code elimination, transpiling. It also compiles to (pretty poor) C code.

For static analysis, there's a lot to do. Here's my PhD on the topic: http://paulbiggar.com/research/#phd-dissertation

I worked on this for about 4 years, and if my experience is indicative of working on PHP compilers is general, you have a lot of fun, and a massive amount of frustration in front of you.
This is interesting, especially the bit about getting featured right off the bat, because I'm just getting started with mobile game development and had for long time an idea for a pretty similar game. Similar in the sense that it was a hex-tiled spelling game where you need to string together words to get somewhere.

However, my partner and I are looking at a different game right now.

Also, I know there are worse reviewers than this, but man ...

"The vocab in this game needs a serious update, I have no idea which words to go for due to the fact that it does not have some retry basic words built in. Not toention the selection process needs a tad bit rethink. Overall it is a pretty great idea, it just needs to be fully realized. I would give it more stars but I'm a pass or fail kinda guy, and this did not pass... Not yet anyway :)"
So does the pink hue mean the coconut water is super fresh from young coconuts? (maybe too fresh?)
Zipcar names its vehicles, though - if you only have five candidate cars (in a somewhat large 'Ziphome'), having a name is better than having a vehicle type + color as there are sometimes similar looking vehicles next to each other.
> The community is only as good as its members!

I think Reddit has taken that too far... You can have 500 points inside a reddit, but if the mods don't like what you have to say you'll log in and get a banned message.

I lost interest in Reddit the moment I wrote a long-winded suggestion for someone asking advice, and was banned for it. Went through the hassle of actually taking to the mod who banned me... came down to, "I just didn't like the way you said what you said, I didn't care that you had 30 upvotes..."

When it was community powered it was fun for me, now it's just a vessel for whatever mod is up that week.
It makes no sense at all to make feature requests in a review. Reviews are for other users to read. Feature requests should be sent to the developer.
http://www.namepros.com (I got banned from that site years ago after a buyer framed me, so f* them)

http://www.flippa.com - probably only worth it for higher end stuff

http://www.sedo.com - if it's really high end, just get a broker from there and have them deal with selling it.
A negative review should not be a mechanism for a feature and/or translation request.

There are specific links provided in iTunes to "Triplezero Web Site" and "Hexiled Support" where these kind of requests should be made.
I don't recall Google Wave having website commenting features.
I've just asked my driver and they tell you.
Although many would dismiss Baidu as a Chinese Google copycat, the fact is Baidu's founder developed his own page ranking method independently around/before the time PageRank came into existence.

Here's what Wikipedia says in its PageRank entry (Robin Li is Baidu's founder and CEO)

>A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar strategy for site-scoring and page ranking.[16] The technology in RankDex would be patented by 1999[17] and used later when Li founded Baidu in China.[18][19] Li's work would be referenced by some of Larry Page's U.S. patents for his Google search methods.[20]

I do not like Baidu and use Bing whenever possible (Google is too unstable in China). But again, the fact is one can dismiss Baidu for its many products but perhaps not its search.
In the Linux desktop world, Telepathy serves a similar role: it's a unified daemon that handles all account connectivity (XMPP, Irc, Sip, Jingle, Aim, MSN, &c), and other programs talk to Telepathy instead of making their own connections. Telepathy and Tenyks are both communications services.

D-Bus is used to talk to Telepathy, which fills the role ZeroMQ plays in Tenyks.
dont they show officially?
Do you mean, post comments you have about another website on your own site? Definitely works, although obviously harder for others to discover your comments compared to a single commenting tool which everyone used. Although I'm sceptical such a tool will ever exist.
The people, the culture, the projects, the money. Probably in that order.

If I could work with a superstar team, where I am guaranteed hands-down to be the dumbest person in the room, where I can practice leading edge software development, contribute to fantastic projects (some of which were decided by me), and get paid very well, then sign me up.

With the amazing power of the internet, even remote jobs aren't really that remote. I would say benefits like sending employees to conferences, making sure they have good equipment and comfortable surroundings, allowing change in the organization, and making sure that the entire team is always seeking to improve are good ways to attract talent. Money is also good.
4.9!

I use uber multiple time per week and have for years. So I guess I'm not an asshole.
Is this true? It feels wrong - that a false positive DNA test is not like picking the right number on a roulette table. Considering the number of bits of information that have to match to be a positive hit in DNA testing, even 22k tests shouldn't hit a false positive.

Statistics being what they are, what is the science behind false positives in DNA testing across a fairly large sample set?
It's just phishing via web console. You can convince humans to do just about anything for the right incentive.
How to transfer ownership of your android application
Worked fine for me just now. In the US.
I wonder if `window.Uber.pingData.client.activeExperiments` is the test groups you're currently in at the moment...
For the record, I strongly disagree, but I doubt we're going to resolve that here. I would merely point out that one of the main reasons we have different forums for discussion with different rules is precisely to provide different contexts. Wanting every forum in every context to conform to your preferred rules is ridiculous and unrealistic. Part of the price of living in a free society is that you will sometimes come across things that you find offensive, and you'll just have to deal. Understanding things in their proper context is a big part of dealing.
My HN fu is limited, but I'm wondering why the downvote? Karma is so precious ;)
Nice! I've wanted something like this for a while. Glad someone built it.

Seems like ping time is missing, which is critical to me. Also, would be great to have some measure of ping/speed/reliability over time, either via repeated automated testing or guest ratings.

I've often stayed at places which had decent speed, but unserviceable ping times, which is really a buzzkill for VoIP and online meetings.

Another issue is wifi that is fast, but unreliable. I've experienced a lot of that since moving to Brazil; Internet that just goes missing at intervals too regular to ignore.

Would be interesting if a widely-used service like speedtest.net would enable some tagging of IP addresses to pool results, so you could see the aggregated results for a given hotel over time.
New cool gadget lets you charge your phone with you hot or cold drink
Kickstarter scam: graphene capacitors
Fear Uncertainty Doubt

In the beginning, Facebook was, to some extent, private. I'm thinking back to the days when they were rolled out college by college. Even after then, mostly people of a certain generation were on FB.

Since then, their reach has gone global and it reached the late adopters: parent, grandparents, uncles and aunts. As that circle became larger, Facebook felt less private.

What the article seems to have missed is that the popularity around other sharing models is actually relatively new. 1-1 messaging, at least on mobile, really only got huge within the last 2-4 years. How old is Snapchat? < 3 years? And it's been mainstream-ish for less than that. Secret, Whisper, Kik... all of these apps with different sharing models are a pretty recent phenomenon.

It seems pretty silly to call this an "about face" considering the span of time considered. Opinions always evolve over time. Look at Steve Jobs: Famously known for saying that Apple would "never" make a tablet smaller than the original iPad. Lo and behold, they did.

Products and the philosophy around them change over time, especially in an area like tech which is quick moving and ever-changing.
I would highly recommend Varnish using S3 as a backend origin. Add to that a few 100TB.com dedicated server and you have an extremely cheap CDN with pretty decent bandwidth and minimal maintenance.

CDNs have the advantage that they control more of the stack so can do more precise routing and have more edge nodes in more places. However, under the right circumstances, you can take the above quite far before a real CDN becomes necessary.
http://sites.psu.edu/dhlaw/2012/07/07/have-dna-databases-pro...

The problem with DNA evidence is that prosecutors like to jump to the end, the idea that a DNA match means that someone with DNA identical to that found at a crime scene has been found. In reality there is a long string of assumptions that must hold true in order for that supposition to also be true. The chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Or numbers/numkeys + enter.
hey Daniel- thanks for the comment. Do you run any special varnish config settings w/ s3?
Ukraine has the 3rd most shale gas reserves in Europe, not all of world. There are countries with much more reserves than Ukraine, Russia included. So no, if Putin is trying to start a war it is not because of Ukraine's shale reserves. But if you are adamant that is is Putin who is the one doing most of the instigating here than there are many arguments to be made against that seemingly popular view.
STAY WITH ME
Does anyone know any more about this or can someone point to a publication on the process?
North Korean pirate radio: homemade devices deliver banned broadcasts
Exactly this. I didn't know this was such a big secret. In one of the rides, I happened to be in an Uber that I had taken before and the driver remarked "Hey! you have dropped down from 5 to 4.9". And I exactly remember that just a few days before I shared a ride with a friend , and he was being a dick to the driver unnecessarily.
> This argument doesn't hinge on the GCC guys having thick skin but rather on the apparent unlikeliness of their seeing the more offensive messages in the kernel list.

I made no such argument; in fact my reply to you specifically recognized the fact that a GCC developer might come across Linus' message on the Linux kernel list. My argument was that such a GCC developer would recognize that the Linux kernel mailing list does not belong to him or his project, it belongs to Linus and his project, and the fact that Linus' tone when he posted to GCC's bug tracker was quite different shows that Linus understands the difference too.
Thanks for the ValueError tip. I added it as well as a TypeError just in case the input comes in as a string. My skills are beginner level at best, tips like yours help a lot!
So they did not actually attain below-absolute-0 temperatures?
> it's the World Series wins that count, eventually. Everything else is irrelevant.

This is an outrageously dumb post for a site that is supposed to be full of people who understand remedial mathematics and statistics.
This is not the time or the place for this discussion so I'll try to keep it brief and non-argumentative.

As a non-American, I agree the U.S. is way overmedicated.

That said, some people still do need medication. If you read the post you'll see the guy himself has avoided the medication until now due to a bad episode of being misdiagnosed and medicated as a child. He has literal first-hand experience of what you're complaining about.

I'm in Japan now, and this place is the exact opposite. Mental illness "doesn't exist" and half the medications prescribed in the US are illegal here. And hey, 3 train jumpers a day. "Hey pussy, pull yourself up by your bootstraps" doesn't work either.
Yea, it can be confronting reading reviews.

There's over 250,000 words in our dictionary (that's not to say you can necessarily make all of them in the game).

Most people just query "Zen" not being in there though ;)
I've been aware of my Uber passenger rating for about a year. When I first found out about it, my rating was a 4.9. Once I realized that I was being rated, I worked really hard to be the perfect passenger. I had my rating up to a 5.0 for a few months. Then I got lazy about being perfect and it has since dropped to a 4.8.
It should be pointed out that not a SINGLE sabermetrician has shown the "facts" in this post to be true. BPro used a similar concept called "secret sauce" that had many of these ideas in them, and it was routinely debunked years after it was published.

The A's are almost certainly the victim of variance, the likes of which apparently even Hacker News readers can't grasp. For them to have the record they do in the playoffs given their expected talent level is something like a 17% shot on chance alone.

Ever see something happen that was an 83% underdog? No?
> What I don't get is why once the newly formed white hole begins to spit out stuff, it will continue to do so. Why won't gravity pull it together agian?

It will, but not fast enough. Basically, the theory (at least as I understand it) says that the "quantum bounce" reverses the collapse process, so a massive object collapsing very fast turns into a massive object expanding very fast. The expansion decelerates because of the gravity of the hole, but the deceleration is not enough to stop it from exploding outward and redistributing all the matter that collapsed back out into the universe.
From the title I inferred that you changed your game because apple featured it, as a way of implying that you didn't like the exposure. The post revealed something completely different of this.
Are you using SOWPODS? I had thought to stick with TWL being somewhat of an old school Scrabble player. Also, little technical question if I may: what sort of data structure do you use for your dictionary?
>This is not even considering the fact that each game has 200+ separate pitches from which to derive success or failure, as opposed to ~100 plays per NFL game.

NFL plays are VASTLY more multivariate than any single pitch in MLB. This is comparing apples to garbage dumps, at best.
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At the very least, if you're like most users who rate between 4 and 5, you can most likely tell if the driver rated you a 5 (rating goes up) or below a 5 (rating goes down). It would take a pretty strange algorithm to violate that. Of course, this only helps if your rating changes at all
this is also visible if you view the source on m.uber.com, ctrl-f for "rating".
It's more so that the feature gave us such a huge amount of data early on in our game's lifetime that we noticed some things we needed to quickly iterate on.
>Maybe this shows that while Beane can get you wins, his method may not work in building a Championship-winning team?

Pop quiz: Who was the most influential man that recommended Theo Epstein to John Henry?
This type of stuff reminds me of prison-tech.
Show HN: A city-wide Scavenger Hunt – Beta Test in your location today
Uh! It makes me remember some obscure and mystic stuff for the IBM 3151 terminal [1]. This terminal has an auxiliary port where you can connect the printer, so it was a (not so) dumb terminal where you can connect other peripherals. There was a government project to attach an individual printer (instead of connecting it to the server) to some terminals but nobody knew the escape codes to control that port. At some point the IBM guys sent a difficult to find IBM 3151 with these details. Probably this manual is now already available on Internet.

[1] http://ps-2.kev009.com/tl/techlib/manuals/adoclib/aixasync/a...
Yes, as I read the article at the second part you quoted, a flying saucer immediately popped up into my mind... I am sure I am not the only one.. :)
The United States and ALL of our allies need to restrict travel from every country where at least ONE case of Ebola has surfaced. We also need to restrict travel to and from ANY country that is not doing the same. We need to start practicing isolation/quarantine of certain sovereign nations immediately. I don't think Obama will do it. He's going to get us all killed.
> Is there a word for open source that has no revision history?

Open Crap?
None of the management consultants I know live to screw people over either.

It's worth noting, however, that many of them also believe that the world is on fire and they're not afraid if other people get soaked in the process of saving the damn thing. It's just that their solutions - like stack ranking, restructurings, org structures, etc. - tend to soak engineers like you, while your solutions - like open allocation or programmer's unions - tend to soak managers and consultants like them.
>One of the problems with other commenting systems is what I call The Clean Slate Effect. If a troll is sucky on site A, then goes to site B, they start over with a clean slate and can continue being sucky.

How is this different than any other 3rd party commenting system like Disqus or Facebook?
>artificial intelligence and futuristic tech.

That basically broke my BS alarm.