skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to [1] Reddit sees 112M uniques/month but only has 2M registered users. A large fraction of reddit only sees and lurks on default subs, which reddit knows nothing about.

[1]http://www.kunocreative.com/blog/bid/89711/Leveraging-Reddit...
hrmmm.. interesting concept. Kinda like pingdom? Interested ti know how this works - is it converting the page to text then running a diff?
8 Great books for beginner web-developers
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The Law Factory turns the French parliamentary process into visualizations
If I remember correctly, I think the link was established initially with the assumption that it will be good for the UK since it will mostly be used for exporting electricity to France.
4 Things to Look for to Assess your Software Product Company’s Effectiveness
Bill Gates walks into a bar. The average patron is worth more than $1B.
Is this effectively BEAM?
That may work as well as "ideally, applications should be agnostic to language and an automatic language-transformation layer should handle all the text".

While it's technically possible (several app stores do just that), the results are far from good quality. When colors are used to convey meaning, the transformations needed to allow blind-color users to see them will be application-dependent.

This may be enough to allow these users to play simple games, but ideally developers should learn enough about the human API so as to cater to the real needs of their users. Depending on invisible colors for gameplay should be seen as bad as letting an uncaught exception crash your application.
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This reminds me of a product from the 90's where it let you leave post-it style notes on any website. You could then turn the nodes on/off for any given site.

Anyway, that was a great product, so I'm glad to see that you're thinking around similar lines. A meta-commenting system that runs any site is a great idea.
Reasons to lose faith in humanity
Ebay.co.uk is down
> The United States and ALL of our allies need to restrict travel from every country where at least ONE case of Ebola has surfaced

When did this become an 'us versus them' issue, as though any people or governments are glad to have an Ebola outbreak on their hands.

Ebola is spread through physical contact with infect matter or fluids. It isn't airborne.

This looks like racism coming into play. Obama is black, Nigeria is also an African country. And what does it have to do with Obama?

Is he an expect on medical issues or is something for him to leave to the experts health issues are delegated to decide? And to think that you only signed on make this comment.

Don't let your fears let your behaviour degenerate into panic and racism.
Agreed. I also think we should remove the displays on phones. Some people are blind.
You can be 100% assured that if anybody wants to talk to you about "the costs of solar power" then it is a rep of the Neandertalers-Industry in full smokescreen operation mode.

These discussions are a great example for how propaganda works.

It does not make sense to calculate the "costs" of freedom, independence and the health of your family.

Also the real costs of unresolved nuclear waste problems, huge wars for securing oil supply and the contamination of our ground water by primitive fracking techniques are... titanic.

We need more young people in the US to take over the general political and economic discussion. Old and greedy neandertalers are destroying the living environment of young people, not ok, must change.

Homo sapiens, sapiens (!), take over please...
Excellent tut!
" You do likely need life insurance." why on earth would i need life insurance?
Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?
Everybody has some piece of software/code on his *nix system that is either cool/ a quality of life improvement/ or just really usefull. I'd like to see some of your favorites.
Why don't use a local virtualized solution like http://informatica.uv.es/~carlos/docencia/netinvm/ ? You can create a model of a network with preins & preconf packages.
Internet-induced fear culture (or: Why Girls Around Me isn’t the problem) (2012)
It would be helpful to compare it with projects in other languages, e.g. pro/con with Node.js or Erlang.
So, service idea: pass a complex color-blindness test (on your setup) and it will generate a color profile suited for you (and your setup).

I wonder if it is possible without ruining the appearance of everything else (never really looked into how color profiles work).
Hey, since bumping into this thread (have read much of HPMOR) I decided to check out Worm and it's excellent - have read ~1000 pages (out of around 10K on my device), half on the site and half on, for convenience's sake, an ebook version I found floating around. I'll be donating in a second here, but I really would rather (for whatever reason) have made it a transaction and bought a copy in some legit epub or mobi form from you, the author.

It's a bit late to hope for a response, but I'm somewhere around 7.08 - should I wait for a revision or just read on and revise my opinion later? At any rate thanks for writing and I hope you get the book deal you very richly deserve.
I’m sorry, but people seem to believe all manner of wild and crazy things about the AGPL – this means that you have to back up your claims with references.
I wasn't blaming the US. The fact remains, the US can do me more damage than China can. If I had to choose between surveilled services in China or surveilled services in the US, I'd go China every time. Same with hardware. I'd rather have bugged Chinese hardware than bugged American hardware.

Obviously, I'd rather not have bugged hardware or be using surveilled services in the first place. Also, you can replace "American" with "British" above, and the argument would still apply.
It's been done before. It's called coal. But then at the end of the Carboniferous Era fungi learned how to break down lignin. This ended the trapping of vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in layers of non-rotting plant matter that would get buried over time.

All that carbon in coal seams used to be in the air. Not many people know the atmospheric CO2 level during most of Earth's history was well over 1000 ppm, and commonly around 3000 ppm.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

Interesting contradiction isn't it? Our slowly rising atmospheric CO2 level today is just reaching 400 ppm, and this is claimed by some to be disastrous. Yet it has usually been far higher, and Earth thrived in those times.
Make one move and it will stop spinning.
Ask HN: What is the profile of the Unity, libGDX and Cocos2d-x programmer?
Hi, I'm coming from a programming background (C#, java, ruby, go, node.js) and have experience in the more traditional languages (cpp, c, assembler, etc) as well. Have no problem getting into a new language - but I do have a problem getting used to a new and lacking IDE/code editor and to a slow workflow - as I'm an automate-everything and complete Vim guy.

To pick a new game engine for me - is to understand the programmer behind it (rather than understand the game engine).

Can people that have made a pick of one of those engines give some feedback as to who they are?

What technical background
What market they wanted to get into first
How long it takes to develop a game

Thanks!
business is business
To be fair, I enable Whois Privacy by default on all my domains, no matter what they are for.
sure, 80-90% of the time you get exactly what you want. but depending on your application and use-case, 10% can be a deal breaker of sorts.

not that Geo location from notoriously inaccurate whois data is any better.
The (previously) deleted comment was a general theory of reddit. Insightful, yes, but not relevant to my points above.
This arguments are the ones used and shared by Olympic coaches. There is nothing new in what I say. It´s well known in sport circles that science goes between 10 and 20 years behind the Olympic training methods. They don´t have time to wait for studies to happen, they need to go for what it works now.

As I said HIIT is very very useful, possibly more effective than beginning as I said (depending of your objectives): developing slowly your capability over some months. But recommending it to people out of the blue, with out proper training time under their belt (doesn't have a minimum adaptation to physical activity) that don´t know how their own body reacts. It's just an injury waiting to happen. Not only that, Hiit training is so exhausting that a lot of people give up before they can see results. So one thing is to say that it´s effective, and other to say that it´s really useful or safe as it´s recommended, after all we are talking of finding a training system that it´s useful to the average guy who wants to start training.

IMHO it's much better to make a plan that makes you start slowly, with low volume and low intensity. And from there over the months (you don´t need a lot of them, 2-3 months is more than enough to develop a training base), start adding HIIT, etc.. But that's more difficult to sell, as we all want results this week.

What stretching does, is to allow a complete range of movement, for example people that perform bench press as their main exercise usually develop a strong forward tightness at their shoulder girdle (besides not stretching they usually don't balance the strength between pulling and pushing).

They are terribly strong in one movement (pushing), but this tightness and lack of balance helps develop a lot of shoulder problems overtime, and even it can stop the body from further developing the bench press strength. It´s more complex than only stretching. But stretching has it´s place, you only need to look at Gymnasts and Weight lifters, that are the most powerful athletes gram per gram (of relative strength, not absolute like power lifting). Both of them are very very flexible compared to the average sport practitioner. They develop that stretching capability because they need it to perform well. At that level you don't train a property that you don't need.
Of course circus levels of flexibility are way too much and could lead to problems.
One of the comments points to this response from the American Wind Energy Association:

http://aweablog.org/blog/post/fact-check-wind-power-is-a-cos...

They suggest his biggest distortions are using a) a historical figure for wind costs averaged over a decade even though it's got much cheaper over that time span and b) counting each year in that decade equally even though the amount of wind energy produced grew rapidly, c) using a figure from a press release for gas capacity rather than actual figures which would be 50% lower.
before you gleefully skip into the panacea geo-DNS has been marketed as, please take a quick skim of this 2009 paper[1] from microsoft research about mobile clients and geolocation.

has it gotten better in five years? is an exercise left for the reader :)

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/maheshba/paper...
> [...] global warming effect of methane leakage [...]

What? So we're sure all of sudden that human activity does actually have any visible impact on global warming? O_o
When was the last time you checked your business model?
Reminds me a lot of the book 'Rainbows End'.
They're trying to pass the objects created at startup into other objects, so that dependencies are explicit and can be mocked out in unit tests. You can't do this with init(), which always takes no arguments and returns no values.
I learned something new from this: I was always under the impression that you could not do anything when your process is stopped via ^Z. But apparently there are two separate signals involved here: SIGTSTP (sent when ^Z is pressed and blockable) and SIGSTOP (also suspending the process but NOT blockable) (This reminds of the time SIGCLD / SIGCHLD were different).

I have a system where shell users run commands that can grab some locks, and they like to press ^Z to suspend them which isn't compatible with a simple fcntl-based lock.
Ask HN: Coworking Space London (31/7, 1/8)
Hi,

2 of us will be working on our startup in London (online tutoring/education) on the above dates. Does anyone know the best place to find good working space with internet/etc. in London?

Is anyone involved in a start-up that might be interested in having us for a couple days?

I'm sure in future we'll be able to return the favour for others.

Cheers.
Clearly, there is a lot of monetization possible if reddit wants to tamper with the community and its organic post ranking. For instance, there is a subreddit dedicated to uncovering disguised ads on reddit: /r/HailCorporate [1]. The quantity of masked PR and the creativity of some ads is incredible.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate
Why is this even posted here?

I don't have a particular problem with it - this just doesn't seem like HN material.
The "installation" instructions wgets a script (over http) which in turn curls a raw github link of cpanminus which is "a script to get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN" which then downloads and installs the perl module.

How many developers or "power users" would have just ran that command without even thinking about it?

I guess signing packages with trusted keys and serving them over https is far too lame for devs these days.

(Not that I'm calling out this particular project, it's seems to be crazy popular to offer "curl some.script | bash" as installation instructions lately for some reason.)
...so you pretty much have to rely on non-solar energy at 50% rate, at minimum.
Are you seeing CIA? It says MI5 for me, is it possible it's changing based on geo IP?
No problem on Android Browser 4.4
This is nice! I've tried something similar myself as a first project and I'm learning some neat things from your code. Thanks for sharing :)
"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."

Spot on! The reason for the angst is that typically management and consultants call the shots and the software developers are ignored.

It is incredibly frustrating when your company pulls in consultants, who have spent all of a week studying up on your company and industry, after ignoring staff who have been pointing out the key problems for months.
I read that Germany is importing French nuclear power.

Mind you, both could be perfectly possible in the messed-up EEC energy market.
Stay away from every sub that allows memes. Stay away from big subs that aren't heavily moderated (AskScience and AskHistorians are prime examples of big subs that aren't low quality).

And suddenly you have a relatively high quality Reddit :)
To what purpose? As long as it is interest from a government/powerful institution to spy on something they will for sure develop a way to do so. Nothing is safe...
It is necessary to be cautious with this kind of studies as everybody has specific needs.

I have a minor heart problem and I must avoid doing sports which require to be active for small burst like Tennis and squatch. For some people, it is better to do endurant sport like swimming, biking or doing long exercises.
nice article! the metaphor works for me, although one thing I feel for doing products, is the time for "R&D" . even an infomtainment product takes several months, before you see back income.

another point might be: how to start building an audience without a product? it takes time to go to events, network, visit forums, etc.
CSS Triggers [blog post]
Hopefully, most people would check their package managers first. Debian and Centos both have packages for it at least.
"Compose two functions, and you still have a function. Compose ten, or a hundred, and it is still a function mapping values to values."

The problem being that when you compose two functions the number of possible input combinations to function 1 multiplied by the number of possible input combinations to function 2.

When you have 10 functions, each with two inputs, combining them gives you 2^10 combination to test - 1024 combinations.

Whereas if you test each one separately you can test 20 combinations, and get the same coverage.
They don't need explicit advertising because they already perfected the product placement.

Compared to Reddit, that Power Glove film is a masterpiec
Amazon acts as a storefront for many independent merchants, just like Taobao does. This mirrors the way my wife uses amazon and Taobao, but we find Amazon to be more reliable in quality. And then there is jd.com....
I don't think reddit can be profitable. The moment it is the userbase will move on to the next thing. A new site can spring up over night. A new reddit could be coded in weeks. its all a matter of people choosing to congregate there. This is an ongoing process that is constantly happening. Message boards are popular, and they're cheap.
They were not blocked until June, however. And now they are almost completely shut out.
It's a community project. It's opensource. It's HN material.

What is your definition of "HN material".
Innomobileapps adds new enterprise apps to its app store InnoStore
It seems that you can't put existing devices into supervision without losing all of the data on them. Which really sucks
Easily using WebODF, JS library for displaying and editing ODF files [Part 1]
JET FIGHTER BROUGHT DOWN PLANE OVER UKRAIN BANNED BBC NEWS?
yeah, if you're only controlling one side of the conversation you just have to deal with the limitations. We use a lot of data from RUM measurements to further tune things.

That being said, if you control both sides you can do some better stuff (ie: Aspera, Netflix clients, etc) you can really ensure accuracy. Please feel free to post any good links to this stuff.
I've been using Mojolicious for about 5 years now - from somewhere around v1.0 - and it's been awesome. The more I learned the easier and quicker things got. Now I use if for all my backend needs, from SaaS, APIs to real-time websockets - and there's still a ton of things Mojo can do but I never tried them. Not to mention Perl itself. And CPAN.

Let's face it - Perl is magic ;)
The people doing the blocking can probably better answer that.
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so." - Galileo
Dear PM, It’s been only 3 hours and I already miss you
How do you do HIT? You mention a machine, so I'm wondering what exactly you do.
> From the conversations, Morocco sounds like the best place to go visit; the guy from Morocco waxes the most poetic about his homeland.

Maybe for guys, sure. You can find many stories like this one: http://www.neverendingfootsteps.com/2013/12/02/travelling-mo...
That seems to be of more concern for delivery of localized content than optimizing for closest data centre.
Why I doubted Facebook could build a billion dollar business
Those referencing Gattaca (1997) here should read The Unreconstructed M (1957) by Philip K. Dick:

http://www.sffaudio.com/podcasts/TheUnreconstructedMByPhilip...
Both Google and Mozilla have co-working spaces in London, you might try them:

* https://www.campuslondon.com/
* https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/london/

There's a variety of other places around, especially in the Old Street/Shoreditch area. I'm sure there's a lot of startups who would be willing to host you too.

Depending on your needs, there's also places like the British Library which have wi-fi and quiet space to work.
This whole concept of Paris Syndrome looks very suspicious to me. I'm talking from first hand experience. I was born in France and at the age of 20-something, I had to move to Paris, like millions other youngsters, just to find a job. Yes, the Jacobin model is still very much alive, HN readers might not be aware of this but in that country, Paris centralism is pushed to absurd levels, to the point that if you have a mere ambition to achieve anything academically or professionally in most sectors, you're pretty much guaranteed to end up in Paris.

I spent more than four years in that city and those years were probably the unhappiest of my life. I never felt disillusioned (in fact, you need expectations to feel so), I had no feelings of persecution, and the only hallucinations I might have had were under the influence of recreational drugs.

I don't think I suffered from Paris Syndrome at all, but from undeniable facts that the beautiful Paris postcard won't tell you about:

1) Overpopulation. The massive economic exodus to Paris has made this town the biggest urban area of Europe. The concentration of population is among the highest in the world (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popula...). As a consequence, you pay absurd amounts of money to live in tiny shitty HK-sized flats. Crowds are an annoyance year round, in the metro, while shopping, or even while crossing on the sidewalk.

2) Hostile inhabitants: the dwellers of Paris are incredibly unfriendly, stressed out and stressful. I think they are responsible for the reputation of arrogance that the French have in most parts of the world.

3) Venice 2.0: inner Paris nowadays has just become an open museum. Its popular neighborhoods are progressively getting drained and the city is culturally dying slowly. Tourism seems to be the new business model and it is slowly crippling the city with fake, unauthentic, cliche like kind of businesses.

4) Consumerism: just ask a Parisian what he did over the week end, he'll most likely tell you he had a drink with buddies, then dined in a restaurant, then went shopping. Other than breading and walking, there's absolutely zero to do in Paris other than spending money. If you like sports, you're screwed, there's very little options in that town. The parks all suck, and the pollution makes it even hazardous to practice sports outdoors.

5) Horrible region: most maps of France are actually quiet political in the way they position Paris in the center of the country. The truth is that Paris is very much in northern France. As a consequence, the countryside around Paris (not talking about the ghetto ring), is among the ugliest areas of this country with flat, boring and depressing landscapes everywhere in a 100km radius. Only regions like Beauce or Baie de somme rival with this land in its hideousness.

6) Terrible weather: simply put, the weather in Paris is very much like London's, with greater co2 pollution.

Here's my tip to anyone embedding on a Journey to France: avoid Paris.
Is this a submarine?

Why is a site struggling with journalism (NY Times), and a subscription model, and a paywall (that will become permanent in 3 months), and possibly an advertising problem, advocating that another site (Reddit), with more users, without a subscription model, no paywall, and possibly no advertising problem, is about to change?
There's disastrous for Earth, and disastrous for humans. If, as an example, sea levels were to rise by 100 feet tomorrow, that would be mildly inconvenient for people, but life in general would go on happily on Earth.
As web frameworks go, I prefer the experience of Django.... but a recent project I did with Mojolicious was a really fast experience to 'get something' together, whilst also staying out of the way.
I love MaxCDN, keep up the good work guys!