skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP makes a compelling argument regarding the tensions between advertisers selling hype, and your average redditor's desire to tell it straight (anti-hype)

Here's an idea: there are some companies/services that are genuinely awesome and yet not marketed well. Now one may say they hardly need advertising because reddit promotes them naturally.

However, not all aforementioned companies explode and make it huge on reddit. So, what if you had a system whereby one incentivizes honest disclosure, whilst downplaying overselling?

In other words, a genuinely awesome small startup/service might submit itself and gain exposure (with full disclosure.) Upon a success, they would subsequently make a proportional payment for advertising to reddit, to help sustain the ecosystem.

It has parallels with a freemium model whereby some users (in this case successfully advertised companies) sustain the the others (non-paying users and companies).
HN was originally named 'Startup News', but the name changed to emphasize a wider focus. And, the first sentence of the 'Guidelines' linked below is:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

So many people here are avid gamers, hobbyist game developers, or professional game developers that any source code related to a beloved title may find an enthusiastic audience.
Exactly! Good point- I think people forget that...

Ever wonder why speed skaters have some of the most muscular legs around? Its simply the number of unencumbered 'squats' they continue to do over long periods of time while practising.

Sure you can lose weight quickly with HIT and HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) but we need a lot more study to confirm that they are genuinely 'better for health'. At the moment, they're just a variation...like variations :)
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This seems to be a common misconception about the interplay of copyright and GPL style licenses. Since they own the copyright, they can relicence it however they choose. The GPL and other open source licenses just give non-copyright holders additional rights beyond what copyright law provide (which for most works is nothing beyond a bit of fair-use). In that way the GPL is a clever hack of copyright, since it relies on the default of no-rights granted by copyright to enforce its terms.
Informative article elithrar - thanks!. Wondering why appContext was used instead of goji's Context/environment object ?
Does not a context struct that holds all the handler dependencies makes the code harder to ponder and test(because the dependencies of a component would be unclear).

Wondering whether testing/debugging would be a little less complex if we create separate handler-groups/components? That would make the main() very verbose with all the wiring - (one of the things the inject lib tries to solve).

From what i understand there seems to be two line of thoughts.

#1) Being verbose is good - Components whose constructors take all of their dependencies are simple to reason about and straightforward to test

#2) When there are several binaries that share libraries - allocating memory, and wiring up the object graph becomes mundane and repetitive. Solving this by using a DI library like inject that doesn't add run-time overhead would be good. This doesn't have to happen at the cost of being difficult to test/reason-out.

Guess each might have it's own place.
It depends on what we mean by "temperature".

If we think that temperature is a measure of how much the atoms move around then it is not possible to have less than zero movement.

But if we think temperature as related to the ratio of how much a system's entropy changes when a certain amount of energy is added (or removed) to the system [1],

1/T = dS/dq

then it's possible to construct systems with a negative T.

[1] Eqs. 8–10 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature#Second_law_of_therm...
Overzealous means - we got a guy, now we must find the crime that fits him best.
Ah! Great idea but is this manually curated? I'd see it as a great alternative to medium's machine telling me what to read next.
Because I tried...
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This meandering, arty-sounding essay was interesting despite not being very rigorously argued. I'm only surprised the author didn't mention that Geoffrey Hinton, a major figure in neural networks, is a descendant of Boole. Maybe he wasn't aware of the connection.
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Samwer?
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Back then scientists didn't have a model for what is inside an atom though, while we do have a model for what is inside a proton.
>in a quite short time

Almost 10 years, the same as YouTube.
I get that part, but how does that work when other people also contribute changes for which they own the copyright and which are also AGPL licensed, but then to the Aerospike devs?
There is a key... although they should use tooltips so that when you scroll the key out of view you can still tell which dot is which but rolling over them
Azure Websites (free level) is also an option: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-sites/

The free level only allows "azurewebsites.net subdomain with FTP/S and SSL".

If you want a custom domain name in Azure Websites, then you need to pay for the "shared" level (at least) and in my opinion the price goes over what any standard hosting company would charge:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

1 site, 2GB bandwidth = $9.68/mo!!
A team isn't always 100% developers.
Campus london is a good place to hangout, but you need to get there quite early to get a space in the cafe as it gets busy and therefore can also be quite noisy.
The effects are pretty cool, but I can't help but wonder how much better it would be if done with a bit of intention and knowledge of what these algorithms are actually doing.

"We found that while the raw data makes no music, the waveforms share patterns"

Its not that surprising, since music is frequency based while pictures are spatially based. I expect you could get something that sounded like music from a picture if you did some Fourier-transform filtering before with different interval domains (different sizes of 'chunks' being converted to frequencies).
While its interesting to theorize about databases and AGPL, I am rather sure there hasn't been any actually case or a legal reason to think that the database would become a derivative work when used together with a webserver.

If it was, the EULA for SQL server and oracle would have to include copyright permission for derivative works. That we do not see that should be a clear sign that the scope of copyright has not reached that far yet.
Yes, I pick what stories I think are interesting and then I try to find a good quote in that story for the reader to have more information before clicking the link.
Playing Civilization V?
Thanks. I found a 3-part tutorial at http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/mojolicious/
Uber is a hoax
I would imagine it is highly dependent on the model of wind turbine. The window of operation like varies widely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_61400

I would imagine that high wind rating turbines are more expensive.
If only advertisers were honest partners who don't try to trick you into buying subpar products (i.e. crap) you don't want... What they call "real relationship" should be called "abusive relationship".
At least with Chrome you can install the Daltonize! plugin. That plugin even has a "simulation" mode to help color-visible to see how your page looks like to (some of) the colorblind out there.
The police has no agreement with the telcos, in the contrary, IMSI catchers ('Stingrays') are a convenient way for lawful interception without involvement of telcos. From a telco's perspective, IMSI catchers kind of hack their network. In any case, you can build your own IMSI catcher, German hackers – among others – published instructions already years ago.
50% to 66%? You never see such massive conversion rates in anything on the web. It would be closer to 3% to 5%. That leaves $250,000 per year. Most of those 500,000 subreddits are not overly active. 450,000 of those are so unused they're not even candidates for subscriptions.

In the process, that tiny $250k you yield, would destroy Reddit by shutting down at least 95% of all subreddits.
> For the time being, I've been using Visa Signature Concierge for tasks

Could you explain that a bit more? I have a couple Visa Signature cards, but always thought the Concierge service must be some sort of scam or ripoff. What are some examples of things you've gotten them to do? (When making purchases, do they charge a premium/commission?)
IMSI catchers ('Stingrays') are indeed detectable, an example is the 'Android IMSI-Catcher Detector (AIMSICD)' project:

http://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/
Are these figures net of both the App Store's cut and paid ads?
Berlin has a nice trick for this. Trees, lots of trees lining every street. They do a terrific job dampening the street noises, as well as provide shade during the hot summer months.
Discovered this a few yeas ago when I wondered about the meaning of this sign in Dublin -> https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/10601153425/
Because you might want to leave some money behind for your family if you happen to die too soon.

Regardless, advertisers won't "inform" you about the best life insurance for you, they'll lie to make you stop thinking and trick you into buying their life insurance, which most likely will be subpar. Good products tend to advertise themselves.
It's called 'Ciphering Indication Feature' – and can be suppressed on the network side … so you can assume that an IMSI catcher ('Stingray') will not let your mobile know that it is using no or weak encryption.
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What is the difference between this and a medium collection then? Just the UI?
It is accessible from browser (and is fast, on par with JSON), it has rich set of basic types + extensibility built in
I suspect that better sounds could be made from images if the data was treated as if it were in frequency domain instead of time domain, because then some filtering could make more sense. This could open up some more possibilities, such as even transforming color distribution data into musical notes (I wonder if nice-looking color chords can be transformed into nice-sounding musical chords).

This is very interesting, and I love both coding and music, so I guess I'll get on making something like that :)
IDA Pro running on Windows can connect to GDB server running on Linux, even to embedded platforms like ARM/MIPS.
Existing libraries around modern web frameworks sure do have a unicorn obsession.
Full interception and not 'only' the collection of metadata is possible. IMSI catchers can also be used to block mobile phone usage in an area or send SMS to users in an area (for example to participants in a demonstrations, already done in the Ukraine).

Without full interception, a hidden ID check is IMHO a good analogy: Instead of stopping all persons in an area in order to ask them for their IDs, you collect meta data on all mobile phones and use these data to identify the persons in the area.
>It makes me wonder if in the future there might be false convictions based on DNA evidence, and not from chimeras or inaccurate testing. DNA found at a crime scene has basically come to mean that person is guilty in the public mind (thanks CSI). Even though it's unlikely, it's possible to get some DNA on someone you're near in public who then gets murdered

Unlikely? It's very likely. We interact with tons of people each day. Also consider cases were the DNA is from a person close to the victim, but who isn't the murderer. Perhaps a friend came by the house and then left, and another came in and did the murder. Or a person sleeps with someone (perhaps an one-night-stand) and then is murdered, say by a jealous partner. The DNA could be from an interaction previous to the murder.

And of course, if the police is "sure" they have the suspect (like they often are, especially is he's say black or poor or something like that), they would also consider it "OK" to plant some DNA obtained for him to be "discovered" in the murder scene. Police has been found (in court) pulling such shit with falsified evidence) for decades.
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If say I want to build a web application and new to Ruby, Python and Perl. But I want to use one of the RoR, Flask (or Django), Mojolicious. Which one should I go for. I.e. either one it had some advantage than other ? Rather, I know Python so I should go for Flask, argument.
You're looking for MetaSynth (http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php) or one of a variety of other similar tools.
Side note: You actually need permission to use pictures of the Eiffel Tower if it is illuminated. In other words "it is no longer legal to publish contemporary photographs of the tower at night without permission in France and some other countries."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower#Image_copyright_c...
Not all small businesses are intended to be sustainable. Let's say I start a company in order to bill my freelance clients, but 2 years later I get a job and shut down the company (which never had recurring revenue as I was just selling my own services). That would show up in those figures.

So would a company which was set up to operate, say, a restaurant. If the company sold the assets (lease, fixtures & fittings etc.) to another individual or company, so that the owner could move to another country or start and run a different business, that would also look like a small business failure, even if the guy lived well for those years and came out on top before moving on.
I used to this like this but honestly once an editor like vim or emacs becomes second nature, typing and editing and moving text around the screen feels a lot smoother and make programming more enjoyable.

But I still don't think "you might have to use a machine that only has vim installed and not your preferred editor!" is a good reason to spend time mastering how to use it (which is what I often hear). If you prefer emacs or sublime or whatever, use it, and just put up with vim if you're on this hypothetical scenario where they're not available.
It's similar in that both link to stories but medium only links to stories that are on their website while storylike can link to a story on any website.
If you liked that, you'll love 'All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace'.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120522154154/http://archive...
There are tooltips, at least in the form of alt tags.
Blog author here, let me know if you have questions! :D
Usually the way it works is the company requires copyright assignment to them.
I think everyone can see colors, even color "blind" people. Those folks just have a hard time distinguishing between shades of particular colors.

I don't think anyone's literally living in greyscale.
HN is still startup focused. But now, added to that we have an insight ranging from astrophysics, biology, rocketry, craft, art, lifestyle... all tied by one magic word "HACKER". Its a good thing and you must appreciate it.
Again, an alternative example from the database vendors. Please, display some critical thinking.
Istanbul has some problems that has forced it to spread around... Being in between two seas with the Bosporus strait in the middle takes a lot of directions for growth away. And most of the "traditional city" areas are so full of archeological sites that you can't really build much there.

Those areas are quite lovely to live in, though. I really enjoyed Besiktas and Beyoglu back when I lived there
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There are enough coffee shops around Shoreditch with good. wifi and power sockets.

I'd recommend Guardian Coffee and the Ace Hotel.
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My friends developed this website http://www.tower10.com/ which aggregates coworking spaces and offices in Shoreditch.
Ask HN: As a student, what should I spend my time on?
I'm currently studying Computer Science and I work part time as a Web Developer. Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is what things I should be focusing on now to set myself up best for life after I graduate. I always feel like I should be doing more - working on other side projects, etc.

So those of HN that have graduated and gone on to various careers - what advice would you give to someone still studying? What things should I be spending my time on? Should I focus on my own projects full time while I'm still young?
Even seems to have some rudimentary component-entity architecture. Not bad.
Was this written by a computer?
What we learned from forgetting the 'M' in MVP
I love this article.

But honestly, I think we make an important and incorrect assumption- we try to revolutionise by evolution.

Why put smartphones on your wrist or your head and call it a revolution? Why make an app that is a Tinder or a Wikipedia or a Google for something else and call it a revolution?

The real revolutions are going to be things that havent been thought of yet, in any manner. In the meanwhile, we have this hyper-accelerated evolution- lets focus on lowering the barriers for entry...
In the former study, if you read it carefully, Aerospike were essentially able to choose the hardware for the test.

"Anyway, the code is free to install, it's easy enough to validate the speed claims"

So why don't you do so and come back with your own results that can at least pretend to be neutral instead of spreading empty hype around here?
I think it would've been more interesting to apply a fourier transformation to the image, convert that to audio, and apply the wah-wah (which is essentially just a low-pass filter) to that.
Unless you're planning to raise very substantial amounts of money, advertising might not be the most effective tactic. It's worth perhaps playing with, but not doing more until you've seen it work. You're a small business. You've got a highly unsegmented market. In unsegmented markets, advertising is mostly about brand building. That works well if you're Coca-Cola, but much less well for small start-ups.

Word-of-mouth can work well, but you've got to understand your customers, the networks, and the levers you can tweak to change rate-of-growth. I was suggesting price/quality/margin as one of those levers -- you want to be appealing to as many customers within your customers' networks -- but there may be others if that one is unappealing.
Ask HN: Popups to capture emails?
Hi HN!

A lot of wordpress website have popups to ask for emails address. Sometimes they appear at the center of the screen after some reading, and sometimes it's in the bottom right corner.

I'd like to do the same for my website, which is custom built. Do you know which free plugin / service should I use? I'm just looking for the popup, not the email integration.

All my google search so far have only showed me wordpress plugins.

Thanks!
This happens quite a bit. I took a nice photo of the Asahi building[0] in Tokyo and tried to add it to Wikipedia, only to be told that the gold embellishment on top was considered sculpture under Japanese law and therefore subject to copyright and not permissible on Wikimedia.

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=asahi%20build...
I don't think I have to. You've said enough yourself a few posts down:

> I'll be honest, I wasn't even aware dress shirts were sold at Walmart.
Great list. Very useful.

The info box renders halfway off the screen in Safari 7.0.5
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I was responding to:

> Shit, my ex-wife would pay $150-$200 for what I'd consider to be a basic blouse without even flinching.

That's a different persona than the sort of person who buys 1-3 nice shirts and takes care of them.
I run Techspace London (http://techspace.co). We have coworking spaces for tech startups near the Old Street roundabout. Contact me through the website - we can probably accommodate you for a couple of days.
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hi;

I had this idea a couple of days ago to create a website with an overview of all available co working spaces in my area. After some browsing on google I soon find out that my idea is not that quite original.

But on the other hand, i would add these two features on my site, would you use them if a site like this would exist?

feature 1:
The possibility to actually book an available co working space in the area. (Not just an inventory of spaces, but also a reservation system)

Feature 2:
The possibility to rent out your own personal space to people in search for co working spaces. Just like airbnb, but for offices.

What do you think?

Thanks!
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IMO his best work is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares is good too. All of it is pretty great, if you don't mind the slightly agitprop-ish style.

EDIT: this definitely isnt his best work though.
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Why don't we create a rosetta stone variant ourselves? Put up the same text in the world's current major languages, I'd be curious to see if it would be really undecryptable. Plus, we might be doing future historians a big favour.
The 22k tests where like screening tests, but for this suspect they were repeated and confirmed many times and using different traces from different parts of the victim's body. Thus, statistical errors in a single test repeated 22k do not count here.
You think that is bad? How would you like this type of Android/Windows Phone reviews: "It's a good game, would give it 5 star if it was free :)))))"?
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> Informative article elithrar - thanks!. Wondering why appContext was used instead of goji's Context/environment object ? Does not a context struct that holds all the handler dependencies makes the code harder to ponder and test (because the dependencies of a component would be unclear).

Goji's context is a request context, and only exists for the lifetime of the request. Re-populating it at the beginning of every request would be a significant amount of overhead, and it's ultimately not designed for "life-of-application" variables. Request contexts like Goji's (or gorilla/context) are best used for passing short-lived data between middleware/handlers.

You could ultimately create a series of smaller structs, but you would need a ton of types (and repetitive code) that satisfy http.Handler to achieve that.

Memory allocation with this approach is minimal: you're only passing a struct pointer around once per request, which is about as good as it gets (better than a closure).

Testing with this approach is also straightforward: you can populate the appContext instance with your test sessions|database|etc when running tests, and your handlers operate as if they've been passed the real thing.

I've considered splitting out my handlers into a `handlers` package and the appContext struct/config structs into a `conf` package that handlers imports (and main initialises), and that's probably something I'll do in the near future since it's an easy change.

It's certainly not the one way/single best way to do things, but I've found that aligning to interfaces (like http.Handler) and leaning on structs as much as possible helps keeps things easier to reason and mock out later.
Maybe, maybe not.

Would you design an Air Traffic Control console for your mother ?
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I'm stuck on the freaking 35, I just want to finish this and go eat something, any tip for the level?