skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion that I hold, but I don't feel that it is the company's responsibility to dictate to their users how they should use the company's product (within reason, of course). Now, bullying and cyberbullying are a serious problem, and there's no doubt about that. However, cyberbullying doesn't occur because apps like Secret exist; there are other forces at play here.

Now, should companies like Secret ENABLE cyberbullying to happen? Of course not! But should they sensor what goes up onto their service? I don't think so. There are features which they can implement (if they haven't already) which can be used to allow users to flag certain content as being abusive, and repeat offenders can be permabanned. That seems like a more appropriate course of action from Secret, instead of sensoring what their users put up on their service, which is what many critics seems to be advocating for.

Now, I haven't used Secret in a very long time (doesn't seem all that popular with my group of friends), but I'm fairly certain that they provide users the ability to flag inappropriate content. I could be wrong, of course, and I'm open correction on this.
what distinguish notebox from other note app, says Simplenote?
If you're allowed to place the ferns, why not simply hide microphones in them?
Wow are they a bunch of wet blankets. There is no more risk of EE having security issues than any other code. EE code is generally small (miniscule). Lots of rhetoric in that link, but almost nothing meaningful but 'we want to be taken seriously'.
I'm testing it out and it seems pretty legit if you need a big, big key value store and don't want to wrangle redis or memcached shards.

Non-Java drivers are a bit behind, but nothing seems to have the same 95%tile latency, fast failover, SSD performance for actual read loads, and relatively easy scale out.
Because microphones can be detected. When ferns are detected, they are assumed to be innocuous.
Very bad intro for the main article, because apparently Gaiman doesn't realise that American Airlines is 'not his bitch' either, and similarly he has no right to be outraged that his laptop didn't plug into their power adaptors.

I'm actually a bit sad that Gaiman went with "is not letting you down" rather than "is letting you down, but seriously, it's not that big a deal". If you build an audience with an expectation, and you don't see it through, you've let them down. That doesn't give the audience the right to do anything nasty to you, but you have disappointed them.

If you, as a writer, have stated an intention to make a series of X length, but any of the Life things that Gaiman mentions happen and you fail to complete it, that's fair enough. Life happens. But you've failed to see through on your commitment - that's a disappointment to people that wanted to see it through. It's not the end of the world - those people don't lose their jobs or their cats or whatever - but it's still a let-down.

The final moral of the story really should have been "So what, move on, Life happens", rather than implying that the questioner is a bad person for expecting someone to see through on something that they said they'd do.
"intelligible speech", are you sure that speech recognition really requires whole frequency range? Often it seems that data can be extracted after all, even if most of it is missing.
They do have a "call us" for small business.
yep when you will do that you'll be one of the best tool for CM ... :)

And for the export of the data as inbox or etc ....

Why not a paid api ? Instead of having an offline version i could build mine on the top of your.
Just calling your api.

Like 10$ or 20$ per month for accessing the api.

This is my need only i don't garantee that i could be a viable business model (i am not sure that cm need that).

Regards
Potato Salad: By the Numbers
Show HN: Lesson.ly, the anti-LMS
Yep! I plan on sharing everything I find. There is a mailing list on my site if you want to keep track.
True. I remember people getting angry at the TrueCrypt guy(?) for daring to quit.
They are Christian medical professionals who gave up well above average salaries in the United States to provide medical care to people who otherwise may not have had access to it.

I can't even begin to wrap my mind around you asking if they had the right to be there. They weren't there on vacation, they felt an obligation to assist those in need who they were uniquely qualified to help.
One thing Haxe does well here is provide structural typing, effectively letting you declare the result of a deserialization process in type form.

This isn't perfect... you still need to know in advance what kinds of object structures are possible, but generally this isn't too much to ask (e.g. relying on a server api to provide consistent records).

The next catch is that you can't treat these structural type results like typical classes. E.g., you can't have methods, getter/setter logic, etc. However, you can attach relevant methods with a special mixin directive (that does not alter the runtime object).

In this way, I have a pretty good way of providing a robust description of server responses in terms of type information, and a good way of loosely binding these responses to relevant methods.
Microsoft is slowly catching up with BSD...

http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
IntelliJ does SQL completion quite nicely based on a connection it can make with your DB: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/database_tools.html
I'm in Melbourne, Australia. We have heaps and heaps of cafes here. We are known for our cafe culture. I can actually think of some that fill up, but there are still plenty where you could always reasonably expect a spare seat.

I remember the Starbucks at Shibuya Crossing was mind-blowingly packed.

I think that my argument assumes that you've chosen a cafe with consideration for whether they tend to run out of seats or not.

(Incidentally, I am relocating to Tokyo from Melbourne in a month or twos time. Any tips for me? Any little-known treasures in Japan that I should check out?)
I've put so many hours into ASCII and text based games. There is just so much more of a world that can be created with the same resources if you limit the interface to a minimum. And the same as with books, it's just so much more fulfilling to use your own fantasy to draw the scenes.
Almost certainly some government or massive corp forced them to stop for regulatory reasons of some kind.
The backprop idea is one instance of a general idea called reverse accumulation (which you can use in other contexts): http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/07/gradients-via-reverse...
We use it pretty extensively at Spotify. Google will turn up a handful of public talks we've given about it.
I know the point of this post is to show how a non-technical person learned to code enough to build iphone apps in 12 weeks, but I'm really, really excited about "Wired In." Well done.
Erlang Solutions acquires Inaka
While I agree with the comments with respect to GRRM, I can't let Patrick Rothfuss off the hook.

I started reading the Kingkiller Chronicle with the understanding that he had already finished the books, and would be releasing them each year for three years. Now that he's blown each deadline by a couple years, I'm a lil' salty.

Was I incorrect to infer some light social contract there?
> Second alternative: throw receipt away

What?!? In the UK Inland revenue can demand your receipts for the past 7 years. To say that you've thrown them away is a great way to ensure you get a very thorough investigation.
Thanks Austen. I'm excited to be working on it.
I don't think Gaiman is simply pointing out that there is no contractual resource, I think he's pointing out, in part at least, that there's no point in trying to hold someone in a creative endeavor to a commitment of this type, at least not if you don't want the quality to suffer as the process simply doesn't work like that.

People in technology are very keen to point out when people don't understand how our processes work and when they're asking us to work in ways which are counter productive. This feels to me like a writer doing the same, essentially saying, I understand what you want, but please understand that the way you want it to work isn't going to get you the result you want.
You miss one point - companies with more than 3 employees can't buy the indie plan anyway so they lose nothing.

If I was Xamarin I would have made the Indie plan much cheaper, in order to grow the ecosystem, because that is their biggest weakness right now. They are already at a no brainer for companies, but lacking an ecosystem they may end up like Delphi.

Of course I have also been arguing to everybody who wants to listen that MS should by Xamarin as an investment in their mobile business.
Ask HN: How do you transfer money internationally?
I'm an independent developer living living Canada with some clients in the US. I am paid monthly by cheque in $US and I am looking for the most cost effective way of converting that money to $CAD.

I'm interested in hearing about banks, brokers or even using something like bit coin as a means of currency exchange.
The author has no FORMAL contract, but there is certainly an expectation that a series will be finished at some point. It is certainly the case that when someone purchases one of a series of works, unless it is of a nature that it's expected to continue indefinitely (E.G. any given Marvel comic for example) people generally expect that at some point in the future the series will conclude. At a bare minimum they expect the current story arc to be resolved in something approaching a satisfactory way (for varying values of satisfactory).

Importantly there is no guarantee of when precisely that conclusion will be provided, or truly a guarantee it will be provided at all, but there is certainly the expectation. Further once an author has set a known "pace" to his writing people tend to expect him to continue that pace (rightly so or not), so when he massively deviates from that pace people tend to take notice. E.G. if an author were to publish 3 books in a series, one every year, and then suddenly go 4 or 5 years before publishing the next book in the series people would most likely be very angry with that author (wrongly or not, it's more a question of human nature).

So no, while the author is not in fact their "bitch" as Neil Gaiman puts it, there is a certain expectation on both sides, namely the audience expects the work to be concluded at some point in the future and for work to be released at something approaching a regular schedule, while the author should then also have the reasonable expectation that those purchasing his books will continue to do so in the future. Generally both parties end up with their expectations largely met, and things work out for everyone.
There's no difference; you're still entirely at the mercy of the producer of the artwork. You pay your money with that understanding upfront (or you should, at least). Sure, vet your artist a little for their track record. All you're doing is paying in advance, if you're confident they'll produce. If you're not confident, don't back them!
This is a very welcome read but it hypes neural networks a bit. I've been working with in JavaScript using IndexedDB and while researching I was disappointed to find that some smart people seem to think they are much more limited than made out to be here and elsewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M#t=242

To summarize, people generally abandoned backpropigation trained neural networks for Support Vector Machines because neural nets require labeled and limited datasets, and work slowly and especially so when dealing with multiple layers which is sort of the whole point.

In my work in JavaScript, I was able to pull off only a single layer perceptron and it is neat but limited in what it can model.
Have you tested what we're shipping this evening?

No, but I'm already using "industry best practices".
Nginx 1.6.1 released, fixes STARTTLS vulnerability
I'll be on the lookout for these items in the evaluation results. Thanks!
Who did he promise?
OK! Sorry for pointing it out. I was afraid it was some "prosumer" new thing I hadn't heard of.
Sure, if that piece of work is completely predictable, and no rocks fall on you. But shit happens, and project management is still a dark art in many other ways.
I've done pretty well with GoodReads as a source for finding new reading - I basically don't watch TV and read instead when I'm not at the computer.

Most books I've read don't stand up to George R. R. Martin's work, but I enjoy light fantasy too :) (including young adult fantasy which is not what you're looking for, I guess).

I endorse most recommendations in this thread, but, trying to find some epic world-plotting, I'd go for:

- The Kingkiller Chronicles (Patrick Rothfuss), best new books I've read

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_W...

- Anything by Brandon Sanderson, I enjoyed the Mistborn Trilogy and am currently awaiting the next book in his Way of King Series (which promises to be a big epic)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7235533-the-way-of-kings

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68428.Mistborn

The Malazan series grew on me, I understood very little about the series' world by the time I read the first book, I think it's by design. Not as enjoyable as the other suggestions but lots of reading and a big, interesting world:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55399.Gardens_of_the_Moo...

I did NOT enjoy, but have read good reviews by renowned authors, this series:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60211.The_Shadow_of_the_...

I have this one in a big, fat tome sold by Amazon, it was an enjoyable read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5367.The_Great_Book_of_A...

Here's my (incomplete) already-read list

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/8478509-gustavo?shelf=...

I'm VERY lenient with my ratings, if I enjoyed it it usually gets 5 stars.
I think part of the difference there is that you haven't pre-purchased GRRM's next book. Maybe you're good friends with your local bookshop, and they've agreed to put a copy aside for you when it comes out, but that deal hasn't made it up to him.

To use Gaimen's terminology, GRRM may be his publisher's "bitch", but at this level of success they're probably pretty happy to have him. His contract may in fact say "when it's done" rather than "June 3, 2014, minimum 20,000 words, and someone the readers love must die".
I've been in .mil and .com and with at will employment at least in the more regulated industries its the same outcomes. Whats really different is the formality level.

So if your .com boss decides to fire you for being a dirty hippie, you pretty much get walked out and that's it. More likely they would make up a bunch of B.S. to "prove" your inadequacy so they don't have to pay severance or unemployment claims.

In .mil its surprisingly similar but much more formal. UCMJ article 15 punishments, some written formal counseling, courtmartial trial, yes you can get downsized in the .mil by reorgs making your slot coincidentally happen to disappear, its all very complicated and ritualistic but basically does the same thing as .com.

You only go to jail in .mil if you more or less want to. There are always alternatives that are generally easier than "just say no". Its vaguely similar to .com life in that telling your boss "no" is much more likely to get you fired than explaining "yes, but ...". Along with the traditional homer simpson move of just go to work and retire in place or monkey wrench stuff.

One difference is transferring is much easier and much more uniform in .mil if you have a bad boss than in .com where that may range from no-problemo to impossible without a career death penalty being assessed but usually on average much harder in .com world.
More details about the making of the game, please!
We are using the host networking for the services currently on Docker. Load balancer and primary API endpoints are all running outside of Docker so there isn't a huge networking load for us with Docker.
I liked Island in the Sea of Time, which is supposedly set on the other side of the same "Emberverse." But I got really tired of the other novels in that universe after a while (both the Nantucket and the Dies the Fire branches). Which is frankly my general take on the vast majority of science fiction and fantasy series. I get why they're appealing to both many authors and many readers but I often wonder if the genre wouldn't be better if it had more standalone novels or at least shorter series.
tl;dr: Nobody should be using browser detection anymore. That's why feature detection libraries such as Modernizr exist.
If this is something that commodity hardware is now capable of, a total surveillance society is now very cost-effective.

Is the stability required from the camera a dealbreaker when it comes to outdoor mounted cameras in moving air, or would it be pretty easy to algorithmically filter that out? i.e. are winds and drafts predictable enough that they could be removed accurately enough for smaller vibrations to remain?
This sounds similar to OneReceipt[1].

Were you aware of OneReceipt? Will this app be better, different, etc.?

[1] https://www.onereceipt.com
My alternative:
1. Toss receipts into a file folder per month. Time: <5 seconds per receipt.
2. At tax time, go through receipts and pull out tax related ones. Time: 30-45 minutes.
Total time spent: an order of magnitude less than imaging/uploading receipts over the year.
Security: never leaves your house.
Cost: 12 file folders.
Additional benefit: easy to find receipts by month for returns or disputes. Don't have to reprint receipts.
I would suggest Glen Cook's Black company series[1] It is written from the perspective of mercenary grunts, so they are no "heroes" in the usual sense since they are not always hired by the good guys (and it is hard to real divide the world between good and bad, it is more a greyish blur). It also has the kind of gritty feeling of ASOFAI, at least in the first books. I won't spoil anything by saying that most characters are pretty expendables, the body count is rather high.

It is fantasy but without the usual dwarves, elves or dragons, but there are much more magic than in Georges R.R. Martin and it is sometimes used as deus ex machina, and is a bit over top for my taste. (However in an interesting twist the black company has only a handful of not very powerful wizards, and since they can't overpower the enemy though sheer power, their magic use is basically used as form of advanced misdirection or psyops)

I would say that the writing is a bit simpler and the characters are a bit less fleshed out than in ASOFAI, but the pace is pretty riveting as well. From my recollection, it reads more like a mystery novel, most events do not make immediately sense, and you are trying to find out who is really pulling the strings behind the scene. On the plus side, even if it is long, I think the story is more focused and go less astray than ASOFAI. (I enjoyed GRR Martin books, but sometimes it feels like he can't help adding new characters or subplots for no particular good reason)

IIRC it is/was pretty popular amongst soldiers stationed overseas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cook#The_Black_Company

PS : If I was a television exec, I would try to secure the rights for a TV adaptation ASAP. I am not sure it would work as well as GoT, but it could be a very palatable successor.
Fexl is a functional programming language. I used the term "functional evaluation" because Fexl evaluates functions.

Here are a few code samples:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer#Fexl

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence#Fexl

http://fexl.com/sample/

This one's a bit more involved:

http://fexl.com/demo/

You'll also find some code samples in the "test" directory:

https://github.com/chkoreff/Fexl/tree/master/src/test

The program a1.fxl there is the definitive test suite. The program a2.fxl reads what you type and echoes it back.

The samples above should help illustrate the nature of the language. Grammatically, it's very simple:

http://fexl.com/grammar/

For another quick illustration of the language, I'll give you a sample here:

say "Hello"
\x=(* 4.7 8.6)
put "x = " put x nl

The output is:

Hello
x = 40.42
The best strategy I (German) use with Chinese friends is giving money to one person in Germany and letting a family member of them transfer the corresponding amount inside China. This way you can save on most of the fees and your ability to transfer money basically gets down to how much Guanxi (relationship value) you have.
Lots of number crunching. There are very simple transfers they could do like the Hohmann transfer. Realistically, the mass of the comet is so small, and conservation of fuel is so important that they are probably doing a significantly more complicated transfer that utilizes the gravity of other orbital bodies to slingshot the lander. Some wikipedia pages you may find interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem

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

Ideally they would have an orbit that would have a really low intercept velocity, so the deceleration burns would require the least amount of fuel possible. Once they get close, they burn to get into a stable orbit around the comet. I found one article covering the math behind the deceleration orbit:

http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2014/08/04/rosetta-first-missio...
Feedbag.io – A lightweight design collaboration tool
Or it could end up being more like cereal.

Yet, in other fields—like cereals, for example—almost all the big boys make out. If you're some kind of a medium grade cereal maker, you might make 15% on your capital. And if you're really good, you might make 40%. But why are cereals so profitable—despite the fact that it looks to me like they're competing like crazy with promotions, coupons and everything else? I don't fully understand it.

http://old.ycombinator.com/munger.html
quick sketch:
http://try.haxe.org/#db206

I can't show the "using" method directly here since the two classes need to be in separate files... but I'm giving an example of what it would look like.
Would like to see some screenshots on the frontpage. I don't want to give access to my social profiles if I can't actually see what benefits something gives me (text just doesn't cut it)
Caleb did a great job in the iOS class. Super impressed with what he's built and how far he's come.
Have you taken a look at BookVibe? [ http://www.bookvibe.com/ ]
Actually passing the exception is not required. Even if "e" is not an argument to BarException, the behaviour is the same.
Can Birds Lose Their Minds?
Which is probably great for your audience, but isn't right for me. That said, I'm probably one of the worst customers for a social app—I'm cheap and I derive only a little bit of value from social networking/marketing.

What I get from Circular.io (and Stacker doesn't seem to offer in the free plan?) is the ability to schedule posts for X twitter accounts (currently, X = 8).
Had the same thought. Puppet code was bad and no one knew Puppet. Seems like a fine reason to move. But could be the other way around. Could be Ansible code is bad, no one knows it, lets move to Puppet!
Redis for us almost operates as a set of application servers. We push a great deal of logic into Lua that we compile so that tons of back and forth operations aren't necessary. This also limits the data sent back to the API servers since only the structures needed are sent back.

We're rather coupled with Redis as a result with much of the application logic in Lua and our data structure designed around Redis structure types and commands.
> Simple is better than complex.

I think Python exceptions are verbose enough, not necessary to make it more verbose, more complicated.
If one hasn't read the Sherlock Holmes series you are in for a treat. That is some really good and riveting writing.
"non-technical".
Thanks Stuart. Love reading your updates.
Dear Google, I am writing an open letter from the search wilderness