skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim,

1) Just sent a refund and fixed the discount so it now will apply.
2) I think that is great feedback. I will work on implementing that tonight. When you hit submit, it's saved, but I will provide the functionality to edit it as well so you can have a partially completed application.
Show HN: Grav, an Open Source Flat-File CMS
Ask is the default page for any posts without a URL.
Please an API please.
For those too lazy to read the article: Boötes void.

Love those graphics of the filaments and voids of the universe. Like bread or cake as it bakes and clumps around bubbles.

These scales are mind-blowing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament
1 - complexity

P2P is just hard, and not that pertinent for most products. And of course there is the network issue with special ports, UDP that makes these solutions sometimes impossible to deploy in the enterprise world.
Great service, I will surely use you within 3 months!
That's a good question. It's one of those things that I remember being complicated, but when I look over my configuration, it seems pretty damn straightforward. I guess the fact that Channels and Groups share a namespace irritated me?

Anyway. It's a great piece of invisible, blue-collar software.
Well, the wikipedia article suggested that it was because they believed she was responsible for Orestes's "unwillingness to reconcile with Cyril". That suggests they were provoked by the content of whatever she was saying to Orestes so if it had been for anything mathematical or philosophical, it was not recorded that way but I don't think there is a lot of evidence to go that route.

Here is a blog post by a historian about a movie that dealt with the subject, if you have the patience to read through it all.
http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia...
I wonder how much it would cost in licensing to run an Oracle DB on that kind of hardware.
First Oculus Rift Surgery
It's the difference between int(0), None, and undefined :)
I'm sorry to hear that. My wife has a rare brain disease and unfortunately, it's something she's all too familiar with. If it's happening to you without corresponding migraines (or even with), see a neurologist, there may be something wrong. Her neurologist regularly sends her for opthalmologist exams just in case and they never find anything wrong.
We have just published the first footage of a surgical operation made specifically for the Oculus Rift : this is one of the many examples of what the Oculus Rift could bring to medecine by democratizing Virtual Reality.
If they entirely cut us off from the internet by bricking our routers, maybe we would declare war.

GP said it would be an act of war. That definition doesn't mean the victim has to declare war on the aggressor, does it?

I feel inclined to agree with other comments saying this boils down to childish morality: "everyone else is doing it."

If you're not intending to make any sort of moral argument, but simply one of consistency in policy, then consider that people are taking issue with their NSA committing an "act of war" on a volatile country they are not at war with. It's different than some friendly mutual hacking with, say, France. What gives NSA the right to make that call and hope it doesn't blow up in the entire nation's face? And if it was sanctioned "from on high", we can still be angry that our elected officials and their appointees would do such a thing.
Backpack: Earn money delivering things while you travel
I'm considering doing just that. I already have most of it done in fact... It's the engine behind this:

https://www.zerotier.com/

It does most of the things I listed. The remainder would be a matter of proper packaging and integration with mobile OSes for the mobile version.

The idea would be to package it with an ultralight IP stack so that each app appeared on a virtual network as an ip endpoint. Servers could join the same virtual networks using the already released software I just linked, and services could just talk standard ip as if they were talking to any other network. No rewrites on the server end needed, and the client may just need to link in a library and call some init functions.

Respecting battery life might be hard, but I see no reason integration with Apple or Google push notification systems couldn't be used to wake the endpoint app when it needs to do something. Idea is that desktop nodes could run in a heavier mode than mobile nodes, with the latter going dormant after a few minutes of inactivity and waking on coarse grained push.

Drop me an email at contact@zerotier.com if you're really interested in this kind of thing. I'm doing some research to see if this is worth building.
Iraq War Crisis : The fate Christians in Iraq | COMBAT FOOTAGE
It's not so much 'Developer ease of use' but 'End user ease of use'.

If end users can't use your product because it's blocked by their firewall then that's going to cause you problems (either in extra support costs, or lost customers).
Agred,but isn't this app about feeling better about yourself?
Probably not. At least not all at the same time. It would be very inconvenient.
Check the thread and see my other reply.
I'd love to see the SPARCStation make a comeback with that thing.
Cheers, fixing now.
The short comment was indeed lacking of usefulness but this one makes sense, talking about discrepancy between what they recommend and what they do for example: "Let Users Explore Before They Commit", I never asked for a Google Plus account, I opened my Gmail and "free gift for you" a G+ account and we will set many actions, shares and notifications ON by default so we can improve our network metrics. This definitely goes against letting me explore before committing.
I think if your in the area or you know tons of people going; it might be worth going. I would't go out of my way to attend.

I went to the one in NYC few years back and it was not a good experience for me. I traveled from Boston and was super excited. Just a big let down.

PG was like a celebrity their. Impossible to get in anything with him. Same with other famous founders. Basically everyone was just circling and try to figure out who to talk to next. Was super awkward.

My takeaways from NYC:

1.) PG looks exactly like his pics and acts the same. It pretty hard to get to talk to him (due to all the people clamoring for his attention).

2.) Some famous YC alum are stuck up. Never met anyone as stuck up as the non-technical reddit co-founder.

3.) Justin Kan is the nicest person. Pure respect for him.

4.) In NYC at least hordes of MBA trolling looking for "technical cofounders". Met a really rude person who actually introduced himself as having an MBA from Harvard.

San Francisco might be different.
This reminds me of musicians, particularly those with perfect pitch, who talk of 'colours' of keys.
While it's not a direct analogy, perhaps one way to think of colour, if you've never seen it before, is to think of different wavelengths of sounds being a bit like different wavelengths of light.
Show HN: A GPS alternative to iBeacon – PinTip
Why not right? GPS technology will improve to within 3 feet by 2016--and why maintain the hardware when GPS is almost ubiquitous? PinTip is currently in Beta release for Android on GooglePlay and we'd like your feedback. To test, join our GooglePlus community here, https://plus.google.com/communities/115586755732147952883.
Bittorrent Sync 1.4 Alpha releases
Poll: What is your #1 productivity killer?
Referring to time that you think would have been productively spent if not for this agent. Productivity refers to whatever you traditionally regard as productive use of your time. Please choose only one option. After voting, upvote the poll in order to increase the sample size.
Obsessing over development process / tools / editors ('fine-tuning' .vimrc or .emacs)
Hacker News / Reddit
Family / Relationships
YouTube / Netflix
Workplace design (open floor plan, etc.)
Office politics and/or meetings
Depression / Lack of interest
Feeling stuck / "coder's block"
Slow internet speed
Tiredness (even after sleeping a reasonable length of time)
Drugs and/or Alcohol
Google does not provide a list of words, phrases, or topics to check for and filter out if you want to stay with AdSense. You just have to guess.

It's not fair for Google to keep the specifics surrounding their content enforcement rules on AdSense secret. The only time a publisher catches a glimpse of what those rules might actually be is when they are already on the verge of being banned for violating them.

This is Google we're talking about. Why can't Google have AdSense analyze the scraped data they already extract from your site on a daily basis, or inject a text content analyzer into the AdSense javascript payload 0.5% of the time to make those browsers report back with a locally-calculated percentage estimation as to whether that page should really be displaying ads at that particular moment, or anything else to programmatically detect that a given page is violating their secret rules, and then automatically disable ads on that page?

Does Google really expect every single one of their human publishers using AdSense on a site with user-generated content (such as articles with comment sections, link aggregator sites with submission queues, forums, interactive drawing boards, chat rooms, etc.) to hire extra hands to monitor all of that user-generated content 24/7, and to only manually whitelist ads on a per-page basis, and to stay forever vigilant and rush to disable the ads as soon as another comment has been posted which might now render the entire page inappropriate?

What I find most ridiculous of all and completely fail to understand is how Google will exert such strong pressure on publishers to censor user-generated content on websites utilizing AdSense, while simultaneously being perfectly happy with placing unskippable 15-second ads on nearly any given YouTube video, ranging from webcam rants containing no less than 20 F-bombs to things so disgusting that I'm concerned articulating them here even euphemistically will result in me being automatically banned from HN. Even if a video contains nothing foul, the comments underneath certainly will most of the time. If anyone tried that with AdSense, they'd be banned within days. How are AdSense publishers supposed to rely on their intuition regarding what they think Google will find acceptable, when the current state of YouTube clearly demonstrates that Google considers almost anything to be acceptable?
It is actively damaging to the community for you to take snipes at studies when the reason you are criticizing the study is not only unnecessary criticism that any layman could provide, it is actually a misinterpretation of the study. You didn't add anything to the discussion.

As for why it is news, a lot of hackers are interested in mental health and mindfulness+meditation specifically and would be interested in more cutting edge news about it, rather than what ends up in the NYTimes 8 months later.
Thanks for the feedback. This is a great community. I would love to have more examples on the site. I have included a fully functional Java client on the code page, and will be looking at Objective-C/Swift as well as your suggestion for JavaScript. Asynchronous-response-capable and HTTPS is the basic requirement...if the XHR works I will post the examples on the site.

Regarding comparisons, the DropFrog emphasis is ephemeral messaging--the API is all about communication/messaging between the connected clients and when there are no more channel participants, the channel is destroyed. I have also toyed with the idea of adding limited persistent storage capability; will be listening to feedback.

The pricing is rock bottom, but designed to be sustainable with the current feature set.
How long will it take for someone to become a drug mule using this service?

"I want these porcelain dolls from this one store in columbia."
What's this thing? Found on the beach on Cape Hatteras, NC
Emily Howell – a computer program that makes beautiful music
I've always found it best to allow the developers the freedom to use whatever they want as the official 'standard' and allow them to self organize into a few de-facto standards. You naturally standardize around better tech and attract better developers while not restricting future innovation.

The one problem with this system is that it can be fairly easy to torpedo when you get new management who sees the lack of rules as a lack of organization. They will then enforce some arbitrary standard and waste a lot of resources figuring out their mistake.
Fabrication by example
You might not have enough data yet but now I'm curious to see a study into the localization sensitivity for various languages.
Check out maidsafe.net - those guys think that the internet should have been designed as peer-to-peer in the first place!
Sometimes you just have to accept that you can't make the perfect-best-greatest choice on everything.

Just go with one. Flip a coin. See how it goes and talk to people. If their experiences sound better then yours, jump ship.
It is sad. There is an expression in Russian, that in English sounds something like "hedgehogs were crying, but kept on chewing the cactus". Best of luck to your team.
Agrees, I would definitely change the examples on the site so that they do not use the imperative form.

It kind of distracts, I have never seen meeting minutes written like that.
I fear we will never get to see Snowden hanged, despite having do endure years of all his internet fanboys swooning over his supposed "sacrifice".
This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation.
Normally, I would agree with you. But let me tell you how I found out about this service. It was not through HN. It was by getting two emails from hidnchat. Five minutes apart. Emails that I am quite confident are not legit. (If you think I'm wrong, then I can post my reasons for saying they are spam.) And since the mail headers look much more legit than what a typical spammer sends, my spam filter did not even catch it. I googled hidnchat and found this HN thread.
Yeah, the brain just prioritizes the right eye. If you concentrate you can perceive the blackness in the left eye. That kinda leads me to wonder if eyes send a signal for black? If not and no signal is interpreted as black by the brain and your eyes are damaged then you would "see" black; even if you can't tell it because you have no point of reference?
Play/Scala.js Demo App
> 2.) Some famous YC alum are stuck up. Never met anyone as stuck up as the non-technical reddit co-founder.

I highly disagree. The "non-technical reddit co-founder" is both humble and awesome -- but if it's the same event I'm thinking, you might have misinterpreted his joke about serving orange-colored kool aid at the event.

Also, June 2014 was the first NYC Startup School. You might be talking about the "YC in NYC" event in September 2011. That was more of a talk by PG about how NYC had overtaken Boston as a clear #2 startup hub, followed by what makes a startup hub work (basically startup and investor density, which creates more chance encounters). Other founders spoke, but those were hiring pitches, not really the same kind of advice talks you get at startup school.
I enjoyed it as well. This definitely feels like his most substantial video to date. It was less fun-fact-filled and quirky than his usual videos; instead, it was more serious/thorough, and focused on a major trend. Really quality stuff.
Show HN: Turn your MySQL database into a beautiful application
Why are all these flat, or NoDB CMS systems coming out? I feel like there has been a recent uptick in the amount of these systems being released.

Personally, I like Kirby 2.
I'm not ashamed. The self control one gains from that challenge makes my confidence rise 100%!
That's why I wrote "or any similar reader".
Thanks for posting this... I can't believe the incident wasn't even called in. St. Louis County asked Ferguson Police Dept about the shooting and were told they are unaware of it.
Right, but that's what's called a "lie" and everyone knows it, hence the question is still seeking an answer. No way did Snowden read hundreds of thousands of documents and decide that all of them were relevant to his personal crusade against whatever it was.
I suppose it is possible you're perceiving the light as a particular color, but if you can only perceive that color you would mistaken it for white?
DVD to Samsung Galaxy S III
Tiredness and Internet distractions for me. I've also found that when I'm tired, I tend to be more likely to slip into more lazy habits like reading HN for an hour at a time.
The exclamation point means that it was a joke, guys. 250 MLY of arrogance is not a joke?
Other: Work.
"There is no upside to us losing influence in a region to a terrorist organisation and then letting them embed themselves as a valid government."

The US and UK never properly seized control in Iraq. We were losing troops on a daily basis. Now we have withdrawn, leaving an entirely predictable power vacuum, things have got so mental that even Iran is collaborating with us, and they are currently the main external force now loosing troops in the area. Also, this new caliphate is completely surrounded by folk who really do not like them. To be honest the whole thing looks like a deliberate trap, that is probably going to be used as a drone proving ground, given the political statements about use of troops.
Atom updates to Chrome 36 and Node 0.11.13
I like how they're adding hardware specifically to speed up databases, to a CPU based on a RISC core; it looks like there is a trend toward more CISC-like hardware, because designers have figured that operations that would've been done in software can be done faster with dedicated hardware.

My experience with using older SPARC servers for testing various things is that they're rather disappointing, both in terms of value and performance - "more cores" seems to be their guiding principle, and while this makes for impressive benchmark results and aggregate numbers, the speed of a single thread is pretty horrible; it's only in specific multithreaded applications that all the resources on the chip can be fully saturated. Meanwhile x86 servers cost far less and can handle different workloads better because per-clock, each core is several times faster.
Whoa that's pretty crazy. It seems the pattern is a 6 being mistaken for an 8 but surprised Xerox didn't release the upgrade when they discovered the issue. Why wait for someone else to call you out on it?
If "Satoshi" was smart enough to write Bitcoin, could "Satoshi" have been smart enough to obfuscate their code writing style?
And you won't get numbers from anyone who owns one, since Oracle expressly prohibit publishing performance figures without permission.
This is a tragedy of the commons argument. It's a nice sentiment, but Amazon doesn't need all that many merchants to sign up to get their data, so they will get the data on your shop, whether you sign up or not.

If you sign up, it's a 1.25% pay rise for 18 months ... Yes eventually technology will eat your lunch, but that's coming independant of your signing up or no.
You mentioned "eye doctors," but have you seen a retina specialist? I've temporarily lost sight twice, but in my case it is like having matte grey construction paper cover part or all of my vision. My retina specialist has found a couple of issues.
It is more than that. In many of the popular imperative languages, any memory modifications are done by the programmer. Not just memory, but sometimes processing capabilities. When things get hidden behind an abstraction over "map", say, suddenly what you thought was a single function call was actually a crapload more.

This is becoming less true, of course. Java getting lambdas hides a TON of places where you just managed to allocate a ton of memory and/or perform a ton of operations.

And note, I do think this downside can be oversold. So, don't take this as a condemnation of "functional" languages and methods. It definitely exists, though.

Granted, I am almost certainly simply infatuated with what is essentially an "anti immutable" algorithm. http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html
There _is_ Google Drive and the likes of Insync? That's $120/yr for 1TB.
Not in the list, but task switching is my #1 productivity killer. It's ten times harder to work three projects at the same time than one.
> ...keep in mind that a USB device can be both, or more...

Fine: let's assume the device can fake being both, or more (which it can), and that my machine will automount any USB mass storage device. (I actually think this is accurate.)

So it automounts the USB mass storage device somewhere… and then what? The machine is still locked, and I presume it would need to run something off that mass storage device to do any real harm, but how would it accomplish that?
Of course Hacker News will "win" this poll, because people who use HN a lot will be the most likely to complete the poll. It'd be interesting to have a poll which removes HN and asks to choose your first among the rest.

Experiment design is hard.
Twitter.

Really though I can get focus whenever I want, I just require 10 minutes of focus upfront in order for me to forget about the internet.
Least popular jobs for big data practitioners – jobs you want to avoid
Marked "drugs" but it is a combination of caffeine and nutrition. For max productivity I need a long stretch with energy and mental calm. Over or under eating creates drowsiness or distracting hunger. Over or under caffeinating is also a problem. The real reason I quit smoking was because I couldn't work for more than four straight hours without the cravings starting to affect my focus.

EDIT: workplace organization and sleep have been problems in the past but not now, thanks to melatonin and a private office.
NY governor signs law to combat illegal ivory trade and protect species
The vague "credits = dollars/pounds" makes me think that the worker is getting under compensated here.
I have to confess I'm basically trolling here. I mean, I hope to get an answer, but my expectations are low. I feel like I'm asking a salesman for why I shouldn't buy their product.

It isn't even that I don't think they have a good product. They certainly do. One need only actually read SICP to realize just how bloody amazing some of these ideas are. (Granted, they didn't use all of the modern names. But they certainly seem to have hit all of the modern ideas.)
There is little reason to use non-crypto hash these days, given fast crypto hash like SipHash.
Ok thanks for clarifying the "YC in NYC". You are correct.

Though it is different event than the 2011 "YC in NYC". I hope you guys have worked out the logistics so attendees who have really went out of their way to be there can benefit in some way; different than just the talks which they can watch online.

I hope more people get benefits out of it.
Show HN: Cloud-based secure device-to-device network service sharing
Shelloid User-Defined Extranet (UDX) cloud platform enables users to securely open their service ports to other devices across the Internet at the click of a button. The platform is ideally suited for ad hoc, flexible, and selective sharing of networked software services for which the traditional VPN solutions are too rigid and desktop sharing is too intrusive. The platform is now open for beta at: https://shelloid.com.
Full beta launch news is available at: http://blog.shelloid.com/2014/08/device-to-device-service-sharing-at.html
damn. saw the url and for a second thought it was to celebrate and remember winamp =(
This list seems to be full of both causes and symptoms?

I would say Depression / Lack of interest / Feeling stuck would be what causes me to stop being productive, and reddit and hacker news browsing is a symptom of those.
Heatmap.js – Dynamic Heatmaps for the Web
Yep. Mine crashes maybe every 5-20 days. Or rather, the graphics controller loses it's mind, but I can still SSH into it to initiate a shutdown. It doesn't seem to be thermal and it usually happens when there's not much demand on the graphics subsystem.