skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are really great.

If anyone is interested in collaborating, I'm thinking about converting these (and the SendWithUs ones) into ActionMailer layouts and views for use in Rails apps.
The ops team at a company is the group responsible for running and scaling the apps after they've been written. The role varies from company to company, but in general they manage databases, underlying infrastructure, and other technology that power apps.

You could think of them as the sysadmins or IT team that powers especially public-facing services and websites. Think Twitter, HN, etc. The people in charge for making sure there are no fail whales are the ops team.
Revenue is increasing but their cost of revenue is increasing while their earnings per share stays stagnant.

I actually like what Microsoft is doing to try to adapt to the new world but they are losing money on Xbox One (it appears Sony may win this round) and Surface is a great product but overpriced and costing Microsoft profit as well.

I wish they did more hardware as that division makes some really cool stuff but Microsoft is starting to fall on the Windows 8 debacle.

It's hard to buy a surface for $1000 when a comparable laptop is $300 (not as light or small but spec wise comparable)
Lookout raises $150M to bring mobile security to enterprise
"Pricing you can trust" rarely comes along with "LOW LOW PRICES IF YOU COMMIT NOW!" In fact, the combination of these two concepts in one ad campaign should double-red-flag this "opportunity".
Unfortunately little to no reaction at all, and I don't think there will be more coverage, specially after a plane crashed today carrying a presidential candidate.
Premailer is amazing. Saves me a huge amount of trouble regularly. For one thing you can just remove the external stylesheet reference to see how it degrades instead of s/style=/ignorestyle=/g or similar.
I think this app has potential but after installing a local copy and playing with it for a few minutes there are a few things right off the bat that are a bit of an issue:

First, creating a project doesn't work, after putting in the required info and clicking create I'm taken to an error page with no feedback as to what actually happened, even though the screen says 'something went wrong and we've noted that'. Also, requiring to add collaborators even if it's yourself is redundant, this shouldn't be required.

Tasks - The main tasks screen really isn't useful at all since each 'Task' takes up a huge amount of space, and all the links on the task card don't do anything, and even when sub-tasks are entered they don't show on the card. This section really seems like it should be tied into projects, not a standalone section, especially since there's a 'Todos' section as well.

In many places where input is required, it's not immediately apparent that the colored title area is editable or requires input.

There's quite a few little UI tweaks that need to be made, for instance the line height in the quick notes section on the dashboard does not match the notebook lines, so typing anything in there looks sloppy.
How I Used Writing to Double My Freelancing Rate As a Programmer
Office Hours is a service I created after reading this article about "Freelance as a Service" about a month ago here on HN.

http://letsworkshop.com/freelance-as-a-service/
NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian Internet blackout, Snowden says
> "You can buy email templates on ThemeForest for ~$2 and they'll be prettier but it is very, very rare that they are actually as thoroughly tested as these are."

This is an amazing resource, but I don't want you to over generalize the templates at Themeforest. All the templates on that site clearly say what they have been tested in, and what clients they work in. (screenshot of the product detail sidebar: http://bluetide.pro/BU4q/1KDfhjBF). I've never ever found that info to be wrong when it says they work in the said applications. I think Themeforest does a great job with their vetting process to make sure the templates on the site are almost 100% accurate in the info.

(It may be worth reporting to Themeforest that wasn't the case on a template if you have been burned before.)
Show HN: Stressed and burned out, so I created my first app – Remember Win
Maryam Mirzakhani is First Woman to Win Fields Medal
Startup Interview with SaaS CEO about customer onboarding
Check out this interview of startup CEO, Jordan Boesch @7shifts. He talks about customer onboarding, user feedback, and customer retention: http://blog.listenloop.com/customer-onboarding-best-practices-with-jordan-boesch

Watch the full video or skim the audio transcription about customer onboarding in this post.

Here’s a quick recap:
– Jordan took us back several years to explain how he built 7shifts as a side-project until it grew to sustain his full-time attention.

– Jordan discussed how he acquired and trained users in the early days without a customer onboarding checklist.

– Jordan mentioned his customer onboarding best practices, like sending behavior-based emails and soliciting user feedback within his SaaS application.
Yeah it looked ok to me. Looks like it was designed for python. On my clojure files the parens/brackets get lost. Granted editors mostly make parens easy but i still have to be able to scan for them.
Campos was 3rd, Aécio Neves is 2nd.

Hard to tell ATM, there's still possibility of Marina Silva (vice-candidate) to be the candidate.

No foul-play.

There are no differences between the candidates platform. Even the current president's platform is based on "changing everything", as her party hasn't been in power for almost 12 years.

No.

You're welcome.
I particularly liked one of the points that Grey made towards the end: what do we do about all of the people who will be "unemployable through no fault of their own"? Right now our economic system is predicated on rewarding those who deserve wealth (as judged by ability or hard work). The converse of that is that we as a society accept that the undeserving (stupid and/or lazy) will be punished economically. We rationalize this because we convince ourselves that it was their own fault, therefore it's "fair" . But what happens when intelligent, hard-working -- and therefore deserving -- people are unemployable? It's going to be a massive shock to people and to the system. (Or we will enter a state of mass cognitive dissonance and convince ourselves that the majority of the population has become stupid and lazy and so is getting what they deserve.)
I should have said "more modular" but I definitely don't mean that modularity comes for free in FP languages. Programmers are capable of writing rigid programs in any language but I do feel in my little experience of using FP languages it is harder to do so, or more obvious when you are doing so. I'll give it a try anyway.

I think the modularity comes from most FP languages having fewer building blocks to work with than most OO languages. It's the same reason why users of OO languages with a ton of different building blocks (Java, C#, etc.) find more "minimalist" OO languages like Ruby refreshing. FP languages tend to take this simplicity even further. You essentially have just functions and modules (a place to group related functions). FP languages also usually don't have state, unless you want to emulate that in your program somehow.

To me it is about ditching the OO way of creating some representation of the circle of life or Kingdom of Classes hierarchy in your applications for just treating your program as data that goes through a sequence of transformations. Linear programs are always easier for me to understand than hierarchies.

Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy[0] talk is a great overview of the subject. Now his talk isn't about modularity per se, but I think modularity is one of the many things that fall out of simplicity.

0 - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
The "eating more" and "environmental influence" explanations are not mutually exclusive. One could be causing the other--chemicals that mimic hormones could be influencing appetite or satiation, for example.
If their goal was brand awareness they achieved it as I had never heard of them until now.

That being said I want nothing to do with them.
I actually have directly relevant experience to the question of "What happens if you get something in your eye in the US and need to see a doctor urgently?" Don't read the following if you're squeamish.

About a year and a half ago, I dropped my iPad while on a flight from Japan to the US. The screen cracked in the top corner. I tentatively touched the screen, to see if the crack was dangerous. I did not cut my finger, but did succeed in transferring a very small piece of glass to my finger.

People touch their eyes frequently, often unconsciously.

Six hours later, after attempting self-irrigation on the plane and at the airport, I was at a hospital in Chicago seeing an eye doctor. Time from arrival at proper floor to being taken to room: three minutes ("glass in eye" cuts down on paperwork quite a bit). Time to arrival of doctor: approximately four minutes after that.

They successfully treated me for, possible misquote, "non-traumatic introduction of a foreign body to the eye." (The attending physician's first words, after reading the chart, were "How in God's name does an iPad screen end up in your eye?")

Treatment was approximately 15 minutes of a resident's time and 5 minutes of the attending physician's time plus one cotton swap and some iodine.

Total cost: approximately $300, plus twenty minutes of dealing with the billing clerk (after approximately 30 minutes of waiting for the billing clerk to be ready).

Most of the time with the billing clerk was a result of the clerk getting the run-around from a Japanese commercial travel insurance company. I customarily travel with private insurance which, among other things, covers me for medical emergencies while traveling. (Normally I'm covered by Japanese national insurance, which doesn't normally cover treatment of Americans in America for all the obvious reasons.) The insurance company denied reimbursement for elective medical treatment. Direct quote: You could have elected to leave it in your eye.
Good point. 10% of infections are from people who have both ebola and flu? Seems initial ebola symptoms are/can be flu-like, so presumably healthcare workers might be casual around newly infected.
Hey, it's Luke here. I'm one of the founders of ClusterHQ and the author of this post. Happy to answer any questions or discuss any comments here. :)
Nice. Clean, staightforward, and will probably drive some money your way.

It will be a great lead into other services and requests from customers.
Nice job! Just the other day I was surfing around trying to remember a "flat" bootstrap fork I looked at a while back.

Thanks for taking the time to do this.
beautiful! a great idea.
oh hey yea that would've been useful. ^_^
My own experience backs this approach up. That said, I think you are downplaying how brutally hard coming up with good work-sample tests are. I've found that bad work-sample tests are as bad, if not worst, at pipeline biasing than more traditional means.

I suspect it took you a very long time to come up with these tests, and if you were hiring at a bigger scale you would see things like work-sample sharing/coaching/plagiarizing that might poison the approach.

I also think that while you guys have done a phenomenal job at building a novel hiring pipeline, you also have a natural advantage in hiring in that your field has a natural cachet amongst many tech. folks. That same advantage might not apply to insurance companies/banks/etc.

I guess what I'm getting at, is that I think your hiring practices have evolved to a great spot for your uses, I'm a little worried about how well they scale.
You know how ridiculous it would have sounded if I told you 15 years ago that you could specify any address and get a local 360° street view of it... Even in rural austrailia or inside a business. And that comes from a search engine company... That mainly makes money off advertising.

Who knows where amazon will go.
If they anticipate turning a profit, why should I donate to them instead of investing in them or Kickstarting them? Why would I give them money to get... absolutely nothing out of it, but to make them richer?
Dart runs in every modern browser (you can compile it to JavaScript). You can use it for real world projects. We use it in production at https://www.blossom.io
pbjorklund asked a good question. Do you have good answers to what makes you different from SquareSpace, Weebly, Wix, etc? And why people should give their money to you instead of them? Because, while your landing page is clean and informative, your branding doesn't inspire me to believe you're special. If I were you, I'd leverage my small, scrappy status to show users I can give them something that the big players in the site-builder market can't.

Also: cool that you designed the landing page using SimplyBuilt! I would advertise that.
WordPress Newsletter Delivery Engine
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Famo.us raises $25M in Series B funding
Leadpages is a great company and provides a ton of content and training on best practices.
> Isn't trying to compromise the communication network of a country like Syria the exact thing the NSA is supposed to be doing?

What is wrong with you; what the hell do you have against Syria? What if this was France? The UK? Germany?

This was a mistake that happened while "attempting to bug Syria". Knowing the NSA, they bug almost every country out there — so yes, this could have happened to any of the ones I've listed.

Internet is a public service, one as essential as water and electricity. How do you call a country that disrupts another country's public services? In my book, I call it an act of war.

So you tell me, slg, is it the NSA's job to randomly decide to declare war against other countries?
Understand it's hard to explain. I'd list the canonical use cases, so people know whether to dig in to the docs.
I skipped over the free part too. Makes sense to be free and self hosted but this would also be cool as a "deploy to heroku" (or whatever cloud PaaS provider officially supports php). I still wonder if the creator has plans to monetize it?
Flynn is open source heroku.
I'm not saying another language is bad, just that it is not a deficiency of the web. We already have hundreds of them...all of which are hacked onto a language that was never created with the intent of acting as a VM. A web-native VM would actually enable much better selection of programming languages than Javascript currently does. Dart is nothing more than a new soda selection in a broken vending machine. It hasn't gone anywhere because it isn't in any better of a position than the rest of the sodas in the vending machine.
Does https://dashboard.flynn.io build on top of the beta version of Flynn?
Flynn still needs to do a much better job on the documentation front. It's entirely unclear how to use Flynn. Instead of just having vague architecture/philosophy discussions, they need very clear explanations.

From the demo/documentation they do have, it's unclear why Flynn is better than Deis, Heroku, etc.[1]

I had hoped that Flynn was/would be a tool for orchestrating complicated multi-container apps, not just deploying Procfiles. I don't need Procfiles, I need something which will let me integrate and orchestrate multiple Docker containers across multiple nodes. Most/many significant apps don't fit into the simplicity of Procfiles (we have over a dozen different services, some with relatively customize environments, all communicating with RabbitMQ middleware). At least for development, Docker containers have proven to be an ideal way to manage these services. As of yet, there doesn't seem to be a good tool for deploying them to production. I wish Flynn would tackle that head on (and document it!), instead of being yet another generic PaaS.

[1] https://github.com/flynn/flynn/tree/master/demo
Use SignalR to Build Real-Time Connectivity into Your Software
I'm Julia, founder of Zidisha. I'd be happy to respond to questions and comments.
Nate Rocks.
Or Flu in 2009 by Chinese - they kept people in their hotels [1].
I'm guessing the Journo wanted to 'big' the story up.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/02/idUSHKG2279
Would you consider putting the URL in a code block (double indented), or in some way mangling the URL so that it's not auto-hyperlinked?
Interesting - A pal of mine was working on one of these in Go as well for his organization; I was contemplating writing one in Go also.

I was your first star; but have no time to look at the code in depth yet!
Campos dropped from the coalition that elected Rousseff 1 year ago. He was stronger on the northern regions where former president Lula successfully conducted a "Venezuelization" process (trading government social subsidies for votes).
This may be naive, but why can't we just have an in-between compiled language (that isn't JS) that any language can compile to and compile back from?
Guess you're right - I shouldn't have posted this on HN.
This is the spirit of microservices to me :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7874317

"Instead of pretending everything is a local function even over the network ...,
what if we did it the other way around?

Pretend your components are communicating over a network even when they aren't?"

-- Solomon Hykes (of Docker fame) on LibChan

To me, it's pretty much anti-OO, and that's why I find it refreshing.
You're reinforcing my point. You're assuming imperative semantics.

Wherever "destiny" would be appropriate, you necessarily have a referentially transparent function. Wherever you have a referentially transparent function, a smart compiler or runtime can avoid recalculating anyway, without bothering the programmer with the distinction between "function" and "destiny".
A little known hack to get your notebook organized
$300 ain't bad to save the sight in your eye.
Building a video booth using only browser APIs
Docker is a promising building block for solving logging and service management and that's something I've been playing with for a while. You stream your logs to your container's stdout/stderr and can pick them up from the Docker REST API. You can also hit the Docker REST APIs across your hosts to discover the IP addresses and ports of the containers running various images. None of this is "solved" yet but it's getting there.

Serialization... depends, but you can get pretty far with JSON over HTTP.

So I guess you do need your microservices to be uniform in some respects, but the consistency of "every microservice is a Docker container exposing a REST API that speaks JSON and streams logs to stdout" would seem to be enough.

It's easy to build that in several languages... if Rails makes sense, use Rails. If Sinatra makes sense, use Sinatra. If Java makes sense, use Java.

You could run into trouble if you start using languages that only one or two of your staff members know, but it does allow for some flexibility (i.e. just because certain parts of the application are enterprisey doesn't mean everything has to be.)
Very cool, good job!
Actually, I think the coverage was decent until now (at least on the web), but, yeah, the death of Eduardo Campos will definitely eclipse the award.
There are good replies to this question in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173019

I don't think spying and disrupting communications on a country you are not at war at, and that is going through a civil war (putting the lives of innocent people on the edge), is the type of things the NSA should be doing.
Or just use this handy node package. I used it to auto like 22,000 people in LA, and went on dates for 9 days in a row. Let's just say I'm a bit exhausted.

https://www.npmjs.org/package/tinderbot

Edit: My tinder bot:
https://github.com/deftx/loltinder
It's temporary - they're making it seem like it's lower than it is. They're going to lock people in and then jack up the rate - it's classic CC processing trick and it's BULLSHIT. Even if the real price is written somewhere, it's still horseshit.
I did some digging yesterday and this seems to be the best explanation in layman's terms I could find:

http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-...

Mirzakhani became fascinated with hyperbolic surfaces — doughnut-shaped surfaces with two or more holes that have a non-standard geometry which, roughly speaking, gives each point on the surface a saddle shape. Hyperbolic doughnuts can’t be constructed in ordinary space; they exist in an abstract sense, in which distances and angles are measured according to a particular set of equations. An imaginary creature living on a surface governed by such equations would experience each point as a saddle point.

It turns out that each many-holed doughnut can be given a hyperbolic structure in infinitely many ways — with fat doughnut rings, narrow ones, or any combination of the two. In the century and a half since such hyperbolic surfaces were discovered, they have become some of the central objects in geometry, with connections to many branches of mathematics and even physics.
Yeah! He's so awesome. I really loved recording this episode with him.
The page works nicely, the video shows what you offer using the precise amount of my time.

What feels strange is that the UI you show in the video is not the same as the one that appears below, in the outlined iphones. My mind had to stop and guess; "ok, this is the same thing i watched in the vid".

Overall great job on the page, and the product looks interesting too. Wish you luck.
It is, however, more than $0 (and presumably somewhat galling when you are already paying for health insurance.)
That's trading evils a bit though. Before fire retardants in furniture, I believe fires involving furniture was a leading cause of death (and not just in babies)
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/01/16/why-honor-kill...
Ask HN: How to pick a startup idea
As a developer, I find it easy to pick an idea and build an MVP/prototype. When you have several ideas, how do u select which one to work on?

Some criteria I came up with are:
1. Passion for the idea (cant fake it!)
2. Market opportunity (its hard to figure this out for consumer mobile apps)
3. Team/market fit
4. Funding possibility for the idea
Any other??

Also, when do u give up on an idea and move to the next one?? In pre-funding phase, its hard to figure this out.
Also as for the business model you've mentioned. I've seen this done in competitive spaces like affiliate marketing. If you don't know most affiliates are super paranoid about thier data as leaking info about a campaign can lead to tons of copies and there goes your revenue. They seem to mostly prefer self hosted apps. Imobitrax offers a self hosted paid tracking system with a monthly fee. A lot of people used to use the free prosper202 self hosted tracking system too. Now recently I'm seeing a shift where people are not afraid to use cloud systems like voluum. I'm not sure what is causing the acceptance to change. It could just be that everything is cloud hosted now so people are getting used to the idea.

The problem I see with paid self hosted PHP apps, in this case, is that they are often using ioncube obfuscation and then if I can't read the source how do I know my data is more secure than a cloud provider?
Typing is evolving on Android Wear
Yeah, I'm surprised this didn't lead in the article.
If it isn't obvious, I'm not complaining. Went to hospital with glass in eye while experiencing major discomfort, down from excruciating pain earlier. Left hospital with neither glass in eye nor major discomfort. A+++, would have glass removed from eye again.
International politics' favorite excuse for everything comes straight from the grade school playground: "He started it!" We ought to do better.