skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I found that there are no web crawling frameworks out there that allow for large-scale and continuous crawling of changing data.

Are you distinguishing between "I found that there are no" and "I didn't find any so far"?

Which ones that came close have you rejected, and why?
FYI the salt has a max size n - All salts longer than n are equivalent to using a salt of substr(salt, 0, n)
Ok, we've changed the url from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/us/politics/ex-google-engi....
But writing your own algorithms is so last week bro!

I have to agree. I can imagine the exact type of person to make use of such a service, and can see a considerable hype following becoming the market. The creators no doubt had the best of intentions in mind, but I think it does prey on the uniformed, even if unintentionally.
You're right. The press release [0] does say "The total amount of investment for the FASTER system is estimated to be approximately USD $300 million". That would, however, make the title of this article wrong.

I'm surprised Techcrunch made that big a mistake in their reporting.

[0] http://www.nec.com/en/press/201408/global_20140811_01.html
Is Triclosan really a problem if I wash my mouth with distilled water? As I understand it, Triclosan reacts with chloride.
There are excellent passively cooled cases for the HTPC crowd, that work very well for regular desktop use. Some can cool the real deal desktop Intel processors.

The performance is something else entirely from the super low power NUC stuff. Video editing and processing is suddenly not a problem.

I got the H1 from HD-Plex.com myself. It's specified to cool 55W but I run the 65W version of the i7 (so it's semi-low power) without any problems, not even at full load for extended periods of time.

It takes mini-ITX motherboards and stuffing it with 16 GB RAM was not a problem. It was a bit fiddly to everything together but the build quality is great.

No relation, just a satisfied customer.
>It's an interesting niche that hasn't been computerized yet.

That's quite an assertion. I'm certain it has been.
Polaroid Cube
Very cool, thanks for sharing this. I wish they had pricing information on their site!
I found you often have to select two, then it figures it out. I assumed it was probably because of alternating odd/even row CSS classes.
I dunno, some of the "solutions" have historically been a little ridiculous. Remember how AMPS networks could be listened to with off the shelf scanners?

The solution was to make it illegal to sell scanners that could listen to the 800 MHz band.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mcsema#!/story/forever/0/mcsema
Similar to http://www.aislefinder.com and http://www.supermarketapi.com
We are: http://www.stage3systems.com/
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I think a missing part of the story here is what happened to WordPerfect after it was sold off to Corel. Corel realized that Microsoft would be one hell of a competitor with Office, and (correctly) feared that Microsoft would abuse their Windows monopoly to push it.

Corel responded incredibly boldly, by rolling their own Linux distribution and bundling Wine, which in turn was sponsored by Corel. Unfortunately, they were a bit too ahead of the technology with this move, as neither Wine nor Linux were quite ready enough to usefully run desktop applications other than WordPerfect.
I didn't know it was in toothpaste. I do know that it's in hand soap, body soap, and even tissues now.
You bring an interesting point specially because we built this service for developers. Algorithmia was created to allow subject matter experts to provide their knowledge and share/sell it to the world. An expert in computer vision might not be an expert in path planning algorithms but both of these can be combined for things like autonomous vehicles. The goal is to allow deep individual specialization (as most researchers/algorithm devs want to do) and yet be able to leverage the deep specialization of others. Algorithms in Algorithmia can call other algorithms in the library directly which allows for the creation of new innovative meta solutions. I don't believe this takes away at all from the developer experience.
It is this type of press releases that make me ashamed of being part of this industry. I think we have done some good in the world, but for the most part, we are parasites of the larger system.

I went to read the actual contents with the idea that it might have some redeeming qualities, like the synergy that can be achieved by keeping less personnel in a smaller kitchen aided by this techno-wonder, allowing existing businesses to make better use of limited real state or expand to other lines of businesses (think gourmet hamburgers delivered at your doorstep)... but instead I found this little gem:

'Momentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them."'

Why would you want to deprive the world of uniquely talented engineers and put them to work in creating a machine that provides the world with yet another form of overcapacity automation in times of record high unemployment? You just managed to squeeze both the restaurant owner and the personnel of their money... why would they want to pay you for this?

Most likely because your business plan really involves squeezing early investors out of their money with a product that looks great on paper but does not solve any real problem in the real world...

Robo-burgers my...
Anyone have information on how to contact them/be a part of this group?
That's not an accurate description of the movie. In the movie, it is made clear that Randy is purposefully limiting work at his day job to make time for his unprofitable, dangerous, declining wrestling career. The stripper (Pam) is leaving that business because she's getting older, and can't attract clients. In terms of money, they'd both be better off without their exciting "show biz" work.
Yes, it really is a problem. And using distilled water won't help as chloride ions are naturally in saliva (http://books.google.com/books?id=LKy0weDEFp8C&pg=PA601&lpg=P...).
The issue is that by providing housing subsidies more money would be put into the demand side of the rental market. This would most likely cause rents to rise as there is now more money to spend.

In this situation the only way out that makes sense to me is to add more supply by removing some artificial barriers to building.
AlignIT offers a better way to manage IT project delivery
My co-worker said she would like a backlog of items that she can move in and out of the top five.
Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years
Hmm, I wonder if that's why clean desk policies are popular (or rather, unpopular but present) in many companies.

It does look neater, and it's the only enforceable equilibrium given the variety of approaches people take to tidiness. But I'd never made the connection, that it may be a form of signalling - our company is modern and doesn't need all the gubbins to process paper.
Wu's book The Master Switch is a fascinating and enjoyable read about how we've gotten into the position we are today with regards to video, movies, radio, and telecom.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Switch-Information-Empires/...
Github repos: https://github.com/project-iris
You still can use Windows with only a keyboard. Until very recently, MS was very good about maintaining UI consistency and having plenty of redundancy - simply holding down the alt key in Win7, for example, will display the keyboard shortcuts for all of the functions in the current window by underlining the relevant letter, in the manner that used to be displayed at all times in earlier windows versions.

Having recently switched to Linux, I've been astonished that some X applications seem to require the use of a mouse, and that many graphical environments don't have default keyboard shortcuts assigned to certain tasks. At least it's much easier to create and redefine shortcuts, and you can always open a terminal and type in the full commands as needed.

This is one of the things that's very annoying about applications that hide the menubar or lack a menubar entirely. Cycling through menubar options with a keyboard is far, far more efficient than attempting to use a keyboard with many of the poorly-thought-out experimental UIs that seem to be increasingly prevalent.
My understanding is that you need to deliver the data with a latency measured in the range of milliseconds, and even then that might not be fast enough due to direct access. Here are a couple articles in the WSJ --

"Speed Traders Get an Edge" - Feb 6, 2014 - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230445090...

"Firm Stops Giving High-Speed Traders Direct Access to Releases" - Feb 20, 2014 - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230377550...
I can comment on both ZocDoc as I have second hand experience with a DDS that uses it. ZocDoc handles marketing and DRIVES patients to book appointments by showcasing them on their website and mobile apps. It doesn't guarantee new patients, but younger demographic of people DO prefer to use it over the phone call method. Dentists also get reviews from verified patients, which builds credibility (vs Yelp reviews from anyone).

I see value in Square Appointments because they're enabling scheduling management and communications on web and mobile. So an underutilized small business website can now add that capability. Pricing is competitive. It's the cost of doing business.

Another note. An API would be useful.

Great post. Looking forward to integrating this for a DDS.
It's true, that it's Mac only.

But, I came to realise, that free isn't without cost. So, I'd invest in a good tool, if I need to work with it a lot.
Generally speaking, running double the number of samples requires approximately double the amount of work, maybe a little less since you're doing it in bulk.

Are you really saying that going from 10 samples to 11 samples causes a doubling (or 1.2x-ing or tripling or whatever) of the time/work required? That's what exponential means.
Ask HN: Conv. rate on LP increased from 2% to 9.5%, how to increase it further?
Hello HN,

After receiving first doze of feedback from HN community and looking at our data we’ve realised that our landing page was confusing. The conversion to email submission was just 2,5%.

Here is how landing page used to look before(we’ve mostly changed the top of the page): http://betalist.com/startups/staply

Then we’ve followed the advice and used simpler terms/words. Conversion rate increased to 9,5%. That is how our landing looks now: https://staply.co

We are currently working on the testimonials, but what else you would you suggest to improve the conversion of that landing page?
In the same way the tobacco industry has to pay for the damage it inflicts on the population through taxation, I can see sugar taxes becoming something governments will implement to recover the cost to the state of a unhealthy population.

Well, tobacco is not sugar, and you can make the argument that anything taken to excess will cause damage.

You people need to start thinking about where this slippery slope of government intervention leads to.
True. The parent mentioned a girl so that made me forget about the Knowledge migrant path. It is by far a better solution. However, for people that are 30 or over, the salary requirement is on a high side.
That is something that hashid avoids.
It would be neat if someone took the effort to curate all of these old projects in some way.
A 10 cent tax per gram of added sugar or HFCS for every product. Implement this and watch obesity rates plummet.

(This is not a serious suggestion, but I think it would still be interesting to brainstorm the implications of such a tax.)
My favorite quote:

> “We thought we understood what influences the El Niño
> mode of climate variation, and we’ve been able to show
> that we actually don’t understand it very well,” said
> Julian Sachs, a UW professor of oceanography.

One of the interesting thing about the press on climate change it means more dollars to investigate. When the AIDS epidemic started it quintupled the amount of money being invested in cell biology research, which has lead to lots of interesting discoveries about how cells work, how viruses work, etc.

All the investment in the components of climate is going to open up a lot of interesting avenues of both research and action. And hopefully inform when action is either unwarranted or would be ineffective.
I know Code for America operates on the local level, but I wonder if there's anything to be gained by the federal government turning to CfA for an existing group of self-identified coders interested in assisting on government problems.
Clickable links:
1 http://betalist.com/startups/staply
2 https://staply.co
I work in the logistics industry. Just because there are railroad tracks through a town, does not mean there are active stops. Also, while most people do not get tractor trailer delivers to their door, most business do. Especially for items too large to send via UPS or FedEx. Total US public highways miles: 161K [1]
Total US Railroads miles (Class I):100K [2]

[1]https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/hs01/hm41.htm
[2]http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/transportation/a_freig...
There is an excellent book about the history and anthropology of sugar by Sidney Mintz called Sweetness & Power. It documents the connection between the consumption and production of sugar by the West and the development of capitalism. It's fascinating.
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This article contains lots of definitive-sounding statements that not only lack the ring of objective truth that they're presented with, but would be considered offensive in other contexts. People are different, and those differences should, when possible, be respected. Some people are homosexual, some are members of racial minorities, some are members of unpopular cultures and religions... and some are natural hermits.
It does seem strange to say "However, there are plenty of languages that don’t provide built in support for such a function, leaving you on your own." and then show examples in Python.
Source? I don't think it's necessary for signal to propagate through the entire chip within a clock cycle.
Very excited about this being released as a product. HURRY UP!
Utah. Very strict Mormon background from the founders (and this dude who was the brother-in-law of one of the founders). It's like BYU but it's your workplace...
Wear them. I haven't bought undershirts in 10+ years, thanks to a failed startup. I still have one more entire garbage bag full of brand new t-shirts yet to go.

Edit: In this case, it wasn't a failed startup (though the company did eventually fail), it was the marketing department picking a name for our new product, and printing up 500 t-shirts and a truckload of other sales collateral for a trade show, without bothering to check if the name was already trademarked (which it was, by another software company, in the same city).
> I think most programmers of that vintage must be horrified by the amount of bloat in modern computer systems.

I've been writing apps for computers since 1978, and I'm seriously horrified by bloat. It appears to be an unstoppable force, however, so these days I'm mostly interested in ways to harness bloat. I believe this is also a principle activity of my peers.
Agreed. Thankfully since prostitution is illegal, nobody does it nor suffers from its ills.
>I certainly couldn't stop them if they wanted to.

May the best fork win.
I'm a bit more pessimistic - I'm not sure if fixing the App Store will fix the mobile gaming industry. IMO the well is thoroughly and completely poisoned at this point.

People are learning to reject IAP-everywhere monetization models, but they've also retained the notion that nothing should cost more than $1.

Even if we eliminate the discoverability problems, the shitty copycats, all that noise, will the economics of mobile game dev still even work out without stooping to EA's Dungeon Keeper-esque shenanigans?
> In the same way the tobacco industry has to pay for the damage it inflicts on the population through taxation, I can see sugar taxes becoming something governments will implement to recover the cost to the state of a unhealthy population.

That is going to be much trickier, though. The sugar binge is partially a result of the well-meaning but misguided demonization of fats during the 70s and 80s, something those very governments participated in.
Obligatory link to "Mother Earth, Motherboard" whenever submarine cables are mentioned:

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

Best 50 page article you'll read this year.
De novo lipogenesis from sugar in humans is extremely inefficient. Sugar really is less fattening, calorie for calorie, than dietary fat. So in at least one sense sugar is in fact "better" than fat.

You can live in perfect health on close to zero fat intake. Sustained zero sugar/carb intake is extremely stressful for the body and sends catecholamine levels way up, accelerating aging.

The anti sugar thinking is basically some dumb ideas from diabetes research extrapolated out. If you have a healthy pancreas there is zero reason not to get a load of your calories from sugar. You just have to get sufficient mineral and vitamin intake as well, so for this reason fruit juice is better than white sugar.
While manufacturing the cable is expensive, actually laying it (in that particular part of the ocean) is not that challenging. They essentially just drive a ship along that path while slowly spooling out the cable from the rear. They have the advantage that that stretch of ocean doesn't contain much of anything to plan around.
I don't understand, how they would be able to offer competitive priced service, if they didn't rely on people either underselling or plagiarising.

I'd understand, if there were some economies of scale that actually enabled the cost reduction, but in this case the nature of the product is always unique: you can seldom sell the same design to several clients, hence the only way to reduce the cost is to lower your margins. And hence it's a race to the bottom.
Facscinating, so now I'm completely confused. If they can pull this cable for 300M$US total that is a huge improvement in costs from previous efforts. Now I feel compelled to track down what changed that made this an order of magnitude less costly to do.

EDIT: this link http://submarinenetworks.com/systems/trans-pacific/unity informs me that I am completely wrong on the costs. Apparently it is really "only" 300M$ to lay a cable from here to there.
I love the approach Weekdone has taken. It's more of a two-way communication thing than Impraise, which is more top to bottom. Any thoughts on comparison?
They explain that on their website.
Hopefully it will be focused on securing those services, too, since the government seems to care so much about "cyberthreats" anyway.
I've been a C coder for decades now. But I don't think that C is going away. C has far too much traction, and then there is: Lua. Things like Lua make it even less likely that we'll be entirely rid of C in the near future, imho ..
Your comment rings sympathetic, and your motivations are unquestionably honorable, but there's still no way I'd even consider "just showing up and trying". I'd show up and try for a $200k salary and some staff to take care of the paperwork and drudgery associated with these government/non-profit jobs. But not for a shit job with shit pay. After all, Google (and the like) pay market rate (well, now that the cartel has been busted), and treat their employees with courtesy and respect.

It's well known that the federal government simply DOES NOT pay market rate for talent. Now it is able to get away with that behavior in sectors (cough, banking) where there's consistent regulatory capture: so you're incentivized to spend some years at the government to learn how the system works, and then parlay that into a higher pay job subverting those systems. So the government still gets some rotating talent despite paying absolute shit. But there's no such regulatory capture possible in tech, nor am I interested in going down that path even if it existed (I consider it moderately evil, and am still naively idealist at least in that respect).

Look, I'm not solely money grubbing. Money is nice. I grew up without it and now that I have relatively larger quantities of it, my life has unquestionably improved (with luxuries like consistent access to good dentists). I'd eventually like more of it. I'm not short-term greedy. I'm willing to defer compensation for years, if not decades, if I feel that there's potential monetary reward at the end of the line.

But from what I see, Mikey Dickerson made a pile of money at first, and thus was free to pursue his political goals of bailing out an incompetent administration that he nevertheless believed in and wanted their signature achievement to succeed. And maybe I'll feel the same once my stock options vest and the mortgage, college tuition, and retirement stockings are stuffed. But don't forget that 99% of the time it's a solid dead end. Mikey was part of a high profile rescue of a high profile failure. But anyone else going in with naive ideals is probably going to get their souls crushed by the sheer drudgery of it, with no Time magazine cover to boost their profiles at the end of it.
What is it about triclosan that earns your purchase? Genuine question.
>'Is he hiring?'

No idea.

I'm thinking 'small team made up of our country’s brightest digital talent' suggests something that people would be recruited for and appointed to moreso than traditional positions to be filled. There's of the sort posted for OMB today at least.

>'As there's no chance I'd want to take on the risk of getting a regular government IT/developer job and being enmeshed in the nightmare that is my conception of government bureaucracy but I would like to contribute to make a difference.'

Your conception is pretty accurate.

I think the best shot most of us have at 'making a difference' would be to develop solutions to specific, self-contained (if possible) problems.

To look not at what central Government is doing, but at the community-level agencies/programs and what they need.

Clinics, libraries, rec centers, public schools and whatnot all have problems which can helped with technology, but you'll need to spend a lot of time, effort and a degree of sneakiness to get anything done.
Way overpriced. Emotivs epoc was $300 and did 16 channels. Or 14... I forget.
I worked for two startups in the late eighties and early nineties; both located in downtown Palo Alto. When recruiting, would tell candidate thats being downtown made it easy to run errands, lunch at great restaurants, take a quick afternoon bike ride around the Alpine loop, pop out to do some birthday or holiday shopping, walk to the bank, dentist, doctor, etc.
Founder here!

What may seem like a simple product (just get a bunch of services together, right?) might have been one of the most difficult products I've launched. I'm not a salesman, nor a particular fan of sending emails 24/7. That's what this all boiled down too however. Cold-emailing. Asking for introductions. Scheduling meetups. Sending follow up emails. Etc. While you really just want to work on building a cool product.

That said, I'm really happy with results. Proud to have so many great companies involved and hoping the additional revenue will enable me to grow BetaList further.

Looking forward hearing what you think!

Fun fact: Although BetaList is pretty well known in the startup scene it's smaller than you might think. Bootstrapped and based in Europe. I'm the only full-timer on it at the moment.
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Hacker News is an English-language site. This is not to disparage content in other languages; it's just what HN is. Posts not in English mostly get demoted, unless they're of major significance and nothing is available in translation.