skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this comment. It took me back to High School English class, in a good way. There's so much dumb discussion online, about these people and many others, about who deserves to be called a "hero". You're the first one I've seen to actually lay it out in a sensible and reasonably objective manner.
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In my experience it doesn't eliminate the corruption problem, but it definitely mitigates it. I've had far fewer problems since doing this.
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It is. Cgroup provides limits for memory, CPU time. We already have other accounting mechanisms for processes/threads (rlimits) and for inodes and disk space (disk quota systems). We've had those for ages. I imagine there will be more work to integrate these various accounting mechanisms with cgroup as the work continues.
Chris Knight was the name of Val Kilmer's character in Real Genius.
This looks superb. Great work.
You need to run a build script for Browserify as well, which IMO everyone who is using Bower/RequireJS should switch to.
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I imagine it would possible to wire up a simple watcher in gulp/grunt that would do this automatically.
Two great tools for web scraping are https://import.io/ and https://www.kimonolabs.com/. There are also lots of developer tools out there, the most popular is probably http://scrapy.org/.

If you are interested in web crawling, which is often necessary if you want to extract data from very large sites (or many sites), I just wrote up a blog post comparing open source web crawling systems (including scrapy): http://blog.blikk.co/comparison-of-open-source-web-crawlers
Awesome service. I'll definitely be using it.

A question about your plans: you describe annotating as 'contributing to the community' but your terms of service say that only you, not the community, have a license to my copyright on the annotations. You also say that you may one day charge fees.

There have been cases (notably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote_licensing_controversy) where users have built a database that a company has then claimed as its own and profited from, to the exclusion of the users. So, the question: are the user-contributed annotations open source and licensed as such? And, if not, why would I contribute annotations to a wiki that I may later no longer be allowed to access?
Glad you like it! If you have any feedback then let me know!
Did Amazon ever say why they are requiring Amazon Payments accounts?
Thanks! Great overview of the basics.
If you need an infrastructure to speed up your scraping or want to analyze some pre-crawled copies of the web there is Zillabyte. They have examples on their blog as well, Growth Hackers tweets this one out a lot

http://blog.zillabyte.com/2014/06/23/5-easy-steps-to-build-a...

There is also Import.io for web extraction. Do you have something you are looking for in particular?
Where is it that ties are required for everyone?

I worked in the headquarters of a bulge bracket investment bank in Midtown and in my experience it is uncommon for people to wear ties even there.

Further, in my estimation, for most groups, it is socially unacceptable to wear a tie every day unless you are a certified BSD executive.
> I never said I agree with Apple, I think it's a extremely bad default.

You did say this, though, which is what GP is responding to:

> Who did the mistake?

> Well Apple did not. People didn't read the documentation at all.

If the default is this bad, having it in the documentation is not an excuse.

Especially since this is in the documentation for handling phone links, and the exploit explicitly affects apps that do not utilize/customize this functionality.

You can't say it's the developer's fault for not reading the documentation for a feature they never wanted to use in the first place.
I completely disagree that Apple is not at fault here. It should always prompt, end of story. More importantly though is that the devs at FB, Google, etc, likely saw how it worked in mobile Safari and, wrongly, assumed it would work the same in a webview. Why have the inconsistency in an a tag?
I'd be happy to test—though my traveling will be limited in the near future (I just finished a summer of traveling).

Edit: just noticed you were located in Wien. Ironically, I spent three weeks there this summer (mostly in Pötzleinsdorf area).
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My doctor friends get really annoyed when I read something on WebMD and argue with them. 8 years of schooling makes them an expert and I'm just being a jackass for thinking googling grants me an MD.
i guess IRS is afraid that MTurk will be laundering money, each and every $1 bill, manually...
Love the UI and UX, everything is pretty & intuitive.

Is it possible to tag friends who were with me, at each entry? Either through Facebook or Twitter tags? That would allow me to share the moment with friends who experienced it as well.
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Lisp was considered a functional programming language before ML existed.

That was then and this is now. Today, functional programming means side-effect-free with a strong type system, and efficient use of higher-order abstractions over functions, including things like typeclasses to define entire morphisms given a few functions which establish relationships between objects. Lisp doesn't really support this effectively. Arguably, with concepts C++14 is more functional than Lisp.
Thanks for linking to those services, and your comparison of crawler libraries is very well done.
I'm not sure they've changed policies on who's allowed in. For years they've required requesters to have a US-based bank account and a US billing address, and if you're a personal user, a US drivers' license number. It seems the real change has been the mandatory move to Amazon Payments which requires either an SSN for a personal account or an EIN for a business.

But.. if you were a business, you must already have the US bank account and address, and getting an EIN is not too hard from overseas (you have to call the IRS, Google for guides on it, I've done it before). If you had a personal account, you should have had to provide a US drivers license and don't they require an SSN?

Perhaps you had an account through a loophole/lack of checking though, but I believe the long term policy has been to keep non-US entities out of the system overall, most likely for tax reasons.
You should definitely check out crowdflower.com we had been using them for image tagging tasks with great results. Plus they gave advanced features that help with quality control.
For individuals, if you are ineligible for an SSN you can get an ITIN in its place, but as the parent notes, your business should probably get an EIN: http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Taxpa...
What are your thoughts on polymer vs famo.us.

Are there any real world combinations of real time frameworks like Derby, Meteor, SocketStream, Mojito, or even Firebase+MVC with a pre-rendering engine like Polymer or Famo.us?

>This means you can render your initial request on the server, and pass markup down to the client

That's how derby works too.
Nope. Nothing in particular. Curious what people are already using and what they think might be missing, including docs, examples, etc.

UPDATE: If any patterns emerge for pain points or missing docs, examples, or resources for learning I might create a page or an ebook project on GitHub that covers that area.
I'm super excited to start playing around with this. Although there is still friction in moving from one app to another, this API is a first step in weaving together what is now a disjoint mobile experience. Also, a great way to growth hack: I see app developers viewing URX as a toolkit to piggyback off other apps' audiences/views. Congrats to the whole URX team!
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I used to think this too, but the more I use Go the more I enjoy not needing to maintain a silly manifest
I cited the exact portions of K&R that specify stdin, stdout and stderr in my original post: K&R B1, 7.5 & 7.6

Section 7.6 explicitly says all three must be open when the program begins. There are equivalent sections in the formal standards, I cited K&R because it was on my shelf.

Please stop and bother to check your facts before continuing. You're very close to being accurate (POSIX does define open, but C defines stderr and some functions to print to it, the underlying mechanics are the choice of the implementing system.) But don't you think it would be nice to check that I actually am before writing yet another post simply asserting I'm wrong?
How the US media would cover Ferguson if it were in another country
Well, yes the prompt should be default. However, when I use a WebView in my apps I always consider the URIs in links to be potentially malicious.
i juts used this and it's a great product!
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You may not mean it as a pejorative, but it's clear that Harper did, and so do those who adopt the term as a rhetorical device. I also have to question your use of the phrase "according to type theory". You are implying that there is a single type theory with a single view on the nature of types. I recommend the link I put in my previous comment.
I didnt say professional djs.
Quantifying the opportunity cost for the competitor cannot be stressed enough

After you've calculated that (even down to estimates of the man hours they'll save multiplied by how much those staff members cost), it helps to point out you're actually spending in the region of XXX per annum creating this software that's saving them YYY in relation to the alternative. If YYY is significantly greater than the cost of your product the buying it should be a no-brainer (if it usually isn't then maybe you are too expensive...) but that doesn't mean they won't try to negotiate, especially if they think they're being gouged and understand software has [near] zero marginal cost

That's where pointing out that XXX reassuringly higher than the price of the product is useful in establishing your price point isn't merely aspirational, and cheaper alternatives aren't likely to emerge from the woodwork any time soon.
That seems to solve OP's problem nicely. :)

>>employer identification number, which the IRS will issue to a foreign entity

oh god I hope this doesn't catch on & become a trend. I'm OK with the tax authority in my home country...but dealing with them for every country I digitally interact with is not OK. :/
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OK, but I've been aware of Lisp macros for a while, and still never seen a situation where I needed them.

A couple weeks ago, though, I found myself in a situation where the user needed to be able to specify a filter, and the filter was going to be a tree of expressions, and the program had to take what the user specified and turn it into something the program could execute... and the filter tree looks a lot like an S-expression... hmm...

So I'm seeing something that could be done much easier in Lisp. It's still not a need for a macro, though (unless you're going to suggest that I use a macro to turn some user-writeable DSL into Lisp, and sure, it could be done that way.)
It isn't; it's the risk of doing so that one willingly runs which makes one a hero. Since we don't see these peole at work the fact of contracting it is an indirect proof of hands-on activity.
Hah! No, not trying to get a blog post written, but if any patterns emerge for pain points or missing docs, examples, or resources for learning I might create a page or an ebook project on GitHub that covers that area.

I probably will play around with the tools that are new to me regardless.

UPDATE: Updated the OP.
Something like this? IIRC this would've worked 4 months back:

gulp.task('copy', function() {
return gulp.src('src/foo/**/*').pipe(gulp.dest('dest/foo'));
});
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I disagree totally.
Taken up by all cells with a sodium/iodide symporter. From wikipedia: Apart from thyroid cells NIS can also be found, although less expressed, in other tissues such as the salivary glands, the gastric mucosa, the kidney, the placenta, the ovaries and the mammary glands during pregnancy and lactation. It also occurs is in the lungs.

We also see that viral infection can trigger apoptosis here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10547702

And that iodine is critical to some of the pathways leading to apoptosis, which may explain its helpfulness in some cancers:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16120321

So it's concentrated in the gut and kidneys - 2 places strongly effected by ebola. And there is a plausible link to slowing viral infection through destruction of infected cells. It was just a suggestion.

The standard responses occured - 1) that stuff will burn tissue. and 2) it's only good for your thyroid. Both of these statements are false. Well sure #1 with concentrated iodine will do that, but that's not relevant to my original suggestion.
> That would hit right in the gut where the infection goes wild and does the most damage.

Ebola goes wild and does the most damage in blood vessels, not the gut.
Not really going to address your rant, but just wanted to point out that we can and do have better scaling algorithms in web browsers. Works pretty well on safari osx and safari ios. As far as I can tell, it passes his test, which seems to corroborate that OSX added full support to the sRGB standard as of 10.6
It's quite true! It is worth noting that many systems people call unix are not POSIX compliant, but most try!
You didn't understand the article. Read his cannonballs analogy. The problem is the formula used to average colors is wrong in most software. The problem is most software is averaging the numeral values of the RGB component when it it should be averaging the light output intensity, which is not linear to the RGB numeral values.
>You only need a social security number if you're doing it as a personal account.

The EIN still requires SSN(ITIN or another EIN) :

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

"All EIN applications (mail, fax, electronic) must disclose the name and Taxpayer Identification Number (SSN, ITIN, or EIN) of the true principal officer, general partner, grantor, owner or trustor. "

EDIT: my bad with foreign rules, thanks vitovito below
I'm not sure this actually improves the flow for me. I (like most sane devs), like to lock my deps to specific versions (or vendor them). Currently, it's just a matter of running:

npm install --save dep

With this, I either have to be satisfied with not locking down the version, or go lookup the current version manually before adding the reference to my code.

It also looks like upgrading a dep would mean changing every require.
This is very cool. Any chance you'd release the data behind it ?
>There are no assumptions that your client speaks JavaScript, so it's more friendly to non-browser clients like searchbots

Thanks for pointing this out, I'm always glad to see people taking responsibility for the quality of their contributions to the web and finding tools that enable good work.
Just to be clear, you can actually pin down the dependencies by creating a `component.json` manifest and adding the specific versions you want. You'd want to do this when publishing your own components, or when building a large app, but for quickly sketching out ideas you can just require them inline. Basically the manifest is optional, so you can choose when it makes sense to lock things down.
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Was there any particular intro to Gulp that provided this revelation about streams? As far as I know, I 'get' streams, but now you're making me wonder. :)
Google reader wasnt open-source.As Google Wave,I believe there is an open-source version.
Name conflict? http://vuejs.org/
It seems most people here have never used (and not tried) racket.

I decided to use racket for my little sides projects, as
replacement for scala and clojure.

I choose it because it was clear for me i can't stand limitations
other language impose to me in way of style and boilerplate, the
racket macro (aka syntax transformer) system is the most advanced
i know to reduce the boilerplate to a minimum and so just write
what i want to express. In facts i rarely write macro because
writing a good macro demand you take care of errors syntax, i am
lazy in the bad meaning of the term.

I choose it because it's dynamic typed and i get more convinced
that type go on your way most of the time (expect complex
algorithms)(i write little projects, so refactoring argument is
out). It enable me to write code and eval it on the fly with
geiser (using enter! on the back), after eval the new function i
test it in the repl, hack until the function meet the requirement
copy paste from repl and boom i get a unit test. Because it as
eval and it will become handy one time in your programmer life
for sure.

I choose it because of it's sexpr syntax, as a heavy user of
emacs i know that other syntax is a pity.

Also because it has (and i use):

1. llar parser (implemented through a macro).

2. A pattern matching nothing to envy scala or clojure deconstructs.

3. An optional type system.

4. A contract system.

What i find hard as a new comer (to racket, not as a programmer
already now scala, clojure, half of c++ :), php) is

1. The broadness of the features the language offer, which
feature to use e.g.: class or generics.

2. The documentation is rich but lack of examples for the common
cases, so you need to read the doc of the function (sometime it's
huge).

3. Understanding how racket module works is quite hard and you
have the documentation, if you don't plan to play with the macro
expander (the stuff that run your macro) and some dynamic
features you don't really need to.

4. You need to 'register' the errortrace library if you want a
stacktrace, quite a surprising behaviours for me.

My opinionated conclusion:

Racket is the best language design i ever see, it's hard to learn
but make you feel learning an other language will just become to
learn a new sub-optimal syntax. Sadly the ecosystem is lacking
libraries and peoples and i am not helping in this way.
I've been living in Bay Area for the past couple of years, and every time I go back home (Helsinki, Finland), first thing I notice how quiet it is.

Even in the middle of the city, with people hustling around, its not noisy. Somehow the city streets, cars and people are quieter.

Same with restaurants, you can actually have an conversation even with a larger table without yelling since everyone in the restaurant talks with a respectful volume.

And you can live in a downtown apartment and hear absolutely no street noise during the day or night.

The quiet times or less noisy places is one of the things I miss. In Bay Area you really need to look for it, to find a place with quietness which is usually far away from highways, roads and apparently people.
this may be off topic, but I don't recognize some of the UI elements(battery life, signal strengh, etc) in his screen shots, and I can only assume that is an iOS8 beta. Isn't he breaking his NDA by showing off an unreleased OS? Security hole or not?
This is good to hear. My hatred has gone. Thank you!
It's interesting that they delay the Twitter by an hour. You can get real time 911 info for Seattle here.

http://www2.seattle.gov/fire/realtime911/getRecsForDatePub.a...
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The link as submitted gets a 404, because the submitter transposed the trailing / and the preceding character.

This is the correct link: https://jawbone.com/blog/jawbone-up-data-by-city/
Then when you need to pin down versions and such, it's a massive pain (in terms of not being able to have a manifest file in Go's native case).
If nonsense like Pride and Prejudice makes it into a literature course, Dune at get above that low bar.
I keep meaning to spend some time playing with Go, but I haven't yet so I don't know how that feels. However, I wonder what it says that several dependency management tools have emerged for Go.

https://github.com/mattn/gom

https://github.com/nitrous-io/goop

https://github.com/tools/godep
Buy @ coinbase (if you a US resident)

Hold on your own machines. Don't trust any service to hold your coins for you.
Wicked! I want to see a video.
The Go link should point to http://golang.org
The thing that I don't like about web components is that it's a browser specific technology. With React, I can render the first page on the server, so the user doesn't have to wait 3 seconds for the initial page load. So I'm not a huge fan of anything that's browser specific and can't be rendered on the server. I see why Google is pushing for it - web components would mean crawlers not having to execute Javascript, which translates to significant savings on crawling infrastructure. But it'd make for a shitty user experience.
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Yeah it would be a replacement for cloud computing. They have some web datasets users can crawl using their platform too.
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Excited for you guys!
That's cool :) I assume the manifest can be auto-generated by examining the code? In that case, that makes me much more interested.
Except if you're a foreign entity. Quoting from the domestic instructions probably won't help the original poster.

"IF the applicant...

Is a foreign person needing an EIN to comply with IRS withholding regulations

THEN...

Complete lines 1–5b, 7a–b (SSN or ITIN optional), 8a, 8b–c (if applicable), 9a, 9b (if applicable), 10, and 18."

Note "SSN or ITIN optional." That's per the SS-4 form. Per a sibling post, the IRS will also issue foreign entities an ITIN if necessary.
I wouldn't take it personally, it's more likely to be a bit of fun.
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For that purpose there should be a killall() function.
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famo.us is shockingly bad IMHO. It breaks many common user interactions and goes through a load of hoops to enable "native performance" and then doesn't even get that right, I really don't understand the hype.
"I don't really like anything"

Have you considered that you may be depressed?
I'd imagine doing this for node.js would require modifications to node itself since the behaviour of require would need to change. On second thought, I suppose you could just rename packages and mess with their path in node_modules to make things work. But that would mean moving out of the npm ecosystem which seems rather bold.
The thing about AWS is that it's basically a one stop shop for everything you need infrastructure wise. Many startups can avoid having specialists for infrastructure in the early stages if the default choice is "use AWS" for all infrastructure decisions.

Choosing not to go the AWS route might mean having someone on staff in the early stages who is dedicated to systems management and engineering. Not every early stage team has access to someone like that so that is the main draw with AWS.

Other cloud providers still haven't caught up to the richness of AWS's offerings, although Google and Microsoft are starting to come close.
Things are moving fast in the front-end world. Just as we've stopped using RequireJS and accept Browserify as the new king DuoJS comes and overthrows everything again.
Hmm maybe I wasn't searching hard enough :D
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