skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weave – The Docker Network
You could take out the risk by as soon as you accepted a payment in bitcoin took a reverse option for the bitcoin value in USD.
This trend is terrible, not only those webpages are hard to read, but they're also hogging CPU. I had to close a tab with it, because it reduced my remaining time on battery from 50mins to 20 mins...
The Push to Receive Push Notifications
How to Supercharge Your Python Shell with a .pythonrc
Is this actually implemented server-side on any networks?
I'm still dreaming of a world connected by a giant Wi-Fi mesh network (or several federated networks) fully maintained and supported by its users. It would be like the Internet as it should've been: free as in freedom.

There are efforts underway such as Guifi[1] (very popular in Catalonia) but there's a high barrier to entry, the documentation is very sparse and mainly in Catalan. I'm a technical person but gave up researching how to add a node in my city.

The project is really cool and provides both connectivity and services for the network, including gateways into the Internet.

Why didn't mesh networks flourish? What killed the dream of a truly free and federated internet? Is there a similar effort in the US or other parts of Europe?

How cool would that be? I'll keep dreaming...

[1] http://guifi.net/
Apparently, that address does not exist.
"My favorite 'magic pill' productivity hack is my Seiki 39″ monitor" - bountify founder

wouldn't 39" monitor be too big for programming? what is HNers' preferred size?
Do Royal babies lead to Property booms?
I wonder how confident the CPC is in the political stability of China. Conflict is a wildcard and it can have all sorts of consequences.

I don't really know how to evaluate the claim myself as a removed outsider, but there seems to be a pretty credible claim that politically, China is economic growth addicted. IE, any kind of stagnation or substantially reduced growth rate endangers the political status quo.

People standing over their 14 year old kids to get the grades expect a salaried lifestyle for that kid in 10 years that isn't available today. They are expecting economic growth to create it. If, when that kid is 19 and in University it starts to look like a white collar job for graduates is unlikely, this kid studying Business and International Studies is not going to achieve what his parents worked. If he finds himself with something they unanimously agree is beneath him….

War is tricky.
If you add shared memory threads (like in c++, c#, java) to Javascript, I'm disabling it forever.
15 minutes frittered reading up on that one. Seems the guys set up in the same warehouse so they could have trucks coming and going for a year or so and set up a Maple Syrup dealers in a neighbouring state to ship it to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/business/arrests-made-in-m...
Polyfills as a service
Awesome, for me Watsi is one of the most inspirational startups right now. Reminds me that if someone can, doing amazing startups is the right thing to do!
I'll give you example of how i upsell a website

When it is a new company (is going to launch in 1 month for example), i propose them to set a launch page (basic one, created in max. 15 minutes) for 100 €, to collect emailaddresses.

The launch page includes a text email to all of your visitors when they subscribe and say that this proposal doesn't include HTML (for images), because that is custom work and more difficult.

When the moment arrives, i ask them for the text they want me to send to their visitors.

In 70% of the cases, they ask to include a picture of the team.. I explain them that this was not part of the deal, but that i can change the message to a HTML email for 80€ (if provided the assets first).

So, selling a website earned me another 180 €, a happy customer (the launch page is added publicity)

How do you upsell?
Another truth, is that phishing attacks are targeting the masses. If unsophisticated people will be facing difficulties, it is going to be enormously successful attack vector. Despite of the fact, that it completely fails in deceiving IT people.
Alright, I was one year off.
They could optionally ship the IDE with their own embedded JVM. I think that Eclipse does that (or maybe did, I did not check it recently).
I don't think it is necessarily worth the trouble though.
How to digitally sign your software update
I think we have quite a few people waiting for the answer, and a few people not wanting to give up the answer.
Elon Musk is very visionary. I think underestimating Google's driverless car will be wrong.

The driverless car of Google is going to be fully automatic. I have read patents about the GDC and I found that the car can really run on autonomous mode.

The car can take control from the driver by gauging the amount of pressure he is applying on various controllers like brake pedals and accelerator or steering.

There are other features of the car also like detecting road weather conditions and pedestrians on road.

I think in future it is going to be Tesla Vs Google. However, Tesla can manufacture its own cars and Google cannot. Tesla has a benefit in this aspect.
When you come with a large army, invade the country, remove the local government, and replace it with puppets working for your country's interests, "territorial claim" is just a twist of words.
> 1 in a million company with a 1000x return

Sounds like a terrible expected ROI ;)
You should check onionmail http://en.onionmail.info/
I think the exact same thing, that's why i added one of my easiest/best technique to earn more with the same thing.

I really hope some people share their knowledge/experience. The more people that share, the more people you can use it to gain a better profit :)
Crypto Research Fund for Students: Cryptography Research Inc Donated $1M to IACR
Ask HN: Does anyone know if there's some kind of Docker Orchestrator out there?
Also really like it. Nice simple neat and friendly. Would be nice to add standard theme such as the europass CV.
Architecting an automatic updates system for windows services
Yeah, my point wasn't that democracies don't wage wars -- just that they can't ignore the will of the citizenry (unless they don't actually have a democracy).

As an American, the USA's bottomless well of rah-rah nationalism any time they trot out the troops has always been a mystery. But it's definitely there, and I don't think any other country since the USSR has come close to the USA in terms of attacking other countries.

I also disagree with the comment below about a war-weary USA having a tepid response to China seizing a minor uninhabited American island. I think public support for a military response would be huge, like always.

What I was saying was that in Japan specifically, that knee-jerk support would not be there.
I don't mean something like Terraform or Fig, but a SaaS which deploy, manage and monitor docker containers wherever you want.
DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake
There is no money in hosting.

Call it cloud, thats where the money is.
Here in Italy, ninux seems to be taking some mindshare.

http://wiki.ninux.org/

Unluckily, the English website is almost empty.
Don't know if you use emacs, but I use org-mode on text files with Dropbox. Supports tags, calendaring, searching, etc.
Office is an App. I just went into the new fad of calling App to what used to be called native applications.

As for Prezi, I had to search for it. No idea it existed.

No thanks, I rather use Powerpoint as well.
Web agency founder with a decade of experience in selling websites here. I wrote a book on the subject of recurring revenue for web agencies and web professionals, all based on our experience.

Here's what worked for us:

- after selling a website, we sold the mandatory support and maintenance contract. We considered this service the foundation, or level one of our recurring revenue stream. This is fairly easy to sell and renew. The recurring revenue we got from this was enough to keep us afloat.

- after selling support and maintenance, we upsold the client to "levele two": services which grow our client's online business. The types of services we offered in this plan: everything that needs to be done to reach client's business goals, and that we could deliver well. This was harder to sell (because the type of client needs to be just right for this kind of service), but the amount of money coming in every month is substantial. This is what makes the agency grow in long term.

Here's what didn't work for us:

- web hosting. We've been offering this for more than a decade and in the end, all things considered, it is just not worth it. A combination of support + maintenance + growth-oriented services is a much better bang for the buck. We sold most of our servers and hosting accounts to a specialized hosting company and focused on what we did best.

For the exact details about building, pricing and selling support and maintenance services, check out my book: https://www.simpfinity.com/books/recurring-revenue-web-agenc... (the part about growth-oriented services is coming soon, matter of weeks)

I love talking about the subject of recurring revenue, it's a passion of mine. I'll gladly answer any questions you might have.

Edited: typo.
HTML5-based photo editor for Dropbox
Startup Trading Firm (NYC)
I am currently helping build a team for a new trading firm based in NY. They have been set up to build a trading platform that hosts quant PMs. They currently have four trading groups onsite already and all are pretty high calibre. They’re building a global multi-asset trading platform for stat arb (low latency, robust, scalable, etc) but are looking to keep it completely open source and using whatever tech is best for any given task. Everything is being built on Amazon Web Services & they’re aiming to be as nimble and quick as possible in getting things implemented.

Currently looking for talented developers and software engineers to be part of the team.

Pop me an email if interested jaeb@campbell-north.com
Commercial solutions exist too; the company I work for (Venafi https://www.venafi.com) makes certificate management software that is designed to solve this very problem.
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That's my guess -- they must be quite expensive to build, with quite a bit of specialized hardware involved (not exactly off-the-shelf stuff!), and highly-specialized people to run it ...but then only one experiment can use the whole shebang at a time (including setup/teardown time), so they can't spread out the costs across lots of concurrent users.
I would love to know if there's a name to this particular type of orbit, I spent a little bit too much time creating it and now need to know some more about it! :-) Anybody know how I can find out?

http://imgur.com/4W7eqj9

Thanks
AngryBots: a 3d game in the browser
I think selling hosting to a customer is wrong, but selling services based on hosting could do well (email app,invoicing app, website, dropbox alternative, booking services (restaurant, hotel) ...). There's no money in the hosting without a webapplication part (my 2 cents)

Currently, a lot of my clients don't need the monthly support option. That doesn't seem to sell very well, because they mostly have no problems.

What can be sold is the support for 3 months (during the start)... But that is where the most problems are, so i'm wondering if it's financially interesting to do that :) . I also mention that i'm a busy guy, but with a monthly support fee. They can call dibs on me anytime.
I wrote this in C++:
http://suprsede.com/
Go easy on it!
Why I Am Selling Half My Yahoo Stock
I really like your examples with the vector whose size is controlled by the type. However, is that useful in practice? I suppose that your vector would be read from a file or a database (especially if you do data analysis), in which case you can't know in advance - at compile time - what size the vectors will have.

I suppose it can still work if you want to do things with the covariance/correlation matrix: you may not know the number of rows before hand, but you know the number of columns, or know that two data sets will have the same number of columns.
https://github.com/ezpuzz/supysonic

I've been off and on working on a python version of the Subsonic API. Try it out, you might like it.

Currently trying to port it to windows.

Also as mentioned elsewhere in these comments, DSub is a very nice subsonic android app.
KiwiIRC uses this protocol apparently. I asked the author about it and they said they have worked out special arrangements with some networks to implement it, and accept connections exclusively from Kiwi, I presume? After all, a password is required according to this spec:
https://kiwiirc.com/docs/webirc
This is one of the advantages gained by using a non-native toolkit to develop for these platforms. My platform of choice (MOAI) is Lua-based, and in my development environment I can treat all of the hosts that it runs on - Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, HTML5+javascript - the same. There is no walled garden in this technique - any time I want to test on a platform, I simply send the existing app a link to a new source bundle, and off we go.

The only time this doesn't work is of course the appstore-approval phase - things have to be precompiled and bundled properly into a signable package. Oh well, just a part of release engineering. But other than that, its just a push-button away to get new versions of my apps installed on all the test devices in the lab..
Paypal Video Confirms Bitcoin Integration
CenturyLink released this in August, I don't know how well it works: http://panamax.io
Show HN: Free UK company data search
This is the end result of some nasty XML-munging of the newly-available Companies House data sets (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/toolsToHelp/dataProducts.sh...). I know you can get similar stuff from Duedil, but this is free and open, and you can download stuff without paying. Enjoy!
The sandboxing provided by NaCl is nice, but I'm not sure binary portability is really a worthwhile goal -- I think we really want cross-compilation, native binaries and the OS providing most of the sandbox.

That way we get maximum performance on the hardware we're targeting (not the "lowest common denominator" of common bytecodes), an ability to run self-modifying code if we want to send a JIT down the wire...
The way I see this "clients do or do not need support" is this (and this metaphor faired well with clients, to help them understand why support and maintenance is absolutely crucial): I personally don't need medical insurance either because I'm healthy most of the time. But what happens when I get sick? I need fast remedy and I want to live my life assured that there's a team of experts on standby, ready to take me in.

In my experience, it made no sense to argue with the client about maintenance when the website was "sick". All the client wanted was for us to fix it. I knew that, so I made sure I sold them a maintenance package in advance, when they "didn't need" it. A website is just like a bridge: if you build it, you're responsible for it, but it's not for free. Everything I put in the world, I am responsible for, but the client needs to pay for it.

Here's how we sold support:
- 30 days guarantee period (after launch)
- we were selling only annual contracts. A lot happens every month. Frameworks and libraries need updating, 404 links happen, browsers update, CMS systems get new security updates... There's a ton of things to keep an eye on as a developer, and you could create an annual plan which your client pays for monthly (give her a discount when she signs a contract).
It is a shortcoming of the integrator (Euler), not in the calculation of the force (as you suspected).

See [1]. Especially slides 11 and 12 may be of interest.

[1] http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/phy277/lect30.pdf

As a sidenote, there are better integration schemes, but all of them will have some error because we discretize the system.
How to restore specific data from previous backup on Postgres Heroku?
I had thought that it was already established by swimmers that hair was a detriment to speed. Why would it be surprising to cyclist? I do ride, but not competitively so I will keep the razor to my face only, thank you.
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Tiling window managers take care of that. At work, I'm hurting for more space a lot with 2x24" monitors, especially when I need to keep close tabs on a critical service.
Ask HN: What are some good one day social software hack/mashup ideas?
I use Hootsuite to manage multiple accounts across different platforms. It saves me time, allows me to keep an eye on keywords (that I can geo target if need be) and share clients content. Easily for me the best £10 a month; what's that 33 pence a day?
Show HN: A lightweight, fs-backed, caching element store in Go
Know thy .NET object memory layout
> Why didn't mesh networks flourish?

Because of the need for network management. Even the idealised Internet has a few centralised resources, such as the IP address space (IANA + the hierarchy of NICs).

There was intense activity in community based WiFi, soon after decent speed WiFi debuted in the early 2000s, but they mostly died, due to the above issue in my experience. Nodedb [1] is still a remnant of that era, which indicates the level of activity that was.

[1] http://www.nodedb.com/
I find HN fetish with UoW to be interesting , which has been my data point to be very skeptical about believing everything I read here.

1) UoW has a really low requirement for entry, of my class many students went to study at UoW most of them had average to below average grade, compared to Oxbridge UoW has a joke of an entry requirement, I later learned they have a very high dropout rate after first year - which explains things, but I think is disingenuous to their students. School should be a place of learning not a lab for natural selection.

2) I drew a spreadsheet for Unis across the global all from singapore,UK,US and Canada. Any engineer graduating with an average GPA working full time for 1 year and having done internships in uni will have earned more money than what this links shows.

3) The strong internship requirement means students who cannot find one within four months of joining uni is likely to fail his semester even if he is academically gifted. My UoW friend failed a year due to this stupid requirement, in most other universities it will not be an end to your stay if you fail to get a job within the first 4 months.

4) UoW has really bad reputation in the academical world and ppl doing basic research ( look up UoW ranking )

5) Their fees are only competitive if you are from canada, they are much more expensive for international students compared to elite universities in the UK.

6) Universities historically should have weak ties with industries. The reason for this is independence. I know for a fact that UoW has strong ties with microsoft in the past and used to push .NET stuff on their students ! how do you expect a university to be intellectually honest if they are attached to a corporation ?

I could add more but I am running out of time.
Agreed: the presentation is excellent. Very much in the tradition of the BBC's radio 'From Our Own Correspondent'.

It says it was built with Shorthand - http://shorthand.com/ . Anyone know of an open-source equivalent?
Panamax is really interesting and I think it's a good start, something else?
Note that I didn't mention anything about the independence. I'm pretty agnostic about it. Managing a resource is good, but one has to be realistic about the prospects. I think wind energy is an awesome resource for Scotland too, often overlooked.

I linked to data and analysis. Where are the sources for the conspiracy about the "unexplored banned resources"? (note that the exact same reservoir behaviour (steep production decline due to rapidly falling pressure) is happening in Denmark and Norway, where the British Ministry of Defence has no authority and there is no "Faslane" naval base).
What!? I looked at the two screenshots and the two look nothing like each other?
Search and Navigation: Improving E-commerce Website Usability
Sorry, but that's stupid on a number of levels. First, territorial claims can be made with or without war, the later of which is (thankfully!) what we're actually talking about with China and the islands. Second, anyone who thinks that the government in Iraq has been a puppet of the United States just isn't paying attention.

I get it, you don't like the United States, but you're desperately trying to draw equivalencies that do not exist. It's been a really long time since the US annexed anything. That doesn't make the loss of life that occurs in its small wars any less serious but you cannot talk about international events if you lump everything bad that happens in the world into the same ill-defined category and then use whatever labels you have at hand to refer to that category. Annexation isn't invasion. They might be associated - Russia annexed Crimea after an invasion, after all - but they're not the same thing.

If simply using terms properly doesn't move you, then there's this: you can tell a lot about a county's ambitions based on what its territorial disputes are and what it's trying to acquire. In this annexation = invasion world that you're inhabiting, you'd conclude that the United States wants to colonize the Middle East. I assure you that this is not the case. We just want to buy their oil, aside from that we don't give a damn about them. Not saying whether that's smart or ethical or not, but that's the reality.
And it looks like that in the future we will have something like JVM and its classloaders. Just with different names (LLVM? v8? RequireJS? JS AMD?) and a lot more kludges. And without Gosling, Joy and Steele.
"There's no money in the hosting without a webapplication part (my 2 cents)" - totally agree, that was my experience too.

So you actually asked about selling services and apps hosted in the cloud? That is a good business, if you make it your core business. For example, we resold Google Apps to clients. Since clients were local and preferred to call our phones for support, we sold them our support services too. So, the client bought Google Apps for Business licenses through us and bought added-value services like support, installation, migration, consulting etc.

That's a good business. Specialization and focus helps here, so that you don't spread yourself too thin.
The NHS is sick – big data could be the cure
Poll Everywhere (YC S08) Hiring Front-end CoffeeScript Engineers
Show HN: Boilerplate for building syscall-only ELFs in FreeBSD
Just do what everyone else does... watch Netflix US via a proxy.
Improve http://indiewebcamp.com/Bridgy
I am afraid i can't focus if i do both thing. Yes i can still do everyting in weekend, but i don't think it would be effective and impactful.
I for one disagree completely. I think this is great and I really liked the videos, they added depth to the article.
Looks like it isn't: https://github.com/erming/shout/issues/52
> a bizarre comparison between Canada and Scotland

It is especially bizarre when Ireland exists. The Republic of Ireland is right next door. It has about the same population as Scotland. One century of independence has had its ups and downs, but they’re mostly doing fine.
Binding isolate scope to controller using 'bindToController' in AngularJS 1.3.0
No policy statement on systemd? :)

http://alpinelinux.org/ is another minimal appliance distro.
I came across with the new configuration called 'bindToController' in Angularjs github repo but I cant find any sample code yet. So I decided to play around with it and observe how it works. Here's a sample code I made with it.
Waterloo's technical programs would be at home at a very strong polytechnic. It's not Oxbridge and never will be. "University" is a misnomer but English-speaking Canada doesn't use "technical university" or "polytechnic" and "college" means something else.

Weak ties with industries are important for theoretical research but a joke for programs like mechanical engineering.