skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much for the feedback. The loading is still something we're trying to improve. It's pulling in a large amount of data that takes a bit of time. I think we'll end up doing a nightly roll-up of that data to help improve page load times.

I'll take a look at the chronological sorting issue. From a first glance it is working for me but it could be something else going on. Thanks again for the feedback.
No, it's not ads. Sponsored tweets will likely get the same treatment but this is the start of a two-sided marketplace where users stay on the site to buy an item from a tweet of someone they're following, rather than the old method which was to follow a bitly or gumroad link.
Please disregard if this is not totally important for a landing page, but I missed very much a "who we are" section. Or anything that's similar to an about page. That may be in the video I guess, but since I can't watch it in the place I'm right now...
Out of genuine curiosity, what do you use the watch for that you would associate with time savings?
I've been curious about these things, but haven't been sure as to if they're a product in search of a problem for the current implementation and limitations.
Chinese man sues gov't-owned telecom company for blocking Google
sorry but what's the use case for this?
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Your questions both have the same answer (ie it's the same question) but that's a backwards way of thinking about it. You have to consider the cost of lidar at economics of scale, not before.

If your point is that lidar won't be cheap enough even at economies of scale to make a mass market device, then just answer OPs question directly. Your comment is just a restatement in a less intuitive way.
I wonder if there's a way to generalize this so any text or image can have metadata about purchasing the exact product. Something like a shorter UPC but with a non-intrusive reader embedded everywhere offering you to buy the product through manufacturer-controlled channels (varying depending on what country you are in).

You "just" need to get enough users to install the scanning software; maybe the next iPhone will come with Apple Shopping that scans all text you see and all images for the metadata/watermarks. As it detected a product, the new second $ button lights up. Press down on it for a second, and the product information pops up (Apple Shopping knows your size/address/credit card already of course). Hold it down for a few seconds longer, and you've made your purchase. Don't, and a few weeks later maybe the seller gets to send you a 10% off coupon.

Actually, Amazon's phones might already have something like that, letting you scan a bar code in a physical shop but purchase from Amazon.
Yes that is one of the big issue for sure. But it can be mitigated using reviews and past experiences. Other issues are similar to what AirBnB might have faced like security issues, etc.
But it was also kept in a "crime museum" where it might have become contaminated, and DNA samples will degrade over time, so a cautious representation of this finding would be "might show the identity" rather than “Jack the Ripper has been identified."

> "An interesting but remarkable claim that needs to be subjected to peer review, with detailed analysis of the provenance of the shawl and the nature of the claimed DNA match with the perpetrator's descendants and its power of discrimination; no actual evidence has yet been provided," Jeffreys told The Independent newspaper.
For Windows the JRE is bundled with all of the JetBrains products.
> someone who starts before first contact about how they're not going to sign my NDA (without even finding out if I would require that) is definitely not going to be hired.

I wouldn't sign an NDA first either. I'd at least want to have a brief description of the idea first. Anybody who values what they work on would do the same. What if you're already working on a similar idea? If you sign an NDA and then realize their idea is similar to your idea then they can potentially take legal action when you're just executing your own idea.
Congratulations! You have been nominated for worst pun on HN 2014. An awards dinner in Anchorage is scheduled for December and Jon Stewart will be compering!

:-)
Do people really think of the moon as "as a problem solved and a bit retro"? Anyone I've talked to about it would love to see people get back up there. Especially with the recent, incredibly expensive Mars missions, it seems like we could put a little more effort into checking out the Moon.
You know what I meant, right? And the article mentioned as the source is not linkable.
My master services agreement actually contains my NDA. Not sure if that's standard practice, but I think it works well as it cuts down on paperwork and it precludes me from having to have a separate conversation about it.
Just because you voluntarily follow the ads does it not still make them ads?
I made a scala lib for jwt - needs some work still but has eg extractor functionality. https://github.com/jasongoodwin/authentikat-jwt
How are the economics of such a model for twitter? Retailer margins are usually thin and you need further split with stripe and the feed publisher.
I don't know, is this really an important scenario? If I wanted to harm a specific individual, I would manipulate the individuals car (like I would today). And who wants to drive an undirected attack on everyone close? That would be considered a quite serious crime that takes a substantial technical effort, with little to gain.
I Have a Startup – What is the difference between a side-project and a startup?
That's a possibility, but that still wouldn't be more intrusive than the current sponsored tweets. If anything, if this model is successful, they might even reduce the amount of sponsored stuff appearing in your timeline.
> But what worries me is that all of this will have to be eventually dumbed down to an explanation that a jury of average joes can understand.

Not necessarily. They could give up the right to a jury trial and go for a bench/judge trial. That's often done in complex or technical cases (the reasoning being that, despite the pro-state biases, better to appeal to an experienced and known-intelligent person like a judge than to risk the prejudices of the common man).
Very cool. Sciencescape built a ton of these field visualizations that cover a bunch of topics (genes, cells, diseases, etc). The pay wall issue is a non-starter in my mind: public funds -> publicly accessible data.. or at least thats how i think it should be...
What about music stored on the server on which CloudTunes is running? Can it play that?
Right now, according to Flightradar24, there are airliners from Dniproavia, Metrojet, Yamal Airlines and Air Moldova flying across eastern Ukraine. They are mostly going across the north of East Ukraine apart from Dniproavia, which may yet swing north, but it isn't as though airlines are avoiding the whole of eastern Ukraine.
For one: you can play your music collection from any location if it's stored on Dropbox?
I released this as a product a few years ago and subsequently open sourced it. With a bit of work, it could be a good little web app to run on your own server to manage repo backups.

https://github.com/antiqua-io/Antiqua
To have access to your music library from a web browser.
You want to send all your code over the internet for processing every time you edit a line? This is (to a much lesser extent) how Salesforce's IDE works, and it's awful in my estimation. The only reason to do it is if (again, like Salesforce) you have a proprietary platform with an automated verification process that you don't want to reval to users.
as much as I love seeing this startup spinoff like that, I feel bad for the one you're leaving behind. But anyways, good luck!
Well, that comes from the Garbage Collector, cleaning after all the programmers to lazy think about resource usage. But hey, never mention this when together with Java-developers, because saying something critical about garbage collection ist almost as bad as denying global warming.
Proposal: Use mypy syntax for function annotations
Then any corporate accounts you follow now are 'ads'. It's an added button, no more, no less. If that magically makes an otherwise neutral tweet an ad, you need a more rigorous definition of advertisement.
regulatory issues?
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That appalled user would have a heart attack at Awk, a language in which a previously unseen variable serves as zero or an empty string.

count++ # if count doesn't exist, it becomes 1

A previously unseen array reference materializes automatically too:

count[$1]++

(I think this is garbage too, but it leads to throwaway programs that are very concise. If you write anything large, it's going to bite you on the butt:

mispelled[foo] += bar; # wee
Bankers, not borrowers, caused the Global Financial Crisis
The definitive list (Worst 100 white men ranked)
Isn't this effectively the failed cuecat model?
I came to mention something similar I read many years back about copper, but it was funded by the "copper industry" and the article is on the Daily Mail from 2008.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1081359/Copper-doo...

Alternatively I found another article sighting a study that says brass is good from 2012.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9762689/Fit-bra...
Building a Web Scraper (with 80legs)
C# (GUI with WinForms)

SQL and PL/SQL

Java (server-side stuff that uses the db)

Perl (server-side stuff that doesn't use the db)

Unix shell script (ksh93; server-side stuff that mostly just calls other things)

They're each suited for different things, and I think my productivity is better than if I tried to do everything in a single language.
I was particularly impressed by this detail further down the conversation:

Let A1 = 1, A2 = blank, A3 = 3

PRODUCT(A1:A3) is 1

A1 * A2 * A3 is 0
This is a major political power maneuver. As long as Snowden is in Russia, Obama can control the messaging. He is, after all, cooperating with an important physical threat to, if not outright enemy of the United States. Asylum in Switzerland, along with all the mental associations with its neutrality and sovereignty, puts Obama in a much trickier position. Probably not enough to turn the tide, but it forces Obama to address the situation with a subset of his constituents who are not as easily convinced by "Murica is Awesome!" style arguments.
Linus Torvalds Says Linux Binary Packages Are Terrible
Can't stop thinking about the unexotic underclass article: http://miter.mit.edu/the-unexotic-underclass/

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261098
I'm going to guess you don't use the 'one-click buy' button on Amazon either?
Stop Worrying About the Future? Scientists Claims We Can See It
> What if you're already working on a similar idea?

Then you shouldn't be looking for contract work in order to execute someone else's ideas.

But if this is the case then 30 seconds into them explaining their idea you can interrupt them and point out that you are conflicted because you are already working on this idea and then likely they will just pull you from their list as a supplier.

You then confirm the proceedings of that meeting in an email and that's that.

It is as if people think that if they sign an NDA they will for sure be sued, but this is not the case. Breaking an NDA means that you learned something unique, that you did something with that unique knowledge to the detriment of the person you signed the NDA with.

If you have a project in your repo clearly documenting the history of your project to that date then you can simply cite that in your email documenting your conflict of interest using the pre-existing work as the reason and that's likely all that you'll ever hear about it.

An irrational operator can sue you for any reason whatsoever, especially if you're successful. NDA's or not are not going to make a very large difference there.

You sign them with the full intention of not wanting to break them. If you hit a conflict of interest (and that should in that particular case happen in the first few minutes of the conversation post signing the NDA) then you simply declare a conflict of interest and end the conversation, or give the prospect the option to continue in the full knowledge of this.
By this point, most threads on anything vaguely arab have descended into flame wars and what not. I can't believe Hacker News has managed to keep the discussion (over 87%) civil. I am in awe.
I really like what I see so far.

One piece of feedback, and I understand you may not have decided on this yet, but it's not clear from the landing page whether this is meant to be free, a paid service, etc. I just get presented with a signup form and don't really have an understanding about whether I'll be expected to fork over payment or not.

Looking at this in the context of somebody's HN project I kept going, but if this were just another site I stumbled across, that ambiguity would make me more like to bounce than not.
Yeah but then again what was Morales going to do about it? Get a little bit angry? That decision was literally consequence-free. I highly doubt anyone would order Putin's plane to land anywhere though. Just like no one would order the air force one to land forcibly, it's just not done.
Breaking up with America
Yes, http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...

By no means is that complete, but that should give you a primer, and I learned about it from other startups that successfully have raised funds. (I was in the dark too at a point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4064276)

The other big thing is just to get out and talk with other founders near you. I found (at least in our community) they were very willing to share information over a beer or soda.
I have got an idea to start a business – 5 reasons why it might fail
My not-super-computer-literate 70 year old mother got a Fire TV and didn't really need any help getting it going. It's now her primary source of TV content.

I think we can credit things getting a lot easier to use.
Professionally: Java, Perl, Javascript, PHP
On the side: Python, OCaml

Productivity: Java feels more solid than the scripting languages, but is extremely verbose. Python is the easiest dynamic language I've worked with, it strikes a good balance between speed of development and consistency. Codebases in dynamic languages don't scale too well, though especially when your refactoring tools are "sed" and "mv". OCaml is exceptional in terms of error-checking at compile time, readability, speed and small LOCs.
http://gnewsense.org/Documentation/3/MiscellaneousGuides/Com...

I compiled IceCat 17 for 32bit gnewsense some months ago. V24 needs dependencies outside what can be provided on gnewsense 3.1 (based on Debian Squeeze). The maintainer compiles the 64bit binaries against fairly recent libraries.

Firefox put out a generic 32bit binary that will work on linuxen of some vintage when unpacked somewhere like ~/home.

I did spend some time scratching my head and reading their mozconfig files to see how they manage to produce one binary that will work on Centos 5.10 up to Debian Sid. Didn't get anywhere.

Anyone got any ideas? Static build? Anyone got a mozconfig or mozbuild method to share?
In every language I know there is a set if conventions around Null values, not set values, true, false and zero

We have only had the concept of zero for a thousand years and null for about fifty. Expecting there to be a common way of handling this in all domains and industries is a bit much and expecting it to be handled the way the OP prefers is highly unlikely (although I do agree with their opinion)

If the convention in accountancy is BLANK == 0 then that's their convention. Implement it using a single method that's nice and easy to instrument and discover for later on, perhaps raising warnings out to the reports produced.

Leave the worrying over not set values for when Unicode and UTC handling in excel is brought up :-)
PayPal video featuring Bitcoin
I'm quite sure every NATO or EU nation between Russia and Switzerland would order the plane to land at the behest of the US.
I mirror most stuff between Bitbucket and GitHub, plus local copies of course.
I didn't realize that I had to manually page through the slides at the top to understand the product. I scrolled down and had no idea what the product was. Might want to put that first instead of hidden on slide 4.
The Bitcoin Arms Race Shifts to the Cloud
even better if its store-to-fridge.
If you mean the fraction of Linux systems using glibc: near-100% of non-Android systems, but Android uses its own libc.

If you mean the fraction of software depending on glibc-specific features: probably less than 50%, much less if you only count software that meant to depend on glibc-specific features.
Just file detailed provisional patents.
I personally would prefer a spreadsheet that treated null as the identity for whatever function it was acting as an input to (0 for addition, 1 for multiplication, e for exponentiation, Identity matrix for matrix multiplication, etc.), only throwing an error when a null does not resolve to a single value (i.e. the same cell is used for both addition and multiplication). But that would apparently require me to smoke some stuff.
So basically, what I'm doing above is replacing C with nimrod, C++ with Rust, and Java with Go.

Rust has a certain amount of extra complexity needed to provide powerful zero-overhead abstractions. Those abstractions would be very useful for the signal processing and planning and those are areas that are performance critical.

But for code that isn't so performance critical that you're always thinking about where everything is in memory, you might as well just use a garbage collector and it's easier if that's built into the language. Language design involves tradeoffs between features and complexity.

And for the embedded side I don't need that much abstraction, and again I really like Nimrod's way of letting you talk about things specified at compile time.

Cross language interop really isn't a concern since these parts are all talking to each other across sockets or over USB. Team training is a concern but I'm actually the only person here who works in all three areas so it's not a huge one. Of course, the lack of Rust and Go ROS bindings is certainly a concern but we're talking about an ideal stack here. :)
Performance considerations for elasticsearch indexing
I continue to be terrified at how spreadsheets are used in business applications. Squashing data that shouldn't be in tables into tables "so you can work with them" was the worst thing we ever taught non-programmers to do. We should have taught them how to program instead.

(you can get close to programming in a spreadsheet if you know what you're doing with Insert > Name > Create, and one day I'd like to see a spreadsheet that lets you write your macro functions in Python rather than VB, but nobody is taught to use Excel that way except people who also program.)
I think this low-hanging-fruit idea is generally true for all of science: after centuries of science as a profession, pretty much all the easy stuff has already been done.

It's actually an argument for more cojones in science-- being willing to do bold stuff and explore "crazy" hypotheses. If all the easy stuff is done already, then picking methodically and timidly among the dregs is unlikely to ever yield anything.
...Then ask faucet owners? Reach out to them via email or whatever their preferred contact method is.
We run each services in an LXC container. Containers are run inside a KVM that is connected to a bridged interface (one KVM per VLAN).

This setup is very clean and easy to partition, secure and maintain. So yes, light vs real virtualization can work well together!
Well that's just inconsistent and annoying and wrong.

I think the original comments are still over the top, as it seems to be arguin that a defined convention exists but the OP disagreed with it.

However if your example is what they were actually complaining about then hell yes.
Why there is no 'Python Programming' in 'All Professions' :(
Correct, my apologies.<br />
About the JS stuff: sorry if I sounded bitter - I guess it's perfectly acceptable, business-wise, to not support non-JS users given the fact that they are probably a tiny minority of users. I just wish more people would consider us noscript paranoid users :-)<br />
As for the website, it is pretty good - I like the idea of having projects for which the investment is already available. I don't like the name that much though - it suggests that ideas are something that have inherent values and that you can sell. In my mind, ideas have no value whatsoever: when you have an idea, you can bet lots of other people already had it too. Realization is what matters.<br />
Finally, on a more personnal note, I dislike the big-ass chair picture on the front page - it seems uncorelated to the platform itself. Then again, that's just me :-)
HTML5 Gravity/Galaxy Simulator
I agree with others. Your comment is nonsense. But the match question is more complicated than it looks.

Striking a match causes ignition because other humans have already made a long list of correlations and found them reliable enough to build a thing called a 'match'.

This is one of the differences between science and technology. Technology is practical causality. You know enough about phenomena to be reasonably confident that you can assemble them into configurations that do useful things in a reliable way.

Science is about not being sure if correlations exist until you check to find out. Science is also about building abstract models that can reliably predict unexpected correlations.

I'm not sure there's more to the idea of causation than reliable correlation backed up by elegant and efficient abstraction with predictive power. (There probably is, but it's not something I've looked into enough.)

Quantum theory has a habit of pushing this in unexpected directions. It seems to be about manipulating probabilities rather than objects. The idea that you can causally manipulate a probability distribution is a deeply weird one if you stop to wonder what exactly is being manipulated in physical terms, and how.
Another good reason for sites who don't think of themselves as needing security to go HTTPS-only. MITMs who you wouldn't normally think of as attackers (e.g. Comcast) will screw up your site for your users.
What? I may be wrong but I get a macho vibe from your comment. Men handle memory themselves.

Wise men choose the best tool and sometimes not having to bother too much about memory handling frees up a lot of mental bandwidth to deal with much bigger problems.
Yeah that's the first text on the page. If people can't be bothered to click the link, why literally copy the page here?

Besides, the page requires attribution when copying text, something you didn't do. Not a major issue as it's on the topic of the page, but still you could have mentioned it.
I was thinking exactly this. While for purchases of multiple items in groups or of items which I typically research first (most things), smaller commodity or usually single-items purchases might make sense in this context.

One such thing would be an eBook or similar that you'd buy from someone you know or know of on Twitter.
I think of Xen as a dying technology.

Lately IBM passed around a paper aimed at Amazon that showed how badly paravirtual machines behave compared to bare metal.

What they didn't note is that newer Intel chips have serious support for hardware virtualization, and that with hardware virtualizaton you get near bare metal performance. And they didn't note that the new instance types on AWS support hardware virtualization.

Paravirtualization was an important technology for a while because it was the fastest sort of virtualization ten years ago, but now it is the slowest.
> Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.

And there was much rejoicing.