skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little concerned that Scotland might end up outside the EU against its will, regardless of whether or not they vote for independence.

If Scotland stays in the UK and the UK leaves the EU, Scotland is out as well. If Scotland becomes independent, the Spanish might block their EU membership to deter Catalan independence.
This, just like IP spoofing is something that should be straightforward to correct. However, the carrier in both cases has incentives to continue allowing it (getting to charge for minutes, or bandwidth).
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes.. Vancouver, San Fran, Seattle

Technologies: C# .NET, Javascript, PHP, LAMP.

Resume: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-yan/16/88b/94/

Haven't updated my profile but.. predominately working with C#, SSIS, Sql Server stuff. Side job doing LAMP work. I want to get myself back into doing more Javascript work. E.g. Angular.

Email: mrjeffman [at] gmail.com
Differences of Mobile App and Game Testing
Please do publish them! A great react-google-maps I'd definitely use.
A year ago I wrote a quick Python script to export all my images. If anyone wants to use it (or improve on it) I blogged about it at http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/08/exporting-twitpic-images-pyt...
How to make an interactive D3.js visualization using datamatic.io
"Maybe you could monetize by connecting with online grocery shops or suggesting extra items (like wine)."

I've always wondered why grocery loyalty programs that track what I buy don't expose to me what I buy. Then I'd have some incentive to help them keep it accurate, and it could be of much benefit to both of us.
What an Ex-Yakuza Lieutenant Taught Me About the Type of Job You Should Never Do
Aphex Twin releases first new track in 13 years
And after 738 days we still haven't learned a thing. A large number of my friends and acquaintances in the "tech business" have already left or are planing to do so...
Some of us like the sunshine and actually come back to Portugal. Besides, if someone is able to build apps, as you put it, why would you go to Germany or England? You'll be selling them online for the same price and enjoying Portugal's relatively low cost of living.
> But I have seen and experienced downvotes purely based on disagreement about political opinion

You've seen downvotes and you've assumed were based purely on disagreement about political opinion.

> which is why I wish downvotes mandated a comment as to why the downvote is happening.

If they mandated a comment, then every downvote would produce discussion of the merits of the downvote, which is exactly the opposite of the purpose of having downvotes.

Ironically, this whole subthread has become a demonstration of why comments about downvotes are big distractions from whatever the substantive topic under discussion is.
Show HN: Privacy platform for cloud aware apps
I work in the telecom space. I was previously over the carrier network at MagicJack and oversaw about 600 million minutes a month of telecom "traffic". I can say that the awareness is a step in the right direction, but these "solutions" are anything but a solution.

I don't think it's as simple as people think - for example, simply make sure the person owns the CallerID. At what point in the call stream would that be validated? You have to think that, when a call is made through a typical VoIP provider, it is most likely passed through 10 carriers (through arbitrage long-distance, then IXCs, then tandem/CLLI/POI CLLI).

I believe a good step would be to simply let the FTC trace using the CIC code that all carriers send over the PSTN/traditional telecom network. That way, the FTC could track a particular call or number through all the carriers until it reaches the originating information. The FTC has the capability to do that now, and based on the number of subpoena requests I've received (about 10/day), they actively do it.

The problem is that the companies doing the "illegal" robocalling (business to consumer/DNC or TSR violations) are overseas. There is no way, IMHO, that it can be stopped as long as long-distance providers exist.
Reggie watts has competition!
Very cool - thanks for the answer!
I just got downvoted on HN and reddit today for saying the same thing before the article came out.
Introducing the Automatic Web Dashboard
I feel like there's a big difference between "for my wife" versus "for wives". The former makes no assumption about the roles of other people who use it (except, presumably, that they're interested in planning meals).
In Finland the school teachers teach from mid-August to end of May. They are paid 12 months. How much they spend time on preparations, administration, whatnot, during the summer months is their own business.

Also the Xmas holiday is about 2 weeks, and then in Finland we a this "skiing holiday", 1 week in February.
I'd have to agree. From my understanding of that sentence, all programs would "halt" eventually because they all end up doing the highway. So unless your computation somehow ended with the highway then you couldn't run infinitely long computations.
I'll publish soon. You might want to follow on Github: http://github.com/hcarvalhoalves
That's some pretty weak apologetics.
Use wage earnings to support an idea.

Not to support a trading, or self-registered, business.

Make the clarification distinct.
I wouldn't say that carrier's have a large incentive. Dialer or robocall traffic is normally frowned upon in the telecom community. We charge per minute, and dialer traffic is the worst offender or taking up large amounts of resources, while providing very little minutes. To give you an idea, a typical robodialer user may have 30% of their calls answered, and an average call length of 16 seconds. Whereas a "retail" or normal long-distance customer has an 85% answer ratio (ASR) and a 2+ minute average call length/duration (ACD). All of the tier-1 telecom carriers have strict rules AGAINST this type of traffic. From a business perspective, a single T1 (23/24 channels), I can get ~200-300k minutes/month worth of usage. With a dialer customer, I can expect about 40k minutes/month
there used to be public toilets like that in my town.
The first I used it I fell in love and I've been dreaming of a similar setup at home (minus the obscenity on the wall, probably)
Panamax – Or how I got my mom running her ruby cms … on a cluster
Totally agree, What3words is way better for communication. But even there, if you read me the locator, I have no idea where the location is. With traditional addresses, I have a good idea of where things are, and how I might get there, just by hearing the address, the same is true with lat/lon or MGRS to a lesser extent. This system means I need a device to figure out where anything is.

This whole idea seems like a variation on "the world would be better if only it was run by computer logic" (where better = more orderly and machine readable). For whatever reason, other considerations (cultural affinity, convenience in a daily context, etc.) seem to be more important to most people.
It's been a summer for walking at The New Yorker -- the author mentions Adam Gopnik's piece, but David Sedaris also wrote in June about his obsession with FitBit: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/30/stepping-out-3
Well, I use http://ink.sapo.pt (full disclosure: I work there.)

It's pretty complete and is constantly updated -- and besides including a battle-tested JS library of its own, it is evolving toward eschewing some of the "usual" dependencies.

One of the key reasons I use it outside work is that it targets _generic_ sites and can be customized and/or pulled in piecemeal if you take the time to build your own version.
Or has the tools to properly scan/research them. I'm sure they'll go back afterwards unless the host country doesn't object.
This, of course, would be the same guy who has "massaged" data in his papers, and invented a fake identity to defend himself and attack critics online: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/10/double-barreled-...
Here's some more information about this discovery with some more pictures http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2631309/Scientists-l...
Google Refunding Parents at Least $19M for Kids’ Unwanted Purchases
Twitter Just Killed Twitpic
I found a bunch of pages on their site for GPL compliance, including http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=902&sid=... .
I believe Twitpic was a 'weekend project' that Noah put together, that grew into a successful business. AFAIK there was not this level of intentionality behind it in the early days. I suspect twitpic was just the most obvious catchy name that came to mind.
A typical emacs setup includes a keybinding (C-c C-d) to display the docstring for the function under the cursor, as well as the invaluable "M-." to jump right to the function's source definition.
If you read the overview you may understand our opinion that "application state" is precisely which views to render.

https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/master/docs/guide...

We're almost done with serializing the application data as well. Both pieces are important.
OT: I just noticed that WordPress uses "w.org" -- how did they manage to obtain a single-letter domain name?

I found something online about an auction of single-letter .org domain registrations as a fund-raiser,[1] but I haven't come across any others in use and a few random checks turned up nothing (except x.org of course -- how did they obtain theirs?). This person claims to know some of the story, posted to a blog apparently owned by Matt Mullenweg.[2]

[1] http://www.project94.org/

[2] http://wptavern.com/how-wordpress-obtained-the-w-org-domain
I've found that this synergizes well with a standing desk: it becomes trivial to pace for a few moments while thinking, and then jump right back in.
JRuby's really revived my love of Ruby. It's fast, it's powerful, and it's much easier to extend than CRuby. Jruby 9k and Truffle are both promising some pretty insane speedups, as well.

The JVM boot time is a bummer, but beyond that, there's not much to complain about.
A Few Ebola Cases Likely in U.S., Air Traffic Analysis Predicts
Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling
What is your favorite marketing-based online tool?
What do you use or wish you used for marketing? (analytics tools, productivity tools, etc.)
Pretty much every such similar presentation that get's linked to, I do the same thing. I really miss the days where a paper usually preceded a talk. But different times...

Having to hit "next" to have to step through the additions to a particular slide is the worst.
Well, I'm a fellow portuguese speaker and it felt weird as heck, but then again this is HN, and it's been weeks since I read or wrote anything but English :)
Could DuckDuckGo Overtake Bing?
No, it actually cannot. The phone network is a massive bunch of criss-crossing and mutually-dependent relationships. It is intractable to know if a given company is "allowed" to send a certain calling party number.

Not to mention such a restriction would break many applications that depend on the source caller ID being forwarded. Call forwarding applications, some 911 implementations, etc.
The size and weight are big time wins for me too. We have a plugged in Dyson and we haven't used it since we got the cordless. It allows for a lot of fast micro-cleaning without the necessity of hauling out a giant vacuum, plugging it in, waddling around and then winding it back up.

There's zero commitment, and like you said, on MAX, it really does the job, there's rarely much I need to clean that will take longer than the charge, and if there is, I just split it up into two sessions.
If anyone from the Knotlink team reads this, please take this as constructive criticism, because that's how it is intended but here's what I did:

Clicked link, clicked "Learn More", learned nothing, closed tab.
Minimalist time zone converter for iPhone
My Two Favorite Pedagogical Principles (2005)
They have done work in the past for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-earth-bu...
True in this case, but I don't see this being a trend and definitely not the "standard model for building startups".
What are some other examples of companies that have done this?
It's a shame Twitter has become so developer-hostile. When it first came out, I remember the excitement of using Twitter as a host platform for other apps. Now I couldn't imagine writing a line of code that interacts with their platform. It's a nightmare. I wish app.net had been more successful: it was clearly an attempt to ride the waves of that excitement after it'd been made clear that Twitter had jumped the shark.
I had a friend with a few offers from top places (of the google, facebook, microsoft sort of variety) who ended up taking one for about 100k a year base plus about 500k stock vesting over five years. That was definitely atypical, though, particularly on the stock front.
Responsibility to Investors?
Upon completion of a 3 month Y Combinator run. If the product is hitting the rocks, is it considered fair practice for the team to move onto something entirely different?
Walk farther, then all the ways that people can interrupt you go down.
I really want to know how this compares with the LG Roboking. Inevitably, all the comparisons (especially those in Dyson's own marketing) will be with Roomba, which has terrible AI, terrible suction, terrible range and hasn't significantly changed since the first version released in 2002.

Back in 2002, the "insect" AI was actually quite innovative, and necessary for the computing power available at the time, but it's not 2002 anymore.

The latest Robokings are much closer to the Dyson in terms of AI (possibly better as details on the Dyson are still a bit vague). For example, it will map out a route through multiple rooms. If it needs to recharge, it will return to its base station and pick up where it left off. Unlike the Roomba, it does not use a random pattern so it will generally achieve about 97% coverage, compared to about 75% coverage for Roomba. It will also do it in roughly half the time.

The Dyson will likely have better suction, but presumably it still won't be good enough to completely replace a standard vacuum, so that may not matter at all. I think the things that matter most in a robot vacuum are:

- Can it clean multiple rooms efficiently, recharge itself when necessary and pick up where it left off after emptying its dust compartment?

- How quickly can it do that?

- How much noise does it make when it's running?

- Will it avoid getting trapped on rugs, curtains, under couches, etc?

Ideally, it should empty its own dust compartment too. As far as I know, Karcher make the only robovac that does this and I'm not sure how it stacks up in other areas. Plus it is really, really expensive.
Video caption: "16 years. 200 engineers. £28m investment. The result? Tell us what you think it is." - wow.
Your site design makes me nauseous, and it's not clear what I'm looking at.
No I know it was based on different political viewpoints.

There is a reason why you aren't allowed to downvote in the beginning lets not pretend this issue goes away just because you get more karma.
Google Ventures’ 6-step design process: How we revamped our entire product in
> the people who are championing the non-standardized test based education in Finland use a standardized test as the evidence of success.

No we don't. When the first splendid PISA results were published in 2003 and 2006, the common theme in Finnish media was to wonder what is wrong with the methodology of those tests, because Finnish school system cannot be world class, no way.

It took years and years of foreign media publicity and foreign interest, before we in Finland slowly started to believe that maybe our schools are, maybe, kind of good, because the rest of the world seems to believe so. And the rest of the world cannot probably be wrong.
Link rot
It's a map[uintptr]unsafe.Pointer. The key is invisible to the collector, but the value is an unsafe.Pointer, which is will be managed for you by the precise collector.
Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires
Tech insiders: Firms halted spread of grisly video
Thanks, Chris. I hope github attains longevity for reasons like this.
Most of them were totally Mo-Lo-So. Nowadays, I guess they're all So-Lo-Mo. :)
>> ... really it's two lines of actual logic different...

Still awesome. We got a guy in the White House who has written two lines of code!!
Yeah, if these were real solutions, I'd pay a lot more than $3K to get the details on them. I've spent far more than that on the problem.

At one point we were doing around a billion calls a day by a customer that swore they had nothing to do with dialer. They mixed the traffic very skillfully, so they always kept their overall statistics just at the contractual limit.

Blocking repeated source numbers just means people start making up numbers. At that point, you can't really block things. You could perhaps get a score of the likelihood of a call being legit, and perhaps retroactively you could determine a bunch of calls had a high amount of dialer. But I don't think it's possible to find an algorithm that has a good-enough accuracy rate to do real-time blocking.

Of course, from a telecom perspective, I don't really care about the content of the call. I just want the avg duration to not be so low that other carriers get upset. To that end, simply making sure dialer customers don't hangup immediately seems to suffice.
OK, if true that makes sense. I was interpreting the Name parameter to Open() as being something like a global plugin name rather than a filesystem location.

That combined with the Plugin struct (which hopefully would have something like an iterable Map of exported symbols) resolves the issues I was concerned about. Nice.
Off-topic: Why do people use lodash over underscore.js?
Posts coming thru the wormhole from 1987 here.
Always track interactions (1) with the carousel and evaluate with the client later. You could make a case for a different solution if the statistics show that interaction with 2nd, 3rd etc. content items in the carousel is below acceptable levels (and you've done your best to make it work).

This type of experience (case) can then be carried forward to new projects, possibly convincing designers and clients. Although it might turn out they work just fine, it probably depends on the audience.

[1] Use Google Analytics events to track interactions (next, previous, pause, resume etc.), and add 'campaign' parameters to links inside carousels to compare traffic to product pages originating from carousel links vs. regular menu links (if any).
I keep zooming in and there's some story that's happening in these images.
Huh. That seems to include all the (major?) banks in Finland. At least I don't know of a bank in Finland that isn't on that list.
Not the first kook either.
Legally speaking, most terms of service include a term which allows the provider to change everything in the future, without any limitation. Maybe developers are advised to develop for a platform only if the terms of service include some commitments which will be kept and not changed.
That's a great idea! You could pay for server costs with that, I doubt you could make a lot of money doing that though.
I'm not sure why anyone would dispute #1. Perhaps they interpret it too broadly.

You can have some success basing a business on another for a while maybe, but unless you have a solid agreement as to how that relationship works, the rug can be pulled out from under you at any moment. And that's usually what happens.
Why would the batch auction need to be FIFO? What about something like this:

1) When opening a "new tick", release data about trades in last tick, and start accepting new orders. Information about orders submitted to this tick is kept secret. Allow setting order price to practically arbitrary accuracy.
2) After tick closes, match orders in _random order_. That is, it should not matter at all on at which point in time inside this tick order arrived
3) repeat

Allowing arbitrary accuracy would help turn the competition from speed or stuffing the order book with huge number of orders to "spoof" the random matching, towards competition of just providing lower spread.
I understand that it would still advantageous to hold submitting trades until very end of the tick, to take into account as much outside information (other markets, etc.) as possible. To counter this, maybe the exact length of the tick could be randomized also.
What do you think?
To be perfectly honest, I am surprised to learn that twitpic is owned by a different company than twitter itself, which is precisely what trademark law is supposed to prevent.
I love walking. I enjoy long purposeful walks, but I also often find myself pacing around the house when I hit a creative stump. That's when I get my best ideas.
Nowhere in the article does it mention that many (probably most) of the search results that DuckDuckGo returns are from Bing's API. (That used to be true, I presume it still is.) That seems like a rather important point to leave out.
Aside from people with huge audiences and Twitter-related businesses, anything you choose to use and incorporate into your life is at least somewhat of a dependency, even in the presence of substitutes.

For example, I love Chick-fil-A sandwiches. When I moved, the closest Chick-fil-A is now far away. I was dependent on Chick-fil-A, and I'm less happy without it, even though I have missed no meals and probably eaten healthier in its absence.

All kinds of things are like this - if emacs went away, I could learn vim. If my apartment building went condo, I could find another place to live. If my favorite TV show got cancelled, I would find something else to watch, read a book, etc. But those are all things I chose to use, and taking any of them away would reduce my welfare by definition, even if only a little bit.
Voting rings are punished pretty harshly by the HN software, and moderators will pile on in egregious cases, like this one, as well. So it's not in your interests to do this!
Show HN: Write.my – Your Content Creation Engine
We're looking for developers in Chattanooga (I'm a UT alum who moved to Chattanooga to start a company). I'd love to talk to you more about the developer community in Chattanooga, and the growth I've seen over the last 3 years. Hit me up @adamhaney or firstname dot lastname at getbellhops.com. We're not the valley here in Chattanooga but you definitely don't have to go west to find cool companies working on cutting edge tech.
Indeed, the obvious counter-example to that lesson is imgur.
>I'm sure Twitter knew they had no argument for the "Likelihood of Confusion" Test and TwitPic would've been granted its trademark in due time.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but are you saying it's not confusing that TwitPic is not owned by Twitter? (At least from a legal standpoint)?

I always assumed Twitpic was owned by Twitter, and it seems many other HN members did too. I'm amazed they lasted more than a month with that name.
I think the issue here is that Twitpic's business model is having people leave the main Twitter interface to take them to another domain, where Twitpic can extract advertising money from the impressions. Twitter has image previews these days, which offer a nicer user experience and keep users on the main Twitter site. With Twitter hosting images itself, it makes little business sense for them to continue letting Twitpic make ad money off a feature duplicated externally.
Isn't that worse? 5 years of effort, all gone. I'd much rather have a project of mine shut down after a week then to go half a decade before it is shut down for reasons beyond my control.
Google to Pay Out at Least $19M to Settle FTC Complaint on Kids In-App Charges
Just watched the demo. Looks similar to Origami. The price is relatively high, will there be a trial version?

Also, I'm a bit confused about Relative Interface. You have a product page dedicated to it, but no links to either the source or information on how to purchase it.
The Risks of Quantification
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