skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually believe that people should be allowed to do what they like, with the underlying premise that everyone has a right to not be harmed by another's actions. The law seems to have lost it's way to the point where if you are rich you win, poor you loose.

And if you are the government or a business and you can't win, you change the rules so that you can.
The age of your account has absolutely nothing to do with who sees your posting.

Making new ids every now and then is strange, there is absolutely no need for that unless you are divulging something that might cost you your job or that you're embarrassed to share.

As for your 'come to Europe' call, America needs critical Americans just as much as Europe needs critical Europeans. The better solution would be to push for change locally, rather than to instigate a brain drain.

Europe has just as many problems as the US does, the only difference is that we do not yet have a European president with sufficient power to wield to cause real trouble. But we're getting there. And then what would you tell any Americans that you've tempted here with greener pastures? If you want to improve the world the best place to do it is right where you're living.
This is awesome but why do you only target men?
This. I guess anyone who began using UNIX systems back in the SunOS days or earlier would never think of using cp for this job. Well, mostly because the vendor-provided cp usually sucked badly (no recursive copy), but also because tar has always been such a great, reliable tool.

The only disadvantage of tar is its peculiar syntax, but that's something you get used to.
You are not supposed to read programs aloud. What do you think it is, poetry? 'fn' is a symbol.
Me and few more guys are working on Microweber, drag and drop CMS in PHP.

https://microweber.com/

Its also open source https://github.com/microweber/Microweber
Releases software with plugin architecture.

Get's mad when people use it.
Fuck safety, they should just stuff the door panels with cells!
let x = 5i;

so, integers are written like complex numbers?
Hopefully some of the issues you're noticing will get fleshed out before the guide is officially linked from the rust homepage.

I do agree with you though. I felt the same way about the guide from the first time I read (parts of) it, and I know we're not alone. I've commented before about how it's impossible to nail down the target audience, but it seems overly informal as a replacement to the current tutorials, especially compared to the "additional guides" that were linked to at the conclusion of the tutorial which really got down to business quickly.

I've long been hoping that something like rustbyexample.com gets officially sanctioned and linked to from the homepage alongside the guide. As a small metric, the current tutorial is 942 to Hello World, the new guide is 1595 words, and rustbyexample.com is 239 words.
Scientists Have Captured the Sound One Atom Makes
You can get cheap wildcard SSL from here - http://bit.ly/cheap-wildcard-ssl-cert.

Heer you can find Comodo PositiveSSL Wildcard at $58.36/Year.
Couldn't agree more, but when you have to sell a phone that is just like every other phone, you quickly run out of other ways to advertise it.
وظائف جريدة الاهرام الجمعة 12/9/2014
I'm building a spreadsheet app - http://gini.io. It's a project I started last year, then stopped working on it and now am back on it.

The key differentiating features right now are super easy importing of data from web apps and doing joins between sheets.

The basic free personal plan is live now, but I'll be adding paid plans for businesses over the coming weeks. Please give it a spin and share your feedback! - http://gini.io
I'm building http://pluginbag.com - a marketplace for selling and buying plugins & themes. Sellers keep 80% of their sale here. No exclusive lock-ins.

If you are a seller and interested in selling with us, email me at info@pluginbag.com
This looks really cool, thanks for sharing.

My immediate feedback would be adding a short, to the point, explanation of what it does on the homepage. Also the video looks cool but takes too long to begin showing the product in action, I think. If I arrived at the site I'd be unsure why I want to hear the AIs explain themselves before I understood what they did.

Good luck with it!
Currently working on an app for organising amateur sports clubs and teams.

http://teamsheet.io

Still early in development but hoping to get the basic function in a beta soon.
Ask HN: Any advice for launching a site via invitation emails?
Hi, i'm going to launch a social website. Once online the site will have 0 users. I was thinking about launching it using invitations via email...
Any (marketing/social) advice from someone who already done something like these?
My thoughts exactly. The keynote given by Cook felt dull and overdone. He tried hard but he had big shoes to fill.
The source of the photos is from ArsTechnica ( http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/smartwatch-wars-the-app... ). So the only thing he did was write some text about it...

It doesn't seem to matter the article is from a website called phandroid in this case.

Edit:
Downvoted because i said where the source of the pictures come from?
http://www.campusjobs.org - it allows businesses to hire students from any school, and aims to become a one-stop job center/career center for higher education in the long run.
https://calltospeakers.com/ - a site for conferences which are looking for speakers.

I was fed up having to continually check conference sites for new entries, so I automated the collection process and wired it up to a weekly newsletter and a Twitter account.

My hope is that it becomes the authoritative source for CFPs, so we can all check one site instead of hunting around the web.
He was totally right:

"I'm not convinced people want to watch movies on a TINY SCREEN"

Later they created a device with a much bigger screen(at least six times bigger) and called it IPOD, but it had not a tiny screen.

The same could be said about small computers. When I got my first laptop I considered at least 17'' necessary, which was very bulky, I told everybody that.

Then I got lots of complaints from people when I got a 13'' macbook air:"You said you will never use anything smaller than 17 inches".

But I didn't say that. I said that given the resolution they had at the time, I needed 17 inches, but obviously I wanted the same screen in a smaller size at a reasonable price.

The 13 inches macbook has more pixels on it than my old laptop.
Yeah, mainly I found server down during the big events. Apple must take some notice
No, It'll be open to everyone. I originally intended to limit this to SF but have changed my mind since.

I initially tested out this idea by creating a simple form that asks users for their name, email and zipcode and manually pairing them up myself via email. I limited that to San Francisco zipcodes only, since I figured it not doing so would mean that I would have a bunch of users who may not have anyone nearby to get paired with.

A lot of people who weren't in SF actually emailed me and expressed their disappointment in not being able to try it out. So this time I'm opening it up to everyone.

If you are the only one in your city, you'll get a message telling you so and you'll be paired whenever a new user in your city signs up.

If anyone has any better ideas, I'm open to suggestions regarding this.
I've spent the past month or two doing random projects, (a secret server, a self-hosted disqus-lite system,etc), but my main project is a git-based DNS host.

I use Amazon's route53 for the hosting, and have written a simple hook-receiver to massage public DNS repositories into the Amazon system. It's pretty neat. https://dns-api.com/
If OpenBCI ships soon, people can try this at home :) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openbci/openbci-an-open...
https://encrypt.to - Send encrypted messages by one click

It encrypts the message with PGP (client-side) and sends it on to the mail account. A user who does not use PGP can send fairly secure mails to PGP-users. A simple vanity-style URL can be given to such users for easy access to the secure contact form.
I would love to see some screenshots on the homepage, such that I can get a feel for the product. I think that might also encourage more people to sign up.

A cool idea would be a really easy to use API as I know a lot of people have issues with the GDocs Spreadsheet APIs. Have methods such as 'appendRow' and make it super simple to push data there and share the sheets, and it has immediate value to lots of people.
The whole point about monads is that they provide a uniform interface for working with values that carry some extra context. The genericity of the interface is nice, in that it allows you to write generic monad combinators, but they are only useful because of the context (effects, control flow, etc). If you don't describe any of the implementations, you are missing the point!

The best introduction to monads was written in 2006 (more than eight years ago now) and I don't imagine that a better one will be written in the near future -

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
I am repairing an old analog synthesizer (Siel Kiwi) with a missing CPU and the CPU board in a bad state.

I can't get such a CPU in the right package anymore, so I'm writing an emulator for it which will run on a more modern, much faster MPU. That alone replaces the CPU, RAM, and ROM. The remaining stuff on the board is lots of I/O both analog and digital which I'm planning to replace with something more modern, like a DAC with 32 channels instead of the many chips and opamp sample-hold circuits that are on the original board.
I feel exactly the same way. Thanks for saying it loud!
I did take him at the time and they said he was fine but he was also so small he wasn't really coordinated or talking anyway.
In this case, "i" is a type suffix meaning "int". 5u would be an unsigned int; 5i32 would be a 32-bit int; 5f64 would be a double precision float, and so forth.
1) I started building this out for myself and for some of my male friends who shared the same sentiment.

2) Men and women shop differently and I feel as if women want more choices so the model does not necessarily work for them. That said, I've received a lot of interest from women for the first product we launched so plans may change in the future.
Sounds great man! Let me know if I can help out from USC.
-fellow Bangladeshi
Everyone has done something which is technically illegal or could be painted in a bad light. This is an old truth best stated by Richelieu - If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I'll find something in them which will see him hang.

Something like insider trading is a particularly grey area, because directors trade all the time with more knowledge than the public (how could they not), and leaks of information happen all the time without punishment. I don't know all the details of this particular case, but I'd be skeptical of taking the conviction at face value, given the willingness of some branches of the US government to openly lie to the public, distort the truth, bypass or neuter the judicial branch, and vindictively punish and vilify those who refuse to cooperate in illegality or blow the whistle on their activities.

More generally, whether you take a conviction as a proof of moral turpitude relates to how much faith you have that the justice system in a given country is operating in a just, transparent and fair manner. If you don't have that faith, a criminal conviction means nothing in moral terms.
Salesforce Makes a Big Play for Wearable Tech
Thanks - we're definitely interested in Windows support and will take a look at this.
I understood that, but it's an unfortunate suffix.
Come on, that's a complete bikeshed and I'm sure you know it. If you have to read code aloud you can just say "fun" or "function" and "mod" or "module", obviously. And since those symbols are used everywhere in the source code I really doubt anybody is going to forget what they mean.

I know it's trendy to remove all non alnum characters and make everything super verbose but there's a compromise to make here. Because some languages went overboard with symbol soup doesn't mean all symbols/abbreviations are bad.

This is the kind of reacting any newcomer to a language makes. You start with lisp? "omg all those parens!" You start with python? "omg significant whitespace!" You start with C? "OMG all those semicolon at the end of lines!" You start with perl? "OMG!" You start with APL? "O|▼".

Also I think making basic language constructs overly verbose doesn't help legibility because it drowns the actually interesting bits in a lot of boilerplate. VHDL comes to mind, but it's probably not what you were talking about...
One stylistic nitpick / question. It says:

> "We expected an integer, but we got (). () is pronounced 'unit', and is a special type in Rust's type system. () is different than null in other languages, because () is distinct from other types"

Would it not be more accurate and more informative to compare the "special type" unit to "void" than to compare it to "null" ?

The keyword "void" is a placeholder that says "nothing here" where normally there would be a type. It function more or less like a type. i.e. "public void foo { ... };" instead of "public int foo() { ... };"

I understand "unit" as a "first class void".

"null" on the other hand is a value, that can be placed in variables of many types.
I'm building a couple of things.

Storytella (http://storytel.la/) is a tool for writers and self publishers. It makes it easy to manage novels you're working on, has an online editor, has an entity system (variable insertion in the text) and can save everything to a couple of different formats. I've been working on it for a while and have just got a payment process in place (thanks Stripe!).

Sunstone (http://sunstone.stoogoff.com/) is a map making tool aimed mainly at roleplayers. It's a bit restricted at the moment. I'm planning on adding different themes, more stamps, and a means to store different maps.
Same here. Can't get this to work.
Agreed entirely. Although having pictures online and available on my computer is nice there's nothing better than seeing a printed image hanging on your wall.

I tend to rotate the 40+ frames in my flat over a six month period, so there's usually one or two changes a month.

I'm just in the process of getting a book printed with images of 2013. I fell behind, but do like to have a book of the best 20 images of a year, which is nice to share with people, or look at myself to see how I've changed and what I enjoyed at any given month.
couple nitpicks:

Check return value of malloc

You don't need \ when breaking function parameters
Is there? The usual term for what you're describing is a "stream cipher" or a "streaming-mode cipher".
Google buys firm behind spoon for Parkinson's patients
A mini online store that will sell just one product, at a decent price - one of the world's best and rarest beers.
Results UvA Study: ‘Adding a human touch to search results’
I'm a data scientist who is building Slipper, an iOS app that uses algorithms to reconnect and recommend missed connections. In beta now, but ~5% of new users are matched on sign-up with a real post written about them. Launching later this month, perhaps early October.

Feedback most definitely welcome!

https://slipperapp.com

(also sneakily available in the App Store if you feel like checking it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slipper-find-your-missed-con...)
As much sympathy that I have for Catalonians, this article is good old propaganda, full of myths, half-truths and blatant lies.

Do yourself a favor and read both Liz´s and Sergio´s articles to get a more balanced view of this - really complex - issue.

[1] https://www.opendemocracy.net/sergio-casesmeiro/deconstructi...
We could work on language compatibility forever :P

Guido advises but isn't actively involved.
This is a really cool idea! Glad you're launching worldwide. Good luck with the launch.
http://devo.ps - Making dealing with servers not suck.

Want a new box on Digital Ocean with NGINX + Node.js + Redis? A few lines of YAML, git add/commit/push and you're done. You can use your EC2, Rackspace, Linode or Digital Ocean account, and you manage everything (servers and automation) in Git.

To illustrate my point:

- Adding a simple NGINX server using the Web UI: http://docs.devo.ps/how-to/add-a-server/

- The devo.ps button that allows you to do a one-click deploy of a full infrastructure (not unlike the Heroku deploy button, but we deploy your own servers and automated tasks): http://devo.ps/blog/one-click-deploy-of-your-infrastructure/

We' haven't officially launched but have already been signing up a few hundreds developers. At this stage we're mostly ironing out a few bugs and expanding on the documentation/tutorials (http://docs.devo.ps).

If there's anybody out there who want to come in and break stuff up, I'm happy to pay for some Digital Ocean/AWS/Rackspace/Linode credit.
I'm building a wooden computer case.

I realised this summer how much I miss having something tactile to show for my labour. As a youngster I enjoyed working with wood but in the last 15 years I've given up everything to write web applications.

I'm really enjoying learning about different kinds of wood/plywood and making cardboard prototypes. My woodworking knowledge isn't great and I could do with some design advice - if you'd like to help please shoot me an email (in profile).
I've been building the Android version of my ambient noise / productivity website A Soft Murmur [1]. It's for people who find that ambient noise helps them concentrate or relax. It lets you mix together different types of background noise (rain, thunder, fireplace, cafe etc.)

It's my first Android or Java project and my first serious programming project. No programming experience apart from learning js/jQuery to build the web version. It looks like this:

http://i.imgur.com/3vntZwL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wzdNdey.jpg

Features:

* mix together 10 different ambient sounds

* timers to stop, start or fade out sounds over arbitrary time

* save mixes

* share mixes via FB, twitter, SMS etc. and have them open in the app if the other person has it installed (or in the website if they don't)

I had planned to launch already, but life gets in the way. Hopefully launching in ~2 weeks.

I really had no idea what I was letting myself in for when I started this project. It's been really challenging but incredibly educational. Getting details right (like making the looping of samples genuinely seamless, or getting the background service to behave nicely) was difficult but really satisfying.

If you have any questions / suggestions, would love to talk.

If you'd like a reminder when this launches, there's a mailing in the top-right corner of [1]

[1] http://asoftmurmur.com
leaving aside the first-mover advantages like community, docs, stdlibs, api stability, where do you see rust's advantages over go?
Great idea - I'll add screenshots and a video too. And yes, a good API is on the cards. I've mentioned it on the homepage.
This looks v. cool (not tried it yet).

What would be awesome would be if the templates could have a bunch of {placeholders} within. So I type the initial prompt and press tab and it autofills the text, then I can tab through the placeholders filling them in.
Automatic Statistician
do you think that python should use "define" instead of "def"?
The continuing saga of the Windows 3.1 blue screen of death
Most of his comments I can understand, but to be honest I can not glean a shred of understanding from the following answer to the question about his Christian faith and libertarianism:

> To think of Christ as a politician might be the easiest way to get him all wrong.
The theological claim that Christ is the "son of God" is also the anti-political claim that Augustus Caesar (the son of the divine Julius Caesar) is not the "son of God." So I think that Christ should be thought of as the first "political atheist," who did not believe that the existing political order is divinely ordained.
Now, I think that there is lot of resonance between political atheism and libertarianism, even if they are not strictly identical...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_tec...
Well yeah, it should be poetry.

Instead of, what, cryptic symbols to decipher?

You dont read symbols?
The Care and Feeding of Weird Machines Found in Executable Metadata
Thanks for the suggestion! It's definitely something on the roadmap: https://github.com/humanfromearth/quicktext-chrome/issues/22
If you (on the server side) connect via a mobile modem, yes, and probably violate the TOS. Otherwise, typical prices for bulk SMS in the UK is in the 2p-4p range per message (with higher risk of delays and failure to deliver towards the lower end of that scale). I'm sure it's possible to get below that if you have really huge volumes, but those prices are fairly typical in volumes up to millions of messages per month.
It's on when the screen is illuminated, which is "always" for most intentional use.
One I'd recommend
https://github.com/substack/js-traverse

Traverse and transform objects by visiting every node on a recursive walk
Jumping from airplanes didn't require any changes to biology, even with much greater falls.
If you want video, this is probably worth watching; haven't finished it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8
Not so. Both the sending and the receiving tar processes will need a data structure keeping track of which inodes they've already processed. They can skip inodes with a link count of 1, but if all inodes have multiple links (as in this case), the overhead will be twice that of a single cp process.
Just go back to film if that's what you liked. It'll be a bit more expensive now because of reduced economies of scale but it is definitely still possible and great cameras and lenses can be had for pennies on the dollar.
I am in the same situation, thanks for this question.

Printing them helps, but I've printed out all of my favourite photos (~15 photos, size: 100*70cm) and it doesn't get me more motivated when I see them. But printing helps if you struggle with self confidence in your photography. (seeing them in a large format makes a big difference)

I don't take that many photos anymore, maybe because I have a higher standard than at the beginning and only think "oh this photo will not turn out that good, I don't make it". On one side, this is good but you don't have practice anymore.

Maybe it's because you don't know what to shoot. I only take my camera with me when I am travelling, I don't discover my environment anymore, like I did before.

Solutions?
- Make a challenge (something like 1 photo every month) with topic-based photos
- Ask another photographer to go out and shoot with you / or join a photowalk in your area
- Ask a girl if she wants to make a shooting. If you don't have the confidence anymore to make good photos, ask a girl you already shooted with.
https://github.com/StrykerKKD/dartrocket is an open source 2D HTML5 game engine in Dart.

I started doing this, because I always liked Dart better than any other programming language and because at that time Dart didn't have any HTML5 game engines.

I also developing it, because I really like doing it and because I want to make a living out of this.
Converting Breath to Speech for the Disabled
And one of Seattle's maker spaces, Makerhaus, is about to close down.
Do you have any examples of such countries where at the same time SMS will still work and be cheap enough to be viable?

Even most countries in sub-Saharan Africa has at least GPRS - most of them have 3G. Some of them are deploying LTE. Certainly there will be areas where for some time still there will still be limited data access, but the question is how many of those areas actually has functioning cell coverage.