skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks promising and is certainly needed in a market dominated by a $30 Chromecast. I do wonder about the quality of it all - as a Flame reference device owner I know first hand how immature Firefox OS is (dropped calls, random reboots, missing basic everyday functionality). Isn't the platform too young to go beyond phones?
I want it. Looks quite good.
Well, they are using copy and paste, it's just automated.

But is Set<int> really better than IntSet? Don't they carry the same information?
> the heavier you moderate a subreddit the better the quality

Also focus. AH and AS are both focused on what they do which allows them to have pretty clear rules, that doesn't work for all subs. And bigger subs with subjective rules can easily end in revolting users and sinking quality.
Out of interest do you have an example of Google's weasel wording this issue? They're getting criticised by all the same people and seem to be doing the same thing - is there actually an advantage either way here?

Just to clarify, I'm skeptical on both sides - both companies were in the prism leaks after all. But I haven't seen weasel wording and I'm curious if I missed it.
I really want to know what MS is doing with their app store. They only let you sell metro style apps that are forced onto a far more restricted sdk. If they're continuing to backpedal on metro on the desktop side, does this mean they'll start opening up the app store?
There are lots of providers at or around this price point (check out lowendbox or http://www.lowendstock.com/). It's generally accepted they're oversold, but that doesn't make them any less of a good deal.

For instance crissic.net (happy customer) offer 256MB ram and either 20GB SSD or 50GB spinning-rust for 15USD/year.

The only news here is that Linode and DO don't think they can be profitable at these price points (and it's probably not possible when using Xen/KVM that can't easily be overprovisioned).
What? Of course Apple doesn't own the content on my iPhone. Why would you think they did? I paid for the thing. It is now mine.
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All of the above are why antirez picked it for Redis, despite being a fan of Tcl. I've never used Lua, but it strikes me as 'the' thing in highly-embeddable niche these days.
What happens when github arbitrarily decides to take your site down?

Edit: nevermind, just saw their TOS
If that's the case then people could just use Amazon's S3. You can get a LOT of static site for 10c/month.

More likely scenario is a tiny PHP site with the database hosted elsewhere?
So my mom clicks this button on a website. I'm supposed to block all of her emails because she did so and I don't want to get your emails again?

I think you really need to think this through again, because there are fundamental problems that you're not getting. Emails sent this way will be considered as spam, and you'll piss off people receiving the emails, and they'll be pissed off at the person who clicked the button, and then that person will get pissed off at you, which I don't think you want.
This looks really awesome - nice work Greg and team. It's depressing when someone releases an open source library that does something novel using interesting technologies, has a lot of potential real-world use cases, and clearly took a TON of work, and the responses range from 'I don't like GIFs' to 'There's already a library that has GIF in the name so I'm going to assume this is redundant and leave a passive-aggressive comment'. What's wrong with you people?!
It's a product of a free market system with Chinese entrepreneurial spirit.

Not every British colony was nearly as successful, most if not all were less successful...

China's recent strategy has been to set up regions as 'tests' for future policy. There's no doubt that with them granting HK an election (even if they want to vet the candidates), they're looking to a soft transition to democracy in the future; much like they've transitioned to a market economy.

And finally - keep in mind Hong Kong was never democratic under British rule...
I hope this isn't true, because there is no way that info is worth $10. Perhaps, if they got you on a telemarketing call, and read you 5-10 minutes of upsells, that could approach being worth $10 to a marketer. My guess is its 'free' until their VC money starts running short.

This reminds me of an exchange long ago over the 'Safeway Club Card' I had with a coworker. He said they could afford the deals because they sold my info. I told him I didn't give them my real info, so they got nothing. But the reality is closer to that Manufacturers have to pay to have their items on the Club Card, the info collected is pretty much used to determine 'unique users'.
Thanks, we can't wait to hear some feedback, after you guys try it out.
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So the big headline about Microsoft's new OS is that it has a start menu. Really?
High karma users are the worst though, why would you want to give them more power?
When I saw this, I was hoping for a "Sam Altman AMA". :-)
Couldn't find any uptime records kept by a third party, and their uptime SLAs don't seem to have much to do with uptime guarantees (as opposed to 'we will bring you back up in 30 minutes, etc.). https://www.atlantic.net/support/cloud-service-level-guarant...

As a business owner, I wouldn't bet anything on that. For personal development stuff though maybe it's great.
Exactly what Reddit needs, more reasons to karmawhore.

I mean the idea doesn't sound too bad, but the problem is that users with the most karma are usually those who post the most low-effort content. Memes, Lists, message-in-headline articles, etc.
It seems like what we need to do is separate the damn things. Build the phone as two independent machines that only communicate with each other over ethernet. Then the user controls the one that runs Android and the other one never sees plaintext.
> Are you using noscript?

No. The only thing I explicitly block is flash. (Also, I don't recall having a problem like this before.)
"Basically your phone goes from being personal property that can be used against you as evidence to an extension of your mind"

Yes, and...? That sounds about right. An implanted device wired directly to your brain seems like the ultimate conclusion to this age of "wearables" we're just now entering.
> The name is a surprise, bearing in mind it represents a jump from the last version - Windows 8.

I'm guessing this is because for some reason in Japanese culture 9 is a very bad, unlucky number like how 13 is bad in most Western cultures.
Can anyone speculate on how WebGL will perform on this device? I am not familiar with the hardware or the current state of B2G/FirefoxOS, but have some ideas for music visualizers and interactive artwork that I'd love to port to this device.
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The random version numbers thing is more than 20 years old.

The first version of Windows NT was numbered 3.1, and since then we've had:
3.5, 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10

So "7" and "8" were anomalies in that they actually matched the indices in this sequence.
I'm fairly certain you're trolling. If my Apple TV, hardware I purchased, is running XBMC, it's not running Apple software.

Reverse engineering and installing third party software in addition to, or over OEM software, has been widely held as legal, in addition.
I think that how long the account has been around should have more of an effect to a cut off like 6 months or 1 year. It's pretty easy to accumulate karma by making garbage posts with memes and spamming those.
It is JIT-compiled though, and courts will throw compiler errors from time to time.
Being able to rewrite a small section of ruby code in C is a great way to speed up some types of manipulations. This has yielded me two magnitudes of speedup multiple times in my career so far.

Here's an example using RubyInline, which is a gem that handles the compilation step for you:

http://stevenjewel.com/2013/11/detecting-headphone-use/
>apparently dogs can detect vacuum sealed bags

Both heat sealed and vacuum sealed are air-tight, so that difference should be a non-issue. Its the stuff sticking to the outside of the bag that might be an issue. For meat I'd imagine bleach should do the trick...no idea what you'd need to remove drug traces though. Not a skillset I plan on deploying anytime soon so didn't research it.
I honestly don't think so. There is a lot of value on Reddit, but I bet that 90% of the visits and content are basically memes and imgur pictures. The part that could "become Quora" may die without the other.
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I agree that reddit drips in awesomeness. I talked with the co-founder Alexis Ohanian when he talked at Google last year: really interesting guy, not only with solid advice on entrepreneurship, but also he talked a lot about public service.
Re: EBNF and C code, here's the parser for Lua 5.2: http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/lparser.c.html
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Reminds me of this:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2000/12/20/iraq-scores-hordes-of...
So you actually _do_ provide your own db then?

I'd love to know a bit more about this. What drove the decision to roll your own? Seeing as how SQLite is pretty mature and widely deployed, my first instinct if I wanted to tackle this problem would just have been to write the best damn ORM I could on top of SQLite.
How Microsoft can fix Windows. (rant)
I could swear /r/4chan had a no raiding other subreddits rule, but I checked and it does not as of right now, that I could find.

Some sort of "honor code between mods" could enforce that quite well. Be a jerk in /r/Y and get kicked out of /r/Y AND /r/X. Be a jerk in any sports subreddit and get tossed out of all of them. Some form of "shared blacklist" cross linked between subreddits could implement this. Assuming the source of the problem is just the users and not one of the mods themselves.
It's definitely not Kozmo.com, although trying to solve the similar problem of same day delivery. They are aware of Kozmo's shortcomings and have designed their system without the main pitfall of Kozmo: holding inventory. I am friends with the founders and in their office they have a Kozmo.com Delivery bag as a reminder... The main difference is that they use brick-and-mortar stores' existing inventory and connect it with their network of "helpers" and add in their customer service.
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Ask HN: Weight loss challenges for geeks?
Hi HN!

I'm a geek that used a totally unconventional method to lose 50 pounds in 6 months. After being overweight for most of my life, let's say that I had quite a bit of skepticism around me. And you know what, it wasn't that hard.

I started from the following key questions:

* why do I use data in my job but not on my body?

* how do I make my weight loss sustainable? What are the foods that I like that bring a healthier mix to the table?

* how do I hack my daily routine to include a bit more physical activity? (e.g. walking meetings)

* how do I realiably measure my progress?

My question to HN is: what were your own challenges when trying to lose weight as a geek? What made it hard, why did you fail, and how did you decide what to try?

I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with how people approach their lives without being more analytical about it :)
I've written a blog post about my approach and there's more where that came from: http://aismail85.tumblr.com/post/97554047348/data-driven-weight-loss
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I am not the downvoter. Mozilla was running in a hundred directions back before the Eich fiasco. This has nothing to do with gay or anti-gay politics and that really isn't leading the conversation in a productive direction.
That is an interesting move to empower users with a feeling of ownership. Although, it would be more interesting, to me, if they tried to push towards a distributed autonomous corporation instead. The type and amount of operations that could be fully automated is up for debate, but the attempt would be very interesting.
I suppose there's always a catch, but no background services? Talk about useless...
$1,000 though?

Edit: Wow, I totally missed that I could scroll down the page. D'oh! Also, it really doesn't look like there's anything electric about it, which I think is pretty impressive.
Oh thanks for helping me remember the last bullet point:

Lua is fine for small embedded environments, but it's also an excellent way to add scripting support to plain old bulky GUI apps like Firefox or Sublime Text or whathaveyou.
I think it's an interesting issue because the primary issue is what interests people, not the website itself. If a majority of people want to concentrate on the bad, then the bad shows up more. If the mods or admins make the site such that it's impossible to concentrate on the bad, then that would involve some kind of censorship that could be very biased towards someone's definition of good.

The issue is the people, not with Reddit.
There's a lot of ways to make a VPS suck, by not spending money where it's needed. An under-powered disk subsystem is probably going to contribute to these sucking (as Digital Ocean sucked in the beginning; not sure if they've fixed their disk bandwidth problems).

But, assuming they aren't horribly under-powered on any of the vectors that affect performance, this is a great deal. 256MB is just enough to run a reasonable web server on, even with a database-backed application. Two more servers for DNS, and one for SMTP, and you'd have a solid setup for a large variety of tasks for under 5 bucks, and you'd control all of your services and all of your data. You couldn't run a big community site with lots of users, but you could definitely run a blog (for potentially hundreds of thousands of visitors, depending on how you setup that blog) or simple site.
I´ts interesting, however the idea of Reddit to allocate 10% of their shares back to the Reddit community for me it´s more than something "cool" as Sam Altman said, and beyond the "a new way to think about community ownership".

From another perspective, It´s just a good strategy to do your own IPO (go public) without the legal/bureaucratic way. It´s creating your own NY Stock Exchange with the idea to increase your value based on what your users are doing now (because it will be possible to buy, sell and trade between users).

So, beyond the message that it´s for “giving back to the community”, Is it more a clever strategy to increase the company value, and even more the stockholders value? or I´m incorrect?
A large part of the US judicial system relies on people to take laws and find rational and reasonable interpretations.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Software-Windows-95/dp/B000N...
It's mesmerizing how a company such as Microsoft keeps shipping user interface incarnations of the Frankenstein's monster. The lack of vision, even identity, is astonishing.
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They send you a message, but at that point it's already been decided what they have chosen to be the defaults.
Just wanted to say that the onboarding for this is fantastic. It made me understand/explore way more than I normally would. I really wanted all those things in the help list to be checked off!

I plan on giving this app a whirl for the next few days to see how it goes.
It seems like a very uphill battle at best. As the internet becomes more popular, powerful agencies are increasingly interested in controlling or damaging it. Since the largest service providers in the US alone seem determined to end it's open nature, and spy agencies around the world seem determined to do away with anonymity on it, it's easily a losing battle at worst.
I love what Grishin is doing and has done for robotics. I'm disappointed in IEEE's interview in this case. Poking at the man with the idea that robotics is capital intensive is not really productive. I'd like to point out, somewhat self-servingly, that the premise that robotics companies are capital consuming unicorns in the tech world has already been debunked.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...
Aaron Swartz was never convicted. Being charged with a crime and being convicted of a crime are two entirely different things.
This way it will become just another hip mobility product for the hip upper class. But there are customers for that now. They'll survive.

I prefer the seat on my bike.
THEY are being repressed, not only their predecessors. And to "hire the most qualified person" "denies the role of personal connections, wealth, background, gender, race, or education in an individual's success"[1]. It is overly simplistic to just say "hire the qualified person" when the person is qualified due to a huge amount of historical advantages. Do you really think there are so few women in tech because all the men are just more qualified?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272646...
So... if you brake hard you're definitely going to land on your face, right?
What are you even talking about.

Why is this even a point of contention? Reddit is an absolutely disgusting and awful place. It’s toxic.
Can you imagine if people could actually turn their karma into straight cash? The incentive will be even higher to simply echo back to the group what you think it wants to hear.

Sure, but this is differs little from cable news, content mills, or many blogs. Fortunately, subreddits make it easy to filter-out the shallow echo chambers.
Is there any evidence that smartphone purchasing or use has dropped significantly as a symptom of widespread fear of government spying and overreach?

From what I can tell, the only thing most Americans are concerned about at the moment is whether the iPhone will bend if you keep it in your pocket for too long. Disinformation is a plausible strategy, but most Americans simply do not, and have never, cared (and a significant portion of those who do, think it's perfectly justifiable and would tell you Edward Snowden needs to swing from a rope, once you reminded them of who he is.) Would it even be necessary?
http://www.reddit.com/r/foodforthought
These PC/Mac attack ads have gone too far!
What type of lean startup experiment should I run?
> Finally there is the issue of "circle jerking". Reddit is already notorious for its annoying and dangerous group think. Can you imagine if people could actually turn their karma into straight cash? The incentive will be even higher to simply echo back to the group what you think it wants to hear.

This was the first thing I thought about.

If you check /r/subredditdrama and /r/karmaconspiracy you can see literally hundreds of exemples where people go absolutely nuts for imaginary internet points: coordinate and downvote other people's content, mods with massive subreddit bans, etc. Can you think about what they will do for cash?
Yes, I understood that. What I didn't understand is what you meant by "this". Do you mean, the move by Apple and Google? Or the FBI? And in any case, how so?
Am I the only one seriously underwhelmed?

Everyone else is talking about the Start Menu and name. That's all fun and good but it isn't very substantive. The only actual feature which I've read about is Virtual Desktops (which was already obtainable via the "Desktops" TechNet download[0]).

If those are all the improvements Microsoft has to talk about then frankly what the heck have they been doing for the past several years? Windows 8 for all of its problems was a substantial change that likely took a lot of work. The difference between 8.1 and "10" is far from substantive.

[0]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.asp...
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Arguably the only civilian bombing success in Europe was the August 1940s RAF air raid on Berlin... inasmuch as it angered Hitler into diverting the Luftwaffe's resources away from a relatively effective campaign of targeting airfields and ports towards a useless campaign of indiscrimate city bombing.
Yes but you're comparing the wrong things. A single iPhone may not last long, but the impact of the iPhone has been tremendous.
Are there any solutions similar to this and the others mentioned in the discussion that can be self-hosted?
Where did you see / read that? That suggests an expansion in the turtle population. I haven't seen anything like that mentioned yet but would love to find it. I'm still on the lookout for a species that evolves into something which can only survive in an EPA superfund site so that cleaning up the site will cause the extinction of the new species. Just thinking about the Environmental Impact Statements on that possibility makes me chuckle.
I don't think so, it looks like the brakes are on the two back tires.
There is a backer on KickStarter who has pledged $7,000. So there is a market for a $1,000 bike after all!
I feel a bit bad for being the cause of their site suspension. Thanks for changing the URL.
You are right, here is wonderful content hiding just under the surface of reddit. It is often shed in a negative light (sometimes deserved), but it really does have so much to offer.

I hope posting this is not bad form, but highlighting these great voices has been the goal of my most recent project, http://www.reddthoughts.com.

A collection of insightful thoughts and stories from the minds and lives of redditors.
Right. We go from a nation of laws, to a nation of people that can break the law .. if you're well-connected. Which has a strong resemblance to the situation commonly found in what was formerly called banana republics.
I understand that with that price for providing a server, they need to do some user validation - thus the requirement for address and phone.

But that issue with background services or cron - for that price, that's exactly why I'd consider their service. May I know what might be the reason why they don't allow this?
You often see plans like this on LEB, the catch is usually very oversold on CPU and memory resources, more so then more expensive plans. This might be less apparent with a bigger name provider who can swallow a bit more on there loss-leader plans so YMMV here. Of course to many light uses that overselling isn't going to matter particularly particularly when SSD backed as that reduces the effect of rampant I/O contention. In fact for things that need a small burst of CPU umpf every now and then, an oversold VM on a beefy host will outperform a cheap dedicated box (with an atom chip for instance) costing much more per month.
This is someone that is actually in a position to make a difference (in practicality - not in law) to our privacy. Maybe he will turn Canonical around from vanity projects (Unity and Mir) and work to make Ubuntu better at controlling our privacy?

On the other hand I have a flying pig if anyone wants to buy one...
I follow Windows development fairly closely and even do some Windows Phone (phone) development on the side, but this version number thing has me scratching my head. The explanation in the article doesn't help much either.

If I recall correctly, the number 9 is considered lucky in a wide variety of places, which seems like it would help sales on a subconscious level.

Introspectively, it worries me that I have read three articles about Windows 10 this afternoon and instead of recalling any new features, all I can think about is the version number...
this is really the interesting point of the article for me.

it could be the first cryptocoin actively used based for rewards/sponsorships etc. See http://ltbcoin.com/ as an example.
If reddit figures out how to get past the legal and technical hurdles this brings, I'm very excited to see what comes of it and if other online communities will do something similar. Communities which produce a lot of content/value for free such as open source developers can begin getting equity in the companies they are helping.