skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone recommend a good web hosting site
SO my friend got asked to find a good free web hosting site, he normally find good hoster, he found a good one for www.localunitedservices.com/san-diego-air-conditioning, but the owners of this new site he got dont like anything he showed them so any recomendations ?
His only mistake was slaying the golden goose. That and immediately telling an aquaintance what he was up to.

What was he thinking winning 8 jackpots in under 2 hours? He of all people should have known that was impossible and incredibly suspicious.

He could have made millions and probably got away with it if he just spaced out his winnings between a few years rather than a few hours.
chip-and-PIN had a * with footnote at the bottom of the page:

"*Plastc card will be available to use across all participating locations and with all participating payments types following an over-the-air firmware update in 2015 to enable Chip and PIN and contactless payments."

Sounds like they are working on those partnerships.
I have just used Owegoo.com for hotel and flights. Creative filters, not only A to B. Swedish startup, not perfect but a very interesting start. On www.owegoo.com they also have a lot of city guides.
Talking from the perspective of a startup person - 60 dollars is less than an hour of dev pay. It seems to me incredibly cheap. I often worry that SaaS startups undercharge and starve themselves out of stability & growth.

We've spent a lot of time putting together our API docs and it's nowhere as nice as this. The service they're providing is valuable to me as a way of solving this problem. I've never met or even heard of anyone working at readme.io btw - saw this on HN for the first time today.
Nvm, I see: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=...
Any plan on having another field on the items route that can be queried besides id, e.g. url?
This looks kind of neat, but the mere idea of needing to charge my credit card seems kind of ludicrous.
Because the website looks terrible on a phone/small screen. I visit ihackernews.com more often than I actually visit news.ycombinator.com
SDKs and test console for the HackerNews API
At last! A hacker-friendly Hacker News! Yay!
Here is something I built with the Algolia API awhile back and just haven't gotten around to cleaning it up to post here.

It lets you download all comments/stories for a user as a JSON or CSV file, breaks down karma between comments and stories, and plots comment/story counts, karma, etc. over time on a line chart (clicking will show you the details via an hnsearch).

Also I built some npm modules so you can get this information via the commandline.

http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/.

Example: http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/user/tptacek/

The Chrome extension hasn't been updated for awhile (it just superimposes a small amount of this information on the user page).
http://www.owegoo.com
How does this API work with Firebase?

Is HN data already in Firebase (as its primary data store) or is content from HN's DB getting 'mirrored/cloned' on-demand to Firebase for the API?
Nope. I prefer my merchants keep more of the money, and the banks less. Also, I have a better grasp of the money running through my fingers, literally.
Show HN: Download Hacker News user contributions; get statistics
JSRoller straightens your code
Surely it's the equivalent of winning at a table game and then convincing the dealer to swap your $1 chips for $100 chips for you.
HFT doesn't "facilitate transactions".

What is often happening is Seller A wants to sell something for $10. Buyers B, C and D submit an order to buy it for $10. The computer sees this, knows that it might be worth more than $10, and while Buyers B and C get their orders through, the computer buys it out from under Buyer D because their computers are faster. Buyer D now gets a notice that "oh, sorry, that thing you wanted is now $11."

It's the same thing as you overhearing your neighbor saying the Apple Store only has one iPhone left for sale at the Apple Store and, because you have a faster car than your neighbor, you get to the store and buy it and then offer it for resale at a higher price. That's not facilitating a transaction, and it certainly is perverting the market. When the people with the fastest computers and best geographical location get items cheapest, that's not a 'free market'.

Middle-men have classically existed to provide a _service_, adding value to a previously less valuable or more difficult transaction -- wholesalers or retailers. Wholesalers existed to pare down which goods are offered, and existed primarily because smaller retailers couldn't afford to purchase in bulk. Most 'middle men' of these classes have gone away due to the digital age and/or conglomeration. Grocery stores or websites that provide value by having multiple items in the same place that you can pay for all in one financial transaction.
1Password 5.0 could use a second factor
The Catchy APL Blossom Time Song
Yep, that's right. There seem to be a few factors involved:

- Most of that discussion happened before a full description of transducers was up anywhere, so a lot of these details are just completely missing.
- Haskell's type system is not expressive enough to capture certain interesting properties, like linearity. (To be clear, it's quite possible to translate any arbitrary transducer into Haskell -- but the type system will not prevent all the mistakes it is possible to make.)
- There are different classes of transducers that Haskell people actively would not want to have identical types. (ie. stateful vs. stateless, early-terminating vs. unbounded) Many of the discussions revolve only one or a few of these classes -- typically the stateless unbounded version, which turns out to have a particularly simple encoding, but it definitely varies.
Looks pretty rad!
Is it just me or does anyone else have a tendency to treat all .info TLDs with a high degree of skeptisism?

I naturally assume that a .info site is going to be a scam or of poor quality or fleeting at most.

I wonder if they will buy themselves the .com with all that cash?
Why Chocolatey is broken beyond Any hope
Division Furtive Introduces a Line of Super-Secret High Tech Watches
It's obvious enough what casinos actually do, I'm just commenting on the psychology behind it.

And given that the casinos are willingly taking this tradeoff, and that the losses aren't what I see as immoral actions, it then becomes rather nasty that the casinos are dragging people to court and putting them in jail for it.

In short: you and I generally work within the framework of the law and make tradeoffs accordingly. The casinos appear to be bypassing that and are bending or modifying the law so they don't have to make tradeoffs.
It will be $15 or less once the LED's on your vanity give out in 10 years.
This is an amazing offering and I've no idea how I'd get any of my teachers to use a single one of those tools after 10+ years of teaching MS Office.

Education in the UK has a huge mountain to climb and it's not the kids that need to climb it.

I have people who want me to install visual basic (Not VB.NET) for them because they can find a lot of teaching material for it and won't touch python because "They're not doing that raspberry pi thing".
Computers are not possessed of free will. You don't really ask them for things. You either compel them to take an action or you don't. Knowingly exploiting a glitch in a computer is like asking somebody for their wallet with a gun to their temple — despite the fact that the exchange could be described as a request and agreement to that request, you have made it impossible for the recipient to decline under the circumstances, so we classify it as something else.
What is missing from the above articulation of a view is that the run-time state of the program is also text. (It's made up of the symbols "0" and "1", at one level.) There can be propositions about that text.
Well, I briefly scanned through some of the comments here, one thing I didn't see mentioned was the fact Coin is not rechargeable, once it's dead, you are required to buy a new Coin.

Apparently according to plastic, it is rechargeable, therefore once you buy it, you never have to buy another. Another interesting point was it's wireless rechargeable from the video, which is interesting.
"E-ink displays are WAY thicker than they can fit in there"

No, I have in my pocket a PayPal Security Key: it is the same size and thickness and flexibility as a credit card, yet it houses an e-paper display: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-i... They have been on the market for 5+ years, so the technology is there. Plastc has a bigger display, but there is no doubt it can fit in a credit card because an e-paper display does not require that much supporting circuitry. See this guy who tore down the PayPal card: http://www.stahlke.org/dan/displaycard/
That's just it, it's learning to code, not be a full fledged software engineer. If you go take a free cooking classes at the local community college you might be able to make some tasty food but you won't be prepared to run an entire kitchen.
If RMS and NNT agree on something [splitting up dangerously large corporations], how can anyone disagree?
Mayday.us crowdsources funding to back South Dakota candidate
Cshelton has got to be a troll. I'm kind of ashamed I fell for it, but oh well, live and learn.
Because given the choice between being aligned with:

1) A powerful bad guy
2) A weak and ineffectual good guy

Most people will pick the powerful bad guy to protect their funds, advise their company and make decisions for them. We want the power, not the morality. These guys don't let their morality get in the way of winning.
Anita Sarkeesian, Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival (2014)
If you knew what you were talking about, you would know that drumming is ALL ABOUT the space between the notes. It is more difficult to be accurate at slower tempos. Given your comment, I know you do not have a great knowledge of music, specifically percussion, so good luck to you.

For the record, I have tried very similar things. It's also physics...you know that science that plays an important role..., sorry but you can't break the laws of physics with a stupid toy.

EDIT: I realize you play in a jam band with friends and have fun. I'm talking about professional drumming. Nobody in the crowd of drunk grandmothers watching your jam band gives a damn about your accuracy. In that case, have fun...
Honest question, what do you need other than a server to host your repo?
I do not know Lennart personally, but I was in the audience when he spoke at FOSDEM a few years ago. He came across as a smart and nice enough person.

It makes me sad to see the kind of attacks he has to endure. Initial reactions here on HN were all like "of course, death threats are not ok, BUT..". This sickens me. Death threats are not OK. Period.

Lennart Poettering is not pulse audio. He is not systemd. He is a human being and deserves to be treated with respect and basic human decency.

I do not know (and do not care) how much he himself contributed to his being in the position he is in. Nobody deserves to be treated this way.
To Yahoo! India devs, if you got laid off and need help in finding your next gig, please feel free to reach out: I am on archit@cleartax.in

A lot of startups in India are hiring and I would be happy to make intros if you are looking.
That is some amount of information, so there is some value in concealing it. It has the downside of removing accountability which I think is more valuable than a trivial amount of information.
I may be misremembering it, and it's actually paying for prostitutes as a business expense that isn't tax deductible.
On the cookiecutter project page ([2]) there are links to cookiecutters for a bunch of other frameworks/toolsets.
Yes, but someone willing to get the HN posts about a certain topic from the API will need to keep polling the API to get all the new submissions, and filter out the content irrelevant to her purpose. Search directly from the API would be so much more convenient.
Benchmarking Unity Performance in WebGL
They've made fluorescent tubes with daylight spectrum for a long time (I recall seeing them available, but expensive in the 90s). Those work with phosphors, so I don't see why an blue LED pumped phosphor couldn't work as well as one driven by a near-UV mercury vapour lamp.
Python + Flask is nice but has serious performance constraints. I guess I found a bug in Flask or Werkzeug that restricts requests per second to a value below 600 req/s. See here for more details: https://medium.com/@tschundeee/express-vs-flask-vs-go-acc087...
And then you post your own solution for others who might stumble upon it and 15 minutes later the entire thread is deleted by a mod for "this is a discussion thread and doesn't fit the Stack Overflow Modus Operandi"
A Google Mistake Killed BuzzFeed's Traffic and Made It a Social Media Powerhouse
I think articles like these are akin clickbait. Mature developers understand that every paradigm has it's place. I mainly use functional for data processing and pipelining, and OOP for object modeling.
A preview release / staging version would help those of us with scrapers update it, without having a so much downtime / scramble when it's finally released.
How does one respond to subjective characterization of a hypothetical response of a 'straw' group of people to a hypothetical situation? The only factual statement is this one: "Methinks".

If we are politicizing light bulbs and global climate, have we gone too far?
I think we've been fairly clear. Quick rundown

1) Paid Support (B2B, B2B2C)

2) Docker Hub Private functionality, on-prem offering

3) Services engagements through a set of SI partners, 10 of which we announced at DockerCon US

Happy to answer more questions along this line.
I thought about it, but according to the other commentors here a project like this wouldn't make sense. I was learning python at the time and I wanted to learn about multithreaded programming in python.

I could turn it into a learning project with no practical applications. It would be a good platform to learn about OpenCL, and see if the benchmarking times improve.
They have their own planes...
Why Massachusetts should defect from its time zone
BattleBots may be coming back in 2015
A lot of this stuff is kind of... uh... drivel? Eg. sure, tons of companies would like to hire "only A players" But that isn't realistic. In my opinion, Genius is not as compelling of a product to work on as they seem to think. They got big basically via appropriating rap culture. The bit about your job title not mattering because ultimately the success of Genius depends on you is nice on the surface but instantly problematic after you start to think about it a little bit.
Addiction tends to get in the way of rational thinking.
Facing Acquisition? Take a Bath in the Shark Tank
No kidding. I went to the doctor with sleeping problems one time and he suggested I look up a certain drug. He said I couldn't get a prescription for it and it was to be taken therapeutically (i.e. indefinitely) and at the normal dosage it would cost something like 50 bucks a month.

I went home and looked it up: a homeopathic panacea with only a single "study". Not double blind, not even single blind -- they literally just gave the drug to some participants and the self-reported symptoms "improved".

I'm still not sure whether the GP was just trolling me.
KDE's Plasma used in Hobbit movies [video]
> When you browse the community-run Lua Wiki, Lua looks like a general purpose scripting language.

I don't agree with that.

> I see no reason it cannot be both.

There are several. The first one is that some design decisions in the language (like restricting all the C code to C99) rule out some features which would be considered basic in a general purpose language (like listing the contents of a folder, or using sockets). These decisions make it good in other areas (like running in a very memory-constrained environment, like an embedded microprocessor). Making it fully-featured risks throwing all that away.

The second one is that its creators don't want to transform it into a general purpose language.

> I think the first step is to acknowledge this community fragmentation and deal with it.

I am sorry, but what you are referring to is not community fragmentation; it's people who are familiar with the language, on one hand, and people who ... are not. And thus come into it with the wrong expectations. I'm not saying this to be offensive.

If you want a language which is at the same time embedded and general-purpose I think your best option is looking elsewhere. I've heard good things about mruby, perhaps it'll interest you:

https://github.com/mruby/mruby
Very interesting read indeed, a very thorough insight into life in Egypt. I especially liked the relationship part, the female oppression and dominance at the same type. Seems almost like a paradox through the eyes of a westerner.
I would rather have something local, not send a list of everything I read to some server somewhere.
Here is something I built with the Algolia API awhile back and just haven't gotten around to cleaning it up to post here. Doing so now since I expect to see clones of this using the new Firebase Hacker News API.

It lets you download all comments/stories for a user as a JSON or CSV file, breaks down karma between comments and stories, and plots comment/story counts, karma, etc. over time on a line chart (clicking will show you the details via an hnsearch).

Also I built some npm modules so you can get this information via the commandline.

http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/.

Example: http://hnuser.herokuapp.com/user/tptacek/

The Chrome extension hasn't been updated for awhile (it just superimposes a small amount of this information on the user page).
No speculation needed. Quick rundown

1) Paid Support (B2B, B2B2C)

2) Docker Hub Private functionality, on-prem offering

3) Services engagements through a set of SI partners, 10 of which we announced at DockerCon US

Happy to answer more questions along this line.
I don't think its necessarily a question of how close we are to the singularity. I think it's a question of how close we are to the Orwellian Memory Hole.
Debian Administration cancels systemd-shim to force systemd lock-in upon users
Voters will only demand it if they are informed.

Voters will only be informed if both social and traditional media are able to provide actionable, verifiable and non-biased reports.

Media will only be able to provide quality information when political, intelligence and profit interests have less leverage than an educated purchasing public majority.

Political/intelligence interests will only have have less leverage if we pass meaningful enforceable legislation to curtail the use of selective privilege, story seeding and psychological operations to achieve policy goals.

Congress will only pass meaningful enforceable legislation if the voters demand it.

...
The Law should have a case for the need to ignore some rights in order to protect other rights, given that any damage will be compensated. E.g. break a window to get someone out of a car crash. Seeing that he didn't do any damage, it should be fine. I know that's the case in German civic law.
Intent is regularly a deciding factor in measure of punishment. This may as well go without a warning.
For many of us, our salary isn't for any particular number of hours, but for accomplishing things.
Interesting that the list of banks is nearly the same as that of ApplePay. I'm glad there are some forward-thinking enough banks willing to push technology forward.
To misquote a common saying, I @junto hereby shall be quoted as stating for the record:

The social network of my friend is my enemy.

The only solution is not to share your real identity with your friends. You should tell each friend that you have a different surname.

Even better we should start a cult and all choose the same surname to use online. I suggest it be broken down by country and highest frequency. In the UK we would all use 'Smith'. In Germany 'Müller'. In France 'Martin'. In Spain 'Garcia'. In Portugal 'Silva' and so on.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_surna...

Sadly, most people have already shared their real identity either by giving those details directly to Facebook or by friend's uploading your details in their contacts.

Still, it would be a nice protest.
Might be easier/quicker to use the API to generate your own HN clone with HTML in it's current format, then point your App at that
I'll stick with rewatching Ocean's Eleven.
As others have mentioned, upgrading through iTunes is a workaround. I'd like to propose another solution that's worked for me.

Back your phone up to iCloud (this is probably the biggest bottleneck if your data doesn't fit into the free storage). If you have a recent backup, you can wipe your phone (Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase all content and settings). That should clear up plenty of space on your device. Then upgrade and restore your backup once it's completed. This is how I upgraded to iOS 7 and 8 without having iTunes installed. But definitely be _sure_ you have a backup.
Snapchat already has "promoted snaps" of a kind, I suspect they'd just continue down that path.
So what if I don't own a server or have the money to buy a server? How am I supposed to host my web app without using something like Digital Ocean?
I've been waiting forever for an API from HN, but unfortunately I will not be using it for my app (https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone).

I've built a library for iOS (https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN) that handles scraping, commenting, submitting, voting, etc pretty well and allows me to make as few web calls as necessary to use HN. It looks like I'd have to drop functionality and completely change the networking scheme to match this API - something I'm not willing to do yet.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but to get every comment on a post, I'd have to recursively get each item for each child. Instead, right now, I can make one network request and get all comments for a story. Granted, I have to parse the HTML (which I hate), but it's a much cleaner solution than going through every item, checking the children and then getting those items ad infinitum. Again, I just glanced over the documentation, but that seems untenable to me.
Twitter sues FBI, DOJ to release more info about government surveillance
It seems pretty solidly in the "luxury" column. This is particularly clear if you take a long view. It's likely that all physical credit cards are on their way out in favor of digitally distributed credentials. CC companies like you flashing their cards, but not as much as they like lowering fraud.

That being said, it's certainly attractive. If the 'bubble bursts' (whatever that means), I expect this is the kind of start up that will be first against the wall. Just remember frivolous != worthless.
Regarding that particular section, I agree with this comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2ijwwz/seven_deadly...

And overall I agree with this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ijt11/seven_de...

> People who I enjoy discussing issues with bow out of the discussion the same way they do when people bring up emacs vs. vim. They know they aren't going to hear anything new, so why bother?

That's how I felt after reading this: "why did I bother?"
If you use the Firebase iOS library they handle it all and use an efficient bidirectional streaming protocol.
Remove their the caches they store by going to
www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager09.html
>> Twitter, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and Netflix

Are you talking about Scala or Clojure? I've only seen those names mentioned with their Scala use, what are some of their Clojure projects?
Decided to recreate the Hacker News homepage using Ember and the new API. I was really pleased with how easy it was! https://realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com/
Canaries are not well-settled in law [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq].