skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Bracher of ChemBark gave this field the highest odds of winning, at 7-1. Interestingly a commenter told him he neglected to put in Hell, about 3 hours before the announcement was made. http://blog.chembark.com/2014/10/08/predictions-for-the-2014...

Compare to Thomson Reuters' predictions. http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/092014/2014-nobel-l...
I feel this product would just be a short stopover until mobile payments start to gain traction.
We got basically 4 things out of the accelerator:
- Some press overage, including backlinks from Bild.de (the biggest newspaper in germany)
- Good Office space in Berlin and 25.000 €, so that we could focus on our business, without other overheads
- Talks with intersting people in the german startup scene
- Branding from Axel Springer, which helped us in hiring a working student as well as a very good intern

We only gave up 5 % of equity, so it was overall a very fair deal.
Their pricing models make even less sense when you’re using docker containers for deployments.

With that said, I’ve used their services for years and without question for my group the monitoring pays for itself in improved efficiency of developers and operations. Last year we moved from the free service to the enterprise service that gives us 12 app-servers (in our case 12 deployed Rails docker-Containers) for about $500 a month.

We have docker nodes that spin up and down frequently for one of the rails apps we use for monitoring and it can at times create what appears to be more instances than what we physically have.

Their free service I believe is good enough for many use cases, and you can monitor an unlimited number of hosts/services outside of the “application” monitoring. I looked at scout and a few other monitoring services, and as much as I like their pricing model, the product just doesn’t compare to new-relic.
With the updated hardware rules (show a prototype, no photorealistic renderings), this isn't even kickstarter material.

https://www.kickstarter.com/rules/prototypes
A Node.js Wrapper for Official Hacker News API
I am not super familiar with Stanford NLP or NLTK, but I don't believe they overlap with more than two or three (relationship extraction, and maybe language id and some MT) of the services here. The value we want to bring is by providing all these services together in one place and provide tools to do fast domain adaptation. Right now to do adaptation you need to sign up to become an ecosystem partner but we will expose that adaptation tooling to everybody as well in the near future.
Readability Redux (https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux) is local. It uses the old Readability library that Readability used before it turend into an online service.
Watson itself was the "wow" moment.
I agree completely and yet ... I feel a bit responsible too.

In my mind, Kathy has credibility because she built it the old fashioned way - being worthy of trust. Being a Java developer, I watched JavaRanch grow and I especially loved watching her presentations (the BoS talks are amazing).

And yet I under-appreciated what these attacks were doing to her as well as how severe they'd become. No having celebrity of my own, perhaps I can't understand it fully but what I could have done is at least speak against the growing hatred.

I'm going to start refuting trolls (when I can) and I'm going to try to be that person who's dependable under fire - Kathy, I've got your back ... and I'm sorry for my quiet complicity with your past attackers.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

― Edmund Burke
It would be better to fix the guidelines so they didn't reflect the head-in-the-sand, elitist/conservative mindset you are complaining about. To generalize a bit, HN has a problem with dealing with dissenting views or with subjectivity full stop. If you think the above comment is damaging, how much damage do you think Peter Thiel's recent loony comments ("computers haven't improved our lives", "you should run your startup like a cult") have done to the perception of the industry? The current guidelines imply that any discussion of Thiel's views is off topic for HN.
One problem with perf counters, in my experience, is that the results vary a lot in a quasi-random way. Trying to get repeatable results is a painful experience.
> The reality is that Europe has been in a state of ideological vacuum for a while.

Correct. It appears that the established parties do not dare touch big visions any more. In itself, I expect most people would actually be happy with this, as long as it works. The problem is that in most of Europe it doesn't: the recovery from the financial crisis in the Eurozone is now actually lagging the recovery from the Great Depression.

And yet, my experience in Germany is that there is complete silence about the failure of politics. When polls show low approval for policies, even journalists tend to excuse this by saying that the policies just haven't been explained properly to the population. The possibility that the mainstream consensus regarding Eurozone policies might be wrong is not seriously considered. There is no serious intelligent debate about political choices.

This is also a failure of journalism. I had some hope when Frank Schirrmacher, one of the editors of the FAZ, a very influential serious newspaper, made steps towards raising the possibility that the mainstream consensus is wrong. Unfortunately, he died recently.

Ultimately, people feel misrepresented by the mainstream parties. The result is a mixture of apathy in the form of dropping participation in elections, and remaining voters going to the non-mainstream parties, which tend to be more extreme.
Science funding: “totally broken”
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My last project was a custom web application build from scratch to serve the specific needs of the customer. My role consisted of translating the customers needs and dreams into the best solution possible within the budget.
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It's a double-edged sword.

I work for a company that has to deal with a fair number of online cheaters and fraud. It would be great if we could know who we were really dealing with for our financial transactions, or failing that, have a secure execution environment for our code so we'd have a solid place to stand on. Unfortunately the state of security on PCs is so miserable that they simply cannot be trusted.

Game consoles actually do this kind of thing; the security architecture is rooted in hardware, partly to maintain the paywalls for entry to the console's market, and partly to ensure that the environment is secure against bad guys.

Of course the moment you have system like this on a commodity PC you also enable a bunch of tracking, DRM and lockout stuff that is near trivially exploited by state-level actors and companies to whom you are just chattel to be sold or rented out. And that sucks really hard.

I don't expect the masses to make good choices about security systems; they can be mislead, outright fooled, or simply drawn into poor decisions by trinket-class rewards. It's depressing.
CRI (or at least what's advertised) has really improved in the last year. It not difficult to find 90+ bulbs at places like Home Depot.
>You certainly appear to have the popular view that creating massively distributed grids of power that can meet base load demand is a simple hand-wave away.

You'd be wrong. I'm well aware that it will require significant investment and a retrofit to accommodate this.

>The fact is, a volatile generating capacity is a bad thing to have.

For our current grid, which our current operators have zero interest in upgrading because they're quite happy running a monopoly with minimal investment expenditure. You're okay with this too I see?

>Unless you can force every country in the world to adopt similar systems, any country that adopts such expensive systems will certainly find themselves in serious financial trouble as all their industry will move to lower-cost places of production.

Yes, well, we're well overdue an overhaul of our trade policy and treaties that explicitly encourages and condones this behavior. Unfortunately too many people like you treat these treaties (like TTIP or CAFTA) as immutable facts of life. They can and ultimately will be reversed one day, just electricity can and ultimately will be sourced entirely from renewable energy.

The question is simply when.

>As has already been pointed out - it's not the total cost, it's the cost per lifetime generation that counts. That's where large scale but capital intensive generation wins out

Not really. Most forms of capital intensive power generation enjoy lavish subsidies on top of being highly polluting and still manage to only be (currently) a bit cheaper than renewables. By contrast those cheap solar panels imported from China? 30% tariff.
> I'm not familiar with that behaviour. Do you mean automatically watching and compiling on changes?

I mean that a javascript library would act as a gate to live-compile Javascript files on-the-fly.

For example, with ES6-Module-Loader[1], you can do something like this in your browser :

<script>
System.import('mymodule').then(function(m) {
new m.q();
}).catch(console.error.bind(console));
</script>

'mymodule' can be an uncompiled ES6 module, the code will still work fine, because ES6-Module-Loader will get its content (XHR), resolve its dependencies, then pass everything to Traceur.

Obviously its main use is for debug purpose (since it does a request for each source file, which won't be great until HTTP 2), but it allows to have a full ES6 workflow, without any visible compilation pass.

[1] https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader
I think you have a different definition of 'left' than most Americans, so there might be some disconnect there. Here, it just means socialist progressive (or in the direction of the same), more or less.
Thats odd. Removed for now, I will create a smaller gif or video. Thanks.
DEA might have better luck use snapchat for this kind of work. Impersonate, posting suggested photo on FB is too easy for other friends to find out, ask and tell off line.
French is identified as EN_us -> http://imgur.com/VdDJVw4 Inadmissible !
No source? The first thing I did was try it on itself... which I suppose is somewhat of an "acid test". It took a few minutes and an enormous amount of memory, but finally it told me that the function at the very beginning of the executable, definitely a nontrivial one, decompiles to...

void fun_401000() {
}

I'm sure I hit upon some edge case and much better output can be had from this tool if I play with it some more, but for a first impression, not so good. But I'm definitely going to keep this one around, it looks promising.
Sigh... Why is this a thing? There's a whole host of things that are illegal for YOU to do but that the government CAN do. Like kill people for instance or print money. This is as it should be. A government must be granted powers individuals are not in order to rule. The concern is oversight and justification of those powers through our political system.

Edit: There's a lot of vitriol on this and it's because of my poor wording of the initial statement. It isn't OK if the Government "breaks the law". If they do they should be held accountable. However, under certain circumstances, the government can break laws that pertain to ordinary citizens and do things like hack computers/kill people/sell contraband, etc... this action itself is prescribed by laws and regulations and is legal government action. My beef was with the knee jerk reaction to undercover work like this or a police shooting, when people are screaming about how thats murder. My point was, yeah it might be, but it also might the government doing their job by doing things (legally) that a normal citizen might now do.
Thanks for this.

Third paragraph from the bottom, you say "However, The average amount of positive words" when you meant to say "negative." Second from bottom, you misspell "necessarily."
So, make your own JSON-like format. It's not like it'll be hard to understand, parse, or output. Comments are lines whose first non-whitespace character is a #. Allow keys to not need double-quotes. Allow commas before closed parens. Make a beautifier for your format that puts returns, tabs, spaces where you think they should go.

I'm just going to highlight - you want to use it as a configuration format, right? So do it! What on earth is stopping you?
>The problem with wholesale prices driving towards zero is how do you recover costs associated with security of supply. It's great that solar makes wholesale prices zero throughout the day. But if generators can't recover the cost of their investments, then they'll eventually decommission those plants.

Well, if that's a coal burning plant then that's good news.
This is clever, and the incremental approach is a good engineering direction. That said, readers should be aware that the closures approach is a dead end for a large & complex service: unless you can figure out how to serialize the full closure state to data that can be exchanged between machines, you're always going to be RAM-constrained and subject to machine failure.

The loss of state isn't a big deal for a news site, but if you lost the user's state in the middle of a significant process (e.g. dropping the cart mid-checkout), it would be a big problem, even if it was infrequent.

What would be great if a language provided a convenient way to repose closures into data blobs that could be exchanged between machines or sent via the browser (an untrusted channel that would have to be secured with cryptography). That said, it's not obvious how to capture the semantics of the full closure of the system state without significant work (look at how fragile object serialization / pickling is). Definitely a good area for language research; I'm sure there's some advances I'm not familiar with.
While it's not something that you'll have running completely on your mobile device, it's something that you can easily run on the backend server. Fortunately, BlueMix provides lots of very useful services for mobile devices, including automatic crash monitoring, user feedback, and cross platform push services. Feel free to find me on twitter (same name) and I can provide more details.
Respectful and polite debate can be truly amazing but it doesn't happen often enough and, when it does, it's really easy for bystanders to shout down one of the debaters. Political correctness in only one tool people use to make sure their side wins ... let's hear the debate instead and decide rationally.
I wish I could downvote, but I don't havethe "karma" and it appears the original post was deleted. That's like saying Sure you can go to school, but if you do, don't be surprised if you get bullied. The internet frankly is/is becoming a "right" to have, and being told that using that right justifies this crap is crazy.... So....I'll just have to upvote your comment, I was actually afraid to click on the comments for this post, (I keep hearing crap about how HN commenters are the worst), Fortunately for the most part people were empathetic, and not complete "jerks". I am thankful for that. Unfortunately there are/always will be those that pull this kinda junk.

I seem to vaguely remember Codinghorror talking about the various ban types. In some ways it would be nice to see that kind of thing implemented for people that keep doing this, it wouldn't prevent the real life attacks, but at least online could be prevented, and in some cases if you don't get any traction online, well....it might just stop there (for that troll anyways). You can't stop all the crazies all of the time, but you can (maybe) stop some of the crazies some of the time..... This got really long, sorry, but I just get really sad when I hear about the harrassment, and needed to vocalize it.
My main conclusion after reading the article is: "Man, you really should change a job". Problem here is that his job is divided into two different sets of duties: "boring" stuff like teaching students and "fun" stuff, aka "research". Employer tends to stress importance of boring stuff, forcing employee to spend most of usual 40 hours a week on that, because he knows, that employee would do "fun" stuff anyway, acting of his free will. It is just obvious Jedi mind-trick intended to make employees work more, without using whip.
There is also python-future, which lets you write in a large subset of Python 3 and run it on either Python 2 or 3.

http://python-future.org/
>Current battery racks sound not so good for the environment (unless we actually start recycling this waste)

Why wouldn't we?
Xamarin builds their own Android Emulator
You'll be hard-pressed to find anybody putting "hardline" and "Hollande" in the same sentence. The main, genuinely left-wing measure his government took was gay marriage (and, it should be said, was adopted in spite of large demonstrations from the catholic right) but the Justice minister has also attempted to reduce the ever-increasing overcrowding of French prisons, things like this. However, his reform of the finance system turned into a farce, and he is pretty much considered to cater to the will of Big Business (large tax cuts for companies which have so far shown to be completely ineffective in terms of reducing unemployment). With the net effect of costing him his electorate, while failing to endear him to the right wing.
that sounds like a great opportunity! thanks for the answer
monitorEvents is really awesome.

Would really like a little writeup on each of these to accompany the gif, couldn't quite figure out the "copy an object to the clipboard" one.
The New Habit Challenge: Wear the Same Clothes Every Day
I agree, New Relic's pricing model is almost too "enterprise". Per host pricing seems high, and difficult to scale. It's too bad, because I love everything else they offer. I'm even considering the new Insights service. I think they need to introduce a mid-tier pricing level between Free and Pro.

They've got a good foothold in the market as a all-in-one solution. I've attempted to find a drop-in replacement, without much luck. It's difficult to find a one-for-one service, but here's some similar services with entry-level pricing:

DataDog (https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/): $15/host/month up to 100 hosts.

Scout (https://scoutapp.com/subscriptions): $10/host/month

CopperEgg (http://copperegg.com/pricing/): A la carte depending on service

Stackify (http://www.stackify.com/pricing/): $15/host/month

The biggest feature that I need is application level monitoring for PHP. There's plenty of great server monitoring tools, but not many services that track application performance like New Relic does.

I know there's plenty of ways to replicate New Relic, but who has the time?

Of course, I could be completely wrong, and missing a great alternative service.
Yes, but there are solutions for brightness/color at least for our smartphones and PCs.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&h...

PC: https://justgetflux.com/
It is not. ASP.net viewstate includes a serialization of a set of controls that, server-side, represent the state of the page.

That's not what I'm talking about.

This is why I think I need to write a toy language example - most people, given a brief outline of what I'm talking about, think I'm talking about something else they're more familiar with, and misunderstand.
A Chrome Experiment: Space Craft for All - The Journey of the ISEE-3
Lots of ways. They're actually relatively cheap to buy if you're sufficiently motivated. This might be of interest to you: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/id-theft-service-customer...
What sort of plugs and connectors are you going to use for this?
Uh, ok, what's Ducksboard, what's Panic dashboard and what's Zapier?
Why aren't cell phones allowed to be used in aircraft?
Just uploaded a new smaller gif, it's working now.
Presently IBM's just getting in the space. I was offered a chance to use BlueMix during the closed beta. I didn't for the same reason you mentioned: they didn't have a pricing plan. I too thought, "What's the point of building something if it will be really expensive later?" Fortunately, IBM seems to be reasonable when they came out with pricing.

I wouldn't build my company around the beta of Watson, but if you experiment during beta, you could have first mover advantage when the pricing comes out and you find it acceptable.
The first C++ compiler (Cfront) compiled from C++ to C.

Once you get some C code that does things with structures and function pointers like a C++ compiler would do, I think it's not impossible to turn those back into classes if you can recognise the patterns that a C++ compiler uses to compile C++ constructs like classes, virtual functions, etc.
WePay Connect has all the same fraud features as Clear, but for a lot of brands they want to be the consistent voice across their platform-and rightfully so. WePay Clear allows you to process payments without giving up any of your brand's experience.
Basic income might be flawed but it makes more sense than today’s system
Looks like there's some Ruby behind the scenes.

```
Error: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass
```
keep going Pascal!
Soylent gets a version bump to 1.1
It is not Facebook. PayPal gets major heat for freezing/siezing accounts. Elance should too.
Yep, and those static IPs are for the good ol' Google public DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Yes, but the meaning of left in America is so far off the definition for the entire rest of the world, it is hardly worth considering.
The situation is improved by other people knowing there's a problem. The other people will pay more attention to spot thieves and try to stop them. The point is to make society less welcoming for thieves.
> 4.- Different elections: for executive and legislative (like in France)

The two most powerful countries with non-figurehead executives (France and the United States) are perpetually beset with bickering and internal fighting instead of "checks and balances". Is a system with government shutdowns like we saw last year in the US, or François Hollands troubles in France any better than a system where all the power is held by the legislature and the prime minister? I only see a president as a sort of dictator who holds for 4 or 5 years the view of the electorate at one point in time, as opposed to a legislature who are always looking at future elections.
I'd pay good money for a TV with integrated F.lux (i.e. blue gradually degrades with the movement of the sun).

I started using F.lux too many years ago now to count, and honestly it really seemed to help. However getting similar kind of functionality on all of your other devices (e.g. Tablets, Phones, TV, etc) is near impossible right now.

As far as I know the "blue light ruins sleep" research is fairly decent, so hopefully it isn't a placebo.
I'm really glad you guys made an awesome start. I hope you can keep the pace.
Noob here. What are the possible usecases?
They're still called warranties in many EU countries, and simply saying it'll "void your warranty" is incorrect, and possibly illegal.

Oh, and in some countries the law has more teeth: here in Portugal the burden of proof never shifts during the 24 months :)