skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From today to 11.28, Udemy online courses is going on The Race on Black Friday, All courses will be $10, and increases every day . so hurry , and get what you wanna
"Breaking rules" is one thing. Showing completely immoral behavior is another.

Uber didn't "cross the line", they are miles off course on the wrong side.
Site looks nice, did you use a specific frontend/css framework for the design?
> Where and how do you get your news? How do you order them?

We get the news via data feeds like RSS and social networks. The ranking algorithm is similar to the HN one (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574), but instead of upvotes it uses our popularity score system.

> And why only 30 in each category?

In the future we may add mechanisms to let users browse more links, like a 'Show more' button below the links list, or an Archive section.

> Other than that, nice design. Bookmarked, will see. Btw, I guess comments would be nice.

Thanks!
The Importance of Gradual Typing
Advanced clipping and masking in HTML 5
There is probably a lot to complain about Azure, especially when it comes to proactive communication, dirty hacks and Windows weirdness. But their support was actually really nice to me...
$2 per month sounds too good to be true. What is the catch?
Ergolatron – Cloud controlled work desks
Like 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓! https://twitter.com/egypturnash/status/535105548761309184
we're a team of 4 core ppl ( some part time ) working on http://www.pitchxo.com and have managed to increase revenue since launch ~4 months ago MoM by ~20% - to around 2000$ monthly. ( famous slow SaaS ramp of death )

In that whole time running manual services like http://www.sharkboard.co ( monthly investor updates ) and http://www.stefanxo.com ( cto consulting, PA services & hosting ) kept us afloat while building it with 4-5k$ + shortterm gigs

backstory: i ran a small mvp 1-2 years ago on a blog of a famous european angel investor. we uploaded his next project's pdf behind a social login - 800 people signed up.

few months later we made a similar page for a fintech firm that was raising a round - this time with email notifications about sign ups and adding them to a CRM. they got about 150 investors signed up and raised the money quite quickly

so we started automating the process and building it as SaaS app step by step. at first with a few customers who we set up manually, then end of summer we finally launched the SaaS version
Military's Self-Flying Helicopter Gets Modded to Fight Wildfires
i'm curious about why did they go to "third"? there is a very big third Firefox OS not including WP. i can understand an OS based on Android. i can understand contributing to Firefox even forking. it has some real support from telecoms, open development process. apart from being a regional product which can get away with 3rd party app stores i dont get this write-a-mobile-os-from scratch.
You do realize I called for Qt bindings right? C++ is going nowhere... C++ will always be an option that's needed... especially for games. I actually like C++ but developing in it provides too many unnecessary hassles for many apps.
I ran shopebike.com, a dropship of electric bikes and soon electric scooters. I provide customer supports via email and sometimes over the phone.

It has generated around $8000 a year so far, mostly in the warmer months. I tried google ads words in the past, but the cost was too much so I dropped it in the beginning of the year. Maybe I wasn't doing it correctly, but it was almost no conversions.
I was once bilked into buying some scraped content as original work by this method. It passed copyscape, and my test of Googling a a random sentence in quotes didn't bring anything up. I let it go because I had already accepted the work, and the lesson was worth more than the article anyway.

Don't be fool as I was! Had I manually transcribed a sentence into Google instead of copying + pasting the Unicode chars, I would have found hundreds of copies of the same article.
This is a great initiative. On the other hand, I'm beginning to think that security models based on any central authority will always be at risk of getting compromised from within. Techniques that allow trusted security to be established between two parties without the need for a third-party authority to validate them would be nice to see.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

Railway Mania was an instance of speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s. It followed a common pattern: as the price of railway shares increased, more and more money was poured in by speculators, until the inevitable collapse. It reached its zenith in 1846, when no fewer than 272 Acts of Parliament were passed, setting up new railway companies, and the proposed routes totalled 9,500 miles (15,300 km) of new railway.
Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
This sounds like it could be abused.

Someone submitting a path to an open-source program (in Ruby) with a NBSP somewhere that changes the program logic or something. (a<NBSP>or<NBSP>b, where earlier you did a<NBSP>or<NBSP>b=x, or something similar, is the first example that comes to mind.
^^^ This is correct, but I will break it down further with the assumption you are starting from zero knowledge.

Let's say you are buying ads from FB. It's common practice to test multiple ads. (Images, Headlines, Ad copy in the body, targeting (who the ads will be shown to).

The hope and idea is that one or more of these ads will work better than the rest. It's a bit like how YC invests in a lot of startups, not all succeed, the ones that do get more money, the rest run out of cash and go out of business.

To help you see which ads are working FB cookies and tracks everyone who clicks your ads. However they don't know if a click results in a sale/lead unless you send them confirmation that a sale/lead happened.

That's where the pixels come in. The term pixel can sometimes be confusing, because these days it's usually a snippet of javascript that makes a call to FB. I haven't looked at the back end implementation, but I assume the JS loads an image.

In short, this allows FB to attribute the sale/lead to a particular ad. With enough data, you can then weed out the ads that are wasting money, and focus on the ones that work. Al lot of time you can optimize further by building out variations of the winning combination.

All this is cool, but if you don't control the conversion page, and this is the case for 99.999% of affiliates you can't place your FB pixel unless the company you are working with provides a means for you to do so. Sometimes it's manually done, other times it's automate like what Teespring did.

QUICK PRIVACY WARNING: Placing a 3rd party pixel code on a conversion page has to potential to leak private information to the 3rd party. This usually happens if your customer's info is in the url variables of the page hosting the pixel. When the page loads, all the info is passed to the 3rd party pixel in the referer info.
Tesla Model X Delayed Again
What's weird for me is that Chrome 38 on Win 8.1 is showing the title in the tab but is just boxes on the actual page.
Interesting, I actually just got one of those "suspicious activity" emails last week. But they just threatened to shut down my services, they haven't actually done it (yet).

It's still pretty obnoxious, because they basically said "there's something suspicious going on, we won't tell you what, but you better fix it or we'll shut you down." Gee, thanks. After a week of daily emails they finally responded with a network trace... that showed we're doing some outbound HTTP calls. That's it - they redacted everything except for the ports and the first two octets of the destination IP addresses. So very helpful, and certainly looks suspicious... </sarc>
OH NEIN! MEIN LEBEN! :(
~$500/m from sales of my Bootstrap framework for Shopify themes (http://www.bootstrapforshopify.com).
Low Latency, Scalable Model Management and Serving with Velox [pdf]
It's a tricky hole to thread: if the blog is being run as a business it could violate the terms of the H1B. On the other hand, a blog that is run as a hobby and that makes incidental/minimal income should not violate the H1B. Generally, the difference between the two is that a business blog is intended and managed to maximize revenue (even if it actually does not make money), while a hobby blog is not intended to make money(even if it actually does).
I would like to point out that of the 5 people being talked about here (Colin Watson, Russ Allbery, Ian Jackson, Joey Hess, and Fog Heen), only one of them has actually resigned from Debian as a whole in any real sense (Joey Hess). Colin Watson is still on the TC for the time being, Colin, Russ, and Ian are all still acting in their other roles as DDs, maintainers, what have you, and Fog Heen has only indicated that he no longer is the maintainer of systemd. Four of these five people have expressed an intention to continue being involved in Debian, just not necessarily in all of the same roles they have been.
No dice on my system, in-page search does not work. Mac or Windows Firefox.

Also some of the menu of glyphs are only visual analogues, not 1-1 replacements.

Plenty of systems and indexers will not be sophisticated enough to cope.

This may be very frustrating if you have visual impairments and need a screen reader.
I honestly can't tell if you're being earnest or not. So, apologies if you're being sarcastic.

The DEA, as a government agency, was created with the mission of eradicating drugs. They aren't really in the business of doing scientific evaluation of the drugs themselves, and I would be surprised if there are any scientists on staff, and if there are, even more surprised if they have any pull.

At any rate, the DEA doesn't set drug policy, the federal government does.

The federal governments' track record when it comes to controlling substances has not often been in line with scientific or social needs, as is evidenced by the extreme cost of the current war on drugs and the consequent negative effects on society. For example, cocaine is a refinement of cocoa which was included in things like coca-cola as a mild stimulant. When it became controlled, smuggling economics came to bear, and thus refining it into cocaine allowed for more value-per-unit-shipment in smuggling. Being more addictive, and thus worse for society, was a side effect of this. Worse, with the war on cocaine that occurred an even further refinement was done for the same economic reasons resulting in crack.

I posit that if the wellbeing of society were the primary importance for the federal government there would be no drug war, and thus no drug related violent crimes (or very few) and a lot less addiction.
Show HN: Muna, your personnal paperboy
I sell a self hosted web app (http://duetapp.com) that generates 3-4k a month. It used to be higher, but I haven't given it the attention it deserves in a couple of months.
Half of stars lurk outside galaxies
>The Fine Article? English is not my spoken or native tongue, so I'm not sure what you mean.

he meant 'read the fucking article'
FiscalNote raises $7m in Series A funding
systemd is not an init system, that's how it started, but they state they want to comprise a whole OS.

Debian may seem too big to die, but they are slowly being commoditized away, because RedHat is known to offer better sales force, better service and support:

How do you differentiate your product if your core mission is to ensure
that your product operates exactly as your competition? The bottom
line is that you don't
like it. textbook example of great UX
I realize that you're being somewhat facetious, but don't think of the hobby itself as the income generator. Think of something that is difficult or expensive, or time intensive about working on your car, and try to make it easier, cheaper and or faster to accomplish. Think of it from the perspective of people that work on cars for a living. Anything that saves them time/labor/equipment costs will be of interest to these people.

The bare essence is this: find a problem that a large group of people experience, and find a way that allows people to solve that problem.
They are two local businesses that my partner knew the owner of. We tried cold calling a few others and working with local marketing agencies with little luck so far.
Show HN: Gigoing – What’s Your Personal Branding?
Oh!

Thanks for the correction; sorry for the noise.
𝕴 𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖑 𝖆 𝖓𝖊𝖜 𝖛𝖎𝖗𝖆𝖑 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖓 𝖘𝖔𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝖒𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖆 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌.
Hey there, I created Muna. It's a bit late in my TZ right now, but I'll be happy to answer to everything when I wake up!

In the meantime, here's a blogpost that explains the why and how of Muna : http://geoffrey.io/muna-your-personnal-paperboy.html
Introducing “A Field Guide to the Distributed Development Stack”
iOS app average less than a hundred dollars a month https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tasq-logger/id877346886?mt=8
Anonymous publishes names of Ferguson KKK members
This is rather like famous "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" dictum of lore, and its variants in other contexts: the key takeaway shouldn't be that we should never use these constructs -- rather than we should be circumspect about using them, as they tend to have hidden side effects.
Zappowr – The Daily Stunner
> Wouldn't you need to check Gemfile.lock?

Exactly. It should be Gemfile.lock that is checked, not Gemfile
Great job. It seems like a subset of jquery functionality? Is there something that interact.js does that jquery doesn't? Or is it just a size thing...
Where do you advertise? Is your web page the only selling channel you are using?
I don't think you can really make a blanket statement like this. When you make blanket statements, you're ultimately basing a decision on superstition, rather than need or evidence. It's why I don't really care for anything that claims to be "best practices". The term "best practices" really just means "this worked for us in our situation". That's great, and one should be aware of such things, but that doesn't make it a standard or a law.
I understand your argument. Barring some of the hyperbole of your worst case scenario, I totally get it.

In my opinion the rationality of your perspective is one of the most damaging consequences of the NSA's behavior.

Attacking the client is easy for both hackers and nation states. Moving the control to infrastructure tends to cut out whole swaths of script kiddies. There are important scenarios where this makes a ton of sense (m2m, iot, many mobile apps) and those assholes have just burned everyone's trust to the point that nascent solutions are no longer viable.
If adopting systemd actually broke everything, then of course they'd be doing something else instead. The anti-systemd crowd looks at this issue the way you might look at someone who took a working piece of software, and then did a completely correct transformation of all loops and conditionals to use bare gotos.

It's not incorrect to do that. Nothing crashes. It might actually even be faster or use less memory if you were sufficiently clever about it. However, the argument is that you just bought yourself a future full of pain and misery for not a big enough present gain.

Look at poor technical decisions from the past. The earliest browsers were encouraged to be liberal in what they accepted (an adaptation of Postel's law to HTML parsing). I think a lot of people today regard that as a decision that probably held the internet back by a decade -- think of the time we wasted writing compatibility layers and artificially restricting what our web pages could do. But it wasn't immediately obvious that that was the case. It took 10 or 15 years for the implications of that decision to really hit home.

What happens next is not a collapse of the world. It's a slow accrual of follow-up decisions that are needed to keep the lights on, until one day you look at the Eldritch horror you've had to build over 10 years and go, "Jesus, that was a bone-headed idea." Maybe they're completely wrong in opposing it, but systemd isn't anywhere near old enough to have decided that just yet.
I'm not ranting about the black background. I'm ranting about the buttons and the way they look:

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

Moreover, there is no way this watch is pulling over 24 hours battery life. They said that they expect you to charge it everyday. In that sense, the power should not be much of an issue as big as the comments here presume. LG G Watch easily lasts 24 hours, and Moto 360 easily goes 16-20 hours. So unless this watch lasts 2 days or more, screwing up the UI makes little sense, you'd be charging it every night anyway.
A better political analogy would be comparing the talking heads on propaganda TV channels vs the lobbyists and corporate donors who actually run the .gov.

There's some strife at both levels, the level of discourse is quite a bit different as is the level of publicity, and the level of actual impact.

You could be correct about modern culture and public non participant trolling culture. But there are more groups involved than just that (loud) group.
It's perfectly fine to own a foreign business (i.e., not located in the US). But it's generally a violation of the H1B to run (i.e., operate/manage/supervise) that business from the US because the foreign business is then generally treated as having a US presence. See "permanent establishment" and the US tax treaty with whatever country you're from.
I think it's worth noting that this is the conclusion one group of scientists came to based on data they collected. That's true of all published articles, but my point is that other scientists have not necessarily come to the same conclusion - yet. But that's how science works!

At the end of this submission, they mention that they are planning follow-up experiment which should get more data.

I first heard about this on the Skeptics Guide podcast (http://www.theskepticsguide.org/), and I was surprised because it's counter to how I think about the universe.
check out the amazon reviews - http://www.amazon.com/Actress-Computer-Engineer-Barbie-Pictu...
Nice idea to leverage twitter's starred items. Do you plan to support other social services ?
Just to pile on what you said, I believe that with Flex and other CSS rules, the DOM tree is less deep then it used to be (less wrappers for alignments).

Obviously, I don't work at the scale of Facebook, but it's a tendency that I have witnessed in different projects.

So it's possible that the speed tradeoff between classes and ids become irrelevant, if it's not already.
I never said they were immune... I was merely pointing out that there is a lack of regulation. There is no taxi commission to go to if Uber screws you.
Hybrid Routing with Backbone.js
Bypass iCloud iOS 8.1.1iOS 8 jailbreak
I was giving examples, it certainly isn't an exhaustive list. How many complaints against Uber in a year? We don't know because there isn't any regulator oversight besides trusting Uber.
Thanks for asking!

Yes I plan on supporting at least Pocket and Instapaper, maybe more depending on demands.
This way you get all the advantages of shared code (all the libraries are still available when you're building the server), and most of the advantages of specialized code like lack of bloat.
Trigger/signal smart devices with Arduino (tutorial)
I really liked the idea that if you can subtly rotate the player you can use breaking forces to simulate acceleration.

I imagine an entire roller coaster hooked to the same simulation so that you can all participate in firing cannons with your head to defeat a monster and earn a top score.
A Cautionary Tale of Learning to Code
⎧1 if n = 0;
F(n) ≡ ⎨1 if n = 1;
⎩F(n-1) + F(n-2) if n > 1.

⎛ ∇∙D⃑ = ρ ⎞
⎜ ∇∙B⃑ = 0 ⎟
⎜ ∇×E⃑ = -∂B⃑/∂t ⎟
⎝ ∇×H⃑ = J⃑ + ∂D⃑/∂t ⎠

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π = 2⎮ √1̅̅-̅̅x̅̅²̅̅ dx
⌡₋₁

⎡1 0 1⎤ ⎡î⎤
⎢0 1 0⎥ ⎢ĵ⎥
⎣1 0 1⎦ ⎣k̂⎦

Γ ⊢ t:S S<:T
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Γ ⊢ t:T

⎛ 1 ⎞ⁿ
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the point being "111111" already appears doubled for example

could just have the doubling check after the hash check though
It's the DOM element to upvote this whole post at the top of the page.

I agree that polluting JavaScript's global space is bad. I wonder if this could be a vector for some attack. Probably not because it would be well known for a long while (but I didn't know about it untile 5 minutes ago, thanks).
Thanks. I flagged yours too. I want the mods to pay attention and find a way to reduce the hostility of Hacker News.

Several people I know in real life have told me that they perceive Hacker News comments as very hostile, so I know it's not just me. Nothing significant has been done to try to correct it.
I would go with building the config into the image and tagging the resulting image with the environment name, if that's possible.

We've been using chef in the past to manage docker, which never felt very good because the main cookbook was somewhat buggy (but it has gotten better recently).

We now use mesos+marathon(+chronos for deployment) for running our docker container, which sounds much more overkill than chef, but turned out to work much better and cleaner.
Electrical brain stimulation beats caffeine and the effect lasts longer
> Apple is not restricting your freedom. The government is, via copyright law.

When a person or company makes use of a legal process to restrict someone's freedom, I think it's fair to blame both the law and the person using it. You don't get a free pass on unethical actions just because they are currently legal in a particular jurisdiction.

> You feel so entitled to other people's work

I feel entitled only to freedom to use my own personal property without restriction. If I purchase a computer, I own it and can do whatever I want with it. If I buy a MacBook Pro, I can legitimately open it up, modify it, replace components, modify the installed operating system or software, etc., etc. I can also share photographs, schematics, disassemblies, and anything else I want to document this process. It's my computer. If you, Apple, or anyone else tries to get the government to stop me from doing so, you are in the wrong, even if you try to dress up your intrusion on my personal property with made-up terms like "intellectual property", EULAs, and whatever other bullshit they come up with.

I do think it would be preferable to simply repeal "intellectual property" laws rather than have to try to use things like the GPL to work around them. In that world, the BSD license would be fully free, too. But licensing software as GPL is something I can do easily as an individual, while getting stupid laws repealed is considerably more difficult, so it's the pragmatic workaround for now.
Andy.scss: Useful SASS Mixins
Your response only makes sense if your alternatives are: (1) systemd, (2) sysvinit and (3) a horrible death.

I know dozens of init systems that do much more, markedly better than systemd, and are modular so you can easily replace them when the time for a new technology comes. systemd is very recent, and still its opinionated architecture is showing inflexible to changes.
> the pain itself seems unavoidable from where I'm sitting.

If there's enough time and energy in the community to be throwing death threats around, surely there is enough energy to maintain debian/systemd and debian/upstart as separate distros, both of which live happily ever after, sharing the 99.999% of code and infrastructure that they have in common? Then if one side really IS technically superior, people will naturally end up moving to that one and the other will die a gentle natural death, no personal attacks and resignations needed.

(For example, see what happened when Canonical wanted Debian to be more apple-like -- they didn't send death threats to Debian developers, they just did the work that they wanted to see done, and now both projects are a great success)
Shape-shifting architecture that responds to heat