skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Archive Team is going to have a hard time preserving Friendfeed content, due to resource limitations of the platform. For example, it only provides a very limited amount of data through the frontend (was 600 posts, now slightly higher), and slightly more through the API (10,000).

I'm currently working on a system, but it requires user input, in order to bypass the limitations of the API.
Looks nice and reminds me of Seti (https://github.com/ctf0/Seti_ST3)
Awesome, thanks. I am actually really happy about this.
Ask HN: How have you got traction for your side project(s)?
Hello guys,

I am curious how have you got traction for your (side) projects.
I am working as a developer and in a usual scenario, I develop a web (or android) application, everything is polished and tested, everything is working well, I hire a designer to get a nice coat for the app, but then comes the critical problem I faced many times - I stuck at getting traffic.

It happened to me couple times and even if I google to find some techniques (PPC, Facebook ads, etc.), I suck at this part.

I wanted to ask you how you got traffic for your projects, and if you could recommend me something you learn during that process, I'd love to hear that!

Thank you very much, enjoy your day!
Should you use Storyboards on more complex apps?
I did indeed follow the README to a tee .. and on OSX .. so I'm still at a loss as to what may be wrong.
This becomes a physics problem; it's a race between how quickly VMs can be migrated and when the embargo is lifted.
That an electron is measured through its effect does not mean that we don't need to describe the electron itself.

We certainly do. So look at what physicists did. First they came up with a clear definition - "a discrete and indivisible negatively charged particle". Second, they went out of their way to distinguish concepts like an electron from charge as a fluid and other models. They didn't simply declare "well, electric current proves electrons exist", they went to crazy lengths like Millikan's oil drops to distinguish these concepts.

When they can't actually distinguish these concepts intrinsically (as was the case with Maxwell's equations vs Aether), they tend to drop the more complex theory.

In contrast, you seem quite resistant to doing any of these things. I don't quite understand why.
One difficulty with the bands is that, unlike a regular hotel with a magnetic (or even RFID) wallet sized card, this needs to be placed on your wrist every morning. I've needed several replacement Magic Bands because I am used to walking out of my house/hotel room and just checking for my wallet, cell, keys and knowing I'm good. Usually a hotel card would be in my wallet and it is not an additional check.

They are free to replace so it's not too big of a deal.
They should, because there are many things that we don't have sufficient evidence to prove or disprove, and sometimes it's useful to hold an opinion on them anyway.

If a person can make the unsupported claim that gender differences do not stem from biologically hardwired tendencies, then a person should be able the unsupported claim that gender differences do stem from biologically hardwired tendencies.

Also, not being able to make "unsupported" claims is a vicious cycle. If you can't say X, then any academic study is going to phrase their conclusions very careful regarding X (or possible selectively publish - I've seen this). And then X is going to be "unsupported".
I made a list of other way usb can be evil: http://www.jefftk.com/p/malicious-usb-sticks
As /u/DanielStraight said, it all depends on the requirements for your project.

In the meantime though, I would recommend working out some prototypes, both to brush up your skills and also to get some ideas on the architecture/design. Since you mentioned that this is a desktop app, maybe try out some tools/frameworks that you might end up using in the final project.

Here are a few recommendations:

https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows

https://github.com/akavache/Akavache

http://reactiveui.net/

http://mahapps.com/

https://github.com/MvvmCross/MvvmCross
That's hilarious. Classic Linus.
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I'll be interested to see how the rulings on standing go. That seems like the crux of the matter to me, because the issue is not just "was your name mentioned," but also "were you harmed?"

4th Amendment cases are usually litigated in the context of a criminal appeal; obviously a defendant is facing real jeopardy in a prosecution, and therefore has standing.

Civil lawsuits exist to make plaintiffs whole after suffering a harm. But the court might find that being surveilled, alone and by itself, is not harm. The court could say that nothing has been removed, destroyed, prevented, or altered in Wikimedia's servers, so they have no harm to make whole.

The court could say that merely copying data does no harm to the original data creator or holder. (This argument might sound familiar here on HN, as it is sometimes used to argue that file sharing does no legal harm to publishers.)
Yes. See slide 43 for examples of statements that now produce errors by default: http://www.slideshare.net/morgo/upcoming-changes-in-mysql-57

This will break some applications that are upgrading. I have a whitelist/blacklist suggestion on how to transition on my blog: http://www.tocker.ca/2014/09/01/suggestions-for-transitionin...
Yet another article about income inequality that does not talk about government corruption.
That's a pretty interesting idea. It would be easy to power them via solar. I couldn't find power specs for WiFi cards but it seems typical SD cards run on 3.3V up to 300mW, but newer high speed cards can draw up to 3W. A small panel could easily handle that.
This is a kind of short-term thinking that gets humans into trouble. The writing on the wall is clear and the time to deal with it is now, not when you'll start having widespread riots.
Ok, so the solution is technical. Let's say we already have super-strong, super-easy to use and implement crypto-systems.

All we have to do is convince people to use them, keeping in mind 95 percent of users use IMs such as Skype, Hangouts, iMessage, Whatsapp and Facebook Chat. Now all we have to do is get those companies to implement that encryption right? Oh wait, doing that for those companies would be illegal because the law wouldn't be on our side. Now what? Do we go back to convincing people to use obscure "darknet/used by criminals" tools that the government will do its best to denigrate? How much of a chance do you think we have to make those tools used by 80 percent of the population within 5-10 years?
The long-term solution is to form a consortium of online media and charge a monthly subscription fee of $9.99/month or so. (Tech media comes together: techcrunch, venturebeat, recode, etc.) Having individual paywalls will not incentivize readers to pay an annual subscription fee. And then the revenue can be split between various media outlets.
Crazy rumor of the day: Oracle to buy Salesforce?
This is why I am increasingly convinced that GPL(v3) is going to become a bastion of hope for privacy. The major problem is that companies want to make money off the software, close it up and proprietize it, and then the gov comes along with a NSL or blackbox or other comprimise and backdoors/weakens the system, and all of a sudden all the customers of the company are vulnerable. FOSS and in particular GPL, is the way around this. Software companies should be selling support, not the software (IMHO).
​Linux adopts conflict resolution code
I think the headlines are generally okay, but the "text" sections are a bit too soft. For me, the grey is just a little bit too light.
Same for the text on the orange background, but the headlines are okay here, too. One exception: the headlines at the top (orange background with picture), for me that's a little hard to read too.
There's something in the AMD culture, for sure. A long time ago, like +- their very fast 486s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am486), someone noted that over it's history AMD had never made stockholders money. Significant successes were not followed up, in a pattern that we see with x86-64.

One possible fly in that ointment: how are AMD's ... arrangements with Intel structured? AMD is playing some of these games because Intel chose them to second source the 8086, 8088, and 286 and that resulted in their getting various rights to future chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices#IBM_PC_...). If these don't hold if AMD is acquired, it wouldn't likely be attractive. Or companies that only want to play the ARM game, might not be interested in joining all the drama of AMD, including the remaining ATI graphics stuff, which are irrelevant to server chips.

Are you sure ARM at 28nm is that losing of a proposition for servers? Don't ARM designs have quite a bit of power margin to waste? Although that of course doesn't help the performance/power ratio.
To Marissa Mayer – Gender Is Relevant in Silicon Valley
Why didn't the Native Americans ever advance technologically?
it's really beautiful and for ONCE it actually works when I install it!

I just tried the Markdown theme as well and I had to remove this line for it to work: "wrap_width": 80

beautiful as well! Good job!

You should note that changing Sublime's icon is not doable (at least easily) in Windows.
The specific build errors won't show because Cargo hides the output. Try cloning https://github.com/oakes/neovim and running `make libnvim` inside it. The errors you get should make it more clear what dependency is missing.
Cool post. (Author here).

Let me know if you have any questions on this. We ended up finding that most users would potentially pay more (at least in the US).

The only issue is: Is this "price discrimination" from a legal perspective or not since they're clearly pricing differently based on age?
I had pretty good click-to-buy success but only at a narrow subject, dedicate vertical sites. In other words selling backup software to the readers of data backup tech site.

GigaOM is a wide subject site and only brand awareness ads would make sense.
For click-my-ad-to-buy-my-stuff hopeful advertiser - it's a waste of money.
What if the law says that secret courts can decide using secret proceedings?
Really, really great. Thanks for sharing!

Also thanks for extensive documentation.
I admire very few people as much as I do Bill Watterson.

He had a major part in my childhood as I tore through each and every one of his books, read the 10th anniversary and all its commentary at least a dozen times and still find myself opening my entire collection on occasion when I stumble across them in my "box of stuff I hope to one day pass my kid." I remember checking "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" from our school library in 5th grade only to have my dog chew the cover. I was secretly so happy because it meant I got to keep the book (while my parents were stuck paying for it).

The guy has stuck so clearly to his principles when he was surely presented multiple opportunities to make far more money licensing his product. I cringe every time I see a poor unlicensed Calvin relieving himself on various truck logos, I can't imagine Watterson is a fan of that.

I have zero qualms with artists making money off something they create (duh), but it is refreshing when a Watterson comes along and makes a clear choice to keep his creation untouched by anyone other than himself.

All that to say, can't wait to read this.
It's not, we get it. But there's a few different points here:

- Context is hard. Like I said, there's a shift towards buying audiences rather because there's a lot of automation and real-time bidding infrastructure, so advertisers just target a demographic profile rather than caring about what site it runs on. Newer formats like native ads are more susceptible to context so they're take that more into account but all the banners you see really don't care about the site, in fact it's hard to pass all that information in real time anyway and outside of Google, even the biggest ad companies are not fit to index and categorize the entire internet.

- I appreciate your feedback on what ads to show on what sites but the results when you look in aggregate are very different. Remember, a sample size of 1 is meaningless. We wouldn't be running those ads if they didn't work in some respect and every major network has tons of algorithms and data science to make sure they have an edge. It might be easy to say show car ads on news sites but different ads might perform better depending on audience, site history, location, time, etc so that's what gets shown.

- For the most part though, you will see tech-related ads on tech sites, the industry isn't that bad at targeting and relevance. It's really really hard to believe you never see ads that are at least the slightest bit related to the site.

- Being followed by products/companies you bought goes back to what I mentioned about retargeting. It's works really well. However, it again comes down to tracking. If you don't want to be tracked, how are we supposed to know you've bought something? Remember there's never just one single ad company that knows everything, there are hundreds of different databases tracking different things. Ecommerce/purchases are under even stricter privacy rules than just browsing habits and also more valuable data so companies don't give up access easily. It's about 100x more complicated if it's an offline sale (like buying something at your local store) and trying to tie that back to an online user. We're good at tracking but we're still humans and the tech is impressive but it can't just magically know everything while still respecting people's privacy wishes.

- Pricing is another complicated issue. Part of digital advertising is the ability to track certain actions so the efficiency of performance ads increases by only paying when things perform (clicks, signups, etc). So no performance advertiser will pay CPM when they can pay CPC/CPA instead, and as soon as one network offers it, the rest have to follow or start losing business. It's just not that easy to avoid.

Hope that helps clear up some your questions.
You are not the target user
Ask HN: Have you made a movie?
Hey HN. I'm producing my second feature, called At Sunrise, right now. The first one we crowdfunded for about $10K. Does anyone have experience in producing along more conventional routes?
We've raised about $70K of in-kind contributions and $15K of cash but need $30K more. There aren't a lot of film angels in my state (Michigan). We've built a great ROI case for the movie, assembled the cast, begun rehearsals, secured a location, but we're still struggling to close our financing. Any advice?

If you'd like to see a reel from our first movie, you can email me at jordan at birnholtz dot com. I'd be happy to show it to you! I'd post but it but we're keeping it (more or less) private until this festival season is over.

Thanks a bunch, HN.
I expect many of the comments will be adulation for Bill Watterson. I know he always gets unending praise, and while he did do many great things, I found his latter C&H strips to be him putting his rants in the mouth of a 6-year-old boy, where they no longer belonged.

Really, look at some of the later strips. Calvin is frequently frowning or complaining about something. The earlier strips were more care-free and he acts more like a 6-year-old albeit with a ridiculously rich vocabulary.

Good for him to quit when he was obviously no longer enjoying the process. Got to give him that.
There is also the debased version of the golden rule. The golden rule being, of course, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

The debased version being, "Who has the gold, makes the rules." (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/01/11/has-gold/)

Sometimes in gloomier moments, I am reminded of the gap between the two.
it's good that they credit the ofthedeed guide for raspbian at the end, which in turn borrowed a lot from the paxswill guide for raspbian. the ofthedeed guide has an image ready to go, which is convenient but not for the truly paranoid.

i've read about a 50% i/o performance penalty for this setup but 50% of not a lot is still not a lot, so most people won't be too bothered by it.
You could only export your feed URLs from Google Reader. They had content archived, but you couldn't easily export the content. People wrote their own scrapers, it was a big mess and no one knows how much content only existed in Reader that was deleted when it went down.
look carefully at the 2nd command, it's NOT copy (cmd-c) and paste (cmd-v)
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I believe that is the point GFK_of_xmaspast is making; it's done to make the person yelling to feel better, but it is counter-productive.
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of course. Did you miss the article yesterday about Macbook going with USB-C? Apple has made bank on just getting people to buy better plugs and cables (USB, Magsafe, Lightning connector, etc.). People also spend tons of money to hide cables when mounting TV screens.
At least you've hopefully learned something from the programming challenges if there were any. And then you shouldn't feel bad about something that is out of your control.
Seems that an aftermarket adapter incorporating a MagSafe-like feature should work:

===<cord>==E |magsafe| =E laptop

You're moving the disconnect point outside the laptop, but (in theory) could provide the capability to _any_ device.
It's great to see the return of the Hackaday Prize!
I promised Nolan a response on why I didnt particularly agree with this post when I merged it, figure may as well here.

I think all the caveats applied to async function (ensure its inside a try/catch, dont use for in) points to how complicated it can be, http://jakearchibald.com/2014/es7-async-functions/ had to be amended with notes because a bunch of people very familiar with this style of coding still get it wrong. I cant see myself explaining to a new programmer how this all works.

I would really like to see us return to nice obvious blocking functions, taking the example the simplest way of all seems to be ...

let db = new PouchDB('mydb');
let result = db.post({});
let doc = db.get(result.id);
console.log(doc);

Let workers (or whatever equivalent they come up with in node) to make sure we dont block a single event loop and live happily ever after.

Basically copy erlang, but without actually having to use erlang.
This sick status quo needs serious disruption. Google aren't new to doing it, for example with video codecs.
I have been using it for a while now. Nothing wrong with it, I like it very much and have yet to find a better alternative.
from the paxswill guide for raspbian:

"Write speed is greatly reduced, down to 4.2 MB/s from 12.9 MB/sec."

http://paxswill.com/blog/2013/11/04/encrypted-raspberry-pi/

My rpi sd card does 20mb/s unencrypted, have yet to bench encrypted.
> ... there's a very limited number of Windows devs who actually contribute back to open source projects (this may be a cultural thing coming from a proprietary OS).
>
> Additionally, supporting Windows is a bit painful because there isn't as much free tooling available, e.g. doing automated Windows testing in travis-ci is not an option

I believe the second influences the first, plus the project maintainer needs to share the opinion that releasing on Windows is worth the inevitable project changes required to do so. I have seen more than my fair share of pull requests sit idle because "meh, can't be bothered".

Regarding the travis-ci item separately, I am hoping that the work that Vagrant is doing toward being able to provision fresh virtual machine instances on Windows will provide some hope. I do fully appreciate that just provisioning them isn't the whole story, but it's a major hurdle IMHO.
That's awesome if you're the guy who wrote Expressjs, and less awesome if you're an extremely talented systems programmer nobody's ever heard of who hasn't hit on a project that happens to capture the industry's attention.
Just as a point of reference -

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/

This is journalism WE should pay for? Looks bought and paid for already...
This is tangential, but for those of you looking to fill the Calvin and Hobbes hole in your life, I highly recommend the illustrated weblog of French cartoonist Boulet. It's really amazing. (And it's pretty clear that C&H was a huge inspiration for him.)

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2012/12/05/the-warrior-never-r...

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2013/10/08/our-toyota-was-fant...

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2012/02/01/darkness/

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2013/02/04/paola-4/
Reminds me a lot of IDEA's Darkula - the only theme I can stomach these days.
After installing it, only the colors on the code editor change. How do I get the tabs and file list panel to look like in those screenshots? It looks like a standard OSX control in mine.
Well then by your definition, nobody can be ‘overcome by the little guy’

That was not my point, the big guy can of course always be overcome. It's just not a very interesting case to debate because only 0.000001% of our burger flippers will ever get that lucky.

My point was that most of his praised "automation and globalization" actually works against the remaining 99.99999% of burger flippers.

These trends remove the very inefficiencies from markets that previously gave breathing room to independent actors. You don't realistically buy a grill anymore, you join a franchise, on the terms of a "big guy".
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Cool and concise article.

This is just me thinking out loud, but the look-ahead...will it ever end? You say ES7 is bleeding edge, but that's contingent on the context. In terms of browser support/widespread adoption right now, ES6 is bleeding edge. How many years...decades is something like ES7 away from ever being implemented in the majority of browsers out there? How much more will the web development landscape have even changed by then?
Does this have colored gitgutter icons?
Yeah, it's really tough to quit something while it's ahead, without the benefit of hindsight to tell you when the peak actually was.
I think you're confused.

HPV is not herpes. HPV (certain strains) is the leading cause of cervical cancer, oral cancer, anal cancer. Having a vaccine against it is a huge benefit to public health. I think pharma companies should be commended for developing it, considering the vaccine hasn't been selling that well and they certainly aren't making money had over fist with it.
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Lessons in the Fundamentals
GitHub for Marketing: Live near the code
Ride – Rust IDE
Show HN: Motion sensing using the doppler effect
I do think the question of price discrimination is a really interesting one. Why hasn't anyone been successful suing for that? Why is Tinder being so obvious about it, do their lawyers no something we don't, or are they just that much more risk tolerant?
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Huh?

Your definition of exploitation is ridiculously narrow. Mechanical turks and task rabbits are tenant farmers. The actual asset that they need to own and maintain isn't a means of production for the landlord, it's just another attribute to exploit.

The landlord controls the work assignments and because the API breaks work into tiny atomic units, the tenant is stuck trying to gobble up whatever task is available. There's no competitive force to drive up compensation... it's a race to the bottom, because the workers lose all of the advantages they have as employees. (ie. hiring an FTE is high friction)

This trend isn't mobilizing a nation of entrepreneurs, it's bringing back the 19th century trend of day labor for the lower classes -- except they don't even get a commitment to a day's pay!
Do you even know what a hyperbole is?

You seem to lack basic reading comprehension, come from a sheltered environment, have aspergers or is just trolling