skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait for APNG support to become standard. Most of the GIF animations on Wikimedia Commons seem like they'd be more efficiently encoded as PNGs; I wonder what the size comparison (GIF vs. APNG) is like for some of the images on there? e.g.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Color_coded_racetrack...
If anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov

And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume:

https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter
> * Vendors wouldn't be able to transfer money to a local wallet even if they wanted to.*

So this guy made $85k in a week? Or do we suspect that he was one of the lazy ones?
Really? Over 20,000 IOPS?
It's closed source for now, but I want to open source certain parts of it.
Changing everything just to satisfy a small group of people is never a good idea. Especially when the majority is affected in a bad way.

> I'll just parrot what people have been saying to people with visual impairment for very many years: learn to zoom.

You can't zoom out on mobile. You can only zoom in.
Wow nice view, do you work with a team or alone?
No. It is possible to do it without HE! Full HE is 10^12 slower than normal computations, so impractical yet.

In our case, the actual computations are done on the client
From Pivotal/Cloud Foundry, this was just announced at Sam Ramji's "The Makings of a Modern Application Architecture" keynote at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference.
would anyone care to explain to me how this sort of thing works?
I don't know the background. Doesn't this same problem exist with any store? I could buy a laptop from BestBuy, or I could go straight to the manufacturer e.g. Dell. I've always been annoyed when I can't just buy things from the manufacturer and have to go through some intermediary.

I'm not sure about "everyone hates dealers", but having never purchased a car, I have no idea why a car store is different from a computer store. What's special about dealerships?
Just discovered Lobster thanks to this submission.

Does anyone else have an invite for me?
E-Mail: http://scr.im/phiil

Thanks in advance!
If you give legal advice while not qualified then yes. Same as if you e.g. sell food without having the relevant hygiene certification.

Would anyone treat a random internet comment as legal advice? Hopefully not.
TAG Heuer, Intel, Google announce smartwatch that feels like a “normal watch”
“Reasons you shouldn't join us: if you're looking for work-life balance.”
.. really? Someone else already linked a mirror so I don't need to bother, but I never would have known if you didn't tell me.

That seems like a bit of an over-zealous heuristic for spam. Also, it seems silly to have two different threads just because one URL has https in the first place.
Yes, it will be open-source, we're still figuring out the correct license. Thanks for the "hack" -> "security breach" correction.
Don't be fooled; that story is many centuries old. Snakes are traditionally villainous because they can kill you; I doubt there was ever more to it.

Fun fact: monkeys have been observed to scream in fear on seeing a piece of rubber hose lying on the ground. There are good historical reasons for people to hate snakes.
The story of a few mega corporations and billions of self-employed makers
Truly outstanding graphics -- informative and beautiful (although the copy could go a little more in depth.)

Can anyone tell me what framework this is built with?
Pi, PINs and Permutations
Java 9 will be lightweight and modular
Actually, no extra money will flow from NJ to California.

Consumers will pay less for their cars, and the extra $1000-$2000 dealerships make on each car, will remain in the consumer's pocket. This is better on the whole.

Dealerships are market inefficiencies, as they create no real value or "wealth"[1]. They give nothing to consumers in return for the $1-$2k extra that consumers pay for each car.

[1] As defined by Paul Graham in: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
So what? Fuck the US then. US intelligence has had free reign in Germany anyway. Most terrorist plots stopped in Germany didn't actually target Germany anyway and it's not like the US would just pull out and ignore whatever happens in Germany.
I've been working from home for the last 4 mos. For the most part it has been very positive. I've enjoyed the looser schedule and have spent quite a bit less on food and gas. The biggest benefit has been that I have not had a single insomniac episode. I have slept very well. I'm reminded of this as I am transitioning back to working in the office. Over the last two weeks I have been setting up an office for two coworkers and myself. Yesterday was the first that I moved my PC in and worked at the office although still alone till the rest of the furniture arrives. Last night I slept maybe a total of 3 hours before my first full day at the office. Not sure why, I am only accountable to myself at this point for when I come and go yet here I am up and going on 3 hours sleep again...
If you are supporting your family you are anything but a loser. Be proud of that. And just keep moving towards the opportunity.
Look at the source of SQLite and follow in its example. SQLite is probably the simplest and best written and tested database you could get your hands on.
How do you guys communicate while working remotely?

At my current job we have daily two daily meetings (in the morning and in the evening) where everyone tells what he's done or we discuss something with a whole team. These meetings lock us to particular schedule and make traveling hard. I'd like to suggest my boss to get rid of these daily meetings but I don't know with what to replace them.
I was in Orlando, Florida a couple of weeks ago, where the city government has outlawed charging less than a minimum per-mile fare some 3x what UberX charges:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-uber-ta...

Of course, UberX drivers are still out there saving people money over the virtual monopoly held there by big cab companies like Mears. From Uber's point of view, I can't see why not. Every ticket the city issues for being too cheap is a PR win for them.
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> It's not hard to make your content responsive to the viewers screen size.

There are dozens of screen configurations and at least four different browsers you need to prepare for. If it would be easy, people would do it. But when you factor in the time and effort, it's just not worth it. Unless, of course, you're a big company with hundreds of employees.

Don't forget the project management triangle. Quality, cheap and fast. Pick any two.
pg_upgrade which can do even huge databases (2 TB here) in seconds.

That depends on various factors. Sometimes pg_upgrade has to copy all your data. In those cases and for 2T you'll be measuring the wait in hours, not seconds.
From the article:

"The service uses non-professional drivers who may not be licensed or insured, raising safety concerns. Some have poor local knowledge so potentially offer a poor customer experience."

Is this really common in France? To have an abundance of unlicensed and uninsured motorists? I thought that was against the law in most countries. I wouldn't think this would be a specific issue with Uber drivers if its the case where this is common.

Also, doesn't Uber use people who live the areas they drive in? How would they have poor knowledge of an area they live in?
Show HN: Beacon – a no-fee Groupon/Kickstarter platform for Bitcoin
> that should be able to scale and with high performance on both client and server side

No plateform "scales" magically. You are asking for something that doesn't exist. Or you don't know what the hell you are talking about and just throwing random words to make your question look sophisticated.

Sorry but I'm a bit sick these kind of questions.
Ask HN: What should Microsoft do to change geek opinion?
Since (and even before) Satya Nadella become CEO of Microsoft, a lot has changed. From adoption of Open Source technologies to open sourcing a big chunk of its active software stack, from hosting Linux on Azure to supporting Office and .NET on all major platforms, not to mention its active contributing to Hadoop and a lot of other projects.

Having said that all, I can see little being changed from the attitude of the community towards Microsoft. Some are still skeptic about how real a move it is while others feel it is too little too late. Some (including me) feel this comes out of utter desperation rather than a strategic move from a change in the vision of the company. And ss Satya himself said, the biggest challenge is changing the internal culture.

So would you think attitude of the general geek community has changed towards Microsoft? And if not, why that is and what would make you change your opinion?
A solid contract should be at the top of the list. At the very minimum it should cover exactly how your work, the responsibilities of both parties, what's included and not included in the scope and exactly how/when you get paid. Then, make sure your client and all their employees understand the terms.

This has saved me an incredible amount of pain.
Very nice, open-source FTW.
that's what happens with long-term monopoly. although I don't use taxis at all, I grow more sympathies every time somebody fights them too. They're disruptive force, good for customers, bad for those unionized drivers afraid of competition. we as potential customers can only gain in more competitive environment.
This could be a really BIG deal for healthcare if you do it well. I would love to have a completely encrypted db that I could setup dynamic failover and replication. Also an amazing additional feature would be if it contained built-in access logging.

If you were to do that, HIPAA becomes MUCH easier for other healthcare IT startups using your db.
Scaling, backing up, and replicating database hardware is a huge pain. RDS does all of that. For small companies, the extra cost is more than worth the time savings.

Plus it's all hooked into the rest of the AWS system, which can be really helpful.
So if I have, say, 10,000 patients, and I want to sort them by name, or search for those whose names begin with 'D', I need to fetch them all first?
Some tips when writing an API in Ruby on Rails
You specifically omitted the second part of my sentence in your first quote to try to prove a point. I won't even bother reading what you have to say.
We JUST launched and started working on this but we do want to get code to you all as fast as possible. We'll post a progress update on our blog each week and share it here to keep everyone in the loop.
Personally, that was the exact moment when I first felt ashamed of the EU and Germany in particular. To put it bluntly, that incident and the absolute lack of outrage from the governments involved (especially in face of Snowden's disclosures preceding it) clarified "we're the US's bitch and we know our place".
> ANSI Standard Compatible: Tie

The ANSI standard was done in 1986. Since then there have been several ISO standards updates and AFAIK MySQL has lagged significantly.
We did a significant amount of Wordpress work last year and experimented with pricing (we've since stopped taking these projects). I should really write a full blog post on all the details. Just a side note, we are a C/C++, node.js consultancy but have PHP and .NET developers too (we hired a couple of Wordpress people last year for these projects as well).

What we found is that sites below about $4k we didn't even consider, $4-8k gave us the most headaches and we lost the most money on, $8-12k went smoother but were a slightly harder sell, sites above $12k were much easier but required a bit more sales effort. We wound up front loading every Wordpress site with a designer that would do the layout, get client sign-off and collect all assets before handing anything to development. We did this because one of the biggest issues was waiting for sign-off's and waiting for assets etc from clients, but of course now designer hours go up but that is cheaper than developer hours for us and clients.

Basic rule, the more the project price increases the more you can say yes to clients and make them happy and still make a living for yourself, the low dollar stuff you just can't make clients happy, stay sane and make money. I am sure as an individual it would be better up to a point.

One last point, screen clients heavily especially one that compares you to some teenager or person from another country. It isn't that those people may not be good enough, but it is more about what you are worth then whether they are good enough.
HN Community,

Long-time user here posting to share news of the BETA release of Beacon.

Beacon is a bitcoin-powered group-buying platform. You tell Beacon how much you want to raise, and it simplifies the process of creating Groupon and Kickstarter-style projects. A sample but real crowd-raise is here if you just want to check out how the site looks and feels:

https://thebeacon.cn/p/199299765/beer-at-great-leap-brewery

Since Beacon uses bitcoin and smart contracts, there are no predatory middleman or credit-card fees like with most crowdfunding sites. 100% of everything raised goes directly to the project creator, less a 0.0001 BTC fee for network processing. Our backend is built entirely on bitcoin, although I hope to add other payment methods over time.

So please check it out and let me know what you think! And if you have a business? Please consider creating a discount sale for bitcoin users and helping us test it. Thanks!
The commit that fixes CVE-2015-0291:
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h...
Have you had much experience with UberX (I assume roughly the equivalent of UberPOP) in a city where it's prevalent?

How "professional" do you have to be to drive a car from point A to point B via GPS? Anyone who's even a little terrible at it is likely to get rated out of the system.
Some technical detail would be much appreciated, like the language you are using on the server side, any dependencies? Road map for when you are open sourcing it (I assume you will do)...
The use-cases could be, for example, payment processors storing customer data, encrypted webmail (where you're able to search w/o downloading all your emails), "encrypted evernote" :-)

Yes, it will be open source once available
Yes - they do around 850MB/s write and 80-120K IOP/s.

Hell, even my 3 year old OCZ vertex 4 in my old 2011 MacBook Pro does 500MB/s write and 65-80K IOP/s
In a poll mentioned today in the news, people of lower income were interviewed. None of the interviewees were present in the protests; however, all said they felt represented by them.

So there's what the "left hand" media says (generously sponsored by government money) and what the people say, and it's not the same thing.
A Creative’s Guide to Gr*wth Hacking
Android actually lets you choose the app to handle the link though, which is nice. I'm sure iOS will catch up in this regard at some point.
No, you don't fetch them all. In fact, we tested search over encrypted archives of linux kernel mailing list w/o downloading that :-)
404 on the link to the 1,350 domains: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api
Relevant fixes have been commited to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142677386615089&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142677382215078&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142677372515025&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142677368815015&w=2
Excellent, thats great news :)

Thanks for the feedback
I've worked in both remote and in-house teams. I can't stress enough how important it is to go to conferences together.

It doesn't need to be the whole team at the same time, but I believed it was my job as manager to make sure my team could go to conferences (dev, UX, IA, design) in groups.

Those situations have an uncanny ability to blend excitement, thought-provoking questions, a bit of insecurity, and plans of action.

When folks returned, both remote and in-house, it lead to better camaraderie and better output. Experiences are things people share and hold onto.
This looks like an amazing tool to fight corruption and improve politics in general. Iceland seems to be a perfect place to test those ideas on a nation-wide basis, seeing how it's small, cohesive and tech-friendly.
sitting atop the massive ReadMe kingdom I would assume
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Most definitely, just looking for people's experiences, thanks for the feedback!
It's interesting to combine this news article with http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews from yesterday and ask: is this news item a waste of time?

Scott's fundamental assertion is that the news is a waste of time because it can't possibly influence his actions (apart from politically, but he's happy to vote off of voter information brochures provided with the ballot, a kind of news proxy).

The actors in this particular Snowden story are heads of state: Obama/Kerry/Hillary on the US side, and Merckel/Gabriel on the German side. At it's heart is the revelation by Gabriel to Greenwald (the author of the piece) that the US threatened Germany over Snowden.

We already know that the USG over-whelminging considers Snowden a criminal and a traitor. (And one of his precious few supporters in the Senate, Mark Udall(D-NM) lost his re-election campaign.

We already know that the USG has no moral scruples against taking any action it deems in it's interest. It has tortured and killed innocent people, lied to justify invading foreign countries, invaded the personal privacy of allied heads of state, and invaded the privacy of everyone in the world, including private US citizens and corporations.

We already know that the US public, the final arbiter of what is right and wrong, isn't outraged by any of this enough to make a serious difference at the polls.

What good does it do me to learn about one more way in which my government works against my interests and moral sensibilities?
nice name: sirius = siri + us

I like this effort a lot, and I think it would be really interesting to fork it and make a personal version that people could customize with their own information and thought processes.

This is my favorite aspect of the university system; I have no problems with innovation through free market capitalism and profit motive, but its nice that there is university infrastructure to support researchers and provide balance for the times when profit motive is not enough. It is a shame that many aspects of university have just become glorified vocational school debt machines.
Eliminating an economic inefficiency (the middle-man) creates a surplus. Where that surplus flows, whether to the consumer or the producer or split between both, depends on the market.
np! at the end of the day we all hate on call.

cheers.
Why the USA is stuck at the gates of a telecommuting revolution
O.O

How many people does it take to lift a 300 lb teletype? And then what do you put it in, a pickup truck? Also, if you're traveling where it might be raining, how do you keep rain off of it?
It's not what he was charged with, it's the evil and horrid behavior of Carmen M. Ortiz, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, after being charged that disgusts most people.
Show HN: Rivulet – a music player for torrents
> Professionally VB6- was however too limiting and its purpose seemed to be mostly churning out CRUD data entry screens faster than ever

I beg to differ. I worked on a lot of VB5/6 code between 1997 and 2002, during that time we did some fairly sophisticated things.

At one banking/finance gig I wrote a large amount of code that ran inside Microsoft Transaction Server and COM+, support for this was rather impressive. At another gig I wrote front ends for a document scanning server written in Java - we had a COM/CORBA bridge etc. We did image scanning and manipulation in VB 6 without a lot of fuss.

There was also a rich and diverse market for third party controls, widgets and libraries. Hell, if you knew what you were doing you could hook directly into the windows message pump, subclass and create your own windows.

Take a look at Matt Curland's "Advanced Visual Basic 6" which was published in 2000, VB6 was no toy:

http://powervb.com/
The problems we had were, unfortunately, a little deeper than that.

We had to restart the client again and again to get it to sync. Eventually it gave up altogether.

At the time it took Aero customer support almost 2 weeks to respond. By that point we'd decided to migrate to dropbox.

That was a long time back so hopefully they've sorted out the issues now (with the client and lack of response with customer support). At the time it was fairly obvious to us that we couldn't use them for a key part of our business - it was just too risky.
Analyse Asia Podcast #22: The Firefox Browser and Mobile OS with Gen Kanai
> it's not like the US would just pull out and ignore whatever happens in Germany.

Nope. Europe is too important to US power to be trusted with their own defense.
France Blocking websites who propagate views the government doesn’t like
By the way - here are links to programs/statutes/manifests of many other Pirate Parties: http://wiki.pirateint.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Statutes_and_Pol...
Episode Synopsis: Gen Kanai, @gen joined us here to discuss the Mozilla footprint in the form of Firefox browser and mobile OS in Asia during the FOSS Asia 2015 conference. We discuss the new features of Firefox browser with the new Firefox hello adopting the web RTC format, the Firefox mobile OS and how it is shaping towards an important mobile OS for the emerging markets particularly in the low end market segment with US$25 smartphone in Philippines. We also discuss other interesting implementations of Firefox mobile OS in smartphones and TVs, and why South Korea has a market share of 98% Internet Explorer due to the ActiveX problem for a long time until recently.
It's about the worst case.

Can that make the situation worse? Absolutely. A cop can, at least where I live, throw you in a cell for 48 hours for any reason (other than being a member of a protected class) or none, just on their say-so. If they do it every day their superiors are going to start asking questions, but for a one-off "trust me on this one guys" a cop definitely has that legal authority, and if you piss them off enough it could be the difference between walking away and spending those two nights in jail. (More realistically, it'll make the difference between walking away and going down to the station to be fingerprinted and the like and released after a few hours).

But if you incriminate yourself, or commit a crime by e.g. making a false statement as in the article, then you could be looking at a lot more than two nights.
I'm guessing you don't need the same insurance when you're working as a taxi.
I've always picked the cheapest option in Uber and I've never gotten a bad ride. I very frequently get bad rides with Taxis, the most common being when you call them and they never show up because they just pickup someone else without and repercussions. An Uber driver would get rated out immediately for that. That require a very high rating. So I honestly don't understand why you are against them having more local drivers. There are definitely underserved areas outside the major cities.
Would love to get the in-degree and out-degree of each node and calculate the PageRank of each individual, see who is the most influential? Anyone know where one could acquire the data used by the authors of this article?
They are licensed and insured to drive, but not for professional transportation of people.
Now I just need a cafe that isn't closed in the middle of the day, actually has heat in the winter, has chairs that support those of us that weigh over 98 lbs, and that attracts people/encourages them to hang out. Man this town needs another coffee shop...
one step closer to replace Java by Go on Android? ;-)