skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, one of my first actions was to click the demo button in the top nav, then I got the page with the big blue button that said "Start Demo," and at this point I was already a little skeptical because typically I expect "Demo" in a web app to take me right into some app I'm about to use. But I clicked the big blue button and then saw this page: https://demo.sandstorm.io/, which felt like an admin panel that was going to take some effort to understand -- at this point I gave up.

This is, of course, totally unfair to you, and was based on assumptions that don't apply to your product, but there you have it. It's even worse, because I'm a developer and with just a little effort could have understood everything, but since it wasn't immediately obvious, I made the assumption that the business model itself was vague, or didn't apply to me, as is often the case with SaaS products.

Pretty standard Steve Krugg "Don't Make Me Think" stuff, but accurate to my experience when I'm just casually checking something out.
Economists rarely if ever care about people who have little or no money. Neither do most politicians. This has been the norm since people invented money and politics. If you eliminate money and deny credit to poor people, how does that work? Eventually it results in an uptick in guillotine manufacturing.
Holy shit, now that's a slide deck I'd like to see.
If a waiter isn't certain who owns a particular credit card, I do not think handing it out to someone they think matches the name, is all that sensible a course of action.

Especially when they are literally holding a card with the name of the person they are looking for on it.

There are fairly well established social methods for dealing with that conundrum and none of the good ones involve the waiter handing the card to the person they think is most likely.
I would have hired Doug, but...
>>Isn't this about scale?

As in you mean there is little additional cost to enter the market? Sure, I'm just saying if they miss out on serving a small market, it's not going to have a huge negative impact.
I just bought a used five year old ThinkPad X201 Touch. One of the things I did with Lenovo's [new] upgradesoftware was upgrade the BIOS. Their software also offers fine grained control over lots of other proprietary hardware...e.g. the Watcom digitizer and security chip. It also offers fine grained control over the trackpad and function keys.

And the great thing is that Lenovo is keeping all that stuff current to support an ancient-in-internet years piece of hardware. This isn't HP consumer machine crapware...this is the stuff that costs Lenovo money not something they get paid to pre-install.
"One is domestic oil production. It may be a little early to tell, but it looks like all that money will have been wasted. So, net effect on the economy may end up being that we wasted time, money and natural resources in building useless machines in the middle of nowhere that added an unfathomable amount of carbon to our atmosphere."

How is the money wasted given the large production and downward price pressure on energy? This shift in price of gas at the pump has done quite a lot for the working poor in terms of cash on hand.

Also, "middle of nowhere" as a description is a bit insulting and I don't think most people in a city would like to have oil wells next door. Some things happen away from the coasts.
Just like humans, dolphins have social networks
Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?
I curate under different blogs mentioned, I want to curate at all them 1 single place, as a single blog, with well-displayed feeds with metadata loading up well.

Can you guys please help me make an informed decision - whether to go with Ghost or whether to go with Wordpress ?
What are you talking about? There are no babes in the Bay Area.
The notion that "APIs == zero errors" is absolutely not sound.
I wasn't planning on announcing yet, but this seems like a good opportunity.

I'm working on a service that does real-time monitoring of your website performance, as measured by your actual users, on their browser. If that sounds interesting, my email is in my profile.
Lenovo has, for years, been banned from US government use. They even have a patent on recovering TPM keys (http://www.google.com/patents/US8908867).

It is well known (via Snowden) that the US installs backdoors into US hardware and software for export to China, and it has for at least 15 years warned about the same from imports.

So none of this is particularly new. What is new is that the US is now moving against China on all fronts to prevent it from acquiring superpower status - to isolate it economically and politically, to block its trade and international investment programs, and to increase the risk of its using its military (with the second largest funding of any nation) to project power lawfully in the Asia Pacific.

So these articles come at a good time for the US.

You should not trust pretty much any hardware - recent revelations have shown that products come with backdoors; that is the article does not establish the absence of 'security flaws' by other manufacturers.
'that' refers to

import js
c = js.globals.document.createElement("canvas")

and not the pastebin.
The pastebin works for me, but only the first time. Subsequent runs result in:

<RuntimeError object at 0x15d648>
RPython traceback:
...
Fatal RPython error:
Very useful for camping, traveling, music festivals, etc. You just keep a few cheap batteries in your bag and don't have to worry about finding the nearest wall outlet.
Are there any people who are using this transfer program to run a company?
The community you say? I might be doomed...
Ask HN: Self-assessment and self-preparation for teen who will study calculus?
I'm a mathematics teacher by occupation recently, but the pupils I teach are of elementary school age, studying topics preparatory for studying algebra (in other words, the mixed bag of topics called "prealgebra"). An alumnus of my program has just taken his high school's tests for credit by examination for the high school's course in "precalculus," and passed those. So he can surely take the high school's AP calculus AB course next school year as a tenth grader. He is also interested in taking the qualifying test for the University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program (UMTYMP) and will take that test soon.
I'm fairly aware of how he has studied to get ready for calculus so far, but I thought I should ask among knowledgeable people what else you would recommend for a teenager who is self-motivated, curious, but possibly still in need of thorough review to make sure he is a successful student of calculus next school year. If you have any recommendations of online readiness tests, self-study materials, books (I already have a LOT of those), or other helpful resources, I'd be grateful if you told us about those in replies to this question. I'm especially curious about resources that deepen the mathematical understanding of a young person passionately interested about biology, which is this student's background.
What Two Programmers Have Revealed About Seattle Police Officers
Not sure if I should be using Google for anything except search ( pretty much most of my eggs are in the google basket )
Thanks, that's great feedback. Yeah, I guess we need some way to show that clicking "install apps" will be easy and fast.
It took me more than half a day to figure out that I was doing things wrong even though I've used oauth2client before on other projects.
If the U.S. stock market is really fairly valued then moving rates up wouldn't be such an issue. Yet, the Federal Reserve can't talk about moving rates up a quarter point six months in the future without the market taking a dive.

Why the anxiety??
Yes. It's about phonetics, not the first letter. The y sound in "you" is a consonant, like "a ukulele", whereas the h in "an hour" is not.
There is a strong possibility that nobody actually knows what the right thing is. There is a story that says the mortgage mess was done largely for reasons of "for the social good" and that people believed that.

There may be somebody, but they aren't known, don't get listened to or otherwise don't exist for purposes of this sentence. The existence of a Micheal Burry* does not keep a bubble from forming.

*A "The Big Short" person of interest.

But yeah - I'd expect a drop in stock prices once interest rates hike a bit. We have in effect a generation (perhaps two) that has known nothing but very low rates.
One of the makers here. Let us know if you have any questions or comments. :)
Guys, I think we can stop commenting on irregularities that are probably related to the fact that this is a C++ demo running on the web.

i.e weird scrolling (slow, direction), ghosting, crashing chrome, etc.

I was under the impression that this isn't really meant to be a web project, so the fact that LLVM is being imperfectly converted to JavaScript is probably the reason for most of these.
PyCharm 4.5 Introducing Python Profiler
"The Datastore API is somewhat unique in that it, unlike the Core API, deals with non-file data, so we’re working directly with individual developers to help them migrate to an alternative."

I would be interested in what this help means concretely for developers. I imagine Dropbox has limited interest helping small developers who might have used this API.
We started StaffJoy infrastructure on GCE. The per-minute billing had the potential to be a huge cost-saver with the optimization software that we use for scheduling because doubling the number of CPU cores (at twice the hourly cost) halved the calculation time, resulting in no overall cost increase but faster data.

I switched from GCE to AWS when we had a build break because Google released a new command line utility for deploys, immediately yanked the previous CLI causing it to 404, and provided no way of pulling the "latest" CLI. (We needed to reinstall the CLI for each build because we used CircleCI). It was part of a long string of frustrations of getting basic workflows to work.
Exactly. Trying to predict a "bubble burst" using line charts alone is analogous to scrying with tea leaves.

With the housing bubble, it was very clear that the traditionally correlated mortgage and rental prices had separated, signalling that mortgages were in a bubble.

Pointing a chart and saying it's high doesn't prove anything. You need to show signals other than the federal reserve moderating inflation (which is normal).
It wasn't a very good measure of page speed anyways. For example the Microsoft dev site scores 83/100 and loads faster than any site I've ever seen before.
Web apps that I used on a daily basis: Notebook (very simple and there are others, but none have been as good IMO), Code Search, [Reader], iGoogle, SMS (although they killed it just before I got a smartphone. I would still use it for when I don't have data though).

Other sites that I used from time to time and miss: Meebo (mainly before Google purchase, but continued to use sometimes), Knol (I contributed to it and thought it was great), Video (I preferred the interface to YT and uploaded stuff to it until I no longer could), Answers (love reading it, great idea)
A Lograthmic chart is much better, but when you add in dividend reinvestment and inflation adjustment you get a vary different chart.
People you should've heard about: John Bardeen
Charity should begin at home.
The trick for that: When you are about to enter the cab, ask "Do you take [type] cards?" And then skip that cab if they say they don't. It's magical how the potential of losing a ride suddenly fixes broken card machines.
I deem my name to be a competitive advantage overall. I have never wanted to change it. I deem racism to be a problem, particularly because you can't just sign a paper and change your race.
So she navigates to facebook in 9 taps (facebook + select), while you get there in 16 (www.facebook.com)? Sounds to me like she's the one in the know.
Michael Moritz, senior partner at Sequoia Capital and arguably the best VC ever, started his career as a journalist. From his bio, it sounds like he leveraged that to start his career at Sequoia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz
> That'd be TypeScript.

Or CoffeeScript. Or Dart. Or this. In fact, here's a whole big long list of other languages. Most of which don't use the asm.js "weird hack".

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
Your example is wrong, I think: My eyesight can't tell me about the truck around the corner and I only know it when I hear it but that doesn't mean that I can see it next time. In comparison, when you "see" the polyphony you are one step closer to "hearing" it the next time.
Yes, but you can do that about everything.
I think the idea is that you can learn things like that pretty easily on your own, especially once you've had experience learning "harder" things in classes.
The nice thing about dropbox's mobile sdks is they have very cleanly solved the problem of how to get data synced to a server despite some users having a very spotty connection. The bad thing about dropbox's mobile sdks is they force all data to be stored in the end users dropbox folder and not in our enterprise folder.

I would gladly use their datastore apis if I could avoid having my users go through the hassle of authenticating to dropbox on their own and instead put it into my enterprise storage.
I've always thought that the age discrimination problem in the software engineering world will self-solve when the first generation of programmers age into the discriminatory age brackets.

Besides, some of the best programmers I know are 50+.
Mildly interesting; mainly bad. If I'm click-wheel scrolling the page, that's what I want. A trap in the middle where suddenly the scrolling stops and an image starts to be resized gives a jarring feeling.
Cool, I wanted to use Clojure on the Raspberry Pi, but the startup time is very slow, due more to loading the core Clojure libraries than the JVM.

It makes writing a Clojure web server really impractical on the Pi. I considered using clojurescript for the server, but ended up just going back to node for my project.
Orson Welles, one of history's great workaholics
I misread this as "NASA 2014 Technology".

As I was reading my thought was "Wow, NASA spends a lot of time making technology that would be really useful for spying on people."
Like New Relic?
There is occasionally a valid reason to do this.

Lets say you are not sure of the url. Maybe you are looking to sign up for an account at actualwebsite.com but the real url is actualwebsiteinc.com, you're really better off searching for "actualwebsite" and clicking the 1st link google gives you.

Don't dump your girlfriend, she might be ok in the long run.
Magic signup form
From personal experience:

Search API: used to be able to submit keywords and get XML results back, now it's AJAX-only and spits out formatted HTML, only 10 results, and different from real search results. Mostly useful for people involved in SEO. No big loss without it, but just means you have to scrape SERPs instead of getting them nicely bundled up.

Desktop: I used it for a while, then found Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/) which is far faster and more responsive.

Bookmarks: Edit: It is still there.

Health: I didn't use this directly, but many of us in the healthcare industry were looking to see how Google could shake things up. Apparently, PHI is hard and Google discontinued their service.

Voice: It hasn't been discontinued yet, but I feel certain this will be the next big product to go. The service (and app) hasn't been updated in years, there is no clear monetization strategy aside from international VOIP calling (which other applications do better), and the messaging portion is mostly covered by cellular carriers as "visual voicemail" with the widespread use of smartphones.
Econophysics enjoyed a brief vogue in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but the field has mostly dried up. Much of what the econophysicsts "learned" turned out either to restate things economists already knew (this time in physics-speak) or to be results that were very sensitive to modeling assumptions.

But mostly the physicists gave up because they discovered that problems in economics are much harder than problems in physics; everything is a heterogeneous n-body problem with endogenously determined rules governing interactions.
Would be interesting to implement it
Clash of Clans – TH9 vs. TH8 War Attack Using 38 HOG RIDER
Show HN: Betterpress, a collaborative publishing platform
If you're getting shitty graphics, turning everything off or lowering to low levels, low framerates, and screen door effect and jerking, etc uh I would rethink what it means to have an acceptable VR experience.

If anything your sub-par experience is proof that I'm correct. Without excellent hardware, the experience is terrible. Just because "it kinda worked" doesn't mean its going to sell or impress anyone.
Yes, brilliant!

I read http://pygments.org/docs/styles and other sites but I didn't find how I can change the default colors. Do I have to edit (clone) pygments or is there a config file?
Betterpress is a collaborative publishing platform that makes it easier to follow dozens of voices in topics or industries. It’s an aggregated newsfeed and event calendar.

We started in a single niche: San Diego craft beer. There are 100+ breweries, but there’s no easy way to follow the news and events of all of them.

With our tools, publishers collect content from contributors and distribute it to readers through email, a web app, and mobile apps. For example, the SD Brewers Guild collects events, news, photos and offers from 100 local breweries and writers and distributes it to fans of craft beer.

We want to build a much larger audience for this combined content than most breweries can build for themselves through social media and email.

We’ve been working on this since September. When it works here, we will expand.
Does flame give off EM emissions?

Edit: Radio emissions, I mean. Of course we can see it :)
I hope that you're citing an API solution as a way to build your appeal with the HN crowd and not as a legitimate reply to a customer service problem. Until this API is available can you speak to the manual operations work that takes place on your end to identify and correct these commonplace errors?

edit: As someone who wants to give Zenefits a serious go but has some concerns.
Significant whitespace (in all languages, really, its a difference of degree rather than kind) constrains, but does not prevent, minification. (Idiomatic python code can be reduced by three chars per indentation level on each line with no impact on semantics, and of course other transformations that aren't whitespace elimination that are past of minification are unaffected.)

Heck, there are existing python minification tools.
Singapore's Prime Minister Has Published His Own C++ Sudoku Solver
This was also frustrating on something like CircleCI
Tastemaking? Okay, I can try that.

I was visiting a friend last night, who is looking to buy her first house.

She told me that she's been having trouble because people are showing up for $300k houses ($150-200k 5 years ago) and offering, same day, without an inspection, $600k cash offers.

That tastes funny.
SASS: Stop Defining Useless Color Variables
It sounds like you're talking about PageSpeed Insights? [1] That's not deprecated. This announcement is about PageSpeed Service, the Google-hosted optimizing proxy.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
But Windows 10 Preview does phone home

update: some of you idiots really hate my comment. that's cool
Some jobs are flexible, when you are judged on your current impact, some other - have guild constraints, where it takes time and effort to get into... but also, even with waning skill, once you are entrenched, it's hard to get out.

IMHO the good thing for meritocracy is when there is no shift between skill and position. Eg in academia there is ~10-20 year shift.
Hiring managers might see age as a disadvantage, but most CEOs would rather hire a peer than someone they view as a child.
Leaving Stripe
Parker, I have emailed you twice now, in reference to an egregious failure of your team. First on January 29, 2015 and again, yesterday. I view receiving no response from you nor a member of your executive staff as evidence that you just don't understand how critical health benefits are to small businesses like mine (12 employees). We need a partner that values our relationship - why can't you compete on this vector with the local health insurance broker?
Something like the LSASS vulnerability used by the Sasser worm? http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0...

Or even worse - it's not inconceivable that some a bit too clever firmware for a ethernet or wifi device could be exploited by a specially crafted IP package that could be sent over the public internet. As such a device usually has DMA access that would be really bad. I don't think even "High" would be sufficient in that case though.
You're talking about a different service as an FYI. What you are referring to is Page Speed insights service which for the record is actually pretty amazing.
I am not sure there can be any way to achieve this but I would love to see a curated list of all "wisdom" threads. Threads about procrastination, being social, workplace advice, entrepreneurship etc. I never stop finding gems people have written in past few years. Its just been about 2 years on HN and +ve things this amazing community has contributed in my life is simply overwhelming, mostly because of such threads.
I see the Droid RAZR Maxx but not the Droid Maxx.
I recommend going through this python tutorial: http://automatetheboringstuff.com/
This is already included in Analytics
I this stems from a general lack of empathy for customers in the organisation.
Take a look at the issue list on appengine for example
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...

It seems like they get a bunch of engineers to come and build stuff then once they move on, the project is abandoned or poorly maintained until another team of engineers come and try to rebuild it from scratch.

Here's more proof, Google Wallet for example ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9498475
try: oneplus one
This was an amazing product to me one year ago. I used it as CDN for my blog hosted Amazon EC2; it speeded up the visits a lot across the world.

However, I stopped using it last year since China blocked all Google service while my blog is mostly for Chinese readers. Though the proxy/cdn service is shutting down, the Pagespeed Module of Apache/Nginx is awesome, which is what I am using right now.
I don't know what the HN perspective is on linking to your own old comments, but I can't write this any better today than I did last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7374123
We are mixing up a few things here.

1) Has the oil boom benefited anybody? Yes it has.

2) Has the oil boom benefited morally/politically sympathetic groups, such as the American poor? Yes it has.

3) Will the oil boom benefit humanity as a whole, over the medium to long term? The jury is still out on this one, and the answer may in fact be no.

It is perfectly possible to do things that are beneficial in the short run but ruinous in the long run.
It wasn't worth the additional latency in most cases, so few people used it.
> doing unneeded searches instead of typing the URL, etc.

Did anyone else notice on non-mobile that chrome and later firefox address bar history was longer earlier. The history is slowly made shorter to push people typing and searching. I'm curious how much revenue that added to search engines. Truncation of local bookmarks and browser history would give a good fraction per person per browser boost to remote search engines as your incomplete word fragments are sent to them for intermediating your search result.
Is the Doctor In? Network Design Considerations in Evolving Healthcare Systems
The funny thing is, in the original novella, Dick set the story in San Francisco.