skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Tourist Destinations, a Picture of Excess
Casino Gambling Simulations in R
For those not already acquainted with TempleOS: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer
Just Because You’re Happy Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Burned Out
Since you are in India, the most sought after skill is Android/iOS development. ObjC/Swift, Java and Javascript is definitely good for long term.
You guys keep beating around the bush and keep downvoting me! Is the web server built-in? Yes, it is. Why do you keep finding excuses and why do you keep downvoting the voice of reasons - a shell should not have a web server in its codebase, period. Put this into an optional package and make everybody happy!
Well at least I'm ready for the all powerful Greek overlords who put their country into economic crisis so they could once again reclaim the long lost days of Zeus and other Greek gods.
Not so much programming tutorials, but there's www.growthhackers.com for marketing article sharing. It's divided into categories (Paid, SEO, Content, etc.) though the content of the posted links usually isn't too great.
I'm not sure what potential users would be looking for? Quick tutorials for the "Gee, I've always wanted to try that and have an hour" crowd or something more in depth that someone would come specifically looking for. If it's the latter, a directory supported by a voting system might be a little better. Just my $.02
Apart from the source-code being open-sourced, the game really is fun as well.

I haven't gotten far enough, but I hope it becomes more challenging with alien rockets that try to attack you or something.

kudos to author for a cool game.
"Sign up for your Boxfuse account."

What? And disturb the tranquil immutability of boxfuse.com?
Maybe a scammer? There are many fake blockchain.info clones around. I'd hold on to it and sell it for a higher amount.
Shumway – A Flash VM and Runtime Written in JavaScrip
One could post such tutorials to here and Reddit. I think it might be worth offering more organization, curation and features though.
Who's Afraid of Object Algebras?
other research ("Parkinson disease and smoking revisited")

"
Objective: To assess whether being able to quit smoking is an early marker of Parkinson disease (PD) onset rather than tobacco being “neuroprotective,” we analyzed information about ease of quitting and nicotine substitute use.

Methods: For this case-control study, we identified 1,808 patients with PD diagnosed between 1996 and 2009 from Danish registries, matched 1,876 population controls on sex and year of birth, and collected lifestyle information. We estimated odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals with logistic regression adjusting for matching factors and confounders.

Results: Fewer patients with PD than controls ever established a smoking habit. Among former smokers, those with greater difficulty quitting or using nicotine substitutes were less likely to develop PD, with the risk being lowest among those reporting “extremely difficult to quit” compared with “easy to quit.” Nicotine substitute usage was strongly associated with quitting difficulty and duration of smoking, i.e., most strongly among current smokers, followed by former smokers who had used nicotine substitutes, and less strongly among former smokers who never used substitutes.

Conclusions: Our data support the notion that patients with PD are able to quit smoking more easily than controls. These findings are compatible with a decreased responsiveness to nicotine during the prodromal phase of PD. We propose that ease of smoking cessation is an aspect of premanifest PD similar to olfactory dysfunction, REM sleep disorders, or constipation and suggests that the apparent “neuroprotective” effect of smoking observed in epidemiologic studies is due to reverse causation.

"

http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2014/09/12/WNL.000000...
How We Created a New Media Publication for $3,743
Some brief questions:

* Will you open-source Uno?

* Will you have a freemium model? (Free for opensource apps.)

* Will you change the name like others have suggested?

* Will you consider a no-JS model to develop?

If all of the answers are YES to the above, then please sign me up for the beta.
I have been on the "survived" side of layoffs a number of times and on the other side once. I agree with almost everything here except the "not lock them out of accounts" part.

As much as it sucks, you have to do this asap. While most people will behave most of the time, getting laid off is one of those times where everything goes a little out of focus and people make dumb decisions without thinking things through. They may do it in a way that only reflects on them but quite often it can reflect on the company and sow more doubt and fear in the organization.

I think the most important part for going forward is the first meeting post-layoffs. Rumors will be forming, tensions will be high, and some people will still be texting with the friend you just fired. This will be the best - and potentially only - time to kill some of those wild ideas before they become rumors.
How to submit a drive-by patch and get it accepted
Learn all of the above. If you hear about a language and it seems like it's significantly different from the ones you know, learn it. Learn all the languages.
Show HN: HOWTO: Demon Summoning
HackingTeam was more worried about Ethiopia exposing tech than targeting journos
So I've considered this before, and I know it is coming from a good place. It seems great for the good times. At Clarify.io we use immutable infrastructure and we don't log in to boxes. Except when there are problems. And there are problems. Always.

You don't want to have to fight your way in in the middle of a disaster.

At Clarify.io we've considered having an on-login event fire when an admin uses SSH to log in to the box. This would schedule the server for termination within 24 hours. This gets you best of all worlds:

- Gives tools to debug and restore service when there is a failure

- Forces admins to not depend on SSH to bring a system up

- Replaces servers when they are potentially drifting

- Encourages a "cattle" mentality about the servers
مشاهدة فيلم باباراتزي
To find easily about disk usage, I'm personally a big fan of `ncdu`. It's a really nice ncurses interface to du.
Am I the only one who found it odd for a `nytimes.com/interactive` feature to be ... non-interactive?
Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is? The Neurology of Creativity
Most mail clients "don't suck" at secure email: S/MIME is readily available, virtually everywhere.

Only because of some irrational dislike in the Open Source community do we even have this discussion. Self-signed X.509 certificates would have done more for the cause of "secure email" than all GnuPG advocacy ever did.
Or improve productivity per worker.
Textbook bubble.

When widows and orphans are borrowing money to gamble because they've been told it's a sure thing, it's time to get out.
I'm not a lawyer, but my take on the clause is simple: one can't sue Amazon for IP related to the service AWS is providing. E.g., I couldn't use S3, but then try to hit Amazon with a file-like key-value-store patent. I think I'd still be free to hit Amazon with a web-based online-shopping patent though, since I'm not buying that service from them.

Edit: argh, I wish HN would accept underscores for italics.
Firstly, what a great idea (startup timelines). FWIW, I love the wayback machine, and I probably use it 1-2 times per week.

The thing I took away from your timeline of airbnb was the same thing I think successful people try to explain time and time again, and it's the same lesson that makes the investors passing up airbnb seem more like a minor, unavoidable incident. The lesson is that a business or idea isn't a success until a team works mega hard at making it a success, and even then it has a huge chance of failing.

This lesson is made clear to me in part by the reminder that airbnb has been around since the first year after I learned to program, and that feels like an eternity ago. If I spent 3 years working on a brand with a good team and with VC backing, I'd expect to see some resemblance of success also, as long as the idea wasn't terrible. Hard work pays off, but it's easy to look back at these success stories as some sort of lottery winners.
On *BSD kernels you can use securelevel to achieve proper immutability to some extent (like unchangeable pf rules, read-only raw disk devices, etc...). Disabling ssh only gives you the guarantee that ssh is going to be disabled, and that is quite different from immutability.
You are more than welcome to work on it and submit it to HN. However, please refrain from being gratuitously negative in this forum; someone just spent a lot of time and effort into making something, and your comment - which took less than a minute to write - is purely negative and adds nothing to the discussion.
There were occasionally minigames in Mario Party or similar games that required you to rotate the control stick as quickly as you could - the stick was not padded, so you could really hurt your thumb (or the palm of your hand, if you chose to use that).

I'd imagine the friction lawsuit had something to do with that.
Unless the methodology has changed "Smartphone Industry" here means 7 firms, Apple, BlackBerry, HTC, Lenovo/Motorola, Samsung, Nokia/Microsoft, LG.

I doubt Xiaomi and all the littler known brands are making that much, but it would be interesting for someone to quantify it.
The Mystery of Penn Station's New Name
Why do they call it the cloud? Because your exclusive I.P. just up and floats away one day.

Stay out of the cloud. Invest in cost-efficient IT. Avoid so many issues. I predicted this specific one years back. I'm surprised I haven't heard more of it among cloud vendors.
+1 for Scala, it might be a good stepping stone, given your current "enterprisey" focus. Much easier to differentiate yourself than good old fashioned Java, yet not as esoteric (viewed from enterprise) as some of the languages in your list.
AZ's are typically 5-15miles apart. Needs to be a pretty large hurricane that far in land to take out all the various datacenters.

Also, just to clarify, you can do multi-region RDS read-replicas for MySQL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...
Facebook’s security chief calls for Adobe Flash to be killed off
Before Moby-Dick, There Was “Two Years Before the Mast”
Well i know how is going to lose votes next election in my country. The ones that push this deal through.
Fire and Motion , or how to become a good programmer
Ok, so you don't have insurance and use their service.

What's implications of that?
1881 Cipher Codebook of the Phipps Brothers and Co. Of Rio de Janeiro
I can't see it ever happening. I first started learning Lisp in 2006. Some of the most common messages on Lisp forums were things like "what GUI library should I use?", "why is there no standard GUI?", "this library works but it's incomplete and looks abandoned," along with calls for the Common Lisp community to standardize around one GUI library.

If the situation hasn't gotten better since then, well... what are people waiting for?
Some trivia: In the rest of the English speaking world (including the UK where the series of books originates from) the series is known as Where's Wally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Wally%3F
You're doing it backwards. Find out what gigs are paying, what skills they require then go and learn them. No point learning Go if there are only Java jobs available.

On the other hand, if you're creating personal projects to monetise, use whatever you like/has the best libraries, etc.
Very interesting read, thanks: http://tylertringas.com/storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapp...

Microsaas were just on the frontpage the other day, maybe you can find the thread.
I don't know if they cover up scams but they do not provide any good means for people to voice concerns. I looked at a project for a portable wind charger (on Kickstarter I think) and the claims that were made for it were rather implausible so I did a few simple calculations and sent a message to the promoter. All I got back was some well meaning waffle. And in this case I don't think they were trying to cheat anyone, they just weren't competent. If anyone is interested I'll try to remember which project it was.
What about bump-pointer + maintaining a count of live allocations?
I agree, and if it wasn't for money then it's possible that someone at Pocket has a friend at Mozilla who pushed the integration of their business.
I'd first ask myself where do I want to be: enterprise, freelance, community/FLOSS, ...? After that, it's not hard to make list of langs that are mostly used in these areas and personally i'd choose langs that are in more than one area.

Ok, this has one big flaw, it doesn't tell much about langs that are still in development (rust, go, ...), so keep that in mind.
I find the better pattern here is to limit and discourage SSH and then monitor and log the hell out of it. There are numerous tools out there that can centralize any actions being taken on a host and sending it to a log that can be centralized. Outright removing all SSH puts you in a rough spot if things go south with some piece of software that your system monitoring/centralized logging don't cover 100%, and makes it way hard to do things like strace on a process.
A nice visual guide of all Euro countries. Some still have too much debt compared to GDP. Scandinavia seems to be doing just fine.
The trouble with buying them legally is you can't mod them. Well, I guess you could buy it and then just to find a ROM and hack that and be morally in the clear.

Mother is basically unplayable in 2015. The encounter rate is beyond ridiculous. I'm a little surprised they released it unmodified. Shortly before the official Nintendo release this year, someone put out a great hack that makes the game actually enjoyable. If you're going to play Mother, play this version.

https://forum.starmen.net/forum/Community/PKHack/Mother-25th...

Earthbound is pretty good unmodified, but there are hacks around that make the game more playable.
Thanks phantom_oracle! If you stick it through into level 2 you will indeed get alien rockets lobbed at you :)
I don't understand how they plan on reducing tax evasion if it can be justified as only going to Germany anyway.
Thankfully, there are ways to ingest caffeine and nicotine that don't involve smoking coffee grounds or tobacco leaves. Drinking coffee or using transdermal or vaporized nicotine solution could offer the benefits without the health risks of inhaling tars and the carcinogenic products of combustion.
Access via a Google query: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
http://www.1101.com/home.html

“When I’m parting with a friend, regardless of the circumstances, I find it best to just say, ‘See you later.’ We’ll meet again. After all, we’re friends.

That’s right—nothing unusual about it. I’ll see you later.

You went on a trip far, far away, even though it was planned for many years from now. You wore your best outfit and said ‘Sorry for the short notice,’ though you didn’t say it out loud.

You always put yourself last, after you’d finished helping everyone else. You were so generous as a friend that this trip might be your very first selfish act.

I still can’t grasp what’s happened. It feels like I could still get a light-hearted e-mail asking me out to lunch at any moment—after you’ve made sure lunch wouldn’t disrupt my schedule, of course.

You can invite me out whenever you want. I’ll invite you, too.

So for now, let’s plan on meeting again. You can call me up whenever you like, and I’ll give you a call, too. I still have a lot to talk to you about, and if I come up with any particularly good ideas, I’ll let you know.

So let’s meet again.

No–I suppose we’re already meeting. Right here, right now.”

— Shigesato Itoi
10 Kinds of Business Models for Mobile App Developers: Take Your Pick
> Mozilla has clearly positioned itself as (1) the independent browser-vendor who cares about (2) open source, (3) the open web and (4) your online privacy.

They were positioned that way, but ever since they gutted the security of Sync[1], it's really hard to take them seriously.

[1] First, your data is now 'secured' on their servers solely by your password, which for most people is memorable and thus breakable; previously it was secured with a high-entropy key, which was secured on your system with a memorable password, if desired. Second, login to their services (which uses that same God password) is performed by downloading JavaScript (and perhaps HTML and/or chrome; I forget now) from their servers, which means that they can at any time choose to intercept as few or as many user passwords as they wish—or as someone with legal authority wishes them to.

> Had it not been proposed as a joke, I would already be looking forward to those Emacs-patches incorporating Webkit as the new embedded browser.

I thought that there was a serious effort to do that. It'd be great IMHO.
Or if one of the problems of the server caused logging to not correctly start :)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skajaquoda/trinity-the-...

Is this it?
IIRC Mozilla needs to open up their sources of revenue at the end of the year anyway because of nonprofitness or whatever (at least, they do do it), so they'd have to disclose it later.
...well can't you customise firefox to remove the Pocket add-on?

The issue here is about the reason why it was included _as a default_ in the first place.
In Python, the decorator syntax is literally just syntactic sugar.

This:

@some_decorator
def some_func():
pass

Is equivalent to this:

def some_func():
pass
some_func = some_decorator(some_func)
I did too.

Mine was truly passive income, after launch. I'd spend about 3- 4hours per month, post-launch, on support requests, and that's it.

I had a similar challenge, but not exactly the same. Rather than wanting to work on my SaaS and dreading being at work, I've been thinking about the next thing to do, to create another passive stream. :)
I can't speak to the quality of that hack, but it does sound like a godsend. In the original, you have to open the menu to talk to someone (Menu -> Talk To) or to open something (Menu -> Check). Yes, they're separate commands. You can't talk to a chest, and you can't check a person. If you're too far away, it pop up a dialog saying "No problem here" that you have to dismiss and navigate the menu to try again. It's crazy annoying.
There seems to be a lot of resentment against Germany lately.

To offer an analogy, I see similar resentment against parents among adult children who are forced to live home. Most often, those adult children got in over their heads on some kind of loan, most often student loans, and they need their parents to "bail" them out. They go back home and the parents then set conditions on them again on how they are to conduct their lives. The condition that gets the most resentment among adult children is control of the adult children's finances.

Germany is the parent, Greece is the adult child, and the rest of Europe are siblings who are turning a blind eye because they are either out in the world making it or because they also require their parent to bail them out.

It's an economic union. Germany's economy dominates the region, so of course it will dominate the union.
Croydon is unusual, since those trains (actually to Victoria or London Bridge) run all night. A monthly pass is £210 though (zones 1-5), compared to £123 (zones 1-2) for nearer the centre [1].

In most other outer boroughs, getting home after midnight is either very expensive (taxi/minicab, including Uber) or very slow (two or more night buses). Most people I know -- in their 20s -- prefer a shared house closer to the centre.

All this will change in September, when (if?) the night tube starts running on Friday and Saturday nights.

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/tube-dlr-lo-adul...
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> I think this is supposed to be an improvement over the current bookmarks system.

The old secure Sync was great, absolutely great. I could see all of my bookmarks and history from all of my machines, and it was all well-secured. There was nothing wrong with it.
yes, but then you're in croydon
And "Wo ist Walter" in german :)
You'll be sad to known a ton of OS X and Windows applications these days are just running in web views. Heck, even a lot of iOS apps are partially/mostly UIWebViews.
My main language for the past 2 years has been Go, and I'm very happy with it (with the occasional Python and JS break). I would definitely recommend it for you, too. I've been on both sides of the hiring process and Go seems to have gained a lot of momentum, especially at companies you'd like to work for.
Learn several languages (you did). Dont focus on one but rather look at what the problem in front of you calls for.
If there was one "best" programming language, why do we have so many?
If you'd like to visualize the physical amount of euros relative to the size of a human and delivery trucks: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_gree...
In most of the EU the loser in a case is instructed to pay the court costs of the winner.
I was going to come and also say JS. It is not my favorite language, but it is certainly not going anywhere anytime soon. There is also so much bad code being written in JS right now that entire careers will likely be built doing clean up.
When I decided to focus on a new technology I really wanted to be somewhere where all the "cool" things are happening. I ended up in the world of JavaScript and really have not looked back. If you are undecided have a look here http://githut.info/ as well as look at your local job market. I like to attend hackathons so being able to leverage a massive developer community is key to any technology I will bet my career on. Even now I'm pushing myself beyond JavasScript to use typescript as it brings a maturity to JavaScript I felt was lacking. The important thing is that I feel that there is so much community investment into being able to do things in JavaScript that it enables me to focus on deliverables.
I'm curious as to whether the figures for percentage of profits in the "smartphone industry" include only hardware (where most of the other OEMs make their money) or the whole mobile division (iOS devices + App Store revenue, etc)
I had to drop out of school for job (as part son of soil type) and i dropped after class 10 so learned only up to algebra, basic probability and basic geometry as the differentials and calculus was on the 11th and 12th class. And lot of time i am not able understand even small equations in articles related to crypto and others hence starting to learn it now.(35 but i understand the math now much better so started again from basics)
Exactly.

If the website were European, I'd expect a tick-box to opt out from marketing (email or snail mail), which the company would be bound by.
They definitely didn't see their own story at the time, see my comment at the deepest nesting of the thread. Totally agree. Also agree that execution and actually building a great business is the most important thing and if you survive long enough to be able to do that and you're good at it, you'll win.

The problem is, and the reason VC's need to consider the quality of storyteller you are, is for a business that plans to be capitalized over several rounds, it's a fundamental risk not to have somebody on your team that can tell that story. Secondly, you're going to have to tell stories to your TEAM (internally) and the world (externally/marketing) that will have a huge impact on the future of your company as well. So it matters.

It turns out, Brian especially at Airbnb is a natural story teller, he basically can not stop telling stories when he speaks publicly and they're all good. They just didn't know what story to tell yet :)