skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location : Mumbai, India

Remote : Yes

Willing to relocate : Yes

Technologies : iOS, watchOS, tvOS, Swift, Objective C, Mac OS X, Android (newbie)

CV : http://bit.ly/1PFERUV | https://sumry.me/arpan

Work : http://bit.ly/1PDfJ45

Email : arpandesai[at]me[dot]com

Skype : arpan[underscore]desai

Domains : Automobile, Fashion-tech, Energy, Enterprise apps
My name is Arpan, I work as independent consultant. I have worked with startups, SMEs and individuals. My trades are Product Design, Mobile Front-end, UI/UX.

I am good at creating quick Mobile MVPs and good at building one-pager website. Mostly 3 to 4 weeks.

If you are looking for someone with excellent & fast communication, quick turn around time, clean code & design - we should definitely talk.

Recent Work :

- Building VW / Audi Sales application

- Building small Email Utility http://sendwithhi.com

- PlayItNow - Selected in Vitamin Water contest

- EkApp - Aggregator of Cab aggregators
Esko Kilpi is my favourite author on Medium at the moment. His articles on the redefinition of work are very inspirational to me. And although cooperative interaction is above all a human action, I have high hopes that technologies like the blockchain can help to ease these interactions between humans. Or at least to make these interactions more transparent and insightful.
These are the most expensive countries to be an undergraduate
I think this would be much easier to appreciate and understand if the idea was first explained in text.

Now the user lands on a page with a grid, a tank and some control arrows, with no idea how all of it relates to CPUs. I'm sure the whole thing is rich and deep, but it's probably lost on most of the visitors.
IANAL, but probably. Such a case would be somewhat comparable to the Sony BMG scandal from a decade ago. The circumstances would be somewhat different, especially if only pirates were actually harmed, but there would still probably be a good case under the CFAA.
The earliest known writing is accounting. Perhaps civilization couldn't really get going without an impartial record for credit, since economic cooperation underlies it?

I think we could do pretty well in other fields - much knowledge is unwritten "know-how", and oral traditions are crucial in all modern fields. Plus nmenomic techniques as for epic poetry, people practicing memory more, and even evolutionary selection for memory, andof course, those few eidetic memory would become prized.

Perhaps we'd have simpler, more effective technology, bureaucracy, laws, science etc too? After all, bigger highways worsen traffic jams, and the paperless office led to more paper!
I never realized how much variety there was in the backgrounds of enemies in that game.
Emoji has always been beyond 2 bytes. The Unicode spec also includes "surrogate pairs" which allows a higher plane code point to be represented as 4 bytes.
Periodic table's seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added
If I could I'd put my life savings in Pinterest. I'd probably make it back in a week from the money my wife and her friends spend through that site.

Yes, I understand they aren't monetizing it. Yet.
Yes, influence is a closely related concept. However, I think of influence more as an effect of "human value" rather than being the value itself. An example : Mark Zuckerberg did not have significant influence before he started Facebook. But he had the value even before he started Facebook. This "value" I am talking of comprises of , among other things, peers, habits, worldview, drive, social understanding etc. of the person in question.
> the source of fear resides in a healthy and rational judgement

LOL. The actual source of fear lies in the emotional reaction (involving the amygdala), not "a healthy and rational judgement" (involving the cortex).

To quote Mr. LeDoux, "The low road is a pathway which is able to transmit a signal from a stimulus to the thalamus, and then to the amygdala, which then activates a fear-response in the body. This sequence works without a conscious experience of what comprises the stimulus, and it is the fast way to a bodily response." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_conditioning#Joseph_Ledou...

> Fear is what protects us from danger and it’s healthy, up to a point.

Here is a test of rationality, O dear reader. See if you can rationally challenge my point, instead of viscerally reaching for the down-vote arrow. Fear (the emotional reaction, not the bodily reflex action) is unhealthy no matter up to what point. There is a reason why that "woman with no fear" is a little more comfortably living her life.
Ask HN: Device for child internet monitoring?
Posted maybe a month or two ago was a product for monitoring child Internet and you could set time limits per connected device, pause Internet access from your phone, and also it had some partnership with Disney for additional content. Anyone remember the name of the product and can provide a link? Thanks in advance I've not managed to rediscover it from my own searches thus far.
The most important role of UNIX is to provide a file system. From
the point of view of the user, there are three kinds of files:
ordinary disk files, directories, and special files.
[DRAFT: The UNIX Time-Sharing System]

> "In the spirit of UNIX, every thing is a file."
"Everything is a file" is a Plan 9, not UNIX, adage. `Block devices aren't a file (though they are represented by files). Network devices are not files (again, they have representational forms, but you can't pipe to them, a la Plan 9).
> "Though unlike it, a file can contain other files. "
By definition, a directory is a file. It's the second item in that tuple of 3 outlined by Ritchie.

You essentially have re-invented Plan 9 and to some extent ACME[1]. Sadly, Plan 9 faded into obscurity due to licensing, but it was poised to fill the position Linux has now. Watch that video [the whole thing) and borrow the good ideas. LISPs are homoiconic in that whole text-is-data sense. ACME takes it a further, in that your terminal is a shell, which can invoke programs to manipulate data. The only other environment I've ever worked where everything was as unified consistently was Smalltalk.

Emacs is a close 3rd and that's hard for me to admit, as an emacs fanatic. Though I can (and have been) doing exactly what you're trying to solve for ages within emacs, but that leaves all the vimmers in the dark ;) Ledger for accounting, org-mode for generic notes, a highly customized e-mail client which I integrated to a calendar/contacts/todo, all of which have tags. I can fuzzy-match my notes to the point where if I'm trying to remember a resource (say, a library for redistribution of data amongst a network on soft-failures), I can search by tag, by time (i.e., I remember it was sometime this week; filter; I remember it was a link on medium.com; filter), and various other components.

I see what target demographic you're going for and it's a pretty good idea. Most people need 'information stores'. Evernote was the Web 1.5/2.0 solution, inevitably there'll be a Web 3.0 version, you might be it.

Side bit of trivia: Cox loved ACME so much he ported all of the essentials when he moved over to Google, from the Plan9 FS (FUSE'd, not native, obviously) to ACME itself.

[0] http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Mc...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
Although his actual point had almost nothing to do with intuition, I still would like to argue in favor of intuition. Maybe not while writing code, but I find intuition very powerful when reading, reviewing, and refactoring code.

This is what people often talk about as code smells. When you've trained yourself in how good code looks, then bad code stands out to you. Once intuition has led you towards where attention is needed, then analysis can begin to devise the best solution. I find this to be a critical technique and tell people all the time to train their intuition. It's a tool like any other, to be honed and applied with skill.
yea. i think thats an extremely valuable service
I'll add COMAL to that list. I believe it has become somewhat obscure today, but still, it was developed by Danes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMAL
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10814984
So there's a Modula-2 revival effort going on and a commit to Modula-3. That's great news. One is the C alternative, one the C++ alternative. Hope it keeps up.
Lead Developer was great last year http://theleaddeveloper.com/
> not too hard to understand that judgement is key

The state of most commercial codebases and a lot of colleagues I've worked with, and my own code as well show that it is indeed that hard, I'd like to argue. It's easy to state, difficult to do well.
Do you have a source for that? I couldn't google up anything. Majority of israelis don't come from Europe, so I doubt this would work now. It seems probable that new olim mizrahim didn't yet make it to the high ranks yet, but I really doubt that it would work among low-ranked officers and soldiers.
Stenos Is the Docker of Application Performance Monitoring
Altera, and Xilinx both offer FPGAs that have ARM cores in them for when the need arises. However, the FPGA market has entrenched itself fairly well into the DSP realm, and as such, worrying about an mpu at all just means chip area that would likely go to waste anyways.

Lattice on the other hand, is a more general purpose chip maker, so they may not want to bite the hand that feeds them. They've got a lot of products other than FPGAs, so keeping those lines working is probably more strategic than anything else.
Disagree, most of the time it's actually the exact same price as any online site. Go comparison shop RAM or harddrives on Amazon and Newegg. Newegg may have a larger selection but all of the major name-brand items are the same price on both sites. If some sponges are $1 cheaper on Walmart.com, who cares. I'm not going to waste 10 minutes comparison shopping for sponges; Amazon is free to make its margins there if it'd like.

Here's an example -- I found a Kingston SSD drive on Newegg that has a Limited Time Offer "See price in cart" gimmick discount. It's $1.10 more expensive on Amazon. I found another Newegg limited time discount Samsung SSD drive that's actually $0.76 cheaper on Amazon. You are not going to be saving 10-20% by waiting 3-5 days.

Juggling logins and shopping carts across a half dozen different websites isn't convenient. Coupon hunting isn't convenient. Amazon Prime is all about convenience and it delivers.
New Year New Code? DHH on Rewriting
Another open letter to Paul Graham
The New Year's Eve Party Button
As a Norwegian, redistribution of wealth through free education and free healthcare seems obvious. That so many US citizens seems to disagree on that, is really hard for me to understand.
This seems almost trivial for the browser to fix. Just load all CSS resources, regardless of media query matching.
In physics we reverse engineer a very complex system given to us.
In CS we create the system ourselves and there is some overlap with mathematics, so I doubt the progress will be as drastical.
That's a little misleading.

In practice, what you need is a notion of a "context" for your formatting (often something that is aware of both the current i18n and l10n factors), and that context needs access to the fundamental objects that would be rendered in to a string.

Effectively, the "format string" becomes an identifier for the particular message you want to render, though often the objects themselves are definitive enough.

In that paradigm, interpolation/formatting/whatever might be the default mechanism employed by the context, but you don't want to have that as your explicit mechanism. You want one more level of indirection before you get to it.

Some platforms make the mistake of having that context be tied to the thread, out worse still, a global, and that falls apart once you have any multiplexing logic (and the way python currently works with posix locales fully captures how terribly you can do this). Either way, I'd argue out really is a different problem from interpolation, and if you are trying to solve it using interpolation, you don't understand the problem.
I am a huge fan of Recalbox. You only need to write the image and it is ready, all emulator keys preconfigured :-) You can copy roms via a network share.
People generally don't mind doing things that slowly kill other people or themselves for that matter. Smokers are a prime example.

If the effect was immediate and those 9000 odd people just dropped to the ground dead as you drive past them, we would see a more direct reaction.
>Think how far physics got from Newton to the Manhattan project. Where will CS be in 100 years? We have so much work to do.

Might not be so. You're applying the same progress curve to both, but remember that Newton developed his theories at the start (or close) of the scientific era, without so many institutions, collaborations, communications, infrastructure, experimental apparatus, computer simulations, the necessary math etc.

Computing was developed in the middle (or close) of the 20th century, and had all that. It also saw much faster development cycles, so the speedup curve we saw with physics since Newton won't really apply to it (I mean not in the same timescale: it could still apply "compressed" in the last 5 decades).

I'd say we're already in the Manhattan project era of computing. And with Moore's law expiring and other limits reached in those areas, we wont be moving that faster in the future -- mostly like Physics did since 50s.
I too prefer the human consumable format. If by 'media support' you mean embedding media, you can easily script image rendering for it (assuming you compiled with Xlibs or Cocoa support or whatever your platform uses- sadly the best cross-platform interface (QT) is LGPL which will never be upstreamed to GNU/Emacs) and on ELPA there's an extension for basically every audio player out there. I'm not sure what it's like on OS X, but writing a minor-mode to auto-parse file:///home/foo/bar/.avi|.mp4|*.mkv and generate a thumbnail and/or make a clickable URI should be trivial as well.

https://www.madoko.net/ I've been using this for ages, it's a superset of Markdown, pretty solid. It's really hard to beat (La|Te|Lua)TeX for certain things (I'd never write a dissertation or master's thesis on Word because even with all of the plug-ins it's absolutely abysmal for citation management (BibTex) and rendering even the most trivial of diff eqs) but this gives TeX a run for its money. It's a pretty decent option which seems like it might be up your alley. (Org-mode is probably what you're looking for though).
The module priority defining is something which makes it a little more smarter than normal voice command options.

The example given in the documentation is - "What's on Hacker News?" and "What's on the news?"

Jasper can differentiate the responses for both of the commands by "PRIORITY" attribute.

Has anyone worked on it in personal? I am curious.
Worry not, if you were infringing, they would've let you know already ;)
Wired for gaming: Brain differences in compulsive video game players
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833230
What Great Programmers Know That Newbies Don’t
I wonder if multinational corporations are the last bastion of 20th century centralization.

In a power law driven world, players that make better long term decisions will ultimately rise to the top and dominate their markets. This is not something most multinationals are known for. (If so, then this process would likely play out over several decades.)
Ask HN: Can an idea be independent (at least enough), and for how long?
I'll make the assumption that ideas are generally derived from others. But can it be such that one person can hold a monopoly on an idea for a long period of time? Suppose Einstein wasn't around, could the theory of relativity come to prominence, led by someone else? Would it have occurred around that general period?
Indeed, the problem is moving in Europe too.

Again, it's not misplaced patriotism. It's just story telling : I went there, I tried that, I talked to these people, and this is what I got.
Digital Africans, Your Ideas Matter
I guess they would have hired people speaking Yiddish.

My grandpa always told me to learn Russian and German cause you have to speak the enemy's language ;)
>Also, the current version of the Tor Browser warns you when you resize the window.

I believe it only warns you if you maximize the window, not if you resize it.
>> I think he was just talking about rich people kind of being demonized by the media, they like to paint a story of rich as the oppressive ruling class which everyone else needs to rise up against. That only divides people, there are peaceful solutions too..

I think what divides people in the first instance is that 20% of them hold 80% of the wealth (or similar).

"Peaceful solutions" is an interesting turn of phrase also. I guess you could see the exchange of wealth as a kind of war, but in that case the person who took all the money for themselves and left very little for everyone else to go by is actively trying to win that war. In that sense the only "peaceful solution" is to play dead.
If I were sure that this was written seriously I should have replied along the lines of there being few chances for such an amazing resource as the best programmers in the world by a large margin to be untapped by greedy capitalists who'd then topple America's software empires.

Since I'm not sure that this was written seriously, I'll point to anecdotal evidence of cfront, Stroustrup's C++ compiler, being the buggiest C++ compiler ever written. (Here's a bunch of bugs found by modern static analysis tools - http://www.i-programmer.info/programming/cc/9212-finding-bug... - but unfortunately I can't find the Usenet old posts telling that cfront was the buggiest C++ compiler of its time, and that early g++ was the next buggiest. The Unix-Haters Handbook has evidence from James Roskind who tried to make a yacc grammar for C++ - to a first approximation, an impossible thing to do due to a few goofy design decisions in the C++ grammar - and who said that every time when he tried to feed cfront input that would enlighten him with respect to some dark corner of the grammar, cfront crashed.)
Use the tor browser.

Someone should make a short gif to explain this: imagine someone with a Guy Fawkes mask browsing facebook on his computer. Then some guy behind him look at his screen him and tells him "hey Mark Dupont, what's up?"
I've been building Markdown-UI, a framework that uses the Semantic-UI framework to write responsive and beautiful websites and UI's in Markdown syntax. It comes with a REPL.

https://jjuliano.github.io/markdown-ui - Create Beautiful and Responsive Websites in Markdown Syntax
Optimistic:

If they already have the same product and paid customers, learn everything you possibly can tease out of why they do it the way they do it. They are almost guaranteed to not be dumb, or at least that's the attitude you should take. Why did they choose the niche and approach they did?

Is there a differentiation that won't be a regression from what they offer for at least some subset of the customers? Assuming it makes it worse for some and better for others, are the numbers of "betters" a big enough market to focus on as a niche? As long as you're not searching for VC funding and okay with being a small fry, that seems low enough risk to try out at least...

Personal:

I hate companies that sell my data, it's almost always obvious immediately, and while I still make the tradeoff sometimes, it's rare. Purely from a personal preference standpoint... can you try just charging for something worth paying for? More enterprise, less bottom of the bucket deal seekers? Are your customers businesses are or individuals? Can you target businesses instead? I think they're way easier to come to a lucrative accommodation with with minimal sales effort. Maybe try a freemium model instead, or one with very low entry fees to try it out before normal monthly fees arrive? Sorry, this might be unrealistic and old school for Web 3.0 startups... I work in chemicals so obviously my perspective is skewed.
I sort of wanted to find a use-case for Pipes and IFTTT, but I couldn't. I think I used it a few times to hunt for craigslist deals on vintage guitar amplifiers or something, but what specifically functionality do you (and OP) miss about it?
Thanks for bring up Acme and Plan9. Having used Acme as a primary editor for a while I definitely plan to bring some of its features along. I have ported part of plumbing to elisp though very rudimentary. Though I wonder how plumbing could be implemented in the web. It is an interesting thought.
Could be good for real estate prices too... If you're on the buy side.
Diamonds Suck (2006)
I think you have a good point. But I still think polarization of the society is an obstacle that has to be overcome in sync with this. Things like people supporting Donald Trump. I wish I had a good recipe/idea how to reverse that (at least some of these authoritarian trends), but I don't.

So it's more like a distraction is needed at the main castle in order to take the small fort.
> I thought the "Buy Survivor Library on Disc" [1] link was a bit funny ... if you don't have electricity, you better make sure your laptop is charged when the end comes (unless of course it's EMP'd by the sun).

Perhaps the expectation is that the kind of people that are interested in planning ahead for situations where it is necessary to survive a long time with or rebuild civilization using older technology will learn and become proficient with that technology before they have to actually put it to use in a survival or civilization rebuilding situation.
Your problems were using GNU extensions, instead of writing in POSIX-standard subset, not knowing what the standard was, and not testing. None of which apply to the grandparent!
Why do you think they'll be short lived? Emoji can be more expressive than pure text, and they have a tendency to take on a meaning that can't quite be described in words. For example, a quick thumbs-up is a great way to show you acknowledged something.
It makes sense for Oracle to keep a close eye on new architectures that seems like it may get some traction. If it makes it into the server space, it'll affect them.
I agree. People are really excited but it takes some knowledge to make a intelligent comment to this. I for one read a lot of NIPS paper's but don't understand most of them enough.
We managed to get Power Symbols into Unicode (http://unicodepowersymbol.com/) and it was all sparked by a conversation on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6828102
I have been pretty happy with screen and mosh[1]. Very, very happy with mosh!

https://mosh.mit.edu/
Someone Got Windows 95 Running on a Nintendo 3DS
Yes, this! People seem not to know when to use replaceState over pushState. And in my eyes this is a clear candidate for replaceState. (There are also examples the other way around, such as GitHub's PR tabs, drives me insane every time.)
We have surprisingly identical ambitions.
BVic's "Future of Programming" is particularly relevent to several of your points and really puts how terrible our current system is in context.... https://vimeo.com/71278954

I feel like this sentiment (of "everything is wrong") is gaining traction recently (last year/two). Maybe it's just wishful thinking though...
"The New Yorker has always dealt with experience not by trying to understand it but by prescribing the attitude to be adopted toward it. This makes it possible to feel intelligent without thinking."

Yes, that's the New Yorker. It is, indeed, designed to create the feeling of sophistication without requiring effort from the reader. As such, it survives in the era of Twitter. The dry wit of the New Yorker's house style has survived the test of time.
Clearbit could be one of the solutions to this.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833120 and marked it off-topic.