skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A few times I been 'round this track" - Gwenneth Rennae
Steffani.

Deep in a few years on a couple of things. Wish it was as simple as starting new things each year, but I fall hard and commit deep to projects. This has come from learning it's best to hang in there and see shit out.
Personally interested in the wilderness between Youtube and plain old television, personally. Onwards we go into the new year I guess. Best of luck everyone with 2016 projects.
You jumped to conclusions from that, though.
Nothing. It launched. Then the co-founder quit and took it down.

It's coming back soon though.
It is also a signal -- "Can this person be persuaded to work for magic-big-number options but half the salary without too many question? If yes, then he's a believer and want him to work for us. He'll probably stay up on weekends and work for the cause." If he's asking too many questions, he'll probably question our decision making down the road as well, and will be hard to fool.

This can be seen in recruiting stagee as well, it is usually presented as the take home question. Give them a take home interview problem that takes two days to solve. Those that go for it, will be dedicated and desperate enough to be good workers.
Not just a piece of a paper: a credential. The paper itself is unimportant, they simply need the institution to reliably tell possible employers (the rare few that even bother to check) that the credential was duly earned and appropriately filed.
Saying "it can't even be matched with a regex" is trivial. Here's another, very simple thing that can't be matched with a regex: Matching pairs of nested parentheses.
It looks interesting, but I was amused to see the "Year => 08" where 08 evidently means 2008.
The slit is a water intake and valve for its propulsion and breathing system. It has two with cartilage rims to provide support while opening on the intake and remaining closed as water is pushed out its siphon. Dissected plenty in biology class and while baiting drop lines.
The point of being alive is being forced to spend exorbitant sums of money for the privilege of being talked down to by someone whose entire life is spent in an ivory tower about a subject whose value s/he can't articulate without resorting to esoteric vagaries?
Stop looking for productivity 'techniques' that others have found to work for them and just do the best thing I can think of now to get something done.

Momentum tends to work better than any one 'technique'.
From personal project to full-time startup: my 2015 and future roadmap
More realistic goals, this year:

* Publish my game to Google Play, then to iOS Appstore.

* Finish the collaborative art platform I've been working on.

* Launch 3 new side-projects that each sustain a MRR of $1000+/mo.
>> They can be as big as a bus, or even bigger, and yet the elusive giant squid has hardly been spotted swimming alive in the ocean.

It's hard to read past such a false statement. A couple of their arms are perhaps longer than a small bus, but nowhere near "bigger". It isn't even the biggest squid (see the Colossal Squid).

Articles mentioning footage of live specimens should also note that they are almost universally ill, near death when filmed. They do not belong near the surface. Despite their size, these are short-lived and delicate animals prone to injury.

Also, live specimens have been captured as far back as 2002. So all this talk of "first time" footage is a little disingenuous. Researchers had them swimming in tanks aboard ship more than a decade ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110710133329/http://animal.dis...
Google Location History to the rescue. That is about the only thing that could help me with filling such a form, and I don't even travel much. The requirement is ridiculous in modern times.
Engineer investigating Texas tornado damage horrified by “horrific construction”
> But for every finite test it will be possible to find an algorithm that will produce high marks without requiring general intelligence.

if you didnt know what the test was, then this procedure of using a "specific" algorithm is not distinguishable from general intelligence!
The FAQ entry show how there is disagreement over what "British Isles" means. It shows that high up in the British Government (potentially the highest), that "British Isles" does not include Ireland.
Your analogy doesn't work very well in that among others, Ted Cruz, senator and presidential candidate, has explicitly called for abolishing the IRS [1], and many on the right believe the the IRS's purpose is basically illegitimate.

I also think the US right is currently so hyperbolic and so inclined to politicize anything that it's hard to say with any confidence that "the scandal is using the intelligence apparatus as a political tool". Many things that would previously been framed as political disagreements are now framed around the president's total illegitimacy. Of the leading US Republican presidential candidates, majorities of their supporters believe that Obama is a Muslim who was not born in the US. [2]

[1] http://www.dailydot.com/politics/ted-cruz-abolish-irs-fair-t...

[2] http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/08/trump-suppor...
I know. I didn't mind when the first outage happened in London (24th?) - these things happen. But now... this is getting beyond a joke. I'm going to have to consider moving, which as I host for friends is not as straightforward as it should be (since they control the DNS)
Getting back into bike racing after 20 years!
But they are not doing the business of government, they are determining what the business of government is. And in particular as Congress is a co-equal branch of government to the Presidency. Just as Congress shouldn't ask the GAO Office of Special Investigations to bug the Oval Office, the President should not have the NSA conduct surveillance on members of Congress.
Objection!!! That's a leading question!

I plan to finish existing projects in 2016!

Actually, my current plan is to get outdoors more and play music more. That may conflict with my earlier plan to finish existing projects.
It's already there. In the last paragraph of the introduction. There's a whole article on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute
I think you're reading far more into this article than what he's actually asking for.

I'm really not sure what your problem with the article being "all about them" is? It is literally an article about them. What else would you expect?

All they want is for you to treat them like a human being, instead of dismissing any kind of social interaction with them the instant you hear they're a paedophile.

Of course you want to protect your children, but how much of a threat is a known paedophile really? Just don't leave your children alone with them, and there's pretty much no danger.

Far more dangerous to your children are all the unknown paedophiles, who don't tell you because they're afraid of being socially ostracised.
First step, put on your negative nancy glasses and deep dig. What is the chance of success? Are they shipping? Profitable? Do they have a bunch of big competitors to try and overcome? A kind of stupid idea that probably won't work? The founders will sell you on the dream, you need to dig into the other side.

For me - I would cofound for 40% less pay(and say get 10-30% of the company), but not be engineer #1 for <5%. At the end of the day, a job is a job, why work for less than you are worth?
The only thing I've used websockets for is a JavaScript VNC server.
Great for first point I also need to work. BTW want to read your article if you write post it here.
I expressed my distaste of QM marketing.

Axioms of QM are few and clean. Sure, playing around them may be interesting. And if someone found its alternative formulation, more fundamental theory or anything - it would be great.

But (looking at the history of science) I see that the search of mathematical beauty sometimes leads to great discoveries; trying to satiate one's naive intuitions - rarely.
Yes, the reactions on HN in general have been kind of underwhelming compared to Steve Jobs for reasons I can understand although for me Ian's death has hit harder than Steve's. My guess is that many here are young, mostly devs that have been using Mac all their dev life and before that windows. For the older folks who do dev ops or were around in the 90's and early 2000's and who cared about free software, Debian really had a huge impact on us and so we feel more sad about Ian's death than the rest.
Show HN: Next Hit Game – game idea generator
> When the income ends up on the books and taxed only in Ireland, after expensing most of it as licensing fees to a shell company in Bermuda, despite none of those things (design, sourcing, manufacturing, assembly, sales) occurring in either country, it starts looking more like a loophole than legitimate rules around taxing an international business.

That's because it's a tax on profit, not a tax on design, sourcing, manufacturing, assembly, or sales.

Suppose I have an idea for a piece of hardware. So I hire one of these body shops in India to design the hardware. They make hardly any profit. Then I pay a Chinese company to manufacture it. They make hardly any profit. Then I sell the hardware through some retailer in Germany. They make hardly any profit.

But the enterprise is very successful for me and I'm sitting at home in my mansion driving my Ferrari because I've made all this profit. And you don't have any idea what country I live in because it doesn't matter -- if I move to a different country because it has lower taxes then the profits are still mine. Which is what international corporations do.

Stop trying to tax profits. They have no physical presence which means they just disappear into whichever jurisdiction has the lowest taxes. Tax something that physically exists in your jurisdiction and be done with it.
This seems like a terrible fit for WS. It's not a realtime problem, and doesn't require a realtime solution. Near-realtime will do just fine. I.e. have some endpoint that gives you voting results, and if requested with the text/event-stream media type will give you a stream of realtime events. Then post votes and what not with usual HTTP methods. This is presumably less efficient in terms of transport, but much more straight forward (and thus more cost-efficient) to implement and has some serendipitous side-effects such as your API now being usable by any ol' HTTP client.

Edit: to be clear, I'm agreeing with your assessment; and criticizing the article you linked to. :o)
Even in the nineties, most of my lecture courses where simply terrible. I would skim the reading, attend the discussion section and receive a "B".

The classes that had valuable lectures were few and far between. Were I less motivated, I am sure I would have missed them.
So load .js files with websockets?
right, so in other words, a software upgrade.
I have been writing a lisp interpreter and mind=blown. I really want to write a harder one now - maybe a basic python interpreter, or make my own little language :D

I also really want to get proficient enough in the JS world to make a simple web app. So far everytime i start wondering what has changed since MVC+jQuery and shopping around million frameworks.
Space for Europe and for all humankind: A brief history of the ESA
I want to find and develop high quality information 'scraping' and annotation and find a good community to connect with, in support of research and health system projects.

I posted about this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595190 but even though it seems to be a common desire, there doesn't seem to be much organization around it, aside from the really heavyweight projects which I don't think are necessary for most purposes.

hypothes.is and overviewdocs.com are two open source projects that are in the right direction, but I want to find a less centralized design.
I can see how that would be a problem. I've only ever lived in the UK and China, and have crossed land borders fewer than 10 times ever.
Shame about IE - even Edge is red: http://caniuse.com/#feat=eventsource
I've had a project in mind for a while, and I've built a prototype for my own use, but I'm looking into creating a public version of it.

A unified package tracking website. Put in some tracking numbers, get a centralized list, get status updates for all your packages from a single source. There's one site I've found that sort of does this (packagetrackr.com), but quite frankly it's awful.

I also have some ideas for premium services: forward emails and automatically extract/add tracking numbers to your account, SMS notifications, a few others. I just have to pull the trigger and actually make it.

As someone who gets a metric butt-ton of packages, my prototype has been super useful. I actually have it automatically parsing my mailbox and extracting links already, which is really convenient. Where possible I also extract any product names and display them next to the tracking number.
I have a question - if you're only using sockets for push, why not use SSE instead? Or did you encounter serious issues with that?
You seem to be good at inventing straw men. I never said that.

Your position appears to be "they may identify as English, say they are English, and sound English, but because it suits my agenda of suggesting that the UK government is run by pernicious Scots, they are actually Scottish" - which is ridiculous.
The Atlantic article linked at the top of this piece spends more time on this, which I also think is more important.[0] The tension between the professor who thinks he's having a conversation and the student simply demanding compliance was surprising to me.

[0]: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/the-new-...
you're all fucking idiots.

bombs are the only solution.
This might make for a good "Show HN" post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
There are also issues around your employer offering you specific tax/legal advice. It opens them up to liability. They can say "here are how options work in general" but they'll always follow it with "but for your situation, you should talk to a CPA/attorney."

I also made the mistake of not working through the implications until a year or so in. Luckily, I joined early enough that my strike price (and valuation) was still low enough that I could exercise pretty easily.

Disclosure: It appears that my former employer has filed their S-1 in the last couple weeks.
Decoherence-based interpretations (Everett, Żurek, Fuchs...) do not have measurement as anything separate - it's an emergent phenomenon based on the (already present) rules of unitary evolution. So for me its a clear argument why some of the interpretations make more sense that the others.
Flat Tree Dependency Resolution in Npm v3
I think some of it has to do with giving you either X stock or 2-4x Options...

If your company is growing every year, and the stock is liquid, Options are great. I know a fortune 1000 company that used to give people a bunch of options at bonus time, people loved it - bought houses, etc. Then the stock turned sideways, so they switched to 50% options, 50% shares (with the actual share count being option count / 4, to approximately take into account that shares are worth a lot more than options). The next year they flipped to 100% shares. No one would get mega rich with a small pile of shares, but everyone would have some money in the bank...
Something VR, or a drawing app for ipad pro and apple pencil
> Yes, the reactions on HN in general has been kind of underwhelming

Just to venture a bit, the lack of overwhelming reactions could be due, in part, to it having most likely been a suicide (and to go a step further, it may have even been drug induced, speculating from the randomness of the twitter feed).
I take it this is the same Trevelyan of "Fields of Athenry" fame [1], a great rendition of which can be heard at the end of Veronica Guerin [2]

1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fields_of_Athenry

2 http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0312549/
> from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Hear Hear. This sounds wonderful. Sort of like from a Star Trek Utopian future. You're an insightful person. Now, who do we vote for to make it happen?
The problem is that lots of people will pick "password" as a password. I think it's the responsibility of websites to prevent that from happening.
This is really cool :-)
If you are considering a job that offers options/stock I think this is the most important thing to consider.

1. Do the founders have a history of successful exits?
2. If so, did all employees with stock get paid?

If either is no, you should consider options/stock worth $0
India follows the "Sheep Herd" mentality.
The whole country's economy is based on people getting into "Profitable" domains mostly following the success of a pioneer in the field.
The most recent example of this ideology is the "Business Process Outsourcing" industry.
New BPO units are propping up here and there at a dime a dozen leading to a quality deterioration in the final deliverable.
This process will continue till a saturation level is reached and then they will wait till another "Killer" domain picks up momentum.
Till then India will be in a so called "Calm Period" where nothing great and major takes place.

http://qz.com/519777/why-india-needs-a-new-constitution/
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At some point you just have to reach the level of "Yeah... don't do that." I would suspect have "@" as part of your email probably approaches that line.
I don't think they rated it against the Turk subjects, I think the Turk subjects were used to train the AI and it got a score of between 115 and 120 which is what you should have on average if you graduate with a bachelors degree.
180030009009 is better
Egont:

1/ A Web Orchestration Language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-...

2/ Part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/
It may not have been the rationale, but it sure must be the most common use-case.
Being familiar with that subreddit, I'd say that any person who claimed that Scotland was never wholeheartedly imperialist would be laughed at there. There may be the odd loony who claims otherwise, but anywhere is the same and they'd very much go against the grain of opinion there.
> I haven't seen anyone implement it in the wild, but it'd also be cool if there was a wordlist of the 25 most common passwords that the site matched against and refused to accept.

I have implemented that on a site. It wouldn't accept the top 10,000 most common passwords. (or was it 1k).

Otherwise ~1% of your users will pick "password" as a password.
Agree with the article 100% but... Politics.
Becoming a vandweller. Fixing up and selling my house.
What part?
I worked closely with him at Progeny, and I've long admired Apple and Steve Jobs. Both deaths hit me pretty hard.

Ian reminded me a bit of Steve; he had a similar ability to look a few steps ahead, anticipate technology trends, and he was quite charismatic.

Orthogonal to the above: I remember when Ian first got an iPod and started downloading music from iTunes. He was astonished at the convenience. "How has no one done this before?" is nearly an exact quote.
Which is why a number of interpretations don't feature any such thing.
Now that swift is open source, I believe we will see swift on the server too. With that thought, I started learning swift from mid-December. I am learning it with solving programming challenges. I also blog about them here[1]. My Q1 project is to learn swift in-depth with this approach.

[1]: http://tech.jjude.com/swift-challenges/
Would that be more like Runscope [1] or Apiary[2]'s tools like API Blueprint[3]?

[1]: https://www.runscope.com

[2]: https://apiary.io

[3]: https://apiblueprint.org
It is my understanding that he was beaten by police officers, and the randomness of the twitter feed was the result of head trauma, or some other injury he had sustained during the attack.
Ok Socrates. Whatever you say.

:-)

Curmudgeonism for over 2500 years and counting.
My kids are of an age and a level of mental development where having plans to look at is very helpful for them. The easiest way for them to progress out of that is to have more practice building plans. For various reasons, neither kid I have is going to progress straight to Lego virtuosity without some intermediate scaffolding. If you were able to do so, more power to you and no sarcasm, congrats, but that is not the path all can follow.

For that matter, I've learned some things from building the plans myself lately, a lot of ways of combining them I didn't realize were valid, how to use those weird bricks that don't seem to go with anything until you know the trick, etc. And I haven't even tried Rebrickable yet.
The "comments" section exists for the purpose of making "commentary."
I had noticed also the top banner absence also, and agree that is missing.
Ah ok. I've only ever rented servers from them that already had a second NIC present (so I just needed to pay the flexi-pack charge to activate it). Didn't realise they also sold servers with single NICs.
Too true! I loved Pagestream, and thought MS Publisher was so clunky compared to it.

I lived in Juneau, Alaska when the Amiga scene peaked and ran a 4 line BBS on my Amiga 3000. I had purchased a laser printer at the state surplus.

I was given a 300mb SCSI HD by a friend who worked at an architectural firm. The HD had some bad sectors in the middle of the drive and was unusable for IBM's, but I was able to create partitions around the bad area and use the majority of the drive. Truly, the AmigaOS was revolutionary!
Not discouraging your prototype/project at all, but make sure to check out http://www.aftership.com - service works really well for lots of different couriers :)
A really nice project!

It's now in my AngularJS list: https://angularjs.zeef.com/harris.brakmic

Thanks for sharing!
A big part of the general population has their personal identities closely tied with their country (it's known as patriotism). We'll need to find a good substitute for that before trying to obsolete nation states.

Case in point - a lot of EU citizens, politicians in European Parliament included, feel that the whole Union business is about robbing them out of national identity, and therefore do their best to sabotage the entire effort. Maybe the young generation will feel different about it though; as the world gets more interconnected, younger people seem to care less and less about nations.
[ask] Why you should borrow me your spare computer for 2016?
I'm worried about taking the position that mass surveillance is totally useless. It'll backfire if we ever find out that mass surveillance prevented some attack somewhere. Only a matter of time.
Your general sentiment was true with old-school AI that was just exploring trees of options and intelligently pruning branches. However, for quite some time now we've moved beyond that and into areas that are promising for generalization.

You may want to explore the work that DeepMind[1] has done. They're starting with simple universes (Atari games), but have developed a single program that can learn to play dozens of different games without having ever been told the rules. They learn by trial and error (specifically, Q-learning[2]) and rely only on reading pixels and knowing the current score. They learn fairly sophisticated behaviors and ultimately learn to play these games at levels far superior to what humans can achieve.

Many people are now trying to generalize these results to more realistic worlds, such as 3D games. And ultimately to agents that interact with the real world.

[1] http://deepmind.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-learning
Why would that fail horribly?
you don't say. I'm sure this is the way it will go in any location with high enough density to get the network effects
My Palestinian friends would argue that this is precisely whom they were spying on.