skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an idea: Pair it with something like brain.fm and market it as a relaxation/meditation technique.

Also +1 for the gallery idea, and not worrying about animations, just a gallery with voting and show off the ones that get the most votes.

Like: http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes

Another idea from that: take the palettes from colourlovers and add those as something people can choose from to do the drawings with.
You definitely need to seed it with more content. Currently I see just 2 videos, both of them old, neither of which are topics that interest me.

One approach would be to set a topic every day, and persuade 3-4 of your friends to record something on the topic. Once you get a debate going, more people will join in.

You're competing with posting vlogs on Youtube. So you need to figure out what will make people much happier posting on your site, even though the audience is smaller at first.
I was extremely surprised to see the reporting done by my hometown paper, The Desert Sun, as it's not exactly a nationally renowned paper.
Turns out that the wavelengths involved are similar, although one form of radiation is acoustic and the other electromagnetic. So those anechoic chambers often work pretty well for both purposes.
If you're not going to any details your comment is literally worthless.

I've been in a plenty of hotel rooms that suffered far worse damage than I could ever imagine a porn shoot causing. At least I've never watched any porn that involved throwing things through the window, setting the carpet on fire and the entire building reeking of weed.
Thanks. Good uses.

He he, the voice "shutdown" command you mention reminds me of a small assembly language routine that I used to use to reboot MSDOS PCs; it was just a single instruction to jump to the start of the BIOS (cold?) boot entry point, IIRC (JMP F000:FFF0 or something like that). Used to enter it into DOS's DEBUG.COM utility with the A command (for Assemble) and then write it out to disk as a tiny .COM file. (IOW, you did not even need an assembler to create it.)

Then you could reboot the PC just by typing:

REBOOT

at the DOS prompt.

Did all kinds of tricks of the trade (not just like that, many other kinds), in the earlier DOS and (more in) UNIX days ... Good fun, and useful to customers, many a time, too, including saving their bacon (aka data) multiple times (with, of course, no backups by them).
Do you have a link to the reports? Python and Go seem to be used a lot at Dropbox. Blog post on their Go usage: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2014/07/open-sourcing-our-go-...

I could only find two Rust repositories on their github page, both of which are library bindings forked from other projects, so that seems to indicate some Rust usage. But then again there are more Haskell repositories than Rust repositories: https://github.com/dropbox
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It's absolutely very uncommon to have a single collection of several million in the languages I mentioned in the web-app space IME.

Anyways, that's my experience with Ruby. Since each allocation (at the time) took 23 bytes of memory, even object graphs c# or Java might consider fairly modest (say loading 10,000 rows with a dozen fields into an Array<User>) would burn through a silly amount of memory comparably and probably trigger a GC cycle.

We're talking nanoseconds on the compiled side vs hundreds of milliseconds.

It takes a very very high N to overcome that sort of issue. One you might run into in scientific computing a lot more frequently, but not the sort of issue you'd often (if ever really) run into writing a web-app.
These are very good points and kind of why I'm debating which way to go. I have a few ways to pivot out of the college market even if I start there so I may explore that some more. As far as management tools go, I'd largely be competing with Excel spreadsheets, and meetings. Anyway thanks, I appreciate the insights.
Poorly designed things are everywhere
I wonder if there's a generic app to track good habits -- not just fitness.

For example, I'd like to track how many days I studied during the year.

Reading the comments I found:

- http://dontbreakthechain.com/

- https://markmyday.net/

Are there any fancier apps?
Pretty easy search turned this up. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/083115/top-ci...

There also exist services to ensure compliance - http://www.hostcompliance.com/

A quick google news search also turns up a lot of articles about cities banning / deciding on the legality of abnb.

Additionally, your post was likely downvoted because you dashed off an aggressive, cliched comment that could have been answered with less effort than it took to post to HN.
I must be the only one disappointed with old-school games. I was super excited to set up a retropie, after 20 minutes playing the nostalgia wore off quickly. Anyone else find the same?
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People tend to have takeout in their hotel rooms, people tend to smoke (various things) in their hotel rooms, people throw TVs through their hotel room windows (and not only in movies).
So you download it each time?
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Wyoming's yearly fee is $52.
Why use :: for type annotations instead of the more standard single colon?
Thank you!! Would approaching debate clubs help?

Also, would you or Jared like to speak on some topic that interests you ?

I've also given an option of creating a private topic - which only selected invitees can view and participate - so that one can discuss and debate with only close friends/co-workers. Could this be a feature appealing for video bloggers who are concerned of privacy too?
Why would any of those things be a problem as long as the house is either properly cleaned afterwards or the cleaning fees are paid.
PS: This is a very, very, very angry post, and you might want to avoid reading it if we want to avoid flame wars. OP, I don't have anything personal against you, I was just ticked off. It's also Friday, so I'm angry I'm not home like the rest of my team.

alright boi, lets talk facts.

Here are the facts:

You were born, to parents beyond your choice/power, brought up in environment COMPLETELY beyond control, given opportunities that got you wherever the hell you are COMPLETELY arbitrarily, just because you happened to be in the right place in the right time. That you had anything to do with your success is 0.001% of the total story.

So someone comes along and says, hey guys this is so totally random, like maybe we should make it less random. Maybe giving similar chances to people who didn't have ALL SIMILAR FUCKING ENVIRONMENTS would lead to greater good you know, because why do those random WHITE MEN who were fortunate enough to have been born in the right families get to go to all the right places, and get all the cool jobs.

And then you say, no no, lets not talk about it. That's political correctness. What are the facts.

Other people have added that standards have been maintained, etc. That's beyond the point. The fucking point is that what you call political correctness vs facts would work EXTREMELY AGAINSTS you if you wanted wanted to dig in too dig. See I'm not against riling against feminists and those damn good-for-nothing-minorities-all-seeking-special-privileges and 'all those politically correct special snowflake millennials', but please, stop it with the 'lets have the facts'. The fact is that forgetsusername, You're not a special snowflake, you had absolutely no reason to be wherever you are (just as no one else does), the world is an unfair place, but everyone is just slightly better off if we try to make it slightly nicer.

"best CS students" fucking don't fall out of skies, granted by the grace of His Holiness Objective Vulcan Steve Jobs, they are made. And what everyone talks about when giving women and minorities louder voices, they mean that other people (apart from those that ALREADY have those privileges) should have it too.

Please all, lets shut the "Political Correctness" vs "Facts" bullshit, dear objective Vulcan overlords.
Presumably, so is anyone else who can afford to hire a 10x salesperson.
Hey, Trevor and Jared. Thanks a lot for doing this!

WHAT WE DO: www.wiredhere.com

We integrate every social activity (university created or student created) happening within an university into a mobile app. The students can attend and provide feedback through the app; we than take the analytics that's created and provide it to universities so they can assess and compare themselves to other universities.

QUESTION:

Do you think it's more optimal approach this as a SAAS for the university since we provide them a brand new web platform to make event creation easier and so they can reach students in a faster way?
OR be a non-saas and introduce this to the students first and let the universities catch on afterwards, and than work with the university so they can use our web platform and mobile app?

Also, what is your opinion on our concept?
what systemic problem though? I'm hearing systemic a lot and it's more often looking suspiciously like a way to create a ghost that can't be fought so let's throw more money at any and every program to make a show of it.
although yes, it took an embarrassingly long time for them to implement this.
All right, maybe cult is too strong a word. What I meant is "obsession". I have my share of friends who often start their posts with "oh, look, Rich just _nailed_ it this time!". They watch all his videos etc.

(I don't like video talks at all. Reading is so much faster.)
They didn't request short-term confidentiality for anything: the exhibit summary list at https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm... has a column for short-term confidential which is all No.

Also, the confidentiality letter would specifically request short-term if they wanted it.
Although the remaining patents (I don't know how many those are...) have now been vetted by the courts and could now be used with a stronger arm it seems like?
Indeed it does [0]

[0] - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/260563
Congratulations on the launch! Just added you to our list of fellow commitment device apps: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors

(We're genuinely delighted to have more competitors! Check out the "Sushi and Green Fields" section of that blog post.)
Actually, you can turn it off in every way that counts as long as you turn off the Internet, which is entirely possible.
There is an official Raspberry Pi foundation wifi dongle that uses a Broadcom wifi chip with full support in the kernel. For a time it was the only dongle that worked with Windows 10 IoT on the Pi. Can see it here: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2638
Which is funny, because quite a few Google apps crash if you don't give them the right perms. At least, IME

Edit: Oh, you said IOS. Nevermind. I'm an idiot
No, it is not. "I don't know what I am doing" mentality already hurts the web, where hordes of developers without understanding of the strengths and limitations of the platform are making angular monstrosities, now the same is being pushed to mobile.
Luckily it does not have much chances there.
Medicine has many more barriers to entry: schooling, debt, etc.

I'm a white high school dropout, but I got a developer position at age 27 after rushing through a CS degree later in live which took about ~3 years. I work 40 hours a week and get a very livable $100k+ salary plus stock and benefits with negligible student debt all things considered (~$30k).

My point being, in a vacuum, getting on track to making a good wage as a developer has a lot fewer barriers with the lack of medical school and debt. Not to mention the free time I have outside of work and regular hours. Salary isn't everything.

I cannot speak for people of color and their experience who want to go through the same process as me. There are all kinds of barriers they experience that I don't. Neil DeGrasse Tyson (I know, I know...) had a good answer to the silly question "What's with chicks in science?", and the cultural / systemic barriers he had to go through to reach that point in life [1].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ihNLEDiuM
> They redesigned the intro computer science course to focus more on creative problem solving. Instead of traditional homework, the faculty assigned team-based projects so that students coded together. And, most important, they made the courses fun and emphasized ways in which CS can benefit society.

What exactly does the first sentence mean? What is an example of an increased focus on problem solving, and on what was focus decreased?

Are team assignments really just a way for weak performers to glide? I know in my own college career that was my experience.

Is computer science about fun and benefiting society, or is it, y'know, the science of computation? Is it better to build a population of computer scientists who find the science of computation fun and self-evidently beneficial, or one of computer scientists who don't?
Homeowners already have a plenty of recourse in the case of damages. It's called, you know, courts?

In the case of non-damages, what recourse do you really need?
Isn't it possible for the skew to also represent that it just isn't appealing (for example it may not be appealing due to socially conditioned gender roles)?
That's an interesting claim. Do you have any evidence/references to back that up?

(I mean, it makes intuitive sense, but that's not really a good indicator of... anything, really.)
These things will keep. Come back to it later when they have more resources. Ubuntu was never going to pull it out of their impending 16.04 release, so there's nothing particularly time-locked here. Licensing issues can take years to play out and resolve - and indeed in this case, legal opinion is mixed on the matter in the first place.

Put it another way: The Conservancy spends all this time and effort and eventually convinces Ubuntu's lawyers to convince Ubuntu's product manager to drop the binary and write a "use make!" wiki page. Apart from idealistic purity, what has that effort actually done? Has it given us access to source code we don't already have?

Has it shown potential wrongdoers that the law is going to penalise them if they don't play ball? Has it fostered the sense of community underlying the GPL? Will anyone outside of those techies who discuss licensing for fun even notice? If they theoretically did notice, would they be more likely to use GPL software (the underlying aim of GNU and the conservancy) or less likely, as now it seems you will get in trouble for merely associating non-GPL software with GPL software? Will the Conservancy chase after Debian next, for including binary-only non-GPL firmware blobs in their distro (not even the source available)? Conservancy says that Canonical is normalising GPL violation, but on the other hand, it also says that it's a really weird violation, unlike any other - how does a future violator theoretically leverage that?
> ... full heterogeneous application suites that run in an elaborate VM has been wonderful for users of desktop applications...

Since the announce of Webassembly, I have a scenario in mind. As you say, the VM can become a complete hypervisor that can can run a full OS. At that point, the browser will become useless and we could get rid of all the complexity of CSS and HTML and close that episode of internet.

Another point is for AI and robots, beautiful design is not a priority.
"VISA does 56,000 tps."

That's what I keep telling them. The whole of credit processing and banking... even the Fed... runs on centralized, transactional architectures with redundant datacenters and optionally redundant checks from mutually-distrusting parties. What people want to do can be built on a highly-efficient, log-based system with distributed checking run by a foundation (or international collaboration) in a neutral country. It would be simpler, more secure, use less energy, faster, and so on. Additionally, we can choose what level of detail we want in reporting or auditing to reduce data overload.

These blockchain models want everything to go on a blockchain whose operational hurdles even they can't agree on. It's like this subfield of IT is ignoring simple solutions to simple problems while pushing complex solutions with complex problems.

So, I add to your own question: what is it about a smart contract on Bitcoin or Ethereum that couldn't be done with a signed email or website document optionally run through a few cryptographic notaries? The latter is not only simpler and more efficient: it's in use commercially with many courts already approving of concepts and some implementations.
This sounds very interesting :) And I think Colin Flemming is doing something similar in Cursive? In any case, I'd like to see more of what you are talking about - do you have any more documentation of it, a writeup, blog post or video?
Hi Trevor and Jared,

WordBrewery (http://wordbrewery.com) teaches languages by scraping real sentences from news sites around world, then processing each sentence with an algorithm that estimates (on the basis of word frequency and other variables) how likely the sentence is to be useful to learners at different levels.

We are now a member of 1776 and participating in Microsoft BizSpark, so we are on the right track. But I am new to the startup world, and I am funding the website entirely by myself at this point using money from my day-job paycheck. What is the best way to pursue seed funding at this early stage while we are developing core features? Do I need to organize it as an LLC or corporation to get funding?

Thank you,
Ryan
I suspect, although I don't have the numbers, that there is a huge difference between 1995 and today. Open source was barely on most people's radar screens in 1995 and you're talking about the very early days of widespread Internet access.
I teach CS at a well-known university, and am involved with hiring faculty and recruiting students.

There is extreme political pressure to hire females at all levels, from undergraduate students to professor, heads of department, head of school etc. Females at all levels get massively an easier ride in many ways from admission standards to scholarships and research funding.

This is an easy way to meet the quotas for hiring.
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It amazes me that "..they discovered that many black and Hispanic students, unlike white and Asian ones, had never heard of this type of interview and were unprepared for it..."

How could any programmer worth his/her salt would not know about a whiteboard interview? I think that statement encapsulates it. No only are the schools they are graduating from are woefully inadequate, and they are entering a highly competitive field that with a fast changing landscape that is overwhelming for such grossly underprepared grads.

Ask yourself how come Asians & Jews do so well? They just work harder and push themselves more. I am as bleeding heart a liberal as they come and it pains me to see the lack of diversity, but culture has a huge part to play in it.
No. You still need to teach the fundamentals or you'll run out of people to do everything low level. It's no longer a science when it's wishy washy high level
Comically absurd. Everything you've suggested seems specifically chosen to put you in the worst negotiating position possible.

"The winner of any negotiation is the one who has least to lose"

Why shouldn't the company have to prove they are good enough for you to give them your life?

This isn't a romance novel, it's business.
I'm not sure but I think floodgap.com can convert the web pages to text with elinks or w3m.
Ah, not sure. You could certainly cheat in some ways with e.g. zero width characters probably
If you want to read about this approach I'll recommend http://www.culturechange.org/auto_free_times.html and
http://www.bioneers.org/ . Note that the first one ended publication over 13 years ago. You may read it in the context of green radicalism of 1997 and realize that it's becoming the dominant culture of 2016.

For innovations you can look towards organizations like http://dignityvillage.org/ ... Literally, a legally recognized homeless community.

If you are expecting to find future cultural innovation coming from elite organizations, you're looking in the wrong place.

The disenfranchised through radical organization is where that occurs.

As it happens it deradicalizes. Things such as not smoking, abstaining from red meat, not attending religious services weekly or not getting married were once radical positions. But as the cultural barriers imposed by radical animosity fell, personal reservations against these habits fell with them and they gave rise to cultural change.

That's why you can't simply elongate the status quo by 20 years in a linear trajectory and get "The Future!"
:: is what Haskell uses, and this is a Haskell derivative.
What's your take on my claim?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184214

Note: Reply there if you do.
On the Pi 2, the ethernet port was really a USB-to-ethernet port plugged into a hidden USB port. So network speeds were limited to USB 2 speeds. I'm guessing the Pi 3 also works like this, instead of having pure onboard ethernet? But I don't know yet.
The specifics are important. If I said, "If a police officer gives you a lawful order do you have to comply?" you would immediately say, "yes". Now what if I said, "If a police officer demands that an entire neighborhood be subject to lengthy interrogation and be held for 24 hours in custody in order to solve a murder that took place there." You'd probably say that's ridiculous.

That's essentially what I view to be the case here. In theory the procedure may be perfectly "lawful" but in practice is clearly overreach. We need case law around this. I believe this is as clear a case of overreach as Apple could wish for. Finally, I believe it should be legal precedent set in public for once.
Is the app live in the App Store? Would love to check it out!
Not that I know anything specific about this law, but I don't believe this would cover discussing your work in the presence of government personnel.

The same would have to apply to any charity that happened to discuss it's success or needs. What if they use the money to put up a webpage and government personnel happen to click on it?

It sounds like a very poorly written law in general if that is the case.
We built it for iOS, but I expect Android would have been a similar experience (albeit with much more cross-device testing required).

Hard to say how much of it was platform-specific, since we only targeted 1 platform (for now). But the large majority of the code we wrote exists in React components or in related JS files, so porting it over to Android should be a matter of decoupling the parts of the code that rely on native features (i.e. camera, navigation, etc).

A lot of that work is already happening in the React Native community so I expect the cross-platform support will keep getting easier.
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You don't need a government. People can enter into contracts with each other or with agencies and property owners. Pax allows for law and dispute resolution without the need for a nation state.
Still better off than one of those unwitting homeowners, albeit they were fictional of course, in Breaking Bad.
It depends upon why there is a low ratio. For example, if less men are being grade school teachers due to sexist double standards on judgments of teacher/student interactions, then that is an issue that needs to be fixed. The low ratio is a symptom, not the problem itself, but it helps indicate a problem that needs to be fixed.

My issue is that sometimes instead of fixing the underlying problem(s), some people want to apply a patch that ends up not helping (or maybe making things worse).