skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See I rarely ever see anybody in HN make this observation which is very much true. You can easily tell that the average HN reader is unaware of the "spare time" privilege they may possess and how others are hamstrung by their circumstances.
I'm busy building a new insurance company called Cuvva.

Initially, we had planned to work with the existing software platforms, as we had assumed it would be too difficult to build the stack ourselves.

But their terms were completely financially untenable for our model. Additionally, they have never supported a truly mobile insurance platform before, so we were concerned that it wouldn't deliver the experience we wanted.

So we ended up building everything from scratch. It took less time than we were quoted by the various software houses, at about a fifth of the cost. We couldn't be happier with how it has turned out.
Why Ford Is Putting a Furniture Guy in Charge of Its New 'Smart Mobility' Unit
No, but I don't claim that rent control regulations are specifically or well designed for resisting the type of gentrification-induced problems I described.
For a second i tought we were April 1st
Ask HN: A bite-sized problem in your company that I could turn into a tiny SaaS?
I remember reading once from patio11 about how he (paraphrase) "started making money by attaching a random number generator to a web page".

As a technical person I often come up with interesting problems to solve that are way too ambitious for the time that I have to dedicate to the problem.

At the same time I think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that I'm not aware of and don't have a way of finding out about them on my own.

As a challenge to myself I am wanting to create something useful for others in a reasonable time period and make a non-zero amount of income from it just to get myself excited. If I could make my monthly coffee money from this I would consider it a success.

So I'm asking about your simple problems and pain points that are not common, generic or popular enough for big companies to solve (like customer support, or email marketing) but common enough that a solution could be useful to more than just you.

For example this could be a cursed shared spreadsheet that could be turned into a basic CRUD SaaS if the same product could be useful to a small but reasonable number of other people/organisations too.

Or perhaps it could be something specific to your business domain and location.

So what pain points are you having that I could solve?

Looking forward to a discussion here :)
We were talking about Tweetdeck, if you change the context of the conversation, it's polite to actually mention that.

As for that "client", it's just twitter. And it's just Twitter in a mini web browser. It's not tweetdeck. It's literally only useful for people who for some reason can't go to the actual website. It offers no extra features.
Flying Drone Billboards Are the Future We Deserve
3 Ways to Check even or odd without using modulus and division operators
Oh yeah, lets just wait a few months for chrome to release KeyboardEvent.key and then ship a new release.
Yeah I checked to see if it was simply not redirecting to https and was sad to see the typical cert warning since it tries to use a heroku cert by default (e.g. the developer didn't set one up).

I'm curious if the paying of $199 goes over SSL or not. I would hope so but I didn't want to go through the process to find out.
I've read a few. Admittedly, I've read ToS less times than I've clicked on "Accept" button.

Nonetheless, there is an external "Just let me ignore this!" button here:

http://bugmenot.com/

It lets you bypass registration with the most extremely annoying websites, so you don't have to register.

Or just keep your privacy, browse using TOR/VPN, and you can ignore ToS completely with no real-life consequences.

Thankfully, the battle between users and lawyers usually favor former.
Beauty tips secrets
Getting Over jQuery
> it's likely the only way to keep the IQ lottery losers living comfortably

Or, perhaps, by elevating them via better education
Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Beating Human Hearts from Stem Cells
Well, as someone working in tech and making good money outside the valley I think the SF-cost-of-living-problem is a bit of a misnomer for the wider tech community. People all over the world are getting big rich off of tech.

And I think the inundation of underqualified is just the cost of sorting out the good people. I've personally hired two people who never went to college. And I know a lot of people with unrelated and/or BS-only degrees who went big. You can get a laptop that does fine for $300 + internetCost. Getting an education that could earn 6-figures if you're good at it has never been easier. Maybe not perfect, but never easier.
Will this affect React Native?
The Ultimate MythBusters Summary
Except in the first scenario they actually already live and own the place? It's unfair to compare not wanting to lose [lifelong] sentimental value with just any other house outside their means.
It's not arrogance if it is true.

The trend is very clear: the list of tasks which can be automated is getting longer. The list of jobs being done by unskilled and/or nontechnical workers is getting shorter. This is a trend noted by economists for many decades (we've all heard about how most jobs in America are now 'service jobs', that is just one example).

It is very lazy to do what this author is doing. See success, demand charity via a convoluted argument which boils down to "instead of solving everyone's problems, listen to my populist bullshit and solve them in this obviously unworkable way that is based on ignorance and doesn't challenge any assumptions that are widely held. Change is scary and not guaranteed to make every single thing better, so we should fight it."
My previous job was Python code written in the style of Java. I agree that its good to have experience in a number of languages, but there is also benefit to having one that you know deeply and can write good idiomatic code for.
When load-shedding "Season" happens, which we had recently, yes. Everyone wants to protect themselves, so a lot of people buy inverters + battery packs, or diesel/petrol generators.
It's a failure of the web browsers to work with a site that would let you be so insecure that it "should be taken down immediately".

Also, I appreciate and agree with the mindset that SSL should be ubiquitous and that this site is insecure, but I gotta say, the way you're phrasing this reminds me of the most arrogant, spoiled customers that "demand" whatever pleases them to customer support and take out all their anger on CSRs.

You can share advice without being demanding and arrogant. Try it.
Two men fallen from space, withstood 26G, stayed alive
Think about it this way: The people hiring are looking for people with relevant experience. People with python experience can then leverage that and get a job. If you look at the postings most list other languages and technologies as well because no software is an island.
Thats exactly what I did.
And before that 40-bit RC2 and RC4 were the strength that was easily exportable, which was laughable.
Donald Trumps Most Outrageous Moments (The Ultimate Complilation)
My point was that Apple swings a big stick in this argument.
They say they use an "inaudible high frequency soundwave", so that should be > 20kHz. Shouldn't a buffer of a few milliseconds be more than enough then?
I don't really see how?

If you changed that functionality intentionally, then the other things it interacts with will require a change regardless. Furthermore, if it's that small of a change(as usually, the smallest changes are the ones that impact the most tests), it usually doesn't require any change to the test, aside from adding/subtracting a parameter or something.

Major functionality changes should carry weight. It's like saying that a motorcycle runs so much faster without a person on it- it defeats the purpose.
Couchbase and Spark in a Zeppelin
Mobile App Testing – Tips and Tricks
Id love to see the people behind healthcare.gov tell Apple employees that they were moving too slow.
Or be (not, it would seem) overly paranoid like me, my PIN patterns and entering do not involve moving my fingers horizontally, I put my hand down on the pad with my fingers on set keys, cover it with my wallet, and type it in. I also always double one key to make it that much harder to get by observation, a trick I learned from a sysadmin with major access to my school's systems back when we all had to use public terminals a lot.
They've only been showing that crap on cop shows since 9/11. And yes, TV shows aren't always perfectly reflective of reality, but they usually do get things nominally right to a decent degree.

You can't tell me you really think wiretaps are something that never have happened.
Windows 10 Mobile coming to select Windows Phone 8 devices
The article is not about whether programmers are doing well for themselves. It's about what happens to the rest of society when only one section (tech\finance) do well for themselves at the expense of everyone else?
That's not a very insightful definition because it pushes the question to what is "legitimate".
Having done all 3 of those, anything that involves manual memory management counts as low level in my book.
To call that link previous "discussion" is generous. There are only a handful of comments, nothing interesting.
The Tragic Tale of Saddam Hussein's “Supergun”
I really like PlainTasks
"Henderson was more than qualified, so why didn’t he get the gig? ... he has two drug possession felonies on his record"

You know, people with illegal bookmaking convictions are kept out of the gambling industry for good reasons. It started off as a dirty industry, and to the extent you keep anyone with a hint of grime out of it, you avoid it regressing to that state. That keeps regulators off your back and eventually helps you turn it into a family-friendly mass market industry.

It's also really difficult for people with fraud convictions to get job as accountants, no matter how good they are at forensic accounting. Trust is the commodity being sold.

Do you really want someone with a shitload of existing drug connections, being the poster face for the industry you're trying to vanillify? The whole premise of legalization wasn't that your local corner boys get to go industrial after they gain mass market access, it was that the "drug trade" becomes roughly parallel with the "tobacco trade", where the worst thing that happens is penny-ante tax evasion.
The new gTLD info for Friday, March 18th
I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying there are far more extreme options that could be used some of which were used before like drafting doctors and union workers.
Sadly I don't have any at the moment but I recall using self modifying code to write graphics to an Apple ][ hires screen.

Thinking about it I wonder why I didn't copy the core of that down to the zero page and write the value into the instructions there. STA $12 is a cycle faster than STA $1234 maybe I couldn't find the space (or I was being kind to the OS + basic)
I didn't get that impression, but maybe that's because I'm not in the geographical area of the author's vitriol.

About halfway through he makes a good point about Uber drivers not making much money from the job. He mentions hypothetically giving drivers equity in the company. I think the end of the article had a pretty clear call-to-action, without gloating. Personally it got me thinking about ways I could change services I've built to pay both myself and users creating content on it. Think about if you could make money by posting great photos on Instagram. Not many SV engineers might care, but for others, that could potentially provide a much-needed source of income and an alternative to the currently non-existent UBI.
Yesterday’s discussion of this link,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11305065
Show HN: Miaou, an OS chat for developers and gamers
Well I think this statement needs to be qualified with the word "currently". The basis for the argument is that there is a law the protects Apple and by that same statement it means a law can require it.

Let alone I am quite sure the Administration knows the law but as they also know, ignorance is something that has value and can be spent and that ignorance translates into many of the American populace that will simply nod when he states something as true having to be true. The is the capital that politicians spend all the time and sadly it tends to work, maybe not in the end but long enough to get what they want
I like the Farenheit 451 reference. Is that intentional, or does destiny have a sense of humor?

Edit: Wikipedia knows it all, as always. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
Ahh, yes, in Freemind there is, strictly speaking, only one parent. I think they adopted this restriction because folding/collapsing of nodes is hard to define and/or hard to understand without this restriction, and folding is an important part of helping mind naturally grasp the big "picture".

However, within the visual Freemind diagram it is also possible to create arrows from one node to another that are not part of the main restricted hierarchy. I know some users have created these with the intent of creating multiple parents for a single node. So I would say that although Freemind doesn't support it very well (i.e., it's a hack, not natural like with graphviz), it does support showing visual relationships of single child with multiple parents. (And as far as export to Freemind from orgmode goes, I expect the export could be written to include arrows that are intended to show multiple parents of a single node, although I'm pretty sure it doesn't right now.)
Magento SUPEE 7405: Cannot remove the item from Cart
It looks like this is a blog post by Matt Oswalt. The spirit of "Show HN" is that the links will be something people can play with or try out and that the submission is from the creator of that something.
WebDev only

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How to Squat: The Definitive Guide
sounds like a job for Fail2ban
So given that YC wants to fund studies on UBI and Ontario recently announced that it begin looking into implementing it, wouldn't it be best if YC assisted in funding the Ontario experiment?

Even though it's outside the natural scope of the YC (that being a Canadian-based study vs US-based), there's no reason why this can't be done. Particularly with the cultural similarities between Ontario (at least Southern Ontario) with parts of the US.
A tail wagging the dog is the notion I wish to deplore the most.

Way too many people think that pure logic (and wisdom of experience) is what leads to their value-judgements and opinions. Like my example mom-and-pop broker above (who is no fat cat in the scheme of things, just someone too invested in the neoliberal capitalist paradigm to think straight anymore), they will switch their value judgements when their one true god (money, joint-stock ownership, and the corporate form of governance) tells them to switch. When weed is blacklisted, they can invent reasons to hate weed. When weed is legal, it's just another glorious benefit of our market system to provide this good/service to all the people who demand it. (And for them to rightfully earn a profit somewhere in the trade, or in the ownership of the business providing the service.) They make up reasons to believe what the markets tell them to believe. A dog wagged by a tail, if you will.

Likewise, when you have central banks and too-big-to-fails in this environment buying up everything in the stock markets with an exponentially growing supply of USD, JPYs, and euros, you wind up in a situation where the market tail is actually trying to wag the economic dog.

We forgot that it was supposed to be the other way around, because of how far we've gone off the rails into our deficit-spending-until-death mode of existence, since year 19XX, for some value of XX, I favor about the time Reagan took over, but you can go back further if you like.

Thanks for sharing your reference, by the way.
Historically yes, OS X had much better support. Is there any way to pull the stats out for games released in the last 12 months?
Grinding teeth,
the proverbial milling of stone... Also as in learning the ropes, or training oneself, learning the hard way, et cetera.
This is clearly a public safety issue. Private industry should set up a licensing board that regulates government use of technology, contingent on some demonstration of competence.
ProtonMail launches an encrypted email service that even your mom could use
The general rule being that its completely dependent on the situation.
Success Is Making Those Who Believed in You Look Brilliant
looks like a front to "jobs by Indeed", actually
Offtopic, but everytime I want to try Sublime I check to see if it can edit files on remote systems via SSH and it can't. Well you can if you install some package on the remote systems but that's clunky and doesn't count. I'll continue using Emacs.
This was a human interest piece; IMO it was less about the factual impacts of gentrification and more about the emotional baggage that white people feel about it. This was the author's way of coping with the destruction of the history in that area: to record it so that it may be remembered.

And IMO the feelings of guilt are the stereotypical "white guilt". Progressive white people feel guilty about the situation that black people are in because we benefit from the institutionalized racism that they suffer from. But we can't really do anything because we don't understand what being a black person in America means.

That means many of us end up confused and feeling guilty because as progressive white people, we want to help. But we can't, so we end up writing about the history that we're destroying as a means of making it ok to ourselves. But ultimately, this is the kind of "local history" that is often lost between generations regardless. It's likely nobody remembers who the neighborhood patriarch was in their neighborhood 100 years ago, so this isn't a phenomenon restricted to gentrified areas. It's just that gentrified areas are filled with guilty white people (who are far more likely to write a tome and post it on Medium than someone poorer and less educated).
I'd still choose to use C++ or C# for cross-platform code if starting from scratch.

However, I've never had to work on cross-platform apps, and have never been subjected to JavaScript professionally, so my opinion is probably worthless.
Hey, and if he moves away again, it'll be white flight and he can feel guilty yet again!
I read Rubyweekly. The most others i subscribed are boring.
You can't elevate people. Communities get the best education they can provide, some communities have no idea how education works and sabotage it through their ignorance.

There is no way to provide 'better education' to a group of people when a large subset of that group attack teachers, commit felonies in the school such as assaulting teachers and other students, especially when laws prevent any attempt to separate violent and disruptive students. Of course many students come from families where education is considered pointless, have no books in their houses, have no well educated role models in their family or even among all the people they have ever known well.

So it's very easy (not to mention ignorant) to just say 'just give everyone a great education', but frankly it is a really ignorant thing to say. People are trying very hard to do exactly what you are recommending, massive amounts of money are being spent, and yet they are failing. For example, Washington DC spends over $30,000 per year PER STUDENT. Despite this, they have something like an 20% literacy rate. I would love to hear your plan? Should we spend $60,000 a year and get that literacy rate up to 21%? What is your plan to 'elevate' these students??
Why would that be better?

There's huge value in having 2 independent studies that can check each other's assumptions than putting all our eggs in one basket.
Misleading title: the hearts were actually originally human hearts, stripped of their original heart cells but maintaining the connective tissue and overall organ structure, then seeded with stem cells. I don't think anybody has shown that you can grow a morphologically correct heart without the physical substrate from an original heart.
companies like google and apple can largely behave as they please during hiring, because the resulting candidate loss is offset by the relatively massive size of the candidate pool. there's always plenty willing to put up with whatever they do.
I probably wouldn't want to hire an employee that only wants to work in one language, but I can definitely see a case where I'd want to hire a contractor that only works in Python.

Also, if my entire codebase is in Python, it might make sense to at least target someone who shows a preference for working in Python.
> there's no reason that Silicon Valley nerds should be expected to solve squishy human problems like inequality.

Change isn't predictable[1], so it is misguided to expect that anybody will be able to solve difficult problems like inequality. However, we can and should expect "Silicon Valley nerds" to at least follow the principle of failing safely when designing new technology.

Technology can provide incredible benefits to society, but harmful effects can also be amplified. While we shouldn't expect a solution to hard problems, we should be assigning liability and charges of negligence when someone makes the these problems worse.

[1] For detail, see James Burke's non-teleological interpretation of history.
I think it does imply learning. Human babies "learn to walk", by using the feedback from lots of little experiments to improve their ability to navigate uncertain and varying terrain.

Basically, flexibility and the ability to deal with novel situations is close to synonymous with the ability to learn.
Why does this affect you but not affect Meteor and Phonegap, both of which also use a hybrid approach?
If you own a place you don't need to "keep paying an increasing rent".
So, in this modern age those are the only secure channels to communicate with?
To me the issue is simple: If a criminal you weren't suspicious of shreds incriminating documents before he commits a crime, you don't make paper shredder companies redesign their paper shredders so that it's easier for law enforcement to reconstruct what's shredded. It's a paper shredder, after all. The same way a person's phone storage is supposed to be really hard to get at: that's it's job.
> If I need a custom sort algorithm for my product, I'm going to write unit tests for it's implementation.

I would start with writing an assertion about the end state of the sort. Then using syntactic substitution of the predicate calculi derive the program by assertions.

I'd then have a specification of the algorithm as a mathematical model from which I can check every possible execution for the entire domain on the sort. If I'm so inclined I would have a good basis for a proof.

The unit tests then become assertions on the implementation and don't have to verify correctness.

It would be awesome though if I could just generate the code directly from the specification!
It's not adequate sorry. I am not happy with mailing lists for community building. And I know of Linuxquestions.com forums, but that's not adequate either. Seriously, it would take 60 minutes to get this sorted, and 30 bucks yearly of hosting these forums.
Having a real settings page and a real package manager are Atom's main draws to me.

I tried to switch back to Sublime after being annoyed with the performance of Atom but kept running into configuration issues and really really disliked having to read documentation on how to configure the damned thing.
This comment is the kind of heartless, dispassionate thought that makes people hate "tech people".

The response to someone being forced out of a home they've lived in for their whole life needs to be something more compassionate than "tough shit, you greedy poor".