skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But until we have a technology that can recognize speech and gestures reliably and accurately (and tablets with OSes that don't lag and hang up for half a second at random)

Totally agreed. Theoretically, you should just be able to gesture a list with your hands and say "joe mary dave" and the software knows from your tone that's three items and not one.

I don't know that much about lisp and s-expressions asides from that it can edit it's own AST. That's not a way of avoiding the question, it's just my own lack of experience.

> Are you going to drag some kind of symbolic representation of "tree node" to move a bunch elements into a sublevel?

Yes, I already think of a tree of blocks/scopes when editing code with a keyboard, visualising that seems reasonable.

> Repeating this (or a more complex transformation) action 20 times in a row (that's what a decent editor has keyboard macros for).

Here's the kind of stuff I use an AST for: finding function declarations and making them function expressions. I imagine that would be (something to switch modes) "find function declarations and make them function expressions". Likewise "rename all instances of 'res' to 'result'" with either tone or placement to indicate the variable names. More complex operations on the doc would be very similar to complex operations in the doc.

> Searching in code for a particular substring?

Easy. Have a gesture or tone that makes 'search' a word for operating on the document, not in it.

> Sure, it can be done with the modes of input you're advocating, but I doubt it can be done in an efficient way that would still resemble normal speech and interaction.

Yep, I don't think it would still resemble normal speech and interaction either, the same way reading code aloud doesn't. It would however be easier to learn, removing the need to type efficiently as well as the (somewhat orthogonal) current unnecessary ability to create syntax errors.

> DevTools are a bad example for this task. Using keyboard is much faster and more convenient than mouse. C.f. Paredit.

Not sure if I'm reading you correctly here: typing DOM methods in a keyboard in devtools is obviously slower than a single drag and drop operation. Using hands to do it directly is obviously even faster with the mouse.

Stepping back a little: I guess some people assume speech and gestures won't get significantly better, I assume they will.
I still like node for writing utility CLIs as well, which I find myself doing A LOT these days. To be totally fair, that's mainly because of the excellent feature rich CLI modules out there (yargs, commander, etc...); but, I've found I want my CLI utilities to be in an interpreted language, and node just fits the bill pretty well for that.
rather weak argument from the author.

He conveniently overlooks the fact that many of these sites sporting minimalist UI, are doing so due to lack of content. They need a natural way to take up the canvas for a site that is low on content.
Apply HN: FundChan.com – funded channel messaging
FundChan is a messaging auction platform where senders place bids to get their message to the front of the recipient's message queue.

This addresses the problem of communication in asymmetric relationships -- I know you, but you don't know me, so how do we open a channel of communication that works for both of us?

Enter FundChan.com, which is live and fully functioning at https://fundchan.com. (note: I have zero traction/users, which is why I am applying to YC).

Here are examples of asymmetric relationships/use-cases we may address:

In Hollywood: -- fan/celebrity or C-list actor/A-list director

In Silicon Valley: -- salesperson/CEO or CEO/investor

In World: -- advertiser/consumer

FundChan features person-to-person direct messaging as well as targeted public messaging.

I have been working on this project for over 10 years now, so, yes, I am obsessed. The project has also evolved and iterated over the years as my understanding and approach to the problem has changed, as well as my programming skills (php/mysql).

I am ready with answers to your questions! Feel free to post hardball comments -- I can take it.
I think the you are what you eat maxim is somewhat responsible for the strange dietary beliefs held by many.
Cracking the infosec interview for fun and profit
>Would "unprocessed food" stuffs mollify you?

No. See sibling responses. I'm not being pedantic, I'm trying to point out natural != good. Processing != bad either. Cooking is processing, and is a good thing, most of the time. I mentioned preservatives in a sibling reply, again generally a good thing. For example, the "no preservatives" crowd often have been very selective in the data they've looked at. That's all. Question assumptions about what's is and isn't bad for you. (And there is plenty of refinement and such that isn't good for you--don't get me wrong).
The Physical Web: Bringing IoT to the Masses
Not sure. Today, I was installing all your mentioned Reddit clients and deinstalling them right afterwards. While the first impression is good and they seem to offer lots of features they lack one important thing (at least the free versions)—to save a sub in a favorite list which is easy to access. Something which is essential and they don't offer it or hide it away in the paid version. Something btw which the Now Reddit client on Android does for free. I think another Reddit client is definitely no breaking news but that the existing ones are so much superior? Not really.
It's a point well taken. From what we've seen here (NYC), even at the strictest venues allow independant vendors needed for our initial silos (cakes, flowers, photos, invites, music). Things like catering etc may be part of the venue selection.

Our hope is to eventually graduate into handling venues as well, which will allow us to bundle those services.

Thanks again for the input!
Reddit’s Small Step to Tame the Internet’s Toxic Culture
We're now available in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Launching apps in other countries requires a little bit more diligence than just making a website available globally.

I'm sorry it's not available in your country -- we're planning on getting it out everywhere.
For a standalone piece of software, what about licensing matters for your use cases?
> wine is pressed grape juice allowed to ferment.

That's more likely to get you awful vinegar than anything even remotely resembling wine.
GIMP? I shudder when I think about GIMP
Hey Cherie78! Happy to hear a comment here. Or better yet, can you use this service?
Ask HN: How do you keep up with *developments* in front end web development?
So not learning new technologies, but just being aware of new ideas, approaches, early releases, progress on standards, etc.

At the moment, I just sort of browse HN/Reddit and look at books being published.

How do you stay informed?
> "For basic stories most people only care about the tldr: some drunk driver killed a man on ..."

Without wishing to be offensive... perhaps that's a sign that stories like that aren't really newsworthy. Lots of things happen on any given day, including thousands of deaths, isn't the purpose of news outlets to select stories that have significance to their audience rather than going for stories where the main substance can be found in the title?
> "I want to emphasise that the database in our website is accessible to the public,"

Was it supposed to be? :-)
The Talos stuff looks interesting but $3,700 is a bit of sticker shock. Hopefully demand and economies of scale will drive down those price points.
When Is the Singularity? Probably Not in Your Lifetime
Alcohol producers have fought really really hard against nutrition labels on their products.
I was a teen in the mid 1980s when computers were too expensive. The situation today is orders of magnitude better, it isn't really comparable at all.

For one thing, a Raspberry Pi is more powerful than the Sinclair ZX-81, Apple IIe, or Atari 400/800 I had access to back then, and much cheaper.
>Another idea, Western oregon, Western Washington, and British Columnia should be combined into one state, or maybe their own country. We are pretty similar.

Yep, I've heard of that before. They call it "Ecotopia" or "Cascadia". I think the standard idea is to take northern California (probably not including the Bay Area, just wine country), OR/WA east of the Cascades, most of BC, and also some of Alaska and make that into an independent nation. Good luck getting both the US and Canada to agree to that though...
Boot from read only media, or mark your partitions read only. If you boot from CD you can copy-on-read to RAM to keep things snappy. Or PXE booting a Unix / Plan9 workstation.

I set my networks up so that I never rely on a terminal machine for storage. If I lose my laptop all I lose is my laptop.

If I want a file to be stored permanently, I have to action it - Nautilis will mount remote file systems over ssh, I use that feature when creating & editing documents. I don't create them on the laptop.

Other stuff gets mounted/linked in /dev/shm if needed

I can flip ro/rw on partitions for doing updates or anything I really need to write to HD.

I don't do it for privacy reasons, just data loss protection.
It looks like the company is already running, is that correct?

Is there a website providing information about the product?

What technology does the app use?
I agree, I just feel like it ends up as a crutch for a lot of musicians. For example, it isn't very specific in terms of rhythm so you get a lot of beginners who see that part of music as loose or unimportant.

But of course, up to a point, lowering barriers is always a good thing for beginners.
> It's simple because it's a heuristic.

Simplistic heuristics have failed hard before in nutrition, so why do we keep repeating the new ones?

The only one that makes any sense is "Eat food, not too much, and mostly fruit and veg".
Yes, you can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit

Now, whether we can effectively use the energy is an entirely other question. There's plenty of technical limitations. But in a closed system there's no reason an object cannot have perpetual motion with perfect energy recovery. Of course, closed systems don't help us, because they cannot exert useful work outside of the system.
Great documentary called Fed Up:
http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/home

It basically posits that ALL sugar, from fructose, to organic brown sugar to high fructose corn syrup is broken down to the same basic molecule: glucose.

Even white rice, potatoes and bread break down similarly. It was sobering viewing and highly recommended. The 5:2 diet proponents also suggest the same thing from their research - that natural sugars are no better than unnatural sugars (at least according to the doc).
Never judge a link by the title -- I was certain this was concerning Foursquare.
Yeah, but the long-term rewards definitely seem worth it. Also, they cut back on the residency requirements a while back because sleep-deprived residents were making fatal mistakes.
Building applications with CycleJS and RxJS
Of course, an opinion that hyperlinks aren't currently copyright infringement by themselves could be seen by some as evidence that a new law is actually necessary.
Reddit is one of my most used website. I am preferring many subs over established forums, eg r/apple, r/ipad over Macrumors, sometimes r/programming over HN, very often r/javascript and so on.

I welcome Reddit's new native clients. Who knows, maybe we see soon some more and significant innovations than just being another Reddit client which employs the standard API.
That is exactly why subscriptions had dropped sharply after the release of Warlords of Draenor. (the endgame was designed around the antisocial garrisons, a mistake which they have scaled back in the upcoming expansion)
Ya, plenty of highly successful musicians and "composers" can't/couldn't read music, Paul McCartney being one of the most famous.

Joni Mitchell apparently didn't even use regular tab notation. She'd detune her guitar and annotate the relative pitch shift per string, e.g. D-2 G+1, etc or similar.
I don't know how many of the people lamenting MathML ever came to exist are active math-on-the-web developers. I for one am dealing with third-party math equations on a daily basis and can only dream of the wonder of ubiquitous MathML support in all major browsers.

The details as to why are here:
http://prodg.org/blog/mathml_please/2015-09-16/MathML%20on%2...!

As things stand, math handling on the web is inconvenient at best and a nightmare at worst.

Some quick points about the comments here:

- MathML as a spec is akin to SVG, it's meant for the browser/machine first, and not for direct human consumption. You don't read/write SVG by hand, and neither you should MathML.

- Calling MathML a "failed web standard" is fine by me, as long as you continue the remark with "the Chrome and IE browsers have failed mathematicians" and "the math-on-the-web developers have failed as a community".
Decouple data with how it’s shown in the DOM
It's incredibly hard to make music with commercial production values with nothing but code.

Commercial studios have racks full of boxes that start from $2000 each that fatten up and sweeten the sound, and a commercial track will patch every element through multiple boxes during mixing. The mixing desk itself will add its own sound.

Most of the boxes have analog circuitry inside them. Modelling it is not easy, and good models can use so many cycles it's no longer possible to listen to their output in real time (at least, not without using external hardware acceleration).

None of the mainstream music code environments - Overtone, SuperCollider, Csound, Max/MSP and so on - pay much attention to this. They mostly come with trivially simple DSP models which don't sound all that great.

Surprisingly, they also make it hard to use more complicated models even if you know what you're doing. Mostly you can't just add the model in user land - you have to add it as an external, and rebuild.

Commercial software from Korg, Yamaha, NI, UA, Access, and most pro and semi-pro VST makers puts more effort into sounding good, but the high quality models are somewhat proprietary and the code isn't often open sourced - although sometimes the models appear in papers from (e.g.) the ICMC.
what are the chances of getting a stripped down interface that just says "title, subreddit, comment count, upvotes" in one line (maybe 2)?

No colors or upvote buttons, or toolbars. maybe a single button (not a hamburger, probably an arrow) that presents all the menu options.

swipe to collapse comments is also a pretty crucial feature.
> 2. The moral obligation: You said you'd pay it back. Keep your word. Despite extenuating circumstances, you're just a plain old bad person otherwise.

That's exactly the problem. You are applying guilt and morality to people (and not just you, this is a popular PR technique) but when businesses choose to not pay the fines, loans, or choose to continuously violate a law (because paying a fine is cheaper than complying), for whatever business reason, then it is seen "as a business decision".

For example, during the housing crises years, there were a few articles warning about the second wave of housing crisis -- that where wealthy people who see their house under water, would stop paying even if they could. They would choose to mail the keys to the bank and walk away because 7 years of bad credit is better than paying an extra $200k over the value of their house. And that was scaring some economists -- that fact that people will start acting rationally and applying "normal business principles" to their own affairs.

> There should be stiff penalties for people who decide not to pay back a student loan because "LOL TARP."

Where are the stiff penalties for banks and insurance companies pissing away money on shady deals? People were not blind they saw what happened.
Well you got caught in the trying to do good but someone can see it as you are pen testing. Never fix something unless someone tells you to. I've gotten in trouble for fixing printers and for using Excel instead of Word for making documents.
> This is a paper CPU, right? You can't actually buy an IC.

Yes you can. You just won't know about it. The open source CPU cores tend to go into things like CMOS cameras, ISPs, video processing chips, or FPGA projects.

But RISC-V is exciting because it's the first open-source ISA that really has a good chance of becoming an open 32-bit microcontroller or even a phone/tablet CPU.

There has been silicon chips taped out as university projects. No you can't buy them, but it means there's a pretty low barrier for a commercial company to produce one. But I think the compilers just needs to mature more, especially the LLVM one (which would be useful for making IDEs etc.)
I had an almost jarring occurrence of this happen when I graduated with my BSME. My first name is traditionally associated with old rednecks. I sent out a hundred or so resumes before I got any response at all - an offhand comment about duct tape engineering.

For whatever reason, that clicked with me. So, I added my middle name to my resume and had a job within a week. I've been going by my middle name professionally ever since.
Windows files exist under /mnt/c or something.
I think you could.
Then ignore (filter) the woo-woo au naturale fruit cakes. Every message gets distorted, perverted thru transmission. But sometimes there's some actual signal buried in all that noise.

Also, modern food production is not an unqualified great thing.

Too simplistically: We consumers are harmed when optimal food production techniques drive nutrition policy, vs human nutritional needs guiding food production.

Over use of HFCS, soya, whey, etc has caused a great deal of human disease. It's now an expensive public health issue.

What may cause you (intellectual) discomfort is when the woo-woos conflate health and environmental issues. Again, filters.

And please remember that everyone's just trying to move forward best as they can. My mother also imparts some terrible, well intentioned advice. But it's not like I'm going to fix her misunderstandings. I just try to guide best as I can and lead by example.
I read http://webplatformdaily.org/ daily, and I subscribe to a few newsletters (PonyFoo, HTML5 weekly, JS Weekly). I read the changelogs for new versions of browsers. And, occasionally, I browse all the pages linked from chrome://chrome-urls. I've learnt about all sorts of old-but-new-to-me browser technologies doing that.
It's a real shame. I get so frustrated when I see adults, even parents, telling kids to stop doing something I would consider to be beneficial, practice, etc.

If I could talk to this girl I'd give her a high-five and encourage her to continue what she's doing. It's a shame adults do everything but sometimes.
> As long as pumping up does not increase the rate of Niagra Falls

But isn't that what it does? Unless you start to limit (more than before) the waterflow to the falls themselves, which probably would meet resistance from conservationists.

(I understand the Lewiston power plant already does have capability to pump water up.)

And, many places don't have such reservoir capacity at hand. Over here any new reservoir project meets fierece resistance, and it's rather the other way round: nature conservationists want to shut down existing hydroelectric capacity.
So many timesI've lost count.
You need to be able to reset to zero.

Think about it... as you tire, the quality of your work declines. That's obvious. Taken far enough, you can become counterproductive, making so many expensive mistakes that you'd have gotten more done by not working at all. But rest resets our bodies and energy, right? But what if you don't get enough rest to reset? Then you're starting the next day still carrying the debt of yesterday's overwork. You're not as productive as you should be.
This seemed interesting and I'm glad they posted their "Non goals". For me, and I would assume many others, plugins (which apparently is part of the 20% they don't plan to support) is one of the most critical features to any good text editor. This is one area where I think they may want to reconsider.
Here it is covered in The Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/01/authorities-...

Since D-notices are not legally binding, if The Guardian received one but chose to report anyway, I'd be very surprised if they didn't mention a D-notice - the times government have overstretched with respect to D-notices, it has usually caused a major stink.
Interesting, but annoyingly condescending.
From the article.
The fund is labeled 2008 but they invested in opportunities over the course of several years.
> I think a better heuristic, is "Just eat what your great-grandma ate". Or avoid the middle of the supermarket as much as possible.

I like that!

I had some friends over for a small dinner party a few weeks back. One of them was helping me in the kitchen butter some sour dough bread. Mid-way through she stopped agog just staring. I looked to where her eyes were staring and realized she was shocked at how much butter I was smearing on each slice of bread.

I'm active and believe in eating a lot of natural fats, but I realized that even young adults subscribe to the demonization of saturated fat. (I might also be a little too inclined to eat butter and coconut oil - so moderation - as always is important if we're to not alienate everybody).
You definitely shouldn't do that. It's against the rules, and HN users sniff it out like truffle pigs.
I think the AI comment was more to the fact that, they didn't safeguard against seemingly obvious outcomes - such as internet trolls trying to get the bot to say bad things. Many companies put no-go words during username creation, hitler, racist words, etc - so why didn't Microsoft?

It might not have been simple to do, but still - hard not to see the outcome.
About:PTL:'I Am':Dr^ssRalph^Jana^Robin Pryse,PhI,PhD:APL
Sure, but then you create another fake account. In any event, my original suggestion was for people who simply wanted to silently join groups to read info, and/or avoid annoying login requests.
>The fact is, most people are prepared to pay for a VOD and/or music service. We just don't want to pay for 3 of them. Money aside, it just isn't convenient.

Sounds like an opportunity for a Dogpile-type[1] service to come in and build an app that sits on top of your Netflix, Hulu and HBOGo subscriptions and allows you to discover/search/launch from one place.

It would probably be hacked up and functionality could be broken by one of the VODs at will, but if it lasts long enough to get some traction it would have done its job as a proof of concept to the media dinosaurs and you could make an exit.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile
As a counterpoint, if parent is interested in taking ML further, a solid foundation in linear algebra will be huge when more advanced signal processing applications come up.
The article agrees with your mom:

We replaced steak and sausages with pasta and rice, butter with margarine and vegetable oils, eggs with muesli, and milk with low-fat milk or orange juice. But instead of becoming healthier, we grew fatter and sicker.
It was morally always "legal". The paid inquisition may have made it illegal (and looks imoral), but things should get back to the rightful state of legality sometime in the future.
It's right there in his comment:

> I've done a couple searches for an editor that could be embedded with an LGPL project, and the choices were pretty limited.
Yes. So the basis of this rant is a poor UX decision on the part of Netflix.

It would be fine to sort of hide that there are discs... if my account didn't include that. But if it does, there should at least be a button somewhere near the top that takes me to the DVD website from the normal mobile / streaming website. There's certainly one going the other way!