skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you anticipate users inputing the metadata necessary to make this work?

For example, how will the service know how to access my phone bill /\ my taxes /\ the brown cat playing Chopin on the piano video?

Not so much interested technical details as to the degree of effort an ordinary person with an iPhone would need to invest to make use of the service.

Good luck.
I cam just to say how BIG Video Toaster was in video. My church was about to drop a HUGE amount of money for a similar product in the 1980s. As a teenager I got heard and they bought the thing. It was working all the way till 2001.
macro and comma is fully unrelated. The comma in backquote expressions is not even limited to lists. Commas are used in backquote forms to force evaluation.

For example one can write a vector of three elements, where the second element is computed:

`#(1 ,(first *features*) b)

Backquote list forms happen to be used in some macros as a kind of template forms. Macros can be defined without them and backquote forms are also used elsewhere in Lisp.
I tried to do a Schrödinger's version of this concept but our A/B testing was ahhh... inconclusive.
Would also be a cool way to arrange clandestine meetings (similar to the x in the window, only with as many windows as there are atoms in the universe)
Study: These students who take notes by hand outperform their colleagues who type them.
I have also faced a situation like this, even living in America. I have been required to send money home (a poor region of the Midwest) due to an extreme family circumstance involving potential child abuse, a bitter and drawn out custody dispute for one of my siblings, and a slow-moving criminal case that would affect the custody dispute, as well as some mental health issues for involved parties.

For a long time it required me to work jobs in which I was treated horribly, and I had to forgo any extraneous personal consumption and give up life goals like ever owning property. I went through many years in a row in which I couldn't even afford to fly home for holidays because the ~$750 plane tickets represented money that had to go to legal fees.

It damaged my personal relationships with friends and romantic partners, embittered me towards employers who delighted in my lack of negotiation power because of the situation, and led to a lot of youthful years gone by in which I accomplished none of the goals I had.

And, this was just for basic protection -- protecting a minor from a potential source of criminal harm. I will never recover from that financial loss, and we're not even talking about affording an extreme luxury like a college education which the article's protagonist worked to provide.

I wish I was so lucky as Emma that the problem I had to solve, and in doing so go years without even seeing my family, was to pay for college, instead of paying for basic legal protection from serious abuse.

It has really disillusioned me with America. I have always worked unbelievably hard and sought to work intelligently and efficiently. I have fancy credentials and have worked well-paying, sought-after jobs. But it's all hollow and empty. I feel American style corporations are one of the primary sources of harm and suffering in the world, and that in America there is no such thing as pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Your hard work is irrelevant.

At any rate, I sympathize with the article's story, but I wish that it wasn't seen as something that happens to "other people" ... the same kind of long suffering hardship and unrecognizeably ascetic sacrificial life style can happen to anyone, from any place or background, if you are unlucky enough.
I generally recommend using nvm [1] to install Node, it's certainly a painless way to get Node 5, then it's also easy to switch version later, or maybe downgrade to the LTS when you're doing 'work work' (`nvm use 4`).

Just remember to set a default, e.g. if you're mostly using Node for Phoenix: `nvm alias default 5`.

It also sets up your global modules directory so that you don't need sudo to install global modules like gulp-cli (should you need any, though it's quite rare that you do nowadays).

[1] https://github.com/creationix/nvm
You're optimizing prematurely. Have you got no faith in your dependencies?
Good practice would recommend adding /v1/ to your API url. The state of the boolean ecosystem is moving so fast that we have no idea what booleans will look like in 5 years!
I do not say that I lived in a bad neighborhood! :) Then again, everywhere was bad in the '70s and '80s, especially during the crack epidemic. Just a very immigrant community. My family was the token white family on the block (but also immigrants). Not sure if any white people live there now, but there might be a few. By white people, I mean gentrifiers in poorer marginalized neighborhoods. And by gentrification, I mean Starbucks and nannies pushing strollers.
>>you'll still be buying as much as before, you just probably won't have a job.

how will one continue to buy at the same level with no income?
Unfortunately, that won't even get rid of all XSS or Javascript, so it won't work.
SpaceX has a testing framework where they can simulate thousands of flights so they've likely crashed it a fair few times in the simulations.
Now we know why that iPad app is so expensive. http://youtu.be/P_KmFJ2gGzw
Impostor syndrome is simply self-awareness - when you know you don't know and feel that you should, it makes you uncomfortable.

It's not a matter of schooling - you can fill the gaps just as well on your own - school is an easier, albeit more expensive route.
The Uber of data.
CTRL + comma
Do you think advertisers are going to be that interested in paying the people looking at their ads? I just don't see how that will work in the long run.
Containing Multitudesl
If they just put a human in the first truck, then you could just treat the convoy as a train on the road. Probably safer than a real train.
Riot.js – Smaller view library than React with a simpler API
I, too, would like to know the answer to this. If this solution scales, I have a wonderful idea for a service that can store arbitrary data using 8 boolean values per byte.

Imagine all the power that this booleans service has brought to the boolean data type being available for arbitrary data types as well!
In Russian FSB top officials use only typewriters, and physically destroy the ribbons when done. Compare to our security officials, current and former. The political appointees who helm our security state bureaucracies bring to mind one's kindly uncle who still emails from AOL and forwards pop econ items from yahoo news.
Peer to Peer app you can make quick cash with. Thoughts?
Hey all,

I’m launching a peer to peer app this summer. It will connect people that have things to send to others that have space in/on their vehicle,bike, bag etc that are going to the same place as the parcel. What are your thoughts on a service like this?

http://miracouriers.launchrock.com/
It just seems unhealthy keeping in contact with that many people who were resigned to the past. Never mind all the game-theory-esk psychological manipulation that social networks push on us.

If people want to keep in contact with their past friends, then get their phone numbers or become pen pals (email or post). There's no dodgy third party trying to manipulate with those methods, just enthusiasm from the participants.
EU citizens can also get US tourist visas and enter on those if they want. Visa waiver is an option, not compulsory.
I can't begin to imagine the number of variables that framework has to work with. Everything from atmospheric data to the rocket's structural integrity...
For me, success. I started being much more willing to believe the projection of confidence that I had learned to do in order to sell myself as capable and competent once I realized that I was coming in above the level promised by that projection in the first place.

It really is "fake it 'til you make it." But in my experience that does go away, a lot, once you can really say to yourself that you've made it (even just a little).
Both in our Angular and React codebases, we group things by functionality. Ideally, we should be able to take a folder (and its subfolders) and make them a separate npm-package. In the past, we have actually done so successfully, and can share and reuse these modules through our internal npm (Nexus).
You don't actually need to that much, as long as you can keep it dry and reasonably cool -- one idea we had kicking around was to use a cave of the sort that's used for long term seed storage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault)
This wouldn't have happened if they had used React
Good catch! I didn't mean to say the landowners would be forced to earn rent on their idle land. I meant that if they didn't want to pay the tax themselves (equivalent of charging the tax to their tenants), they would have to do something economically productive with the land. This is the theorized win-win with LVT: there is encouragement to develop otherwise-idle land.

I think you're right that introducing LVT could lower the already low values of unused land. Perhaps its introduction would mean a glut of sales of land: fire sale! (Win-win again, according to my armchair-economics analysis. :P)
I'm Polish and I don't think anyone cares about going to US and staying for work anymore. It was incredibly tempting right after the fall of soviet union and LOTS of people overstayed their tourist visas, but nowadays? The standard of living in the US is nearly identical, the pay is not that much better unless you are looking for highly qualified positions(and if that's the case, why the hell would you overstay a tourist visa), if you get caught you get deported, if you fall ill you have to pay for medical treatment. The flights are expensive.

If any young Poles look for work abroad it's much easier to go to Germany, France, Spain or UK. Even unskilled work is paid much better than in Poland, medical treatment is free everywhere, we can work legally everywhere, wherever we work it gives us right to national pension from that country after we retire, getting to any of those countries is easy and hassle free.

Seriously, I don't understand why any Pole would like to get a tourist visa to US and then stay and work, it's just not worth it.

On the other hand, I wish Poland was part of the VWP, because then I could go and actually visit US as a tourist without having to spend a whole day at a consulate trying to get a visa.
This actually shows how awesome the web is because left-pad.io has no https support but BaaS does.

Let's Encrypt, everyone!
love it:)
In order to be compatible with corporate IT services we might require the requests and responses to be in XML format with a corresponding XSD file

<value>True</value> should be acceptable
The funny thing about your statement is that you are drinking your own version of koolaid at Amazon.

FWIW, there is definitely koolaid mentality at Google and Facebook (source: worked at, and have lots of friends at both), but it's not the same way as you think. People are proud of what the company has accomplished as a whole in changing the world, but they aren't as blind to think that the feature that they added to a product is world changing in itself.
Big Booleans is the future, really nice.
Mindmaps never worked for me, like you said they take up a lot of space and I quickly lose the overview. Maybe I should work on it.

I'm also using ? if something is unclear during my lectures.
> As an experiment, we could take a fork of good quality ad-blocker and change the way that it works so that rather than blocking the advert content when it detects an ad on a page it blocks the entire page

That is a fantastic idea. Someone else mentioned Forbes and I just back out of their site when I see the full-page ad.
As far as I know this is a solved problem. I used this guide when starting out with angular. Helped a lot to start and keep everything organized.

https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide/blob/master/a...
iOS 9.3.1 Issues – learn how to fix easy without cost – iOS jailbreak
Seems to be doing ok http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/zappos-predicts-massiv...
Such a broad topic. You should at least hint at some of your interests.

Ideally, do something related to your true interests in software engineering. 6 months is not a long time. You definitely want a deliverable code product, even if just a minimum-viable implementation.

If you are having trouble remembering, go back through your bookmarks/upvoted HN posts (if this a throwaway)/read laters.

Suggestions:
Take what ImTalking said and apply it. Find an industry that could benefit from software improvements/modeling/automation. Find the pain points. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444451

Combine data visualization with something of interest to the HN community that could go "viral" on HN once you publish it.

Write an interesting niche chat bot (this is a really emerging field). Perhaps with machine learning.

Write something that your future employers might use as a hireability signal

Start a blog. Post it on HN. Document your process of researching and writing the thesis. Show us what it is like to be researching something in depth. I think many at HN (even those who openly eschew the idea of going back to school - or even going to college in the first place) would find it interesting.
> "With a lot of hard work, and the legal freedom to move away, anyone can break out of poverty."

And, in many ways, the purest luck of the draw. If his grandfather didn't have a C64, what happens? Or for me, if my dad doesn't happen to go from selling office furniture to playing with computers when I was very young and I don't happen to then have computers lying around that I'm allowed to play with basically unimpeded from the age of three or four...am I in this field? Am I as good at it as I am? Isolating causes is so very, very difficult when it comes to the individual (easier when you are working with statistically meaningful populations, of course); trying to boil it down to "hard work" leaves out a lot of "hard workers" who end up disabled before they're 60 because their jobs grind them to powder.
> There's a potentially very dark future ahead of us where all of our choices are made by entrenched mega-corporations who see us as nothing but a source of revenue.

How about corporations who see us as nothing but a source of data, not even as customers? http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-d... & https://vimeo.com/110222526

"While advertisers have been the dominant buyers in the early history of this new kind of marketplace, there is no substantive reason why such markets should be limited to this group. The already visible trend is that any actor with an interest in monetizing probabilistic information about our behavior and/or influencing future behavior can pay to play in a marketplace where the behavioral fortunes of individuals, groups, bodies, and things are told and sold. This is how in our own lifetimes we observe capitalism shifting under our gaze: once profits from products and services, then profits from speculation, and now profits from surveillance."
Losing her chip is major red-flag. I've raced 3 full IM's, 13 half-IM's, and a bunch of sprints/olympics/etc. and have never lost a chip and know very few people who have. Losing a chip while not losing the strap is also suspicious since it takes effort to thread the chip onto the strap and effort to get the chip off. I'm not saying it can't happen, but a history of losing timing chips is very odd.

The image at the top of the piece shows her chip at her ankle, below her wetsuit. Unless you plan on losing your chip, you ALWAYS wear the chip higher up so your wetsuit covers it, making it harder to come off in the swim when other swimmers grab your ankles.
I'm not sure this is what very many people would want but I'd rather know ahead of time if a link on my screen goes to a site with tracking based ads or malware and I'd like an indication on the link itself so I can choose to not even click it. I image WSJ would change it's behavior very quickly if it knew a lot of internet users never even see the WSJ name because everything that links to them is blacked out on users screens. As soon as they start just putting in old fashioned natively hosted ads, they can be removed from the list and start appearing on people's screens again. Sure, they don't get to target ads to specific users; they don't get to just drop a script in a page and collect cash; they have to do a bunch of extra work to find advertisers; and there will have to be some trust between content providers and advertisers when it comes to presenting the ads. They already have all these concerns with the print version so they should know how to handle them. They lose their free lunch but they never had an inalienable right to it in the first place. Small shops would have a much harder time getting started as well but I think it would greatly reduce garbage.

I don't really expect everyone to be willing to immediately block themselves from even seeing links to Content Provider X but I think it would benefit all users in the long run if a good chunk of people did it.
EC2 c4 8xl boxes, load balanced across multiple regions. Jk it's a micro instance.
I agree with you on the people who buy these things, but I think a more interesting question is how they affect the people who do not buy them.

Facebook is similar. I don't care one whit about Facebook users who complain that the company is using their information and that they have no privacy. That's what you signed up for, duh. More interesting is that Facebook amasses a lot of information even about people who do not use the service.

Right now the Echo is only listening inside of homes, so logically you can figure there's not much risk of third-party harm here. But this gets more tricky if these things start listening in public spaces, or if they're on phones...suppose the pizza delivery guy gets a cell phone that listens all the time, and it hears something interesting while the pizza man is at your door.
Damn fascinating -- this finally solves a mystery I've grappled with since elementary school. My 4th grade year (in the mid-early 2000s) was themed heavily around... whales. We watched the first season of "The Voyage of the Mimi" over the course of the year and learned all other sorts of whale facts. This was in a public school outside of Philadelphia; I had just transferred from a private Quaker school and was thoroughly confused. Somewhat by the whole public school experience, but mostly by the focus on whales. By the time we were watching it the curriculum had lost all focus on math, science, or computers; the original software materials were probably totally out of date at that point, so it makes sense.

Thanks for posting this @curtis; I had no idea that it was funded by the Department of Education.
I'm concerned about the lack of authentication on this API.
What's to prevent an attacker from modifying my booleans? just his ability to guess the guid?
I agree with most of the other answers here. If paying provides personal incentive or you want to "give back" (although I suspect that most of the money goes to Coursera and its VCs rather than the creator of the content), sure, go ahead. However, outside of edge cases such as needing a verified certificate for a continuing education requirement or something along those lines, it's hard to imagine the certificate itself having a lot of value.

(Which is one of the challenges for MOOCs. On the one hand, most adults aren't going to pay a lot of money just for a learning experience. On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be a lot of value in the MOOC certification process. I suppose that a specialization from a good school might be worth something in the absence of other relevant background that you could point to, but I have to believe it's marginal.)
> Visa-free entry is usually done on a reciprocal basis

There are plenty of countries to which EU citizens have visa free access, but whose citizens aren't allowed into the EU visa free. Somehow in all its talk of reciprocity the EU never mentions those. Would be interesting if those countries start demanding reciprocity from the EU too, or start charging EU citizens for visas.
We will compel sellers to accept GD at par with USD through a legal contract. There's legal force, so Gresham's law can apply.

We're not going to be buying back GD at par.

Given that GD will be less valuable to sellers than USD (inherently and by design) it seems to follow that the value of GD to sellers will crash the moment you stop injecting USD into the system.

The plan is to continually inject USD into our reserves at a rate faster than the rate of GD attrition. The rate of GD attrition will decrease as the currency gains more and more traction.

By the time we removed the USD peg, Gresham Dollar would be a strong currency that can stand on its own.

If we don't end up making it that far, we enter into Disruption and Gresham Dollar might depreciate. We have a plan for how that would work (see other comments).

Is there a way you can get a massive amount of sellers to accept a massive amount of a rapidly depreciating currency without discounting it once you can no longer keep up with the required cash injections?

No. And we don't plan to.
We'll definitely look into that.
To show responsiveness, it would be better to place the "don't care about responsive?" in a separate page...
For the interested, the US intelligence services call these "SCIFs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...
It is an interesting question, but measurement of creativity is a difficult problem in itself.

In proof discovery, as we become more familiar with techniques and tools we begin to rely on them as first principles. As we become older, these approaches become more intuitive through practice. But it is also limiting in a sense that it would be difficult transition to a new field. 20 years of experience in exploration of graphs through probabilistic methods would need to be discarded if an expert was going to begin looking at more algebraic structures. This could be perceived as less creative instead of simply less dynamic.
Yes, exactly. Rather, you should ask someone if they close the curtains before they have sex with their spouse. Or, more's to the point, ask them whether they should be required, when having any house built, to include a government issue sex spycam installed in their ceiling. Because if bedrooms are safe and the government can't spy on them at will, terrorists will plot in bedrooms.
A classic from 2005 http://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
When I was in school, I almost never actually consulted my notes, and they were often practically illegible, but I still found that the process of taking notes helped me retain more information. It also had the side benefit of making it harder to doze off.
What user crabl said. Edited for clarity.
I read your comment when you first posted it, and nodded in agreement. But 8 hours later I gotta say: the sibling threads to this have actually been surprisingly civil.
Isn't it redundant to prefix have a file in the foo directory called foo.controller.js ?

I sense a weakness in someone's editor/IDE. Personally I'd call it controller.js and expect my tools to not make that problemmatic
There are four copies of each part of the message so you can lose entire chunks and still be able to recover everything. As for subtitutions, unless you get the same error in 2 copies out of 4, there should be no problem.

The 739kb isn't a limit in any sense, the main limitation is that DNA synthesis is currently expensive.
What will you do when someone builds Byte as a service on top of your product ?
So start charging Americans $14 to enter the EU, I'm sure they won't care.