skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The C level human I work for types at 10 WPM and their responses looks like Charlies posts from Flowers for Algernon. Not the best use of their time.

They talk at about 2.3 million words per min and a 20 second conversation gets sent back by the exec assistant or one of the reports. Brilliant person, email isn't their forte.

"Is this the most important use of my time" is on their wall. Email isn't it. It works other ways, a voice mail from Hawking isn't the best use of his time.
Thanks for your comment.

I'm not trying to optimize for short term usage, in the beginning it is short term obviously, but I would like to be able to use the notes to repeat the topics and move them to my long term memory. That's my problem my notes aren't that clear to use them as a reference.

And for Anki/Flashcards I didn't find a good way to use them for CS topics, and more importantly for math.
The bigger issue is that lectures themselves have been consistently shown for decades to not be effective for learning, so this is just fiddling around the edges.

I've found the main reason that lecturers don't hand out the notes in advance is that they fear the students only attend for the handout (which is a pretty damning critique of the lecture if true) and the lecturers are in turn evaluated via student attendance.
Hey thanks for that. I am currently studying algorithms on my own for interest and interviews. My only concern is the amount of doors that may open for me with a degree.
>The advantage of free software is that it never dies; someone can always, if they want/need, pick it up and use/extend it.

That's a theoretical advantage. In practice lots of things needs to be true for this to happen, even if there's a large user based depending on an abandoned open source program: the code needs to be easily approachable, there should be people willing to extend it who also have the required programming skills etc.

Tons of projects that had lots of users have died or languished.

Heck, even something as popular as GTK+ -- the project is still available, but development has stalled to a halt, and there was a cry of despair from the maintainer that it was just one (one) person doing 90% of the work. If that can happen to GTK+ which is used by millions and powers Gnome, GIMP etc, consider all the other stuff.

Besides, this same theoretical advantage ("never tries") in theory is also potentially true for a proprietary product. Even if the parent company folds, the code and product could always be bought and revived in the future.
Oh the Video Toaster. Kiki Stockhammer. Newtek was doing amazing things for less money than anything else in its time. we had a Video Toaster in my HS TV Productions class. Between that and OctaMED, I spent a lot of my extra time in that class.
Would be interesting to compare writing by hand to typewriters
Already in California, I see shops catering to middle-income consumers dying and being replaced by shops catering to the very poor or the very wealthy.

The challenge to keeping the consumer side of the economy seems to be creating a class of consumers who 100-200K but still spend most or all of it. That doesn't seems to be as hard as one might imagine in a city like San Francisco.
I am pretty into this! I've never been a homeowner or landlord, and a big reason why not is that I don't want to have to keep a rolodex of people to call when things break. I'd love it if you guys would fully automate this for me, and am willing to pay a lot (because my alternative is the rolodex thing, or a property manager).

Idea one: I'm a renter, I want my landlord to fix something for me. Can you enable me to video it with your app and get the landlord to either signup, or at least fix it with his normal contractor?

Idea two: Say I'm a landlord, my renter complains about something being broken. Instead of hiring a property manager, I want to make my renters download the app, submit a fix request and then I'll approve the proposal thru you guys. I'm not a landlord but I could imagine wanting to become one if I didn't have to deal with handling these requests.

I think this is one of those ideas that's hard to distribute, because you aren't needed often enough for people to even remember your app's name when they have to get something fixed. So you'll need a really compelling distribution strategy; maybe landlords can talk to each other or you can go through landlord associations or something.
What’s the Matter with Dem? (interview with author Thomas Frank)
They key point is to be engaged and your father had the right idea. Someone who writes everything down, or writes nothing down, probably misses out.

My first year I took no notes, and attended lectures intermittently. And got the middling results you'd expect.

The next year I looked in the syllabus and tried to do the assigned reading (to be read after the lecture) before the lecture. Often it was confusing, but some of it I'd understand. But that way the lectures were more useful since I could tell when the prof was explaining something I didn't understand, and I had the context for it.

Of course the ideal lecture would be "well you all have read the material; here's the stuff that's hard and/or non-obvious about it." But since what's hard varies from person to person, it's not really possible for a prof to do this except in a small seminar.

And of course note I said "I tried to do the assigned reading" ahead of time. In retrospect I wish I'd done it 100% of the time, but really humans are humans and the amount I did manage it paid off.
When designing your rocket engine, you very carefully control where the combustion is, where the heat is, which bits will get burned away.

Dunk the whole thing in seawater and suddenly you have corrosion everywhere.
Honest question. Not to ignore any flame wars

I have been following this surveillance and privacy debate. I understand that encryption cannot go both ways. We cannot create back doors that are only available to the good guys. Add to this that the 'good' guys are known to abuse power.

But I also cannot deny that at certain times there are legitimate reasons for law enforcement. What solution, maybe political if not technical, can we adopt to meet the legitimate demands of law enforcement?
Most of them are not really smooth (Chrome 49 on Macbook)
His critiques on American notions of meritocracy and Silicon Valley are what's relevant to HN.
Seawater is corrosive and freshly-run rocket engines are hot, with heat speeding up chemical reactions. Dunking the engine in seawater would basically instantly destroy it. The engines are most of what they want to save, so that's a no-go.

It would also have to slow to a near-stop by itself to not be destroyed by the force of hitting the water. Considering that you can do all that with the stuff already on the rocket, seems easier to add some legs and land it than to figure out a way to make it float, survive the seas for a day or 2, and get a ship with a crane tall enough to pick it up and load it.
>> Horrifically evil...

If Facebook and Oracle are "horrifically evil", I'm at a loss for what you'd call atrocities of war.

I don't mean to pick you out personally, but considering that this is the top comment in the thread, the anti-BigCo sentiment on Hacker News is getting a little ridiculous.
I consider EdDSA to meet the TLS 1.1 or higher requirement in PCI-DSS besides the lack of industry adoption do you see any potential problems with it?
A great example; there are many more (e.g. Gore), many of whom did attain power but failed as a result.

It's a good lesson for founders as well.
Wow, not using a document store? I think we disagree about how predictably structured a boolean is.
I got dizzy by your own confusion on this subject.

You need encryption for the same reason you need locks. Locks are not the only trick to provide you security but they are pretty much a very necessary tool. Without solid encryption you can't have a lot of the good things on the internet: online banking, online shopping, filling taxes online,...

> it is still pretty easy to create a virus or something that access the data at the moment it is used

It is not so much anymore. Viruses are getting quite harder to make, even for Microsoft Windows. And, even if you were right, you still need encryption for people that are smart enough to avoid viruses.
They aren't slow on my macbook/chrome (which is a bit older than that). Are you speaking of the actual timing of the animation, or the framerate? If it is the timing, that can be adjusted. For instance, in the css you'll find things like:

transition: -webkit-transform 500ms;

transition: transform 500ms;

Just change that 500ms to 200ms and it will take less time. The effects will be more subtle (so maybe not as good for "showing off" as in the demo), but probably a better experience.
Alphabet X new bipedal robot can climb stairs and overcome obstacles
I still don't see the value as a user.

> 1. Your swipes are good anywhere. San Francisco or Indiana, you pay the same amount every month.

The vast majority of my time is spent in one city; this is true for most people. Also my preferred barber is in my city, so if I were going to travel I would get the haircut before I left.

> 2. Booking convenience. You'll always know when you're up next.

My experience here is limited, since booking a haircut just consists of calling up my preferred place and seeing if they have an opening that day. I understand some people book haircuts weeks in advance, but I can't see those people using your service. If they're booking so far out, they probably have one person they will see regardless of wait and cost.

> 3. Search. You'll always know where a shop is located whether at home or on travel

Do you actually believe this? Yelp and Google maps gives me all of the information I would ever need. What will you provide that Yelp or Google don't?

> 4. Digital payments. No cash

This worked for AirBNB due to the awkwardness of paying someone that wasn't explicitly running a business. And for Uber because using a CC in a taxi sucks since I'm just trying to get out of the car. But this is really not a problem in a regular store where the totally normal, accepted, and painless way to pay is with cash or card.

> If you're unsure of membership, there's also Pay-As-You-Go.

This is exactly how haircuts work now. Where is your value?

> Cancellations: Members are locked in as explained above. For Pay-As-You-Go, we will look into cancellation fees if the client booked an appointment and did not show up.

This is just strictly worse than my current options.

Who is your market? Is it the great-clips crowd? Or is it high-end haircuts? Why would either demographic use this?
The universal Base class you've always wanted inspired by ActiveRecord::Base
Of course not...
It appears the project is all but dead: https://github.com/h5bp/Effeckt.css/graphs/code-frequency
Detroit is a city historically run by Democrats and is a very affordable. Chicago is relatively affordable and historically is run by Democrats.

There will continue to be going to be growing levels of income inequality as automation continues to increase. Either we focus on solving that (Minimal Viable Income sounds like a plan) or we face a true million man March on DC.

Something has to change.
> It never used to be that way, but government overreach and control is, well, out of control.

It always was that way. Look up William Randolph Hearst. He is sometime portrayed as a crusader. But the reality is messier, Hearst would look for dirt on people who were not doing what he wanted. Teapot Dome Scandal is just such an example.
Exactly. I have a MS degree and am gratefully enjoying an ongoing, successful 25+ year career -- and have wrestled with Imposter Syndrome most every day of it.
This project hasn't been updated for almost a year, is not fast, and the issues suggest that it's dead. Why post it?
Pumba – Chaos Testing for Docker
Too confident in his own smarts and the idiocy of others...

It could be dumbness, but it's also a common trait in high IQ people -- I've read stories and know personally lot of them who end up badly, similarly or otherwise...
Hands, heads and robots work in sync at Amazon warehouses
Could it be that you provided your own education? If so, I would say most are not organized or visionary enough to do the same thing.
> That's also an incredibly tiny slice of the company, and that's also something that will get diluted to shit

If you are truly investing in a company, dilution is irrelevant. The only two things that matter are share price and your ability to liquidate those shares. If I buy at 1-cent and sell at $1, I could care less about how much my original 0.05% has been diluted.
But it's open source, and you can review what you'd like. You're unable to do that with Mathematica.
Agreed. Seems a bit much to call this 'self driving'. Its like calling power steering, self-driving steering.
Thank you. Thus my using "51%" as a hypothetical proportion.
I think it would be good to encourage passion projects and also encourage them to look at the long term and stay in school although finding a full time job could provide immediate money.
I had missed the contract requirement for merchants to accept GD at 1-1 for USD. Thanks.

However, since you can't force a merchant to accept GD in payment for goods or services, it seems that as soon as the expected value of GD goes below a certain threshold, merchants would stop accepting it, and the currency would become valueless.

What am I missing here?
I think they have some financial aid for some people. That might be worth looking into.
It still needs a human lead.
I used also just one notebook and wrote everything down randomly with a lot of arrows and numbers/symbols referencing each other, but it was impossible to use the notes for learning. So I switched to multiple notebooks, it helped somewhat.

Our way of notetaking is just write-only.

But I'm trying to improve it.
Mozilla releases v2.0 of their 'Web Literacy Map'
That's unfair to the candidates: what if all seven accept? In this case HR is doing the right thing.
>there are no frameworks to just download and leverage

They seem to use Grafana at least :) http://grafana.org/blog/2016/01/19/Grafana-Its-Rocket-Scienc...
Cool question, I was thinking of much the same last night.

But, politically, nothing can be done because encryption and decryption is purely technical -- there is no middle ground that I see.

From a technical perspective.., the solution is also just to give the keys away. Theoretically we could give all the private keys to "just one government agency" so that no middleman (e.g. a CDN, etc) can decrypt the data, but this still 100% trusts the government with all the data.
The Hidden Power in Trusting Your Gut Instincts
Short answer is Vaultedge will create search index based on the content of the bill and also has additional knowledge that it is a cell phone bill from its classification algorithm. Put together this will allow user to search for "last month's cell phone bill".

Long answer:
Let's say your bill is in pdf or html format. For Vaultedge initially it is nothing but a document, it has no idea that it is a bill. Vaultedge will extract the contents of this document and test it against our training data set using Machine Learning(ML). In this process, the document will be identified as a "Bill". Then it will apply it on a different training set which will identify it as a "cell phone" or "cable bill". Then we do further analysis and extract info like this bill is "for the month of march 2016". Now all of these info is used to construct the search index. So you can search now for "march bill" or "last months bill" to get to that bill. Please don't hesitate to clarify if anything is not clear.
Hidden in this article is the assumption that the 25 year old working at chick-fil-a is beyond saving, so we must try to do better with future generations.

That's really sad for me. That guy is still a kid, from where I sit. And he will likely be doing work that bores him to tears for the next 50 years.

We should be talking about fixing that. Figuring out a way to send some smart, creative, in poverty, 30 year olds to four year college for free.
I'm worried about a disconnect with the actual workflows of journalists. In my very limited exposure to journalists, they take notes in a journal and probably make digital voice recordings. Is this still true? If so, how will you convince someone to input notes into your app?

I can see some value in organizing research, but how would you help me do this better than I can with say, evernote, or pinboard?
If the Fed tracks serial numbers of $100s ... but most 100s never see the inside of a bank....

then the tracking is useless for tracking your purchases. Therefore, cash is anonymous.
There's an insane amount of survivor bias in those stories. How many people put made equivalent effort but were broken by some random circumstance, or saved by outright luck or family connections?

It happens in technology too. I'm not sure how many people remember Dragon Dictate, but they were well ahead of the game in voice recognition in the 90s and 00s.

Then they made a bad mistake and got into a marketing partnership with individuals they would have been better off avoiding. This not only killed their business, it also meant they no longer own their own IP, which is currently wasting away in business limbo.

That's the point of the OP. Grit will only get you so far.

It's not about individual hero stories, it's about the probability of success for equivalent effort for entire populations, and how vulnerable they are to the effects of a single bad mistake.

That's where you can see the negative effects of some backgrounds, and the positive effects of others, most clearly.
Ok wait now that's just turning these publishers' (indeed very explicit) message around.

> you cannot continue with adblock turned on

They don't say that. They tell their users "to continue, please whitelist our site or turn off your adblocker", which is a whole lot more irresponsible and something I am totally not okay with.

People might actually believe the message, they ought to turn off their adblocker and view the site!

I help many non-technical people clean their laptops (yes it takes a lot of time, but I'm a nice guy and it can be done during beers). I install them an adblocker. If the only reason was "because the Internet just looks nicer without ads", I probably wouldn't. But especially for not-very-technical people, an adblocker is usually a better (and way less resource-intensive) security defence than an actual virus scanner.

What if sites like Forbes manage to successfully guilt these people into disabling their adblockers? Forbes will get a few dollars yay and my friends may lose a few hundred because they got ransomware not-yay.

I wish they just told people to go away.
If you're taxing consumption you're fundamentally requiring government to ingest more information about its populace than income.
What is keeping the pendulum swinging?

What is the Q-factor of this clock?
"CONSUME!"

this immediately made me think of the clockwork orange scene where they forced the guy to watch the propaganda videos:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clock+work+orange+eyes+preyed+open...

same scene could be used to describe how watching news in general forces us to be afraid. Like a person constantly screaming into our face: "BE AFRAID!"
Interesting concept to help start-ups get essentially free labor but that's also its biggest issue. Shares are good and all but until there is an event in which a share holder can liquidate they're essentially worthless (there are obvious exceptions but only a few). Since a vast majority of start-ups fail this would amount to free labor.

Granted if the problem is interesting enough that could be okay but the percentage is going to need to be drastically higher. Like 50% in my opinion.

> Note: I am already involved with a startup of my own, but I am gladly offering this idea to anyone interested in pursuing it.

I feel like this isn't really in the spirit of Apply HN
Is this targeting the indie filmmaker market? How big is that market in Africa? What other markets could you expand to with the same technology?

Or is this like an African-focused YouTube targeting amateurs? How is adoption of video sharing sites in Africa?
Open-source news site/aggregator (nodejs+koa)
Depends on the deadline. If the offer expires in a week, that's hardly unreasonable. They need to find someone and move forward.

If they expire in 24/48 hours I agree they're bull.
I think the article is kind of low on actual content, and doesn't really explain any solution. Instead, it just says "pay us and we solve it for you", which kind of makes me think this is an attempt at content marketing, without providing any actual content, and misses the point of being subtle by placing an actual ad for their business at the end of the post.
I really appreciate the honest feedback, I'll get it to load faster.

I'll also definitely add some more info on the app's features. For now, if you want to waste some time, hit "discover" in the menu and receive an random tab!
Cheaper satellites is good don't underestimate it - that's not the point though. This is cheaper anything to space, which means components of space missions that are suddenly an order of magnitude cheaper than they were.
A Few Words About the Faux Rembrandt
Programming was my identity project. I suppose it still is. I grew up US rural South poor. My childhood started well, but went down hill to the point that, by high school, my single mom was raising three kids in a 2 bedroom single-wide trailer. I aced standardized tests, but my initial idea of what to do after high school was to keep my dishwasher job. Mom, the guidance counselors and our support system weren't of much help. Luckily, mom taught us about reading and libraries, and, luckily, the local community college offered scholarships to the top 10% of local high school students if they stuck around. CC was a nice change of pace from doing dishes, and connected me to programming, which led to a state school, a BSCS, a career, an MSCS, and, shortly, a PhD. My main excuse for the PhD is to be able to give back as I've been given to. The identity project was important, and not something I'd have been able to afford without help from society. I think I've paid much more in taxes as a developer than I'd have as a dishwasher/cook, so society's 'hand up' wasn't just a 'hand out'. I'm sure not everyone can follow the same path, but I'm sure glad the path was there, and I'm hopeful we'll see fit to leave paths like it out there.
When I lived up there he was a local legend. I always found it amazing that he had completely stepped away from life and lived out in the wild. Just an amazingly tough resourceful guy.

He is now in a nursing home reportedly

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/cairns-bushman...
Startups, here's a simple hack to increase your email open rates
Show HN: Plutus.it White Paper: NFC-Enabled Payment System Powered by Blockchain
SpaceX Landing Success Falcon 9 Rocket Barge at Sea
I see the point you're trying to make, but this is such a lopsided comparison as to be bizarre. A $10mm house in SF could easily be under 5000 sq ft, while a 120 story residential tower with 25,000 units would easily be one of the biggest and tallest buildings in North America, and would cost billions to develop.

A much better comparison would be a 6 bedroom mansion for $10mm, or a small building with ten 1-bedroom units. And if you look at high end real estate, the per square foot price is often multiples above the median, which is why it's more profitable to build those than lots of small units.
Mongo didn't meet our strict security and performance requirements.
If you've reached that stage yet, have you found prospective employers appreciate the (paid-for) certificate?

Over taking the course and saying "I'm interested in X, so I took the course for free, and consequently have no proof to show you".
..in hopes that open-source can better help the news world.