skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writedown is meant to be an immutable Twitter only for meaningful text. Utopian? Maybe. Users? Hopefully people that want to give weight to what they say (think politicians, futurologists, financial predictors etc).
It is not yet fully immutable even though the database will remain and there is no delete option but I am hoping to attract free speech organizations to run a distributed db or a sidechain to ensure immutability (if you are one of them get in contact).

The project is meant to become a non-profit. Anyone interested in participating get in contact (especially if you can help with legal stuff).

P.S for the curious hackers. It's an SPA made with Ractive.js and node.js in the backend full es.next with babel (lots of async/await). OrientDB for a social network seemed like a good match too.
Do you have links to these?
subject to self-joins and other query approaches

Which means that the original argument about reserveration_id vs id doesn't matter since it's likely that both table and column aliases would be needed anyways.
Interesting question. I don't know where to begin looking, though.
"For example, Indonesia can not be allowed to engage in uncontrolled burning the way it is now."

The peat in Indonesia has accumulated there naturally, so essentially its a carbon-neutral sink. Its a sovereign country as well, and they can do whatever the hell they want.

"We have to genetically engineer hyper efficient algae, have it soak up atmospheric carbon, burn it for energy and sequester the carbon emissions on a massive scale."

This is the only good suggestion that doesnt smell of statism.
There's a lot of cool bots I can come up with but I none that I think you'd be able to monetize. For example, if I'm in a group chatting away, it'd be cool to have a bot collect certain posts that I can reference later instead of having to scroll/search. Or, I can ask the bot to live blog a certain event (or if there's video show a certain event) and we can live discuss.
This means a user would have to installed the app. Once your local machine is owned it's over.
Apply HN: Statistics as a Service
Basic Concept:
Provide simple-to-use, basic, automated statistics to a user based on an uploaded file (e.g. a CSV) to help them spot trends, data anomalies, etc. Deliverables would be either a PDF report or JSON according to user selection (possibly with actual cleansed data used to generate the results).

This is in the idea stage.

Business Model:
Freemium

Pricing tiers:
1. Free
2. Pro (additional, more advanced statistical smörgåsbord* to choose from, suggested stats to run, etc.)
3. API (programmatic access to FREE and PRO tier stats)
4. Custom (could be custom stats implementations w/ API access, more of a consulting project, or even, a statistician on call, etc.)

* Though, initially the options would start relatively small, and be added to as time progresses and it makes sense to do so.

Use Cases:
1. Knowledge worker at a SMB or local government entity with little access to data analytics or statisticians, but still need to make use of statistics.
2. Dev shops needing stats, but don't have the time, in-house resources, etc. to bother with it.

It is not an attempt ...
* at big data analytics
* at building an AI/ML service
* to be a replacement to R, Python, Julia, et al.
Entrepreneurship 101: How to Easily Get Your New Business Off the Ground
Excellent idea. You sold me by the second or third sentence.

Ignore anything you read from anyone else here: put it up and start making sales. Today.

Go go go go go.
This argument has appeared throughout this discussion, yet I know of approximately zero cases (validation/comfort through disassembly) of this happen.

I am curious where you looked for these cases that you saw none.

I assure you that this happens quite regularly. And what is wrong with IDA Pro? Why would it need to advance?

This notion that security products are vetted by analyzing the binary code is absurd yet it happens on a regular basis.
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Yeah, I saw that on the NYTimes. Glad they did it before it fell into the ocean :-)
Ayah dari bek Wolfsburg
Using LMDB from Common Lisp
I suspect his thinking is that the barrier of entry for reporting is much smaller if all it takes is an email.

Also, i think he got burned on bugtrackers while dealing with Gnome bugs. That lead him to formulate CADT and abandon Linux for OSX.
> You can get fat by eating too much protein.

This appears unlikely/citation needed. You may die from it, but not by getting fat.

For example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation

" If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied. Some think a man will die sooner if he eats continually of fat-free meat than if he eats nothing, but this is a belief on which sufficient evidence for a decision has not been gathered in the North. Deaths from rabbit-starvation, or from the eating of other skinny meat, are rare; for everyone understands the principle, and any possible preventive steps are naturally taken."
Really great concept - I feel the UI needs some work, there were a lot of times where it showed an "x" and didnt give me a score - I assume this means its having trouble hearing me. Some sort of distance or volume indicator would be great.

As a Canadian I'm a bit surprised though as all the words it was able to detect I got 100% scores - I know a lot of the Quebecois french pronunciations we learn in Canada are very different than French from France so it'd be interesting to hear how that is taken into account.

I really hope they keep going on this project as mastering accents is one of the largest gaps right now in online language learning and market leaders either lack the feature all together (like Duolingo) or do a rubbish job of it and charge a fortune (like Rosetta Stone).
Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

Is use of Go meant just for simple software?
> Did the candidate spend several days working on a small change?

Open source is usually a free time pursuit, so quite possibly they did spend several days on a small change because they had better things to do. Or the small change was the result of several days of tracking down a difficult bug.

My point was however that whether or not IQ tests are effective, making experienced developers sit through them (or indeed junior developers who may have verifiable academic or other accomplishments) could be seen as insulting or degrading. If your goal is not to unnecessarily piss off good candidates who may then bad-mouth you to their friends or bring up the issue on Glassdoor, then IQ tests - even discarding the legal implications - are perhaps not such a great idea.
So, DevOps as you (mis)understood it is dead. Long live DevOps as it was meant to be understood.
I believe we are still in majority. Nothing has proven otherwise
This article is retarded on almost every level. I generally detest the Guardian but at least respect them for intellectual consistency. This is just plain atrocious thinking.

1. The fact that rich people from Russia and China hide their wealth in Panama means nothing about the US. There are actually no Americans on that list (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/panama-papers/why-are-ameri...).

2. The whole point of UBI is that it can come from savings on OTHER programs - such as welfare, food stamps, unemployment insurance, etc. Therefore we don't just take the number of citizens of a country as the new cost - but we also have to subtract savings from eliminating the other programs (and their administration).
> The arguments against revamping basically boil down to "but that would obsolete this old textbook!"

The biggest argument against revamping is breaking tons of existing code. Haskell has been trying to gain traction in industry and randomly breaking existing code is a good way to have people lose faith. Now they have locked themselves into roughly "no breaking changes for three years after initial release".

Luckily there has recently been some more progress caused by realizing that online repositories are a great way to validate how much of a breaking change would happen with hypothetical changes, for instance removing the pure/return duality.
some software is speculative investment.

edit: fwiw, construction projects often touch on "exploration into the unknown".

Also, you are arguing against "accurate estimation". I'm arguing against the premise of the article. "No kind of estimation is possible"

Edit. Nobody is asking for made up numbers. They are typically asking that engineers participate in a reasonable discussion to try and get some criteria to make a decision. "I couldn't even say 1 week vs 10 years" is just as silly as "I want an exact number".
Mark Zuckerberg prepares to fight for dominance of the next era of computing
Question regarding the goal - helping 10,000 people accomplish $1M in revenue in their first 12 months.

10,000 * $1M = $10B (per year). That is a very big number. It implies that the market you are addressing is at the very least $10B. Could you explain why the market is that big?
I really don't like how others profit from the work of the youtube-dl developers. The developers should build their own client-facing websites and apps.
Whose up-voting this? That's the real question.
> now that's powerful and useful

Maybe, but how could a company apart from FB monetise that?

This seems like a very risky opening for all but a few strong brands ("Get me an Uber to blah blah blah", etc) since they'll have no control over the platform and I imagine be quite difficult to remind users they exist. At least apps have icons to remind users they installed them.
Honestly, I don't know. I don't have one. But, for the price, I can see a lot of cool circumstances where a ChromeBook (or maybe Chromebox) could be very useful.
I block javascript. I whitelist very few sites. Ads - like sites themselves - need to work without javascript. Then we can all get along. Running random, unsigned, untested, unwanted code from strangers on my own computer doesn't really work for me, thanks. No, I don't care if your business model depends on it. I'm more than happy for every single site which depends on advertising to go bust. There'll always be another news site, and those failing sites will have no impact on the social media, shopping, banking etc sites which comprise most of most people's surfing. Really, ad-blocking just isn't that big a deal; the fact that it's got people talking and having big players like Apple get involved really speaks volumes about the sheer, gross violation of trust that's gone on all this time, as well as how security is being taken much more seriously than ever before.
I'd look into/think about: what happens when the kit does not detect something that then causes harm to someone.

Is that likely? Could it happen? What might happen legally?

I'd likely consider buying something like that, though, if it were cheap.

Something that would be positive: testing for 'unknown unknowns' - people are becoming more conscious of things like radon, but if this test were likely to pick up a wide range of random stuff, it'd be more useful.
How does the company behind Jeeves make money?
Yes, I agree that Raven's matrices are pretty good at measuring something in a way that's not super-reliant on language. I'm not inherently opposed to the notion of generalized intelligence as a construct either, I just think measuring it is pretty tricky. The Flynn effect is another great example - these instruments are nuanced, and it's important to really understand them in order to interpret their results.
Didn't you just agree with him but substitute 'hard to solve' with 'computationally intractable'?

Yes based on our understanding today these things are computationally expensive (e.g not feasible), but they could theoretically be easy to crack given a mathematical breakthrough.

Am I misunderstanding?

As the field of mathematics advances there's a chance that current crypto will be broken. Why is this a misconception to point out?

Why is it not, on some level, conjecture to say these systems are secure?
Well it's similar to US and UK English. c.f. how confused people in the US can be when they hear UK English for the first time if they were not exposed to it when growing up.

On the other hand, while Quebec French has its regional expressions (as do most US, UK and French regions), it's fascinating how the language and accent has changed in 30-40 years only.

This archive video from 1963 church-era is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HjSfZWI-ZA -- Radio-Canada interviewing a bunch of people at the municipal pool asking them about short shorts. Lots of different accents.
This seems to test water rather than dust.
Maybe snip it at the first line break, and/or limit it to a certain amount of words to show above the fold, then expand it to read the rest.
I studied computer science in Wales in the 90s. Although the lectures were all in English, we had the option of taking our exams in Welsh. (University Policy was that everything must be bilingual, even hand-written student posters on bulleting boards. There was a free full-time translation service in the student union.)

This was especially odd because a lot of the Welsh terms for computing subjects were invented and/or standardised after we took the classes, and different colleges were using different terms for the same concepts.

Needless to say, nobody did the exams in Welsh.

(The only Welsh most of us learned was just enough to fake our way into Clwb Ifor Bach, the welsh-speakers' bar/nightclub!)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...

spread is an average of clinton +10% vs sanders at +16%
GitHub project of the week: Gitter
I've started to become more and more disgruntled with search engines in general. Yeah, if I want to find something obvious, I'll find it.

But what about mildly obscure software like this? This is something I would completely use, but have no way to find it. There's so many tools out there which are totally awesome, but wilting away because you can't find it in the search engines.

As much as I love technology, it still seems the best stuff is usually found through the old tried and true methodologies. Word of mouth, conferences, or from friends or other developers.
I used it at the last place I worked. It was a great fit for what we were doing (a semi-embedded device).
No, we're not talking about "the free press" going under. We're talking about news (and "news" and entertainment and…) sites that take money from malware pushers. Think about that.

If your news source is willing to take money from folks attacking your machine, what does that say about their trustworthiness? Sure, go on about the wall between church and state, or that it is the ad network and not blog, but there is a reason some of the larger corporations occasionally go on media buying sprees. I'm not sure that it is strictly impossible to be financially dependent on others and maintain a completely independent voice, but I can't think of an example.

It is a suboptimal situation. I get that publishers are ending up with horrible tradeoffs. At the same time, if faced with a close friend who has ebola, I'm going to be incredibly sympathetic while also keeping quarantine.

I also heard another complaint about my approach, which was that if I avoid sites like Forbes, why do I still need an ad blocker? And of course, the answer is that I rarely bump in to things or stumble, but still like guardrails on steps.
Funny, maybe cute, but not very useful if you're actually trying to learn a new language.

Having "perfect" accent is pointless. When learning a new language you should aim for learning grammar, understanding basic pronunciation, but not "speaking with native accent". That's pointless, unless you're a spy[1] (Look the answer to "Q: Is it possible to acquire a language to a "native" level?").

[1]: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article.php?id=517093
Also, you can already put something on the btc blockchain for free but it needs to be really short
Physicists discover flaws in superconductor theory
No. You learn to use it just like you would a normal linux box - or you use their managed container service which is basically plug and play with docker compose.
GoPro goes all-in on VR without a winning hand
Ordinateur was not invented when computers came to the market. It was coined in its modern sense of computing machine, not by Proud French People Who Liked Their Language but by IBM France, because they felt that "calculateur" (French for -- whaddya know! -- "something that computes", a literal equivalent for "computer") was too restrictive. In the 1950s, when that happened, "ordinateur" had been in use for a very long time. I don't know how common it was (I'm not a native French speaker), but it's certainly not a word they made up on the spot (it's of very obvious Latin origin), and they don't use it because they don't have a more appropriate word for "computer" (which they do -- "calculateur", which they deemed inappropriate because a "calculateur" could do a lot more than "calculer"; just like, indeed, a "computer" could do a lot more than "compute").

Many European languages had a local equivalent for "computer" long before electronic computers were around, and French is certainly not the only one that kept it.
French is also a bit of a minefield in terms of phrasing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69toGGjoO0
Not exactly.

https://github.com/docker/docker

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

https://github.com/google/cayley
I think the comment was meant more to indicate that the CEO doesn't know why they are swinging for the fences.
Oh, nice find ! There's even a windows version.

edit: with an installer ! And the application updates youtube-dl to the last version. Very nice.
A great resource for real-estate development in the US is the Urban Land Institute: http://uli.org . If you like books, its bookstore is worth spending money in.

Another resource is local government, which some may find surprising. Planning departments are tasked with bringing good development to communities [for some locally determined definition of "good"]. Talking with senior staff is often a highly reliable way to determine how much resistance will come during the entitlement phase of a real-estate development project. Just understand that the "no" for a legally possible but "over my dead body" project will not be a firm one.

Looking at the project as a real-estate project in general, there seems to be a kernel that could come to fruition. The unique challenges [as opposed to the ordinary real-estate challenges] center around defining what is and isn't considered a developer and legal challenges in real-estate law regarding exclusionary sales and rentals [over 55 communities are the only exception to Federal Fair Housing statutes that quickly comes to mind and it's not so much an exception as specifically part of the law]. Though I am not a lawyer, I suspect that a community of developers will need to rely more on the sort of marketing golf communities use to attract golfers than screening.

Switching topics: How might this project meet the ruthless requirements for return on investment that venture capital demands in lieu of the return on investment more typical of real-estate development?
I disagree, tumblr as a social site has fluorished under Yahoo. If twitter, facebook, and pinterest have shown anything, you can build the community and pivot into profitability.

If you want to see failures, look at flickr or delicious.
>standard

Uh huh, whatever that is. Even Paris has more than one accent. (St Denis for example)

It's interesting how pronunciation in France shifted after the revolution.[1]

Before that, everyone from the terroir to the king spoke mostly the same way. It was called the "Bel usage."

When the king said: "La loi c'est moi" it probably came out more like: "La loi c'est moé."

There was a more formal, accent reserved for public speeches, and sermons at church called the: "Grand usage."

After the revolution the new ruling class adopted the "Grand usage" in day to day speech and it became Parisian French.

In Québec, we were cut off from France after the British won the war, so our accent remained closer to the "Bel Usage."

In my linguistics classes it was always drilled into us that no accent is 'better' than any other. However ...

I personally prefer my accent, It is more demotic and earthy, it's the language of my grandmother and my ancestors, not of the village priest or the politician making a speech.

I find it funny how Parisians almost twist themselves in knots to over-pronounce every written letter of every word. It's almost as if it references the _written_ word more than the spoken one.

[1]: http://legoutdufrancais.org/dou-vient-laccent-des-quebecois-...
I think it's a great idea. Not just for homes but other sites as well.
Very cool! I've been looking for something like this to improve pronunciation in other languages. The next best thing I have is to change the input language on iOS and try to talk to Siri. One could certainly do the same thing on Android/Google Now, but keep in mind not all voice recognition/synthesis is equal between languages.
Will a single vial of vacuum dust be representative of a whole dwelling?
Will you be able to detect mold spores and other airborne contaminants which cause respiratory problems?
It might be tough to get a good sample vacuum dust into a small vial in homes where the majority of vacuum canister contents consists of pet hair.
It's a waste of time and resources, and as long as one side persists in thinking that they can work around ad-blockers, and the other thinks it is justified in ignoring clear terms of use, then we won't ever get a solution that works better.

As it is right now, we are disincentivizing people from participating in a system that actually has a chance of surviving. Without compensation in some form, higher-tier journalism can't survive, and I for one don't think a world where all news comes from amateur bloggers is a better one.
shouldn't you have "transactions", "transaction_senders", and "transaction_receivers"

were doing the right way(TM), that wouldn't happen

Having a separate transaction_senders and transaction_receivers wouldn't be the right way(TM) unless it's possible to have multiple senders/receivers. If a transaction can only have 1 sender/receiver then normalization is complete when the sender/receiver data is removed from 'transactions' table and replaced with the sender_id and receiver_id columns.

When introducing transaction_senders/transaction_receivers tables without further constraints, it would be immediately possible to have multiple transaction senders and multiple transaction receivers for a single transaction, which is likely an error.
I know of no other language that invented new words when computers came to the market (ordinateur)

Many European languages have native words for computer. In Swedish it's "dator" (from "datum"), in Finnish "tietokone" (literally "knowledge machine").

The English word "computer" is not a new word, but an old job title reassigned to a machine. It makes sense that other languages might choose a different etymology for an information processing engine.
Even as someone who uses it full time, this article was just very well written, like I commented already, it describes what happens now and some changes. But others probably opted for an upvote.

Because of the nature of discussion groups on the internet, often people end up commenting if they want to disagree or nitpick. If there is an upvote feature, they just use that and often don't leave an "yap, agree" comment. I try to leave those when possible with additional things I like to balance the discussion out a bit. Otherwise things often end up negative by default (especially painful to see when someone shares a project they worked on).
If it's an unknown, how do you test for it?
Yeah - I tried for about 30 seconds and gave up. "Exception: maximum parse error exceeded."