skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer from the article: "... kids who found what researchers call an “identity project,” essentially a passion or hobby that helped motivate them, ... onto college or decent jobs. ... [however] Many of the kids who [had passion projects, still] veered off track. [They] wanted to get out of their parents’ house so badly that they took whatever job they could, before they had the chance to get the education or training to excel further."

So the policy implications seem clear. Enable more poor kids to find passion projects. Once they have one, get them in to a living situation that, though meager, gives them the space to pursue their passion. Honestly, sounds like an apprenticeship or graduate school model, but for much younger people.
Or I can use Mathematica to get my derivative, plug it into my numerical optimization routine and not have to think about it again. That's a much better feeling to me.
Ubuntu doesn't have a convenient apt command for latest node. And there is renaming of the binary from node -> nodejs which breaks things.

There's some not-built-in apt repos to fix it
> A healthy system needs some kind of motivation. In economies, that is profits/money. What's wrong with that? (I know I am being simplistic here but...)

Simple.

I buy a thing, I get something – in that moment the contract is over.

VW doesn’t come to me every 3 days with "You bought a car, to continue using it, take this and drive to Hanover and deliver it there".

When I bought my computer, or its parts, I bought them, I put them together, and that’s it. The manufacturer has never asked me to do work for them, or pay for them again.

I use ARCH Linux and Firefox – projects done by volunteers, and they profit by having a better product for themselves and others.

Google profits from ads, and from selling data. That’s a tradeoff, and a reason for me to try to use as few Google products as possible.

But when government organizations use ReCaptcha, and I have to work without pay for Google, then I have no choice, and it is not something I agree with.
Since subscription prices never made enough revenue to make news profitable advertizing always made up for the difference, but if advertizing is no longer a viable revenue model, what's the alternative? Higher subscriptions?
"AngularJS for the front end allows someone who sucks at front end work to be able to produce some pretty useful interfaces". That's actually a nice way to explain its success, for better and for worst. Spot on, IMO.
Mine was called BYTE : http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/clones_pliki/Byte_black.jpg

Those rubber keys were terrible. Somehow my dad found a old Soviet fax machine with keys in it which were activated by a magnetic ring, over a vacuum sealed contact, so I spend a day taking appart the keyboard, cut the front of my ZX Clone and soldered those rugged contacts. It looked ugly, but it was very reliable.

Also remember having a Pascal compiler, C, a graphical BASIC (Lazer Basic?), wrote my own assembly compiler (it was just a translator from Z80 mnemonic to bytes). It was fun.
However, at Plethora (my company) and others like ReThink robotics, etc. are lowering the barriers to automation so that small entities (people / firms) are able to develop products - which will put competitive pressure on current firms - driving price down and/or features up.

Plethora does this by removing the setup costs of manufacturing so you can do short runs affordably and actually be "agile" in your production.

ReThink does it by making it easy to automate existing SMB production lines - meaning small firms can automate what they have or rapidly reconfigure with lower setup costs.
Or even run it for free on a Raspberry Pi (or under a Pi emulation on a PC, albeit slowly).
I still want one.

https://medium.com/people-gadgets/the-gadget-we-miss-the-vid...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/49562/video-toaster-4000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1OVWfmynPw
Ask HN: Parsing arbitrarily structured data by example
I remember seeing a demo here last year of a system which allowed you to enter arbitrarily structured data (be it JSON, CSV or some custom format), and by selecting a few examples of the data, the demo was then able to parse the entire dataset.

For example, if you provided data in this format which I've just made up:

"Pig";"Dog";"Mouse";"Cat"

By selecting Pig, it was able to determine the formatting, and returns Dog, Mouse and Cat as well.

However, I've been unable to find this demo, or any example of something similar. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> It would seem open-source is not always advisable when it comes to sensitive information.

For behavior models like risk ratings sure. A similar example is threat and fraud detection; if scammers know what you're checking it'd be easier to work around.

In this case though the output is supposed to be a "fair" random number. If knowing how it's generated allows you to be able to predetermine it, i.e. exactly what the offender in this case did, then the code itself is bad and public eyeballs might find it.
What was the effect on eye strain?
I always wondered if he'd consider reading such SciFi a waste of time.

Happy to see that he enjoys those books aswell as I do.
The advertisings must change their business model. They should follow the models used by content providers on Cable. I pay Verizon an enormous amount of money each month for the "pipe" as do others pay high fees for cellular phone providers. The content providers should get a portion of the excessively high amount of money I pay to Verizon to pay for their content.
You're technically correct, though I've found regressive always makes it sound like poor people pay more, when in reality poor people pay less.

Anyway, most high sales tax proposals come with a post capita rebate.
Thanks for your correction! I was genuinely unaware and made a mistake interpreting a map. The majority of the Netherlands (55%) is actually at risk of flooding.

Fun fact I found while checking the source of my mistake; the IPCC report of 2007 also made this error: http://www.pbl.nl/en/dossiers/Climatechange/content/correcti...
> I couldn't imagine Google ever making this mistake, their web security teams are solid.

You haven’t seen their XML bugs in Google Toolbar’s web gallery in 2013, have you? Full access to the whole file system of their servers via XML includes.

A bunch of security researchers managed to dump /etc/passwd as a sample to get the bug bounty.

Google’s security isn’t that much better either...
Wouldn't this lead to better models that are harder to trick?
How Facebook turned itself into one of the world’s most influential tech giants
I use it to keep in touch with friends around the world, for free. I don't spend more than a few minutes on it a week. I do use the messenger app as the main way i keep in touch with people around the world though. I guess that makes me one those dopey sheep.
I would've liked to have taken notes, but there was no possible way I would be able to take notes and listen (no actually listen) to the lecture at the same time. I can only really focus on one thing at a time. Sometimes less. Usually lecture material could be reviewed from some other source after the fact anyways.
Me neither but it seems like it's Instagram's attempt to stop the spammers.

Unfortunately, I have not seen a significant decrease in Instagram spam since the changes. So the changes just hurt legitimate developers.
you are describing a very limited view of what it means to do mathematics. and no, all of mathematics is not open source. much of it is locked behind institutional barriers.

also, i don't understand this fervent attitude that something must be free and open source to be useful. a lot of open source software is complete trash. there is a reason why people pay to use tools like matlab, labview, and mathematica. it is because their value exceeds their cost.
I have the opposite experience: The Go version of gRPC works like a charm, following the official instructions.
Is there a (comparative) overview of all the tasks smart agents can do?
well, not for you
SpaceX had a rocket called grasshopper that went up and back down Blue Origin style (it didn't goto space though). Grasshopper was much closer in complexity to what Blue Origin did vs what SpaceX just did.
There is a company which makes ball-tumbler machines for state lotteries.

One security feature it has it that each ball has it's unique RFID tag embedded inside, and the machine checks the tag on ball entry, and only allows a ball in if certain conditions are met. And I think that it can use that RFID tag to also read the output (so no CV is needed).

Some use a ball set only once, they throw it away after a run and use a new one on each draw, and this RFID mechanism can also enforce that (disallow previously used ids).

Even if someone messes with the RFID tags, the (transparent) machine and the output is still visually checked by a commission on each run.

Of course, when this information became public knowledge, immediately some conspiracy theory emerged that the RFID tag can be used to allow only "favored" balls to exit the machine as winners (which is not possible, only entry can be disallowed, not exit).
What Benjamin Franklin said, and what you (and many people) believe he meant, are complete opposites[0]. The "essential liberty" he was referring to was the right of the government to form a collective defense against Native Americans, and the purchase of "temporary safety" refers to state assemblies and private landowners refusing to fund that defense.

What was intended to be a pro-statist argument has been turned into an anti-statist warning, which it was never intended to be. I'm not saying the "revised" interpretation isn't valuable - it just shouldn't be argued from the authority of Benjamin Franklin (or, by extent, the intent of the founding fathers) when he was complaining that people weren't sufficiently funding the military industrial complex of the time.

[0]https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
My understanding is (I'm not from the US) that the IRS doesn't really care where money comes from as long as you pay what you owe which is why the tax return forms have boxes for illegal earnings.

They aren't (again iirc) classed as law enforcement so they largely don't care.

Also and this speculation who better than the IRS to know how much of the US economy depends on undocumented workers doing the jobs that native workers don't want to do.
We had rockets. Now we have recoverable rockets. So now we can start developing reusable rockets.
In the world of multi billion dollar ad industry literally controlling the contents in www, it is truly brave effort, or blackmailing based monetization. Remember Ad block plus whiltelisting ads after getting paid?
There's one pretty clear difference: the bubblegum seller isn't offering the bubblegum at no cost, so they're saying "I made something, I think you're willing to pay for it, so I deserve to get paid." The publisher of ad-supported content is saying "I made something, I don't think you're willing to pay for it, but I deserve to get paid anyway." So it's the publisher who thinks that "something that many people choose to read has no value"; they just haven't yet realised the logical consequence of this evaluation of their product is that they won't get paid for it, either.
I think this may be one of those situations where the outcome is odious to some even though no individual action was itself odious.

The author of the blog post has said she* wrote the title to mimic the sort of bro-ish thing she was hearing others say about Perl 6. Presumably you can at least see, if you've read the post, how she disagrees with the view expressed in the title?

Second, she did not post it here at HN, bane did. I don't think it's clear she* (bane) was at fault for keeping the original title. Following several recommendations that don't apply afaict, HN's explicit guideline about titles is "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait".

* I've used "she" as a generic pronoun because I have no idea what the preferred gender identity is of the two folk involved and to add a little spice for thought.
My take on the same topic: https://github.com/codequest-eu/phoenix-alpine

I found out that the `update-ca-certificates` step is required if you have GitHub dependencies.
BO also gets to wait for perfect weather (for now, eventually they won't) while SpaceX has paying customers to satisfy. Worse, SpaceX's customers don't care in the slightest about the landing, they just want their payload shot into space. That means that if weather is good at the launch site, but bad at the landing site, the customer will get annoyed with you if you cancel on them.

In this particular case, they were dealing with winds of something like 25MPH. Dealing with that in a vehicle this clumsy to control has to be tough.

SpaceX also aims next to the ship first, then corrects at the last moment to land on the ship. This is so they don't make a big hole in the ship if the engine fails to restart. I believe BO does this too, but BO's rocket can hover and take its time with this maneuver. The Falcon 9 first stage has too much thrust to hover, even with only one engine running at minimum throttle, so it has to do everything at once.
I prefer the UI of Messenger over Email, all my friends use Messenger, some of them couldn't tell me their Email address. The timeline stuff is almost entirely terrible (I'd probably say 1% of it are things I care about, and there's probably nothing I wouldn't find out some other way), but you don't have to look at it - messenger.com and the Messenger app don't push any of it on you.
While it's cool that you've managed to do that, at the same time I think "with a lot of hard work" trivializes the amount of insanely hard work that large portions of the working class does do, with almost nothing to show for it. Poverty traps are real and they are very, very difficult to escape from, and in many ways it's destiny-by-dart-board.
They do sell streaming devices, though. They just don't sell the ones made by their competitors. Using their position as #1 online retailer to bolster their position as a streaming service is more than just smart business.

It's life if Microsoft had used its market position with Windows to push IE.
Because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law

In short, big stuff is fragile. You can't tip over something the size of a large office building an expect it to survive.
The problem is that Phoenix requires Node 5 and the current stable (which is what vanilla apt-get will install) is 4. Which is indeed a bit confusing.
Sure (and I knew that SpaceX analogy was a risky one with this crowd!) Two thoughts. These are bigger publishers complaining. So there is a brand there and reputation meaning it's not I total crap shoot when you arrive there. And there are obnoxious ads on many sites - I think the industry carries a lot of blame for that for sure.
You should include your own time in calculating the cost of a VPS host.

Before I discovered Linode and Digital Ocean, I tried to use the free VPS that was developed and maintained by the computer club at my school. It took me hours upon ours to get to an SSH terminal and would have been way cheaper for me to just work a minimum wage job and pay for one maintained by people who had the time to think about user experience rather than exams.
Yes, but I hardly consider most online news articles from these 17 sites to be "journalism" either.
I should have said:
"And yet Mathematica is <sometimes> not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician."

I wasn't meaning to imply that Mathematica has no value or has little value. It's indeed awesome both productivity wise and for just enjoying the exercise of doing math.

I was trying, and doing a poor job, to give reasons why pencil and paper has value. Not to the exclusion of Mathematica or more so than Mathematica. Just, that it still has tons of value. And that, maybe that is what these open source projects are trying to recreate that Mathematica has not yet captured.
I definitely remember the Guru Meditation Errors on our local public TV station...
that doesn't make too much sense because many, many universities already hold site licenses for mathematica where it is either free or very cheap.
Its not culture, its the human nature. Rape will exist, Theft will exist in any culture. They have existed in pre-monetary world.

In a world of Fiat currency, Cashless Society is the Orwellian end game.
Question: Does this also apply to Google employees at Google Hamburg, and, if yes, how far? Because, as far as I know, German law directly prohibits such contracts.
The lost art of visited links
Yes, I totally agree that Mathematica (other projects) can be the way to go when getting work done. No argument there.
My Laptop is issued to me by my employer, and I have no control over the security of it..

I have no personal information on it

and you bet I have tape over the camera. Not just because of security, but many communications apps simply turn it on by default when you start a session... Lync, WebEx, Hangouts etc...
Instead you get disappeared into the government's rape dungeon.
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It's also available on Android.

I used Maxima during my engineering course and found it rather useful for checking my differentiation and integration algebra.
That is what people are fighting for, that is what freedom is all about. Perfect enforcement is not desirable.

If you think about it, neither is perfect security --- since that's how perfect enforcement can be carried out. Imagine using a locked-down, unjailbreakable ("provably secure"), DRM'd device under the control of the corporations which the government obliges to design such that it behaves in a particular manner, and you can't do anything about it. That's why the whole encryption debate worries me, and not exactly in the "governments can spy on you" sort of way. "Unbreakable" perfect crypto is good only if you're the only one in control of it, and even then it's not completely awesome --- imagine accidentally locking yourself out of your car/house/etc. and having to get a locksmith to essentially hack their way in for you. That's not possible with perfect crypto. More ironically, if government systems were more secure, Snowden could not have happened...

Maybe a little insecurity, a little imperfection, is a good thing after all, because it enables freedom.
Of course that is ok! I believe you have the right to choose how things are displayed for you.

I however think it is morally dubious for a browser to remove ads from a site to just replace it with its own.
Meetup and conference video equipment
It spends who runs out of money first, you or our adversaries.
I just want someone to implement how Intuition did screens into any other platform, ideally OSX or Linux. It often gets mentioned, yet no one ever has. It can't be that difficult. I can live without the copper trickery.
Yes, everywhere
I've had the opportunity to play around w/ Rethink's product. If this is the state of the art, I'm not even a little bit afraid of automation.
But the result wasn't sustainable. Saturn V and Apollo were amazing technical achievements, but they were too expensive for the long term. That's also the result of focused progress.

What we saw here is part of a shift that could make a future Moon mission cost $10 million instead of $1 billion, which will help put an end to the sad title of "last person on the Moon."
Education is one, but great role models is another. My dad also grew up in a former communist country(Poland) - his parents house didn't even have hot running water when he was growing up, his parents marriage was not approved by either side of the family and they had to live very modestly. He had horrible grades, and got thrown out of school at the age of 17 for telling a teacher to go to hell after he demanded he should stay and scrub every desk clean after someone else vandalized them. Then he had to go and work in a coal mine to escape 3-year long military draft.

And yet. His uncle had some contacts in West Germany - he gave my dad keys to an ancient Mercedes truck and employed him to bring various things from Germany to Poland - TVs, car batteries, stereo sets, anything really, Poland was absolutely starved of anything from the West so if you brought anything home you could sell it instantly.
It didn't take long for my dad to buy his own truck, then another, then 10. When he passed away he left behind a company employing 110 people, still trading internationally, without having as much as middle school education. But his entire life he spoke of that uncle very highly, it was very clear to me that he was the role model for him, and inspired him in every decision. I think having someone like that in your life is incredibly important as well.
I've noticed this in my own classes. I switched to using a tablet with a pen years ago for this reason. Paper and pen are nice too, but I do like the ability to look up things if questions arise. It's also great for classes that are based on discussion of current research articles, as it eliminates the need for printing and carrying a big stack of papers to class.
Wouldn't this just cause the top 1% (who own the majority of the land in most countries) to charge higher ground rents to cover their land taxes, and make it increasingly difficult for anybody else to own land and buy out their freeholds, entrenching the wealthy elite even further?
For many Coursera courses, absolutely not. The cert just says that you're good at knowing where to look for the answers when you take the quizzes/tests. I'm sure there are some courses where this is less true, but most I've taken are simple "what do the provided notes or videos say the answer should be?"
So... cheaper satellites? Thrilling.
A couple of thoughts:

My concern is that a monetization strategy where the paid tier is for commodity services like "more storage" directs the project toward building a monolithic silo. From where I sit on the internet, this looks counter to the trends of business software in general and the direction of journalism in particular.

One successful strategy for free software companies might be applicable here. A basic product that does everything at small scale and then building paid enterprise features on top of it. For example dashboards that only make sense at scale.

I'm not pushing this as free software, but by analogy I see an opportunity to have a free tool that works for an individual reporter and paid tools that work and only make sense for a news room.

On the other hand, I think there might be merit in considering a free or open source model for the software because another trend I see in journalism is software eating the delivery. Big news institutions are tech companies [Yesterday I noticed The Guardian recruiting developers via browser debug screen] and independent journalists are often managing blog software.

The other trend I see in journalism is the rise of data analysis. Again this is tech and software and the winner is likely to be integration of open source tools rather than monolithic silos.

Anyway, very interesting. Good luck.