skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this, but I don't understand people who look at Earth and see no interesting challenges of this class.

Climate change? Widespread torture of thousands and thousands of marginalized classes of humans all over the world? Healthcare? Those are vastly more challenging than Mars.

I think the appeal of Mars is that it's somewhat challenging, but it's not messy at all. It appeals to people who can't stomach chaotic systems. They need a clear goal and they need "dumb" opponents, i.e. the laws of physics, materials science, etc. In the face of an intelligent opponent, the challenge becomes too high and they lose interest.

The idea of putting together a solution to a problem with known constraints, and then finding out those constraints changed, or worse yet there was active interference from another human is soul crushing to these people, so they retreat to difficult engineering problems where they will be challenged but not surprised.
So what you are suggesting this trend will be perfect as long as we control like keeping private home network? What a novel idea!!! However, in order for startup to be interested, this idea gotta have some commercial potential aka profitable. How do make this idea profitable though?
This wouldn't work for most startups. Product development in the zero to x stage prior to product market fit has loads of abnormalities that require bigger engagements.

As well handling the cap table these days is still troublesome.

The spirit of YC is embodied by founding teams that can build product and talk to users. This suggestion might not be in line with that spirit by giving away equity for product building without cash.
Question - have you tried using anything like symPy directly. I'm curious to know your opinion (clearly a power user) of how it would compare.
No, the point is to not have separate folders for controllers, directives etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896436
How do you do the shutdown on USB change? I would like to try that out.

I would imagine, depending on how it is done, that the malicious usb device might get a few keystrokes in before the system is completely down.
I agree.

What's the recently updated, fast, actively developed alternative in this space?
This is already happening on a lot of fronts, I've built entire apps on zapier.

What are your thoughts on the following:

Flex.io
zapier.com
Blockspring
Zoho Creator
Domo

If you build this platform I think you have to start application first and not try to theorize it.
And in 1913 the Rothschild backed consortium gained control of the US's money supply.

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning" -Henry Ford
Benetton in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Formula_One_cheating_cont...

Once the FIA started demanding access to ECU's, programmers learned their system and figured out ways to produce faked checksums before the race, so that they matched with the post-race checksum. That is, after the traction control and ABS programs self-deleted on the parade lap post-race.

This was common knowledge in the paddock, but no one could prove anything. Even then, everyone was doing it so the field eventually became level. Cheating and "pushing the rules" has a very long and storied past in F1. If you're not caught cheating every few years, most would assume you're not trying hard enough to win.

Edit: Here's a link to a Reddit thread about McLaren's fiddle break. It was a dual braking setup that allowed the driver to only apply the rear brakes. Photographers noticed that sometimes only the rear brakes glowed red instead of all brakes glowing red. Many accused them of using traction control and ABS. In reality, it was just an independent braking circuit (which was illegal). https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1ux791/an_old_f1_...
To evaluate this idea further, I'd want to know how fast (how much faster) the loan will be paid off given various salary percentages. Is this a good way to pay off a loan? (Do I even want to pay off the loan faster?)

As an employer, you have to convince me to offer it as a benefit, which means convincing me that my employees will love it, that it will help to attract and retain great people. This makes me worried because it is one of those "vitamin, not painkiller" problems - and it's a niche one at that - I am worried that people don't want it and it will be hard to get into people's hands.
a single person produces enough data in my mind to train an AI for him or her. We just need to apply existing algorithms to the problem. We just need a lot of data to make a generic AI that works for all. Which isnt the case for the above proposal
Part of me wants to be a loyal Bostonian and defend my hometown- most of the evils described in the article could be found in any other state, Republican- or Democrat-run alike. But the point about innovation rhetoric does strike true.

The "innovation district" is full of big pharma and etc companies that would have had an easy time finding offices anywhere; most of the time when the i-word is trotted out, its because someone is either offering tax breaks to some giant corporation to entice them to grace us with their presence, or launching some gaudy public cheerleading event that no one really cares about.

But substantial issues relating to the "creative class"? Such as, for instance, effective public transit? Suddenly the state and city can't spare a dime; its not a "priority"; students and post-car intellectuals (and, incidentally, the working class) are stuck paying through the nose to get on a subway that's broken again. Or, taking an Uber because its past midnight. (Late night service was great for the six months it lasted!)

There are other issues of a similar bent; there's a fight going on in Somerville (the neighborhood of MIT, Harvard, and Tufts students, now that Cambridge property deeds come platinum-plated) to allow more than four unrelated individuals to share a house. And they're facing fierce resistance.

Most of us who can head to the west coast at the first opportunity; Boston would be SF if it wasn't for its outright hostility to the bright minds pouring out of its universities. The scale of the wasted opportunity is staggering.
Fifth time's the charm: SpaceX finally lands on its drone ship in the ocean
> impossible to see the real fonts on a website that uses hosted web fonts like Google fonts.

Feature, not a bug.
The books you're offering up have a ridiculously difficult readability. How do you plan to change that?

What languages will you target first and why?

I'm quadralingual as well and blog about language stuff once a year or so. Holler at me if you want poignant feedback. I've been published on lifehacker and other sites for my language learning tips.
"Beyond saving"? What if he is doing a good job of providing for his family or he's a musician on the side or he just likes doing what he is doing?

I think the first step down the road you describe in your last sentence would be that we (as individuals) shouldn't assess our personal goals and assume they are universal or shared with other individuals. This was a tough lesson for me to learn when I was younger, that imperfect systems are sometimes more acceptable or most appropriate when compared to some sort of perfected ideal.
These podcasts Turkish Language;
http://devpod.org/
http://podcast.apostylee.com/
I didn't get performant from this demo, but I did come across another lib that I starred on github https://github.com/daneden/animate.css it may do some of the same things and seems to be pretty active
SF was liberal decades before it was rich. Makes you wonder about possible causality.
This ain't software. Contact with the real world with physical things introduces, among other things, variability. They didn't aim to land 25 feet from the edge of the ship, it just happened. Can they do better. Probably. Give them time. Just don't expect perfection.

A perfect landing is one where you get to recover and reuse the rocket. It was perfect.
The fights are most vicious when there's so little at stake.
So you can get voice recognition at home, but you end up losing updates, new features, and ability to interoperate with other services. Cloud based services make it so that one person doesn't have to carry this load themselves.
I think the premise of the writer's concern is that people who would otherwise be doing more critical reading (looking seriously at the source of the information they're getting, exploring different sources, etc.) are just going to accept what's spoonfed to them. I don't think that's valid, because I think people are using Alexa only for very casual research - the equivalent of reading the box at the top of a Google query or the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article, or pulling a reference book off a shelf and reading a few sentences, in other words, cases where you wouldn't be doing much critical reading anyway. Voice interfaces don't make a lot of sense for doing serious research, it takes a long time to read text out loud, you can't skim, or skip things, etc. They're great for things like getting a definition of a dictionary word without looking up from your book, or settling a bet about the population of Ireland.
What are your thoughts on Squire and StyleSeat?
I've taken Andrew Ng's class and thought it was fabulous despite having extensive prior ML knowledge.
I'm currently taking a negotiation class by Yale university which is very valuable do far and already has changed how I think about deal making.
My wife just finished a script writing class and also got great value out of it despite being an accomplished writer.
Amy is a great assistant. But she has a long waiting list.
I would guess that this market is pretty small. How big is it, actually?

Could you be more generic and include logs for other things? For example, this could be useful for car owners.
WW3 SECRETS
Self-entitlement. Google it.
Yes, yes, you are right. At MECO it's about 4,000 mph.
People in the US can be poor due to bad luck or chance. One serious illness can bankrupt even an upper middle-class family.

The difference that my Indian colleagues have mentioned to me between India and the US is that people get second (and third, and fourth, etc.) chances. Your fortunes may wane but it isn't necessarily permanent.
I do not get it! Was the launch delayed by about 8 days...
Wow! —that's so bad, it's almost genius!
Dawn of GODS
If Facebook likes were votes Sanders would be trouncing Clinton in the polls and Trump would be the only person left running for the Republicans. However, people discussing politics on Facebook tends to be completely toxic and representative of the most enthusiastic, sometimes vitriolic, people around. It's very, very different than the layout of voters as a whole.
That's his point.

A hardware TRNG's bit stream (plus bias filtering, if necessary) could be wired to flip-flop gates (shift registers) to output lottery numbers, with a component count in the low hundreds at most, no software to compromise, and off-the-shelf, mostly passive commodity components.

In short, readily auditable, easily recreated. You could build the system out of parts ordered from multiple manufacturers/OEMs in front of multiple auditors, seal it in place, and never touch it again. You could inspect (destructively and non-destructively) the components directly to verify their implementation.

However, we live in a world where the TSA pays hundreds of thousands of dollars for an application that flips a coin, so the fact that state lotteries are using complete operating systems on a standard PC should be unsurprising.
So this is subscription streaming radio?

Spotify lets you share playlists with friends. What would make somebody use your service instead of that? Is it the live listening feature?
The Tripadvisor of Hackathon Events
I wonder if we could reach a compromise, by using stylus instead of using keyboard on a digital device (such as iPad pro or MS Surface Pro) and apps like OneNote.

On a side note, there is a handwriting organization (http://www.chirography.org/) that really inspired me to start writing more with pen/pencil/markers/etc instead of digital counterpart. What struck me the most was the image of an old postcard inviting a friend for a drink. It felt so personal and memorable, compared to a quick text message or an email.
He used patsies to claim the winning tickets; that's why he got away with it for so many years.
OK, so just to be clear: you're targeting well-off parents, who want to give their kids a leg up in the world from a business perspective - right?

The fear I always have around companies like this is that you're playing a two-sided game, where you make money by convincing parents that it will help their kids in life but your actual work is trying to actually help the kids, and these two vectors point in different directions. It's easy to optimize for making money without actually helping the kids - the impact piece doesn't have a good feedback loop. If you want to help the kids then you'll have to rigorously measure whatever you can get your hands on, in order to improve the program.
Why is any major lottery generating random numbers with a computer? California shows the mechanical ball drop machine on live TV for each draw.[1]

[1] http://www.calottery.com/happenings/lottery-tv/draw-videos
Furthermore, many come from the world of business, where cheating is a fact of life. You do a certain thing, if you get caught, you hire lawyers and fight and/or bargain your way to the least unfavourable outcome.

It's not definite from your phrasing, but based on the parallel to sports I'm assuming you view this attitude negatively. Have you managed to find a business niche that isn't prey to this? Have you found a way to make peace with this without feeling that you've given up your sense of morality? This is something I struggle with.
I'm not sure Coursera is really aimed at already academically strong students trying to find a professor to accept them as a PhD student though.
> To me, Comey is a man who has lost the goal in pursuit of his particular mission. Many of his statements pretty directly show that he doesn't care about the collateral damage to innocent people's privacy or any founding principles, he just wants his mission to be unhindered.

There's nothing new about this, btw. The US government doesn't care about protecting the elusive "American ideals" or your freedoms and it has been that way for decades if not hundreds of years. There's nothing idealistic about the way a government operates, regardless of country.
Can't I get those things from `sudo apt-get upgrade`?
I agree with this sentiment. Large pull requests are large because they have to be. If they're large because you were too lazy to make many PRs, then your process is broken and this won't fix it.

When reviewing a 50+ file PR (that really couldn't be broken up into smaller ones) you really need to keep all of those files in mind while reviewing every part of the PR.
Realistically human. If the only humans you know are froth-lipped gibberish spouting lunatics, freshly escaped from the local asylum!
You're very welcome! We're both in the same boat, just trying to figure out the path...keep trying and feel free to stay in touch with any other questions or concerns!!! Cheers
Oh, I have read the response on my mobile and now it's gone, I wish it wasn't.

While I appreciate your effort to defend me I don't really need it. I don't mind having these kinds of responses at all. I may actually prefer it. It's the silent downvotes that gets to me, and HN holding me back with my "frequent" replies and whitening my words because God forbids someone could see an opinion they might disagree..

Of course this is no news to me. I'm quite used to having people with opposing views at my position. In fact, I don't think I have been with a person that I can easily relate to for a very long time. In my point of view, the main problem is that there are very deep social problems within our setting and most people doesn't even want to see it. They seem to prefer staying in their comfort zones, doing what they do so far as they have learned growing up while going along the flow. I think this is delusional and I have zero tolerance left for it.

I have come to realize HN community is full of these people. This is not to say there aren't any people I can agree with, it's just that it's extremely difficult to cultivate the conversation when you become a minority. In that regard, HN nowadays is quite an unhealthy formation. This was something I was aware for a long time. I didn't take any action so far because most of the time I'm here for only the links anyways. But links here are filtered by the upvotes/downvotes of this same community. I guess now it's time for me to move forward. I will close my account and hopefully never enter this site again.

Again thanks for your effort, but I think it's much better for people to express what they actually think than to censor them behind big man's words or else communication becomes impossible.
Older people will remember the Space Shuttle as reusuable spacecraft. Although it nver reached its planned capacity of 25 missions a year (average four), a 134 missions were impressive.
Customers hate reading directions, and many people seem totally incapable of following written instructions. How can you ensure that your service improves outcomes over a call center?
Have you looked at vayable.com?
Time domain reflectometry would find you in no time.

Furthermore, the power supply doesn't need to have high current capacity. 1A is plenty enough for the intended purpose and this works out to 2kW - good for one electric kettle.
I've read this a long time ago and it seems to be still mostly true! A more recent statement of Knuth about email is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8qwMna8_o
Falling Fruit does something similar check them out.
Except that's not what we're being paid for and frankly, most physicists don't have time or knowledge to do that (our reality is "publish or perish", unfortunately).
A friend does something similar with his laptops ThinkPad laptops for certain applications. He disconnects/removes the microphone, camera, bluetooth module and re-flashes the BIOS with a custom version.

On some ThinkPad models, there is a chip associated with the LAN management engine (AMT) that should be disabled as well. This isn't the Management Engine controller itself, only has a power management role for AMT & WoL that cannot normally be disabled.

My ThinkPad has a physical switch for Wifi and Bluetooth, although apparently that is only window dressing and can be bypassed with a BIOS setting (& configuration tool from Lenovo)

What do you think of having a hardware firewall processor for the Wifi and Ethernet interfaces on security focused laptops?
Ask HN: Which online courses/training videos are you doinge
What online coursers are you taking to keep your skills fresh? Which have you found to be well done or particularly helpful?
Just couple days ago I decided to give 5 weeks android course on edx a shot. I'm in week 5, spend like 3-4hrs to complete 1-4 weeks work (including time spent watching videos), wrote probably no more than 30-50 lines of code mostly something simple as "smth++". I feel like the quality went down dramatically compared to first courses they had, now its all about the money...
Yes, you should have separate folders for controllers directives etc, when you are grouping by features, under the feature. Otherwise good luck telling where everything is, when you have something beyond a trivial app...

I'm not suggesting putting all components in component folder and all services in services folder.

https://egghead.io/lessons/angular-2-organizing-angular-2-pr...
I still want to believe that we can do better.
I worked in the wedding space for 6 months.

This one's tough because weddings are close to the hearts, wallets, and our natural discretion on nepotism.

Finding new couples each and every day is the most expensive thing about this business.

ThumbTack attempts to do something like this. As a super ghetto immature growth tactic to let wedding DJ's know about the app I was marketing, I "requested bids" in 47 states for a wedding that was priced high for the app's founders. The requirement for the DJ's was they had to download the app and go through a quiz on how it works.

Lots of reasons why this is a tough space, but primarily anyone bidding on weddings probably is of low quality. Tough decision/motivation matrix here. I'd graph it out on a whiteboard and talk to all players.

DJs, caterers, etc... good thing is they're all reachable to have conversations with and many are struggling to find consistent gigs.
I don't think his point was "Mathematica contains zero bugs".
Looks like you're having some great success with a how-to-code book. What would an app do better than the book?
> I'm not sure how me seeing the ads helps them as I never click on them anyways, but I chalk that up to their business issue. I do not necessarily believe that just because they don't provide their content in a form/implicit contract that I wish to participate in, that I am still entitled to consume that content.

Wait, I don't get this "business issue". If you really never click the ads, you're ultimately not making anyone any money either. In fact, if you think ad-blocking is bad, merely never clicking on them is even more toxic to that industry. And I don't mean bandwidth. Because now it's the businesses paying to uselessly show you ads who are paying for your free content.

How is that better? You're still consuming your content for free (which is a terrible thing :P), except you're now also voluntarily punishing yourself with advertisements you don't care about that do nobody any favours. Of course you're free to believe that makes up for it, or something (not judging, they used to base entire religions around the concept).

I find it a bit hard to reconcile chalking up never-clicking-ads as their business issue, and simply not downloading and displaying the ads at all (thus also never clicking them) as a user problem.
Performance: Showing versus Telling (2014)
> But we're simply talking about Place A offering a better financial package than Place B.

That's such a massive oversimplification of the truth that it no longer resembles the truth.

Place B is the place where these people grew up, learned, and became wealthy and powerful. They used the resources of place B to get to where they are. You don't see the many of the wealthy starting off in obscure islands with permissive tax codes. But suddenly when it's time to pay for all the resources they have used, they're shopping around? Give me a break.

What you're proposing is equivalent to me going and stealing the shiny new Porsche I always wanted, then claiming it's okay because I shopped around and found a deal on an old Pinto at the local junkyard. I pay the junkman, I get my Porsche, and we're even, right? The only difference here is that I'm not rich or powerful enough to make that legal.

> This is a moot and frankly prejudiced point. People & organizations with more wealth & power have greater flexibility and mobility, regardless of the system they're in.

"Prejudice" means I've judged them before having any real information about them.

The Panama Papers are far from the first indication that the rich leech off society and don't pay their fair share, but they sure are the most damning and specific. How much evidence so you need before you're willing to admit that I'm being judicial and not just prejudicial?