skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love minecraft. It is actually through redstone circuitry in minecraft that I understood many things of digital design, for example I discovered the contamination and propagation delay all by myself while playing. When the professor taught us those things, I instantly understood he meant this. I had trouble with my redstone circuits when I built a combination lock because, while the circuit was settling to a stable state, the door would open and close erratically. I then had to build something like a timer that isolated the door from the circuit until it settled to a stable state.
The friendly smile is key.

I was working on a project at an airport - I had something like a six hour layover and set up at a nice table near the food court - I noticed I was being watched and smiled back. The kid came over to me and asked what I was doing. Seems he'd learned some HTML and JavaScript, but was being told in school that "real" programming was super-hard and not for him. We ended up spending about an hour talking about studying CS, how he could learn programming on his own and I eventually sent him away to catch his flight with my copy of the Rat-cover Python book.

He stayed in touch. Today, he's living his dream working on a rather awesome-sounding project.
No paywall. Same content: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/TDJNDN_2016041510...
Md, DC and Virginia come to mind. The DC suburbs and the rest of va and md might as well be different countries.
According to the linked page, a new version was released a week ago.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives/Sabily

"Sabily is a set of packages that customizes the Ubuntu distro by installing Islamic software (prayer times, Quran study tool, web content filtering tool etc.) and by changing its design."
Oddly, I'm mostly a lurker and relatively new to HN...I didn't even know there was a down vote option. So, there's that.
BP CEO to get $3.3M raise after 12,000 layoffs
How Bitrix24 Thinks About Freemium
I'm not sure this will go the way one would want. There is nobody to do Windows and the Mac port has also fallen behind. I'd rather continue the bootstrapped Qt port in parallel to Gtk and use that.
You might like Yhat's rodeo:
https://github.com/yhat/rodeo

I haven't used it too much, but it looks interesting.
You misread it! I reported one a long time ago, which was fixed in two weeks (so relatively quickly). Another, very similar, reported nearly a year ago, still isn't fixed.
The productivity of Congress has been in decline for years, so "it does not scale" hardly seems to matter. This seems like a very reasonable amount of legislation for citizens to opine upon when necessary:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
Particularly liked the reasoning behind "one-size-fits-all":

> That why we have a plan with unlimited users, storage space and everything, and it’s priced at only $199/mo. The only decision we want our customers to make whether they can afford $199/mo. It’s a simple one to make.
I agree that it is annoying to have the "home" or "main" link go to the blog home. But when you are at blog.domain.com, is it really that difficult for you to figure out how to get to domain.com?
Why is asking "who is the CEO" a bad sign?
They aren't going to push for limited copyight terms though.
mhmh yeah I saw that, was unsure if that is the reason it gets upvoted... one should link to this though http://www.mate-desktop.org/blog/2016-04-08-mate-1-14-releas... but ok...
To give them the benefit of the doubt, what they could have meant was that it was an onerous feature that swapped privacy for convenience. Besides, scanning of URLs should be prevented by bit.ly in this case, no? What's MSFT to do?
Correct. It's not literal, and I didn't mean it literally (I don't think anyone actually does). I would probably have not been happy if that was the only type of answer. Maybe, we will say ELI16? Kidding. No, don't do that.
Yeah, the coolest thing I just found out is that nbconvert can be used to turn your python/matplotlib/markdown to reveal.js presentations.
Porting to iOS would be easier than to Android. Because on iOS we can simply write the UI code in Objective-C++.

On Android, it involve doing JNI + Java and cross compiling the AbiWord engine. Something like what Firefox for Android is doing.

But neither is in the pipe.
Worked for them. It was pretty awesome until we got acquired by IBM.
Ban Tax Day (As We Know It)
One of the nice things about being an old fogey is that I've seen almost all of these...
If the police are in your way, remove the police.
Modular body
Not really. I used Play Framework which is also its own webserver. SSL is at both the app and webserver level.
There is definitely lots of improvement to do in that area for AbiWord.

There is a long list of bugs from every side.
Presenting Oscar, the Modular Body
Off topic side note to mobile readers on Firefox on Android

If the social bar in the left bothers you, consider enabling the social third part filters in ublock Origin's dashboard by going to Firefox menu > addons >> ublock Origin >>> dashboard >>>> third party filters
It was fortunate that in this case the target was "a sprawling house in the affluent Atlanta suburb of Johns Creek". Police knock on that house's front door. In other neighborhoods, they simultaneously demolish all doors just before assaulting all the occupants.

Just mentioning this in case anyone had forgotten the purpose of the War on Drugs.
One of the things that didn't run on NT4 was the AOL client, which was a pretty big thing for consumers at that time.
In our interview, it was very apparent that I held the most knowledge and expertise, but still left some of the answers to my co-founders. The partners did ask us who the CEO was too. I think the question is more about whether or not you've established who the leader is, and given it thought. The bad sign is when none of you is really sure.
Hardships and victories in four years of eCommerce
Thinking Big and Bigger About New York
Every time someone reinvents the same concept I post the same message pointing to the many people who have tried and failed to do this.

Here is the last post I did about this, which itself leads on to previous posts about startups doing the same thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908067

and before that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628532

It's an idea bound to be reinvented forever because people keep seeing nothing that does it and think they have stumbled on a new idea. The reason you can find a site doing it is because it's not an idea that works.
Nice!

I wish the Mac SE one had the classic BING! and then hard drive sounds. Lots of memories of restarting Mac SEs to play games.
The one I had to sign for IBM in Pittsburgh basically says they own everything I do, even in my time away from my job. It's pretty ridiculous.
This one includes northern Mexico and Canada.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/w...
Akido Labs (YC W15) is hiring full stack web developers
Lowdown:
Akido Labs is looking for a full stack web developer to join an organization with nation-wide hospital access paired with a team of seasoned technologists and healthcare executives to revolutionize how data is used in healthcare.

Akido Labs is a rapidly growing healthcare technology organization built out of Keck Medicine’s Digital Health Lab and backed by Y Combinator. Health care has suffered from a data drought, setting it decades behind other industries. Recently however, the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records has generated an unprecedented amount of digital health data. Akido Labs is on a mission to unlock the power of this data in order to improve access to quality care consumers across America.

The role:
Our engineers are involved in all parts of the product lifecycle: ideation, design, prototyping, planning, execution, and shipping. The full stack web developer will lead development of web applications deployed in health systems across the US. We work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and rely on agile development methodologies, constantly iterating and testing with our end users to ensure that our products have a direct impact on healthcare’s most difficult problems.

What we value:
- Highly motivated and innovative individuals who crave challenges and are always looking to continue their personal growth
- Passionate people who bring positive energy into their work
- A curiosity to learn new technologies and initiative to lead in their implementation
- An ability to manage and balance multi-projects
- Good communication to healthy discourse and open discussion across the company
- Collaboration between team members across Product, Engineering and Sales.
- Respect for healthy testing and documentation practices

Technology requirements:
- Deep full stack web application development experience
- Ruby on Rails (2 years minimum, 5 preferred)
- JavaScript with jQuery
- HTML5, CSS (SASS), MVC web frameworks, Websockets
- Heroku style deployments

Icing on top:
- React, Bootstrap
- Postgres/MySQL or similar relational databases
- IOS/Android app development, Java backend/servlets
- API design patterns for performance, accessibility, usability, scalability and security
- UI design and perfecting the user flows in UX
- Knowledge of Linux environments and scripting

Contact
e: careers@akidolabs.com
> do we train them to think about others in a way that agrees with the majority of people.

You can't decide without looking at the specifics of the training. Is the training useful to people and relatively harmeless? Then yes, train as many people as you want. Is it destructive? Then maybe limit the training to just the folks with that specific brand of sadism/masochism and try to limit their area of dominion to a place with good warning signs so you don't have innocent people wandering into that without having a chance to consent.
> If somebody can access given url just by guessing it — well, it it unprotected, so implicitly it is supposed to be accessed by anyone. No matter how long it is.

Let's see what happens when we apply this logic to cryptography...

If somebody can access you data just by guessing it's key — well, it it unprotected, so implicitly it is supposed to be accessed by anyone. No matter how long the key is.
Might be because the thought of a consumer ISP being paid from all sides and deciding for you what is important on the Internet is terrifying and really, really is the end of the Internet as we know and love it.
Agree wholeheartedly. I'm a linux/GPL proselytizer among my friends. I've customized my development environment beyond recognition; I love it. That's what technology is to me: the ability to transform the world around me using my imagination. It's a beautiful, empowering feeling that I wish everyone could feel.

Every day I am saddened by enormous drift between what I know is possible with today's already existing technology (we cary supercomputers in our pockets!) and what we are actually doing with it (supercomputers we use as neutered mass-media consumption and ad-delivery devices).

I also know a lot of non technical people. Even young people, smart professional people, politically aware people; just not technical. And to 99% of the public, control is even more of a non-issue than privacy / censorship / security. "This glowing rectangle is a black box, why should I care if company A locks it down with binary blobs or if company B releases it under some GP-I-dunno-what?"

Even technology companies choose slack over improving and extending open standards. Convenience is a bitch.

Sadly, the only selling point I see today for p2p is piracy. The only issue that will get people riled up is when they lose free access to their favorite TV show. Which only further stigmatizes the hacker mindset as a front for would-be criminals. Privacy is somewhat making its way to the general population, but the message is muddled and confusing to most.

I wish I had a solution. How do you sell the inherent beauty of open, hackable technology to non-geeks? Selling it on its social merit alone seems too abstract.
Perhaps the goal is to eventually implement an ASIC version.
Go back and read the first post. Think about what happens if all the manufacturing happens in China.

If they get to the point where they can start designing things there then they have the advantage.

What America should be doing is highly promoting domestic automated manufacturing. Even if it created exactly zero manufacturing jobs, having the factory here would provide a local advantage. Local mills would have a cost advantage because the materials wouldn't have to be shipped halfway across the world and back. Product designers could actually see how their products are being made and improve the process without international air travel, etc.
The Amiga one is wrong. It shows a 2.0+ restart window, but then does a 1.3 boot when you click it.

Edit: Also, there are some oddities with the Windows 2000 one. The gradient-bar... thing, scrolls from right to left, but it should go the other way. And the boot progress bar starts out solid and ends up dashed, but should do the reverse.
Exhaustiveness checking in Flow.js
Sleep from San Francisco to Los Angeles
It is like asking who is the organ grinder. Implies that the rest of the team are monkeys. That aint a good sign.
LOL. You said " hipsters and white girls " still cracking me up. I use an Asus g60vx gaming laptop for linux. Been running Ubuntu with gnome desktop on it for years. Ive tested alot of linux live boots with that laptop and they all work. I would recommend getting any laptop with nvidia gpu. Linux has a apt-get install driver for most of nvidia gpus if not working after desktop environment installation.
Mars to label some pasta sauces as an occasional treat
you're not being mean, you just mistook my sarcastic observation of human behavior at the meat counter with some kind of economic theory.

you're real popular at parties, i bet.
Only 26% of Americans live in "urban" areas versus suburban and rural areas. Considering 53% of Americans live in suburbs, we should allow the suburbs to have the balance of power?

If so, I predict more highways, more car centric growth, less investment in public transit or bicycles paths.
Yeah but i dont think he was saying no comet implies no microwave oven. Oh i dont know what the ancestor meant maybe we should ask him or her or it.
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After reading this article I was inspired to read Showstopper again. Last time I read it was early 2000s. I must have lent it out so I had to order a new copy. Looks like they reissued it a few years back...
Ask HN: How to Leverage (Web) Developer Skill?
Previously i managed a team where most of them are "A players". Most of them knows the tech we use from bottom to up. Now i move to another region (and different team) where the skill of the team is under my expectation. We build a web app, but they're too slow to grasp the concept of the system we make. For example, they know what HTML is but they have no idea how HTML is transmitted over the network, so they don't know how cookies work at HTTP Header and how session work over encrypting cookies. As a matter of fact, we are iterating very slow. I just wanted to quit this team instead, but for now it is just unwise solution since i lead this new team (to increase their skill). Also, firing them isn't a solution for now.

What should i do to make them understand basic web development skill? Should i teach them basic browser and HTTP? At the same time, we have deadlines for the project.
As I understand it - wine can't touch gentile hands and still be kosher. The bottle must be opened and served by a Jew.
I hadn't thought about virtual concerts, plays, ballets, operas, symphonies, etc.

The performances could be live or prerecorded, obviously charging more for live. The performers could be captured via some form of 3d capture.

The viewer could then have their choice of viewing angle. Think how much fun it would be to watch a musical from the stage!

Some artists might even start experimenting with making it interactive.

I live far away from most cultural events, and would absolutely adore being able to catch a ballet again without having to get on a plane.
I'm curious now what stops people from using Linux on the desktop. There were significant issues a few years ago, but they now appear to be addressed.

What are the problems with Linux on the desktop?
Non-interactive VR is what game developers call a "track ride". You're locked to a path. You can look around, and maybe stop, start, shoot at stuff, and solve puzzles, but you can't get off the track.

For a long time, game developers struggled with how to tell a story while not locking the player into a track ride. A movie is a story. A good game today is a place you visit. VR track rides are somewhere in between.

Getting a story line into a free play game is hard. But it's been done many times now. GTA V is a good example. The GTA games are open, free-play worlds. You're free to just drive around and sightsee, which is fun all by itself. The gameplay "missions" give the player goals and achievements, but there are many ways to achieve a goal. (Amusingly, the way to make the most money in GTA V is to speculate in the stock market, not steal cars. Score one for realism.)

The VR crowd now has to face that problem. Otherwise, they'll go down the same rathole as 3D TV and movies. (Yes, Avatar in 3D was good. That's because Cameron is very good at visual world-building. Almost every other 3D movie didn't need 3D or overdid it.)
On-Demand iPhone App Development (withFree Concept Proposals)
Stockholm syndrome. Pittsburgh gets less direct sunlight per year than Seattle. 6 months of the year you basically can't go outside without freezing your face off. It's still snowing in April...
Whether a Swallow Is Frightened in a Storm
I'm not even sure 'high intelligence' applies to doctors :) some are smart, some are not; it totally depends on how you define intelligence.
Your understanding of Open Source is ok (for you), but not in line with the rest of the world's use of the term. ;)
Your personal theory is also a very convenient tactic used by some online forum denizens to dismiss concerns about gender parity.
We use Phabricator and Scrum Sprint Plugin from Mediawiki. It fits our workflow. IMO, it is a hybrid between Pivotal Tracker and JIRA.
Thanks!

So, it appears that whine can't be made by gentiles.

In addition, prepared food must also at least be made in part by a Jew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishul_Yisrael

Surely this clashes with anti-racism laws in some countries, doesn't it? (Imagine food that couldn't be prepared by black people, or that would require a white man somewhere in the preparation.) Is there some special alternate rule for these cases?
I hope that if he had it to do over, Pete Seeger would not copyright a centuries-old song of oppressed people. We should all think about the long-term results of temporarily convenient actions.
If you're using emacs. Check out org-mode. With org-mode, you can organize everything in plain text.
I'm feeling Internet famous today, thanks! We had a ton of people on that study who contributed greatly, and I was happy to participate with a couple of follow up studies. I won't make any comments on the article because I don't want to be political (I'm a big stone-turner and not a politician if you know what I mean), but I like seeing an active conversation!
There's still a "memorial" web site:

http://www.bigear.org/about.htm

The Big Ear telescope "was larger than three football fields in size and equivalent in sensitivity to a circular dish 52.5 meters (175 feet) in diameter. The telescope consisted of a flat tiltable reflector measuring 340 feet long by 100 feet high (less when tilted), a fixed standing paraboloidal (curved) reflector which measured 360 feet long by 70 feet high, an aluminum-covered ground plane measuring 360 feet wide by 500 feet long, and two feed horns mounted on a movable assembly."
Cool, thanks for the great reply! That makes it much more clear. I'll look for the blog post you mentioned. Edit: oh duh it's the original link of the post I guess. (I had originally come here from the a github link which I thought was a dupe of this post, so I was confused... asked my original questions having seen only the github project).
The link to the Nexys2 doesn't result in any products, is that still available?
Minnesota and North Dakota are separated by a large number of issues. Minnesota tends to be more in your business such as their restrictive alcohol laws (until 8pm off sale, no sales on Sunday) and politics. Taxes are a world of difference, and the shared culture is not that true. They had very different immigration trends from Europe much less the vast difference from Middle East and Asia.

The Bakkens does change things but the east west probably only exists as a I-29 to I-94 link and giving voting difference isn't even a majority.

Yes, Fargo and Grand Forks tend to look more towards MN (specifically the Twin Cities not MN in general), but they also have a large student population with a large percentage not from ND due to tuition and quality of education (e.g. aviation).

> Anyway, this discussion is probably completely irrelevant to about a billion percent of normal Hacker News readers. Gotta represent your people, though. :)

From the down votes, you are probably right, but judging economic impact via population is really, really dumb as the only metric (you didn't - others did).
Reminded me of the movie eXistenZ.
Making AI Play Lots of Videogames Could Be Huge
> Well if nothing else, your points about corruption are arguments against government in general :-) Decentralize power back to the people themselves. If I have no power over another, then my corruption affects only me.

Tragedy of the Commons is what occurs then as well as an inability to defend oneself against those who use force.

Go move to some country with essentially a nonexistent government and see how this works out for you if you genuinely believe I am wrong.

> However, corruption at the local level affects a limited number of people, and since local politics are easy to influence, they can be changed. Local politicians get into criminal trouble all the time, so they are not immune to the law.

So your argument is to make it cheaper, easier, and dismantle the checks and balances by defunding the enforcement mechanism at the federal level?

Seriously? Do you not understand that logically plays out until the local politicians are unable to be held accountable to a higher authority?
It's not a bad sign at all if YC interviewers ask "who is CEO?"

YC is famous for asking that question to make sure all founders wholeheartedly agree on the answer, not because they think the the other founders are any less valuable. As a founder, there are always going to be times when serious disagreements happen and at the end of the day someone has to be the overruling vote. One of the most common killers of startups is founder disputes and it's important to know who is CEO so that the company has a chance of still surviving if a founder leaves.

For example, if you have a highly technical product, the CTO might actually do way more of the talking in the interview but both sides better agree on who is CEO. It's not at all a bad sign if it's unclear based on who is the dominant speaker.
Yes. Then Microsoft hired Mark Russinovich, the guy who ran "ntinternals.com" and demonstrated it wasn't too slow, to shut him up.[1]

[1] http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/did-microsoft-shut-do...