skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PGP is a great choice when you want to be able to send encrypted messages over any channel you want.

That has nothing to do with PGP. You could do the same by base64-ing an OTR session (in fact, people do that all the time).

I don't like the choice of PGP because it has non-repudability. If you send me a message, I can prove to anyone in the world that you sent me the message. OTR and Axolotl don't have this problem (only I can be sure you sent me the message and I cannot prove that I didn't fake it to anyone else).
No. It's in very, very early stages of development and is not usable for its stated purpose yet. All the attention on HN is appreciated but unfortunately premature in terms of being able to promote it as a working program.
Solved: The Mystery of the Martian Moons
> You keep suggesting that AAVE is a simplification of Standard English.

No he's not! He's been extremely clear on this. He's saying that some rules are simplified, and other rules are more complex, and that when someone that doesn't understand the added complexity hears it they think it's a simplification.
The youth helped us mostly because we were able to hop up and live in that house for months in order to be close to CMS - know our customers! But even for us those days are over - we have offices in SF and DC and have multiple more established folks on our team. Just like major tech companies, we want to provide a comfortable environment for skilled engineers of any age and family situation.
Why on earth would intorture myself by teaching my toddler to expect perfect cookies?
Twitter list of key people to follow for Juno news today
This is anecdotal but I have often noticed that I become more thoroughly fatigued and thus need more sleep when working on really hard programming problems vs less mentally taxing tasks. This implies that it's more than a physical phenomenon.
I think government, in general, is built to be slow and deliberate, but as the pace of tech change has accelerated, the responsiveness of government hasn't kept up. Git was invested in 2005, for example.

ref: https://bhc3.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/consumption-spreads...
how different is ABI from XPCOM? Wasn't xpcom had the same goals to provide binary compatibility?
As a married person with no kids I feel the same way. I'm not 40, or even 30 yet, but I look at my peers and wonder if they'll grow to regret putting in 60 hour work weeks just to make someone else rich. I'm guilty of doing it too, for sure, but it wears you down quick.
I get it, and please understand I didn't want to make it about you being bad at collecting the data - it's really hard to get right especially when districts change often. NYC in particular has very fine-grained political geography, and I'm sure that's not a problem for many districts.
A Curmudgeon's Guide to Surviving the 4th of July
You know, I felt really troubled to have been using something for 20 years and realize things had changed and it was no longer right and no longer good for me. I felt like a fool for having stuck with it for quite so long.

I realize that sounds like someone talking about a bad marriage, and I suppose we can generalize usefully on relationships of whatever type.

I think we must end up with longer-lasting bad feelings about anything we used to value.
I think many people need an external factor beyond the calendar. You need a what if and a force to apply it.

What if I miss this date? Have I setup an auto pay to a political group I don't like? Is there some public mockery coming my way? Will a significant person tell me how ashamed they are by my complete lack of determination?
Feeder of lice
Disagree with all of these. Why politicise it at all? Why not just allude to security or communication?
37M Compilations: Investigating Novice Programming Mistakes [pdf]
A Prospective Study of Sudden Cardiac Death Among Children and Young Adults [pdf]
Promoted? Yes.
Actually? No.
"cloud" can be a scary topic, because it implies a loss of control and accountability.
> That said, they apparently voiced strong disapproval of the fact that I could already read

Strange, I had the same experience in a public kindergarten. I never understood that attitude. I could read at a 5th grade level in kindergarten, but that was treated as an evil thing by the teachers because the material they were trying to teach was far below me. I suppose I can understand that in retrospect now that I think about it though, it must be frustrating to have a kindergartener who doesn't bother listening to a teacher teaching the alphabet, but doesn't even know how to tie their shoes so there's no possible way they could be skipped ahead.
This is a child being disrespectful on a monumental level, not outsmarting anyone. It also sounds like her parents are paying a great deal of attention.

She may also be a classic psychopath.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/sociopath-psyc...
Can Capitalism Be Redeemed?
Exactly! The root of all this (I think) is the contracting structure for building jet fighters -- cost plus percentage -- was applied to software, which has such a different cost structure. With that structure there is no motivation to ship working software, or work efficiently at all. So people who value that won't work for any company that behaves like that, hence the shift of talent elsewhere.
Ignoring the arrogance, "If you have nothing to hide" isn't a valid question because everyone has something to hide. People have curtains and doors for good reasons, and everyone expects a certain amount of privacy in their lives -- but they don't realise how much they care about it until after they get screwed.

Oh, and it's not a slippery slope fallacy if we literally are headed towards 1984. Not even Orwell thought that social graphs would allow for automated analysis. The NSA doesn't need tele-screens when they have Facebook.
Thinker with an experience and knowledge in particular domain may be a very valuable employee as a visionary. Sorry, maybe it sounds very tough, but probably you haven't any chance to find a computer job at that age if you never worked in that industry before. And anyway good luck in your journey!
Nice little holiday weekend news dump.
I'm a decade behind you but having my daughter was a huge wake up call. I was leading a machine learning side project with plenty of of 20-somethings. They were very eager and involved, until my daughter was born. Suddenly half the team quit. One guy admitted he just assumed the project was over as soon as I had a kid, like I was dead or something. I ended up coding a majority of the project by myself.
As stated in the article, it's not that genuine cosmopolitanism doesn't exist- it's just rare. I'd be somewhat hard-pressed to find a political ideology that does not consider itself to be superior to the other ideologies, one in which the majority of members follow the 'full' ideology rather than a watered-down version. This article seems to be complaining that cosmopolitanism suffers from the same issues as any other ideology, and while that does not make the complaints invalid, it does raise questions as to why it's specifically cosmopolitanism that's being called out on this.

I may be missing something here, or misinterpreting some section, though, so please correct me if I've said something wrong.
The article is a bit confusing. Tesla produced more than 18k cars, but delivered 14k cars. So strictly speaking it was not the production but delivery target that got missed. There are some connections of course, if they had managed to ramp up production quicker, delivery could have progressed more. Production rates are said to have hit 2k cars per week in the last weeks.

In any case, this means that about 4k Teslas are currently in transit to their customers. The European Model X deliveries just started, so this would account for a lot of transit time, as shipping (literally!) cars takes it time.
AdDetector (http://www.ianww.com/ad-detector/) - Browser extension that flags news articles with corporate sponsors. My best Show HN with 200+ upvotes. About 16,000 installs. Asked by my company to discontinue it a few days later, so I stopped working on it.

Crowdsourced asteroid discovery (http://www.asterank.com/discover) - only 5 upvotes on HN, but nearly half a million survey images reviewed, with 17,000 potential asteroids marked. Not really working on it anymore.

Free outgoing SMS API (http://textbelt.com/) - not much interest on HN, but about 3M texts sent over the past few years, almost 1000 stars on Github. Requires an hour or two a month for maintenance, responding to issues, etc.

Call Congress (1-884-USA-0234) - single phone number that dials all your representatives one after another. 8 upvotes on HN, but did very well on Reddit and sent over 300 hours of phone calls to Congress in a few days after the Orlando shooting.

Conspiracy theory generator (http://www.verifiedfacts.org/) - Did well on HN with 181 points. About 1M conspiracies generated. On autopilot but still gets organic traffic for ridiculous queries like "snooki illuminati".

Dream logs (http://keepdream.me) - posted 4 years ago but it's a niche tool. 62 subscribers, 2.5k dreams recorded, on autopilot.

Asterank (http://www.asterank.com/) - I submitted parts of this site to Show HN as I added new features. Sold it to Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company for a small amount.

Meteor showers visualization (http://www.ianww.com/meteor-showers/) - did well on HN, finalist in some Popular Science viz contest.

Dinosaur Pictures database (http://dinosaurpictures.org/) - a few upvotes on HN, about 8k uniques/mo a year later mostly from SEO. This is one of my favorite projects to spend time on.
ABI is not a specific technology in the same way 'API' is not. So the ABI doesn't have any specific goals, it's just something that emerges when working with dynamic linking.
This assumes that fatigue is merely a thermodynamics problem. Fatigue could also be caused by the depletion of chemicals which take time to regenerate. Such effects would not be captured when looking at energy usage alone.
I would agree if she didn't want to learn calculus or linear algebra, but I think long division is a pretty fundamental skill in today's world. How much is my monthly car payment going to be if I take this loan? What is my share of the rent in this house? What are the consequences of running up a credit card balance?
Will texting kill the period?
Woah, I experienced this a lot when I was younger. I never knew it had a name. Before I went to sleep I would see all kinds of crazy patterns and colours, sort of like blurry fractals I guess. Level 3 describes it well, but I wouldn't say I spent a long time concentrating and I definitely hadn't taken any psychedelics at that young age.

After a period of time a small spinning... twitch... would appear at the very centre of my vision, the best way to describe it would be a spasm of small lines. Anyone else experienced this?

I never really thought it was odd until now, to be honest it kind of scared me. I assumed it was sort of tinnitus for your eyes, and I was somehow damaging them!
I've tried this many times, usually imagining walking "through" an environment such as a corridor. I would "get it" for a few moments, before it slips away. Always assumed that failing was simply due to my mind not being able to "conjure up" or "fill in" enough detail fast enough for it to be believable to me.
Thank you. I was beginning to doubt my sanity.

EDIT: Also, that's not even quite what I said: I said the rules of AAVE can produce sentences that can be parsed as simplified English. I didn't even say there are rules that are simplified. AFAICT and as far as the article goes, there aren't actually any rules that are simplified at all.

I think it's very important to distinguish between the underlying rules and the product. A speaker knows the rules. A recipient only receives the product. As this comment thread unfortunately shows, meaning can be lost completely no matter how much care is put into the production if the recipient isn't able to properly extract it from the product.
http://kytrinyx.com/presentations/here-be-dragons

An excellent talk that can put this in perspective for non technical people.
That's interesting. Why was the 1938 law introduced?
Its probably luck if you are relatively inexperienced. But hopefully you learn from both your mistakes and your successes and get it right more often than not as you gain more experience.
Were you a C# dev for long? Your naming conventions reflect that. Traditionally, Interfaces are not prefixed with I in Java.

Can you some up some salient points which makes spincast different from all other existing Java web frameworks? (spark, ninja, jooby etc)

My interest is because I love Java and would love to have a great goto framework in this language.
Validation of new fonts is handled by Windows rather than Paint, I don't see why a new font that meets the criteria set out for Windows would cause any massive test burden for Paint.
This sounds all too familiar, as a European. Friendship without intimacy is definitely big in the US.
Nice. I built a very basic 'clean youtube' player a long time back for personal purposes, that enabled me to just have a floating window of the video playing.

If anyone is interested, it's here:

http://www.jaruzel.com/projects/youtube/
Arguing against there being economies of scale in development is a straw man, no-one has thought this for a long time, the mythical man month was published decades ago.
Starting is the hard part. Once I get started, it's actually easier to keep going than to stop. Inertia works both ways.
I posted a simple Dynamic DNS service, http://dhcp.io, based upon Amazon Route53. I received about 5,000 users in the first month, most of whom were using their dynamic hostnames in SPAM mail.

I gradually started killing more and more accounts. The admin overhead was a pain, so I polled a few users and said "Hey this is crippling, would you pay?" Many said yes. I knocked up stripe integration and received zero paying clients.

Closed registrations to new users, and setup a git-based DNS host instead, https://dns-api.com . Users pay for that from the first week, and it slowly ticks over. I've been using the service myself for all my new domain registrations and I'm constantly impressed at how smooth it is.
" Year after year, Rasfeld’s institution ends up with the best grades among Berlin’s gesamtschulen, or comprehensive schools, which combine all three school forms of Germany’s tertiary system. Last year’s school leavers achieved an average grade of 2.0, the equivalent of a straight B – even though 40% of the year had been advised not to continue to abitur, the German equivalent of A-levels, before they joined the school. Having opened in 2007 with just 16 students, the school now operates at full capacity, with 500 pupils and long waiting lists for new applicants.

Given its word-of-mouth success, it is little wonder that there have been calls for Rasfeld’s approach to go nationwide. Yet some educational experts question whether the school’s methods can easily be exported: in Berlin, they say, the school can draw the most promising applicants from well-off and progressive families. Rasfeld rejects such criticisms, insisting that the school aims for a heterogenous mix of students from different backgrounds. While a cross adorns the assembly hall and each school day starts with worship, only one-third of current pupils are baptised. Thirty per cent of students have a migrant background and 7% are from households where no German is spoken."

OK, Rasfeld. If you believe you are working this magic with normal students, switch to lottery admissions, and provide pre-admission grades, IQ scores, parental incomes or language or country of origin, and we'll see how much of that outperformance remains after controlling for baseline characteristics and comparing the lottery winners with losers...
More than two scales in fact, I can think of three: scale of firm, scale of distribution, scale of product.

In most industries scale of firm goes hand-in-hand with scale of distribution. Software breaks the paradigm, so we have to be careful to say which scale we're talking about.

Obviously, with distribution, software has insane economies of scale, since we can copy-paste our products nearly for free. That's why we can have small firms with a large distribution, unlike most industries.

With scale of firm, we face some of the same diseconomies as other industries. Communication and coordination problems grow superlinearly with firm size.

Effort and resources needed also grow superlinearly with product scale. That's also true of other engineering disciplines though. Making a tower twice as high is more than twice as hard. Part of it is the complexity inherent in the product, and part of it is that a more complex design needs a bigger team, so you run into the firm diseconomies of scale mentionned above.
How is buying CSGO skins or whatever different from any other game that sells virtual goods from RNGesus?

A.) Why does your kid have your credit card

B.) Youtubers have always made money from their viewers
Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD are BSD licensed.

Why do you think FreeBSD is free as in freedom?
These are the same companies that admitted they had a cross company no-poach-employees policy that egregiously violated antitrust law on its face.

These three and Facebook also violate the law and damage other Americans with the policies of using H-1B visa holders to get cheap, captive labor.

Elizabeth Warren is no slouch: she knows what she's doing and many, many Americans support her 1,000%.
I am pretty sure that those who become familiar with sines and cosines will be better at understanding percentages and calculcating interests.
Alas, too many underestimate the importance of broad knowledge base, patterns and building blocks.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030277 and marked it off-topic.
I can't tell if you're suggesting Tesla is shipping crappy cars, or if you're saying that missing the production target is OK because they aren't shipping crappy cars.
$60k? On 100+ active installs?
I posted Open Exchange Rates[0] as a Show HN 1,534 days ago. It had just moved away from publishing free currency data into a GitHub repository, to its own website. In fact, they had just asked me politely to take it down due to the high traffic.

Open Exchange Rates was initially a portfolio piece (a labour of love that I hoped would land me a job at Stripe!) I launched it as an adjunct to money.js[1], a minimal JavaScript currency conversion library. The latter is still popular, but Open Exchange Rates has since organically grown on its own merits into a community of over 50,000 developers, with hundreds of tutorials and open source integrations. It's my full-time job, and there are seven of us on board.

We've since grown to be the industry-leader in our niche, loved and relied upon by Booking.com, SkyScanner, Etsy, KickStarter, WordPress.com, BrainTree, Coursera, Fab.com, Wego, Lonely Planet, Stripe, SoundHound, Vice.com - and thousands more of the world's most trafficked websites and brands.

This week, over four years later, I've just returned to Hong Kong - the project's birthplace - to work with our team here. We're about to switch on a platform that will open up true real-time data for our clients in high-risk financial environments, and allow us to scale to the next 500,000 clients and beyond.

I never liked where the industry is heading - towards competitive, closed, stingy business - so we've chosen to move further towards transparency, sharing and collaboration. The next steps in our journey are where we open more and more to our community and marketplace, meanwhile tailoring our higher-ticket service to those who need it.

(Thanks for posting this Ask HN!)

[0] https://openexchangerates.org

[1] https://github.com/openexchangerates/money.js
The race of the people speaking it.

I'll probably get downvoted for posting that. But I don't see how this essay supports any notion that AAVE is simpler than standard English, and coldtea doesn't supply any alternative source to support the claim.

Is calling it "simpler" a rigorous statment of some measurable quantity? If so, which one?

Or is it a way to impose a value judgment on the dialect and the people who created it and speak it today?

There is certainly a giant pile of American cultural precedent for the latter.
Both of the examples above are actual things I've seen. As for this one, it was not better programming, it was just over-engineered. I think that over-engineering is a stage all developers go through in their career. What is considered "better programming" certainly contributes to the problem.

It took 4 times as long to produce the solution that was 4 times bigger and more complex than it needed to be. Maintaining that huge body of code forever is more than 4x the effort over time than a single small function. And that's how you get a 0.25x (or less) programmer.
Yes, Joyent with Manta. Not sure if that was just a setup for them, or an actual question.

https://www.joyent.com/manta
That was the case, but it won't be now. Microsoft are not making a Windows 11. Slowly, but surely, Windows 10 will win, and it is an evergreen operating system.

Businesses get a special deal, they get to use the “current build for business”. But the future of Windows is like the versioning of Firefox and Chrome, not Internet Explorer.
> The limiting factor is no longer knowledge. It's the ability to absorb knowledge.

I get your point that from all experiments we performed so far and bothered to write down and digitize there might be few tricks left to squeeze out, but vast majority of our current progress comes from new experiments.

I agree that AI could very well write stuxnet or mess with our security so I'm hoping we get bit more tight in that department before we manage to build AI. I'd definitely prefer first artificial consciousness to be built before robots are as popular as cars or smartphones.

We will eventually develop AI and it'll be definitely challenging to orchestrate it running most of our civilization and not killing us in the process.

What I'm not afraid is AI taking what we know so far and secretly turning itself into miracle making god in matter of weeks. We will have few years or decades of existence before AI becomes vastly more powerful than the rest of us and till then we will have ability to align our priorities.

> Human brains run at maybe 100 hz. AI's built out of silicone could work thousands of times faster. Doing the same work, just in much shorter time.

It's not work. It's just thinking. AI can create philosophical theories or build new optimal JavaScript frameworks at blazing speed and still not make any progress in physics that would make it more powerful than us. It needs new data. It needs to run experiments to get anywhere beyond what we achieved so far. If we maintain transparency and caution in what AI is given and allowed to do then we may have safely transition from current world to AI world. Besides, at some point our civilization will encounter others it's better to bring our own AI to the table. Alien one might attach much less sentimental value to us.

> If you went back in time to Blaise Pascal, if you took the right books and plans from the future, you could get them to CPUs in mere years.

No, you couldn't. Do you know how long it takes to build a fab with current infrastructure available? You'd have to bring half or their industry into XX century before you could have a CPU.

> If you can predict prices 1% more accurately than anyone else, then you can make a huge amount of money in the long run.

Yes. The thing with stock market is that you can't. It's not because you are not smarter than other traders. It's because interaction between all the traders creates pretty much perfect chaotic random process that no-one can predict.

> Stock prices aren't random. They are determined by real events, mainly how much profit the company makes.

Same way random generator driven by unknown algorithm is predicted by its seed.