skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel like the people who would even desire this sort of fashion feedback (young -> college-aged women) would rather use $200 to buy additional items to wear. Much older than that and people have either developed a sense of personal style or have decided they just don't care about clothes. Weird product.
Except for people with the "I don't want to look like everybody else" attitude.

I wonder how "friendly" it will end up being since the behavior of the usual sales person in a shop is quite discrete.

I'll have to wait for reviews because I would never sacrifice my privacy in such a way.
Yes margin trading is available elsewhere but only on Robinhood is it so easy. Setting it up on Scottrade or what have you is difficult and has a lot of hoops to run through. On your phone it really feels like "not a big deal", so a lot more young, inexperienced ordinary people can get sucked into it.
why not just add +sitename to your email when you sign up..... eg me@example.com becomes me+flickr@example.com ? it's just a comment that will be ignored. I don't feel that we need software support to help with that. Your password manager will store that address (since it's probably your username) and help you fill it in / remember it when you come back to the site.
What's been your reasoning for switching every time? Pick a distro, stick with it, and learn to customize it to your liking.
Ask HN: Is it good to bring social content on company blog?
I was wondering how it can be useful for startups blog?
Since startups use a various social media platform to reach users. Most of them use Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Medium kind of platform.
Bringing contents from all these platforms to the blog can help them to SEO and give more information about the company.
Need HN users Thoughts...

PS: I am working upon social content aggregation.
Wind and solar are non-starters. They're more expensive than coal and they can't cover base load.

Nuclear could cover base load but is orders of magnitude more expensive (up-front) than coal. Huge investment, huge regulatory burden, huge political risk. Until recently, we hadn't built a new nuclear plant in the country for decades. [0] Coal is cheap and reliable. Always has been.

What's killing coal is low, non-volatile natural gas prices from shale fracking.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
Bad fashion advice?
Want to learn: C++, Rust, Haskell, Go

Funny enough, learning C++ these days is arguably harder because of modern C++ standards. Reconciling the best practices between old and new can be difficult at times, especially if you don't care to embrace everything modern C++ has to offer. Multi-platform build systems also tend to be incredibly complex.

Rust solves all this, but its ecosystem isn't exactly mature at the moment. Sadly very few people in game dev take Rust seriously right now.
Python and Javascript primarily, but also some Bash and Clojure. I want to go deeper into Clojure, and learn Haskell, C and maybe Rust and Go among others.
Amazon is trying to disrupt the Instagram Husband. I'm all for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKi-o4rHw
After having founded a number of startup, I know how it is to be in an all consuming thing. I would imagine as a conscience VC you would have to feel all in on many projects.
Amazon has in-house fashion lines. Think of the data!

Clothing brands would kill for this sort of insight into what people are actually wearing.
"want to learn new tech" "PHP"

something doesn't add up
Tech companies have a habit of hiring the absolute best people and have them do the most mundane work. Then they wonder why turnover is so high
Presaged by this comic:

http://p-kyle.tumblr.com/post/95120917356/frontier-patrick-k...
It could recommend animal print. We are doomed.
Show HN: What we learned from raising $1,200,000
White House readies order on withdrawing from NAFTA
I think the bigger problem is the erosion of the distinction between "investor" and "speculator", which is often unclear for novices entering the market (for whom Robinhood is significantly lowering the barrier for). Robinhood provides the firing range and a gun but no safety instructions.

So I'm willing to bet you view this app very differently than someone who finds it on the App Store in a spur of the moment enticed-by-Wall-Street feeling, where it can be mistakenly thought as a get-rich-quick scheme. There's no education component to Robinhood

(This conflation between speculator/investor has been happening for a while, see "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham.)
know - Clojure (first language, one I know best via book learning / theory)
know - Scala (The one I have the most experience in as I've used for most of my almost 3 years of professional programming career)
done-a-bit-of - XQuery, Java
like-to-learn - Rust, Elixir, miniKanren/core.logic, chez/Scheme, Idris
Was on Fedora before. Debian is ok and better than Ubuntu IMHO.
I don't "know" any language. My goal is to "know" C in the next 5 years. My reach goal is to understand how the "computer works" in the next ~10 years.

Not in my wildest dreams can I imagine me "knowing" C++.
There you go :)
The company I work for has piles of Visual Basic 6 code that will be here for as long as their product is viable (Prepaid credit cards services). The growth is simply not their to perform a rewrite. It's sad but is also a reality.
So they lost 2.8 billion last year and this years just started and their entire valuation drops by 26%. Ouch
Many of you have raised significantly more but I hope some of these tips help some pre-seed companies.
Remote Worker: Alexa, how does today's t-shirt and pajamas ensemble compare to yesterday's t-shirt and pajamas ensemble?

Remote Worker: Given these two photos of me in different shirts, but the same pajamas, which is more in style, and which is a better fit for me, given my personal style?
Soooo... its a $200 mirror?
#FakeNews title and all. This is not flamebate, so please do not flag me. I would like to point out that the average cost of production for wind was found to be $80 - $129 / MWh when you include subsidies, transmission, base load challenges, etc.

From Newsweek (arguably a progressive-leaning publication): "The best estimate available for the total cost of wind power is $149 per megawatt-hour, taken from Giberson’s 2013 report." http://www.newsweek.com/whats-true-cost-wind-power-321480

Also from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-01/wind-powe...
MS would crash and burn virtually over night. With no backwards compatibility there is little to no reason for customers (business or consumer) to stick with the brand.
Are you serious? If yes, ask PAX Team, irc email, whatever.
I'm the classic US-centric American. Northern Europe can solve its own problems, they have all the tools (nuclear, hydro, wind, geothermal). The rest of the world (i.e. the vast majority of people) is closer to the equator and doesn't need a cable running to the Sahara.
We could meet on IRC and exchange numbers, then migrate to Signal... I've taken the liberty of setting up ##hackerblues on Freenode.
Fashion conscious and (irrevocably vain or hopelessly insecure).
That video gives a terrific overview of the landscape of the fusion field as it exists pretty much right now. It's an extremely coherent talk.

It's long but worth the watch.
Doesn't most brokers already provide up to 7 to 10 time leverage for intraday and 2 to 3 times for future?

Atleast in india every broker provides that.
Having explicit pointers gives you more control over allocation. As you mention, Go is a GC language, and there are no guarantees of whether allocation will occur on the stack or the heap. But generally, non-pointer values will be stack-allocated. This reduces pressure on the GC, since the values are just discarded along with the stack frame on return.

For this reason, it's usually considered good form to pass values to functions instead of pointers, even if the values are larger. This allows the compiler to prove through escape analysis that the arguments don't need to be heap-allocated. In some cases pointers can be proven not to escape, but in a limited set of circumstances.

Having explicit pointers also resolves type system awkwardness between simple and complex data types. Consider Java, which is also a pass-by-value language, but has "reference" types, except for int, float, etc. So everything is a reference except this bag of simple data types, effectively creating a 2-tiered type system. Java has dealt with this by implementing boxing and unboxing rules for int/Integer and friends, which is fine, but adds complexity.

Finally, one of my personal favourite features about having a complex data type that is a value instead of a pointer or reference is that you can use structs and arrays as map keys.
Worked for me on 3 different browsers.

Are you using lynx?
Have a look at this new elegant E-Motion by MG Motor
VC in 24 Charts
Can anyone with more machine learning expertise explain: Will this actually work well? Seems like a gimic
I don't understand why there wouldn't be at least 2 or 3 students, in any graduation class, interested in learning some language (and everything around it, since COBOL isn't just about the language but understanding business and computation in another paradigms).

Do all students just care about learning the hype and creating the next flapping bird game?
Open source website for planning your Ballmer Peak
AmigaBASIC was horrible. It didn't really make use of the OS facilities that well, and it was slow and cumbersome. Almost identical to Microsoft's BASIC for the Mac from what I've seen, and that was universally hated compared to MacBasic
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> Your diet and your car are far more likely to kill you than global warming.

True for me. True for my (entirely hypothetical and never likely to exist) grandchildren? Less clear.
Keeping mobile apps lightweight: how we shrank Algolia Offline by 69%
I'm 95% confident that I have no use for it and expect complete failure, therefore it will sell and cement Amazon as the #1 player in machine learning.
Trump is really a bad example, I don't think he believes most of what he says, he just says what he thinks people want to hear. In that way he's less to blame, he's guilty because he used it as a convenient way to score points.

The ones truly complicit in the Great Lie know who they are, and I have a feeling their day of judgement is closer than they want to believe.
PHP security best practices
Medication is a problem unless you are sick.
We all need confirmation and less pressure...are we sick because of that?
> Realistically, if, say, one of these big corps/banks with deeply-integrated COBOL systems spent a few years revamping their systems to something more modern and usable today, how much would it cost?

What language would you suggest? Remember that decimal reliability and predictability is important. Plus, let's pick a language likely to have a very long service life because we need to have our investment rewarded.

Frankly, the iSeries machine we have is pretty cheap to run. We bought it 10 years ago for about $15k and have had a maintenance contract that doesn't cost that much (about the same as our Red Hat service contract). We probably will buy another one since they just released a sub $10k one that will more than meet our needs. Never lost any data, easy enough backup that the biz office does it themselves[1], and IBM is pretty quick about any fixes. Much cheaper than any Linux, BSD, or Windows system we have ever had. Plus, I don't mess with it like the others. It just works.

1) we've tested it multiple times, after all, an unrestored backup is not a true backup
Alexa, please don't blackmail me.
The search is terrible. If a recent photographer has taken 1,000 photos and tagged them with your search keyword, you have to wade through all 1,000 of that photographer's photos first, even if they are all of a style you aren't looking for. And this happens to a large degree on practically every search keyword you try. They have no collapsing of photos from one source, nor any ability to filter out such spurious results.
I was going to spend a little while spitballing about how it shouldn't be all that hard to build a wall-hangable replica without all the creepy cloud-bound spy smarts - and then I found this [1], which does a better job than I could. I'd probably clean up the sides and use something nicer than veroboard for the grille, if I were making this myself, but it's a very good first approximation to say the least.

And Adafruit's method solves the major problem, of where to find a suitable lens to replace the rather expensive [2] original prop part, very handily! Unfortunately, they're out of stock of the rather crucial button, but Sparkfun appears [3] to have no trouble sourcing them.

ETA: On further reading, I wouldn't follow this Adafruit method; I don't have access to a laser cutter, and even if I did, having the tabs stick out the side, and the whole thing sort of jigsawed together that way, doesn't appeal.

Instead, I'd work up a frame from aluminum bar stock, which isn't all that much harder to work with than plastic, and build the faceplate to mount picture-frame-style in a groove milled into the inside face of the bar. If you've got access to a laser cutter, you probably also have, or can easily enough get access to, a milling machine, whether CNC or manual - they even make mini-XY tables with Dremel mounts, which might actually be preferable for a small job like this to something more like a Bridgeport machine. (If you do want some smarts in there, you can have as much room for them as you need - just pick a suitably sized bar stock. The groove will be near the front edge in any case, since the prop doesn't have a lot of depth there; the rest is just trading off between how much space you have behind the faceplate, and how proud of the wall you want the finished item to be.)

Also, since I (again) don't have access to a laser cutter, I'd cut down the grille from the door RF shield out of a scrap-heap microwave. If you don't have one of those lying around - and why would you? - your local junkyard does, and who doesn't love a trip to the junkyard? Shouldn't cost more than a few bucks; if you bring your dikes and don't mind maybe having to stitch up a hole in a pocket, you can probably cut the piece you need and smuggle it out without paying a cent, although you probably want to be paying for something else at the same time so it doesn't look too sketchy.

Looks like a fun project, in any case, laser cutter or no!

[1] https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/hal-9000-replic...

[2] http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/8mm-f8.htm

[3] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9181
Basic Type Level Programming in Haskell
Doesn't work. Not trying to snark, just being honest. It's just part of my yearly expense.
Not helped by Google thinking they could apply Chrome/web methodology to device firmware. Sorry, but there is a reason why MS do year long public betas etc. Apple can get away with being different because they control the whole stack, from the chips to the online services. Right now Google is where Palm was with PalmOS.
I was fairly skeptical as well, but then I showed this to my friend and she thought it was a great product idea (albeit potentially overpriced). Apparently a lot of people like to take fit pictures and also log outfit combinations which work for them.
If Robinhood bundles user debt and sells it at varying ratings (depending on information about the stocks being bought, perhaps) they could protect themselves from a large default and probably make money doing it
How to create the smallest possible Docker image for your Golang application
I've used it for both about 6 months and it's wonderful. Very easy and nice to use. Only complaint is there is no features to explore stocks and financial news but there are other apps for that
I've got mixed feelings about api.ai, I haven't tried others like wit.ai because more hype was around api.ai.

Firstly, their libraries feel incomplete. 2 months ago I tried their nodejs one, and after some frustration, I ended up wrapping their REST calls.
Last week I was working with someone new on our team, and we tried the Python one [0], again a mess, and we ended up wrapping the API around Python requests.

There is little activity on GH given that there might be other people having similar issues.

Webhooks are a take-it-all-or-leave it IMHO. When invoking a webhook call from an action, you can only respond once (i.e. no follow-up through api.ai).
My conclusion from this part was that you can't build a serious (are they ever) bot relying solely on api.ai, and you have to do some heavy lifting on your server side.

What I have appreciated so far is their NLP part, it's hard (or impossible for some of us without the knowledge) to roll our own NLP solution, so I can give them props over making that part easy.

I'll keep using it as I'm training our team using api.ai, but if there are "better" solutions that other people have tried, I'd be keen on hearing their experiences.

[0] https://github.com/api-ai/apiai-python-client
• Used but suck at (or at least I think I suck at them): C, a bit of a niche form of assembly, all kinds of strange application-specific languages

• Know but rusty: C++, C#, Python, AS3, Java, GLSL

• Currently use: JavaScript, Typescript, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS

• Playing with: Nim, D, Rust

• Want to learn: I'm honestly trying to decide what to learn next. Might jump into Nim but I also have to go back and give Rust more of a chance after escaping the inconvenience of lifetime annotations. D seems nice but it seems to be pretty colossal in a similar way to C++ and I don't have time to dig into something like that right now.

One thing I'd love to do is go lower level than what I've ever done (C memory management / kernel-y stuff), but I have no project which would justify doing it and I'm time constrained.
How many disks can you add to a (virtual) Linux machine?
I'm proficient in: Python and JavaScript.

I'm rusty in: PHP and Java.

I'm mediocre in: C, C++, and C#.

I want to learn: Rust, Nim, and Lua.
Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators
Was sad when I found out they dumped it for Win8 and newer...
Of course the obvious thing we all did was freak out about privacy, etc. They'll soon be pulling video from the crime scene.

Anyway, can some of the HN crowd take the sunny day case (assume we'll properly address privacy), and discuss interesting uses of this technology? Image recognition and shopping? Show it want you want to buy, for example.
> Robinhood is effectively lending money with little guarantee to take anything back and no source of income.

i have not looked into robinhood's margin offering, so maybe it's very different, but in my other brokerage accounts, margin works something like this:

i buy $10k of SPY.
after the trade closes, the broker says "ok, you own $10k of SPY, and that's good for another $5k of margin."
so then i can go buy another $5k of whatever i want.
i pay 9% interest or so on that $5k.
if SPY drops in value "enough", the broker can on a moment's notice, sell as much of the SPY as they want to cover my debts.

so... they've got a great guarantee they can take it all back.
HALexa
I really don't think Mark Cuban will be on that list.
I mean one could make a very similar argument between the displaced coal miners and the people who still work for a failing startup. You want to believe the good times are coming again and that desire to believe can override a lot of really good logical thinking.

Americans are hopeful, it's our single greatest strength and the source of our most disastrous failings.
I for one am looking forward to Fapening 3.0
Read the article that this conversation is attached to for a list of very good reasons. Getting fusion to work is most certainly possible, but incredibly hard. Engineering for salt water is way easier than engineering for neutron activation, achieving high neutron economy to breed the tritium, managing tritium, managing a high temperature reactor next to a very cold magnetic containment system, a high vacuum system, oh and the very basic problem that has yet to be solved (achieving even just breakeven fusion in a non-H-bomb) etc, etc. It really does look trivial to just properly seal stuff against saltwater.

We'll probably need fusion to help reach the stars, so I think it's definitely something that should be pursued, but making it an economic power source for Earth seems very unlikely to me.
It needs not to be wholesale open sourced, but dev-friendly, hackable, after market support. Android is a good example. Even some OEMs favor lockdown (looking at you, Samsung), there are dev-friendly OEMs (OnePlus, Google). End users don't need to be tech-savvy, especially farmers, but knowing there is alternative support from community is good enough.
Agreed! Sounds like this was not the solution for you...
With the Alexa they were able to get around the always on monitoring . Not sure about this device but it feels like that Amazon is making things palatable to the consumer like . It's like a consumerist Brave New World.
Isn't docopt kinda like like this too?

> Of course, none of this would be a problem if there was a standard "--complete <shell>" flag.

PowerShell has interesting (if not very applicable to unix) approach: cmdlet parameters have some standard annotations attached that can be queried with reflection
> The proposed contract listed here is a 100 percent set aside for Women Owned Small Business concerns. The Government will only accept offers from this (sic) small business concerns. All other firms are deemed ineligible to submit offers.

Well what about the other couple-dozen genders that seem to have surfaced in recent years? =)
A Privacy Stack for Protecting Your Data
Serious: what's wrong with the buttons?
> margin trading is available elsewhere but only on Robinhood is it so easy

What part of it is hard on eTrade or ThinkOrSwim? It's almost literally the same process.

The only difference is RobinHood is scooping up all of the people who are new to stock trading and the others aren't. Those same people would be offered the same margin on any other platform.
Margin trading is not any easier on Robinhood than any other major brokerage platform. They all make it pretty trivial to trade on margin. Scottrade makes you sign a form saying you understand what you're doing, that's about it (I'm sure Robinhood has the same requirement).
I kinda wonder how well this will work. My experience with the echo is that it understands my voice and questions very poorly, far worse than Google's assistant on phones. I've never tried google home.

I guess identifying a person in a photo and checking if colors and patterns are "in" is easier than NLP. Certainly won't have feedback on fit though.
A pointer tells you that the underlying data type can be modified in place. Pass by value ensures immutability to the original value. The exception to the syntax are collections that use `make` like slices, maps, channels.
The difference is Casinos are your effective counterparty and not a marketplace.
I imagine this would. E evaluated by a judge and or a reasonable standard clause. We don't tolerate domestic abuse in the home so maybe those concepts extend to the workplace.
Yep. I know Perl (5 not 6) really well and programmed in it for about 10 years. No one I've seen actually wants to hire for it. I'm fine with that because it wasn't something I loved much like the Transact-SQL programming (love Objective-C and looks like Swift will be more work not love).
Harder to hang on a wall, though.
throw it against the wall and see what sticks?
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