skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my current workflow: http://i.imgur.com/qeUfXuI.png

Top pane is for git stuff.

Bottom left is where webpack/npm/react stuff runs - if I save and see errors, I know something is wrong.

Bottom right is an ssh tunnel to a server the local dev environment depends on. (Or I can run that dependency locally, too, but meh.)

For me, it's pretty intuitive - splitting, switching panes, etc. I know it's effectively the same, but I can't imagine going to back to one-tab-per-process. If nothing else, the ability to see multiple logs scrolling by in a single window is A+.
Ask HN: What task manager do you use?
I'm curious because many of us have to switch between contexts: work, hobbies, private life, side projects etc.

Things 3 is out now, and then there's 2DO, Todoist and ofcourse the no-features-spared: Omnifocus.

So for the busy guys: what are you guys using and why?
Bacause you cant use that on your computer, i think the idea here is to be cross-platform.
At my last company, we used redis both for celery as a queue, and a cache for values we needed to call often and retrieve quickly. We ALSO used Mongo, but moreso as a store for larger documents that were called less frequently. I think it's not fair to compare them directly together, they are each useful in their own specific cases.
> What about Canadian colleges

In Canada, no meaningful rise in income due to university attainment has occurred[1]. For young men in particular, increasing rates of university attainment has shown lower real wages[2]. No need for 7% stock market returns to try and make up for lost wages as seen in the article. You could technically put your equivalent student costs into a low-interest savings account and come out further ahead.

[1] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-631-x/2016002/c-g06-eng.png

[2] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-631-x/2016002/c-g07-eng.png
I'd give her a chance to retract this anyway, but otherwise PM May has revealed that she is either a fool or an autocrat. Either should get her voted out of office.
> We should not aim to make college free by means of government sponsorship, but rather education free or inexpensive by means of lowering the actual costs.

I think that you're vastly underestimating how much money is needed to provide quality higher education. Trust me, the last thing we need is a race to the bottom when it comes to higher education.
Russia didn't attack and annexed part of Georgia, those are self-managed unrecognized entities. Also if you support that Kosovo shouldn't be part of Serbia, then Abkhazia and South Ossetia shouldn't be part of Georgia, it's absolutely de-facto separate entities (source: my grandparents lived in Abkhazia) and those small nations fought with Georgia by themselves.
Yes, Crimea was annexed and that's totally wrong, but it has complex history and you need to look at the whole string of events which triggered this.
Who exactly shot down the plane is still not 100% clear. Even though I think it was on DNR rebels, Ukrainain army wasn't angels as well. Also Russian backed rebels and Russia itself is a big difference (al qaeda was USA backed at some point). And even rebels I'm sure weren't trying to shot down passenger plane, same as when USA shot down passenger plane in 1988 (and George Bush said that he'll never apologize for that, even though it was clear they were responsible for destroying civilian plane). And speaking of USA, at the recent time they attacked a lot of countries (like with Iraq, on false pretense, 0 consequence later) and dropped a lot of bombs, so if we go just by numbers and don't look deeper in the each situation Sweden should be more afraid of USA, as I said before...
Politics is hard and dirty, but my original point was, that there's no political or any point of Russia attacking Sweden.
Is there any requirement to disclose possession of a submarine like this? If it were I, as a military commander, I would rather enjoy having a few of these lurk until I had to play my had.

then again, IANAGeneral ;)
Building maintenance isn't free and comes out of university funds. Especially at state schools you see politicians posing in front of a new building they have arranged funding for. Trouble is, the new building requires maintenance, as does the existing building stock, and oftentimes it would make better economic sense to renovate the buildings that are already there as you don't increase the number of buildings. But you won't find a politician to pose in front of a renovation, consequently you won't get free state money either.
Okay, left you 50k inheritance to do whatever you want with it.
In other words, stay dumb, education is not worth it. Yup, that's exactly what our culture needs more of.
I did try to create a new profile with the same email address and it didn't let me, so it does appear to be treating it sort of like a primary key.

And if it's just a label, then maybe it should be advertised as such. I see what you're saying now, but that's not obvious from the app.
The clipboard feature isn't working for me
Better than I thought, but the trend is not inspiring. 37k is already a lot, and it keeps raising. I think it used to be that if you work while you study and don't go to elite school, you can graduate with little to no debt, not the case anymore. It was $17k even in 2003[1]. Now 37k. In 10 years? Either the trend breaks downward very soon, or we're facing a major crisis there.

[1] http://www.onlinecolleges.net/student-debt-in-the-u-s-part-2...
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rome_Viharo
The problem is that keeping this investment and not spending it on useless things like new car, fancy apartment, designer clothing, etc, requires very large willpower. So, psychologically, it makes sense to get an education, and find some job.
You make some interesting points, albeit in a rather confrontational style.

>We've had the DUAL_EC scandal, for once, as an example of NSA backdoor which as far as was proved, only the NSA could crack.

I am not a cryptographer but I understood this a little differently from the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

> proved that backdoors are not only possible...

This is not disputed. What is disputed is that there is some safe way of doing it

> but were going on behind our backs...

A number of people outside of the NSA had identified the possibility of a backdoor. It seems some decided to overlook it or felt powerless to do anything. Indeed some others patented it, thereby making it public. Maybe the $10M grant affected some peoples judgement

> only the NSA could crack

If I understand correctly the flaw weakened the selection of key parameters in a way that made it easier to brute force, by dramatically reducing the possible start points. If another nation state had brought their resources to this, maybe they could have exploited it and, most likely, they wouldn't have made that public. Moreover the Juniper scandal (mentioned at the end of the same article which was rather convenient) suggests that a third party did indeed make use of this backdoor.

> the real issue would be the scale and the distribution of access to the backdoor to various agencies.

Which was a point discussed in the original article at some length
She has been after this for years, there's absolutely no chance of her retracting it, unfortunately :(
That's overly broad. I was hoping for something more specific. Again, not trying to be contrary. I sincerely want to understand why some highly intelligent people can read this book and be convinced of the existence of God, while other highly intelligent people can read it and end up convinced otherwise. I find that outcome interesting.
The Biggest, Strangest 'Batteries'
Unfortunately, the public doesn't understand this. They just hear someone is "fighting the terrorists" and don't care the policy is insane.
I know a guy who does all his projects using Max MSP and loves it.

It's obvious that visual programming is much less expressive than writing code, but it's attractive to people that are afraid of code or are too lazy to learn a new language.
WYSIWYG fails for two reasons:

- Programming errors most of the time break everything. You probably know how bitchy Word can be. Errors will be frequent und finding them when you don't really know what happens under the hood will be very difficult.

- WYSIWYG does not abstract very well. The big power of programming however is, that you can build your own tools from a minimal set of building blocks. Visual representation for self-build tools and routines will not be pretty out of the box.

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Those visual languages that do have a big userbase do the following:

- no WYSIWYG, just "nodes". The visual parts of the nodes:

- - inputs and outputs are often connected with "wires"

- - simple control UI like a knob or a button can be shown directly

- they allow wrapping a bunch of wired mess in to a box with simple in- and outputs again

- some allow to jump back in to code where necessary

- in general nice for small art-projects

- difficult or at least in-flexible for complex stuff

- often a lot more copy+pasting

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My undergraduate supervisor would say that you mustn't suppress outliers, it distorts the statistics.
Wow. It's just distributed signed ledgers.
The lawsuit might contend people don't know they are addicting but that's not reality.
I got it at a time when I was just out of college with only $6000 in my account...so yeah, people like me need financing.
Ok, that's just self-contradictory and far-fetched. Plus, attacking Sweden doesn't secure passage into the Atlantic.
As a manager, I would listen to the IC's request, say "I'll see what options are available, let's come back to this next week in out 1-to-1", and then go to my boss to see how much time we can offer/how to implement a vesting holiday.

If the options are: lose someone for 6 months, or lose someone completely; I'd push strongly for the former.
Is it real (as in not fake)? I mean, Soviet Union still existed in 1990 and it didn't fail economically yet.

Maybe I'm missing some context but why would people fear Iran in 1990? Of all things?
I use "guys" to refer to groups of women all the time. I don't think people who say "you guys" check and make sure it isn't 100% women before saying it.
I've personally gotten a lot of value out of the CSS-Tricks flexbox guide [0]. It's visual, and sufficiently comprehensive.

0 - https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483350
There's still opportunity costs to consider. For example, in the Netherlands tuition is about 2k a year (the rest is subsidised). Education is top-notch (pretty much all of our universities are top 5% worldwide), although we don't have any of the top 0.1% institutions that educate a relative handful of students. (e.g. Harvard with 2k students per year)

But despite cheap tuition fees, the average person would spend 5 years on a 4 year degree. Spending 7 years for a Masters' is not uncommon, i.e. starting at age 18 and completing your education at age 25.

The real cost then isn't tuition, it's opportunity costs. When you can make 15x your tuition-fees a year, but you can't because you're studying full-time, that's the real cost.

And 7 years at a Dutch GDP of around 45k is an economic production that's nothing to be scoffed at, exceeding 300k. Of course, a high-school graduate's income isn't average, but on the other hand considering 'only' 13% of the kids in our educational system end up doing a Master's degree, examining the kids who'd otherwise go to university are likely to have above-average earning potential. All in all, it's not crazy to assume we're looking at a minimum cost of 100k.
please try Bubble.is
They'd place the conservatives on one planet and the liberals on the other. With filter bubbles being fully separated, they can shard the database :-P
that's not always true. the visual representation of an idea that can also be conveyed in text can oftentimes provide additional information not easily gleaned from the text-based representation. the easiest example of this is the visual representation of the graph of a function. a more advanced one is feynman diagrams. also think of symbology that is so ubiquitous in mathematics. it's much easier to write x_n->x absolutely rather than detail out the text-based definition of absolute convergence. obviously this latter idea is close to writing a function or procedure in code that consolidates an idea to a smaller textual representation, but symbology in mathematics far outpaces that of symbology in text-based programming languages.
Why don't you subsidize it so it is affordable, but not free? In Canada I pay ~8k per term (and that's higher than most Canadian schools), which I think is pretty reasonable. Plus there are tuition discounts for lower income levels, so it's more affordable for them. Seems to work pretty well, I think making it free would cause people to get more useless degrees, which would just cost taxpayers money for no reason.
Consider an undergraduate program where ~150 people each contributed say $50,000 each to collectively buy a large parcel of land and create their own eco-regenerative village. That would be $7.5 MM dollars.

Over the course of a few years they would build micro-homes, permaculture farms, invent, build, hack, create art, take free online courses, host traveling scholars, incubate start-up ideas, etc. They'd be a self-sustaining techno-tribal commune.

After 4 years, they'd have the skills to live sustainably, work together, and would have basic food, shelter and community needs taken care of for the rest of their lives, and they would be free to invent, create art, do activist work, help other students boot up similar learning communities, travel among other similar villages the world over, etc.
The colored diagrams use to explain contexts and hygienic macros are a neat idea.
Ask HN: Should I leave tech for international trade?
Hey there. This a throwaway account.

I'm a Software Engineer w/ 10+ years of experience. Live in NY, have a family and a decent salary - $150k. I'm expecting my Green Card in a month or so. I have always wanted to start a business in the tech industry. Like many of you, I think through various ideas every single day, build prototypes, read HN and al that.

But, a week ago my brother proposed me to start a US business in the International Import/Export industry. He works at Customs and Border Protection in my home country and is familiar with cargo, container ships and stuff like that.

The US company he wants me to start would be a wholesale supplier of steel, wood and/or food and beverages. My brother would be a partner who would export all the products from our home country.

The problem is that this whole niche is very grey to me. It's the same as I would ask my gramma to go work at SpaceX. Well, maybe not that bad, since I can read from the Internets and my gramma doesn't really know what Google is. But anyways, you get the point.

I love HN community and would GREATLY appreciate any feedback on this. Basically, I don't know what to do.
There is something seriously wrong with society when accountants run the world. Money is a tool, education provides long term wealth and stability. Providing fuel for people considering skipping collage is short sighted.
How does it compare with SQRL? What does SecureLogin better? It like SQRL's QR code approach very much so that you can easily go to a public computer and login by just using pointing your phone to the screen.
There is something seriously wrong with society when accountants run the world. Money is a tool, education provides long term wealth and stability. Providing fuel for people considering skipping collage is very short sighted.
I don't think it's anywhere near conclusive yet that more layers = better. It's pretty telling that the current state-of-the-art is combining a bunch of layers together in a pseudo random fashion. Nobody understands how these things work to the point that we can make a formula or equation to produce better CNN's, or even predict which models will be more effective to any accuracy. You think more layers is better, because the best models we have happen to have the most layers? Some deep understanding of concepts there.
Hold outs from the embassy fiasco.
I'm surprise nobody had mentioned tulips.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies...
Your example is strange. Changing the text and changing the data would require the same amount of time. And a graph would, in fact, instantly put that change into context.

Right, code is data.

Not now, though. Currently, code is text -- it's not data. That's the problem. And, yes, currently, drawing it instead of typing out the text is a horrible idea. We agree.

But remember, currently, we're failing. Software is a disgrace of an industry, in all honestly. It's mired in undue complexity. It's a Rube Goldberg contraption that we all, somehow, take seriously.

Imagine a better future. Imagine visualizing a complex set of rules and seeing all the places where a change would cause knock-on effects. Imagine being able to manage your code base in a way that doesn't require you to download it all into your head. Hell, imagine a decent IDE. The first step for all of that is to move it from text to data.
I use the android SQRL client
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vrallev.an...

Then you can see the headers that are exchanged.
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/diag.htm
Yet Another Rambling WWDC Predications Post
Education isn't about money.
Ask HN: Would anyone pay for automatic backups of their Git repos?
I've been contemplating the idea of building a little business around a system that automatically backs up a local git repository's working tree at regular intervals to a cloud repo. I would add a git command that would allow users to easily find and restore backups with no hassle. It might prevent people from losing work that hadn't yet been pushed or committed after an accidental deletion or a hard drive failure. Would anyone pay for this for themselves or their team? I've also thought that it might be interesting to present productivity analytics based upon these regular backups since the data could show more granular detail about working habits as compared to data based off of just commits. Hoping for some validation prior to spending more time building out the application, so any feedback is appreciated.
This seems like it should be flagged. Not really HN material.

Plus a lot of this is misleading. The Soviet threat was exaggerated to a large degree. Regan's Team B invented weapons that did not exist.

If you want an objective look at the cold war vs the war on terror, I highly suggest The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary by Adam Curtis.
Ask HN: YC Fellowship DD?
I have stumbled upon this article https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship/ from July 2015 announcing the YC Fellowship and another one in January 2016 announcing the Fellowship V2 https://blog.ycombinator.com/fellowship-v2/

I was wondering if YC fellowship continues and if so what's DD?
The 'actual costs' are not the reason that fees are so high in the USA though.
> Exactly, there's no logic behind that. No point of attacking Finland

And yet, Russia has in the past done just that. The Finns don't maintain their extremely vigilant conscripted military for shits and giggles.

More generally, your hyper-active argumentation all over this thread is just weird : all countries develop military contingency plans, and everyone within artillery range of Russia's border is legitimately concerned about the threat of Russian military action. Plain and simple.
It depends what you mean by "it's impossible" when you are discussing 'good-guy backdoors'. I don't think the article was saying its impossible just because it is technologically hard. The article discussed at length that what was impossible is that the keys would be guaranteed to stay in the hands of good guys, and that the good-guys would always be good.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to say that that is impossible.
Compiling Pararena 2
Yeah, nice scenario for a game or scary movie, but has 0 potential in reality. Russia - NATO war? Really? And you want to spend huge amount of money and return conscription in Sweden to protect from this? Maybe Europe should also spend billions for creating a special system against attack from, I don't know, let's say Burundi, maybe they also can be bad guys in some game.
Doesn't that argument extend to mean that the public shouldn't fund any education? I mean what's the difference between the first ~12 years of school vs the last 2-5? Is the difference that the people are adults and no longer children (and so can be said to be responsible for themselves)?
Yes there are a lot of options but I don't think that it would be inconceivable to have such options split out as separate components.

I want an hide-overflow behavior to this component, then I just wrap it with a hide-overflow component. Doing that drag-and-drop should work. Then again you would need to design such components in a way that makes them intuitive to use, but that's always the case.
> Wasting four years is a huge cost.

At college I: learned calculus, computer programming, advanced mathematics, urban planning, how to communicate like a grown up, and those are just the big topics. I also took acting classes and learned social skills and made lifelong friends. When I graduated, a professor arranged my first professional job which was an order of magnitude better than any blue collar gig I had ever had. Now I have an interesting job that I feel good about, make 90k a year with benefits and a pension, and go home at 5:30 every night; this job would not be possible without college. I took out 20,000 in loans to go for the last two years after transfering from community college (with no loan for that).

So, ... what the fuck did you do at college that you are calling it a "waste"? My life is completely different because I went to college, and the same is true for everyone I know.

Now, I think there is a problem when naive, often blue collar people, go to college and don't know how to make the most of that experience: they don't know how to talk to professors so they get their help and friendship, what courses to take, how to study, how to schedule their own time and not spend it getting wasted, or how to use their degree to get professional jobs afterward. Even though I was a returning student, I grew up in a very educated professional world, and that was not hard for me.

Probably doesn't matter, but I got a BA in math from a mediocre regional state school as returning student, graduating at the age of 30 or 31 (I don't remember).
Is there any information about the microcode, or the hardware architecture? I'd be interested in what caliber of today's guns one would require to emulate this thing.
I think you meant "Either should get her elected again."
Jimmy Maher's "The Digital Antiquarian" has a nice writeup on how these pre-PC small computers at IBM led to the PC:

http://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-1/
I can also imagine a front-door approach where they legalize encryption only if you let the the government cosign the message with their own private key, say, through a web service. Not saying that's practical but it is possible.
That seems to have been the UK's goal for a while now
For Germany I know you don't need to be a citizen to be able to take college with the same terms and conditions as natives, it's "free" since most places have a per semester administration fee (5 years ago this was around 100 Euroes). To get a residence permit to study one has to show that one is able to finance one's self, or have someone (e.g. a parent) as a sponsor. The residence permit allows 20 hours/month of part time work for foreigners (or even more if you're working in your area of study), so that is taken into consideration when you go to renew the residence permit every 2 years.
What about good[0]?

[0] https://github.com/kolypto/py-good