skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not detached. Even if a thread is detached by a mod, in my experience it appears at the bottom of the post. A new feature was rolled out recently where some get rolled up and hidden by default. They're accessible by clicking the [+n] link in the header of the top-most comment of the thread. That's how this subthread appears to me currently.

I'll look for the comment where I saw more details on this. Edit to add: I haven't been able to find the comment where this was mentioned. It was within the past couple of months, though.
Age: 25

Location: Colorado

NW: ~$50k
You can run Apple II code in a browser, for example https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2. A code format that has survived for 40 years and counting. This holds for plenty other data and code formats that were once popular.

Docker/CFI is very popular, hard to believe it will disappear short of a complete breakdown of the digital era.
Are students allowed to appeal? When I moved from hand-written notes to LaTeX notes entirely, I anecdotally found that it improved my immediate understanding of the material. For example, when the professor is doing a sketch on the board and you make hand-written notes, you quickly copy the sketch and forget about it. When you do it in LaTeX, you have to think about how to translate the sketch into TikZ commands as fast as possible because the board could be wiped any minute. It requires me to distill the core ideas out of these sketches much more quickly than the average student, and that helped me quite a lot.

(It should be noted that I don't say that any student will benefit from writing their notes in LaTeX. 90-99% will be absolutely lost when the first big formula appears, and that's before you get to figures describing tree algorithms.)

EDIT: Just saw the link in the article to another article about a study where hand-written notes resulted in better recall. Must be just me then.
I know this is a stretch but do any other HN users have a Turris Omnia router running Pi-hole? I had Pi-hole running on a Raspberry Pi no problem, but now that my router should be able to run it I'd love to learn how.

The only reference I found online is a single deleted blog post. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Well, this could give a good reason to build a Moon base. Instead of launching all that mass from the Earth (~20 million tons), the sunshade satellites could be launched from the Moon, using an electromagnetic launcher, for just a few dollars per kg.

Building a Lunar base would start with seed factories, that would then build the base, which would make the launcher and the sunshades. The amount of material needed to start the seed factories should be under 20,000 tons, or 0.1% of the mass needed to launch the sun shades directly from Earth.
"Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer" in real life, thanks to FB.
A blockchain is at the end of the day nothing else than a distributed database where everyone can run nodes.

This is a hell of an effort and everyone who is using this 'feature' needs a very good reason and use case which justifies the costs.

Every new ICO should answer the question if a distributed BFT database is required. If yes is the benefit big enough? If not then just forget it. Or invest and sell the first minute this scam is on an exchange.

About Storj and similar coins: why do I want a decentral Dropbox? If I want to host my files in the cloud, what is the benefit of having a distributed decentral BFT db?
If I may, what methodology is there exactly?
I think what you have in mind is jobs producing code. But when the job involves a lot of interactions with other employees, it becomes quite inefficient.
The context was natural disasters though--so pretty much wildfires.
I was right there at 24 :)
"A prison term "would send a powerful deterrent message to the rest of the industry,” Chutkow said."

What a total crock of shit. He is a scapegoat. Guilty yes, but if you want to send a powerful deterrent message to the rest of the automotive industry you go after the managing directors and C-level employees and put them into prison for a while and then you'll see ethical business practices.
Wow... You're doing really well at 32 years and 550k. Any tips or insights into how you got there so quickly?
Age: 24
Poland
NW: 2.5M USD
Gah thanks for the catch, gotta love autocorrect.
Convert to Digital Nomads and Remote Jobs
First an anecdote. I was laying on the floor in my bedroom and my dog wanted to come in. I told her not to, she stood with her front paws at the entrance for half a second, did a 180 degree turn, body inside the room and started to walk in backwards. I'll never forget that.

I agree with what you say but have yet managed to stop eating them. They taste good. Hopefully one day I'll manage to grow some more backbone.

Whether they communicate or not, of course they do. At a different level, obviously. Who's fault is it for not being able to understand? Theirs because "we" are smarter? That's arrogant. Heck, we have trouble communicating with each other properly.

And... I can't remember what the other comment below was talking about and I'm going to have lunch.

To end, can't remember exactly how to search for it. It went something along the lines of "2014 Cambridge [something]". Where several scientists and other fellow people smarter than myself signed a treaty stating animals are conscious. If I remember correctly.
Gasses yes, but a large part of the particulates is actually emitted by the tires (through abrasion).
Age: 26
Location: London, UK
NW: 300k GBP
> 10% of 10% of 30% of the market segment

Not really. Anyone needing a web UI framework can use Moon. Even if you haven't used React or Vue before.
Here is the sense I mean to convey. When a fridge light comes on, does the fridge 'understand' anything? Does it know anything? No, the process is just automatic.

Objects such as books can contain knowledge without understanding anything because they don't have minds. The design of the fridge embodies knowledge about human needs, for example the need to hand-select food accurately at night. However there is neither understanding nor intuition anywhere inside that cold box about the relationship between the door opening and the light coming on.

Similarly, words, which are a type of meme (the type that can be pronounced) can exploit brains to make copies of themselves, without any understanding of this going on in those same brains.

Btw, none of this implies that animals can't think, or don't have minds, or that we shouldn't honour them. Actually I honour my fridge too...
Polyphonic Subtractive Synthesizer Using Web Audio API
I start by finding simple code to read. Often, if I start with the books and classes, I'll end up more confused than if I just looked at examples and stumble myself through the code, and look up things that I don't understand.

The next step is setting up a build process so I can hello world.

From then, it's time to figure out why I wanted to learn the language in the first place, and tackle something that gives me that.
Age: 43
State: CA
NW: ~2million
James Liang engineer for VW was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay a $200,000 fine.

OTOH Michael Horn CEO of VW and person who signed off on the emissions testing cheating walked away with a 50 million pension.

Of course, you often get no choice in what you do when upper management says 'just do it'. It's that, or asshat exec decides to wreck your career, fire you, etc, etc,

A federal judge in Detroit ... of course..
Impressive! Bitcoin, business or inheritance if I might ask? :)
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"location": "Seattle",
"netWorth": 15000.00,
"netWorthCurrency": "USD"
}

Started working as a software dev out of high school. Struggling to save (more) money in such an expensive place.
I attended middleschool and highschool in Maine. Those laptops are one of the reasons I ended up enjoying programming so much.

In middleschool, when the laptop program first rolled out, we were so excited to try the sleek new machines. I have distinct memories of asking a relative for an AppleScript book as a present. We would make simple "MadLibs" scripts with text-to-speech, scripts to animate windows and draw ASCII art in accordance with user commands, and even fake "viruses". We also attempted to use Xcode, but only got as far as making toy web browsers with the default UI toolkit.

Keynote was an amazing program because it allowed us to create full games using tens to hundreds of slides. These were mostly point-and-click, but we did attempt some fast moving action games. By fast moving, I mean a few frames per second. I also remember using Keynote to make a presentation about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster; it had an animated reactor, and interactive buttons to show what would happen with certain water levels, and so on.

When we switched to Windows in highschool, the computers temporarily lost some of their magic and we ended up playing Halo during lunch. Very soon we discovered Scratch[0] and Phun[1], and we were back at it again creating even better games, or sketching and dreaming up physics simulations on the bus ride home. One of the greatest benefits of these programs - I'm not sure if this is still the case - is that we could take the laptops home over summer break. This lead to many late nights of programming while putting off those summer essays.

Sometimes we could use online textbooks for a class, but most classes forced us to carry around heavy textbooks, so we ended up painfully lugging bags containing a laptop and 2+ textbooks between classes. I haven't mentioned class much, but we used them for news, for studying language, for creating music, and for math. Above all, we used them as an outlet for our curiosity, and that was their greatest strength at the time.

Now I understand many students receive iPads.

[0] https://scratch.mit.edu/

[1] http://www.algodoo.com/download/
No way to remove PII data that your friends gave to Facebook? I see a lawsuit somewhere in here.

This means a person can never really be "off Facebook"
He describes phenomena that apply to every market ever (not to mention simple control loops). How are blockchains any different?
Isn't free will a non-deterministic thing? NTM, DNC etc. are very promising but at the end they are programs runned by a Turing Machine.
Are free will/consciousness computable? this is the real question IMO.
Age: 29

State: MI

NW: ~20k
That means you can create consciousness by simulating a Turing machine with pen and paper, or by positioning sand systematically. You can encode its memory in different ways by giving different meaning to different positioning of sand. So randomly throwing sand around could create a Turing computation of consciousness (and all kinds of feelings) with the right choice of encoding.
That's my second J-1, I actually got the waiver for the first, but we gave up going for the H1-b at the moment.

It was pretty straightforward getting it as a brazilian.
"...into "meaningless" instructions that can be computed by a turing complete machine."

Pssst! Hey, buddy, that's what an algorithm is.
CO2 is an issue, but not the only one, I was just annoyed the article didn't mention it.

I would wear a gas mask to work, but they're no use.
Congratulations! I'm curious, how have you saved 550k at age 32?

Is it a matter a linearly saving ~68k USD a year every working year (I'm assuming a high-paying engineer job in the Valley), or have you had equity in a successful venture?
Age: 34

State: NY (NYC)

NW: ~850K
Exactly. I don't need more tamagotchis. There are enough with OS updates and whatnot.
Very nice! Did you get there through normal income and aggressive savings, or had some liquidity event from startups?
Prediction: The (age-adjusted) distribution of responses will follow a bathtub curve, but not because that's the population distribution.
How did you become so wealthy? Do you run a company or had a lucky break or your family is rich? Just curious.
True. I also think that it becomes a scam when you give up, and keep the money that's left. Say what you will about Secret (anyone remember that app?), but they returned money when they stopped. ICO funded projects? Who knows? Maybe just buy lambos as the author said.
If he bought a house 6 years ago he could have gained 400k of that in house alone.
Still waiting for those GM prison sentences.

To see America being this blatant in going after foreign companies is amusing, and a bit scary. But hey, "muh evil Germans".
Honestly, that describes exactly my programming workflow when working in Clojure. The whole process happens in Clojure.

This language is small enough to write on a single piece of paper

Check, Clojure is one of the most concise language out there. I use it for hand writing code or when coding on my phone, because its so short.

fully contains all of its abstractions

Yup. In fact, you need to change your mindset, you don't write instructions in Clojure, you search for the functions that do what you want and arrange them in the order you need. Think micro-library.

has focused notation for specific instruments

Lisps like Clojure are the kings of DSLs. This is literally their bread and butter.

and permits debugging any part of a program by cutting any contiguous subprogram out and turning that fragment into its own live environment.

Yes, that's what the REPL lets you do. Load any subset of the program into a live running environment.

I'd write a program first on a prototyping platform which is so lightweight that nearly any prototype program will run, and I'd use that to write out the entire first draft of my program.

This is the idea behind dynamic programming which was invented by Lisp. Clojure will run almost any code, correct or not, no question asked. It does not put constrain on you, though it highly suggests the use of safe tools over unsage ones, it lets you cut yourself if you want too.

Then, I'd incrementally move pieces of my program transparently onto a more rigorously-precise framework which is more restrictive about types but makes it easier to compose modules and let them stay composed.

This is my ideal too. There's not yet the golden graal for this, but Clojure is currently focused on this very last part. Composing modules is actually pretty trivial, because it supports performant immutable datastructures as first class, open polymorphism, defaults to functionally pure constructs and wraps all state in safe managed containers.

Now as for correctness checks, it has optional types, but the implementation is a work-in-progress, and is stagnating a bit. Optional generative tests is the current strategy being explored, as well as highly powerful runtime checks. Still in alpha though. Static analysis is also being worked on, though soundness is not a target, also in alpha at this point.

If its any consolation though, the only two studies I could find about defect rates relating to programming language choice showed that Clojure does as well as Hakell. Which means it had some of the lowest defect rates of the languages tested, averaging a tad behind Haskell, and doing better then Scala and F#. Obviously besting Java, C++, Python, Ruby, C#, Go, etc. It was an outlier in that sense, as it was the only non staticly typed check language to do so well.
"C++ is the COBOL of the 90's" - Jeff Alger
Can crypto millionaires cash out yet?
LXC Containers:

- Koel (Web-based music player; https://github.com/phanan/koel)

- Aria2 (generic downloader; https://aria2.github.io/)

- GPodder (podcast downloader; https://gpodder.github.io/)

- PiHole (mostly for curiosity, I now use full-blown DNS & DHCP servers; https://pi-hole.net/)

- OpenVPN (https://openvpn.net/)

- Pritunl (OpenVPN failover; https://pritunl.com/)

- PlexPy (Plex monitoring; https://github.com/JonnyWong16/plexpy)

- BIND (DNS server; https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9)

- ISC-DHCP (https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_Server)

- Smokeping (connection monitoring; https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/)

- Ansible (central host with playbooks; https://www.ansible.com/)

- Graylog (log aggregation; https://www.graylog.org/)

- Wallabag ("read it later"; https://wallabag.org/en)

- Home Assistant (home automation; https://home-assistant.io/)

- Bookstack (documentation; https://www.bookstackapp.com/)

- Observium (network devices monitoring; https://www.observium.org/)

VMs:

- PfSense (firewall & permanent VPN for some containers; https://www.pfsense.org/)

- Rancher (Docker orchestration; http://rancher.com/)

Rancher (Cattle environment):

+ ELK stack (https://www.elastic.co/)

+ Concourse CI (just to experiment, I prefer GitLab's CI; https://concourse.ci/)

+ Dumpster (my own temporary file upload platform, with additional YubiKey support; https://github.com/nmaggioni/dumpster)

+ Own Telegram bot (talks with ELK)

+ Let's Encrypt renewal daemon

+ FaaS (either https://github.com/iron-io/functions or https://github.com/alexellis/faas, even though I'm actually waiting for https://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/)

+ Private Docker registry

I may have left something out, some more services/containers/VMs are disabled due to low usage.
That information is available to them now. I don't find that they get it.

I am learning a musical instrument. My practice is much more reliable when I have weekly lessons.

People are funny. Not haha funny. Complicated funny.
Age: 23

Location: North Holland

NW: €10k
Age: 40
State: OH (Cleveland-metro)
NW: ~2.2M
Age 34, UK, -4k
There's a sci-fi-ish short story in The Mind's I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I) about a robot which scuttles around, when stroked it glows, then when it is hurt it mewls and flashes its lights, and so on. It's meant to question whether we can really know what any other animal is thinking (the machine is supposedly programmed like a regular computer, so we know it has no real feelings).

Of course this applies to robots, but not necessarily to animals, where we know they are constructed similarly to ourselves and so likely have feelings similar to ours although there are questions to what degree.

It's actually online here: https://themindi.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/chapter-8-soul-of-ma...
Can you point to some to research on the subject? I would think it's not at all clear in which manner animals think, be it in terms of a language or not. Even for humans language may just be a layer on top of thought, and in fact there are those who claim not to think in any specific language.
26, Seattle/WA, ~$350K.
Age: 45
State: GA (Atlanta, Decatur)
NW: ~2 million

Good job on your net worth at 32.
In this ICO bubble clueless investors are losing their money too. There's enough scams to go around for everyone.
Actually, it has been given the responsibility.

A quick review of the code reveals that dbus-broker-launch relies upon systemd entirely for bus-activation. To activate a dbus server on demand, it sends a message to systemd using a systemd-specific protocol. It has no way to demand-activate services on a non-systemd operating system.

The dbus-daemon that this purports to be compatible with at least can be persuaded, via its launch helper, to demand-activate services in a generic fashion using whichever of initctl, systemctl, service, or system-control is appropriate.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/avoid-dbus-bus-activation.ht...

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/per-user-dbus-demand-s...
>'So it is not "understanding" anything intrinsic or fundamental about the letter "A".'

What is there to understand? As far as I know the shapes we use for letters are arbitrary (at least at this point).
I think the upsides of "greed" outweigh the downsides. Getting rid of greed to thwart con artists would be throwing out the baby with the bath water.
U.S Federal Workers to repay U.S Gov due to 5.1M ruined U.S Clearances
It's really not that much if you look at the other responses. Anyway, the answer is linearly saving ~50% of income, I hope I'll get some sort of liquidity event from some stock options I have, but I'm not banking on it.
ya, having to jump back and forth between the current 'usable' DE over the years had made me somewhat salty on this point.
Furthermore, adding more EVs on the roads means more EVs on home charging stations at night and when parked at work during the day. In turn this means more opportunities to develop large scale demand side management for the power grid and therefore make it easier / cheaper to integrate a larger fraction of cheap and low carbon but intermittent renewable energies such as wind and solar.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Flow
I spent the last week using Flow at work. This is the first static type system I've used. It was much more challenging than expected and yielded no (perceptible) practical benefit. I lost a day trying to resolve Flow errors in seemingly simple code. The error messages are cryptic and sometimes the stack traces are misleading. Is this generally the experience with static type systems? Static typing appeals to me and I really want to like/get it. But after a week, Flow has left me feeling defeated.
Normal income -> savings, timely purchase of primary residence during recession, some fortunate startup equity. About a third each.
Cost of Living is very much "ouch". Mind sharing what you pay for rent and in what area?
I waited to register a domain matching the name I was using as a musician and it was scooped up six months later by a malware ad company. I now register anything I plan to use in the future, even if I'm nowhere near ready to start. However, the domains that I register aren't related to properties or people and I'm not grabbing them just to sit on them or resell them. People who do that are, to me, unethical bottomfeeders.
Age: 27

State: CA

NW: ~1M USD
> Then the hard problem of consciousness; I personally believe we are far off and probably miss something very important in our understanding of Universe.

Exactly, and it's the fact that consciousness is outside of grasp of science (see my other comment in this thread).
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107117

No house, all liquid.
Here's another way of thinking about it: the non-hard problem of consciousness (I think it's unfair to call it the 'easy' problem—though it's definitely easier) deals with the behavior and structure of a system which has some physical incarnation (whether in circuits or neurons or whatever); the hard problem on the other hand is about the subjectivity involved in being the system—which is no longer a question about the behavior/structure of systems.

I think the difference in type of question is like: if our universe is likened to a board game with some finite set of rules, e.g. Monopoly, the 'physics' of this universe is fully determined by the rules of the game (even if there are non-deterministic aspects where you have to e.g. roll dice). The non-hard problem of consciousness is a question in this realm, like "can I sell one of my properties to another player?"; the hard problem is necessarily outside the scope of the rules; it's a question more like, "what is the molecular composition of a 'Chance' card?". Unfortunately, the question is being asked inside of the game and all that's available in attempt to answer it are the constructs and rules from the game.

It's an interesting thing to consider because in some ways what it discusses is what we have the most direct empirical access to—and yet it's also one of the most clearly unapproachable topics which we couldn't usefully say anything definite about (except that its inaccessibility is interesting)
If you can't do yoga ... Eat waffles. You sound like me.
"Public API" is the key part of #8, not just any change that consumers could find if they tried. Is the exact number of bytes your project consumes part of the public API? If it is (and I doubt there exist many projects that would guarantee that), then yes it would be breaking.
You're not going to get anything but outliers here.
Does it support native mobile development? To me that's an important issue. Vue has Weex. React has React Native. Angular has NativeScript. I'd need something similar to switch to a new frontend framework.
Age:- 39

Location:- NYC

NW:- 2m