skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polly (YC S17) is hiring – currently a top 15 social app in the US
Polly is looking for a iOS engineer to join our team.

Why you should join:
- Your work will be seen and used by millions of people on a daily basis
- You’ll join an experienced team in the early stages backed by the world's best investors
- You’ll learn a lot about startups
- You’ll have a lot of fun working here

Responsibilities:

- Build new features to support our growing & fast moving iOS app
- Work with product designer to iterate on ideas quickly, from prototype to the App Store
- Implement custom UI & UX with product-oriented mindset using the latest iOS APIs
- Investigate crashes and fix bugs

Who we’re looking for:

- 3+ years of experience building consumer apps that people love
- Someone who can balance speed & quality of work
- Someone with an eye for great design
- Someone super fun to work with
- Bonus: Someone with experience building on top of Snapchat & Instagram

Email ranidu@polly.fun with your GitHub profile & sample projects we can build locally and play with.
Metal lattices have been a pretty common 3d printing thing for a while, but its obviously cheaper to make them traditionally. Most metals print more easily than aluminum- aluminum is highly dependent on precipitation hardening/aging, to the point that it never would have been used in airplanes otherwise.
how are large behemoth corporations better for the consumer than an array of small businesses competing for the same dollars?
Better SDR gear is out there for a price: https://www.ettus.com/product/category/USRP-Bus-Series (these are their cheapest models)
This was a stupid, selfish act. He endangered the objective of his unit. He endangered the lives of his fellow soldiers. He misled his superior officers. All this over a painting. A painting that has probably been copied many times. In my book, no piece of art, no matter how famous is worth a human life. I would gladly sacrifice even the Mona Lisa if saving it required endangering a human life.
PULoveRE DAMA ONLINE
Walking to work or doing the vacuuming can extend your life
Ok, we replaced 'startup' with 'new business' in the title above.
The Mossy Lava Fields of Iceland
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444830.
Thank them for what? I don't get it. It sounds to me that they just ran away from the problem. The problem in my eyes being software patents not the BSD+Patents license. But sure, thanks for being weenies.
Push for Gender Equality in Tech? Some Men Say It’s Gone Too Far
I think I'm beginning to understand. Thanks again for the replies. I'm going to have to think a lot of about what you have written. (My apologies if I kept mis-interpreting you and going off on the wrong tangents.)
I'm in Austin and ride my bike to work whenever I can. I stop at all lights and stop signs. When I see other riders along the way, they are doing the same.

I moved here from Portland, OR and lots of cyclists there were way more aggressive.
Every time I was caught by the richness of the Pixel. The iPhone 8 was ok, but seemed artificial. iPhone 7+ looks downright bad in some pics which goes to show how challenging the scenes must be as its camera is pretty decent.
Thank you. My bookworm habits make this hard to accept, but your advice reflects my experience learning Python as well. The python.org tutorial was better than anything.

Would you also recommend learning CSS, HTTP, PHP _before_ the Django tutorials?
Could you explain what makes in-browser MathML support better than rudimentary support of LaTeX's math mode?
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America - Really interesting to hear about the atrocities of the Nazis and the need of the Americans that they would actively recruit war criminals to keep up with the Russians.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America - I read this a few years after Hurricane Katrina. It provides some historical context to the problems of Katrina, especially the levee system

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - This is the current book to read on Lincoln

The Island at the Center of the World - If you're interested in NYC history this is one of the books to read.

American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation This is a must-read if you're interested in religion in the US

EDIT: formatting and switched out the Triumph of William McKinley with American Gospel
Immediate reaction: what prevents the social media players to cut off your source of data and just do this themselves?
“Some people advantaged by the current system don’t like the push to change it.”

What a story.
Restructured text is another option for people who feel similarly.
A fun place for names:

http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/
Thank you. I learned to code with C# in Unity.

These things are what I am scared of.
Before the Internet, small businesses had a few key competitive advantages going for them: being local. Process Knowledge. knowing your customers. Customers had hard time to compare. Etc. Now they're gone.

After the the Internet and the recession, scalable businesses, had few advantages going for them: everything became scalable. A lot of VC funding. Technology is better(and the advantages come first to those with capital). Many things can be turned into a network. Everything became global.

So those forces should decrease the number of small businesses. By a lot.

On the other hand, small businesses still got some advantages, and the main among them: many new niche markets became accessible, mostly via targeted marketing, scalability and opening of larger markets. That was the new hope.

Did could it be that this hope has failed us ? and if so, Why ? What can be done to enable more niche businesses ? or is it the wrong answer ?
Right. Why not 7pm to 7am Tuesdays and Thursdays? Even if this maintenance is somehow necessary and would take that long they seem to have chosen one of the most inopportune times to do it.
The matter of J2ME/MIDlet/JAR emulation and preservation
Github gist version of jsbin page here: https://gist.github.com/dosyago-coder-0/b7bcf95f60b6979de2a0...
A previous discussion was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205364.
Or we just avoid this whole mess and go universal healthcare and stop treating health as a luxury.
Would you be OK with me asking you to avoid using a standard U.S. English phrase so it's clearer for us Brits?

"Black cab driver" is part of our lexicon. It carries a lot of cultural meaning, and it's always phrased like that. You briefly misunderstood it as race-related, then you learned what it means. I don't see a reason to change anything.
Sounds more like an argument for why we should move to single payer, because then the idea of random expenses from sick people signing up goes away, as we'll all have health coverage anyways.
It’s easier. I like the convenience of just going to Amazon and ordering what I need without having to think about it. When I’m in a new city for a night I could research and pick out a boutique / bed and breakfast, or I can just open the Hilton app and get a consistent room without any work.
> Do people have any time between the 43 days of availability to pick their planned coverage plan?

Not sure I fully understand the question, but there are many exceptions to the open enrollment period. You can re-enroll if you change jobs, get married, have a child, move, lose your insurance, or a few other situations. Medicaid and CHIP are open all year long, as is short term health insurance.
Thanks for sharing.

In regards to the BBC however, and on behalf of my SO, I am curious how to get your foot in the door as a script writer (or as something related to this). Does anyone have any insights/tips/contacts that they would give to someone interested in becoming a script writer for the BBC?
It’s time to kill the web app
It's very frustrating every time I'm trying to read some webpage via Pocket app and it has formulas rendered with Mathjax (which is very popular because MathML is failed and pre-rendering formulas as images requires complicated tooling) and they don't work in Pocket.
I think we may start seeing Apple partner with more camera brands rather than buy them outright - see the current RED partnership they have for entry-level “cinema” cameras. It’s be nice if they did joint R&D instead of marketing/sales, though.
I used to like action movies but they had a somewhat realistic everyman element to them and the characters were if not entirely relateable at least sympathetic. But Hollywood's love affair with impossible physics; shooting someone doesn't send them flying, you can't outrun explosions, not everything explodes into a giant gasoline ball of flame, etc, has ramped up to the point where it takes me out of suspension of disbelief. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and everyone's flying around on wires? Sure, it's genre-specific and makes sense in context. Every movie ever made in the last 10 years? Not so much.
Here's an article about my city.

http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2017/02/16/albany-redlining...

The area in red is where African Americans and poor Irish lived. No bank would write a mortgage there.

A quote from an article referenced in the link:
“As federal official and leading real estate economist Homer Hoyt explained in 1939: "Usually existing residential structures deteriorate and become obsolete with the passage of time. They are occupied by successive groups of people of lower incomes and lower social standards with the result that the quality of the neighborhood declines with that of the buildings." In the eyes of Hoyt and nearly all other real estate professionals, the presence of non-white residents was prima facie evidence of neighborhood decay and the destruction of property values.”

These ideas were codified in Federal policy and residential lending standards. The legacy of those maps remains today in many places.
Which is super exciting really! Formlabs, who make a really nice stereo lithography printer, announced an SLS printer[1] recently for $10k and I think they will do pretty well with it. They only list nylon as a material right now, but this sort of iteration is exactly what it takes for us to get affordable high quality additive manufacturing machines.

[1]: https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/fuse-1/
500,000 businesses a year means we’re not talking about high-tech startups alone. This entire article seems to be using a single statistic (100,000 fewer businesses are started per year now as compared to before the recession) to push an agenda. It talks about how useful these businesses are in employing the less-educated and as an entry point to the middle class, and then talks about YouTube and Instagram without acknowledging those are two very different types of business.

I would be interested in seeing a breakdown by sector. My guess is that the number of new restaurants, laundromats, and nail salons has decreased the most, and that’s what’s driving the overall decline. And, rather than being the result of pressure from the Googles and Facebooks, it’s a natural result of the recession. Fewer people have the nest eggs to start a capital-intensive business, and fewer people have homes to use as collateral. Credit is harder to come by. And potential customers have less disposable income to shop with. All of these trends are well-established and seem to have a broader impact than the main points of the article.
I'm glad you shared that. The perfect follow-on gift would be a silver coffee stirrer.
But why is NO ONE talking about the fact that these vehicles aren't even pretending to be currencies anymore?
What are they planning to do when the support for Python 2 runs out and people remind them they had a decade in which to start a port but didn't?
You may want to read this:

https://jacobian.org/writing/so-you-want-a-new-admin/
The opening story about the sick grandma also seemed to be rather the opposite of a zero-knowledge proof. Each question seemed rather knowledge-y for a 'zero knowledge' exercise.

I can't think of a way to turn it into a true zero knowledge proof. You'd have to ask questions with answers that revealed nothing about granny -- you shouldn't be able to draw a picture of her or reveal any personal info from piecing together the answers. Which makes its choice as the opening explanation of zero knowledge proofs problematic.

His explanation is that the 'hidden' knowledge is meeting the grandmother and that this meeting cannot be proven through communication. Which is, of course, true. But that's a red herring. The q&a the parties engage in do not prove anything about the meeting. They prove that one party knows things about the granny, not that any particular meeting took place nor that the party has ever met her.

In short, it's neither zero-knowledge nor a proof.

I admit that the flawed opening plus the constant attempts to personify every concept, interspersed with giant irrelevant images mean that I couldn't finish it.
Yep we enjoy our pasta, a bit sad that we're always caged into this "pasta, pizza, mafia" storytelling :/ but probably it's our fault!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/
https://www.knime.com/
I'm on iOS 11 and had the same problem.
Slouching Towards Biloxi: Joan Didion on Life in America's South
I wish I could be more excited about this. I have one of the original LimeSDRs and it seems to have design issues. Mine has a massive DC bias that calibration doesnt seem to remove, and you can't actually use it for HF without desoldering a component. I feel like the Lime team so far has underdelivered for the hype.
I remember this not-so-fondly. This wouldn't be a problem for a game that is composited alongside the desktop in a "Windowed" mode, but for a full-screen application it is an "exclusive" application. The Source engine handles this context switch absolutely terribly. Task-switching out of Team Fortress 2 is a stuttery mess, where for around ten seconds it'll just loop the tiny audio buffer it last filled on top of a black screen before anything is usable again.
Over 80% of small business loan applications are rejected. SBA loans in the US take 6 months - 1 year to get and still require cash down. Leasing companies hate start-up businesses. Landlords want financials and personal guarantees. In short, there's very little liquidity available for most start-up businesses in the general economy.

Got cash? Great. Most high growth areas are short STEM graduates, short trades-people, but long on large companies who can outbid you for talent.

Got cash and talent? Awesome. Large companies have more than you and pay less vig for it. If you're lucky your business is likely to be acquired as it hits critical mass. If you're unlucky as the eye of Sauron notices you - all that easy big company money will crush you.

Oversimplified? Sure. There are exceptions, success stories and counter-examples. But understand that small business and small business job creation is not a priority in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=cAYh

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12027714

In agriculture the USGOV is literally paying farmers NOT to farm in some areas. The priority is wealth preservation and predictable returns for baby boomers and special interests who vote, and who control votes.

You know who wants to change this? Who wants to repatriate 2-4 trillion in liquidity back in the US where its very likely to benefit small business growth? The only high profile person I've heard championing this issue is Trump. He appears to be fighting hard for it in upcoming tax reform legislation. Opinions about this guy aside, if he gets his way on dollar repatriation there's going to be a lot of money available for investment.
Heh. I was thinking, based on my somewhat limited experience driving outside the US, that turning off traffic lights in Rome or Bangkok would have only have an effect on tourists, making them aware that there are no rules.
I work 7 days most of the weeks but its physical labor. (the mind is reserved for personal use) I've convinced myself that the joy of relaxing depends on how hard you've worked and that the longer you relax the less enjoyable it gets. You pretty much have to get back to work asap.

I stay productive by eliminating idle time between tasks. Switching should be seamless. If at any time you don't know what you are going to do after you've done the thing you are doing you are doing it wrong.

My coworkers all work harder than I do. End of the shift I've done just as much but they are totally worn out (when I go to my next job)

I do procrastinate for a total of 20 min or so by spending excessive attention on details. This amuses me greatly specially when it infuriates coworkers.

It is like a sport, the work it self is not important it is all about the experience. If I ever get bored with this routine I take 3 or 12 months off right at that very moment. The thought is very comforting. No way I'm going to push it into burnout.
It depends where you are and how you do it, but copyright infringement is often a civil matter, not a criminal one, just like ignoring the posted conditions of entry of a cinema by sneaking food in.
This plus Alnylam's recent success with their interference RNA approval means we're making amazing progress in new therapies! Exciting times.
There are, but not a great many, and that doesn't by any stretch countermand the gp's point.
Opposites Don't Attract: Marital Choices Exacerbating Income Inequality
Solutions for scaling blockchains
We've asked you several times to stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or breaking the site rules. We eventually ban accounts that keep doing this, so would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not do it any more?
> Toilet paper is rough, flimsy and will actually give you paper cuts.

Toilet paper is used in a location where I do NOT want to have a paper cut!
You're splitting hairs to reduce the significance of WP's stance.
(sleep 5 && echo hello) | > test.txt?
I was reading through some of the Twitter outrage, and the only comment alleging significance of that particular time period that stuck out to me was: it coincides with many religious organizations typical gathering times. It would be interesting to see the enrollment numbers/day&hour from previous years. I know there are a lot of churches/faith based organizations that offer volunteers to help people with enrollment.
There are plenty of eligible people that don't sign up for Medicaid. Single payer won't just hand wave away administrative problems.
Probably not, but the combination is especially dire.
Isn't the BBC a company where the only senior positions are as a contractor, charging 3 times the amount of their permanent counterpart for much less hassle?

I am not sure if the author is trying to write a nice PR piece or is so inexperienced that he believes in all this corporate bullshit he's repeating. ^^
Most of the rewrites are behind the scenes. You'd only notice if you looked e.g. at latency, reliability and trigger rates. I think Scholar is even older than Borg.
In the netherlands, bike lanes have buttons at the traffic lights much like the pedestrian buttons. We also have sensors and you can see if they worked with lights in the button.
Since the topics are related, maybe this is a good place to note that there are some excellent discussions with Alan Kay happening right now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15261691. Fine Saturday reading abounds.
> It would be useful, at least on HN, to distinguish small businesses like a new pizzeria from what most of us call a startup

A new, small business _is_ a startup though[1]. Just that our current trade policy dictates most small businesses are service-oriented doesn't mean other small businesses are somehow different in purpose.

> That aside, I would point out that startups and small businesses are no match for the incumbents when it comes to lobbying and regulation.

> Immigration restrictions, for example, will have an enormous and damaging effect on US tech.

Legislation finds a balance between business development and quality of life for its people. For decades, legislation has been skewed in big business's favor, leading to an incredible spike in income and wealth inequality. While immigration reform isn't what's best for business, it is in reaction to a growing need to help our middle class again.

Lobbying can only work so much when widespread dissatisfaction in our government and economy leads to populist uprisings.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/startup.asp
I would generally consider spending to be profligate if you could not sustain it for a proportional reduction in population (even of an important demographic) with an equal proportional reduction in number of people served.

Or I guess the important matter would be making it so that you only have maybe a few quarters of loss before you can legally adjust services to fit within the budget.
You just need a larger number of random words to reach the same entropy as random passwords. It's not like your random password is made up from secret alphabets!
A common problem with governments and government data, there is no adequate startup taxonomy. See https://steveblank.com/2011/09/01/why-governments-don’t-get-...
Amazon to Begin Accepting Bitcoin in October? Really?
Cities compromise 3.5% of the United States land area. They are not taking land away from trees or wildlife..
> I have Node.js serving 200 clients and 10k entities with vision (can run at or from you) at 20 frames per second that keeps under 100MB RAM with no hiccups.

What's in the 100MB?

Doing some napkin math, take 10k hypothetical game objects that each have as state: pos, vel, acc, rot, ang vel, ang acc, name (32 chars), color, health, mana, armor, level, type, energy, kills, timers, inventory (256 bytes)... etc etc, all together comes in at around 512 bytes each. Even if that's double buffered it's still just 10MB.

Curious where all that memory is going!
I strongly recommend the DjangoGirls tutorial:

https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/

It covers HTML, CSS, git, etc. in addition to teaching you Django.
But that would massacre the thousands of middlemen companies making a profit off the inefficiencies of this current govt-subsidizies-private-industry system.
"spastic" Are there not better words ?
Uncoordinated ? Glitchy ? clumsy ? awkward? blundering?
Is book marklet
The two states of being a developer: beginners and experts
You may also want to check out:

Recent J2ME emulation efforts:

SquirrelJME -- https://github.com/XerTheSquirrel/SquirrelJME

FreeJ2ME -- https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11441/would-you-like-to-...

J2ME alternatives at that time: http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/feature.asp?c=1266

For game recommendations from this era check out Pocket Gamer's reviews of Java games with at least a 7/10 rating -- https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apocketgamer.co.uk+%22...

And the Airgamer site (click on "Weiter" to see the next page, again, look for games with better ratings) -- http://www.airgamer.de/java/handyspiele/_Tests/_Datum.html#....

Soon iOS and Android games will be retro, I feel so old... :P
Bitcoin brain wallets based on obscure Africa poems have been successfully cracked. Don't trust your choice of obscure books to be sufficient.
Ask HN: How does Kotlin Native compares to Go in terms of performance?
I have been looking to learn a compiled language that's easy to use. Go seemed the likely candidate but then I recently discovered Kotlin Native.
So You Want to Start Your Own Business? Things People Don't Tell You
Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
It's a different product, why would assume it's a good estimate for movies.
Or we just avoid this whole mess and create a free market in health care.
Asus Zenfone 4 ailesi Türkiye’ye geliyor İşte fiyatları
Its probably not illegal necessarily, you can certainly sell imported food. The way they are doing it is probably illegal (loading up a van with food and driving it across the border without declaring it/having it inspected/having permits/etc).