skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Build a platform that fixes the hiring procedure and help experienced older programmers to find a decent job like they deserve it.

Think of it as a lightweight version of LinkedIn, FaceBook, and Github combined as one.

No one should have any trouble finding any sort of job or whatsoever.

This platform should be implemented in such way that any country out there should be able to offer jobs to nearly all their residents.
not even just third party apps, many of apple's as well!
I have a proven, novel means to gain insight about System1 response. Issued a patent for it (which I think is reasonably well written). Applied it working with P&G to improve response to their branded ads. Would love to use it to improve romantic outcomes (better than survey response measures). Etc. Almost too old and tired now after a decade+ of having proven I am a terrible salesman. Same coin, opposite side. If I was you, I would hang around some grabybeards who are 50+ and have been working in logistical positions for corporations. They will have lots and lots of idea, but no where-with-all to act. HTH.
As the saying goes, 80% of data science is cleaning the data and 20% is complaining about cleaning the data.
Do contract work as a mini agency. Seeing others problems may be helpful.
>SOAP was going that way but it was way too much, way too early.

I think SOAP successfully demonstrated that rigorous "API standards" are a pipe dream. Swagger/REST is probably as good as it's going to get.
AREAS
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Software Quality or Fintech. Don't waste a good team on something like a Kale Smoothie Delivery Service For Beardy Hipsters. Software Quality is a huge, growing issue - we have more and more young/new coders arriving, massively increasing demand for code, and yet no government enforced standards (such as those found in Law, Architecture and Accounting). The industry is suffering the exact same issues that Fred Brooks wrote about 50 years ago, despite all our modern frameworks and IDEs, because we're just doing more stuff with fewer people. Starting points: The Open Group (and TOGAF), ITIL, MinistryofTesting.com

INSPIRATION
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Hari Seldon, hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, was deliberately put into a wide variety of situations and experiences to inspire his imagination and fuel his emotional responses. Get out of starbucks, do crazy shit and get uncomfortable - allow it to fuse emotion and desire for change, because that's where motivation comes from. (related: read Think and Grow Rich if you haven't already)

FROM IDEA TO BUSINESS
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Read 'The E-myth revisited' and 'The Lean Startup'
Enough. You do this on every mention of PIA and you have been told to stop or get banned [0]. I don't know why you are on this crusade when there is not even the slightest hint of wrongdoing [1] so please, easy on the conspiracy theories.

Disclaimer: Happy PIA customer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911509

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911915
Yes, you did. It's the last word of the first sentence I quoted from you. Or the last word of the first sentence of your 4th paragraph.
Where did I claim "you cannot prove anything without solving the halting problem" or "static typing means non Turing complete" exactly? I said nothing of this sort... IN TC languages you can prove some properties, but in general you cannot prove your program is correct. When I say in general, I mean exactly that. You keep bringing some specific cases where you can prove correctness, but that's beyond my point.

I sometimes workaround this by proving for "outputs the correct result, or loops forever". Here, you don't have to prove for halting, since your program is not expected to halt in some cases anyway. But then in some particular cases, you can prove that your algorithm is correct. You do not have to lose Turing-completeness to do this. But it gets trickier when you want to built a type system that can give all the bugs in your program, in general. You can definitely build something that finds all the bugs "for all intents and purposes" but not something that can be mathematically proven that will give you all of them. To be concrete, you can build a program, given arbitrary Python code, gives most of/all the bugs in this program. But you cannot build a program, given arbitrary Python code, that is proven that it will correctly know whether this program will output correct result for all possible inputs. You can do this for some restricted Python programs (as you've been arguing for last two comments) but in general you cannot do this, which brings us to this fundamental division.
OK, that's a good point. We've uncollapsed the thread.
That we are aware of.
Most of the files that stick around operate on backup through ubiquity. While it doesn't guarantee that the integrity of the media is shipe-shape, as long as someone cares it will probably exist(e.g video game roms and embarrassing pictures).
Was America actually a democracy prior to the voting rights act of 1965? (Not trolling, this is a critical part of the issue, the extent to which black people could actually participate in said democracy)
That I can talk about publicly? Probably https://lightningai.com/.

Their control panel drives companies' entire online marketing operation - creative, targeting, performance, and more - across multiple advertising services. That's a whole lotta UI. Their back end drives the advertising platforms' APIs (eg Google and Facebook), and it all hooks into great big machine learning operations that run on big beefy servers out in EC2. Not just a pretty CRUD app, that's for sure.

(Unfortunately, they know what their services are worth, so I can't just point you at a live demo ;) )
Looks great! Check out this award-winning zooming interface from 2001 (requires flash): http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/sites/relevare/

Maybe it can be of some inspiration!
"And for those who don't use watches, then a small pocket device, be it a ring, cell phone or something like old Motorola pagers."

You mean like a credit card...?
This blog post is straight forward and useful: https://www.datawire.io/4-simple-strategies-for-managing-you...

tl;dr: Configure your reserved instances to be region-scoped; buy in a popular region; pay-as-you-go not upfront; sell your excess reserved instances (like you mentioned)
"He had read about Arcosanti in the 70s I believe and was expecting much more vibrancy, much more activity, and especially much more progress."

That is rather how I felt after touring Auroville a few years ago. So much publicity on the project is from decades ago. You visit, and you find out the project was never completed, successive generations born there have split into disparate factions and there’s sometimes infighting or at least apathy about any common goal, and the surrounding city has boomed so much that the little intentional community in its midst seems like a quirky little cult instead of a guide to the future.
Bitcoin is the chain with the most work.
Rupert Murdoch isn't himself running for president, but it's pretty clear that he is trying to manipulate the election into a particular outcome.

All the same arguments for why Putin's involvement should be illegal can also be levied against him.
Cant you put java apps on the leash with Xmax and Xmin memory ? I might be wrong, but I thought that was the case.
I have a couple of ideas. I know everyone thinks they are an “idea” person when they aren’t, but I actually have some pretty decent validation over a long time frame that my ideas have a better than average hit rate.

If I believed in the team I would probably just give away my ideas for free, or for the pleasure of being an advisor. I have almost no interest in going through the steps of doing a startup myself at this juncture.

I would love to see a couple of these come in to the world through any route.

If that sounds plausible feel free to reach out at me directly and I’d be happy to chat.
Probably by tapping the 'o' key one time too many.
I, like most people, use my smartphone a LOT. It's worth at least US$1/day, and I'll use it for probably 3 years ... making a top-end iPhone X amortize out to dirt cheap. At that low low price, why not get the best UI/UX I can?

I'll spend more on coffee than I will on an "expensive" phone during the same time.
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You'll get a daily report that breaks down your cost for you via inbox with weather symbols indicating the health of your cost. Think of this like the weather you check every morning before you start your day. Our forecasting in our report is pretty accurate too!

Hit me up if anyone is interested with helping us and provide product feedback. We're offering a 60 day free trial for our first users so we can evolve from a reporting tool to a tool that help you save on AWS cost.

Would love to hook you all up: hello@cloudforecast.io

This post has been super helpful to figure out what we should start thinking about and what to build next!
Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle [video]
Just moved to NYC last year. Our office is a couple blocks off of Union Square, and I've enjoyed playing with the guys over lunch. Would echo the comment in the article that there's more action in Union Square than Washington Square Park these days. If you are near Washington Square though, it's worth stopping by the Chess Forum, a beautiful store/chess club where you can play with folks for $5/hour.

https://www.chessforum.com/

Also, for those of you in SF, you have the Mechanics' Institute near, the oldest chess room in America, just off of your Union Square. They run a Blitz Tournament (3+2 on the clock, 2 games per round, 5+ rounds) every Wednesday night at 7pm. Entry is $10 for non-members. Incredibly welcoming crowd there, and a great way to dip your toe a little bit deeper into the waters.

https://chessclub.org/
"No better alternative" != "right". As you observe, a compromised choice is still compromised.
Why not any of the ideas here: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
This is why I think that screen space shouldn't be useable. It should be reserved by the OS to show the status, have a black background (which would work really well with the OLED), and from an app's perspective the screen is just a rectangle.
How do you know it wasn't? :)
I feel dizzy :)
If it doesn't exist yet, I'm sure someone will be along shortly to re-invent Trillian or Pidgin as an Electron app.
It's ridiculous that I am getting downvoted for having a moral compass. For people who are having any questions about this issue or doubt its validity please watch the Documentary "Death by Design".
There are some similar externalities when it comes to emissions. It's something you can't fix with a fuel tax.
If you are in the Pittsburgh area, there is a startup weekend coming up in two weeks which I am super excited for as there will be tons of great ideas tossed around. You may be able to get some great ideas through the prototype phase. Otherwise maybe join a startup weekend or something to that effect in your area.
Find an under served niche and then build something to service that specific niche.

I do just that about four years ago and have a stable client base of about a dozen clients who are all on our subscription based billing (instead of the costlier hourly billing) we have. Because of what we bill out, and the ability to work with my partners remotely even though we all live in the same city; we have zero overhead which increases our profit margin considerably.

We started with websites and SEO. Now we're building enterprise level apps for these firms and they can't get enough of it. The industry we're in is also a tight-knight small community so once word starting getting around about the stuff we did and how we helped these other firms, we started getting a lot of calls. When we started, it was all cold calling, doing local industry conferences, and reaching out to their professional organizations and doing educational seminars and talks to increase exposure.

Start small and then go after the big stuff. Otherwise, you're diving into a huge pool for competition. Focus on a small niche, own it, then duplicate that model to other industries.
I'm sure this will not fix my 25% cpu core burn on open gifs. Slack is no. 1 reason for my laptop to spin up fans because I left it open with a gif from giphy.
Someone at the Ethereum Foundation is working full-time on formal verification, and building a smart contract language to make it easier: https://medium.com/@pirapira/bamboo-compiler-started-produci...

"Currently I’m confident I can write an interpreter of Bamboo in Coq or Isabelle/HOL. I don’t want to expand the language much further until I write one so that I can prove properties of Bamboo programs. Ultimately I’d like to replace the compiler with a proven-correct one, but for that, a Bamboo interpreter needs to exist in a theorem prover."
I agree, the Sonoran Desert is so refreshing, and I hadn't actually caught that they'd said it was equally beige.
Group buys for real estate rentals. NYC is perfect for it.

Remember how in college, you'd fill in your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. housing options and get a match? Do that with groups of friends who are all graduating college at the same time and moving to NYC. Landlords would love you, as you'd rent out entire floors/buildings all at the same time.

Then build an ongoing matching service to fill the spots of individuals who move out.

NYC real estate is physically shitty, so you can add value by focusing on the social aspect of living.
With that setup why not just take over some early company and 10x it?

Most have ideas, some have MVP and some have early customers. Pick the third one and bigulate it.
I manually changed it to lowercase since after I copied it, it was all caps. I was posting from my phone (hard to edit things there) in between talking to my mom about unrelated things.
"The study also noted that the longer you fast (18–24 hours) the more less you weigh."

Huh.
Here's a link to Gene Spafford's writeup on the Internet Worm:

http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/tech-reps/823.pdf
New case design and screen with Touch ID makes it a 1.0 product (maybe I should say 10.0 product ) I would wait a month to see if there are any glaring issues regardless . I suspect the OLED screen may have the most issues .
Because if they listed every language that compiled to JS the actual point of their comment would get buried?
What happens if the highest bidder can't pay the NFL enough to make it worthwhile?

I keep seeing pictures of half-empty stands behind kneeling football players, and ultimately if the NFL destroys its value by alienating too many fans with politics, there's no reason the entire business won't or shouldn't collapse.
Doksan, a command line soccer tool
I'd use them. They're among the least expensive. And they don't seem to retain logs or detailed access records, based on testimony to a US court. But that was about an exit in the US, where there's no legal requirement for VPNs to log. Where there are such legal requirements, maybe they (or any other VPN) would retain and produce logs.

When I checked in mid 2016, their custom Windows client leaked while the VPN was reconnecting after uplink interruption. But then, only six of the 29 VPNs that I tested didn't leak: AirVPN, FrootVPN, IVPN, Mullvad, Perfect Privacy and SlickVPN. Strangely, FrootVPN didn't leak using open-source OpenVPN, suggesting that they're doing something unusual at the networking level. PIA's OS X client didn't leak, however.

They do tend to oversell their servers, however. So you'll often get less throughput than with AirVPN, IVPN or Mullvad.
I've been buying from B&H and NewEgg for electronics, and avoiding Amazon if I can. I use Amazon for cheap stuff out of convenience with "prime", and buy only from Amazon, LLC and not other sellers, although that is not always guaranteed to solve the problem, as others have mentioned (such as mixing of counterfeit with real products). When writing a review of counterfeit product, make sure to include the Seller's name in the review so that buyers are aware.
Debug Information Is Huge and What to Do About It
I have a proven, novel means to gain insight about System1 response. Issued a patent for it (which I think is reasonably well written). Worked great applying it improve response to P&G's branded ads (then was part of McD's SG&A cuts). Would love to use it to improve romantic outcomes (better than survey response measures; e.g. "love at first [System1] sight" would make Kahneman/Tversky proud). Etc. Same coin, opposite side. If I was you, I would hang around some grabybeards who are 50+ and have been working in logistical positions for corporations, expand your network, and hire a great salesman. The GB's will have ideas, but not the where-with-all to act -- notably if they have a family HC plan. The network (also a good GB win), and your sales team are more important than a great idea. You really just need a "good enough" idea, execution, plus sales to get started, then adjust. HTH.
Here's a great idea: bitcoin settlement, custody, and clearing for institutional investors. There is a huge first mover advantage to be had signing up to prime broker every hedge fund's bitcoins and help settle OTC transactions. I know people who need this. Good luck.
Your comment made me lol. But also made me think :)

Indeed its not hard to imagine how "uber for day laborers" could increase worker exploitation. In particular the possibility of somehow skirting around worker's comp insurance by arguing that it only facilitates transactions is an obvious starting point. However, I think such a technology could also be used to mitigate exploitation. The one thing that I already mentioned was payment assurance. In general socializing the risk exposed to laborers as part of the service could be a great benefit in growing the service.
2 Billion? That's a lot of brain injuries.
.NET Framework | Proprietary | Windows 98 or later

.NET Micro Framework | Apache 2.0 | Win+Bare Metal

.NET Core | MIT License | Win+macOS+Linux(x64+armhf)

Xamarin | Proprietary | Android, iOS, and Windows

mono | MIT License |
Linux
Mac OS X, iOS, tvOS, watchOS
Sun Solaris
BSD - OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD
Microsoft Windows
Nintendo Wii
Sony PlayStation 3
Sony PlayStation 4

Of course "having a runtime" is not the same thing as "having a good way to write cross-platform applications".
The article title is more than unfair, it drips with prejudice and, well, racism. When you make the same kind of living from the privacy of a Manhattan apartment by playing rich tycoons, you're a sage:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-21/wall-street-s-best-kept-secret-is-russian-chess-master-lev-alburt

The title is clearly clickbait. I'll leave it to the scholars at prestigious universities to bicker about why it works as clickbait. As for the title itself, let's just call a spade a spade.
Everyone wants in on the exiting problem solving portion of the the issue, few people are willing (or have the time available) to sit in on the vote process and procedure oriented bureaucratic election bodies, even fewer still are allowed to be appointed onto the boards that aren't vetted by the major parties.
Danish Inventor Admits to Dismembering Journalist
To be fair, the person you were critiquing was referring to a comment by someone else who had observed the problem from Puerto Rico. Bigger picture implications aside, do we have any reason to believe AMP wouldn’t work as a CDN for folks in such situations?
> Secondaries cover this case for Gitlab, it seems, but that comes with a set of caveats as well (namely async availability of data).

Another caveat is that all secondaries will end up having more or less the same stuff in their cache. As your data set grows bigger that becomes unsustainable, because you're going to read from disk more and more.

When you shard across N nodes you can keep N times as much data in the cache. Combined with N times higher I/O and compute capacity, that can actually give you way more than N times higher read throughput than a single node (for data sets that don't fit in memory), and you can get much higher write throughput as well.
That $5 doesn't include the mining fees. With, it is closer to $40.
>So what is the downside to using a VPN if you're aware that they aren't foolproof vs not using a VPN at all?

Rarely addressed: VPN CLIENT ISOLATION.

The majority of us sit behind a NAT'd address range provided by our physical router, thus isolating our machines via a hardware router / firewall from our ISP. When you connect via a VPN, you are not automatically isolated from other client-peers on that VPN and must implicitly trust the VPN provider has properly configured client isolation. You can do testing, like firing up Wireshark and listening for broadcast traffic or simply by trying to nmap other hosts on the network, however, whatever you find could change with a configuration setting at any time.
Anyone else find it weird that when you click "other" for gender that the data looks more like garbage?

I was trying to actually compare male and female salaries out of interest but have a hard time believing so many people earn <$20k/yr. Even when you switch the filters around. The best I could find is just filtering for the US, but the number of respondents are so low, ~1k total (~200 Females, ~800 males), that it becomes difficult to make accurate comparisons ($22k diff but women had more masters degrees and similar PhDs, by percentage).

Has anyone sorted through this data and tried to account for these factors? I'd be interested at the uncertainty and how the information was gathered.
> In this model, all your data belongs to you.

I wonder at what point companies decided they could own our data, and we agreed to it.

If I write something on a post-it note and give it to my coworker, will 3M rear its head and demand ownership of that information? No, of course not. So why do we allow Google to own our information when we use their software and/or office equipment?
The marijuana industry is only growing, you might want to see what opportunities lie in that space.
Algorithmic Program Debugging [pdf]
Yeah I agree that they appear to be missing a designer or product developer. More concretely, they need someone who is imaginative and can see the big picture from a user/customer perspective.
Another option, if you want more security against exploits, is Qubes. But the hardware requirements are far more restrictive, and the learning curve is steeper.
Of course everyone agrees that "cleaning data" is difficult and boring, and it's always mentioned, but what I don't really understand is what kind of tools people expect for this beyond what are already available. E.g. pandas is pretty good at merging tables, re-ordering, finding doubles, filling or dropping unknowns etc. There are also tools for visualizing large amounts of data, look for outliers, etc. Beyond the basic tools it seems to me that each dataset requires decisions to be made that can't be automated. (e.g. do I drop or fill the unknowns?) I don't see how this could be improved, as every decision has a solid, semantic implication related to whatever is the overarching research question.

So statements like "getting data ready for the algorithms" seem kind of meaningless to me, in the sense of general methodologies. How could you possibly "get the data ready" without considering what it is, how it will be used, etc. How can it possibly be generalized to anything beyond the specific requirements of each problem instance?

I'm just really curious what you are imagining when you say that better tools are needed here.
Wow, what's going on there? :/ Case of sour grapes for that user?

My only beef is I thought PIA would be a kickass gig to work at. Alas, never heard back from my resume. They post in the monthly thread.

Still interested, if any of you PIA people are watching :D
Do you use any frameworks or services for the scrapers?

Also, any concerns about legality of scraping?
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