skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think others have the same sentiment but:

Public education is about a mix of child minding, keeping children out of the labour market - oh and as an afterthought teaching them stuff we taught the previous generations (so they became teachers and can teach the same stuff again).

Private has always been the pathfinder but too often ignored 'cos of political differences.
Could you post your list of the 400 new things you could do with Twilio? It seems like there ought to be a lot but I can't think of any.

(Or at least post your process for coming up with them.) I think bitcoin might be another technology that makes big "ripples", no?
Hahaha, go ahead and try it, and then you wonder why you are getting paid less than 100k while a incompetent new hire is making 150k fresh off of school.
Unfortunately, if IPv6 is invisible it doesn't provide any feedback against the "IPv6 is not happening and will never happen" narrative (example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5586519 ).
No I saw it. Effing clever, so points for that.

It has plausible deniability and has an Oscar Wilde wit to it. Touche.
"An unrelated person of unspecified gender tries to explain my startup in 90 seconds"

better?
Anyone get their young teen to read 'Why Nerds aren't Popular.'
And do you have any advice if you did? I talked to my 14 year old daughter the other day. I got her to at least listen to me, and she is aware the essay exists. But how do I convince her to read it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592554

15 people able to hear and speak clearly from anywhere in a conference room? It's a lot harder than you think. For participants, poor sound quality "gets in the way"; good sound "just works." And a single piece of (expensive) office videoconferencing hardware is only a small part of the goal of minimizing distracting ambient noises and maximizing intelligible speech.

As you've discovered, sound quality is the hardest aspect of making video conferencing a good experience for speakers and listeners on both sides of the video link. It's easy to jack in a big-screen TV to a laptop for viewers at the back of the room. But the quality of the sound is shaped by the interplay of acoustics in both rooms. Reverberation within both conference rooms as well as noise captured by the microphones lead to poor sound quality.

Here's what you're up against:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/telepresence/endpoint/misc/u...

So the solution to the problem is not a better piece of office conferencing equipment, and it's not DIY acoustics management - it's a sound professional who has the skills necessary to tailor a solution for your specific office environment.

Large corporations hire an audio design consultant. But for your budget, ask an experienced local sound technician--someone who works with natural sound for a living--to come by and offer their advice. Inspect the office location together and review with him/her the specifics of how you intend to use the space. A good soundie will: consider all the factors that shape the room's acoustics, including floor, wall, ceiling dimensions and materials; evaluate all sources of ambient noise; decide on choice and placement of wired/wireless mic(s) and speakers, an inexpensive (automatic) mixer. Sound recording pros - whether on an indie movie set or at a local radio station - routinely make the best use of the available budget; an experienced soundie will get you better sound, usually for less money, often with a mix of more creative solutions that can include inexpensive, low-tech sound modifiers for the room's acoustics.
I also recently started to use mailing list in my blog. I thought a mailing list will be useful in iOS and Mac apps as well. So I started a project building a universal framework for both the iOS and Mac platforms, complete with UIs. It illustrates the concept of code sharing between iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps with just one codebase. The fact that you got 30,000 emails proves its viability. The project is at https://github.com/rayvinly/DevNewsletter
Regardless of the merits of the discussion on the title, it's a great example of how little details matter and getting them wrong can convey something very different from what you intend.
Alternately, do lots of bounces with fewer rays, decrease the total dynamic range, and add a consistent noise/grain filter. Realistic raytraced night-vision :)
How do you conquer back something?
As usual Dave spends 90% of his time reminding you how awesome he is and 10% on the actual content of the article. I guess I'm glad to see it, because without Dave there to remind them the new generation of programmers really might have matured and and entered industry without ever knowing about the marginal contributions of this raving egotist.

We put up with Wolfram-sized egos because Mathematica is an incredible achievement. Dave could take a page from Wolfram. Try wowing us first.
F*ck You, Pay Me - http://vimeo.com/22053820

Watch it. Learn from it. And be a professional.

Do you have a contract? If so, does it cover this type of situation? Either way, go chat with a lawyer.

Here's my IANAL advice. I'll run under the assumption that you don't have a contract. Get out! There is no way to exit this situation without having a very angry client. But, if you haven't accepted any payment yet, deliver all of your diligence, along with a list of a few, reputable contractors to take over the work, and forego payment.

If you do have a contract, things could get a little hairy.
Off-topic, but since younger HNers may not know what the title is riffing on, https://www.google.com/search?q=nobody%20got%20fired%20for%2...
Good job. Hopefully someone has at least $30mm for you :)
I'd like to follow the lobbying money trail on this and see if it leads back to someone like Intuit who is now going to be peddling their "one stop shop" service for this, for only a 1% service charge on the sale amount.
> Kickstarter being used by well funded celebrities who just want to minimize their risk to zero seems wrong to me. It should be for startups and good ideas that can't get funding elsewhere.

Shouldn't the users of Kickstarter determine whether a project is worthy?

You have personal reasons for not funding this project but seem to suggest that other people shouldn't be allowed to fund it either.

If Kickstarter users think they're getting value for their money, let them fund the project.
Isn't it always going to be more efficient for the producer of said text to produce the summary him/herself? Couldn't resources be better spent trying to influence the production process of various news outlets to provide summaries?

In the legal community (and I'm sure many others), there is tremendous benefit to writing concise introductory and concluding paragraphs, as well as tables of contents that act as excellent skeletons for much longer documents. In policy-land, the one-pager is king...but I digress.

I guess I'm just kind of lost as to how or when the cost of accurately summarizing text by computer is cheaper than basically "asking" the author to provide one. Will the quality of a computer-generated summary ever be >= the quality of an author-generated summary?
Precisely. I am 55 and very current. Many of my younger friends ask me about new technology. I'm actually past having kids at home, so tend to work pretty long hours...because I like what I do.

I have a lot of entrepreneurial experience and am a pretty good general business manager. Coupled with the ability to code, I find that I am in fairly great demand.
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It will affect margins, because now you have the costs of this extra complexity in your accounting, or you have to pay a service provider to handle it for you.
These Jobs' hagiographies are becoming tiresome.
Where can you find more information about becoming one of these certified software providers? It seems like it could be a pretty easy web service to deploy that once it's up, it really becomes a simple matter of keeping your database up to date which, hopefully, is provided in some sort of machine readable format from each state and preferably in the same format.

Also could be a pretty snazzy way for a company like Shopify or the payment providers like Stripe, to make an extra buck as they'll already implement this for their customers, anyway, and it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to make it a service anyone could integrate with.
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That problem won't exist; you may still find differences between the states, but that's it. Only the states set the categorizations for sales tax on remote sellers. This harmonization of a state's sales and use taxes into a single set of rules managed by a single entity for remote sellers is one of the requirements of the bill.
What can't you do? Get paid enough to live very comfortably in one of the world's great and interesting places?
Getting the same thing with sideways scrolling, looks neat otherwise.
They aren't using the same algorithm and settings, so the two demos are not directly comparable.
He is supplying products (various physical rewards and the emotional reward of being a backer) at prices that, he thinks, are adequate to the demand that is out there. Isn't that capitalism 101?

Plus, the early numbers are showing he got it right...
>The problem with any systems programming language is that it is only used as such, if an OS vendor makes it the only way to do OS programming.

Well, one has to question then why no vendor made something like Oberon etc "the only way to do" his OS programming.

Perhaps because having POC OSes at some university wasn't enough, and performance was lacking of OS level work, and lacking in a way that Moore's law cannot address?

(E.g we see Go pausing for 1-10 secs every few minutes on large memory loads. Which might be hood for an academic OS, but not for the OS I want to run video editing, audio DAWs, large apps and application servers on. And even the attempt by SUN to write something as basic as a web browser in pure Java was dog slow circa 2000).
But aren't teamwork and team loyalty just two means to the same end--which is to maximize profits. So why does it matter that it's a type of business that only value the end instead of the means?

Reminds me of designer friends of mine that constantly harp on about their 'design process'--but, do your users like your product in the end or not? That's the key. The process is merely a means to an end (there are many means in business, but generally one end: profit). If the end sucks, the means is worth very little (it's only worth is as a lesson in what not to do).
Wow, this is awesome for both DR reasons and performance reasons. Congratulations Heroku! (Hopefully a second US Region and an Asia Region will follow...)
"Daemia patrol from quad to bfg for 3 minutes" ;)

http://www.angelfire.com/linux/vmerchand/quake.htm
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No more that the fawning over Google, or the posting of everything Linus says in his G+ stream, or the over-the-top criticism/lack criticism of Microsoft. Here is an idea; if it bothers you that much, don't read articles about Apple or Jobs, and don't comment on them either.

Apologies for the snark, but this type of comment is lazy and pointless. Trolling at it's most insipid.
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Traveling Consults make good money. Also when your young and don't have a family. Guidewire is really hot right now just not sure how you get into it if you aren't already in an insurance company.
Sorry, but I can't help but remember encountering people who made comments much like yours, only to find on closer examination that they were incredibly, deeply in the wrong.

Since you don't go into any actual details about the basis of your comment, it makes it really hard for me to take your remembrances too seriously.
I missed seeing this in your list. Link?
In a sense, "draining the battery" is the entire point of a high-performance graphics plugin and it ought to be the user's decision whether or not to play Flash games based on their need for battery time.

So I suspect "it drains the battery" is covering for a deeper issue, like perhaps: were we getting good value from Flash?
What would be the benefit for PayPal adding Bitcoin? I feel like this is analogous to BoA saying you can now login to our site using your Chase account...Doesn't make sense to me.
Generally major libraries have actual documentation that's good enough to make it counter-productive to look at the source. If you simply asked if there was ever a time where you needed to look at the source for a library, I could probably come up with something. However, I've never had to look at the source for anything that I would consider a "major" library because everything that I've used that I would consider a "major" library has decent documentation.
BC does lack an easy way to buy them right now for many countries, so this would be welcome. e.g. I'd either have to find a local seller (unlikely) or go through 2x different online "currencies" till I get the BC.
Oh sh*t. I didn't read the website (only the newsletter). Thanks for posting, though. Should be helpful for others as well!
I'd like to see them introduce a $200 bill for common circulation. With inflation, a $100, while still a little rare, doesn't represent enough value any more.
Nice work!

This has pretty excellent documentation. Like really excellent documentation. But jumping into the code itself is a little bit of a beast with no tests or comments.

so: is testing on your roadmap?
Dude, don't mention bombs and bitcoins on the Internet. CISPA passed and if they kick your door down, you'll most probably have to pay for the repairs out of your own pocket.
I wasn't distinguishing between switching completely and switching just a part of the infrastructure to go, for brevity's sake.
The part I liked best was:

"And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it."

I think this really relates to the hacker community because it shows that you can start with SOMETHING (Just go try something), and then later you can change it and modify it. The idea you start with is never the idea that comes out on the other side.

I have a seemingly simple, offline business that we had to pivot more than once to get it just right. We used feedback from our customers (and more importantly, would-be customers) to evolve and succeed. Thanks for posting this!
Exactly and the education of a child shouldn't be focused on keeping kids off the street. This is a positive by-product but unfortunately seems to be the extent of what the public sector can do in developing areas.

The private sector has to focus on providing a quality education or their tuition will dissipate and they will shut down.
>Go is also the only place I've ever seen this syntax

Then you should go read some more code. Because not only it's the one I've been using for ages (hah), but it's standard K&R style, one of the oldest and most established styles out there...
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Hurrah! I'll be toying around with this first thing in the morning. Thanks for all the hard work, Heroku guys.
Leafo, this looks great. I was not familiar with your MoonScript language prior to this.

Say, since you cite the benchmarks project, would you mind submitting a test case for Lapis?

Also, just out of curiosity, what did you use to create the canvas animation?
So you want to get sold for 60M? No offence. nice work :-)
How many sane languages have function scope rules? Python has them, that's one. Javascript is a mess but might count. PHP is not sane at all. Most other things have block scope as far as I know.
And then the content producers will just demand Flash or Silverlight to stream their content, which is the status-quo. It's not really a similar situation.
Wait wait wait. I was talking about the particles in this particular simulation.

Surface tension is _not_ a function of the size of water molecules. In fact you can change it quite easily just by adding a little soap.
How close are you to fulfilling those requirements?
I am just asking, because there are quite a few German PaaS providers showing up now. So there seems to be a market.
And it is a real problem when you try to do business with healthcare
Rubbish in == rubbish out. Crowdsourcing or not.

Exposure to bad photos and news is not the same as exposure to crime scene (and police data).
Is the $1M threshold per state or overall?

Do you tax a customer based on shipping address or billing address?
http://i.imgur.com/P1YwnY4.png
I'm guessing you mean that having adverts shown to you might be good consideration?

I guess it's possible that it might be held to be, but it's by no means a given. (I don't know any English cases on that, but there may be US ones I'm not familiar with. All the cases of website terms I know are ones where the website owner wants to enforce against the user, so don't help, as AFAICS the courts only care whether the party seeking to enforce gave consideration (which they have: the service)).

But even if you succeed in that, it still might not help you. Seems to me that the effect of that would be to make the service a standing offer on Google's part. Analogy: a sign on a shack saying "Come in and take a biscuit if you view the advert on the wall". The consideration isn't in return for a promise to continue to provide services. If the shack owner removed the shack one day, you couldn't sue him for breach of contract.

Wheras if you've paid money for a service and they don't provide it, they're in breach, full stop. (Even if they claim you're in breach, they have to notify you and give you a reasonable time to cure it).

IANAL, and my consideration analysis might be completely wrong. But even if it is, I still strongly suspect it's not going to be easy to convince a court to hold Google in breach for stopping giving you a service you weren't paying for. If you're paying for a service, you're in a much more secure position.
There's a fork (or distribution) of nginx that includes dynamic loading: https://github.com/alibaba/tengine
I may be more excited about Heroku Fork than I am about the EU region. I've copied apps many many times, it's one of those tasks that I always meant to write up into a script and never got around to. Thanks Heroku!
This post was on HN six months ago[1] but I'm glad it was posted again because I missed it on the first go-around.

The "Is there something I can do to get myself into the right mental state?" section resonated with me, particularly where the author argues that specific environments can get you in the right mental state for different kinds of work.

The author references a study from the Journal of Consumer Research[2] that explores the relationship between ceiling height and thought processing. The gist of the study is higher ceilings help stimulate creative thinking processes while lower ceilings help stimulate thinking in terms of item-specific data.

I'm studying/cramming for finals now, so I'll test this hypothesis by studying for a memorization-heavy exam in a low-ceiling classroom while encouraging my classmates to study in a high-ceiling study hall :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4661747
[2] http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/71190.pdf
A lot of this article's advice refers to Reddit as a singular entity, as if Reddit The Company was behind the online investigation:

For example, in a situation similar to the marathon bombings, Reddit could simply post the available images without comment (save, perhaps, for time stamps and where the pictures were taken), and allow users to sift through them, looking for both incriminatory and exculpatory evidence (like, say, people carrying black backpacks near the bomb sites, or still carrying them once the bombs had already gone off), while creating a voting system that would let people independently vote on which images they thought were worth further investigation. Once a critical mass of users had perused the images, Reddit could aggregate the results, and pass them on to the authorities. (The results of the voting wouldn’t even have to be made public, if people were concerned about false accusations.) This would take advantage of the crowd’s ability to filter through lots of images quickly, while also preserving the diversity and independence that make crowds smart. The point of this wouldn’t be to compete with, let alone replace, the work of official investigators, but rather to provide, as it were, another set of eyes, one that might see something that investigators missed.

If Reddit were looking for a model to follow, it could use NASA’s Clickworkers experiment...

For any of this to work, "Reddit" would need to be an organization with a top-down command and control hierarchy, not an online forum where any user can create a new subforum at any time.

In this idealized world of Reddit investigations, who is overseeing the crowd-sourcing and handling the aggregation?
> Is the $1M threshold per state or overall?

It's the sum of all sales to customers in states where you have no local nexus during the previous year. One of my bullet points summarizes the rule for determining the taxing locality; shipping address has priority over billing address.
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Government mandates the creation of a new Intuit to do for sales tax what income tax prep services have accomplished for income tax: create a giant industry based on the artificial engineering of byzantine rules.

Just as every income tax prep service represents someone whose economic energies are devoted to an invented waste process instead of real innovation or human accomplishment, soon there will be a horde of sales tax prep services draining the pool of developer talent that could be expended on big (and real) problems instead.

Fortunately most 'big' problems these days seems to be based around split testing landing pages and sales funnels, so it won't be too great a burden on our society.
Paul, I think we just emailed each other.

Again, you are exactly right. Some of my problems I know can be improved using a better scraping algorithm. Another idea would be if the article is not at X length, don't try and summarize it.

I look foward to talking to you more about it!