skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but having a few scant hours outside of work doesn't really qualify, at least in terms of quality of life. I'm talking about revenue-producing projects that I work on full time, and potentially have enough revenue to hire one or two others onto as well, and then have free time to actually relax.
Well, there's Clojure which supports CLR. You will not get the C# source code out of it, but it will compile to CLR and run on Windows. As always, unless you already know the platform APIs pretty well, it's going to be hard to get started on a new platform with a new language where documentation is virtually zero, but if you know your way around C# and the APIs you should be ready to go.
Hi,

An apprenticeship would be great for you. My company offers them we haven't done remote before but I'm willing to give it a go. Drop me an email josh@seriousfox.co.uk
Ask HN: Moving to Bay Area
Hi HN,

I am moving to Bay Area in October. The problem really pertain to my wife, she is excellent Software Engineer and have a Bachelor Degree from top Indian Institute. The startup she currently work for is based out of Bay Area, how easy / difficult for startup to sponsor L1 visa if she waits till February ( 1 year ).

What are other options for my wife is she come along in October ? When can she apply for MS education if possible in US. As the H1B are out for this year, how easy / difficult is to find job in non profit in Bay Area. I will be going to work SF area. I am ok with commute of 30 - 45 minutes by Train.

Any other options, she is ok with volunteer opportunity at startup because she wants to be in touch with technology and edge sharp so she can apply for next year H1B. Is it difficult / permissible to volunteer in H4 visa ?

Let me know your thoughts. If you want to reach out to me for more details fameoflight <at> gmail <dot> com

-Hemant
I don't have a problem with relational databases. Or rather, I don't have a problem with relational data modelling.

I do have a problem with Oracle. Even the Oracle experts at my former job could barely get Oracle to do something sensible, and running it on my own computer was basically a death sentence for getting anything done.

I have a problem with MySQL, from a sysadmin perspective. When I had it installed, MySQL was the package that would always break on every update. No upgrade was small enough that the data files would continue working.

(I don't have experience with Postgres, but SQLite seems more comfortable than any of the mentioned alternatives)

I have a problem with schemas in my database. It requires upfront work with modelling my data. I'd rather iterate. Also, nobody I've worked with seems to put the schemas in automatically; you need to run the special "initdb" script that isn't maintained to make it start working.

I have a problem with SQL. It would be awesome if we had a standard query language, but we don't. You can't apply the same SQL to different database engines mostly because it won't even compile, secondarily because it will give different results and finally because it will have a completely different performance profile.

All of this can be fixed by learning stuff, so I know better what I am doing.

But I already know CouchDB [1]. It took me little effort to learn, and it makes a lot of sense to my mind. I can solve problems with it, and it has neat properties with regards to master-master replication. So for me, CouchDB works just fine, just like a relational database works just fine for you :)

So, from my perspective, it seems that using some SQL solution would be the time consuming option.

[1]: CouchDB can't be considered a "Big data" database for many cases. It is slow. But it scales neatly :)
Until the majority has at least 1gbps with no bandwidth caps it's probably premature.
North Sámi = eadni
So what, they still can't just upload all apps from the Google Play Store into their own.
I've actually tried some of the other stores for publishing my own apps and my experience is that users of those alternative stores either have no money or do not want to spend any money on apps. (the sales have been catastrophic, even in Amazons App store)
I can also see that lenders might exert their influence in ways you'd find objectionable, making lending predicated on family assets/income, requiring co-signing from a parent with a 650+ credit score, not lending to liberal arts majors at all, refusing to lend at "black colleges", or preferentially lending at Ivys, etc.

Of course, they'd do it in the name of lending to high paying, high demand job skills and high likelihood of repayment. Under such a system, I'd have still gotten loans, but I'd rather see a system where some percent of people who make bad choices suffer from their choices, but where educational loans are widely available than a system where few are "allowed" to make bad choices, but loans are more narrowly available.

I don't want a world that's even more "rich get educated, poor don't" than today. If I look back at my family, my generation is much, much better off, primarily via education, than my grandparents who very literally mined coal and worked in a steel mill. They scrimped and saved so my parents could go to college to become teachers, who in turn ensured we did as well. That's no college to no-name college to top-name college in the span of two generations.

Of course that's only one data point, and if I read it in a paper, blog or on news.YC, I'd roll my eyes at the cherry-picking, too, because it'd be 1 story hand-selected from 100s of millions. In my case, it's 1 of 1, so I want to ensure we preserve the conditions that let my parents work hard to forge a better life for themselves and my siblings. Maybe in a world where college loans are hard to get (such as the world they lived in), this would all work out similarly, and easy college loans are in fact part of the problem, but I think there's been heaps of hidden benefits to having education being more widely available and more common that people overlook when they see Mr or Ms Bad Choices as an adult with untenable student loan debt.
We all know "Lean In" is a ploy to get her into the national election psyche. She is probably a better candidate than most of the other jokers. However, we really can't take the book that seriously nor it's pseudo science. I listened to a NPR event by her and was so surprised how she used stereotypes about men to dispel stereotypes about women and no one once called her on it!
It's very simple. She now has "business" background, she is using Lean In to recruit activist women who she needs as volunteers. Her Facebook credentials will endear her to younger voters as well. So she will get some of independents who might like her business background. She will get the female and youth vote. So on paper she is a good candidate and the book is her gateway.
Because they start with D? They sound so completely different …
> to add backstory.

Didn't you accuse them of intentionally mixing up commits to make the changes hard to reverse? Calling that adding backstory is dishonest and the comment was entirely inappropriate.

(Sincere apologies if I am mis-attributing this comment to you.)
I guess that's my misunderstanding. :)
Bitcoin algorithm should be rethought in order to be used for valuable computation not just useless hashing. At this point it's a waste of energy, but that doesn't mean we can't turn it into something useful. I believe we really need to ask ourselves: "What are we trying to accomplish here?". Are we trying to create just a digital medium that promotes the same old selfinterest, or are we trying to create a new kind of system that transcends the individual?
Right, of course. Thank you. :)
Lessons from Failed Start-Ups
I suppose it's a bit too early to be relevant, but does anyone knows what's the gain in term of price at this point ?
Twitter's odd use of the word 'followed'
Amazing. Considering 4K TVs are pretty affordable now, this is great news.
Agreed. Products that are pure mobile apps without a service attached to it will rely very heavily on marketplace rankings for sales. And marketplace rankings always have a time-based decay factor as a part of the algorithm.
Paramount - Clojure superiority sort library
Learn from vegas casinos how to get smarter about data analytics
It's quite a simple matter to measure /rates of error/ in modal interfaces versus non-modal interfaces. This may seem trivial for text editors in particular, but modal errors are a big cause of aeronautical accidents (and deaths), so even one error is too many in that case.

And if you can avoid errors in cases where they are life threatening, why wouldn't you want to avoid errors everywhere else?
I like that distinction.

But I also don't really mind if Big Data is truly big, because it's clearly different data than what businesses are used to collecting and interpreting today.
But the hypothesis is that the word for mother _in a certain language_ comes from that situation. Those breast-deprived babies you observe would not be creating their own language (unless you do more than just observe :-/), so what would you be observing? A difference in frequency of ma-sounds from other babies?
Yep. And he was correct when he said that. And he is still correct.
If it's politics, we should just flag the article and let the admins remove it.
It is fully possible for humans to adapt to terrible computer interfaces. That doesn't mean the interface is not terrible, it just means that humans are adaptable.
Prepping a product pilot that isn't on the web
> The really, really good ideas are the ones that almost sound like jokes

One way of trying to generate creative ideas is to take something that exists, and imagine changing some aspect of it, and think about how that might work out in the world (See http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RQLZRO/?tag=dedasys-20 )

Often, humor relies on something being backwards, twisted around, or out of context, too.
Not exactly a graphical iPhone game, but I am a designer and this is the first game I'm enjoying in a long time.

http://candies.aniwey.net

- Minimal visuals: Check

- Simple to learn: Check, more enjoyable with a mentor/more experienced person I can reach.

- Not sure how competitive it gets at the high end.

I'm surprised I am enjoying this, since I was never a RPG person. I am a casual-at-best gamer who finds Clash of the Clans boring after 5 mins and Letterpress gameplay too implicit(?).
Egor Homakov available for hire
No one can tell you what the problem is with that little information. However, here are some suggestions on how you can yourself debug your problem:

Isolate: Eliminate as much as possible until nothing except the problem remains. You can't fix the problem until you know what the problem is, and guessing about it will just lead you astray.

Is performance still crap when you remove the db calls? When you replace the db connection with sqlite? When you remove the view logic and just render a static template? When you remove the templates altogether and just render a simple "Hello, world" string? When you put the application on a free Heroku instance instead of Linode?

Then ask yourself, does it make sense? Is Ruby so slow that a simple page takes 300 ms to load? Is a $20 (per month? per year?) Linode VPS that crappy?
I still don't know.. Google Glass feels like these people standing in the first row in a concert and watching the whole thing through their 2.5" smartphone screen just to share it on facebook. It's just not the experience I want to get from life.
You have to take some of these colloquialisms with a grain assault.
Dr. Sid - Talented (Prod. By Don Jazzy)
I believe that other transport modes (public transport, on foot) are in the pipeline, but the amount of additional compute power they need is significant

Also Public Transport route and connectivity information is frequently a bit patchy in OSM, but this is steadily improving.
"It wouldn't be "pretty awesome". It would be almost entirely unusable."
Compared to the paragon of usability that photoshop represents today?

On its own, chords would hurt discoverability. But as I wrote originally, discoverability can be restored using another of raskin's ideas, a dynamic style of command line demonstrated by his son Aza in the Ubiquity and Enso projects, and also present in the Sublime Text 2 text editor (called the command palette there)-- In essence, if your program has thousands of features, then make them invokable from an efficient specialised search engine. If we are using chords, make the available chords discoverable and visible in the UI.

You can entirely avoid modes AND have an efficient and powerful interface for experts to use day in and day out. They are not opposing forces.
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It's free, but the venue isn't huge — so go grab a ticket now: http://designandbanter.com/ — Reply
Akiyoshi's illusion pages
A programming language can be created such that it resembles a natural language but it also avoids the ambiguities of that natural language. Anyway, the main idea is that FP languages are way too cryptic and ambiguous, they use too many symbols with multiple meanings which don't make any logical sense at a first glance. If you have to go to great lengths to explain the meaning of a simple symbol, then its use is wrong in a language that is claimed to be general purpose, clear, easy to read and so on. Either that, or the language is not general purpose and/or doesn't have those claimed qualities (clear, etc.) in a general sense.
What an interesting way to put it. I've never heard anyone describe it like that.

How would you say its any different from the smartphone addicted users of today? (I freely admit that I'm one of these addicts)
Is it just me, or is this article praising Subutex ? If you want to know what subutex does to people, watch this Finnish Documentary about Subutex, Reindeerspotting, Escape From Santaland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8O_Ot-wCIg.

Subutex misuse is a big problem in Finland, and it seems to create more problems than solve them, at least to the information I've read about it.
It's not "useless hashing". The computations are neccesary to secure the network and process transactions. It's not possible to just swap the algorithm to do something entirely different and still achieve the goals of Bitcoin network.
This is very similar to the system in the book, "Getting Things Done", which is what I use for Outlook. The salient point is to use your inbox only as a temp bin for processing email. I create folders for all my projects and file emails there. I also have 3 folders: "Action", "Waiting", and "Bills". Action items are To-do items. Waiting is where I am waiting for a response, such as a delivery confirmation email. Bills are email bills to be paid. After acting on the email, it gets moved to the relevant project folder for archiving.
India has a talented workforce in search of the next big industry, or the country will become a one-trick pony
Wow, you can actually do pretty well for yourself on the Android marketplace with the right app, a lot better than I honestly expected. Most people keep this kind of info a secret, so I appreciate the insight into the marketplace.
Their MapBox.js library is a plugin for the increasingly popular Leaflet.js mapping library: http://mapbox.com/mapbox.js/api/v1.0.2/

As an aside, MapBox (via funding from the Knight Foundation) is also behind the shiny new iD Editor for OpenStreetMap: http://ideditor.com/
I really wish there was more information in this article.
This is a terrible analogy since the people who MAKE automobiles weren't fervent and rabid horse adherents, and Henry Ford never had to convince his engineers that cars shouldn't have legs and saddles.
Congrats on making the prototype. Two quick comments:

1. The web 1.0 aesthetics of the site strongly reminds me of Craigslist, conveys that you are interested in becoming another Cragslist. It's a big setback to today's users who are used to richer/slicker/more friendly marketplaces and services like Cropup, AirBnB, or Sold. Instead of nimble/scrappy, it seems outdated or amateurish, not exactly the positioning you'd want.

2. Given that positioning: Like others said the site itself doesn't communicate how this is different from or better than Craigslist.

I didn't look or click further due to the impression of your landing page, I'd be a bounce. But once you reduce bounce you may get more useful feedback.
U.S. Senators Introduce 'Deter Cyber Theft Act' to Help Protect Trade Secrets
I seriously hope the new iPhone or any iPhone doesn't have a fingerprint scanner, it's gimmicky and really only serves a purpose on an IBM Thinkpad. But to be honest, a fingerprint scanner is the only thing modern phones have yet to add and no doubt if an iPhone does have one, Apple will make it a key selling point. It'll be interesting to see what applications Apple ends up using fingerprint identification for.
I think Egor has done quite a lot for the community, but he wouldn't personally dare posting here, so posting it as a "thank you".
SEO friendly web hosting. How friendly can it be?
That is the premise of research arms in industry, such as Microsoft research? No idea whether they end up being co opted by business pressures or not?
Check out Google Drive - Keep (http://drive.google.com/keep)

it has a chrome app, Android app, or you can just you it from browser.
From my personal experience, it takes about 21 days to get rid of the psychological issues regarding to cannabis addiction. Just hang in there, and you will make it.

I understand that cannabis can cause a _real_ addiction, although many people deny this. I've been there. It's not fun, when all you can think of is getting high.

Yoga, swimming and sauna were the savers for me. Without kundalini yoga I would not have realized that I have the power to empower myself, to make myself feel good, without the pot. I would totally recommend to anyone doing some kind of spiritual exercise, where you get your Chi flowing.

Because this is what cannabis does, at least according to my experiences, it makes your life energy or chi flow down to your physical body, it drains it so to speak on the long run. And you start to crave food to replace it, and this drainage also leads to the bad moods and thought patterns of "I need this in order to do this", when truthfully you can do it without the pot also.

Hang in there, you can do it. I've done it a couple of times, from my experience it takes around 3 weeks to get rid of the habit, after this if you continue and just persist on choosing the alternative way, you can make it back to normal life.

Although probably you are going to be bored a lot, so it's important to find some new activities to fill in those blanks.

Anyway, here is also a good text on what cannabis does to us, how it drains our chi: http://pastebin.com/1zKRXDZR.
So, basically, as soon a someone builds one of those optimised for factoring primes, all our encryption methods are finished, as is the Bitcoin economy, right?

Assuming the contents of the article are true (which is possible), how long before that happens? A few years? A decade?
Um, pick me too! Persistent Red-Black Tree
http://wiki.edinburghhacklab.com/persistentredblacktreeset
"But I never encountered anything as nauseating or alien like PhePHMe"

(There are unfortunate coincidences in names ...)

Other branches of science/engineering may feel olfactorily deprived, never getting in their labs past the occasional smell of ozone, overheated oil/metal/plastic, etc.
I'm just reading Ignition! http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf about the development of rocket propellants; a very technical and interesting chemistry book.

At one time the author experimented with mercaptans and got similar reactions from his labmates ;-)
I could write an essay here, or you could take responsibility for your own curiosity and read a book. I suggest "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin and "The Design of Every Day Things" by Donald Norman. I consider these essential reading for those interested in UI concerns.

Of course if you aren't interested, perhaps you are better off with a vt100 using VIM while modemed into a unix system V mainframe?
"The tax exemption for 501(c)(4) organizations applies to most of their operations"

This means they can have pretend massive markup on everything and write it off. It's a dodge, just like many church "leaders" drive crazy expensive cars.

Just eliminate it, no tax exemptions, everyone on the same level.
What about stuff like decoding human genome? A master just has to give out specific sections to each slave and slaves don't need to communicate with each other. Any number of those "scientific games" type of problems can be solved with the bitcoin mining network machines.
The ultimate thing would be for a cryptocurrency to be based on thoughts/comments/ideas, but nobody has quite cracked how to quantify the value of those yet. So the best idea in this space I've managed to get to so far is to have the network process big data to find meaningful patterns.

Not only could the value of the big-data-backed cryptocurrency grow in value off the speculation, you could charge companies to upload/stream their data into the network and essentially have a giant distributed supercomputer processing it and searching for patterns. Then share a percentage of any revenue with the miners as an added bonus.

I feel we're already at the point where more data is produced than our ability to process, understand and extract useful insights from that data. And the rate at which global data is produced appears to be on a never ending exponential growth curve.

So in one swoop you could lay the foundations for a global distributed currency whilst harnessing the collective computing power of the Internet to solve humanity's problems, gain tremendously powerful insights into human behaviour at all levels from micro to macro, make us more efficient as a species and eventually the potential to become the global AI that feeds off all data streams; constantly feeding in, being processed, recorded, analysed, and subsequently feeding the computed knowledge into agents that make real-world decisions and actions.

If anyone has thoughts, skills or interest in this... hit me up.
If you want to see how deep the rabbit hole of freedom can be, I would recommend "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty"

No matter whether you are young or old, male or female, married or single, I think How I Found Freedom in an Unfree Word will probably increase your understanding of how erroneous thinking causes us to restrict our own freedom. By increasing your awareness of erroneous thinking and offering you better alternatives, Harry Browne gives you a chance to make choices that will increase your freedom and happiness. Whether you want to make those choices is up to you.

More info: http://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World/dp/0965...
PHP documentation is actually pretty good, there is a joke to be had about the comments on the docs though.
Why spend so much computing power on $ 2 billion worth of coinage? Isn't the cost of that computer power more?
The only way using masses of computing power gives you security is by making the 51% attack harder.

To me the whole thing is a manifestation of the bizarre way BTC are handed out, by competitive mining. (No, I don't have a better solution, but can't you see the issue here, the same amount of BTC are created but ever more power is being used)
Not something you can draw yourself, but there are high quality vector packages of human figures in various poses you can buy.

My favorite is this http://www.neubauladen.com/product/1231 and you can buy entire colleciton of humans and objects at less than $60 http://www.neubauladen.com/catalogue/NB-Digital/2/Neubau%20W...

(I have no affiliation to these guys :)