skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. What made US so great and so loved by the world were its values, and being a role model (a good one that is) for every other country.

Being just as bad as China or Russia and showing complete distrust in partners and allies, and forcing their hands to do what they want is a good way to ruin that whole image for US, and create an environment that is hostile towards US internationally, instead of everyone wanting to cooperate with US (without being threatened or blackmailed, that is).

People have interests, too. They just learned to cooperate with each other in a harmonious environment to be as productive as possible. Double crossing and being conflictual at every turn is not productive for people, nor for nations. Besides, it's people that create those relationships between nations.
That's the real solution, charge more for small children and use the extra charge to reduce prices of the seats nearby. It should be prohibitively expensive to bring a crying child on the plane.
Based upon the comments from "Lonliness Is Deadly" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268080), I would like to see something that tackles that. I think in the last 20 years we have become a lot less social (why entertain ourselves talking to people, when we can watch any number of TV shows at anytime online?), however I still feel that people have a need for social interaction. I would like to see something that tackles in a better way.
It's not just being the biggest 800 pound gorilla, but also, through NATO, subsidizing the national defenses of the major European powers.
It's easy to have an idea - but it's hard to execute. Here's what I would do.

Step one - get an idea of the scale of the project. Usually the best thing to do is to write a description of every interaction the user will take with your service. Or, if you're able to, draw out the screens.

As a thought experiment, try doing this for a piece of software you already know. Think about all the different ways it can be used.

Ok, done?

Step two - what is the minimum thing you need to do in order to see if this idea is possible? The bare minimum.

Break it down into a series of very small steps.

For example, "The app needs to retrieve all tweets with stock symbol ___".
Then, "The app needs to look up the stock price of symbol ___"
Then, "If the tweet contains the word "awesome" and the stock price is over $X, sell the stock"
etc.

Here's where you have to make a decision. Either learn to code each the bare minimum aspect, or find someone who can do it for you.

Having worked out exactly what you want your app to do, how many individual steps it will take to do it, and how the app should react in certain situations will make it a lot easier when you come to code it or hire someone to help.

So, refine your idea, then work on building it.
A lot of people would disagree with you, obviously. That's a purely subjective statement disguised as objective analysis. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but it's a complex enough issue to merit a heck of a lot more thought and research than you have seemingly put into it.
Yeah, I mean, what the hell do people do about this? I may have other skills, but programming is really the only one that can I can make a living on. I guess I'll just go live in the woods when the economy decides it's done with me? I have no idea.

My father (almost 60) doesn't work in tech, but had a very successful career until two years ago when he lost his job to workplace politics (ie, not his performance). Hasn't been able to find anything since, and eventually took a crap job at Lowe's to have something to do. It haunts me because I always saw him as resourceful and able to make things work, and now he just seems defeated.
Having used Etymotic in-ear headphones for well over a decade, I won't get on a plane without them. As in, I once drove back to the office at 4am the morning before an early flight because I realized I'd left them there.

Assuming you've got a good fit, they act as -25dB earplugs with no music playing. Playing music at a moderate volume over that provides a huge masking effect[1] to external sound. Cranky babies, loud talkers, aircraft noise, etc. are all muted to nonexistent or at least very tolerable levels. About the only thing that gets through in my experience is the "bass effect" of a child kicking the back of my seat...

Other brands of in-ear monitors (IEMs) should work fine as well. The key is to ensure you use eartips that provide a good seal and comfortable fit. Most brands ship with different size tips, and you should make sure you can get replacements in your size. The eartips do wear out and need replacement with regular use. In my case, I mostly notice that they start getting oddly uncomfortable.

[1] As in "psychoacoustic masking principle", also leveraged to "hide" quantization noise in lossy audio codecs, ala MP3, AAC, etc.
It is also important to distill what television is as an entertainment medium.

The market for short-duration consumable video content is not going away. It is larger than ever. The medium by which you transmitted it via frequency over dumb cable is going away, because it is more convenient to watch what you want when you want.

But people still watch tons of video.

One thing to remember is that entertainment is always sensual stimulation. Digital information is consumed audibly and visually, and physical information is consumed by all the senses (maybe not taste as much).

We have already seen a marked decline in physical information consumption as entertainment, because physical activity is hard. We saw a lot of that be distilled into gaming, where you can have an interactive experience with a lot of sensual feedback without the extertion and strain.

We will probably see the transfer medium shift - in decades, probably to brain-machine interfaces with direct electrical signaling our brains can interpret rather than using photons and molecular vibration over translation layers (ie, over the optic nerve and ear drum).

Maybe we will have a happy compromise, where we just replace our eyes with bionics that can either display recieved photons or other pixel based media over a connected nerve cluster. Replace the ear with bionics and either playback the microphone input or whatever music we want to perceive.

Though I guess just an embedded system hooked into the brain is less convoluted, if we can learn to properly generate and interpret the electrical signaling of the mind. (ie, the way we can read a cats memories as images, or command a mouse with electrical signaling).
One of the reasons Facebook beat MySpace was because Facebook insisted on real-names.

(See Quora for more discussion http://www.quora.com/Facebook-1/Why-did-Facebook-succeed-whe... )
that isn't true for everyone.

as a kid, and now as an adult I've had generic allergies that have caused eustachian tube disorder(s) throughout my life.

Airplane rides cause agonizing headaches for me for about an hour after landing, and there is little to be done about it other than waiting through it. It sucks. The first time I experienced such a thing I felt as if I was going to be permanently deaf or disabled due to it, it's that bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Headquarters
Is experience (of more than a few years) actually useful in technical fields? I think that's the underlying question. For web-development, the market seems to be saying: no.

Anecdote: I recently learned that Facebook and Amazon have teams dedicated to rebooting crashed servers - it's cheaper and simpler than writing solid code. (As told to me by someone who does this as his full-time job.)

When "doing it right" no longer matters, because cheap hardware allows massive redundancy, maybe experience does become less important.
I just arrived from a 12hr+ flight from Madrid to SF with 2 babies just behind me that literally, in the correct sense of the term, screamed the entire flight. I'm a tolerant person, but banning babies, or having no-baby flights, seemed like an extremely reasonable thing to do.
I still don't get it. Do they use all the same DRM?

Soft DRM is IMHO a possible way to go: You get freely usable files but the files get tagged with your name. It's AFAIK the kind of DRM Apple uses for music files from the iTunes Store.
And more students get an A than they did 30 years ago (I'm from the UK as well). So unless you can find evidence that the rate at which it's getting easier is greater than the rate at which grades increase, it doesn't show that people are getting stupider. Perhaps it shows that they're learning less at school, but I'm not convinced that the sort of rote learning that comprised traditional education was that valuable.

I'm somewhat playing Devil's advocate here - I don't like the idea that exams are getting less rigorous either. But it's important not to overstate the problem.
Nice How-To! Interesting to see everybody adopting CI!
A Blogger Mocks the Denizens of Silicon Valley
Gossip rag aside, alot of the criticisms brought forth by valleywag is on point...

There is A LOT of dumb money. There ARE a ton of idiot startupbro/princesses.

Anything to deflate the delusional silliness bubbling up here is probably a good thing in the long run.

The HN hivemind loves to rally against the stuffy culture of the corporate world. Are the rapgenius bros any better?

Let's ditch the douchiness and get back to the good ole days of building meaningful, truly world-changing, shit out of our garages.
Next generation may just decide they don't want to be tracked, segmented, attributed, targeted. They may just turn off.

Entertainment may be gardening, stockmanship, fishing, painting ...

Everything that's cool to us right now is going be 's--t my dad uses' soon.
If you are using C#/.Net or Java tools, there is lots of work... ad lots being done that is pretty nice. NodeJS is also seeing a lot of movement here, and is on par with SF, Seattle, & Portland. No, there isn't much Ruby, and there are a lot of crap PHP jobs. That doesn't mean there isn't a thriving tech industry so much as the tools you like aren't popular here.
The installer has this timestamp: 1373509356 (Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:22:36 UTC). So the last version probably isn't too old. (The timestamp of course is not necessarily correct)
It was a joke, to point out how ridiculous it is to talk about "treaties" with the U.N., which is not an entity that can enforce anything against the U.S. Not when the U.S. is a permanent member of the security council and provides 22% of the U.N.'s budget: http://globalsolutions.org/united-nations/funding.

A "treaty" or "law" that can't be enforced doesn't merit the name--it's just lip service.
Robots that are attractive to the opposite sex (humans) and will perform life like sex acts to order.

But perhaps this is much further in the future.
Thanks for your explanation, I have never lived in a home with water heaters directly in the bathroom.
Ask HN: Why aren't there HTTP style standards for invoicing things?
I manage expenses for my company on an AMEX card. People I work with that want to expense something over X amount come get my card, make the purchase, return the card and forward the invoice. Each invoice is a unique snowflake. Some contain data that can be scraped, others direct to you a website which may or may not be able to be scraped. Design changes break the scrapers. They may or may not support a billing email and if not, things get even more muddled.

The same fragility problem that REST solved remains running rampant in how businesses invoice each other.

What if each business allowed you to provide an end point to which they would POST when an invoice dropped, using a free and open standard? Wouldn't this cut an accounting departments' head count down significantly?

The lack of adoption to take seems like the answer to my question...

As a SaaS business, why would I build an end point when I can sign up for recurly or similar and just auto email invoices?

As a small business receiving invoices, this is something that takes 20 minutes a week to type in.

As a medium to large business, it gets to the point where I have 50 invoice scraping scripts and am feeling the pain. I guess at this point the answer is to "hiring another book keeper" but it bugs me that an open standard and a simple POST would automate the whole shooting match.

Are other businesses doing this "right" in a way I've missed? Is there an opportunity here for software to eat a bit more of the world? Perhaps simply publish an open source standard and see if people run with it?

[EDIT: Tried to use less words to explain the problem]
Oh! Of course you're right. This is brilliant, and clearly the right way to look at it. I hope more people notice what you've said here.

What ithkuil pointed out is that the root "cur" in "current" comes from the Latin for "to run". Thus "concurrent" does not literally mean "at the same time"—what I said was wrong. It literally means "running together". There's not any piece of that word that technically refers to time, so it's not an oxymoron to use it to describe interleaved timeslicing.

Perhaps it would be clearer if we spoke of "concurrent vs. simultaneous" processes rather than "concurrent vs. parallel". I'm not sure; I still don't think everyone is talking about the same things.
LaTeX is used for publishing papers & books. Hence it needs to be of extremely high quality. Here are a few reasons why LaTeX is better: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
The difference will be all the more apparent when you will take print outs of LaTeX based pdf and see the results on paper! We recommend you give it a shot.

These are sample resumes we created to compare results: http://www.cvsintellect.com/img/home/sample-resumes/Modern.p...
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The templates that are currently available on our website are the most easily creatable through LaTeX. There are LaTeX templates available for each of the them.
We intend to write custom LaTeX templates if the idea is well accepted by users. According to us we have not shown half of what LaTeX is capable of and yet we are getting a lot of positive response.
Ok, but that works in the other direction -- a person may be closed-minded with respect to the age of people they are willing to hire. Don't get me wrong, I would like to believe that all I have to do is keep learning and not get mentally lazy. But I fear it ain't so.
It would be wonderful to see the US reaction if Canada was found to systematically spied on the united states. Being an other country and all, it surely doesn't matter if US phone lines was tapped, US internet cables was intercepted, and data centers was encourage to give up emails about US citizen.

And... how wrong would it really be if diplomats from Canada planted a bug in the Whitehouse. Surely nothing wrong with that.
Great advice. Its all in my head at this point so this seems like the logical next step. I think this will also help me refine the pitch as well. Thanks a bunch!
We have central heating but the boiler runs with a heat pump driven by electricity.

You are of course right in pointing out that central heating often goes along with central water heating and that heating is often based on fossil fuels such as gas.
This. If irrational bias is undervaluing a class of workers, firms can gain an advantage by hiring those workers, ceteris paribus.
It would be interesting to see the fallout, though. How seriously are other countries going to take things? Could they apply sanctions against the US? Enough to get companies to effectively lobby against spying?
The rest of the world holds enough of the US debt that no one would have to fire a shot for parts of the world to retaliate. Looking at the rise in Tbill yields, it may have already started on some level.
A few days back there was an article about the real estate prices in SF and SV. It felt very much like it was broken down into two categories:

* below 30 yrs old, no kids
* older than 30 yrs old or had kids.

I have kids now. That is one of the major reasons I do not like SF anymore (mid 30s) but I did a decade ago. IMO, the entire SF/SV tech scene is built for young 20 somethings who want to live only to work.

When you reach a certain point in life, your priorities shift and you don't live to work anymore. If this happens to you, SF/SV is going to be an awful place to be, IMO.

Related to this article specifically, I have no doubt this is absolutely true. I've had interviews for jobs and while they don't ask questions about family or what not, they ask about "commitment" and "hours". Questions like "can you commit 100% to this job?" or "can you work 6 days a week or put in the hours necessary to do this job?". Those are questions asked to suss out if someone is going to basically live the job and push everything else away. They might ask that of everyone, but when asked to someone in their mid to late 30s it smacks of "hey, are you going to neglect your family for this job?".
SO is neither a wiki nor a forum. If the maintainers have a different vision for it, they're hardly being pedantic by not letting it turn into one of those things. The Internet isn't suffering from a shortage of wikis or forums, so maybe someone should put this page's contents in one of them?
Noise cancellation tech works best for low-pitched constant-ish sounds, like the airplane engines, or noise from a fan. Noise cancellation doesn't work well on higher-pitched, oscillating sounds, like screaming or voices.

This is probably why the grand-old parent recommends earplugs in addition.
So what do you think I should read from this list? (I have a day off tomorrow and so far haven't planned anything meaningful)
It doesn't matter if you're building silly websites trying to get strangers to dine with each other.

If you're building anything at all complicated, a few years of web-dev work isn't going to cut it bro.

The benefit of experience is you gain a more holistic understanding of wtf is going on, so you're not writing code in a vacuum of ignorance.
"I’m not part of the age group yet where people would be able to afford books only to look good to their peers."

Agreed that probably pretty expensive if you're trying to pose as a foodie complete with "Modernist Cuisine" and all that.

On the other hand, "Vintage classic worn leather covers, organized on the shelf by color" that stuff is shoveled out by the pound. The expensive part is hiring the interior decorator, not buying the shoveled books.

Bringing it home to HN I suspect for many here, there are some copies of Knuth, and the little scheme series, and numerous others, on some peoples bookshelves that look nice but have avoided reading...
Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states
I don't think their ability to perform surveillance has suffered at all. It's their credibility that's taken a hit.
I hate that this language looks so good. Fast benchmarks, good library, readable code, documentation. I don't want to learn another language! Now I have to …
I think "space" will definitely be an option for the future. We will get closer and closer to finding out more about our universe and other life forms. Maybe the idea of traveling to other planets and creating life on other planets.
You're still fundamentally arguing that because a safeguard can be circumvented, there should be no safeguard. There's no question cracking a master password can be accomplished, or even "easily" if you want to insist that, but it is taking extra steps including introducing and running new code and a taking degree of effort that is above and beyond viewing something in plain text in settings. It also assumes foreknowledge of all these things.

And by the way, you also forgot deleting the dumper site from the browser's history, (and DNS/proxy records if they're being logged) using a system password to install the software if the system has that kind of security, and so on. But I digress, the point is not that a master password will keep a determined or informed interloper out, it is that it will "keep an honest person honest."
Especially with timing data I find it much more useful to look at the median instead of average value. If someone lets the browser sit open for a while it will skew the average but not the median.
Adding an extension is an excellent idea hoping they do that. But they are working on a total messaging system.
Is there support for pretty-printed input?

I'm hesitant to mention this since it doesn't really take away from your project, but "concatinatitive" should be spelled "concatenative".
Moving off .Net due to this? I must question if that's more of a knee-jerk reaction. VS still provides a fantastic experience, and Mono is very healthy. Certainly, moving off .Net will have a higher cost to you than migrating to Mono runtimes?
1. Because if you do use your real name you are recruited into Google+ and they get to say "Google+ has X bajillion active users" in their next PR statements.

2. Because of networks effects on Google+ (maybe)

3. Because people writing with their real name are less likely to write mean/sad/critical things creating a more advertiser friendly environment
Literature and art are very subjective things. I don't think you can really judge them against other periods until you've got a century or so of hindsight. So I'm afraid that your assertion that they're not like they used to be sounds like it's prejudiced by your belief that people are getting stupider. I bet in a hundred years, there will be classics from our time as much as any other.

Science is an interesting one. Perhaps we have already made most of the big leaps in understanding the natural world. But that doesn't imply that scientists now are less intelligent than scientists 'back then'. I'd argue that it takes more knowledge and work to make even seemingly 'minor' discoveries. Besides anything else, we have to understand all that past work before we can build on it.
was gonna say this - you have like 15 mb of images that are just being scaled anyways, you can resize them to a small fraction of that
are you rich?

if not, i don't trust your stock-trading advice.

if so, then why don't you believe in your idea
enough to spend money to bring it to fruition?

if your idea requires "complicated coding" of
formulas that are "extremely complex", then it's
not surprising it will require "a ton of money".

and since you said you have run website development
divisions "and what not", i'd think you'd know that.

-bowerbird
I'm really puzzled by the enthusiasm around RequireJS. I've read up on it, I've built several large JS applications (~100 models, views, whatevers in ExtJS and Knockout), have been involved with a large BackboneJS/RequireJS application and am currently rebuilding a large site in AngularJS. AFAICT, RequireJS did not solve any problems that I had more easily solved with proper namespacing (yes, the feared global, e.g. TheProject.controllers.chrome.SessionController) or that AngularJS doesn't solve more gracefully.

Instead, RequireJS yielded a fairly verbose and error-prone header* coupled with large and distinct JS downloads for each and every page. Add in Backbone's verbosity and it's boilerplate and hand-wiring all the way down. Just the kind of thing for when you want to handcraft an artisan website, but not so great for cranking out code.

* Good luck catching typos when you're pulling in 20 modules and you lose synchronization between the strings and the vars. Here's a simple example:

define([
'jquery',
'handlebars',
'backbone',
'mymodel',
'mycontrolleranimals',
'mycontrollerpeople',
'myview_cats',
'myview_dogs',
'myview_birds'
],
function(
$,
Handlebars,
Backbone,
MyModel,
MyControllerAnimals,
MyControllerPeople,
MyViewDogs,
MyViewCats,
MyViewBirds) {

Sure, you caught the error because you were looking for it, but what happens in a RequireJS application is that you get weird errors in your application because you were trying to use the MyViewDogs, but myview_cats was actually bound to that variable.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't build the system, so don't that it was configured correctly.