skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking forward to this. I can't wait until many lab tests are unnecessary because we have our own continuous medical monitoring occurring all the time.
Clearly I'm the only one on HN that is fascinated by Urbit, oh well :)
Schmidt has been talking about this long before Amazon made their announcement[1]

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/private-drones-pose-privac...
Damn these Chinese! Can't they cheaply produce our goods with slave labor without polluting our precious planet?
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What about the case where the business becomes a low growth, life style business. Is there any way to force a liquidity event?
Maybe they should put a big SMS label on it so you know, or put "SMS 000-000-0000" at the top to signify it's an SMS chat rather than the Hangout. (This is how it is today, btw)
Like sex, delicious food is a fundamental joy of existence. But also like sex, eating 3 delicious meals a day is past the point of diminishing rewards.

I find I enjoy life most when I eat real, delicious, handmade food a few times a week in a relaxed setting with friends or family, and something quick and healthy I don't have to think about the rest of the time. Currently I alternate tuna+beans with protein shakes for the quick meals, but I can't wait for my Soylent to get here.

(I'm a Soylent investor)
Decisions for Georgia Tech Online M.S. in CS will start going out today
Um.. so Tofu just seemed to snip a few words from my recent tweets, and string them into nonsense: https://twitter.com/tofu_product/status/409054279328993280
I actually think apartheid is a good example of why the moral thing to do sometimes is to harm others and/or destroy property. It's not hard to argue at all. Preventing the suffering of the many by harming a relatively small number of people (or destroying practically any amount of property, really) is a clear win from a utilitarian perspective.
I agree that there is an absurd, nearly worshipful view of certain technologies in the "SV/SF bubble." That, however, is irrelevant. Your final comment regarding frameworks is also something I'd tend to agree with; frameworks are great for solving problems within the domain they're built for, but their applicability outside those domains is limited.

This, however, is going to be an unpopular opinion amongst the PHP crowd, but I can distill the rest of your comment into the following statement: "PHP is thriving because companies are cheap, don't care about quality as much as cost, and there is an over-abundant labor supply of poorly skilled, mainly self-taught PHP 'developers' who are willing to work for peanuts and get the job done to an adequate level." There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but trying to turn it on its head by implying developers skilled with, e.g. Ruby/Rails frameworks (see note below), are essentially overpaid and narrow-minded is just absurd.

Note: I especially am not a fan of Ruby, so don't take this as a defense of the language or its developer-adherents. I'm actually fairly language agnostic; "right tool for the right job" and all that.
I threw in the exception lest anyone point out that the US military regularly uses drones to harm people.
The article is arguing from the useful prior that what the NSA is doing is wrong. Then people are jumping in and saying, "hang on a second, what if people disagree about what's right and wrong?" (e.g. "According to some people I'm evil"). So it sounds like you should be arguing with them instead of me?

But to expand the discussion a bit, ethics is a multilayered thing. As Crito points out above, there's a difference between "x is wrong" and "x is wrong but not my problem because I just build stuff". A major thrust of the article is that engineers should take ethically responsibility for the consequences of our actions, which the author sees many engineers as failing to do. Thinking through the ethical implications--assuming those ethics are founded on some general priors--results in a world more closely honed to those priors. Think of "take ethical responsibility" as a meta-ethic.

In that context, "be true to yourself" isn't as nonsensical as your dismissal makes it out to be. It's true that arguing about moral axioms isn't helpful (and wasn't that sort of my point?), but that's not actually what's happening here.
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I think drones have to much potential value to just flat out ban them. That said, we do need to think about security, and privacy very soon.

Hobby drones are (relatively cheap), if the software keeps getting better, it might soon be possible for a rich person to virtually own an army. That's a lot of power for a small group or even a single individual to wield.
They derailed their fair share of trains. There was little shortage of civilian casualties, and if they were operating in Germany, where civilians were more likely to align with the opposition, you can bet your ass there would have been more.
You can go online and order a supply of 50/30/20 carbs/fat/protein, though.
"While it is easy to sit back and judge the past we have to realize that some actions were seen as prudent at the time."

Not by black people.
Why does anyone care what Google's Eric Schmidt thinks about drones?

On this subject, he has no particular knowledge or experience that anyone else doesn't have.

On this subject, his opinion is completely unremarkable and worth just about as much the opinion of an artist who draws graphics for a Cheerios box.

When people whine about "powerful white males" having too much say in the media, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY MEAN. There is NO REASON we should be listening to Eric Schmidt's opinion on something he clearly knows next to nothing about. There is no reason to fill newspapers and web pages with his utterly unremarkable words about drones.

If he were to talk about, say, search engines or advertising, then yes, it's useful. That's what he does for a living. But w/r/t to drones, he's just as dumb and fearful as 50% or more of the world out there.

Moving further into his ideas, they are about as thoughtful and deep as a goldfish bowl. His analogy about an angry neighbor is laugh-out-loudable. An angry neighbor can do all matter of things today with all manner of tools following the dispute he mentions. Should we ban all of them, too?

For example,
> "It's got to be regulated. [...] "

Drones ARE regulated.

http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/

http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/uas_faq/index.cfm?p...
Ruby is my favorite language but I had kept out of Rails for years besides hello-world stuff. The amount of layers upon layers upon layers makes one's head spin. And if something goes wrong, you better hope you are using the exact same toolchain as the audience on StackOverflow is using, because that's what they'll be expecting you to have as well.
Ssh into your favorite cheap-ass virtual host

This assumes you've setup your keys properly, and have a grasp of this already. If you're assuming prior knowledge and configuration, would the same be true of setting up your Heroku toolchain?
PHP is popular because of it's simplicity, low cost (like zero) of entry and because of Wordpress.

But the pay rate for PHP developers is miniscule because every Pakistani and Indian is a PHP expert for $1/hr. Try to post a $20 professional website job on Elancer - and in 10 minutes you'll get 20 lancers eating each other for your "business".

So "thriving" is to be taken with a grain of salt.
'Skew' turns the idea of skeuomorphism on it's head
I'm mostly interested in writing a series of programming and hardware design tutorials for my kid (and anyone else who might find them useful). I don't think I need anything fancy for this. Images, code with syntax highlighting and a few things. Not even sure if I want comments. He's been learning Python, so I'll use it as a way to expand his application of the language.

The rough curriculum I have in mind at the moment is:

- Basic electronics concepts
- Digital logic
- Design a simple 8-bit microprocessor
- Program it using the custom instruction set
- Implement basic mass storage in Flash (perhaps via USB)
- Implement a Threaded Interpretive Language (Forth)
- Write a text editor using Forth
- Design a number of I/O peripherals
- 7-segment display
- A/D and D/A
- Dot matrix LED display
- Various sensors
- Build something useful, like a clock driving the n x m
LED display
I'm impulsive and quit my high paying job almost on a whim -- does that make me successful? Because, honestly, I wish I had planned a little better, put aside $$$ etc.
So CGI means you hack directly in production? You don't need to set up a database? Don't have to test it? Don't version control your code?
I was in the same boat, I had spent years creating PHP websites and then was faced with the Rails framework. When you're first getting used to MVC, it seems very counter intuitive. I ended up using Symfony to get used to MVC while sticking with PHP, and now have switched to Rails and wouldn't dream of going back.

When you're first starting with it, especially moving from creating PHP files, it seems very counter intuitive and over complicated. But once you get used to the layout, you understand why it really is far superior for creating websites.
I think I would try just one plus AWS-for-emergencies first.

Or possibly http://zencoder.com/en/ until the expense justifies investing in your own hardware.
Branson is one data point. Are there others? One point does not make a trend. I tend to think there's merit (though I have no hard evidence) in the idea that you can't wait for all the pieces to be in place before you try something, but I think it's dangerous to suggest that's the recipe for success.
Hooray for high-freq algorithmic trading, I guess.
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Harming others may be morally ambiguous (or clearly just wrong) for some people, but I don't think anybody honestly believes that destruction of property should always be off the table. Industrial sabotage targeting the infrastructure of the tyrannical is a time honored tradition.
I'm not criticizing you. It is a legitimate question. There have always seemed to be exceptions for the government. Does this stem from "war powers?" What is the basis?
> Laws such as planting bombs, destroying property, and physically harming others.

The problem with this statement is that he did not physically harm others, or instruct others to do so.
You know, thare's already a save function: you can write stuff in the cross-browser editor and save it on your desktop as a standalone HTML page (Ctrl-S / File > "Save as...")

http://xem.github.io/miniCodeEditor/editor.html

I recommend you to use Firefox: it will keep the code in the textareas. Chrome will only save the iframe's content.

;)
Sports contracts generally prohibit the player from playing other sports, even recreationally, to reduce their risk of injury.

Here, for example, is the NBA's take: http://bammgt.com/?page_id=339
Fantastic lecture indeed, and very well delivered!
One of the main reasons it continues to thrive is that any person with an idea looking to "make a website" will almost always first find PHP when searching. That's how I started with PHP. I had something I wanted to build, looked up how to make websites, and found PHP.
I'm pretty much doing that. Reading books in Thailand, enjoying life, learning another language. Tip: If in Bangkok, then get your books at Dasa Book Cafe (google it).

Really if you do not party all the time and decide to live in the non tourist areas then besides having a great experience you don't burn a lot of money either.

I'd say that living in a non western culture for a while will actually help you in your career later on as it puts things in perspective.
The workflow he lists for CGI/PHP is one where people work right off of the live server. This is no way to work when working on complex software. Typical PHP oriented hosting services are basically PaaS with MySQL and PHP good to go.

Deployment, Staging, Package Management, etc are worth their weight in steps over the long run.

Like a few people have mentioned, Boiler-Plate/Template projects are how many of us work around quickly bootstrapping a new project.
Could you provide a little more detail? What kind of bad working habits are you referring to? Without any context, one can't really glean any information from your little nugget.
shameless plug but next time you want to do a web-app/site consider our product (crudzilla.com)...it is basically a web-dev-to-deployment solution in one package.
Clearly I meant from the point of view of a seed-stage investor's subjective valuation of alternatives. Nobody wants to have debt repaid when a company takes off that you could have had early stock in.
I love this! Thank you for linking it up. This also how to do a talk proper.
> There is no dirt.

Where there's organic stuff, there's dirt - maybe not right away, but over time.

> I already use my laptop in the presence of water, coffee, and food.

I don't - I'm too paranoid!
Sexist? Where is the invisible Boyfriend?

This almost seems crafted to try to create an uproar, but extra props for putting "Ad-Free" on the extra features of the top payment tier.
Inspiring. I think the main point here is that: if you want to start something, and you procrastinate because you think you are not ready, then think again.
I don't think that's a fair evaluation of any language. I also don't see how Ruby or Node or Python don't have a zero cost of entry.
From reading this article and the comments, I imagine that the future of drones in the US may be much the same as what we're seeing with gun control: many people will see value in private drone ownership and will be okay with regulations around them. Some people will feel that any restrictions are government encroachment and will resist it.

Most likely the vast majority of drones and drone owners will use them responsibly (yes I am being hopelessly optimistic here) and a few will abuse them. Periodically we will see horror stories about misuse of drones (e.g. Newtown) but short of a whole city being wiped out very aggressive restrictions will not exist.
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> Requiring a professional is a flaw, not a virtue.

Your statement depends entirely on the context. I agree that requiring a professional to assemble my IKEA furniture would be a flaw. Requiring a professional to assemble my custom marble kitchen countertop totally makes sense and I'd hardly slam IKEA for not having such a package in Aisle 12.
I'll believe it when you start by looking at people who start before they are ready and find out that a lot of them become successful.

Looking backwards is easy - successful people are successful.
The question then is, can you throw together a website in Ruby? Plus, have your non-technical folks be able to edit the templates?
I also see many people nitpicking minor details to show that Mandela was not 100% peaceful and he talked about struggle. When you have nothing to complain to those aggressor and their violence, why complain that oppressed victim who has no power, is not perfectly peaceful, law-abiding and fair?
I think a lot of it comes down to the way societies have evolved, and our 'survival' function. We don't want to risk our limited resources and time on ideas that, more than likely, will yield nothing.

Furthermore, a lot of 'creative people' are just hipsters that use it as a crutch to never get anything productive done. I mean, shit like this isn't a particularly great expression of creativity: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Robert_D...

We should encourage creativity, but also temper it with realism. While the life of the 'starving artist' is alluring, it's really not all that...
Eating 3 delicious meals a day is diminishing returns only if you consistently prepare one off meals with no leftovers. I understand using Soylent as an an occasional meal replacement, but Soylent's message has consistently been one of "food replacement" which while certainly provocative, I find antithetical to optimizing enjoying being alive
So, you equate Mandela with Castro and Guevara, and consider that a good thing? Care to through bin Laden in there?

I guess fighting British soldiers is exactly the same as necklacing civilians, too, so it's fair to compare it too the US revolution.
I'm glad YC is leading the charge to standardize and make sane very early stage funding terms. They've got market, brand, and brain power that is impossible for individual companies to match.

The next thing I'd like to see out of YC legal is some sort of over-subscription pre-sale. Something like a combined participation right/"first right of refusal"/put option that companies can sell to investors when they are hot to guarantee their future access to funds.
> They're not irrationally ideological about programming languages, and they don't want to pay $120,000/year or $125/hour to a developer with two years of experience.

I worked for a typical megacorporation for a few months (in Maryland). This is consistent with what I've observed. the company's main goal is to do what's required as cheaply as possible.

That said, Rails is starting to become more popular among the enterprise crowd. The main reason for it is that developers are more productive with Rails (given that they are working on a nontrivial project and have prior experience).

> What percentage of Ruby on Rails developers who started their careers with Ruby on Rails are capable of building a moderately complex Ruby application without Rails?

I think the main problem is that a lot of people try to learn Rails before learning Ruby. We end up having a lot of people who are experienced with a particular framework (Rails, jQuery, whatever)... but they know basically nothing outside that framework.
Do you have a source? Mandela himself was pretty clear on violence being a tool to effect change.
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That was a very long way of saying "I do work for my employer so I get paid". School doesn't teach you that, hunger does; even without school, you'd still need money to live, and even people who drop out of school have jobs (unless they're rich or run their own businesses).
my thoughts too...
working on the live server... Never do that!
Ruby is not a hypertext preprocessor. You don't have a simple web server and a templating language in-scope unless you find them and set them up.
But does closing windows really help? I mean sure, short term it slows down the exchange of air between the inside and outside, so it'll be helpful if there's a sudden spike that goes away. But if the pollution is a chronic problem, and it certainly is in Shanghai and New Delhi, then eventually the equilibrium will equalize and the air inside will be just as bad.
I think the big problem with PHP is the fact that you can find so many tutorials online still not having caught up with current practices, not just in terms of language updates or security, but in terms of software engineering. Not knowing any better and how to distinguish between quality learning material, newcomers will happily put into practice what they've learned on good 'authority' to be correct. Same applies for many books on PHP. There's one particular very prolific and popular author, whose PHP books are always revelled, yet if you read them, he's not actually teaching at a standard a lot higher than what you can find other places. You end up having to spend more time having to re-learn stuff and trying to forget bad approaches...one of the downsides of it being a language with a longer history that Ruby+Rails.
Riot has never heard of Deion Sanders (A professional two sport athlete in the MLB & NFL)...

It's a shame to limit people's personal pursuits
Thanks, and: you are right, scaling by sharding is important, and that is why we have made this our top priority for the coming three months.
You're right, and it's kind of ironic that Node doesn't get to be the server-side language of choice for designers already dabbling in JavaScript. But in the absence of a one-click deployment for Node, we have HTML > CSS > client-side JS > PHP as the standard technology path for a designer who wants to Get Stuff Done.
PHP the C web framework? PHP a failure? Lol!
I am apparently using TOR wrong.

> "TOR is an obscure routing network that allows anonymous access to the “darknet” — the vast, murky portion of the Internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the “surface” web, it’s in these recesses that you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks"
> Before yesterday did not know that Mandela started the armed branch of the ANC which actively bombed government buildings and while Mandela was in prison (and maybe not involved) bombed public places where innocent people were killed.

Here's the other difficulty - people hear "armed wing of the ANC" and then are too shocked to even consider the context.

That he started MK should be hailed as good thing. It played a pivotal role in avoiding an all-out civil war. MK gave activists (many of whom were in fact white people) an outlet for their frustrations at the apartheid government. How was this anger directed? Destabilizing the economy by sabotaging government and military targets. The goal was force the government to give the ANC a legitimate hearing, instead of imprisoning civilians whenever they tried to protest.

If it weren't for MK, civil war would have been inevitable. People were fed up. 50 years of peaceful protest had amounted to nothing.
CSS3 fire
Is that going again?

I did most of it a couple of years ago, got to the personalized e-mail stage before I decided to work on other things.

It was strange how the pictures got put up all around the world at the same time, though.
For 1), I think the GP meant "free as in freedom", not "free as in beer". Taxpayers pay for school, but everyone is allowed in (I do agree with you in your interpretation).
Animal protein is not remotely important. A proper mixture of vegetable proteins is as good or better.

Not sure if that's actually the case with Soylent, though.
I'd say you can get from zero to working app faster in Rails. You can get away with knowing no SQL, and not really grasping concepts like GET v. POST. A few scaffolds, Omniauth, and one of the Bootstrap gems, and you've got a decent app worthy of Show HN karma.

In PHP, you need to learn some HTML, some SQL, and general web concepts that Rails hides.

No, learning isn't bad. No, I don't think scaffolding is acceptable. I've used PHP since v3, and Rails for a couple of years, and many other languages since 1999, and I'm just trying to get into the beginner's head.
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I understand your perspective and realize it's an easy argument to make. I see the same arguments about America's use of the atomic bomb in WW2.

There is not much more to say on this topic with two opposing viewpoints :)
RQ-180
but why would demand remain constant? In Bitcoin, a buyer & seller are needed in order to exchange. The idea of demand remaining constant only really holds true in a scenario where Bitcoin is the 1 world currency, and even then there are fluctuations in population and productivity.

I get that you're saying all other things being equal but that doesn't really float in a real-world simulator.
tpeng: you're hellbanned. You'll have to create a new account.
Here is a good link in case anyone is interested.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243732/Pea-souper-k...
They may not be showing to you if you're signed in, because they don't want to charge you for an impression to yourself.

Also, depending on how many days have passed and the subreddit you've chosen, 800 impressions may be a very small number of overall pageviews, in which case only a small percentage of people will see the ad.
You don't need keys to ssh.