skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're dealing with sensitive information, so you need to do a lot more to make users feel comfortable giving you their data.

The first step of the form (that's as far as I got) didn't make clear why I would select Address or Home Value. I figured out that you can use either. I'd lean toward home value because that's the smallest invasion of privacy.

Good luck!
So this is a "thin" client? I assume it doesn't bootstrap the whole blockchain, but uses a central server to get up to date?

How similar is this to Electrum?
Interested, and also in Atlanta. Email is handler @ gmail.
Depends. This is mostly true, but there's also things like Ripple, Mastercoin, and even Dogecoin that have reasonably significant differences from the other 'tweaked some parameters' altcoins.
Excellent timing. Over the last few months, I've been finding less and less things here at HN that have anything to do with building/running/growing a software business. I scan down the entire homepage and there's just nothing to click on anymore. It just looks like /r/programming or Slashdot used to look.

Something new will emerge pretty soon to fill the void, and our demographic will slowly find their way there, sadly leaving this place to all those folks currently having so much fun arguing about the time-wastish stuff on the front page.

If this has a chance of being that place, sign me up.
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I know I enjoyed playing with that snippet! Thanks for sharing.
"poor students have a problem learning regardless of who the teacher is."

That just isn't true. Most school districts don't even get rid of the teachers who are so horrible they shouldn't be allowed near children not to mention the ones that just don't care and kick their feet up and let the kids run wild.

You should check out the documentary "Waiting for Superman". http://www.takepart.com/waiting-for-superman It is on Netflix.
Yes it is. Move on with your life.
But haven't Americans assassinate Hugo Chavez? Blocking the twitter seems to be a necessary step to stop further influences from capitalistic sides.
Not surprising Julia is DARPA sponsored. Julia has a big future ahead of itself in the military and government. It has perhaps more of a future than any other modern language in those industries.
> It should be clear that it can never be the case that by using a new mathematical model we can come to the conclusion that "the earth is standing still".

Apart from the OP's many outright errors, this one suffers from the defect that it assumes there is only one possible frame of reference. One can obviously choose a frame of reference in which the earth is motionless, but relativity denies any special significance to a particular frame of reference -- indeed, that's what relativity means.
you guys have a great website. Funny game too.
So, using a cracked version of a software that you have bought a license for but that the vendor does not allow you to use anymore anyway is roughly equivalent to holding a developer at gunpoint?

And no, if(!) you still have a full copy of your data in an open format, that's a much better starting point for switching to different software.
My experience is somewhat similar. I've met a few people that I have known online as "trolls" for years and they have almost all turned out to be perfectly pleasant and well adjusted people. Now, maybe they are psychopaths who care to hid their sadistic tendencies "in real life" and have fooled me, but I really don't think so.

I think that a large portion of the people who troll online are actually just people with different senses of humor or different priorities. In 'meatspace' the differences are noticed for what they are as you get to know and appreciate the other person, but online the differences are assumed to be the result of malicious intent.

In my experience there's a good chance that the person who is griefing you in CS:S is the same sort of person who brings a squirt gun to the family gathering or makes a snow-man^Wpenis on his grandmothers lawn. Not sadists, just goofs.
normally I ignore this "HN is not what it used to be comment". But this time there is a "something else" to compare to. And we have lost something on the front page - but Ask is still vibrant.

Now I must go ignore myself
Quantum Mechanics: A graduate level course(PDF/190 pages)
What would be the reason for chosing Go over of one of the existing mainstream languages? Even if it's "better" (cleaner, more expressible, more readable etc.) than say C++ or Java, I don't see that outweighting maturity, availability of libraries/SDKs/tools, availabilitiy of developers for one of the current mainstream language.
The artist in this case would be the photographer who took the photo. What the painters are doing is equivalent to painting by numbers (they are painting over the photo). Its a skill for sure, but not an art form, anymore than the interior wall paint of your house it art (which requires a lot of skill to do correctly ... having witnessed many badly painted walls in my time).

I don't get all the complaints. This business provides employment for Americans (the founders) and Chinese (the painters). Its a win win. Not exploitation.
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Thanks a lot! It was a fun little side project.
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I think I'm lucky that I've come to this field from lower-level stuff. :)
I was excited by John Foreman's dissection of 'Data Science' into a series of Excel lessons.
I think that's a very good point and it seems to me the spirit of that argument is "write code that is so clean that it doesn't need comments." Or the inverse of that could be "if your code needs a lot of comments then it probably isn't very clean."

So I think that is a good mentality in as much as it keeps you thinking and writing clean code. But, I think it's also rather presumptuous to assume everything will be clear to others. Also as you say - once you've had to stick around and maintain a few applications, you really appreciate a thoughtful programmer who put in some comments that saved you a few hours. And you start to loath the rock-star who came in for 6 months and wrote a bunch of code using the fad-of-the-moment design pattern without commenting anything.
Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized
You might have to explain that one to me.
The press is being censored in a different way. The government is not giving them the dollars they need to buy paper for printing (there is a currency exchange control and no one can buy dollars without govt approval). There is no truly "free press" since they all depend on the government to give them the money for buying paper. Several regional newspapers have had to shut down already.

You either tone down the stuff critical to the government or you will shut down sooner or later because of the lack of printing material.

Right now the biggest newspapers in the country have reduced their issues to around 12 pages every day. They've had to print only the essential stuff (these twitter news will probably be printed tomorrow since this took place last night at around 1am).
> Also I thought the Klingons were part of the Federation at one point during DS9 era? Or perhaps that was just an alliance...

There was indeed a military alliance between the Federation and Klingon Empire against the Dominion. A friend of mine (uncharitably) referred to the war against the Dominion arc as the writers, "exploring what Star Trek could be... if it was more like Babylon 5."
Why do you say that? I'd like to learn more.
I don't know where you work, but at every company I've worked at they do fire bad coders (as well as good coders who are hurting the team for some other reason).
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>>> Personally, I don't think teachers as a whole will be replaced, but I can see it allowing teachers to take on bigger classes, allowing administrators to cut costs by firing a few.

So we agree - teachers won't get replaced :-)

but books allowed teachers to take on bigger classes too - and what happened is more people went to classes and we needed more teachers. Maybe we shall see something similar just less classrooms?
Why? They could get a hobby or another job. Some socialists argue that employment is morally wrong because it's the equivalent of slavery. I never bought that because we currently need people to work in order for the economy to function. But if working is really unnecessary and force people to work anyways, well what is that?
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Do you have any evidence for this? In my experience people with largely religious principles tempered by compassion are just as reliable as self-identified rationalists.

There has been plenty of atheistic terrorism in the last hundred years...
I had a fascinating discussion with an ex trucker in Spain (who after an injury worked selling souvenirs in the old windmills where Don Quijote had once jousted according to Cervantes' book).

When he heard I was a physicist, he apologized in advance for being such a tool ... and then admitted that he thought the earth rotating around the sun was a mistake. He saw the sunrise every morning, always in the East, move around ... and then set in the West. Plus, wouldn't we feel the speed, or even disintegrate if we travelled so fast around the sun?

It was the first time I had encountered somebody who didn't think heliocentrism was possible, let alone other cosmological models. I paused before answering ... but then realized the man was right.

What evidence did he have that contradicted a sun rotating around the sun? He only studied until age 12. He never had a Foucault pendulum. And even if he had had one, the fixed stars idea and the earth's rotation is not the only interpretation.

I asked ... what about the astronauts who have been up there? Surely they must have seen the earth rotating. He was unconvinced. Things seem to rotate when you are very high as a result of vertigo. Could that be the explanation? What about the great speed of the earth he insisted? Wouldn't we feel that? [nobody had ever explained that to him, including his son who was an engineer]

I realized that this man was much more of a scientist than his peers who blindly believe what they are told in school: "the earth rotates around the sun". But ask them a deeper question: What is the evidence? Could the evidence be interpreted otherwise? Are we fooling ourselves (as is very common in science)?

Of course the answer to these questions is child's play for most technical people. There is a ton of evidence. But are the 3/4s aware of it? or do they just parrot the accepted wisdom.

The man turned out to be very smart, having learned the names of all his souvenirs in Korean, Japanese, German, French ... and having strong opinions about the dogmatism that religion blindly accepts.

So it's possible that in that 20% of "non believers" there are true scientists (or Quixotes!) who refuse to believe what they are told before seeing credible experimental evidence that they can reason deeply about.
why not do your job, and let him shadow you? Have some faith that he'll ask questions if he's lost.
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I'm in agreement with the parent comment - I was interested, but the examples were a little off-putting. I'd consider removing the baby one or posting a different angle.
IANAL, but maybe they are denying he wrote the comments
Honest question, how does this different from bitcore & node-bitcoin? https://github.com/freewil/node-bitcoin
Maybe this would be a good opportunity for university students over there to test out a network like Freenet for communicating? FMS, Frost, or Freemail could be used for messaging back and forth in place of e-mails and social networks. A couple people could build a jSite for news stories/pictures/videos. I don't think groups of students would have that hard of a time adding each other as peers under darknet mode. The docs make it pretty easy to switch over [1].

If they can't talk freely to one-another over emails or popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter... maybe they shouldn't use them.

[1] https://freenetproject.org/documentation.html
Critique my pitch
The entire nature of the social contract is based on the idea that punishing you to make the world better is OK. You are punished in the form of taxes so that the government can provide social security and foreign aid and military intervention (independent of whether you individually support those actions). You are inconvenienced in the form of DUI checkpoints to punish drunk drivers.

You have a couple of choices:

1: Decide that the net cost to living in civilization is worse than the benefit, and go and live with some nomadic hunter-gatherers somewhere.

2: Vote to change policies you disagree with, and live with the ones that you are in the minority on.
Wow! Clean idea. I used to do most of the configuration file sync via Dropbox.
Behind the scenes using a method of an object is just syntactic sugar for calling a function with the object as the first argument. The modularity aspect is good but I think OO often leads to code that is difficult to read when there are many levels of inheritance, esp. in languages where you are forced to put everything in classes such as Java. Instead of the old spaghetti code you then get ravioli code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravioli_code#Ravioli_code
Show HN: I wrote a realtime search and/or pubsub (in memory, C)
One of the downsides of centralized services like Twitter. Reminds me of Tim Berners-Lee's call to re-decentralize the web http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/06/tim-berners-l...
> And we all know moving along a curved path has non-zero acceleration.

Not to give the OP undue attention for what is a truly weird post, but a curved path through curved spacetime (as seen from a different perspective), as with a gravitational orbit, can have zero acceleration.

> It is obvious that earth is rotating around the sun not the other way around. You just have to consider the forces.

That's not obvious at all -- there are no forces at work in a relativistic orbit (because gravity is not a force). The earth and the sun orbit their mutual center of mass, neither experiences acceleration, and neither of them experience a real centripetal or fictional centrifugal force.

Therefore there would be no way to use centrifugal force to argue that one of the bodies has a special role in the orbit. It's easy to see why -- just adjust the relative masses, gradually make the sun's mass smaller and the earth's mass larger, and try to argue that there's a special moment where their roles reverse. Clearly not the case -- regardless of their relative masses they're always equal partners in an orbit, with one of the bodies farther from the mutual center of mass in proportion to its (smaller) mass.
Why Publishing Everything Is More Effective than Selective Publishing
"Subtle cues in the physical environment of companies such
as Star Trek posters and video games lead to women being
less interested in being a part of an organization when
compared to a neutral office environment."

It also self selects for women who dig video games and Star Trek. Liking those things are geek things, not guy things and contrary to popular belief, women that like those things do exist. Furthermore, I'm certain that if you ask any male geek about the gender disparity in geek culture, I'm certain that near 100% of them lament about the lack of female geeks.

Women who show up in such an environment that don't relate with the culture aren't not relating because of their gender but because of their interests.

At some point in the founding of those companies the people there decided that they want their work environment to be as pleasant and fun as their home environment, after all you are spending 40-60 hours of your week there. That's a lot of your life. If that culture isn't your idea of fun, then you chose the wrong company to work for and should go work somewhere that does share your attitudes and beliefs or some soulless place that doesn't encourage employees to express themselves at work for fear of alienating anyone.

Dropbox is a desirable place to work at because of and not despite this culture. It's also desirable because there are a lot of smart people that are going to be successful in their careers. It's natural that many people, that despite their personal disinterest in the former (culture), might want to work at Dropbox because of the latter reason (success). Unfortunately, you don't get to pick and choose what parts of a company to accept. It was doing its thing before you arrive and no one has a right to establish their career at Dropbox without accepting most of the culture. Once there, you're welcome to try to change it, but doing so comes at the risk of being ejected from that culture because those working their may not like the changes you introduce.

Seriously, what give employee number 150 the right to reject and neutralize parts of the company culture that attracted the first 149 employees to work there in the first place? Don't like that? Boo-fucking-hoo. Start your own company or show up at a company early enough to influence the culture to be more to your liking.

I'm going to guess that those employees that left, complaining about the culture were not among the first 20 employees. If you're not among the first 10-40 employees at a large successful venture, you have no right to complain about culture because culture is always set by those that came before you. Don't like it? Then show up earlier.
That I fully agree with.

Unless you have a knack for jumping into complex systems and learning along the way.
It's amazing with all the spying that the US Government can be so incredibly stupid.
Yes they will.

Same incorrect argument people always pull out about with automation. Prove you need some => then you need all.

Software will make teachers 10%+ better then they'll fire the bottom 10% (or just 10%)

As it is class size mattering is a myth. A good teacher can teacher quite a large class. Studies don't show a small class makes a lot of difference.
Buy it and you'll find out... ;-)

I wrote this high-level piece of fluff as a taster for the Guardian's developer blog:

http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2013/sep/17/d...

"If Doctor Who were a programmer, he'd use deferreds!"
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I agree that the names are actually rooted in ethno-linguistic groups rather than citizenship, but it's actually very easy to infer that someone calling himself Htun Myint Naing probably holds a Myanmar passport, and
citizenship is the most pertinent fact when you're doing business internationally, especially when you're from a pariah state.

Sure, you'd be hard pressed to guess the nationality of most people with standard Spanish and English names, and people can make a lot of wrong inferences about nationality because of migration, intermarriage (recently I've lived with Britons with very obviously Polish, Italian and Spanish-diaspora names respectively) or ethnic groups overlapping borders.

You'd also be wrong in thinking that Lo Ping Zhong was likely to be a citizen of China rather than Myanmar, but you'd still be more inclined to background check his company more than Stephen Law's.
I agree. Awards should definitely be in BTC... seems like a vote of no confidence in your own product otherwise.
OK, fill in the blanks: I have my InDesign document in the cloud. I head down to Kinko's to print it and I _______?

(The realistic answer is "can't unless I brought my laptop" AFAIK.)
Also a solo founder from Brazil. May I join?
In this same vein, people here might be interested in Lumosity[0]. I've been using it for a few months, on and off (I'm terrible about not doing it consistently each day), and it's interesting enough that I'd probably recommend at least trying it to most anyone.

It's hard to say whether I'm just getting better at the games themselves through repetition, rather than improving the underlying skills necessary to play them, but I definitely have improved significantly over time.

[0] http://lumosity.com
What is "this kind of application"?
Username "live" and break youtube.com/live? 
This used to be live broadcasts... :(
Is it possible to include him on some sort of design / architecture meeting with your team? That might give him enough to think about and learn from while keeping him engaged.
Who needs paper archives this days anyway?
This used to be live broadcasts :(
Still working on this course about Jekyll (the static site generator) and GitHub Pages. Here's a free registration code if anyone's willing to review and give me some feedback! https://www.udemy.com/jekyll-and-github-pages/?couponCode=sh...
I think his definition of recent is inclusive of 2001. He seems to be referring to the time period before powerful commodity computer systems were easily available and deeply integrated into every aspect of life, probably like '85 on back. For some edgy cases this could protrude into the mid-90s, but I don't see it going any later.
What is acceptable varies by market too (IMO). In Bali, the "owner lives in a house with 3-4 rental houses attached" is totally fine, and just as "authentic" as sharing a single house, since it's common for an extended family to live like that.
It's great that you guys are tackling it, and that it was untapped. But, I also think that no one delved to much in that space for a reason (HIPPAA has been around for a long time), which might be that if you screw up you're in really hot water. Most people and investors tend to stay away from things that lend themselves to potentially big lawsuits. Don't get me wrong, if another company is making it their full-time responsibility to provide a service and shoulder most of the liability I can see the value and I'm all for it, because it means I'm reducing my exposure.
Windows 98, Really?

wow. I'm just, wow.

Like I can understand an ancient version of Solaris, or Windows NT4 - but Windows 98?

just wow.
This really needs actual docs instead of just videos.

Also, there's apparently no way to delete any properties or actually manage collections using the kimonofy GUI, which is pretty annoying.
Please let me know if this is a horrible UI pattern (and I'd love to hear alternatives), but this could also be used to implement something like "do X, after Y succeeds and at least Z milliseconds have passed".

For example, if you have a Search button that makes an AJAX request, and there's a loading spinner while waiting for that request, you could use this technique to make the spinner show for at least, say 500 milliseconds. I have noticed that a lot of AJAX search forms return so quickly that the loading spinner just barely flickers before the results display. It might be less jarring if you ensured that the spinner would show for at least 500 ms. Of course, you don't just want to add a 500 ms delay after the request returns, because then slow requests will get that much slower.