skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this idea. It would be great for renters, too, if the services could be opted for a-la carte at a slightly higher rate. For instance, in Boston, I needed someone to help bring over an in-window air conditioner from a friend's apartment and install it properly in a window. I had to spend the better part of an hour vetting different Yelp-style contractor sites, several actual contractors, and calling a few to see whether they'd be interested, available, and affordable. Being able to tap a few buttons on an app that sits somewhere inbetween Uber and Yelp would be amazing.

That said, whatever site mediates this, would potentially need to have 24x7 customer service, a billing platform (with payouts), and potentially some decent liability insurance.
Social analytics. The idea is that you can keep track of multiple facebook fan pages/twitter accounts and see how they grow over time. How many followers overtime, how many links, ect.. You may want to see other info like from what countries the likes, follows are from. Something very simple that just keeps track of your analytics and displays a nice chart.
If the money went to the friend, it would be easier to recruit them. Although in that case, they will have a perverse incentive to hinder your progress. Perhaps it's better to have the money go to a non-profit org of your choice.
I think he's trying to take the same approach that mobile game developers do - generate lots of smaller titles instead of one big one so you have more chances of hitting it big.
Probably the most efficient way would be something you could burn to yield water, like a hydrocarbon or carbohydrate, if you had to liberate the water by chemical process. Or you could use something to contain the water in a solid structure, like a sponge or plant tissue. None of these options makes a lick of sense to simply accomplish transportation of water.
The 3d printing angle is cool, but I'm also curious in how much the cosmetic focus of the expensive hand held back the functionality. It would be interesting if people were moving past the need to have a real looking prosthetics, and towards having more functional, but clearly robotic prosthetics.
sidereel.com is one of the oldest web apps with this feature.
I see. Inevitably its support for older browsers makes it slower, however.
I really want a nice wysiwyg markdown editor. Not the two column layout. I want syntax highlighting, but it should not only do colors but also semantics. Headings should be actually bigger and italics slanted.

I tried and failed to make this idea a reality. I got to partial solution using regular expressions. But it is far from functional and reliable but it is only like 200 lines!

You can check it out here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selectio...
Are you implying that people claiming loss of there families were made up?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Soviet_and_Western_de...
I love this idea because I think this is a huge win-win for both buyers, sellers, and efficiency (more stuff gets used, less gets tossed).

As the comments have pointed out the difficulty is accurately identifying items.

With used books you don't have that problem because every book has an ISBN number so you can easily identify any book. That's enabled a robust used book market.

So maybe the business isn't the end product, maybe the business is an intermediate step, the equivalent to ISBN numbers for everything.

The business I'm thinking of is QR tags for everything. The QR code allows the owner to simply scan the QR code when they want to sell their stuff.

You'd have to work with OEMs. The pitch to the OEMs is that a QR code that allows the item to be identified and easily resold enhances the resale value, thus enhancing the initial value of the item.
Is our coverage really that bad? Afaik we all watch the same feed so I guess it's down to commentary? I like Hobbs, cool old racer. Will Buxton on the other hand...
What happened to Fred Hampton when he disagreed with how blacks were being treated like second-class citizens in Chicago? The Kent State students who protested the US invasion of Cambodia? The Jackson State students who protested the US invasion of Cambodia? And so on...
Chores service.

For $X, we will come and do Y chores, quickly and professionally, relatively flat rate. Y job is a typical household chore.

Particular pain point: cleaning the litterbox. I don't really like it, so it gets delayed a bit more than it should. Garbage can be a pain when the apartment building is poorly laid out.

I don't mean a maid or cleaning service. If I lived in a house, I'd want someone for random house maintenance tasks.

I'm half-tempted to do this where I live - I live near both a university and a fairly well-off suburb. Pretty sure a freshman would appreciate odd-job work not far from campus.

The catch is that I don't really have time to deal with bonding, insurance, payroll, workman's comp, etc, etc. Someone with 10-20K, familiarity with the process, lots of flex time over the next 4-6 months (when your help gets sick, YOU get to do it. =) ), and a yen for business could probably make a tidy income from it.
plowz.com is another one. Lots of service providers already being prescreened. Could help that part of the process.
Also look at the manpage for explicit_bzero:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bzero&sektion=3

It already does what OpenSSL_cleanse is meant to do, so using it makes sense.
Something like what http://hackpad.com uses? Or something like http://stackedit.io (maybe this is the kind of two-column layout you don't want)?
The talk isn't about Haskell. Haskell is used just as an example for most code snippets. But all arguments raised in the talk apply perfectly well to F#, and F# has much better tooling than Haskell.
They maintained an audited fork of Apache 1.3 for a number of years (I think recently switched or will switch to nginx), so it's not unprecidented.
Actually, Delphi/ObjectPascal's compilation speed comes mainly from being a one-pass compiler. Code is translated directly to native code per compilation unit, and since there is no "header file hell", each unit is an independent part whose generated code can be cached in its entirety, so during a single compile, if you have changed just one unit, the compiler only needs to compile that unit (plus dependencies) and then perform linking. The linking is much less complicated, too. Delphi also benefits from having a hand-coded parser and not too many machine code optimizations. I think the simplicity of the grammar may contribute some, but probably very little.
There's a karma threshold for downvoting comments, but stories can't ever be downvoted (though they can be flagged, again subject to a karma threshold, so perhaps that's what you meant).
It seems like it goes to the owners of the site... which gives me an idea for a business. I will be the 'friend' for anyone who signs up for this service, and when they fail, I'll charge them $5 to lie to GFDI. It's bulletproof.
Ah, I get it. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'd bet a translation exists somewhere (because Russians translate everything, or at least used to, and this class of material would be of obvious interest), but have zero idea how to find it. (Edit: uh, other than Google :))
Don't forget that at a certain point of client & services, the company will need to be getting bonded contractors.
Why not? I keep seeing these discussions pointing out the futility of thinking about the brain as a computer, but still don't see powerful arguments to back that postulate up, other than the 'brain too hard, computer too easy, so brain no computer'.

Brain as a computer, in my opinion should be the default state for this discussions. Why? Consider the old and tired brain-made-of-matter argument. There's no reason to think there's something magical or supernatural inside the brain, so treat it as an organized collection of atoms doing cool stuff. The default state cannot be magic, it has to be something that can be disproved or ruled out.

Some parts of it seem to work, as fas as we know, in a (suspiciously) algorithmic way, or in other words, a highly abstract step-by-step chain of actions can be identify for a given part of the brain.

Why not start with the crazy assumption that the whole brain acts as a computer (the theoretical concept), and then identify which parts of it fail the analogy? The key part here is the word 'fail': it should not mean 'too complex for any computer we have built' nor 'we don't know any algorithm that does that', it should mean that there are parts that inherently cannot be modelled, under any circumstances, like the definition of algorithm.
If some part is discovered not to hold the analogy, you should just then question if the analogy is question is apt or not.
The startup is just a simple webpage that takes your money if you don't make a deadline you set; And the author is a self-procclaimed "entrepretraveler".
Agreed. I would sign up if the money went to my friend (with a reasonable cut to the owner), but not if the money goes to the owners.
Curriculum looks similar to Coursera's Startup Engineering, which I am doing (although it isn't currently officially offered). I think this is an interesting initiative, would like to try something like this in Toronto.
Actually, although number theory touches a lot of "conventional" crypto (some of the design rationale for AES, polynomial MACs), most of workhorse cryptography in normal applications is not especially number-theoretic, and has more to do with information theory and statistics.

The belief that number theory is essential for cryptography is due to its role in public-key cryptography. But even if you're comfortable with number theory, new applications of public-key cryptography are tremendously difficult to get right, and require subject-matter specific expertise.
It's the project name, but you're right some may be offended by it.
Take a look at hdf5.
Have you ever checked out [Mou](http://mouapp.com/)?

You can turn off the live preview and it does exactly what you're asking. Just, it's not in-browser.
As someone currently teaching themselves linear algebra (via Strang), I'm curious as to why you believe linear algebra is ridiculously important. I see its applications to graph programming and obviously to cryptography, but I've done a lot of work in both of those subjects and never strictly needed a background in linear algebra to be effective.
This is outstanding; Providing for free what some startups are attempting to charge >$15K for.

As a London-based startup employee (Marketing, Business Dev) it makes me proud to point to these kinds of initiatives in my city.

If you need any additional teachers for marketing/pitching/sales/lean then drop me a line. I already volunteer at Coder Dojo and am a mentor at a few others.
4chan is moot's hobby. He doesn't care about whiners like you.
I already told you that in your thread, OP.
Just stop browsing 4chan please.

>I, and with me a few thousand, are 4chan-users.

A few thousands? You're alone. I thought you'd notice that in your firepad.

>refuses to respond to matters about 4chan on his own website.

Lurk more

>With little to no prior notice he implements features nobody of his userbase asked for

Someone does things on his own website and this is an outrage? You're not forced to browse and nothing prevents you from creating a new imageboard where you'd do everything your users are asking for.

>and refuses to participate in meta disccusions about the quality of his decissions.

Maybe he would if the comments against these changes weren't so inane.
Yes, but as a wiki and with the additional edge information + breadth first listing as I mentioned. It doesn't have to be as finely split up as this one but maybe it should.

I have to say I'm really impressed by their progress since the last time I checked their knowledge map (~2 years ago).
I feel your pain. I try to watch the race live when I can but waking up at 3 AM is not going to happen even then I fell asleep with 5 to go last night. Might be a way for governments to monetize their net nanny infrastructure, provide "FAAS" an IIB (Ignorance is Bliss) Filter as a Service. In your specific case it might work well to declare Sunday a tech free day during F1 season, no spoilers and more time for the kids.
There are usually multiple models of the TV. You can buy one without the "smart" features if you like or even disable them on an existing one.
This isn't a rifle, it is airsoft.

I actually think the rifle form factor is a horrible idea in use, due to people flipping out when a rifle is pointed at their building. But for shock value, it wins.

The ideal is probably to use a panel antenna on the back of a laptop, or some non threatening way to conceal a higher gain antenna. It would be cute if someone put all this in an SLR camera form factor, I think...a 70-200 f2.8 is big enough for a high gain yagi.
> Shouldn't there be some kind of formula for this kind of thing?

It's not like science or math. There are too many subjective issues at work -- a relatively new company in a fluid marketplace, issues of personal psychology, guessing how applicants will respond to the prospect of options. Any fixed formula or policy would likely be invalidated by events in a short time. It reminds me of the old saying, "The first casualty of battle is the battle plan."

> I only bring this up because, after personally seeing or being on the losing end, I would never accept the salary haricut for options again unless I could somewhat reliably gauge them, probabilistically.

Yes, and this is because you have experience. A younger applicant might not understand the issue as well, or might have heard a statistically improbable but dramatic story of someone becoming rich on options.

From the management side, they might guess at the age and experience level of the applicants, and adjust their pitch accordingly.

> Paul, thanks for all the really cool stuff you've done over the years.

You're most welcome. Here's my latest article: http://arachnoid.com/IPython
It wouldn't help if they create another project based on OpenSSL code, because that will inherit OpenSSL's license that everybody hates, and wouldn't necessarily help other projects adopt it.
It might also discourage other people from looking at / contributing code, when they could just improve another TLS library with a saner license that people actually want to use not just due to legacy.
It's raining. You're not allowed to work on the house, and the owner is absent.

Move.
For what it's worth, I apologise, mostly for the initial comment I made that mentioned the Ukraine - it looked very much like a partisan comment intented to reference the current conflict and, in all honesty, it wasn't.

Sorry for any grief caused and keep up the good work.

[I promise to engage more brain cells when posting on obviously highly emotive topics in future and, if I have any doubt, to not post].
This comment is a little frustrating, because part of the point of linking to the Stack Overflow post is to continue the discussion, which is obviously germane to our site. Why not dig into specifics of how you'd approach the intersection of math and CS?
I feel like this is a symptom of a far larger problem, the need for yelp for medical care in general. Its kind of shitty that there is absolutely no way to quality and price compare medical providers.

Also, good luck with the transition, I have a friend going through something similar, its definitely not an easy thing.
Well, if you don't want the money to go to the owner, that's all the more incentive to Go Fucking Do It ;)
Ha. In that case I guess it'd be up to the user to choose their friend wisely.

An option to choose where the money goes definitely seems in order.
Sounds like a mindmap, try Freemind.
Sure, but it’s neither portable across platforms, nor user friendly (for non-techies).

Imagine managing a collection of photos (or a mixed collection of multiple file formats, like scans of receipts, and pdfs with invoices) in something like Dropbox: no access to hidden low-level metadata blocks, etc., let alone easy editing. Not to speak of cross-platform support.

File names are always visible and editable, and they’re easily parsable.

I discussed such objections here: https://gist.github.com/rhythmus/11118629#problem-metadata-p...
What have previous cohorts gone on to do?
I hope the developer lets us know how this goes.

I'm kinda dying to know if people actually sign up to send some random website money. As it is, I'm almost wondering if its satire.
Evernote CLI
I think is the idea of another 'demotion'. Even educated people instinctively oppose the idea of a philosophical demotion.
Stop taking advice about equity from VCs. If you've ever read a term sheet or a SPA, then you know that VCs have a huge incentive to encourage founders to increase the size of their option pools: your typical term sheet requires the existing shareholders to take the dilution of the option pool rather than the investors. Because of this, the bigger your option pool is the lower your price-per-share becomes, and as such the investor gets a bigger cut. It requires founders to budget their option pool up front and divvy it up carefully until the next round of funding. These terms ENCOURAGE founders to keep their option grants tight.

Sam Altman and others need to put their money where their mouths are - if you want bigger option pools for employees then remove this clause from your term sheets and encourage other investors to do the same. If you think that more employee equity is good for business, then give us more flexibility with the option pool and share the dilution with us. Don't blame us when the real change starts with you.
Ice axes and crampons are generally certified by the UIAA [1], but this certification is not legally binding -- it's just that consumers won't buy products that aren't UIAA-certified.

[1]: http://www.theuiaa.org/safety-standards.html
> I don't think being well comped Google, Facebook or Twitter (a friend of mine recv'd $640k in RSU's) is settling for mediocrity.

I didn't mean the compensation is mediocre, but the work you're doing. I'm sure a lot of brilliant people choose to stick it out for "just 5 more years" over and over again to get more of that $1MM, rather than go off independently and realize their ideas, or join a modest company that works on fresh things.
Legally, the minified form is considered the "executable" form, not source code form, with respect to javascript (at least with respect to the MPL-2.0 which enumerates this in the license or possible the FAQ about the license. I'm not certain about the GPL).

This means that technically, with a copyleft license that isn't the MPL-2.0, you need to make available the option to get your javascript, not just the copyleft libraries you build upon, in unminified source code form.

At the end of the day, the MPL is a great license because it balances business needs with the needs of the common. The only reason for businesses to dislike it is because it comes with a slightly higher cost in the form of the burden to provide the original source to the MPL parts or let the end user know how to acquire a copy. This is a pretty minimal engineering cost that shouldn't be much more than an hours worth of labor unless you modify the MPL-ed source and need to make your modified version available. Even then, it shouldn't be more than a day or two of labor if you know what you're doing. You just need to make sure that your build system uploads the MPLed version somewhere or your MPLed modified source is available somewhere like github and your minified code gives people a link to the place where the unminified MPL code lives.
Contacts are worse (..other than the ones you can sleep in). Seriously though, sleeping with your alarm clock makes it too easy to snooze anyway - we should just project the image and go hologram later. :)
Assuming you probably want to make a decision before this service exists I wonder if you can't find an advocate. Someone who has been through the process of research, interviews and chose a surgeon themselves and completed the process. I saw a Huffington Post article about Justin Jedlica a while back and he mentioned that he had spent so much time having plastic surgery that he started a business around being a consultant for other people. http://justinjedlica.com/consulting.html. He probably wouldn't be the best resource for you, but I wonder if there is someone else with more relevant experience?
Use Mou for desktop.

Dillinger for web. http://dillinger.io/
Awesome, thanks! I need to do a better job of getting that message across on the landing page. Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
Excellent idea, I want one.

<pedantic>
> This idea is brilliant considering that this system doesn’t require energy to work

Except for the energy required to make it and transport it to you.

> and is not using up any of our resources

Except for the resources used to make it and transport it to you.

> and it’s a safe method and you are not even polluting the environment.

Except for the effects of mining, manufacture and transportation.</pedantic>

Nevertheless it's a great idea.
the talk about portability to crazy ancient platforms is weird. Didn't openbsd ask for 20K$ to keep up a build farm of ancient platforms?
I actually like "let" to introduce variables, it's what I scratch on paper when doing psuedo-code since before I met Rust or any other functional language. To omit it (or something like it, e.g. "var" or "val") would be to omit crucial information. It's short, clear, and has a long history in mathematics and logic too.
The scopes disabling command was beyond cryptic in the other hand
OK, you got me in.

I've got a Software Architecture assignment which allows me to work on any kind of large scale Project (regardless of number of languages and complexity) for 3 Months. The end result will be planned, discussed and evaluated scientifically. We're two experienced devs. Suggestions for ideas are welcome!
Here's an analog solution to your problem: Find some of the collections of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions", a long-running series Al Jaffee did in MAD. It took the format of a cartoon drawing setting up the situation, with one person asking a question, and another offering three funny answers, plus a blank to write your own. Which is super valuable, because a lot of having a good comeback is rehearsing a bunch of them beforehand, so you have something ready.

(For instance sometimes I like to wear little horns glued to my forehead while looking otherwise normal. People regularly ask me "are those real?" By repeatedly answering that question, I now know that some variant of "yeah, I used to file them down, but I've been letting them grow out because I've been busy" will get a laugh.)
That's actually utterly idiotic; as in “12 songs in 12 months” or “52 paintings in 52 weeks”. One does not routinely come up with good ideas or get inspired.
Koski, do you live in the bay area?
I'm curious about the total weight before and after modification? I can only imagine that in the near future someone is going to want to 3d print this and mount it on some type of consumer UAV and open source the software/hardware setup. I'm also pretty curious what, if any, measurements can be taken with this setup?