skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is no coincidence. I organised a meetup for Startup Engineering last year in the same place that I am now running Founders & Coders. It's a great course. Good luck with it.
A peer to peer mortgage marketplace.

Basically, qualified investors own pieces of mortgage in their communities.

I've seen variations of this for student loans - why not mortgages?
Nimrod is great. It is definitely inspired by Delphi/ObjectPascal. I keep trying to come up with an excuse to use it for a project.
Thanks for being so kind about it. It means a lot.
Record industry rolls on with lawsuits: first Kim Dotcom, now Pandora
Yes. I mentioned climbing on purpose, because of the standards. In reality, you can go to the hardware store and buy things like bolts and rings, and people do that. Others buy certified versions, which is probably a bit smarter. But in the end it is personal responsibility. And the certification is not that onerous. I can buy a locking biner for $15 or so dollars, a sling for $5, a very high tech rope for $150, shoes for $60, and so on. I have no doubt economy of scale is working here - more carabiners are made and sold vs prosthetic arms. But in the end I have a lot of choice - I can use $5 cheapo sunglasses at altitude, or spend $300 for high end versions. I can spend $100 for a benchmade knife, or $3 at Walmart. My life, my risks,my choice.

In the end it doesn't matter much if my prosthetic finger breaks - I'll just print a new one. Could I get a rash if I use PVC plastic vs some bioplastic? Sure,but I can also get a rash from the $5 sneakers from Walmart. Is medical grade stainless going to be better than something I get from Home Depot? I would imagine so, but I buy all my metal from Home Depot and the like, and I have yet to suffer any real consequences from that. I have a stiff neck from the $10 pillow from BB&B - shall I buy a $3800 orthopedic, medical grade, hypoallergenic pillow? Nah.
I confess, I'm one of those people who believes all salaries should be public within a company—compensation should be based on real worth rather than negotiation skill.

That said, for it to work properly, the staff would need to watching the clock too so it couldn't just be a managerial thing.

All staff would need to at least know the wage bands of each other's salaries.
"I actually think the rifle form factor is a horrible idea in use, due to police flipping out when" they see them and shooting innocent children.

Fixed it for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_415281..., see also e.g. http://www.storyleak.com/airsoft/

This is a beyond horrible idea, it could easily get you killed. Use it in an apparently offensive manner, i.e. point it at someone, and the shooting would even be justified, unlike at least one of the two above incidents.
Not to say that what happens with the military will impact those watching Netflix, but the infrastructure of the Web is vulnerable...

Article from Foreign Policy magazine

The Best Defense
The future of war: You better be ready to fight like it's a pre-electronic age

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/04/18/the_future_o...

"...Major battles in the 21st century will be confusing and disorganized affairs more similar to the clashes of a pre-digital age than the ‘network-centric' combat we've become accustomed to. A new generation of offensive technology targeting the electromagnetic spectrum -- systems such as cyberweapons, electronic jammers, anti-satellite missiles, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) munitions -- will deprive militaries of the sensor and communications links they rely on. Forget 24-hour streaming video from a Predator drone. Armies of the future may struggle just to use their radios.....
I just checked, and the checkbox for enabling hard-fail is unchecked with my default Firefox settings.
Highlight-hacking in Evernote
So true. Arduino and Raspberry Pi have made it too easy and cheap to use way too much computing power any time we want to interact with "the real world". Not a bad thing, but we're collectively losing some skills in the process.
Flash still powers Youtube for most users, Silverlight for Netflix and Unity's plugin is required for most 3D games on Chrome's Marketplace (not sure where else to look for successful HTML5 games).
ZenPro, I really appreciate the feedback. Contact me. There's a link on the website.
In the back of my head was letting the user pick a charity and/or indeed letting the user specify a third friend to send it to (and maybe take a cut from there).

I'll keep reading what everyone here thinks and implement that once there's some consensus.
I have a "collection" of curl command lines aliased in my ~/.bash_aliases file. Maybe something like that would help you?
Had this very probably on Friday - wanted to learn more about what was new with the SpaceX launch and ended up spending a couple hours on Wikipedia.
What does that link to? If I click that link I get redirected to a page about bunnies and a woman in a bikini.
Thanks, I'll take a look, but it seems like I'd have to change the format of the files, right? Unfortunately that's not really feasible, since their format is determined by the scientific codes I use -- that's why I was attracted to the idea of using the file name. I can, however, have a go at HDF5 for code that I write myself.
Really? Do you have any example?
If I could figure out how to do comrketing - I would
> validate them automatically

That's the hard part. There is some research being done in that are really interesting, such as

* Koepke, Schröder, Cramer with Naproche http://www.naproche.net/index.php

* Paskevich with SAD (unfortunately he stopped his research)
https://web.archive.org/web/20131207185950/http://nevidal.or...
You should try http://www.caldrono.com/
Nuclear plants release less radiation into environment than coal plants (2007)
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=138973312304511&w=2

They use that old equip to find bugs
You'd like "Cooking for Engineers"
Property management companies take care of this for rental units.

Why not just find a good one that operates in your area and pitch the idea to them? Normally they operate for a percentage of rents but I'm sure you could find one who would do it for flat rate.

Your problem with the insurance company thing is you might have to give them Power of Attorney (which you really don't want to do) to make insurance claims on your behalf.

The Property Management company would already have the liability insurance that any company working in this space would need to do this for you.
Israeli startup, working with GE, out to detect Stuxnet-like attacks
Caldrono, what you really want to eat
As long as you are not using a lower receiver [1], it's not actually a rifle, just pieces of metal and plastic. The lower receiver is the actual firearm according to U.S. law. For example, these [2] are the non-rifle parts of an AR-15.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_receiver

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/TozIZ7l.jpg
I'm pretty sure the User Frontend plugin provides that:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-frontend/
Physics Quiz: Standard Model Answers
Threadable (YC W14) is working on the mailing list problem. http://threadable.com/

They have a walkthrough video here. http://vimeo.com/90926057 Stay with it till the end; it looks like any other forum software until it becomes clear it's all happening over email, without any need for your team to learn a new tool or sign into anything. You can split off new discussions at any time, or make any sublist digest-only.
> They're choosing to switch from a simple packager role to a maintainer role, they will have to always keep their fork in sync with upstream which if they try to apply every changes will require a lot of work, or maybe they have decided on another strategy e.g. freezing functionalities and applying only security patches, I don't know I didn't look at the current types of clean-ups maybe that could hint what their intentions are.

In fairness it's always been my impression that a BSD distribution is intended to be much more than a mere packager of software, but instead an integrator of those libraries into a sane, coherent overall operating system.

This is the reason OpenSSH has their native version for OpenBSD and then a "portable" version for the rest of the POSIX world.
yawn

Enough with the "shock" titles. You're not impressing anyone. Grow up.
I guess that if you're religious, then yeah, almost by definition, you would be skeptical of assertions like these. Although to the parent comments point, I'm not defensive at all about looking into AI. I find it fascinating and exciting and though I'm not trained in it, I read as much as I can about it and don't want to stop any research or questions into it at all.

But hubris - yes it is hubris. Because there is no scientific basis for the assertion that we will cross that chasm into 'true' AI, and thus it's based just as much on faith as any religious belief. And it's hubris because they claim a scientific basis where there is none.

When there is a scientific basis or proof that we've reached (or will reach) this 'singularity', you won't see me complaining. I'm not anti-science. I just don't think it's ever going to happen.

On a semi-related note, doesn't anyone find it kind of odd that Ray Kurzweil's calculations for when the singularity will occur happen to be just about the time his natural life will end (statistically speaking)? These projections are all driven by ego and faith, very little by science...
Hmm, I wonder how long before someone fits one of these (airsoft or not) onto a drone and starts causing havoc?
I don't find this interesting or cool; it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.
It'd probably be pretty easy to reimplement this in wood and marbles.

Ex:

http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/

http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/tinykitlist/37...
Having it go to the first friend encourages an obvious bias, although that just depends on how much you trust that friend. Having it all go to you, the site owner, seems a bit unfair (a massive reward/effort ratio!) and nominating a charity would be an excellent way of mitigating that. I've heard of a similar incentive-based scheme in which you pay money to an entity you dislike (e.g. democrat donating to republican party) if you fail.
I’ve been working on a Markdown stylesheet generator which would have you do just that — unfinished side project, though.

Have a look at my inventory¹ of Markdown editors (both native and web based), parsers, stylesheets, etc.

[¹] https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources
VR: Looking the other way (VR workspaces)
How it works now is how it's worked for a long time. If a story hasn't had significant attention on HN, and it's genuinely interesting by HN standards, it's ok for people to repost it. That's why the duplicate detector is so porous. We want to give the best stories multiple cracks at the bat.

If a story has had a significant discussion within about a year, though, we'll kill reposts as dupes. Ditto if the story is off-topic.

The standards are more stringent about people reposting content that they're trying to promote. Deleting and reposting is particularly bad.

I know some people want precise rules, but we're not likely to go there. We want to encourage prudence, not gaming. But we will eventually expand the guidelines and the FAQ to explain more of this stuff. In the meantime, it's best to email hn@ycombinator.com.

As for your feature suggestions, my instinct is against relying on solutions that fragment the community. It's part of HN's DNA to have one community, one front page, one set of posts. The temptation is strong to let it burst at the seams, because there's so much. But I think we're better off finding ways to enhance quality within that constraint, rather than breaking it.
You are right. Upon inspection the incident was far less threatening than reported. I was wrong.

As an example of potential abuses by public departments selling data I think it still stands though.
I did read the article.

> "In order to end on a positive note, I'll mention a case where online revocation checking does work..."
"sometimes have trouble with situations where idea A and idea B are related, but are situated at two completely ends of a mind map"

Freemind has an arrow that can jump branches. Also you can drag A to B, flip a branch up, down, to either side, etc. No such thing as opposite ends. Also I think you can hyperlink A to B.
Co-creator of Metacademy here. Colorado and I are intending Metacademy to be a “package manager for knowledge,” where you can easily find the particular thing you want to learn about (e.g. deep neural nets) without having to track down all the prerequisites (e.g. gradient descent) yourself. Basically, we’ve annotated a dependency graph for the core concepts in the field, and it uses the graph to produce step-by-step learning plans geared directly towards your goals.

Sorry if you can't reach the site. We’re both doing this as volunteers, and I guess we weren’t prepared for the level of traffic we’re getting. In the meantime, you can find more details about our high-level goals here: http://hunch.net/?p=2714

If you don’t have a particular goal in mind and just want a general overview, check out the roadmaps, e.g. http://www.metacademy.org/roadmaps/rgrosse/bayesian_machine_...
I've been using Xubuntu 14.04 for a couple of days.

With the exception of a different theme (out the box, which lasted about 10 seconds anyway) it feels exactly like Mint XFCE 16 (which is great).

Install was a breeze (I'd have been surprised if it wasn't these days), everything worked out the box, the ati open source driver with arandr works really well (on the 7750 at work and the 6950 at home) though there was some tearing when dragging windows on the 6950 (tried the usual suspects) so I installed the binary driver which took care of that.

All the software I use day to day installed with zero issues (vagrant, phpstorm, pycharm, oracle-java7, chromium, firefox etc).

I also upgraded by vagrant configs to Ubuntu server LTS 14.04 (it's nice not to have to monkey patch in newer versions of PHP and Postgres with a bootstrap.sh) also with no drama.

For me at least the days of "oh now, new release it's going to take 2 days to put everything back" are long gone, I'm back up and running in < 2 hours.
so a mix between couchsurfing.org and airbnb.com?
Which groups are hungry in England? How bad is it?

On a sliding scale: Mentally ill? Illegal immigrants without jobs? Drug users? Unemployed? Retired?

A related question for ending up homeless?

(Not English, just curious about the safety net there. Not trying to argue about anything, please. :-) )
I think they asked for $20k for old hardware (like vax), not old platforms (like VMS).
I sure hope you're joking... you are joking right?
All interesting ideas... but don't directly address rapid trust revocation, as in the case of recent relevance: a site's private keys are assumed to have been compromised (as if by the heartbleed bug).

Or are you suggesting every browser will contact many of its personal web-of-trust sources on every secure-connection? Without additional innovation, that seems just as prone to the performance bottlenecks or soft-failure (on stale data or blocked connections) as the current system.
I'm also a big fan of how the back button is on the opposite side of the screen to the remote for no reason.
And yet Google disables ad-hoc wifi on Android mobile devices...
What is the use of any wifi cracking equipment these days?

Here in Munich (and also other German cities I've visited), no one carries a WEP WiFi anymore, and even the WPA1-only WiFis have nearly vanished...
In the US, you can modify a gun pretty much however you want (short of making it fully automatic, having a barrel that's "too short" per regulation, or building any form of suppressor).

But of course this is an airsoft gun, which you can modify to your heart's content.
If you're purely interested in client-side compression in the browser (i.e. compatibility with server libraries/filesystem tools is not important) it's possible to get better compression in less time using http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html
Celestial city of New Jerusalem photographed by hubble space telescope.
Just for a little fun.
Is it just me or have the open source graphics drivers improved by miles. A couple of games running through Wine are getting similar frame rates with Gallium3D and Catalyst.
Submitter here, thanks for creating metacademy. it's helped me a lot in school.
The big problem with recruiting out of the Midwest is that nearly anyone with a marketable skill in the Midwest has stayed there by choice.

It's not as if Midwestern engineers are unaware that working on the coast is an option. It is almost certainly an option considered and rejected.
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moot's a troll and you're doing exactly what he expects. Congratulations.
I see it doing reverse stemming so that the nouns and verbs in the AST are more simple, like annotating verbs and nouns with a temporal tag.

You type in english, and it generates an AST on the fly. This would allow conversations to line up and be searchable by content rather than just text.

If the software isn't continually improved I could see it dumbing down the grammar that the group uses. It could enforce a defacto double-speak.

Another nice side effect, is that you could search by concept. I find this very very difficult with current search tools.
They should Call it VIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN635IDZcrU
It feels as if somehow missing the point - there is a group of companies that can (and would be willing to) perform a "diving save" as described. There is a group of companies that get those unexpected moments of "I'm leaving, my last day is a week from friday" from valuable key people.

These groups of companies don't overlap much, if at all.

Actually, the learnable moment at that point isn't "hey, we should've appreciated that person more but we didn't, and we'll fix that". That wouldn't not be a fix, it wouldn't scale to the rest of the team, and it wouldn't be a diving save, but just prolonging the agony. The only way it makes sense is if it's a sudden revelation of the CEO+owners "we've turned out to be a sucky company for our employees and we hadn't noticed going down that slippery slope - but we don't want it; we want to fix it, and we've prepared to put significant resources to make it happen for the whole company". That would be a diving save as meant by that article. But that's a really rare occurance, it often doesn't turn out that way even for good & well-meaning people.
I don't get the inversion thing... Obviously you invert it after inserting the plunger (right?)... What does inverting it so for you?
> it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.

Unstated major premises:

1. Weapons are inherently bad.

2. Modifying something bad is bad.

3. Publishing how to do bad things is bad.

Call me crazy, but I don't agree with any of those.
Don't be naieve, you tell me that a band of hunter gatherers would hesitate to kill/oppress another tribe if they were strapped for resources?

"According to you", the entire world lived in a system where everyone was picking daisies and being sweet to each other prior to 10,000 years ago?

Also, how is communism like how people lived prior to 10,000 years ago?
I was wondering what the hell their recent tweets referred to: https://twitter.com/policy.
> They're choosing to switch from a simple packager role to a maintainer role.

This is hardly a leap of faith for the OpenBSD developers. The dev team has always placed an emphasis on security even if the added security meant significant additional work. OpenBSD has a history of creating new software products to replace products that they deemed unacceptable from a security standpoint (including forking netbsd). I imagine that in addition to OpenBSD you are familiar with at least one of these projects:

OpenBGPD http://www.openbgpd.org

OpenNTPD http://www.openntpd.org

OpenSMTPD http://www.opensmtpd.org

OpenSSH http://www.openssh.org
1. Guaranteed housing, food, and healthcare for every person who can't afford it

2. Curing old age and related diseases, and finding a way to keep people young forever

3. Strong A.I.
It is one thing to make an OS support the hardware and run on a "weird" piece of hardware. But the removed code in OpenSSL is about making it compile and run on systems on which the standard (defacto or specified) APIs do not exist or do not behave like they should, and which have broken compilers that need workarounds. All of these add conditional code paths that won't get the amount of testing they need, and which will only hinder developers when they try to understand and improve the surrounding code.

Also, the $20k was for the power bill. Yes, there are some older systems among the powered ones. But there's more, there's really a rack full of hardware running the infrastructure that makes OpenBSD available to us. There's networking gear, there's AC...

Dobbsbob makes a good point too. The weird hardware OpenBSD runs on helps find bugs; the untested code paths in OpenSSL add bugs.
It could easily be really best for that person to go elsewhere at a loss for the company - but that's the exact symptom that you want to fix. If the best choice for your key people is to leave, then it's your job and duty to change circumstances and surrounding reality so that in the future, the best choice for such people is to stay.
A Security Market for Lemons
tl;dr Independent store for bookmarkable HTML5 mobile apps

This is an idea that I had recently, but for which unfortunately I have no time. I hope that some of you folks can make it happen.

The idea is that with the recent release of Chrome for Android's "Add to Home Screen" feature, there is now a way to bookmark websites to the home screen of every mobile os. Mobile sites can add a meta tag to hide the browser chrome and look fully native. Combined with fast mobile processors, this means that we can finally have native-like experience only by using HTML.

It may be difficult to build a business around it, and could make more sense if it is crowd-sourced (the database could be hosted as json on a github repo).

I haven't done much research, but I believe that an independent store which collects these apps, makes them discoverable, and instructs people how to install them would be very useful, and will do a great job for promoting the freedom of the web over closed app stores.
Thanks for commenting with an explanation of your moderation
(not just this time; I've seen you do it repeatedly.) It really makes a huge difference to how moderation on HN is perceived. (If you look at my comment history, you'll see that I have a history of somewhat passive-aggressive comments about the opacity of HN moderation. I really do appreciate the change tremendously.)
this is the best one I seen - https://10s.ec

a few others

http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/

https://paytagz.com (Member of http://boost.vc)
The first cohort graduated in February. One is interning as a developer at Hogarth Worldwide--after only six weeks and from a standing start--but he was an outlier.

Of the others, one has got a job with a tech startup, one is working as a business analyst, one is freelancing with Google, some have returned to their own startups from which they took a sabbatical to do the course--but none of them are in pure developer roles.

We are not in the business of pretending we can turn people into software developers in a few weeks. I am re-orienting the course away from the unrealistic goal of turning out market-ready software developers and instead I am aiming to jump-start people who want to work on their own projects.

This might kibosh my funding sources, but it seems to be a more interesting and worthwhile direction to go in.