skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compelled to respond as after the big risk of leaving the west at 17 or so, it all worked out well for me. I've dipped back in to western 9-5 for two years out of the last 14, to great success (one employer, rose from entry-level to hiring/managing teams and relationships, international travel, more money, relocation, and finally a payout when the company was acquired) but it's just not for me right now ... and no longer required.

I can't imagine how I'd find a wife who was on board with living without all the standard American luxuries. I imagine such a woman exists, but I wouldn't know where to look.

Clearly, outside America.

I want to take a bunch of time off and travel the world / work on my own (zero-hope-for-profit) hobby projects, I can imagine society's disapproval of this, and also can't help but wonder if I'd regret it. What if it was hard to get a job as good as this if I later wanted to go in for money like everyone else?

The answer to this is definitely No, you won't regret it. As long as you can carry yourself in the workplace, you are likely to return with skills, motivation and experience far outweighing that which your peers in industry were able to gather in the equivalent period. After years running my own startup in mainland China, I found my workplace competition in London to be frankly underwhelming... to put it bluntly, I was learning things full time during those years and they were filling in time for a salary with bureaucratic and temporal challenges to overcome. Even if you can't envisage a return with such confidence, you're smart and will be fine. Fear not.
"Visual Studio "14" also supports APIs that come from NuGet with their own analyzers, squiggling issues in your code as you type and offering you automatic fixes, all powered by the .NET Compiler Platform."

So, now there's new stuff that will keep me from typing into the IDE without hanging up and causing delays.
Should be fixed now. The Google End-to-End library uses the 5-byte encoding scheme for signature subpacket lengths, which I hadn't seen used before and was buggy in KBPGP. Most signature subpackets are <192 bytes long and can be encoded with the 2-byte length encoding.

BTW, our library doesn't support the ECC extensions yet, so any encryptions/signatures generated with ECC keys will fail to decrypt/verify on keybase (and also on GPG v1.4).
On cellular encryption, or why stingrays still work in 2014.
Pie in the sky idea: App that indexes cell towers to a central database. When a new tower goes up, it undergoes a confirmation process that verifies its presence for some given amount of time before adding it to the list of confirmed cell towers. The software would then give you the ability to choose to only engage with/respond to registered towers.

This would only work if a good amount of people adopted it (and various other contingencies were satisfied).
I just tried to get this running using release 0.7, but I am puzzled by the web interface. I have not managed to upload a file through it, and once I did upload a file through the commandline tool camput it did not seem to show up on the web interface. Seems like a cool concept, and I hope I'm doing something wrong since I would like this to work.
This is very nice looking, although the initial settings were too fast and made it a bit distracting. I've stuck with the default live wallpaper that came with my Nexus 4 until now.
For everyone downvoting Jamie, there are so many bloggers who have released their data on interstitials. In many cases, the trade-off is worth it: annoy a small percentage of users, but enjoy higher overall conversion rates.

I agree that there could be better ways to serve the popup (time-delay, wait until 2nd article viewed, etc) but if your argument is simply "turn it off because I dont like it, and it will never work" -- go look it up. One such example:

http://danzarrella.com/my-data-shows-email-popups-work-and-d...
Likely downvoted because this is the stupidest, most pointless comment thread on an otherwise decent page. Contributing to it is what's overwhelmingly frowned upon by HN.

(Yes, I know. I could use some downvotes.)
The FCC is clearly aware of what's going on and the FOIA denial suggests that at least someone somewhere has been authorized to use them: http://files.cloudprivacy.net/FOIA/FCC/fcc-stingray-reply.pd...
Why buying a 3D printer sucks
I can't use VS 2013 because the GUI crashes frequently. For example, tasks like creating a new project through the wizard crash. I would like MS to fix these issues before moving on items like C++14 support.
Despite the down votes I stand by what I said. I would be far more impressed with a stable version of vs 2013 than a preview of 2014. There are too many glitches to document here, but I am using it every day and constantly finding bugs, some of which I have reported via Connect, some I can't be bothered with.
anything sounds bad when you say it like that...
I did the two permanent room escapes run by Real Escape Game/SCRAP in San Francisco (in the New People mall in Japantown), namely Escape from the Mysterious Room and Escape from the Time Travel Lab. They were great fun. (My teams didn't manage to escape from either of them.)

I also did their Escape from the Bank (themed after the aftermath of a bank robbery), where I think my team was the only one to make it out. That event is possibly less awesome because you're seated at a table in a big hall with a lot of other teams around you, rather than exploring small room all by yourselves.

Now I'm looking forward to trying the games in New York City!
My thoughts exactly as I read the article. Some purposefully push retention to the side, looking to make the money big and fast rather than sustainable customer group.
For national issues, yeah, sure, I think you are correct. But for local and state issues? No way. Most of the issues you can get on a ballot are very local and have just as large, if not a larger effect on the cost of living of many people. For example, California has Prop13. This was a ballot initiative that caused your property taxes to be assessed ONLY at the sale of the property. In Arizona, it's every 5 years for reassessment. Prop13, arguably, hurts new home buyers much more than older settled owners as their taxes will be much higher, especially in SV.

In Colorado the Right-Left divide is real and is mostly a North (Boulder-Democrat) v. South (Colorado Spring, Republican), but pales in comparison to water rights. You want politics in Colorado, hell most big western states? It is ALL about water.
Ok not legally a "currency" according to the IRS, but still a product, rather than a share in a company or a bond.

The SEC doesn't get involved in Farmville plots of land, any more than it gets involved in physical real estate. It's not involved if I sell you a gold coin or rare stamp, even if you hope to resell at a profit.

Cryptocurrencies seem more analogous to these things, rather than equities, debts, profit-sharing agreements, or anything else in the SEC's official definition of a security:

http://www.thestreet.com/topic/47042/securities.html
"Ruby, Python & co are well integrated into many third party IDEs" perhaps you're not familiar with the level of IDE integration we're talking about here.

Most (if not all) IDE's Ruby and Python integration is BS.

We're talking about real AST-based highlighting and suggestions, auto fixes, autocomplete for all APIs available (AND your own custom modules), integration with the debugger and the build system, and in Swift's case also integration with the REPL, LighTable-style live-variables and Brett-Victor-inspired live coding environment.

This is not your grandfather's PyCharm.
I think I found it. Is this it?

http://forms.brace.io/

I found this with a Google search for "email form without backend site:news.ycombinator.com"
dude this is so cool. So scala can compile to the jvm right?
Intel's incredibly thin tablet reference design
We've been working with "escape room" game event organizers like SCRAP for a while now. They're incredibly popular on our "Netflix for Events" service. I've done a handful and can certainly attest to this "video games in real life" trend in events from traditional scavenger hunts to a maze that you have to solve from the third person. I love this intersection of technology and real life entertainment. Folsom Street Foundry in SoMA has even started hosting weekly social game nights on Tuesdays
When you say you should convert them yourself- through what medium if not a website? Email? Cold calling?

For example, if i'm about to launch a B2B SaaS app for small businesses- whats the best medium to use for the first customers?
Just a note in regard to the notion of the moral worth of work being the only thing relevant: this is actually one of the central ideas behind the capitalist paradigm (albeit in a different form). It takes the form that, assuming all value/morality is ultimately subjective (all value judgements are equally relevant), and that a person's values are most clearly reflected in their actions, then whatever action a person takes at a given moment is the 'best' action, the action they consider most moral, most valuable. If this action doesn't limit the ability of another individual to act how they wish, then this represents a net gain in value. So if people's voluntary interactions lead to lots of money/resources going to CEOS and pro footballers, for instance, then this is the best possible outcome assuming no coercion is involved.

This is where the capitalist notion of people pursuing their own pleasure without interfering with that of others stems from. This is a qualitative, not quantitative, notion of utility, and arguments have been made that it does not allow for interpersonal utility comparisons. Which is why hardcore followers of the theory (market anarchists) oppose regulation, as it necessarily requires coercion (making someone do something other than the action they'd most like to do), and without the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons it's not possible to justify any such coercion.
When we do things for the love of them, we tend to excel.

Furthermore, when we are truly passionate we can maintain focus and energy towards our goals for far longer periods.
The history of ‘Slender Man,’ the Internet meme that inspired a stabbing
There are legitimate uses for temporary base stations - often at large sports events cellular providers will install portable temporary stations for example.
Our entire software industry is built on the power of abstractions. While its always great to know as much as you can about the layers you are building on, solid abstractions that allow you to get away with NOT knowing that unless you want to or need to optimize to extremes are a great thing.
What's the reason for the gratuitous insult to people with an mba? It's quite a prevalent theme on HN. I'm an mba, and it's an offensive stereotype. I've noticed over the years that it's one of the more common strawmen that commenters like to use on HN. I did an mba at Harvard many years ago, and I would suggest that the level of entrepreneurial hustle among a typical cohort is far higher than that in a typical engineering program. It doesn't take much googling to find lists of mba's who've founded prominent companies in the valley or elsewhere. Anyone doing that would discover that your slam is nothing more than ignorance or just plain bias for whatever reason.
How to get stdout after running os.system?
I was going to call it bathroom paneling but they sell it under a different name now so your "Showerboard" is accurate.
You are correct, it is not a magic pill. But the road that goes out from better participation is very long and broad. As I said before, I believe it, I do not know it. I believe that greater participation in republican democracy is the BEST way to help ourselves and country be better. It is not the ONLY way, but I believe it has the best bang for the buck.

I am trying. I'm going down the road of grad school this fall, but I, hopefully, will try to participate in democracy and represent people later in my life. I would be very honored to represent people in this grand experiment called the USA, especially locally.

You are right though, get on it! But the question is how? What kind of app could you write or website or whatever that would help increase voter participation? I haven't a clue. But, maybe someday, someone will.
The graphics were impressive, but the gameplay never touched me. Comanche 3 was much better.
National Geographic picked up on it as well: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/why-have-...
What makes you think agents of the American state have any more shame than various other examples of thugs run amok throughout history?
Why would an IDE need to modify the kernel?

And how does the VS team even get the signing keys to ship a new Windows kernel?
This is really cool! I'm not sure if this is true of the library itself, but in the Typewriter demo app, "merging" basically means "append." There's no smart diff and merge.
I'm just going to re-iterate the recommendation to read this book. Although it's periodically mentioned on HN, anyone who hasn't read it, you won't regret it. I would describe it as nothing less than the most eloquent and reasoned summary of the devastatingly unfortunate wholesale misapplication of human endeavor in modern times... bar none... which incidentally lies at close to the root of many of the world's problems. In short: we've been flying with blinkers: Graeber explains precisely how and why.
Thanks. My point is, activists like Graeber are bound by philosophical systems they don't recognize, which have been in place for hundreds of years and which form the foundation of our entire modes of thought. He may dislike modern capitalism, but he probably accepts the core tenets of modernism which allow it, like the assumption that the good of man is to be achieved by man pursuing whatever his interests happen to be. He might be radical, but I'm guessing he's not a radical as to reject Hume. (the source for the aforementioned tenet).
First, I like how you break apart the issues I raised (like "IDE integration") when I said that they wanted to solve ALL this problems at once.

So, even if just adding IDE integration for an existing language was easier than creating a new one, using an existing language wouldn't solve their other issues (e.g Obj-C interoperabillity with message passing, protocols, named parameters et al). And RubyMotion wouldn't permit all the optimizations they did, nor the kind of type safety they added.

>But complaining about IDE integration when they're also the creators of the IDE is... silly...

We're not talking about PyCharm level of IDE integration here. Not even about the current level of Obj-C/C++ integration XCode offers (for which they had to create LLVM tooling and LLDB to enable all the features they wanted to offer). It goes beyond that.
This was linked in a later post to the mailing list thread:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/657

They plan on improving the Unicode support.
The Art of Unix Usability (2004)
Really? I care how Spotify is encrypted. I can't get a 3rd-party player to play Spotify over the cell network with ads, just like the desktop client does. If I use their player I get an inferior Pandora-style radio. Similarly, even with paid streams I'm stuck with their client, like it or not.

Conversely, I know of old school internet radio stations (shoutcast/icecast style) that charge for high bandwidth streams. I can play those streams on any player I want, over any network I want.

No-DRM is better in all cases.
I was looking at the http://masschallenge.org/ office space where they use ideapaint. They paint is very glossy with a bad glare from over head lighting. I couldn't see what was written on the ideapaint from the glare. It would probably be great with some softer overhead lighting.
Kudos to you, too!

Here's the link from declan's tweet:

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/16502...

"James L. Thomas appeals convictions and sentences for sexual battery and petit theft, contending that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and article I, section 12 of the Florida Constitution, was introduced against him at trial. We reverse and remand for a new trial."

So, because the police wanted to keep their use of the Stingray secret, they entered the accused rapist's apartment without obtaining a warrant, which caused the evidence they gathered, including the victim's phone, to fall under the exclusionary rule. The defendant will get a new trial, and may go free and commit other crimes, because of the police's preference for secrecy over the rule of law.
Ask HN: Why does sfglobe.com come up as worlddaily.com in alexa?
sfglobe.com is a complete carbon copy of sftimes.co. I'm curious about what is going on here.
I got Ebonics. This quiz is whack.
Yes, I agree with you. I doubted anyone would read that much into it, despite the plain existential angst as a backdrop.

The conflation of normal and normative reaches into Wittgensteinian territory, but normative is normal. Hell, even the good end of a bell curve can be seen as a bad thing.
This was a great write-up, you should post to the main site.
> The video will have DRM. That's not up for debate.

It really should be.
I can't see how this is constitutional without a warrant. How is this different than using an infrared detector outside someones home?
Counsellors ("shrinks" in the US?) recognize that nobody can "hurt your feelings" unless you permit them to as well. i.e. there is contribution on the side of those "feeling hurt" as well as the party "doing the hurting". Given that, we need to divide the accusation into three parts - a) was there any intention to "hurt the feelings of people", b) were there any lies uttered as an instrument that could have effected hurt and c) should we consider the "hurt" felt when facts are being revealed valid for legal purposes.

In the case of Sanal, (b) is certainly not the case since he's talking about facts he found in his investigation, and we need only examine (a) and (c).

Sanal is certainly not inciting violence between religious groups even by accident. So that's out. Sanal is a "myth buster" in the public eye - i.e. has permanently adopted a skeptical stance in matters of "miracles". Given the amount of evidence he's personally seen in this matter, we might at least give him the human allowance of a snarkiness that might have developed and which he might have expressed. Maybe mild cause for (a) perhaps, but insignificant in my opinion given his reputation.

Rgd (c), I think this whole category of "hurt" ought to be legally excludable and as far as I've read there doesn't seem to be any constitutional provision to do so. Truth hurts people when it shatters a belief that they have attached their self worth to. If someone feels "hurt" when presented with facts (at least facts at hand, leaving aside "historical facts" for the moment), this kind of hurt should not be cause for legal action.

I wish the "duty of a citizen of India to develop a scientific temper" were interpreted in this manner when it comes to actionable forms of hurt.

edit: tpyo (b) -> (a)
Coldpie's posts in this thread seem to suggest that fragmentation is more of an issue than you want to admit here, at least.

In terms of drivers... "very close" is not the same as "as good as," much less "better." Which is again the problem here -- in order to supplant a dominant market leader you actually have to do something better. If your drivers are VERY CLOSE to the quality of Windows, for a a subset of the leading manufacturers, and you can get MOST of the big AAA publishers to do ports, and a LOT of the back catalog can run under WINE... do you see what I'm saying? It's playing catch-up, and it's not quite getting to parity, and even parity is unlikely to get significant market share.

As for desktop Linux -- that's a whole other kettle of fish, but I think you'll find that most of the people who are ready to switch to Linux on the desktop already have, and as you say are dual-booting for games. Unless something happens there to convince more people that Linux on the desktop is a compelling alternative, then Linux's overall desktop market penetration is probably a pretty good guide to what Linux's share of the gaming PC market could be unless Valve or somebody is able to provide a compelling "better than Windows" experience in at least ONE aspect.
It'll compile to JVM bytecode. I believe it also compiles to Javascript (I'm not sure if this is still considered experimental — I haven't looked in a while), which is pretty cool. I think it used to also target the .NET CLI as an experiment, but I'm pretty sure that's no longer a goal.

The important thing for me was that it compiles to JVM bytecode that's compatible with Java 1.6, so the resulting code can all be converted to Dalvik fairly quickly. The main downside right now is that you have to heavily prune the Scala stdlib, since it's packed with tons of methods and dex has a 16-bit method limit[1] — and you will hit it if you don't prune it (using proguard or another tool of your choice).

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7147#c6
No, but according to Chris Lattner, Swift is.
that's actually nice wallpaper, thank you!
As an example, OKCupid uses C++ and runs on a custom webserver.

http://www.okcupid.com/about/technology
Looks nice. Any particular reason why this isn't packaged so that it works offline? (Ie: bundle up css/js resources)?
Ask HN: Making Bitcoind / litecoind / dogecoind multi-seat
I'm looking to make an ecosystem for building multiple apps (by multiple developers/teams) that can work with Dogecoin on a server, but I've hit a wall in how the Bitcoin server RPC API and its descendants are all designed to interact in effectively a single-user mode (every call acts on the same "wallet").

Would it be possible to put a server in front of a bitcoind (&c) instance, that could track the state of multiple users and limit them to API calls that could only affect themselves? And, if so, would that server need to run any bitcoin-specific logic (ie. logic that wouldn't apply to Litecoin, such as block rewards or SHA-256 hashing)?
Ask HN: How Fast Is Swift Compared To Other Languages?
I was wondering if there's a current way to tell (or if it's already been figured) how fast Swift is, to say, C. C is the primary language I'm interested in comparing it to, but it would be nice to have some sort of nice chart with many languages on it, including compiled and scripting languages.
If you put it that way, then yes. You could even use assembly to do both things. Or even CPU microcode.

What they mean is that the language works at high enough abstraction and feels appropriate for writing both kinds of apps.

I wouldn't want to do a social media app with Fortran, even if it's perfectly possible.
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There's no 'must' obey a boss's commands all day. You're free to do whatever you want; you must only follow your boss's commands if you want him to pay you. And if you think he should pay you when he doesn't want to, then you're making the implicit value judgement that he should act how you want him to, not how he wants to, which seems rather arrogant.

If one wants to consume food, resources etc. produced by other people, one has to be willing to offer something back.
That perfectly supports my point. Because the value you mention is derived solely from utility--actions have no intrinsic value themselves. As yourself say, "assuming all value/morality is ultimately subjective." That's the working assumption of modernity, which limits the results of social movements like Occupy.