skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can admire the philosophy of funemployment, but I wonder if it's a life-stage thing. What I mean is that it seems like you have to first do all the opposite things to achieve the freedom to be funemployed. My son is a teenager and is naturally funemployed. I admire his ability to avoid the responsibility and work-drive that weighs me down. But if I let him continue, will he not end up unemployed rather than have the ability to be funemployed? How do you strike the right balance?
A MUD without character creation? That's pretty wild. I'm curious about this project now...
That sucks, though it would definitely be much easier to run a virtual linux instance on that box than an OS X one as someone else suggested.

I will say that being able to debug pages in mobile safari directly (via Safari on a mac) makes a huge difference, so if this works even partially as well, it's worth investigating if you can get it running.
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After Tesla’s Patents Giveaway, E. Musk Gives Public Access To His FB Account
I bet the type cover 3 works with the same patch for the covers 2. The only big issue I have with Linux in my Pro 2 is WiFi. I compile from time to time a wireless-testing branch of the kernel to find the most stable build. Also I have a very small WiFi dongle for when the internal one stops working. I hope the Pro 3 WiFi is not as problematic.

Also I'm working in my spare time in a bunch of scripts to imporove the surface experience (touch gestures, palm rejection, sound feedback for touch cover, etc). I'll upload them to github soon.
John Carmack.

He's not a hermit, but definitely a genius programmer who has built things by himself without putting himself "out there."
What we need is a new law for robotics: No AI should ever be made that can ever understand its own 'enslavement' or be able to suffer. Of course, enforcement of said rule is a whole lot easier said than done, but culturally we should perhaps use that as a starting notion. This becomes more important the closer we get to that level of sophistication.
Mmmm according to the article Cruise is not a driver replacement. It can steer, brake, and avoid objects. I'm sure it can be quite safe on a highway, but what are its limits? Can can and cannot do?
I think Closure Compiler integration is really important for Angular, since it has built-in support for the framework (it allows automatic injection based on parameter names). It also does really good minification and dead code elimination. Sadly, it's still pretty hard to get started with, I think https://github.com/zemirco/nghellostyle is the best example I've seen.
Just finished support for Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage [coming in 4.1 update, this week]. OneDrive for business is next on the list.
So this bot converts the video stream to a GIF which twitter converts back to a video stream to display?
> Is this itself entirely a webapp?

Actually, yes: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/devtoo...
I wish people would stop propagating the "sides of the brain myth"
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As a frontend developer I often have to implement visual designs handed down to me from my company's web design team. While I always do my best to implement what I've been given, sometimes there are limitations. For example, we may not be able to style a third-party widget rendered by Facebook or Twitter. Other times, the design is technically feasible but it may be something that confuses the end user even though the designer thinks it looks cool.

I think designers sometimes have a hard time dealing with these situations. While I can imagine how frustrating it must feel, I think the main takeaway is that ultimately it's about making the best product, not making the best comp.
Try hitting people up in their email addresses in their profiles--one of the cool things about the internet is that we can ask people we don't know personally if they'd be interested in corresponding.
Maybe there a much better ways of doing so that we discover in another couple decades? Who knows.
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on what this future for virtual worlds would look like. The entire notion of Second Life has perplexed me. Perhaps you could write a blog post about Second Life, the issues with Linden Lab, and your vision.
The restriction are on the content you share:
http://microsoft-news.com/its-okay-to-put-your-nude-photos-o...
I find this fear completely unfounded and reveals a striking blindness to reality and possibly even racism. There is no thing in the universe more hostile to human begins than themselves. To this day we kill, enslave and oppress our fellow man and have done so for tens of thousands of years. Thus I have no idea why people worry about "artificial" intelligence since regular old organic intelligence (or lack there of) seems to be exceptionally hostile already.
Netscape had an editor way back when also.
XUL is a web technology now?

That's my point. It's not.

EDIT: ici: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/devtoo...
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> but I'm just as peeved at Apple for removing a perfectly-workable self-contained solution in favor of yet more platform lock-in.

Peeved, but not surprised, given their track record.
I think the point is that you learn what's actually fulfilling by doing the things you think are fulfilling. If he plays "Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball" for six months straight and then decides he hates video games, well, he's learned something. If someone on the Internet tells him "Couldn't you be doing something more fulfilling?" - how the hell would a random stranger know what's personally fulfilling for him?

I used to be big into Magic: the Gathering and MMORPGs and Starcraft as a teenager. I'm not really, now; I'll play Starcraft with buddies once every couple months but it's not part of my normal routine. But I don't regret the time spent mastering game mechanics in my adolescence. That was who I was then; it's not who I am now, but it played an essential part in shaping who I am now. (Particularly since my first major programming project, like many people, was trying to build a MUD, and I taught myself C, C++, BSD sockets, Java, and OOP all for it...which turned out to be rather important when the dot-com boom hit a couple years later.)
Helsinki’s personalized bus service is like Uber for public transportation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391885
SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app
The review was sounding good until it mentions the high speed camera for measuring pen performance... And do not include videos, not which models were tested in the table selling the 3 as faster.

Was it the i5? i7?
I wish they would fix their API along with these improvements. Currently there's no way to upload a file to OneDrive without knowing the file size. Google and DropBox support that with their APIs (via slightly different forms of chunked uploads).

This is relevant to me for http://emailitin.com/ because with email attachments there's no content-length. Since I don't want to store attachments on my end (even temporarily) I'd rather just pipe them directly to OneDrive (as I do with GDrive and DropBox). With the current API limitation I have to pipe to a temporary file, stat the file, and then upload. Really annoying.
I think most of the developers I knew were saying "because it didn't have any good developer tools"
I don't want to get punched, so won't be buying one. But eagerly await seeing my first glasshole in the flesh.
This is a valid concern. Another issue with outsourced sales people is the fact they are out for themselves first. Sales people are coin operated... and you want them this way. However, you must be careful and shape the way they are paid to align with your business goals.

As a start up, you may be better off hiring a direct marketing company where you can align their focus to your ideal customer profile (assuming this grows as your product develops). You pay them to set appointments at the correct title/level (which is 90% of the work in sales) and you use your dedication, enthusiasm and knowledge to get the deal closed.
Firefox supports 1Password, MightyText, Adblock, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, Zotero, and a variety of other plugins including multiple HTTP clients and a top notch dev console.
Lots of people actually do that, but it involves lots of work that you might not want to do if you're interested in (and really good at) software development.
With so many companies here vying to be a 3rd party, this is a sober reminder of the kind of market-moving responsibility potential involved.
How to create data-driven navigation in Jekyll
A long time = about forty years (http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/amsterdam-child...)

And of course, that site has several excellent articles on all kinds of cycling infrastructure related issues, including on junction design, for example http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/junction-design..., which links to http://www.protectedintersection.com, the site that the video mentions, but this Wired article forgets to link to.
Good question. I'm 28, turning 29 in a month. I start business 3.5 years ago.

I'm now at the point where I expect to make about $50,000 in residual revenue this year + maybe $20,000 active revenue. I might make more, but that's my minimum estimate.

I'm at the point where I could put things in maintenance mode, and keep the residual income around $50,000 without much work.

2.5 years (the first ones) were a grueling struggle. The past year things paid off, and I'm in easy mode.

My biggest regret is that I did not discover how to do this at age 18 (or earlier). To have your whole 20s free is a gift that few get to enjoy. I've just had a couple years of mostly freedom and I love every day of it.

I don't know if the terrible struggle I had at the start was necessary. I'm not even sure if I could have done it while with my parents. Failing meant getting a job, so I focussed on revenue from the start. If I had an out, I might not have been so focussed.

Your son won't end up unemployed. But he'll probably end up employed. Whereas a brief spurt of work can fund fundemployment for life, if you set up the right systems.

But you have to want it. You can't make him want it. All you can do is show him what life is like for most, and describe the alternative and what he can do to get it, if he wants it.
The website doesn't load for me (I'm in the UK).
John Schindler (20committee) deletes Twitter account
Here's a crazy idea: what if we stop buying apple products until they stop pulling this walled garden crap and we are free to use the overpriced hardware we paid for as we damn please?
> This is the mindset that leads to the widely hated redesigns of Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Google+ integration, etc.

Pretty sure all these companies are heavily A/B testing every change they make, and would immediately abandon any new design if it decreased engagement or retention even slightly.

These changes are "hated" by a vocal minority who loves to complain about change to show how much the liked the old version. They don't quit using the product, though. And if you ask their opinion again even three months later (which is another thing big companies tend to do), they'll have completely forgotten what the difference was between the two.

Of course, some people do quit a service after any given change, no matter how innocuous—they just disappear without saying anything. But changes, even change for change's sake, also tends to increase signups. So in practice, it's just a question of whether the positives outweigh the negatives of the change. And only real usage data can answer that, not customer surveys—and especially not customer exit surveys.
I'd argue its a better presentation than Google Calendar, and I love Google Calendar.
How is this different from https://stackedit.io ?

It's also Javascript-based, syncs with Dropbox & Google Drive.
I agree, I wouldn't hire anyone just because they have my degree either BUT we need some qualifications to fill this gap otherwise the interview process will get more and more unwieldy.
Previous discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702659
I was a hardcore Second Life player for a few years.

It's a chat room with a built in 3d building and scripting language.

Or at least that's what it was most days to the people I played with.
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If you don't have impaired vision, change dpi sizing thing to 100% instead of the zoomed in default it ships.

Instant brand new tablet. You're welcome.
>> Imagine a Bitcoin Valley, for instance, where some country fully legalizes cryptocurrencies for all financial functions. Or a Drone Valley, where a particular region removes all legal barriers to flying unmanned aerial vehicles locally. A Driverless Car Valley in a city that allows experimentation with different autonomous car designs, redesigned roadways and safety laws. A Stem Cell Valley. And so on.

On the surface this sounds kind of neat; on a practical level, this sounds like a libertarian nightmare.
Those who can't code, blog.
This is a great idea. Unfortunately, all the upcoming office hours appears to be web framework stuff, most of which I already am pretty comfortable with or am comfortable learning on my own. The only exception to this appears to be Steve's session on open source projects (which I'm sure will be excellent based on his recent blog post on this topic [1]).

However, I would pay good money to be able to participate in office hours with an expert who's discussing lower-level stuff: C, C++, Rust, or even some assembly. I'm really interested in learning more about embedded, but would also attend any type of systems programming office hours.

I'm pretty hungry to learn more about this kind of lower-level stuff, and I sometimes get stuck on my own.

I'd also love to participate in a functional programming office hours, and would pay accordingly. Something with OCaml would be great, or Haskell, etc. These are all languages I have a superficial understanding of, and would love to delve deeper.

In short, diversify your offering beyond web stuff and I'll be there.

1. http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-garde...
Prisoners freed after cops struggle with new records software
Thank for great fw.

I'm by no mean a Ruby expert but finding Sinatra is so simple to create complex apps, and Rails is so complex atm to pick up. I'm making slowly progress in Rails and always not sure if I done thing correctly in Rails way.

Lotus seems small enough, and good enouh, balance between Sinatra and Rails for me.

Keep up the good work.
Thanks.
It also lets you find groups of people with similar interest. Like furries.
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> This Administration takes seriously its responsibility to help maintain an open, interoperable, secure and reliable Internet.

> When Federal agencies discover a new vulnerability in commercial and open source software – a so-called “Zero day” vulnerability because the developers of the vulnerable software have had zero days to fix it – it is in the national interest to responsibly disclose the vulnerability rather than to hold it for an investigative or intelligence purpose.

> This process is called the Vulnerabilities Equities Process. Unless there is a clear national security or law enforcement need, this process is biased toward responsibly disclosing such vulnerabilities.

Nothing about this statement makes me believe that they were unaware of Heartbleed, specifically because it seems to imply that they don't stockpile vulns that they find, which we know that they do.

> The Federal government relies on OpenSSL to protect the privacy of users of government websites and other online services.

The only damage that seems to be claimed specifically in their report is that not fixing Heartbleed would compromise public interface security, and not necessarily any government internal security.

> I pointed out here on HN even before the ODNI released the statement I linked above that Heartbleed is far more damaging to the USG itself than any intel value NSA could have hoped to achieve from it.

I suspect that this isn't true, especially if the US government isn't using OpenSSL for their internal security.

> would have hurt a lot of USG (and just as importantly, private US) infrastructure, so even going by crazy USG logic the right thing to do would have been to disclose it

This didn't seem to be a paramount concern with their other spying activities, which have hurt the security of the US infrastructure and compromised us tech companies (both hardware and internet services) trying to compete internationally.

> But also, straight from the mouth of a USCYBERCOM strategist speaking to our class the other week.

If we're going with anecdotes, I've met a couple of military contractors who claimed to have known of Heartbleed ahead of the public disclosure by non-trivial periods of time.
Oh for god sake if this is the best the world might muster i probably should finish my aes backed local file store based app for fully crypted notes.
Here's something that could work... in the future.
Where you sharing this file? Microsoft has stated several times that they don't mess with you private files other than scanning for child porn.

I have several ISOs from TechNet and they are all still there.
Whenever I hear lightweight and complete, I always wonder if they handle one of the hardest things to do cleanly in web-apps: user authentication and access control of resources. Does Lotus support this out of the box?
It's a multipart upload. You don't need to know the content-length.
Dropbox does realtime, automatic backup of your work with file version history in case you accidentally deleted or overwrote something. Git solves other problems.
> If we're talking about bad AI, shouldn't we ask why it would want to kill us?

The AI doesn't want to kill you. It is indifferent to you. The problem is that you're made of resources it can use... [1]

> it's hard to imagine something qualifying as AI without it understanding things like ethics, morals, humility, aesthetics etc

Suppose your mother wants you to get married. You understand her desires, but you don't share them. Understanding morals and desires is distinct from being motivated by them. [2]

1: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Basic_AI_drives

2: http://lesswrong.com/lw/sy/sorting_pebbles_into_correct_heap...
If it's after dinner that would suggest it's a social event rather than part of the interview itself. I can't imagine asking somebody serious questions about programming in a loud bar.

Most socialisation in western culture seems to be based around alcohol, not saying that is good or bad but it's doesn't really apply to one gender over the other. I've probably been to just as many drinking events organised by women as I have men.
Sadly, you have better luck if you can start spreading better information. :) That is, just saying "this isn't true" doesn't convince people it isn't true.

Further, I'm definitely game on more information in this field. I think I knew the "left/right" brain was mostly wrong, but that there were some facets that make the exercises worth while. That not the case?
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In Chrome on Linux, I see a map of Europe. In Firefox, I just see the wind vectors and no underlying map.
SL could be using High Fidelity code (it's permissively licensed), we can't tell. But yeah, I assume these are separate things. There are lots of next-gen virtual worlds platforms, 1 or 2 more is not that surprising.
They're a YC company and got another round of funding a few months ago, so I imagine they're still around and doing okay. The same job listings are still on their website. Not sure if they've filled any of them or not. shrug

I don't have much faith that they'll do well, but I'm not a VC for a reason, so.. :)
Why do people who mention Linus Torvalds, Theo de Raadt, Rich Hickey, Fabrice Bellard, Simon Peyton Jones, Satoshi Nakamoto (ok, that may be several people) etc. get downvoted to oblivion?

This seems especially weird seen most people here are using Git and many of the things we have wouldn't exist without these people.

If I'm not mistaken Rich Hickey took one or two years off, pulled the plug and went on to create Clojure.

Saying "But that's only one in ten million" ain't an argument: there are genius programmers out there and we're all using daily piece of code from these genius programmers.

Watching videos from Linus Torvalds (the talk about Git he gave at Google is amazing), Theo de Raadt (anything about security), Rich Hickey, Simon Peyton Jones, etc. is one of the thing I prefer to do.

I've also personally met several genius programmers: including one who had been working on at Adobe and who (while not at Adobe anymore) then single-handedly wrote a Java bytecode to Objective-C source code converter. I know for a fact that this converter allowed to write an app which reached top 3 in the appstore.

I've also competed ten years ago or so versus plain geniuses in the TopCoder algorithmic competition. Some of the best ranked coder there had incredible achievements, like for one of them having won the mathematics olympiad several times.

That's the thing: even "one in ten million" means that there are quite a few genius programmers out there among us. And we owe a lot to them: not only have we many great tools and projects which would never have existed without them, but they also let us get a glimpse inside their beautiful minds through the messages / blog they post and through the video they make.

Why downvote?
Hi Eric,

This is a great idea - we will diversify our offering as you suggested. If you have any specific recommendations on which experts you'd like us to invite - please shoot me an email. Thanks!
He is just promoting his service through blog posts, have to write something
Have you ever thought about quitting and working for a company that doesn’t treat you like a child?
> For most of the iPod's lifespan it was not the best product on the market,

I first learned the dubious value of reading off a spec sheet after I bought my first iPod. No wireless, less space than a Nomad indeed. But wireless and more space than a Nomad doesn't mean much when your UI and synchronization system is a steaming pile of shit that makes me die a little inside at the mere thought of having to use it. An iPod's specs may not have been top-of-the-line, but the experience sure was in comparison to the competition.

A more modern example is the Samsung Gear Fit that I've complained about previously. Lovely piece of hardware that stomps on everything else if one goes by the spec sheet. Unfortunately, Samsung produced a gigantic steaming turd of software (both firmware and more so on the client software side) that makes me regret that I purchased it. Sure, a FitBit doesn't even have a screen, and it's limited in its capabilities, but at least it works.
Just like RoR wasn't a fad? It's practically gone nowadays because most RoR devs switched to NodeJs.
I'm intrigued. Just signed up for the mailing list. Do you have any links to applications built in Lotus?
> So which is better? For me, this is not an important question. I am not a Java-programmer, or a Python-programmer. I am a programmer, period. There are differences, but Python and Java have more in common than what sets them apart. Fundamentally, programming is about breaking a problem down, and then using elementary operations, conditions and iterations to solve it. The mechanics may vary, but the core is the same.

Finally someone with a sane attitude toward language flame wars.
Looks like you built your own http://cloudinary.com but with less features
I have started to enjoy nothing happening to my blog. Since I am sure that nobody actually reads my blog I write fearlessly. Some times the posts are so silly that I would have been embarrassed if some one actually read it.

Any way I go back to my old posts from time to time and have a good laugh about them. Nothing is the best thing that has happened to my blog.
I look at home security first. Access control, cameras..