skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really ought to consider doing a full-time job, or consistent free-lance, for long enough so that you can earn a reliable stream of part-time jobs in order to fund your main passion. Your software skills, as you've described them, are in high demand...but freelance/part-time requires additional effort to keep the pipeline of paying-jobs consistent.

Having not much experience in hardware, I'm just going to assume the stories are true, that hardware has generally a longer, more troubled slog toward viability than software. In that case, it seems very optimistic for you to think that you'd only need a few thousand dollars, and a few months, to execute properly. It may take much longer, and unless your idea has a short shelf-life, wouldn't it be more efficient to get the personal income issue settled so that you're more prepared for a longer development time for your hardware product?
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Personally, I don't use Twitter anymore because I don't care for many of the changes they have made. I'm not talking about the advertising but the UI changes that is too busy. And the last time I created an account, Twitter had greatly complicated its settings, not to mention constantly badgering me to follow people.

Twitter, Gmail, and Flickr all followed the same path: nice, functional interfaces that were needlessly complicated over time.
Good thing - just: We're not doing link shortening of any kind. We're generating redeem-codes for digital-content, with hosting included.
It was always a postulate. Now thanks to understanding things like the stochastic master equation better, we understand that wavefunction collapse is a continuous process, and not at all a random one.
Krav Maga. First thing it teaches you is to stay away from areas where something like this is possible. The next thing they teach you is to run away. If you think you'll look like a coward, compare that feeling to having a knife in your arm. If none of that works out for you, they teach you how to defend yourself. Brutally. Even how to extricate your wrist or arm from a grab. Physical size and strength (yours and your assailants) doesn't matter.

Just a couple of lessons should equip you well enough to avoid what happened here. Give the lessons some time and you should have enough to deal with multiple assailants, knife, stick and gun threats.

I see this as a basic life skill, right up there with at least enough knowledge to differentiate a Monet from a Van Gogh, or a Beethoven from a Rachmaninoff.
Goldman group set to buy message system as alternative to Bloomberg
A quick comparison of some Python implementations I found via quick Googling:

https://gist.github.com/andybak/45e3155420d18420a34a
A similar mockup service is http://place.to
Thank you for making this. I've been following the outbreak in the news and searching for something better than repeating quotes from the WHO or politicians saying everything is going to be fine.

Even if this models isn't 100%, it's better analysis than other easily accessible analysis I've found. I'm certain it will be of assistance to those trying to help and needing to understand. It may spur others to do similar work.
No no no. You can't use superposition to communicate data. Look, if your idea leads to being able to do literally anything faster than light, it's automatically wrong.
Living expenses as an expat in Abu Dhabi
I'll vouch for that -- same problem in DC. I'd love a wallet with an unshielded pocket for my Smartrip card.
Extremely low indeed. Most Kaggle competitions have higher prizes.

Btw, anybody knows if there is somewhere a list of those type of contests ?
That's funny, because the safety of regulated, arguably truthfully-labeled mainstream brands cannot be assured, either.
Even for wealthy expats, the military obligations that their kids would have are something I would personally feel uncomfortable with. First-generation immigrants are typically exempt, but as far as I understand it, their kids would typically have to serve ~2 years, at least if they have PR status.

Independent of the service itself, there are also some restrictions around male children's travel rights (for fear of them moving abroad before serving), which can interfere with things like visiting family or taking family vacations during a son's teenage years (from age 16, as I understand it). For me the idea that I could have a son "stuck" in Singapore unable to leave for something like 4 years total, even to visit his grandparents, is uncomfortable, and something I wouldn't want to impose on a kid (given, naturally, that I have other options), even if Singapore otherwise seemed a perfect fit for me.
I've seen that working part time is enormous reduction in efficiency of personal projects and commute and task switch takes equal amount of time anyway, and for some its almost equal of not doing the other project at all. So one recommendation is try to get a 1-3 month full time project, with good enough salary to save your living expenses for entire year since humans always underestimate the time it takes to finish their project, and you are a human too.
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> I'll make it a proper class and compose it in as a member.

You've just implemented traits.
Landscape Lumia920 seems broken, all the gradients are in the wrong directions. (Firefox/Chrome, OS X)
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Kind of a stretch to call that a "basic life skill".

In my last 30 years, I never had to fight anyone or differentiate a Monet from a Van Gough or a Beethoven from a Rachmaninoff. Then again, I don't life in crime heavy neighbourhoods or go to dinner parties that fancy.

Maybe that's something for the next 30.
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"Hell, a major motion picture company put out Fight Club, which is about as unsubtle an attack on consumer corporate capitalism as you can get."

And that major motion picture company made a shit ton of money selling that fantasy. We're drinking what they're selling.
> Sure, the only conclusion you've drawn from my comment is LispWorks is perfect and we're to blame because we were a bunch of uneducated undergraduates. Great attitude.

No - just reread what I have written. There are established ways to deal with problems in standards situations. If someone breaks a leg while walking on a street while hitting a stone, he can either moan about the quality of the product (the street) and don't take further action or at least to go to a doctor (the support in your case). While undergraduates may be uninformed about the administrative ways to deal with such problems, at least their professor should have taken such action especially when he recognizes that most of the LW users don't have the problem which he and his students experience. Just whining shows only attitude, but is no solution, and this is something we for sure both know.

> A great support does not change the fact that software was faulty

Well, we all know how to crash compilers and IDEs (even Clojure :), but this is not the point. If you or your professor have called the support, with very high probability you would have experienced the removal of that faultyness. Sometimes even writing to the user group of Common Lisp (comp.lang.lisp) or the more specific of the LispWorks often gives you solutions and more knowledge.

> Because he doesn't agree with you?

In no way. Only because it is a fact.

Cheers
There are no products?
I like this idea. It should also apply to people when someone else mooches on one's home wireless network to download copyrighted material.
That sounds very odd; I compiled the app mentioned here and it took more like 200ms to read the info from my UK contactless VISA card.

But this whole attack isn't anything new — this was pretty widely reported back in 2012 in the UK, e.g. http://www.channel4.com/news/millions-of-barclays-card-users...

I wrote essentially the same proof of concept app two years ago after seeing that report pretty much just by reading the specs. From reading the paper mentioned on GitHub, the only real difference to what I wrote is that I didn't check for the CVC3 information (which I think is generally not included, or doesn't correspond to the actual security code on the back of the card).

But in any case, just the card number and expiry number are enough — as mentioned in the Channel 4 report — to make purchases from a lot of places.
"TESTIMONIALS: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria."
I always figured that static blog generators were big with the developer crowd simply because the creation of a static blog generator is a 'bread-and-butter' beginner CS project.

They are as flexible as you have the capability to make them be. I think that poses a big problem for most.
But if you're not minimizing the confounding factors enough that the result can be repeated, your experiment failed. Your hypothesis has neither been provably confirmed nor denied. At that point you are, at best, still gathering evidence, and publishing results would be an error.
A few years back I was working on a PhD project that involved software defined radio for tracking wildlife in real time, which was an ideal FPGA project. With a limited budget I was keen to find the cheapest boards out there, and decided to start maintaining the list.

Sadly I don't have much time to use them from day to day any more, but still help people out when they email.

The comparison of development environments is a great idea which I'll definitely work on! They have a baffling range of paid editions with different featured and it's difficult to know what they all mean and why you'd want them. Thanks for the idea :)
When the OP says, "should we also legalize LSD...", it follows that people will voice their opinion on the subject, or no?

Since you presumably say yes, let's hear your take. I may reply with, "why should it be up to you?" ;-)
Before you try to market this further, I'd recommend you start busting ass to get products in there. Nothing more depressing than a ecommerce ghost town.
This is exactly what I was looking for after I reached minimal competency just to finish the exercises on the 'koans' site.
Is there any reason why we can't design a federated (non-centralized) version of twitter that doesn't depend on a business model of monetization? Every ad I see on twitter contributes to (what I assume is) my eventual abandonment of the service.
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Thanks a lot for your input!

Seems like we still need to iron out a few quirks with the pricing model.
This project is fully automated, yes.
We already give 5 codes for free - There's also a button, which loads the correct setup for the free code package - did you miss that?

US pricing model is for sure something, we have to implement as quick as possible, even though it shouldn't be any problem to pay in USD.
You should get out more, I've needed those skills in one evening.

edit - Defending yourself is a basic life skill. Not ever getting into a fight means you are already fairly good at it.
What do you do? What are your skillsets? How long have you been a part of your field?

More importantly : How did you find your job, and how did you prove your worth?
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The secondary peaks 2-4 years out are interesting. Or perhaps it's better conceptualized as troughs the year after. Wonder what the reason is for that?
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Trio of Flaws Fixed in Facebook Android App
I'd imagine you could just wrap your card in aluminum foil (like from the kitchen) if you don't use it very often.
I disagree with your statement that "You cannot yell fire in a crowded theater" does not underly american attitudes towards free speech. It most certainly does - every discussion I've ever heard regarding free speech and its limitations typically references it. Now, whether it should be part of the foundation is another question.
My intuition for their setup was something like this: You know how a company like Oracle might give its top sales people creditcards with spending limits (for sales dinners with big customers), and Oracle pays for this?

I think Xapo is similar. But instead of giving the card to its employees, it sells it for $15 to its customers. And the spending limit? That's dynamic, based on the amount in the bitcoin wallet.

At the moment a payment is made, Xapo pays for it and it's a regular debitcard transaction. No bitcoin involved.

And then Xapo goes and removes the equivalent value in bitcoins from the respective user's wallet, which is not much more than earmarking those coins in their internal accounting as being 'company funds' now, no bitcoin blockchain involved.

That means there's no bitcoin or blockchain technology involved anywhere in the process. And yes, it's just as expensive as legacy banking products.

Why is it cool? Because it allows people to store their wealth in bitcoin, yet use a debitcard as they normally could. They need not a bank, or trust a bank. They need not a national currency or indeed trust monetary policy. If you're in Cyprus in 2012, that means your money wasn't seized by the government. If you were in Argentina in 1990, you wouldn't have suffered from 300% annual inflation. This debitcard is really to plug bitcoiners into the existing payment channels, and allow them to store wealth not in fiat but in bitcoin, for reasons similar to those of goldbugs. (e.g. it'd be no different from a debitcard connected to an account with gold-deposits/certificates)

I see it as a temporary product. IF and when bitcoin gains mainstream traction (if everyone follows Newegg, Expedia, Dish, Overstock, Tigerdirect, Reddit, Wikipedia etc) then one could not only store wealth in bitcoin, but also pay cheaply and securely and quickly with actual bitcoins. At that point, a debitcard will be redundant. But that's a long way away. Until then, a debitcard allows those who wish to hold wealth in bitcoin (again akin to goldbugs) needn't inconvenience themselves by being disconnected from the regular payment system everyone uses, they can now use a debitcard that's as shitty/brilliant as usual.
> Technically water is more dangerous.

It's not technical - people die from drinking too much water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
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Excellent point about the LEDs and switches - and that's exactly what I use then for! You can never have too many LEDs when you want to track the progress of a ponderous and misbehaving state machine. I'll update the article with a clarification in the morning!
That's a baseless personal accusation.

It only takes a quick look at the color of the skin of people doing various jobs in Singapore to see the obvious culture of racism. Anyone can do it: just go there and see who cleans, serves food, drives taxis and buses, runs the banks, police and the government.

Denying the reality may be your personal choice, but don't shoot the messenger.
Can you provide any more information on what you are working on? I, too, am interested in this problem, so it would be great to see any attempts at a solution.

Email is in my profile, if you'd rather not share here.
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> They must have done and doing something right.

Well, no, it could be just random luck.
Show HN: DevCenter - Nigerian designers/developers share what they're working on
This question now has it's own faq entry :)
I'd happily pay for the ability to use third party clients & no advertising on the main site. Anyone who doesn't want to pay can still use official apps and the website with ads. To me that would be a better solution than just slow killing all the third party apps for everyone.
Somewhere for Nigerian designers/developers to discover each other by sharing what they're working on.
That board is so cool. Want!
... and the crowd goes mild.
This is very simple.

Saying that a Ferarri or a good Swiss watch or building an oil rafinery is expensive, because one doesn't want or can't buy it, just for the sake of it, is without sense. Cost as an absolute number is often meaningless. It gets a meaning in terms of value it could or does provide. For example, where I live, a not big appartent costs about 1500 EUR per month to rent. Is that expensive? Sure - everythign above 0 is expensive. But for me the value provided that I have a roof over the head is greater then the absolute cost. Well, I have lived also in places where this price for a similar appartment is about 100 EUR. Is that cheap? No - in comparison to the local purchasing power - no. But again - the value for me has been more important. Do I like the pricing of let say Oracle? Why should I.. But I can generate more value for clients and/or me using Oracle while using it in comparison to waiting around and telling everyone, that Oracle is expensive. As far as I know even in the most broken economies of the world, software developers can provide value for customers which exceeds the 1200 EUR initial and later 300 EUR per year of maintenance. If they can't, the problem is usually not the price of LW, but unemployment or impossibility to find paying clients for all possible economic or personal reasons beyond the price of LW.

If you read earlier posts - you would have known, that if you just want to learn about LW or Common Lisp in general - there are plenty of options - LW provides a "Personal Edition" with the price of 0, or academic pricing as well as evaluation licenses. Outside of LW you have at least (in no particular order) SBCL, CLISP, ClozureCL, ABCL, ECL, which are all at least open source, some under GPL and most of them are pretty fine products too. So - as we both see - your problem is not actually in the 1200.

Concerning OM: you can experience Open Music without the need to recompile it and THEN decide if the cost of the possibility to recompile it is of value FOR YOU greater then the price of LW. Again - this is not fault of LW or the authors of OM. It's just your decision AFTER you know how worth not just using or writing plugins for OM, but also changing OM itself is valuable to you. It's your choice and you are free to take it. If you say no - no one is insulted :)

Cheers
That could work, but is cumbersome (there's a post about convenience here somewhere). Most wallets that look like a billfold, should be easy enough to modify with a piece of tinfoil in the bill section, which encloses most of the wallet when it's closed. I think some testing of this might be in order...
Has anyone managed to crack level 31? Seems darned impossible, but I'm also sure I'm missing something obvious :)
> That means there's no bitcoin or blockchain technology involved anywhere in the process. And yes, it's just as expensive as legacy banking products.

Except I'm pretty sure that a bitcoin transaction for a money company is more expensive in every regard than a "legacy banking product".
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I agree, the whole toolchain is extremely bloated and still growing. My academic teacher simply refused to upgrade Xilinx ISE in the lab and the only thing that could force him to upgrade was eval board that wasn't supported by the old version.
This is exactly what I have been trying to achieve with my CutSpel Chrome extension - so far not too much interest, but I might try another submission in a little while.

http://www.cutspel.com
Ah, righto. I doubt it then, but can't say for sure. I'd imagine that PCI cards will have a different set of requirements to adhere to, for starters.

If it did work, however, it'd be reaaaal nice to try on Queensland's Go card ;-)
It's a thought - but I'm not convinced on scale. The market needs to be liquid enough to convert btc into target currencies easily. Otherwise, banks basically get btc, convert to domestic (regulated / 'insured') currency at point of receipt and then you're back in old world payments. N.b. I am straying from my area of knowledge but I am confused as to what would stop a btc based bank going bust or suffering from the same currency controls Cyprus put in place if you have put it in a wallet somewhere (we used to call this a deposit!).
If you've got a completely static site and it's being served out of a CDN, the underlying hosting shouldn't really be an issue.

The majority of users/web requests aren't going to be hitting your hosting; they'll stop at the CDN.

Perhaps a better question is "fastest CDN?".
Seven-segment LED displays are nice as the next step up for debug from single LEDs.
You're going to Africa. Unless you go there regularly, why on earth would you bring anything. Meet people. Let Africa make an impression upon you.
Ask HN: Specialist or Generalist for Startup (team size ~5)
At team size of about 5, which one do you think is a better approach - all generalist or more of specialists.
I'd be more worried about my microphone than about my camera.
Pick something up locally. Don't bring "home" with you.
Good god no. I love that book, but not the right place or time.