skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is being robbed?

Throughout my teenage years I taught myself to program by writing bots to play mmorpgs for me then I would sell the gold. I made a fraction of what this guy did, but for a 13-17 year old I was doing quite well.

I have no delusions that what I was doing was "virtuous" or benefiting the world and what have you. But by the same token I don't think what I did was the opposite of that either - I certainly wasn't selling a product based on theft as you put it. And in the end it's the main reason I'm a programmer today, nearly a decade later.
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> Creator here - no vote manipulation

That's what I would say ;)

But I do believe you, without reading your comment. I just liked the idea and upvoted. I'm extremely curious about how many people actually do this though. I'm sure we could crowdsource $10 on HN to learn those stats, say, a week from today ;)
As long as we're trying to devise a standard for presenting units, i suggest this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
I am building a similar forms based framework/product. Here is what I have discovered is needed:

-Proper handling of an other field, like there is on paper forms. I.e. What is your favorite salad? a) Fruit b) Vegetable c) Other __________

-Ability to string multiple forms together in a workflow (kind of like a CRM). Form 1 must be completed before the user can move on to Form 2. However, when some or all of the fields are optional, there needs to be some type of trigger logic to mark the form in the workflow as completed. (I sort of saw this in the video, but it seemed that the forms were marked simply as steps and the end user could skip from Step 1 to Step 9)

-Sub-forms, both in terms of adding multiple contact addresses (for example) or switching from Sub-form A to Sub-form B in the context of a form workflow (you guys seems to have this)

-Permissions on every question and on every part (Form 1, Form 2, etc) in the workflow (you guys seems to have the question permissions down, but I'm not sure about the statistics)

-A rich query language to crunch statistics from every form field filled out (It seems your application outputs CSVs and leaves the user to crunch them in Excel)

-If a form is tied to an entity (say a Student, for example), the ability to assign that Student to a Teacher or an Administrator. (I did not see this)

-Ability for daily e-mail reports on what new forms have been created and updated and what new Students have been added to the system. (this was mentioned on the about section, but I did not see it in the video)

My forms framework does all this and more, but it took quite a bit of effort to build. I would be more than happy to talk specifics with you guys; my e-mail is in my profile.

I must warn you though, you are entering a rabbit-hole.
From a cost perspective it's easy to see this. I've made plenty of trivial VB scripts in large/bureaucratic companies to automate tasks that a customer service person(or a whole department) had been doing for an hour a day for the last decade.
Good stuff! I had an extremely similar idea a while ago:

2. Brutal Outfit Advice

Pay to get brutally honest feedback on your outfit. Give commission to (vetted) critics.

Alternative name: What Would You Think? (http://startupideas.posthaven.com/2-brutal-outfit-advice - now defunct blog)

Good to see someone do executing on it. Good luck!
That's a straw man. Nobody argued against using minutes and hours.

This is not about blindly using plain SI units wherever possible. This is about writing for an international audience. Most people in the world don't use miles but kilometres in their everyday life. This especially important when reporting about an international event such as the marathon.
Does this remind anybody else of: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/05/26
Still reading your reply but the image is 403'ing for me.
At the very least he is sure to make back the cost of the io domain.
"Do you know what looks like confetti and candy to small children? Screws. Know what else they really love? Saw blades. There would be no way I could both build a feeder that deterred squirrels and keep my children out of the ER."

Have we become so overprotective of children that we can't even have sharp objects in the house with them?
The article did mention drugs, specifically EPO which is used to increase VO2 Max. Steroids would be less useful in a runner since they add muscle mass and dragging any excess weight around a 26.2 mile course is counterproductive. The article mentioned that EPO could be behind either the recent world record times or the eventual sub 2-minute time.
Wasn't aware of this - thanks. Seems like a good fit.
* Most parents with means contribute several tens of thousands, at least. If yours don't, they come from debt.

* Financial aid formulas at excellent schools that are just a step or two below the Ivy league have what we call an "awkward middle." There are lots of rich families for whom $60k/yr is not a significant hardship. There are also a fair number of poor families whose children get full rides (+ allowances for personal expenses.) Where you see huge debt is in the middle class.

Expected Family Contributions for middle and especially upper middle class students (let's say $60k-$100k household income in Midwestern suburbia) are often technically possible, but not actually feasible. The number that Financial Aid gives you will be significantly less than $60k. It might be $50k, or $40k, or even $30k.

But that might selling the house, gutting retirement accounts, forgoing college for younger siblings, or even a combination of the above. So the gap between "actual family contribution" and "expected family contribution" means you will need to cover the difference with loans.

* Financial aid roughly correlates to endowment which roughly correlates to prestige. At lower-prestige but still decent private schools (NYU, GW, etc.) it's not remotely difficult to rack up $200k in your 4 years.

* Some people have trouble adjusting to college life, or to the stress of later semesters. An aborted semester due to (potentially involuntary) leave of absence to deal with mental illness, etc. is really fucking expensive, as is an extra year to make up for classes you failed or a change in major. But if you've already paid in $60k, you're not going to just walk away and write it off; you're going to keep paying whatever it takes to finally get a degree that's worth something.
also relevant: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/06/30
As best I can tell, it separates iteration ("stepping") from transformation, so that transformers can be applied more flexibly and be composed more easily.
I freelance but often a startup client will ask if they can hire me. To me it's not about lunches and big monitors, nor git and agile. These are my requirements:

- I want to keep working remotely.

- The salary should be competitive with what I'm making now.

- There should be proof the company is an ongoing concern.

- The company should have a good answer to how it can help me progress in my career, preferably without moving into management. (As far as I can tell most startups have never been asked about career advancement before.)

- There should be some upside beyond the salary, because owning my own consulting business already has upside from side projects and potential to grow into a development firm.

Those are probably unrealistic, so I'm still freelancing. :-)
Weightlifting? Is this guy an actual "brogrammer"?
This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.)

I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story for Esquire magazine in 2007 about the "radical honesty" movement. The story's title gets him started: "I Think You're Fat."[1] When I read this story the first time, right after it was published, I laughed out loud and immediately shared it with my favorite online group of friends (this was pre-Facebook, for me). I shared it with a new group of friends this summer, and found out that they like the story too. Try it. I think you'll like it.

A guy who could take the business idea proposed in this thread and execute it with as much humor as A. J. Jacobs could become a millionaire.

[1] http://www.esquire.com/features/honesty0707
Yeah, first time I hit the powerband on the sportbike I almost fell off it. I remember it very well, even though it was years ago. The power/weight ratio is staggering.

> I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around how they can replicate that experience inside of an _electric_ car.

Your gixxer (and my poor, now deceased, ninja) could only do it because these are vehicles not much heavier than 2x the weight of the owner. Insane power/weight ratio will do that for you.

But their engines, like any internal combustion engine, suck at low speed. Have you seen the dyno curve for torque? It's really low at first, and only then starts climbing, and climbing, and climbing.

An electric engine gives you maximum torque at any speed. Now imagine that on your sportbike. ;) When technology is more mature, all electric engines will run circles around internal combustion, on the 0-60 track.
accept it and move on. Most of my friends have over 100k worth of debt from undergrad so it seems pretty normal to me. I'm sure your familiar with a lot of things that are different for most people.
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What scares me, I believe that somebody would.
Lucy only charged a nickle.
To people, yes. To institutions and the like, no, because you need to be a human being or other sentient to be a moral actor.
On Error Resume Next is actually weirder than an empty error handler. If Python errors halfway through a try/except block, it will skip the rest of the block. If you On Error Resume Next, VB will literally just proceed to the next line and keep executing.

And since you don't need to indent the block that comes after On Error, it's easy to miss that line...
The people you're thinking of, like most of the people I know, either have

1) Families that have contributed $60k+

2) Families that are poor enough that financial aid has contributed $60k+.

I'm guessing that anyone with $100k in debt has neither of those things.
Me too. I've gone over the data and if he's figured anything out, it's plumb fooled me.

Actually, judging by the ridiculous number of flags the post has also gotten, I think he just touched a nerve.
I certainly want to also enjoy playing it, just watching it is not going to be very entertaining to me.
Well the trick is that it's cheap enough that almost everyone can afford it while being pretty sure that, for that amount of money, he will probably take his time to write a decent answer.

Perhaps 5 bucks would be better, but considering an hourly wage and how much time I take to write stuff myself, ten bucks is not unreasonable. Also consider that, assuming this is a business (or could be), he's taking risk because there is no subscription or recurring payment whatsoever. I imagine this being a very variable business. If it would make a business in the first place.
All the latest super cars breaking records using electric motors. The fastest car Car & Driver ever tested is the 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder — 0-60 in 2.2s. A hybrid, just like the new P1 from Mclaren.
> The point is that lisp advocates rarely seem to use any of these lisp implementations to do anything noteworthy or useful.

That's possible. There are many Lisp dialects and implementations which have few applications. That's true for a lot of other language implementations, too. There are literally thousands implementations of various programming languages with very few actual applications. Maybe it is fun to implement your own language from the ground up. Nothing which interest me, but it does not bother me.

If he wants to implement a small new Lisp dialect its perfectly fine to implement it in C or similar.

> They always seem to fall back on C, or some other language that's more "widely available" or "has minimal dependencies" or "has more potential contributors" or "can be more easily compared with other similar programs".

Some new dialect is written with the help of C? That bothers you?

Wow.

Actually 95% of all Lisp systems contain traces of C and some are deeply integrated in C or on top of C (CLISP, ECL, GCL, CLICC, MOCL, dozens of Scheme implementations and various other Lisp dialects). There are various books about implementing Lisp in C.

Really nobody in the Lisp community loses any sleep that somebody implements parts of Lisp in C.

> I find this hypocrisy to be quite intriguing.

Because some random guys implement their own language in C? Why do we have Python, Ruby, Rebol? There was already PERL or AWK or ... Somebody decided to write their own scripting language. So what?
In my humanities field (history) I've heard that hardcover books from university presses yield virtually nothing in royalties (on the order of a couple hundred dollars) but that if a book is reprinted as a paperback aimed at undergraduate courses, it can be an order of magnitude more. I've also heard that textbooks are the only scholarly publishing outlet that actually makes healthy royalties - i.e. letting you pay a down payment on a house as opposed to paying for a couple nice dinners out. In terms of hours spent (in the thousands) to money earned (in the hundreds of dollars), writing a typical university press hardcover has got to be one of the lowest-paying professional activities in existence.

As for non-fiction popular press books, I've been told that a typical advance can range from less than 10k to around 50k-60k - the idea being that this money will sustain the author for the 6 months to a year or so it takes to finish the manuscript. (Would that this were feasible for academic books!)
Yeah, in the future the number visible on the sign will be just a courtesy to humans. The authoritative piece of info will be electronic.
I'm not certain but I don't think so since Chromium is supposed to be the fully open source version it doesn't support the codecs or Media Source Extensions[0] that make it possible to enable the DRM modules Netflix uses.

You can test for support on Youtube[1] as well (I don't have Chromium so I'm not sure what the results are.)

[0]https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/media-source/...
[1]https://www.youtube.com/html5
Nice look. Good questions. Multiplayer would be fun. I would like some Premier league questions.
I'd play LoL if one player per team could play as the minions... I love RTSs, was ranked in starcraft (a lifetime ago) and prefer setting up and executing clever strategies to microing an enemy to death.

LoL is Starcraft with most of the non-micro elements gone.

Nothing wrong with that, just not my thing.
OP here. You could try using mono to run it on Linux.
http://www.mono-project.com/
Flash IDE will integrate with (open-source) Haxe/OpenFL platform
Flash CC now has an SDK for creating custom project file formats:

http://aphall.com/2014/10/future-of-flash-pro/

So you can use the Flash IDE to prepare and publish content for (not-the-flash-player) compile targets.

Among these new platforms is OpenFL:

http://www.openfl.org/blog/2014/10/10/future-of-flash/

When they demoed the custom project feature at Adobe MAX the other night, they brought out Joshua Granick (lead maintainer of OpenFL) to show off a custom OpenFL project format that lets you make Flash Art in Flash CC, then compile it to HTML5, Flash, and C++ (desktop+mobile) targets.

Some of you might remember that I pestered Adobe about this back in June:

http://www.fortressofdoors.com/dear-adobe-support-haxe-save-your-tools/.

Later, a tech evangelist from Adobe reached out to me (see comments section of linked article)... you'll notice it's the same guy (Andy Hall) who wrote the Adobe article linked above. Coincidence? :)

Granted, this is the tiniest baby step Adobe could have possibly made, but it's still pretty huge.

Reasons this matters:

1. Adobe admits the Flash ecosystem is no longer dominant

2. Adobe admits the Flash workflow has a lot of orphaned (and rightfully grumpy) users

3. Provides hope Flash CC might have a future beyond the Flash (SWF/AIR) platforms.

4. Perhaps Adobe will go further and actually provide monetary support to open source projects like Haxe and OpenFL?

Years ago I would have never believed we would one day see an entirely open source implementation of the Flash API with anything even remotely close to full API coverage, let alone the ability to export to HTML5, Flash, and C++. And if it had, I would never believe that Adobe would bring it on stage at MAX.

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Anyways, interested in your thoughts on this.

(Full disclosure, I'm a known Haxe/OpenFL enthusiast, although nobody pays me for the privilege)
At least, you can easily divide an hour and a minute by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15. Which is a little more annoying with a pint (...but who would divide a pint anyway).
Riddled with not-so-factual facts, such as:

"It’s interesting to note that the API is using “Basic” authentication, which has a number of known security weaknesses, including the inability to perform account lockouts."

There's no rule that basic auth has to be handled by the stateless basic auth built into your web server. You can handle HTTP auth headers with your own dynamic code, do anything you want with it, including anti-hammering or progressive lockouts.
my problem is that as soon i install chrome, ubuntu becomes unstable...not with chromium, if someone has any advice on how to fix it, i would appreciate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII
Curse you, MARTA! As a Seattleite and urban planner, I have a particular sadness with respect to MARTA. The plan in the late 1960s was for a heavy commuter line like BART or MARTA to be built in Seattle with 20% local match, and 80% federal funds. Seattle voters rejected it. Federal funds went to Atlanta.

While this was really Seattle's fault, I still find it more convenient to direct my anger toward Atlanta.
You aren't legally prevented from spending $10 at other honesty vendors in addition to this one, or required to follow the advice in order to avoid a penalty.
> whereas weight lifting after 40 is a bit sketchy.

At a competitive level, probably yes.
As an exercise, very good for muscle mass, bone mass, cardio health, etc.
I would imagine that a child young enough to try and eat screws would be defeated by putting a lock on a door.
Much of the spec and the lib for the ruby version reads like it was written by a clojurist. That may sound funny, but it was all written by David Chelimsky, a long time rubyist who maintained RSpec.

To me the most interesting aspect of the Ruby implementation is the use of pseudo macros that meta-program most of the implementation.
Thanks. I might add it later this year.
Thanks! That's a good idea. I definitely need to make some it easier to understand how to use it when you hit the landing page. Thinking about adding an explainer video too.
Mike (the friend at UniPress who RMS mentioned) and I were wandering around an SF convention and ran into RMS. Mike said, "Richard, I heard a rumor about your house being burnt down. Is that true?" Richard immediately shot back "Yes, but where you work, I'd have thought you'd have heard about it in advance!"

We all had a good laugh. RMS is a funny guy and quick of his feet!
> What if they didn't keep up their end and the only recourse you have is to not pay?

Then there is no debt. The company may mistakenly think there is, but that's a difference scenario than the one we're discussing here.
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I would hardly call C "archaic". But that's beside the point. If you are a physics person then the problem will not be learning the language. You will pick up everything you need in a few weeks to a month at most.

In my opinion the hardest part is learning about how a web app is put together and about all the moving parts. I don't know of any good resources for that. Please, somebody chime in with something because that is what is holding me back.
Aside from binary good and evil, a Very likely use will be MBAs optimizing metrics for reading speed vs price, with the likely enforcement of formulaic content. To a limited extent we already have this; I'm talking about it extending dramatically.
I'll admit that my comment was tongue-in-cheek and alludes to the fact that units are harder than they seem.

I suspect that Runner's World (an American magazine) knows their audience, and that they are mostly Americans (they do have some international sites [1], but I didn't see this article in a glance at the UK site).

Personally, I wish the US would just go with the metric system already, but that's another discussion.

[1] http://www.runnersworld.com/about-runners-world/internationa...
Real-time map of the public transport system of Berlin
> If I write 1 pint do I mean an imperial pint, a US liquid pint, or a US dry pint?

Since you are writing it you must know it and you can choose the correct tag or attribute for your html
The Undocumented Guide to SSL on Google App Engine
Hrmm this is depressing, I was a Sonic customer back in '97 when they first opened, along with the public Internet.

They always win 5 stars from the EFF for privacy, is this really as bad as it seems?
i genuinely hope there isn't
At this moment the first one you mentioned, but the second one is a good suggestion. writing it down now :)
I've never tested its throughput - there was no reason to do that because all of the processed images are saved and stored as long as those files are accessed at least once a week.

So, the answer is pretty much this: it'll handle as many rps as nginx serving static files can handle.

If we are talking about unique requests each requesting to process unique image - I'm pretty sure linode server CPU it's running on will choke.
Didn't read the article, but that's one of the things I like about Facebook the most. The ability to customize your profile on MySpace is part of what killed it.

Oh, you already forgot about the flashing animated gifs and snowflakes falling while 3 different videos and/or songs played?
You're all over me with this one! :D

So what you're more or less saying is there's a sort of middle class gap where aid doesn't cover, and parental income can't contribute enough, so the student is forced to go wholly interest-based debt for their education?

Yikes, that's rough. You're right though, all the folks I know apparently fall on either side of that middle income gap.
This is an imperfect analogy. The medical device is not being given away for free.