skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love more perspective. If you have any good sources that I can read on the subject, let me know. Like I said above and in other comments, I'm most interested in the entire system that revolved around something as simple as getting a shirt, or garment, from raw materials of the garment to the materials of the tools used to weave the raw materials, to the tools needed to build the tools used to weave the... etc... it's really interesting and obviously since I didn't live back then and don't have access to any personal accounts of medieval peasants, I'm intensely curious about any information you have!
User ylchaithanya on GitHub took my project and made it into a Chrome App that works on any OS.

https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js/issues/2
This comment, particularly how you have characterized pro-gun advocates, is a perfect example of juvenile behaviour.
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No room for error probably means one thing to people working on a $10^11 space vehicle and something else to webdevs. Does that surprise you?
I'm not sure how "America" is associated with particular colours. Perhaps if you search "american flag" you would get what you want?
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Point 2 (Branch off development) confuses me.

At my workplace we have branches for dev, staging, and production. We're working on feature branches. Now if my coworker merges feature A into dev, and I merge feature B into dev, and feature A is done and ready for release, but feature B needs more work, and my coworker checks out a new feature branch C from dev, he'll be unable to merge into production without merging in my unfinished feature B.

We branch off of production so this won't happen. Are we doing it wrong?
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Exciting times for YC and Alumni. I've always been much more excited in businesses "After the Startup Curve", although "scaling operations [and] managing hypergrowth" is an incredible specialty when compared to just moving the needle from the first million to the first fifty million.
Haven't read the paper or anything, just judging that quote out of context:

I think it's folly to try to differentiate a "law" from a "principle". That said I'm taking his words out of context. He's saying that "information" is something akin to "energy". Ok, but after the hand-waving there is nothing left.

Does he say something more interesting? For example, we've explored many truths about "computation" (e.g. Turing's Halting Problem && Godel's Incompleteness Theorem) that so far have only been discussed in the abstract. But to weave computation/information onto physics raises questions of how these truths we've held in the abstract may also correspond to laws in the physical. That is, it doesn't help us derive new laws of physics (in other words, our laws of physics is always incomplete), but constrains what can be explained by laws (which by definition must be consistent).

TLDR; I agree that information doesn't exist in the abstract but is tied to our physical reality. I think that our inability to find a complete set of laws of the physical universe is intimately related to HP and GIT. I wonder if he gets into it.
Hmmh smells like global warming..
> it seems to me that programs compiled with CLASP themselves need to be gpl:ed since CLASP itself is.

Why? GCC is GPL'd but plenty of people use GCC to write non-GPL code...
> and now Mozilla, of all people, tell us that that was basically a bit impractical

No. What Mozilla did was explain their reasons for doing so. So at the very least your comment should engage with their stated reasons in some detail. Otherwise it's hard for the rest of us to know whether you've got a valid objection or you just replied without really reading the original article.
alternatively, if smart people refuse to work for war, we might build a more peaceful future.
Lot's of things we think we know but don't and chemical space is super large? Why a molecule works within a mouse but not human, depends on what you mean by doesn't work. It might not be that it doesn't work but that the potential drug never makes it that far in the process for other reasons. Common reasons would be poor ADMET issues and difficulty in formulation for enteral route.

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Al Mann spent almost a billion and 20 years on inhalable insulin and only recently found success.

Also, works is a matter of interpretation. Better relative to other drugs on the market? Shows better outcomes than no treatment? There are some drugs out there that with time and more investigation are showing some lack of efficacy, eg gliptins
In theory yes, a feature that requires more work shouldn’t make it’s way into dev really.
It's also important to point out that Type I only makes up about 5% of diabetes cases. Though a cure for either would drastically improve a lot of peoples lives.
> I hope to heaven that the startup never ruins my marriage

That's probably already happening, you're just not being told/aware of it yet. If you're only in town for birthdays and leave at 6 am the next morning and wreck your social life you're well underway. Been there, done that so take it from me as an experience to avoid.
> "That's the old Charlton Heston argument. There are "good" people and "bad" people."

It's true though. Even better, we can in practice select "good people" (defined as "won't murder somebody with a gun") from the general public with an exceedingly low false positive rate (although with a high false negative rate).

The combination of having to fill out stacks of paperwork for the ATF, go through their background checks, pay a $200 per-gun tax, and pay several thousands of dollars for the gun itself makes for a very effective "good people" filter.
Couldn't you merge the features that are done to your staging branch and from there merge to production? Your staging branch would be the 'release branch' in this model: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
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For most people a vanishingly small amount of life is now. Most of it has either already happened, or more importantly is still to come.

I agree that there's a need to balance the now and planning for the future, and an awful lot of start ups seem, at least to me, to get the balance badly wrong.

But there are often sacrifices you need to do now to gain far bigger rewards in the future. Whether that's resisting that dessert sat in front of you because you want to be 50lbs lighter, saving money now so that you don't starve in retirement, or sometimes trading off time with the family for time spent working so that you've still got a job or a company in 5 years time.
Funnily enough, Google Now's voice search was originally called "Project Majel" for that reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Now#History
Anyone else find the fo us on the article solely on "Alabamians" a bit odd?
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> contractual duty

If you honestly can't engage with me without putting words in my mouth, I really don't see the point in taking you seriously.
Ask HN: How to get into open-source web development?
I've been a web developer for about 4 years now, and I feel like I have a lot to learn from collaborating on open-source projects. Most of my experience is with working alone on projects, and 95% of the time I was being rushed as clients in my country don't understand that building websites takes time, and that quality matters.

My question is: How should I look for projects on which to contribute to over weekends? Are there chatrooms / aggregators for this sort of thing?
Joshu had the very interesting http://www.stackparts.com
You can using the NetBSD rump kernel[1].

You get all the NetBSD drivers, IP stack etc that you can use, just add memory management, setup and so on, which is not much work, and link your application in to it. It is still under development but the basic stuff is all working well.

[1[ http://rumpkernel.org/
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I'm glad I am not the only one that thinks that this is odd. So you can browse anonymously to a site that by its very nature is built around a profile of a REAL person. What happened to just offering up the service under full TLS?

This just looks like a dirty anti-gov protest and mass publicity stunt. It offers a false and wrong sense of security to the users. We have reports of rogue TOR exit nodes that try to insert malware, and we assume that we can actually trust the owners of this infrastructure? I'm sorry, I am all for security, improvements to services that ensure people I don't want seeing my communications, can't, but this? Calling bullshit on this.
I am not sure what exactly is meant by "Ruby on Rails of kernel". Probably "an opinionated framework to build your own kernel". In this case OSkit is probably the best answer to the question. Maybe look at micro- and exokernels.
Seems to me that you would enjoy the Upgoer Five editor if you haven't already come across it: http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
The author mentions something like M-Pesa, just open and with Bitcoin.

That will never happen, the telcos love vendor lock-in way too much.
There is such a thing — a cooperative! One famous example is the Cheeseboard in Berkeley, a cheese shop and pizzeria that has been worker owned and operated since the 60's with wild success. Seeing how happy, creative, and productive the staff there is makes me wish that we had more organizations operating in this manner.

Kind of a tangent, but there's a lot to be said for cooperative living, too. One of my favorite experiences in college was living in a student cooperative. There were about 40 of us in a large, early 20th century Victorian house, each taking on a fair share of maintenance, cooking, and management. Every decision, including major ones like renovating parts of the house, was made democratically and collectively: there was no real centralized oversight. (There was a "central office" for the entire co-op system — itself largely made up of house representatives — but they mostly stayed out of individual house affairs.) Important positions such as president or workshift manager were voted in collectively and had certain benefits, like decreased rent or less hours required per week. It worked well for the most part, and many lifelong friendships were forged in the house.

I think it would be an interesting experiment to get a bunch of self-motivated creative folks together in such an environment and have them work on projects together. Perhaps the members would be selected by occupation, so that there's a solid pool of artists, programmers, designers, writers, etc. at all times. A majority of the money generated from these projects would go towards the members' collective benefit. Projects would be formed spontaneously, either by individuals working alone, or by people trying to "recruit" other members — kind of like how Valve does things.

A combination of cooperative living and cooperative working. I know it's not for everyone, and maybe it's a pipe dream, but the idea really appeals to me!
Ask HN: Would small business owners like this?
Hi, I have an idea of helping small online business owners get more sales and customers, and I'd love to hear what you think. So here it goes:

The main idea is for you to win those sales that you'd have otherwise lost to your competitors by offering a lower price to customers in 'private'.

I'm thinking of creating an online 'private' platform where I would reach out to customers who are about to buy. Just before they check out, they could head over to this online platform and I'll offer them a 'private' lower price than the one they have found. This creates an additional value for customers at the point where they have already decided to buy. They could buy the exact same item at a cheaper price, so why not?

By private, it means these prices are not public and would only be made available to those customers who want to buy the item you stock. You need not worry about brand dilution in this case.

So the important thing here is to note that the original online store/ merchant, who got the sale initially, is your competitor. Through such a platform, it provides you the opportunity to reach out to this group of ready-buyers and win back your lost sales.

Assuming the discount you provide to customers is about 10% off the price from your competitor's, would this model work for you? If not, what could be a better workaround?

In a nut shell, you are offering customers a 10% savings so as to effectively divert those sales you would have otherwise lost back to yourself.

Would really appreciate if you let me know where your point of view is from - is it from a customer standpoint or as a business owner.
It's all well and good adding support for new algorithms, and streamlining the UI. But still, access to the key servers are done over plaintext[1]. Which could allow an attacker to modify your request/response from the keyservers.

Am I correct in believing that this is a critical issue not to address?

[1] "Support for keyserver access over TLS is currently not available but will be added with one of the next point releases. " -- https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html
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> but I'm not sure why you'd want the cause if you can't do anything useful like attempt to downcast it.

description() and detail() are available, so it lets you display a traceback of sorts and do basic root-cause analysis.
This article really made my stomach churn because it really hit home.

If I had a one tenth of the success these guys are having I'd tell myself to keep going.

However, working on the project alone, for the past couple of years has been devastating. I've really no more friends left as a result of blindly pursuiting my passion. I admit it hasn't even been worth it to this date. But something, this lizard brain keeps telling me to go go go don't stop.

I've been working on my project off with about 3 years of full time development and 2 years of working at a job to support myself.

I don't know. I'm super confused and agitated after reading this article. I had this gut feeling not to read the article but I did it anyways.

I will probably continue. Crazy.
I don't believe that this is a critical issue. The PGP-trust model doesn't need you to trust neither the keyserver nor the connection to the keyserver. You are supposed to look at the actual key, and the actual signatures of the key to decide if you trust it.

Anyone can usually upload any key to the keyserver, so even if you use TLS that wouldn't make a difference from a security perspective.
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Play with some projects and discover bugs, have a look on GitHub.
Not just your personal non-consumption, everybody's. I don't think jailtime is the sole reason people don't use coke.
What is driving the stressfulness of startup life? Is it the fear of being overtaken by the competition? Or the excitement of unlimited possibilities, so you an always try more?
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It looks like Mozilla is testing for virtually any web browser that is in use. That seems OK.

And, you can choose to do feature detection if you wish. Here's a quick example:

https://cdn.polyfill.io/v1/polyfill.js?features=Array.protot...

More information about that can be found here: https://cdn.polyfill.io/v1/docs/api
As someone starting out bootstrapping a tiny little consumer-facing business, the thing I need most is a one-stop shop for minimum compliance with local, state, and federal business fees, licenses, and tax stuff.

For a self-sustaining business with a few hundred dollars a month in revenue, figuring out which rules apply and how much they're going to cost is a real challenge.
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He describes Shannon as 'unsung' not 'obscure' and I think there's some validity to that. I grew up reading about the incredible scientific developments - especially on the theoretical side - that happened throughout the 20th century and Shannon's name was often mentioned but it was always in passing (and sometimes with a subtle hint that he didn't really grasp how broadly applicable his ideas were). It wasn't until I read about his life and work directly that I learnt that this picture was rather inaccurate.
With the advent of startups, this is the new normal for IT workers.

The best part - after all this effort, majority will none the less fail. But in the meanwhile they will be doing huge amounts of work, while their investors can breathe easy, no need to worry much about overtimes, vacations, sick leaves, finding work for people after the project ends, etc.

This system is rigged against us, but a truly IT specific thing is that so many of us enjoy exploiting ourselves like this. Sure, many people would start their business anyway, but now we're dealing with a trend, "everyone" is doing it, it's the hip way to be, and there's very little criticism about this model, if any. The failures are merely presented as lessons to learn, it's rarely considered to call the emperor naked, to stop the show.

This text is nice, family is important, but this is from someone who can afford it, now that he has succeeded. I see no retrospect, no reflection here - could he have cancelled trips like this years ago, when he was still fighting? Is that what he is suggesting to people now? I don't think so, and that makes it all sound just so hollow.
How long would you say it'd take to disarm America? To a point that had an effect on school shootings? What do you plan to do in the intervening, say, century or so?

You can't point to other countries with no guns and just wish it were like that where you are. It isn't, it won't be for a very long time, and to pretend otherwise is just wishful thinking.
They have, apparently. Check it out:

https://cdn.polyfill.io/v1/polyfill.js?features=Array.protot...

Docs about this can be found here: https://cdn.polyfill.io/v1/docs/api
The dutch censored military installations are perfectly visible in Bing Maps... I don't understand what they are thinking.

I was surprised that the Marcoule breeder plants are actually blurred in both Google and Bing.
You could be a real person and not want to disclose your IP.

They are two separate things.
Thank you; the chart indicates it is not supported natively. There is a feature on the site involving unit tests of each of the features: maybe something about that unit test isn't working on Firefox 32? (Or maybe it is just a mistake, of course.)
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If you lived in a high crime area, would you deliberately choose to be unarmed, despite knowing that statistically speaking you'd be safer armed? Just to make a political or cultural point?
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Here are some simple ones:

* Help triage some bugs - go into a recent bug report, and confirm that the bug is real and reproducible.

* Help out fixing some bugs in the tools you use. Go into the bug tracker and find something you think you can fix. Start with something smaller/easier so you learn the process.

* Write some documentation for the tools you use.
Why go directly to double blind trial?

Shouldn't you first do some open label tests and see if there appears to be any difference, and only then prove it with a double blind?

Seems like that approach would save money.
Since you've been a "web developer for about 4 years", I assume you have have gathered experience with some open source technology. Why not try to help those projects? You are already familiar with their structure, and might get an easier start. Just check thier website and start solving bugs!
This is unbelievably neat. So much good news coming out of Joyent recently.

LX branded zones revived, funding to make SmartOS Docker compatible and now SDC and Manta are open sourced.
I love SmartOS.

It feels so elegant and well designed.
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I'm sure there are plenty of Americans with wealthier or more connected families

Sure, but only about 5%. The median salary for a dentist and a psychiatrist adds up to $333,000 which is the 95% percentile for household income today. A verrry long way from average.
Do pop back here and let us know how that works out for you.
I'd like to help you work on this. Would that be doable?
I wonder how many will not wait for the study and just try it.

It's not a cheap drug though - about $0.75 per pill.
This article is related to curing Type 1 diabetes which has nothing to do with obesity.
Because you can experiment on them and keep iterating till you find what works.

They also have short lives, so you don't have to wait long to see if some new treatment works.
This is amazing! I've been dying lately feeling an overwhelming sense of disappointment with modern day OSs and their UX. To the point where I've wanted to start to play around with making my own.

Could anybody point me in the right direction? I'm a NodeJS web developer HTML/CSS guy. What would be the shortest/fastest path to me being able to write my own entirely custom UX?

Preferably something I could do in HTML/CSS/JS and be able to run on a desktop/laptop/phone. Thanks.
Is type II treatable by lifestyle changes, or are the effects permanent once it occurs?
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It's still useful in helping people to avoid blocks on Facebook. That you're connecting to a Facebook server is still obvious over a TLS connection, but going via Tor that is hidden and your ISP can't find out.
Wasn't Basecamp started as a side project of 37Signals where DHH spent like 10 hours a week working on it?
And yes Basecamp is now a company and god nows how many businesses are involved with Ruby on Rails.
working on an alternative that doesn't use its own polyfills and instead uses other people's well written libraries. i used polyfill.io before and half the implementations had bugs due to the lack of tests. feedback welcomed!

http://polyfills.io
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Cool tool, making building easier seems to trend at the moment. :)

The page ("deps.html") that introduces the .build.conf file says "You can use pkg-config to help find those flags if your system has that installed", but then the actual configuration shown uses only absolute paths.

That threw me off, since it's not at all obvious how or where you can insert calls to external tools (like pkg-config) in the static-looking configuration. I think it'd be a good idea to edit in an example showing pkg-config being used.
As far as I recall, that's the same Chrome does on Windows 8 with the Metro mode. It looks identical to the desktop version, down to tiny toolbar buttons you can't reliably hit with a finger, etc.
This is a pretty good summary of what makes Erlang unique. There's definitely a learning curve, as he says, but once you start to 'get it', you can make some really solid stuff with it.

I've been having a lot of success with remotely debugging things with observer ( http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/observer/observer_ug.html ) and Recon ( http://ferd.github.io/recon/ ). I've been using the latter to compile code locally and quickly deploy it to a remote machine (while it's running, of course) to debug problems without going through a whole commit/pull/build cycle.

Some of the other responses in the thread are pretty good too:

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-November/t...