skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty easy to figure out what class people are in if you actually care to know.

> Competition is extremely high to enter Stanford, with an admit rate of 7.2 percent. And those who make it in are, as a group, financially better off than the rest of the American population. According to Director of Financial Aid Karen Cooper, the median family income at Stanford is approximately $125,000; by contrast, the median family income in the United States in 2008, the last year for which data are available, is $61,521.

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/08/12/diversity-remains-on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

Now try to guess what class these people were born into: http://www.ycombinator.com/people/

I'm still a huge fan of YC (very much not a hater) but on this rather large issue I think they're on the wrong side of history. A truly good actor compared to most, but far short being egalitarian.
Actually, I live in a place (Quebec) that effectively has free Community Colleges (we call them CEGEPs) and has had them for decades now.

We have one less year of compulsory public education. I guess that devalued high school. However university degrees here are 3 years (4 for out of province students.)

Society hasn't collapsed. For many occupations, the "technical" diplomas (3 years instead of pre-uni 2 years stream) from a CEGEP are the expected level of education. There's an engineering school that specifically serves to convert those technical diploma to B.Ing (http://en.etsmtl.ca).
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Word-at-a-time use was perfect for me travelling around europe, as basically all I wanted it for was translating signs
I want to become a consultant that helps startups scale. Where do I start?
You have a startup that is struggling to scale your business model. So you hire someone to work as a consultant and solve this problem. How do I become this someone?
What should I read or do?

(Btw, I'm 17)
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As cool as the new features are, the app is now difficult and slow to use the way I used to. Little things, like focusing the textbox when you tap clear, are just missing. I'm willing to take that for the automatic OCR features, but it's just worse for everything else (probably due to their new "Material Design" strategy which doesn't belong on iOS).
pursues the goals we've encoded into it without realizing they lead to a result we don't want.

Sounds like capitalism vs. the environment there.
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> even a slight dulling due to aging would cause a discrepancy

Only if you completely discount the value of experience.
A "NW" at the top of the compass would help people realize their error.
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This was supposedly just updated to support chip-and-PIN: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader
This project's homepage uses the same template as iojs.org (https://iojs.org/) and unfortunately also has the same problem: the front page says almost nothing about the project.

What does "call Node.js modules directly from the DOM" mean? I write Node.js code, all day, every day, and I have for three years, and I have absolutely no idea what that means.

NW.js appears to be some sort of "break" from node-webkit, and the copy on the main site seems to suggest that it is an entirely new project. The only useful link I see goes to a Google Groups post that says that node-webkit has been renamed to NW because it is neither Node nor Webkit.

This is missing the point entirely. The tagline should be something lke:

"NW.js is a runtime for building desktop applications using Web technologies. Like WebViews for iOS/Android, NW.js leverages the latest in web technologies (Chromium and io.js) to provide a complete platform for building fully-featured desktop applications using the same technologies used for the Web."

Instead, the tagline seems to be advertising that I can check `process.browser` from inside a <script> tag. That's cool, but somewhat analogous to the tagline for Tesla's newest car saying that it "lets you change songs with voice commands". Nice feature, but doesn't explain the project at all.

I put in a PR for the iojs.org site (https://github.com/iojs/iojs.github.io/pull/50) which is garnering some good discussion but it doesn't appear that anyone is "in charge" so it may be a long time before any sort of major change is merged.

Edit: Let me note that all of this is a shame because both of these projects (io.js and nw.js) are very exciting news for the Node community as a whole and are very well done projects! I don't mean to disparage the work of those teams whatsoever, they are doing a fantastic job.
Ah, my apologies. I read the comment backwards from what it was, so thanks for the clarification.

That said, I have no idea what the French Miliary use. I would guess a lot of H&K stuff. In the U.S. at least, swapping out from an M16 to an AR-15 is pretty natural, but I have no way of knowing what the transition is from or to in France.
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Fair point about setup costs, but the marginal cost (which is what really counts over the long term) is negligeable in both cases.

Things are improving as I say in the piece, but it's worth noting that here in the Czech Republic I still have to pay nearly $200 for a month of data roaming in the US with a 200Mb cap. And that's if I go to the trouble of signing up for a special roaming plan, otherwise I could easily spent 10x that.
You're still using the 2005 sysadminning model of instances/hosts running services. Use elastic beanstalk or similar to pop up a layer of abstraction to "app". Your time is finite.
Cars have it simpler than planes etc too. In particular they can always fail safe by stopping - something that isn't applicable to planes. Other complexities aren't present either due to the 2d nature of roads - for example car software doesn't have to worry about stalls, coffin corner or similar.

I believe that self driving cars will primarily be owned by companies with fleets of them, rather than individual ownership we have today. It doesn't make sense to have them sitting idle 23 hours a day. The owner companies will have a very strong incentive for safety since even rumours would be bad for business. They will also be in a better position to do something about it due to having multiple vehicles.
I think that would be basically competing with Yammer, which is owned by Microsoft.
I work on similar problems on the software side. Trying to setup a home lab to do some experiments and was curious on what kind of hardware people are using.
Couldn't that be because they seeded the file to directly?
Be a pro: use font embedding, not font linking
If domain names were free one guy/robot would inevitably take them all. If he couldn't sell them or be paid for the monumentally complicated service of allocating them to the world (they're "free") then in the end nobody would have any domains except him, and everyone would use a different resolution system that wasn't free. The guy's domains would be worthless.

If domains were free they would have zero value. Just like bitcoin and virtually everything, ever.
Link is under "Menu" -> "Security & Privacy"
https://stayinyourprime.com/security

Brief technical outline (not on that page, as most people don't "care"):
- SSL for all API endpoints
- No data stored on the phone (unless you send to Health)
- No credentials stored on server (without special case explicit permission)
- Data at rest stored encrypted - but we have the keys
- Automatic security updates nightly, faster for events such as Heartbleed: https://twitter.com/stayinyourprime/status/45370574409788211...
- Threat monitoring software on all production servers and periodic vulnerability scans.
The Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years long and 1,000 light-years deep (Wikipedia). edit: I'm not sure why I felt the need to write that.

Voyager was 70,000 light-years from home and it was said on the show they needed 70 years at warp 9 to get home so the velocity of warp 9 must be 1,000 light-years per year (365 earth days) plus the whole faster than light thing which disregards the usual light year in a year thing. That's 2.74 light years per day which seems low considering Warp 1 is supposedly equivalent to the speed of light.

We've been lied to all these years it's all fake man!
I think this is awesome! As John Carmack said [1], you can hop in and enjoy in seconds.

What is even cooler, IMO, is that you don't necessarily have to write JavaScript and target WebGL only to get your game to work in the browser. You can write using Go and use packages with 2 backends, WebGL/OpenGL and GLFW/Canvas, to abstract out the platform differences behind a common API.

Then your game can be a single codebase that can either run as a native binary on desktop, or inside the browser.

See a working demo of what I'm describing here:

https://github.com/shurcooL/play/commit/e53557dd9c070ce0ec52...

[1] - https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/553720089674260480
Note that it is more than just maximizing profit. Prison guard unions are politically strong and they too campaign for more prisons and more occupants, because it means more jobs and union members.
Pretty cool!!! Hard to tell what is improvised and what is pre-planned. There's a part later on where the human keyboardist and the robots are playing a new melody line in unison, so that implies that the melody, rhythm, and placement (form) of that part of the piece was completely pre-composed. Maybe this is more like an in/out jazz piece where there's a set form of sections where each section is a combination of pre-planned and improvised music.
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> Even if private companies end up contracted to provide it in some cases, those would be regulated monopolies, not regulated free market businesses.

I guess you meant those would be regulated monopolies and not unregulated monopolies ;) ISP scene is quite far from free market at the moment.
Here's something that recently blew my mind, there are stars in our universe that are larger than the width of our entire solar system. Space and objects inside it is huge!
Exclusivity deals have been illegal for over 20 years.

Munis really just want to take a pound of flesh from everyone who enters the market.

If it was just cable companies owning the munis then the cable companies would have gotten a sweet deal.

>Why the heck would the government go out of its way to set up roadblocks for ISPs if no one wanted it?

People hate direct taxes on themselves and don't notice indirect taxes they pay. The guy who proposes a 50 cent increase per 1000 dollars of house gets kicked out of office. The guy who builds a new school because he gouged comcast is popular, even if its the same money.
I have to say that MRI is usually very good at detecting optic nerve impingement, so this 'crucial' point which is reported third hand deserves some skepticism.
It's very much more expensive than existing products.

WFP needs a variety of different foods. Sometimes they just need calories. Sometimes they just need micronutrient. Sometimes they need a specific micronutrient.

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/re...

http://wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...
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I really want to see what percent introvert founders take.

I have been reading articles saying introversion is not good for entrepreneurship. I wonder if this is true.

if it is true, will VCs treat introvert founders like they do to minorities?
Instead of going through all the hassle of doing barcodes and getting a barcode scanner, he could make a mobile application with buttons for each predefined message to send over email/twitter. Probably something like this already exists.
>"skill is in their muscle memory "

Muscle memory (Fine motor memory in this case) only develops for movements that are repeated many times per day, usually in continuous succession, such as typing, piano playing, guitar fingering, etc.

Medicine is extremely imprecise, and is understandable because our bodies are extremely complex machines; but pretending is not imprecise is doing medical science a disservice.

Just as a data point some doctors believe Fibromialgia is a fake disease, that is completly psychological, but the reason for this is because they cannot test pain and pain (and sleepiness) is the only symptom in that disease. The proble is that pain is still something subjective, even for things like amputation there is no way to actually measure pain, we just know is painful because when it happens the amputee screams -or faints-. But despite being -arguably- the most important measure in medicine we still don't know how to measure it beyond what the patient says.

Also, other reason we know is imprecise is because people recovers from things doctors didn't believe it was possible to recover (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVpCc_r9Sw)
Re: PRNG

Fortuna is built on top of an underlying block cipher in counter mode (typically AES), with some additional machinery for periodic reseeding to recover from the situation where the PRNG's internal state is compromised at a particular point in time.

But in most cases, the correct answer is to use your OS's /dev/urandom (CryptGenRandom on windows). If that is not secure your app is probably screwed whatever you do.
>>To be in an environment with like-minded individuals so one can foster ambition, inspiration, and collaboration.

Colleges are not the only such environment. But it is the most expensive.

>>Your sentiment can be applied to any skillset.

Not really, no. Would you let a doctor without w college degree operate on you? Have your city's bridges and buildings designed and built by engineers and architects who learned their trades from books?
I work in a crowdfunding startup where GoFundMe is our #1 competitor. We knew they were dominating the personal causes space, but we didn't know they were doing THIS well. I have much respect for their huge revenue/growth while taking 0 VC money.

A huge part of their success is SEO/PR (which is just a huge positive feedback loop). The product has great onboarding and they offer good customer support (guaranteed 15 min or less response times, which is important when you're dealing with people dealing with tragedies from natural events). While I agree that the design is horrible, from a pure UX standpoint their site is extremely simple to use. The typical user is someone who's not tech savvy, and they're won't care if they raise thousands of dollars.

Also, let's get off our high tech horses here and stop blasting GFM. The reason why a lot of people here on HN haven't heard of them is because we here most likely are educated and have good jobs. We can afford for whatever shit comes our way. Also, most donations come from personal networks i.e. friends and family members, while larger campaigns get additional support from local communities. Crowdfunding sites like Fundly and GFM really do affect people's lives for the better.
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I googled and Shimon may be a DJ? Or is it software coincidentally with the same name? Wasn't quite sure if it was just the robots dancing or something more impressive and ad-lib going on.
Hmm, mercenaries, 'soldiers of fortune', a very romantic concept. I'd like to be one, but then not.

Military training is tough and if the only thing you're fighting for is a paycheck, then you won't hang in there when it counts the most and hence are worth jackshit as a mercenary.

Most private armies worth anything consist of ex-soldiers of a republic. In essence these companies are subsidized by a/the republic's taxpayers.

So they are not a major threat to established governments, but still constitute a worrying trend. For if the world becomes sufficiently fucked, these will be the only dignified jobs left.

Hence, need to be regulated and monitored heavily by established governments. In no way should these emerge as alternates to democratic state power. As is modern democracies face an onslaught of challenges-look at freedom of expression. And I can only laugh at the ludicrousness of this term 'freedom of expression' if these private armies metastasize into something powerful.
FCC is an independent agency. He can't tell them to do anything.
Getting offers from clients is normal when you're good and have direct client contact. Could be full-time jobs, part time or side-projects. Employers know that.

Your contract probably forbids you to compete with your employer and might even contain a clause that you need to get approval for any side project which might compete. Since you'd work for an active client and thus harm your employer if you take over the contract (less money for them) it's not the best situation to be in from a legal point of view. Additionally the client has signed some kind of contract with your employer. That might have included an anti-poaching clause: the client is not allowed to lure you or make you work on the side. Depends in which jurisdiction you're in.

In my opinion you'd either need approval from your shop (if the client is still in contract with them) or you quit. Other arrangement will back-fire and can be reason for termination (or worse reimbursement, you're acting in bad faith or whatever that is called).
I can understand the Republican point of view here: the government doesn't care about customer satisfaction or uptime because they can't go out of business. However, american ISPs have proven over and over they are unfair and incompetent. It's 2015 and I can barely get speeds over ~1mbps (I live in Idaho, but still). Maybe they would try a little harder if they had government competition.
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Location, location, location, to borrow it from real estate market. In places like Bay Area, there is a surplus of excellent talents competing for academic positions. If one can't get one in Standard, Cal, UCDavis, USF, etc, they will fight for the positions in the community colleges. So it is not uncommon to meet excellent professors in community colleges in such places. I know a few who taught in community colleges in Bay Area and eventually got positions in 4-year universities in Midwest. I bet they wouldn't hesitate to come back if they can get a position here.

It could be quite a different story in other places. I lived in a small town in the Midwest before. It has a big university, which one might think would provide some good staffs to the local community colleges. The reality was it was pretty bad. The only students who were interested in learning were middle-aged, who took the classes more for leisure. The teachers were aloof, most of whom were not qualified in teaching in a college, IMHO.
In the future it'll be possible to use keyEvent.code for this: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#keys-codevalues

It's supported in Firefox Nightly + Dev edition. I don't know whether other browsers support it yet.
Isn't there Sherman act already? Why can't it be applied to ISPs? I.e. there are existing laws which can put an end to anticompetitive behavior of ISPs, but no one applies them. So why would adding more laws improve anything?
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They need to rerun all their stats comparing only iPhone6 users. I suspect a lot of their uplift is due to the kinds of people who buy an iPhone6.
The translation quality won't be (anywhere near) as good offline as online, but it works well enough for word lens to be useful without a data connection!
It certainly demonstrates that there are customer viewpoints that are not well represented by the commenters here.

The interesting thing for me is that 'eating' (and by commutation 'food') is plugged in so deeply into our psyche that it seems people have opinions on it that they developed very early in life. One of the things I noted at Google was the disproportionate backlash when they cut back on the free food available. It was like someone had instituted daily flogging or something, but it was just food. And yet through out our lives and our history food, sharing a meal, etc, is rooted deeply in our tribal culture. Not something you want to mess with lightly. Its not like Christians re-enact the Last Cocktail Party, rather it is the Last Supper.

Given those deep tendrils into our subconscious I wasn't surprised at the harsh response Soylent received. Nor the continuing resistance. And as someone who likes eating too much, I don't think it would be a good product for me but I certainly see how for some it would be ideal.

That the company has made it this far and their problems are "success" problems (can't ship enough, more demand than product) I expect they will grow into something quite a bit bigger than they are. And I too am glad that someone is thinking about this from the perspective of an 'everyday' kind of thing rather than a 'jaw wired shut so you have to' or 'get your kids some protein before school' sort of way.
And how many engineers are not embarrassed that they can't speak in front of a room of people?
> Wait, shouldn't that be easy for them to compete with, then?

Oh, but it is. If the municipal service can only offer 1.5Mbps for $40/month, the private ISPs can offer 2.5Mbps for $70/month, 5Mbps for $125/month, 10Mbps for $199/month, or the ultimate in performance of 25Mbps for $350/month. They're effectively free to gouge people if the only alternative is the crappy, low-speed government service.
They already do this, with these things called roads. In fact, I saw a tax-payer funded road that gave access to a church, a bar, and an adult store.
Inspired by the NY Times Story http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fal... - "More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I found myself standing on a bridge at midnight, staring into a man’s eyes for exactly four minutes."

Download app, go on a date, share your results :)
I'm more than prepared to give up pirating movies in exchange for modern broadband and competitive providers.
I tend to use notes as a self-test rather than for logging what's been said. For example, as I hear something important, I'll write a small question to the effect of "what is X?" or even just "X?"

Then (this is the important part) soon after the note-taking session is done, I go back and answer all my questions from memory, in writing. That lets me get tons of stuff down on paper later at a slower pace, and it also helps to cement the stuff in my mind because I'm not distracted by trying to write it all down while it's happening. Forcing myself to recall it also does a lot to make it stick.

Usually I can use my questions as cues to go look up the stuff I forget, and if there's something that I know I'll forget and won't be able to look up, I'll try to write that down (that's pretty rare though).
Oddly-toned press release considering they serve completely different audiences and markets - it's as if a product search engine started crowing that they're bigger than a flight search engine. Yes, Kickstarter and GoFundMe are both great crowdfunding businesses, but they're not really directly comparable.

I wonder why GoFundMe felt they needed to release this - perhaps they've decided to raise? Usually bootstrapped businesses keep their numbers to themselves.