skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'd much prefer 1-1 sessions rather than a group meetup. Don't get me wrong -- the meetups are great, and it's fun to meet new people. But you don't get to dig into much of anything.

I'm in SD (live in PtLoma, work downtown) and am down for a cup of coffee or lunch. Can do during the week if it's close to downtown, otherwise I'm sure we can figure something out. Email is in my profile.
Is Co-Working Taking Over the World? – WeWork Commons
This is really cool: http://www.cmap.illinois.gov/mobility/explore#/topic/roads/c...
There's no reason to believe it likely that religion is a constant elsewhere, though, since humanity is the only data point we have. Both assumptions are just projections of human bias, without any basis in fact.
1000+ iOS User Interface and User Experience on Pinterest
OS X is a credible threat to Microsoft in the high end desktop market, which is the only place where its OEMs can make money (and are not making money right now); the Windows ecosystem can't survive with 90% marketshare but only 40% profit share.

But Apple is more concerned these days in selling iPhones, which makes them a lot of money. And Microsoft wants in on that (disclosure: Microsoft employee, but speaking for myself).
Blast Force: The Invisible War on the Brain
The iOS and Android stores are massively better. Every week, a new flood of fake HBO, Xfinity, etc. apps are launched. Microsoft offered up to $2000 to devs to pump apps. Many are just wrappers around random YouTube channels or whatnot. MS encourages this.

MS even approved for sale, a fake Windows 8.1 update. That's how poorly it's handled.

Here's some pics to show the crap:
http://imgur.com/a/xvqZg#0

Fake Windows Update:
http://imgur.com/FOC0jr5

Contacting MS is useless. In the case of the fake Dropbox app, the MS CSR said it worked fine and I should try reinstalling this. This is regarding an obvious fake/scam/phishing app.

Even legit publishers are finding it hard to get pirate copies of their apps removed. If you look at the top paid apps, some of them are media players, rebundling things like K-Like Codec Pack (at least in name). Pretty much any popular title will have plenty of fakes going around.

MS prioritizes one metric alone: number of apps published. The store is filled with useless shit and is an embarrassment. As a user, it makes the Store difficult to use. And even after you get through the outright scams, the overall quality is pretty terrible. Just poor UI, janky software.

It's a shame, because the MS dev tools are really fantastic, and the frameworks look great.
> Is that part of what is meant by how to listen to music?

My sarcasm detector is broken.

The course covered the history of music (very much Western biased), taught us the names for the various aspects of music, how to identify the different elements in songs, the commonalities and interrelationships between genres of music, and had us sit down and listen to songs in a wide variety of styles.

Going into the course I listened to a very narrow selection of music, by the end of the course I had an appreciation for a much wider range of music, and I can find something enjoyable about almost any genre. I'd say that in the very least it made me a happier person who can find more joy in life!

It's been quite awhile since I took the course so I cannot remember all the vocabulary, which is unfortunate since I found that having the right words to describe something helps highlight its essence. That said, if I was going to work on a project with musicians, I would go and study up on the field again to regain that vocabulary, thus aiding in communication.

(I likewise had forgotten 90% of the EE material I had studied until my current job where I was reacquainted with the material!)
This piece is unfortunately almost content-free. Did his course really cover all those books? Did students actually read them?

It seems to me that this reading list goes way overboard and is more about checking off all the greatest works. A single semester barely provides enough time to give the typical Cliff notes coverage of all these works, let alone an in-depth treatment. Color me unimpressed (although I would like to be proven wrong given more details).
I can understand that deleting posts is not nice for the people who posted an for the integrity of the information and context, but the link I am referring to is of a different nature, that is the /user?id=me could be deleted without breaking any thread. To add that feature seems a reasonable and sensible compromise between privacity and integrity of information.
STD 80, RFC 20 on ASCII format for network interchange
I find girl streamers very... let's say amusing too. There's just one that is not like the rest. Speaks like 5 languages, painter/web designer. She is terrible at video games, but the streams are so chill and entertaining. Lots of painting on the stream actually. She's online now.

http://www.twitch.tv/misscoookiez
"Nevertheless, 3,000 pages of Shakespeare and Sophocles in four months still sounds dense."

Seems reasonable. Assuming it takes you on average 2 mins to digest a page, we're talking 100 hours total or 8 hours / week. I have taken engineering classes with a workload of over 20 hours / week.
This turns a 2000 record mail-merge from a matter of hours down to a few minutes.

Nice one.
Why Taskforce Moved from Node.js to Elixir/Erlang
No, these are only driver death rates. "The rates include only driver deaths because the presence of passengers is unknown."
3000 pages in 4 months, isn't that less than 30 pages per day? Sounds doable.
Using Apache Kafka at LinkedIn
You're focussing on physical addiction. A drug hitting you nearly instantly (IV use) vs over a period of time is definitely more psychologically addictive. There's really no argument there..

>Both in your nose and in your mouth the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream via a mucous membrane. The reason you don't see a lot of people putting large doses of cocaine on their gums is largely practical... same thing for mdma for example, just the other way around.

It's more practical to put it in your gums though - you don't need to lay it out, crush it up, line it up into lines, find/roll a tube etc. You just stick your finger into the packet and rub it on your gums. Do a little research - snorting affects you in a more intense way.

> /edit The coke-numbs-your-gums part is supposed to be a test for the quality of the product, easily faked though.

Cocaine was used by dentists to numb gums. It acts as an anaesthetic. Drug dealers play on this and add numbing agents to other drugs and pass it off as coke.
You linked a crap paper published in some open access journal. It was written by anti-vaxers with little or no research credentials.

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/antiv...

In addition to impugning the credibility of the authors (which maybe we can wave our hands in the air and say isn't fair), that blag says silly things like this:

For example, for the Verstraeten study, the Geiers reference an article that is more of a summary, and complain that it shows no data. In fact, the real Verstraeten study, published in Pediatrics, included all of the data. The Geiers absolutely cherry-picked a short summary of the Verstraeten study rather than examining the fully published article.
Open/Closed and the Single Responsibility Principle
> I wonder if Russel & Whiteheads's classic 1+1 proof has yet been (computer-)formalized?

http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/pm54.43.html (though using a slightly different set of axioms to R&W: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/mmset.html#axioms)
Hard not to notice that you didn't include your income in that post. Also it isn't so hard to understand income confidentiality. Some people have spendthrift relatives and acquaintances always on the lookout for loans. Some people will treat you different if they know how much you make. Envy is a thing, along with jealously.
Baller apology email by General Assembly
I can see this a few ways. I'm almost 50. I've had a couple of exits. I've retired and unretired.
Being young can have 2 critical advantages:
1. Unlimited time, minimal financial needs. No kids. No spouse. No commitments. You can GRIND away at a problem. You can live on almost nothing.
2. Clean sheet perspective on technology, capabilities, costs, etc. My first T1 of bandwidth (1mbit roughly) to my colocated server cost me $3000 a month. It's hard for me to get my head around what's real now with the drag of so much accumulated experiential cruft. They are more likely to say, hey how about we do it this way, when I wouldn't bother because of outdated perspective on costs and capabilities.

Now, I have a ton of experience on how the world really works, which is great. Especially people knowledge. But it's really hard to relate to how my kids see the world, having always been connected at high speeds, etc.
They have. They say the lord made it appear to be over 6000 years old to test your faith.
I'm much quicker with Inkscape than with Illustrator. I know Illustrator is much more powerful, but Inkscape just feels more productive to me.

Example: last week I had to open a bunch of EPS files in Illustrator and extract shapes to make new images. I had to realign shapes all the time, and had to set the "Relative to" field ALL THE DAMN TIME. While in Inksapce it remembers my previous choice.
Ask HN: Anyone want to be a machine learning mentor (paid/unpaid)
Hey guys! I've become absolutely fascinated by machine learning and related algorithms. Unfortunately it's very hard for me to learn by myself. Especially when all I can do is watch a bunch of course videos, or try to understand academic papers, that seem way over my head! I'm a developer by trade and have always learned best by hacking away at problems, and learning with other people!

If anyone is willing to help me out it would be greatly appreciated!
You can email me @ gbachik@gmail.com
If you're just installing a binary, there shouldn't be.
$2 is pretty good for rev share. Much of those impressions are clearing at $20+
Apple deletes a religiously offensive app
For some reason most of the newsies missed this story a few weeks ago - there's now good circumstantial evidence for ancient microbial life on Mars:

http://phys.org/news/2015-01-potential-ancient-life-mars-rov...
This is less reading than we had for my (rural public) high school AP English class. What's the big deal?

In fairness, our teacher simply said on the first day: "AP classes are supposed to be college classes, so we're going to do exactly the same reading as I did in my freshman literature course at Harvard."
They left out the most obvious reason for them to switch. Their business is based on docker, coreOS etc . . . aka the Go ecosystem. In that context developing Go expertise just makes business sense regardless of technical merits.
Fun stuff. I would also recommend using some kind of packet sniffer to collect sample data which can make your static analysis easier. To do this, buy the CC2541 development kit with packet sniffer for about $25. Alternatively, you can write a BLE proxy (using two Bluetooth adapters). To Apple’s credit, the CoreBluetooth API on iOS does not let the app know the MAC address of the peripheral, so the app will never know that it is talking to your proxy vs the actual device.
My dad never even told my mom how much he made, exactly - and she worked full-time too! His logic was that if we (kids, mom) knew how much was in the bank, we'd always be saying, "Why can't we have that? We have the money!"

All we knew was that we were living within our means, that mom and dad made enough - but that more was always better - and that the family budget was always made to fit inside my mom's (lower) salary, just in case.

Worked out well. We knew better than to bug him for stuff. He ended up socking a bunch away. And, we still managed to learn about the value of money when we got our own jobs - as kids.

All without knowing exactly how much my parents made.
Okay, I'm getting this pattern by people who want to make warrant canaries work:

1. You receive warrant you aren't allowed to tell friend about.
2. ???
3. Friend now knows you got a warrant! How clever!

It doesn't matter what stuff you cram into #2. I'm sure you want to talk to the court at great length about how #2 means you didn't communicate.

Courts have dealt with this nonsense for a long time. It's called "distinction without a difference."
In many languages it's normal for a single symbol to encode a whole concept. Alphabetic scripts are artefacts of cultures that didn't have access to decent paper, and had to use a small number of simple forms that could be scratched / carved / etc. and remain recognizable.
It requires minimum android version 2.3.3 and ARM v7+ CPU.
Magna.css – The only css color framework you'll ever need
thanks! It def is a lot of fun to use and to work on.
OS X offline DNS bug: no local DNS server when disconnected from networks
Here to stay, but may not end up in the software population that you expect it to.

I predict that Go is going to be the new Java: after entrancing a bunch of early adopters, it's going to see strong uptake in enterprise IT departments that need a language that isn't too complicated and leads to consistent code that interchangeable programmers can pick up without much trouble. A bunch of enterprise server frameworks will be built that handle the stuff enterprise developers generally need to do: integrations, RDBMS access, message queues, CRUDscreens, simple webapps. The boilerplate and levels of abstraction needed by these frameworks will drive off the initial Go early-adopters, who will find something newer and cooler like Rust or Julia.

It's already started to happen: one of my college classmates runs the IT department for a major school district. He's steeped in IBM mainframes, DB2, Cobol, Novell, all these ancient technologies. He's been looking for something to help modernize the whole mess, and last I talked to him, had settled on Go.
What about the percentage of "false dead"?

When years from now, some guy comes out with millions of coins to mess with the state of the BTC Economy...
The point is not whether somebody does a lot of research or not. The point is whether he/she had data available that is not available to the public. That is simply not fair.

Now, using helicopters to track oil tankers - as described in the article - seems to be a blurry line, but in theory anybody could do that and then use that information, it is available to everybody... In principle at least.

This data was entirely private, so I would agree with being not fair.

That said, I hope these guys do not have to go to jail, but are simply forced to pay their gains (or a portion of those) back, maybe as a fine.
I'd mod you up for making an interesting point, but it'd interfere with the meta-ness of your question being greyed out (a bit). I therefore leave you down-modded so you can better make your point.

On this particular story there seems to be quite a lot of (random?) down-modding. It'd be nice to hear if the admins could comment. From just looking at the greyed out comments, it at least seems different from the usual hn-patterns?
I actually have yet to read about that angle. Nice one! Maybe a little cynical, but also makes sense.
I was just about to say it isnt a fork!
Don't some theorize that Neanderthals had religion?

Humanity is also the only data point we have that intelligent life is possible. If you are going to theorize that it exists elsewhere you have to include everything else that is universal for humans or you are being intellectually dishonest.

You can't just pick and choose which universal things you think would exist elsewhere and which wouldn't.
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In the arts there is almost a complete inversion of this observation, e.g. Wallace Stevens did his best work late in life, and many others perfected their aesthetic expression in advanced years.

The work that software developers do is different than the work of top theoretical physicists. So it's hard to say what the advantage of youth is with regards to a holistic creativity.
It's only illegal if that is based on data that is not publicly available, right?
the WPM on that is aproximatley 525
> AWS' first-party client libraries are generally awful

Not a reasonable comment.
Why doesn't Twitch have their own donation system so they can take a cut of donations? Basically they need to implement StreamTip. They can then forbid partners (streamers who are allowed to have subs) from having any 3rd party tipping services. It's bad for StreamTip, but the profits for Twitch would be HUGE. There are some streamers, such as Lirik, whose main income from Twitch is probably tips. StreamTip already takes a cut of the tip, so it's not like the streamer would lose money if Twitch had their own tipping service.
>With Go, you never, ever have to write any OS-specific code.

Okay. The article claimed otherwise: "In Go, you can define different files for different operating systems that implement functionality depending on the operating system."

>Yes, you may generate a few versions (Windows, OS X, etc.) depending on the needs of your clients, but the cost is a few seconds of compile time, and a few seconds posting links to the Windows, OS X, etc. executables.

Except when the developer only compiles for Windows and Linux, but someone wants to run the code on Mac os X.

>Will they be able to figure out NPM? Yes, it's easy, but they'll mess it up anyway.

You don't need NPM. You can fetch the dependencies and include that with the installer. There's a downside to that, though, which is binary-packages with npm.
Microsoft shot themselves in the foot by blocking Qt from their platform, early on.
This video shows that as of OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) you can't use your machine for local web dev with a local DNS server with a wildcard to access your local sites when you are disconnected from a network

This is a real P.I.T.A. because you can't work on things when on planes/trains without Internet access unless you create a manual hosts entry, likewise it makes you look less professional when presenting things on premise at a clients.

I'm trying to work with Applecare on a resolution, but their not really groking it at the moment, and if it can't be resolved I'll be seriously considering a change of OS.
For a feature request or a question to the admin it's also good to use the support link. [I'm not an admin]
Yes, 0.91pre4 r13712 from Debian Experimental repository installed on Sid. Interface rendering significantly faster than stable version (e.g. rotating a spiral with blur).

Excellent.
>Even now, as a 29-year-old adult, I have no clue what my mother makes...

Just curious, what would you do with that information if you had it?
> Maybe young founders are preferred because they are cheap and they fail fast.

Also, they have a lot of energy and enthusiasm, so they work longer hours than older founders.

> They don't have the proverbial family to feed...

..or distract them (e.g. "I want to be home in time to put the kids to bed." vs "I pulled an all-nighter and finally cracked that problem."

> ..and they don't have enough life experience to worry about going head first in a direction that may contain a blind corner.

That lack of experience also means that they are less likely to reject an idea as too crazy/off-the-wall (which is what many people think the best ideas are, at first glance).

Older founders are more likely to perceive the risks and downsides, and be more tentative and less aggressive as a result.
Echolocation is a skill that basically translates clicky sounds that bounce back into structural details of the obstruction the sound waves encounter. be it height, weight, distance and if you get good at it even material composition. Look at Dan Kish to see an example
imaqtpie have 7k subs = +$21k/m.
trick2g, nightblue3 5.5k subs.
forsen $18045 in 16days from donations +$35k/m
https://i.imgur.com/OLyQNpk.png

Sodapoppin have $50,000, $35,000 single donations. 1961+ sub train record in 1 day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzHPWZWnEOM)
http://www.twitch.tv/sodapoppin
This cannot be emphasized enough. Without taking donations into account the predicted revenue is going to be so far off from the truth that it's pretty much useless.
The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Top 4 Traits to Look for in a Developer
I would not say that. When you are skimming, you actually skip parts of the text. Since an audible text is a constant stream of data, just skipping parts would make it incomprehensible
> [E]ven the youngest generally understand when budgets have become tighter and want to know why.

I don't think this is true for everyone. Children could write off a lack of stuff to any reason other than "budgets have become tighter", or give it no thought at all, or be proud that they are not spoiled. Also, "I never thought we were poor" stories are not uncommon. I don't know if that's a better way to go, but at least it's sometimes possible.
How should they solve this problem - market a tier of higher priced apps for SMB and enterprise, rather than consumers? There would need to be at least one wildly successful app, in functionality and sales at a higher price point, to convince developers to chase the dream.
Reddit Fires Cryptocurrency Engineer; Cryptocurrencies Not in Short Term Plans
Thanks. No sarcasm intended.

Maybe what you described is similar to what my
wife once took as a course in
Music Appreciation:
I met my wife at Indiana University, was
a grad student in math, lived in
the dorm next to the excellent music
school there, liked music a lot,
and took that opportunity
to get started in violin.

My wife knew a lot about music --
piano, clarinet, voice --
but
next to nothing about classical music;
so with my being interested in music also, she
took a course in the music school
in music appreciation. She really liked
the course.

So, maybe your course covered the sonata-allegro
from, tertian harmony, major-relative minor,
key modulation, medieval, classical, rococo, romantic,
modern, etc.

Okay, thanks.
Silly Billing and Dysfunctional Cashflow
>It's inescapable if they go to college.

I can confirm for you that it is not inescapable. And, yes that does make paying for college quite a bit more difficult for the student.
Thanks for all the feedback.
Is that ("that was obtained in violation of a duty of confidence") true? I don't think it is. I'm pretty sure you can't trade on information you overhear in a bar, for example.
Hackers List
Reminds me of recent post on HN about amp. it's like a hearing aid for your phone.

https://medium.com/@Amp/cant-you-just-turn-up-the-volume-4ec...
No, words are better than notation, they're self descriptive; there's a reason we communicate with words instead of pictographs; words are more flexible and easier to create abstractions with than symbols.
I remember learning that you can't rely on listed price for grocery items, but must check the per kilogram or per liter price. Because bigger containers are usually cheaper. But not always.

I still buy tuna that's 0.1 euro per kilogram cheaper ... I really don't know whether the savings are ever going to add up to anything and I'm almost certain it's not worth the 30 seconds it takes to check. But I can't not do it.
Looking over the fork graph: https://github.com/omniti-labs/pg_amqp/network there are clearly people with that feel that status-quo release is missing features, etc.
I actually had to go through that line by line to even see the difference since as I said I tend to ignore braces, brackets and parens unless I need them. For this, working with audio only would just be a bad idea and braille display would make this a lot easier