skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We consider homework as adults in the workplace to be a particularly strong type of stress and a sign of failed work/life balance. Why do we assume homework is then acceptable for children who've just spent 8 hours sitting down learning?
The is a delightfully entertaining article! Does anyone have a recommendation on the Kazuo Haga book, "Origamics"? vs David Mitchell's "Paper Crystals"? Origamics is a bit pricey... worth it?
How to Use Hidden-City Ticketing to Your Advantage
For anything that critically needs an audit log it's a pretty obvious choice (atleast compared to when people try to implement audit logs in a RDBMS).

I think it might also have a great deal of merit in prototyping applications quickly - Having the option to do just-in-time/memory projections while later switching to "real" storage seems really ideal to me if i'm just building something to validate it would like to defer those type of tech decisions.
Much has been covered by others, so as a designer with 10 years of experience my recommendation would be to change the logo into something cleaner.
Your first point may be better if broken into two. While a contract is written in English, you need a legal specific understanding, not merely a strong understanding of English. For example, consider affirming something.

If I affirm a statement, it is generally understood to be me agreeing with/supporting the statement. But if I affirm an appeal, I am supporting the original ruling that was appealed, which is in a very basic sense the opposite of what affirming an appeal would be seen as to most people using the English definition.
Sameroom – connecting chat rooms
I have wanted this for YEARS. Looks pretty sweet and well executed. Congrats
I think in later Uno revisions they added a IOREF pin for shields to read what voltage the IO is at and could in theory adapt to 5V or 3.3V as necessary. But yeah it's still a pain in the butt for older shields that assume they're at 5V.

Lots of sensors are happy at 3.3V though and many breakout boards are built to accept both 3.3V & 5V (with a level converter to take 5V down to 3.3V).
The amount of issues that have emerged with Lollipop on all the Nexus phones is absolutely unacceptable for a Phone Operating System.

And Google's stewardship is starting to show cracks.
I purchased a used Nexus 5 because I got tired of all modifications and dropped support on my verizon branded phone. I assumed that as a Google product it would have the best functioning version of Android.

But in the past few weeks it's become readily apparent that Android 5.0 is beta software. It just has too many major issues like the one in OP. For me, the most major issue is the memory leak that causes the entire home screen to be knocked out of memory. Usually a few times a week the leak is so bad that the currently running app will be closed down while it's in the foreground!
I hate what Silicon Valley companies (Google, Amazon, etc.) have done to the software engineer interviewing process. It heavily favors recent college graduates and destroys job mobility for older senior engineers who have a busy life.

For example, look at the answers to this Quora question about interviewing:

http://www.quora.com/How-much-time-did-you-spend-preparing-f...

The first reply mentions spending 5 weeks of studying, 2.5 hours every weekday and 8 hours on every weekend day. That's 28.5 hours of studying every week. 5 weeks of that is 142.5 hours. And he also spent time doing mock interviews.

I have a family and as a senior engineer I'm busy with work. What little free time I have is spent keeping up with new technologies. It has been many years since college. This process is basically very hostile to most senior engineers who have years of experience. I wish more companies would recognize this and change their process.
Hi! What we do is to provide a lot of alerts that you can configure and that you can handle in same place. For example, you can create an alert that will notify you when your site is down, or when there's a new meetup in your town, when a music band comes to your city...

Try to ask Siri for that ;).
As a designer learning iOS to build an app I designed, why didn't you develop the app yourself? Do you feel like the time lost learning OSX development would have offset the potential earnings of the app?

My impression when shopping around for a developer was that to get something like ghostnote built you'd have to spend around $50k+. This ultimately led me to just trying to build the app myself, but I'm finding that while I can achieve basic functionality with iOS, anything complex is far more time consuming (custom UIs, animations, integration 20 + apis).
I think

new RegExp("twl".split("").join("(.+)?")).test("cartwheel")

does approximately the same, no?
Thanks! Definitely let me know if you find any missing features, we literally shipped our first update [1] 24hrs after we got some feedback. We listen :)

[1] http://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-comment-tags/
>But sheesh, sometimes I think these are C programmers who don't have the guts to become Rust programmers.

I suppose another perspective is that there are no shortage of programmers who are suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome, and having them make excuses for existing language's shortcomings are one reason it is harder to get critical mass behind less borked languages ;-)

In a similar vein to the original article, some may like to play along with: http://www.gowrikumar.com/c/index.php

...anyway, I don't see the problem exposing people to potential pitfalls. It's almost like people arguing that people shouldn't read "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets":

https://www.google.com/search?q=expert+c+programming+deep+c+...

...also I'll just throw this out here:

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
If I had a dolla' for every similar throwaway comment about my own project, I would not need any funding.

Hey, maybe this can be a new startup funding mechanism. I propose "haterade.io", a betting pool where you can bet that projects will fail by a certain time. If you lose, your bet goes to the project.

Edit: the real problem is the OP's tone. I do agree that the founder of this project has an explanation problem, but the tone was "your project sucks and you're wasting your time."
R-Type III had a similar setting, where the pilots' limbs are removed in order to withstand the combat environment, and the pilots are connected directly to the pilot unit.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-TYPE_III#R-9.C3.98.EF.BC.88.E...
Actually, I didn't overlook the "spying" interpretation. It's certainly a possibility given Jim's tendency to compulsive and obsessive behavior. But as I noted, the things he related were not accessible in any recorded medium, nor did I speak of them to Jim nor anyone else during the time I knew him. Prior to that, I lived in a different part of the country and was even out of the country for awhile. Some of the things I'm fairly certainly I never related to anyone at any time.

I was never intoxicated during the time I knew Jim – I gave that up several years prior.

Jim never claimed to be possessed, nor anything like that. He would have found the idea repulsive. On the contrary, he generally considered himself to have a privileged relationship with God – a not uncommon delusion among persons suffering from severe mental illness. At the same time, I never heard him justify his personal behavior on that basis. Generally, Jim seemed to believe that other people, especially the police, had serious moral and intellectual defects which caused them to misunderstand and persecute him. He also displayed paranoia (sometimes extreme, to the point of self-harm) about most everything and everyone.

Finally, I never gave (and don't give) Jim a "pass" because I believe he was possessed. In fact, I'm not sure he was. The only thing I am certain of is that he displayed all the signs of serious, prolonged and untreated mental illness. I also thought he was deeply spiritually troubled – so I prayed for him a lot (still do) and I tried to encourage him to seek the counsel and ministry of a couple of wise pastors in the area. However, for all his hyper-religiosity, Jim displayed a strong aversion to church and to authority figures in general. The incident I described previously did make me consider that some aspects of his malaise might be related to demonic influence, and the events seems to defy a natural explanation, but I cannot presume to know for certain.
With that few requests, the wrong app server will terminate the process, meaning that every request will endure massive startup costs.

It also probably means that the server is on a $5 VM, so memory pressure is also a concern.
I heard the story on the podcast, so I'd think it's still available.
O(1) Bitcoin Block Propagation
Bad arguments. 1. Reason one is wrong as both increase in transaction volume and BTC price are both not only possible but can actually be positive externalities that reinforce each other. The increase in transactions could lead to an increase in price as more people adopt BTC. This has already proven to be the case in the early history of BTC.
2. See above. Once adoption increases, the incentive to convert to Fiat decreases thus making this problem gradually irrelevant once the market tips (the big if).
3. The need for regulations: Obviously total garbage. No need to refute.
4. Decentralization is better than monopoly central control. Legislators and Regulators are the only true monopolies. Market actors are not, so market based intermediaries will still have reasons to exist. This is not a necessary condition for widespread BTC adoption.
5. Full decentralization and "censorship resistance(aka freedom)" are important when there is a threat of property confiscation, which will become increasingly relevant when states become desperate for more revenue (already happening).
6. People don't find daily utility in fast decentralized transactions? That is ludicrous.
7. Trust. That's the whole point of btc protocol. Achieving trust between unknown parties (refer to Byzantine Generals Problem)
8. The section on blockchain is good and valid.
A WebRTC Constraints Test
The segregation between common and priority stock can be painful. I learned about it the hard way after I left the startup and paid money to exercise the vested options. When the company was acquired, all the common stock was worthless (but the execs with voting power got millions of dollars of bonuses so they didn't care) which meant I had lost the money required to exercise the options.

What annoyed me more than the couple $K I lost from the options was the opportunity cost of not leaving the job earlier. Like all startups, the company paid below average wages (since startups pay a significant proportion of compensation in the form of options) so if I left earlier, I would have gotten a large pay bump from having joined a non-startup that paid a normal salary.
Ofcourse! I'd be delighted to! As long as they don't have a age barrier ( the one in Barcelona was organized for under 25's only )
So, because they've done good they are immune from criticism?

Off the top of my head, I've witnessed this label at parking garages and Starbucks drink counters. For public locations, if the label's concern were legitimate wouldn't it be appropriate to fix the situation instead of just fostering an environment of ignored signage and faux consent?
Clearly it can't be agents "all the way down" (in any case, the component parts of the neurons do not have agency), but the idea that it will be easier to evolve a high-level agent if the components themselves are agent-like seems coherent. It would be interesting if this could be sharpened into a testable prediction, in some kind of toy model.

I could see it go the other way too--for example large companies and states struggle to act as coherent agents, because the individuals and business units inside them scheme against each other, pursuing their own agendas. In order to maintain high-level agency they need to suppress low-level agency, e.g. armies training their soldiers to blindly follow orders.
Are your graphs up to date ? Seems just an hour ago [1]:

> Rust: build with --release. 10X performance boost!

That might mean that Rust would top the charts instead of Nim.

[1]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/commit/434516e0d172904e06b05f6...
That's not a "phase", that's just a rebuttal to a hyperbolic claim often made by bitcoin fanatics.
Starting to show cracks? It seems to me like it's only getting better.
Depends on how many video/audio ads Google wants to shove down your throat. Not many yet, so I guess it's not a high priority yet ;)

Google has the annoying habit of ignoring bugs that don't affect a lot of users, no matter how critical they are. This has been discussed previously on HN, not long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803118
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Do you know how much 'state' DeepMind is tracking? Is it just choosing the best action given perceptions at the moment, or does it have some level of memory to work from? I wonder how DeepMind would do at path-finding in a maze for example - would it get stuck in an oscillating state?
https://gist.github.com/khirbat/1471088
For an interesting read on how telegraph and pneumatic technologies evolved : search for the book "The victorian internet".
A step closer to quantum computation with Quantum Error Correction
"Photograph" light?

Photons are bosons, thus they don't interact, right? So you can't bounce light off of light to photograph it?

Edit: Okay, so I was being pedantic.

Anyway, if the wave is propagating through a wire, and waves have duration, then aren't you really capturing a picture of a wire propagating an old wave, and a new set of photons acting as particles?

That's like taking a picture of a boiling pot of water and saying you got a picture of water simultaneously as a liquid and a gas, because there is liquid water in the pot and steam rising off of it.
The MX in this case refers to mail exchanger rather than Mexico.
Build Beaconified Apple Watch Apps Using Estimote's SDK and Nearables Simulator
No promises: asynchronous JavaScript with only generators
As a student for the last three years, the rise in student hackathon and any tech-related activity has been nothing short of immense.

I think a big part of that is thanks to students like those behind HackLondon and similar events who work tirelessly (and sleepless-ly) to get people excited and sharing their work.

It's a good time to be a student in tech!
Yes, I updated it already.
not for now, but next update might have a solution for that.
This is one of those interesting items that is truly deserving of the headline "Neat Trick."

It reminds me of a card trick that I learned as a child that appeared to work by magic, but instead worked every time because it involved something complex going on involving math.
Thank you for the idea.
We were thinking of adding a short video or screenshots when we release the updated Beta version of LawGeex
The only thing that has consistently frustrated me with Android on Nexus devices (Can't speak for non-Nexus devices) is the "safety" feature when plugging anything into the headphone slot.

Seemingly randomly it will cut volume to 50% to protect hearing and you can't turn up the volume until you agree to a notification warning you about the potential dangers of high-volume listening.

I use this in my car. I need the volume max -1 click. Plugging in my phone and then wondering where the music is is infuriating. I don't want to have to pull over out of traffic just to unlock my phone so I can agree to a notification and then turn up the volume again. This wouldn't be a problem if it only asked me once, but it tends to "forget" at random times, usually when I'm in a rush and don't want to fuck with my phone.
I don't think you're seeing my point.

The documentation doesn't do anything to convince the reader that gitless' UI is more consistent than git's.

Let's pretend I'm a newbie. All I see in the documentation are a list of commands that have pretty much 1:1 mappings in git. How is it better?
New Chinese character threatens to 'break the internet'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131758
Thank you for that link; it was the first introduction I'd had to that concept. A lot of it resonates with the experiences I've had with traditional learning throughout my high school and even college years, vs 'active' learning I found I had to adapt while doing my master's degree.
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>I can't recall the last time anyone I know hired a lawyer to sign a rental agreement

I know the OP was talking about residential leases; however, in the span of ~3 years I would say I have been retained ~100 times to review/negotiate/revise commercial lease (rental) agreements.

The real value would be comparing the results of LawGeex with a lawyer's legal opinion for the same contract. Even then, it is easy enough to say one could compare 2 attorney legal opinions of a contract and have drastically different opinions, or that while a LawGeex contract review may be identical to an attorney on one contract, it may not on another.
Instagram Starts Letting Ads Be Clickable
Yup. (As I type this on my work computer too). It sucks. The limited options are go someplace over lunch to get it done, take PTO if your employer is inflexible, or find a new employer.

Your personal, private, and confidential dealings while using employer provided equipment, networks, and time are anything but those things.
Sure, but when only 4% of PhDs ever get a faculty position, there is a huge pool of underemployed PhDs to choose from. Why would an institution ever consider someone without regardless of rankings?
How was traffic today?
I can see the leaks manifest during app switching as well. It takes longer than 3 seconds to change.
The Venn diagram in this article really bothers me. Venn diagrams aren't meant to show the makeup of a whole. This should be a pie chart. The diagrams implies that there are more persistent people than inspired people, not that you need more persistence than inspiration.
People are hyped about Bitcoins being trustless? That sounds wrong.
And Node.js too.
Google has the annoying habit of ignoring bugs that don't affect a lot of users, no matter how critical they are.

Is there a cultural thing within Google, where people talk about how stupid and deluded general users are?
Never done any homework but I'd say keep it focused and usable. Rather than "homework" make it a project that is expected to use the knowledge garnered since the previous project. Then use the "best" project as a recap during lesson.

Most of my lesson time were spent sleeping as I live in the "slowest student sets the pace" country of Sweden.
>Basically the way this works is that we give new employees an up front lump sum in the amount of how much it costs to purchase the shares of the company.

Interesting. Can you provide more detail on this? Do you just pay the lump sum outright as a hiring bonus? Obviously this works at early stages when the stock is like $0.001/share, but what happens after you've raised a few rounds and the current fair value of the stock is in the 6-7 digit range?
(not on HN)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
Yep, it's a hack that depends on execvp behavior.

I'm pretty sure I've seen a case in which a particular script worked when called directly from Bash, but not when invoked by other things like xargs or nohup, because Bash actually will execute scripts under itself, while execvp will execute it under /bin/sh which is Dash on Debian/Ubuntu systems.

In fact, it was even better than that; they had even used #!/bin/bash, but had whitespace before it, causing the shebang to just be treated as a comment and not the as an interpreter:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24944405/why-is-the-foll...

Looks like it's fairly standard for shells to have this behavior, and execvp() is intended to have the behavior of executing like a shell would, so searching the path to find the executable and then passing the result to the shell interpreter if the underlying execve() returns noexec. May be a feature to add to your wacky homebrew shell.
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1. I don't comment often, and when I do, it's not to earn magical internet points.

2. I am certainly not advocating diffuse positivity. If you knew me, you would know positivity is not my strong suit. :)

There's nothing wrong with saying that the product seems unfocused or overly complex, or suggesting that the creator focuses either the execution or its messaging. That's useful, constructive feedback that the creator can do something with.

There's not really even anything wrong with saying "I don't understand why anyone would use this" -- although that's not particularly useful feedback.

Jumping from these reasonable positions to "you're wasting your time" is where I take issue. It's a dangerous leap of judgement that none of us can or should make for someone else -- certainly with the limited understanding that we can gain after a few minutes.

The creator seems to have come here to get feedback on the product, not for an intervention.
One interesting benefit of the square difference is that it's differentiable, while the absolute difference isn't, which can come in handy for some optimization problems.
To the author: if this many people is confused about the difference between multi-pane and multi-column, your message isn't clear and it won't be to the developers you're asking either.

Explain exactly what you want (I read the blog post and it gave me no clue to that) and the developers might understand what you're asking.
Ask HN: Is there a community to hypothesize how closed-source code was made?
Hey everyone, I was wondering if there was a centralized spot (forum, irc channel, etc.) where people tried to dissect how certain aspects of a program were created without having access to the source code. Coming from a web development background, I'm pretty used to inspecting the requests/responses to the server and the front-end code to make a best guess as to how something was done.

I feel this would be different when trying to figure out how some functionality was implemented in, say, an Apple App. I'm not too keen on reverse-engineering someone else's work if they didn't want me to. Is there a spot where people try and discuss their hypothesis of how something was made without access to the source?
Another issue that this article sort of touches on but doesn't make explicit: the real world is not a Markov decision process. There are complex, variable-order time dependencies which we are barely aware of but which influence our thinking every second of every day. Trying to model this in software leads to an exponential increase storage and time complexity. The curse of dimensionality has been with us ever since Bellman coined the phrase almost 60 years ago; it's not going away anytime soon. Thus, it's difficult for me to see how deep Q-learning (or any other MDP-based algorithm) gets us any closer to human-level understanding.
OP: did you edit the title? it was "Should The Inability To Hear On A Nexus 6 Be A Small (Low Priority) Issue?" and it looked appropriate enough to me. This is about Google's neglect more than about the issue itself.
Ask HN: As a freelance web developer how much should i charge?
I've been a freelance web developer for a while now, just something i do alongside college to help myself out. I've been getting work through freelancer all this time which i noticed is way too cheap comparing to the real thing. I was getting ready for a while now to start an online portfolio and start getting work through it, but i have no idea how much web developers usually charge, and no idea either where to get clients. So any help is appreciated

I create:

-Website templates

-E-commerce websites

-Wordpress/Joomla themes

-Some SEO from time to time

-Adding responsiveness to websites

-Website designs

-Dynamic websites

If any experienced web developer could tell me how much they usually charge for any of those services i'd be very grateful
Show HN: Rapping with the Speech Synthesis API