skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a shame that this has been upvoted so much and not commented upon yet. I happen to be homeless and I know there are other people here who are struggling in the present -- pleas for help sometimes show up here by people in real trouble -- and I know there are people here who have been homeless in the past.

As a nation, we need to work on putting together a better social safety net and we need to work on making a whole lot more affordable housing available. I don't recall the exact figures off the top of my head, but the number of available affordable housing units is some relatively small percentage of demand. This is in part because of the way taxes and financing and things like that are structured. It is in part because we have done away with a lot of affordable options in a lot of places, like SROs and boarding houses. The types of places young single people used to live largely no longer exist.

As a nation, our track record for caring for our children really sucks. This is a very poor policy that hurts the future of our country. We are churning out relatively large numbers of people with terrible childhoods and then wondering why so much fails to go smoothly. We are grinding up a very high percentage of future citizens and then expecting them to somehow solve it themselves. Aside from any moral concerns, this is just a terrible thing to do to ourselves as a nation. We are flushing a great deal of human capital down the toilet by caring so little about the welfare of our children.

Edit:

From the end of the article: This also means that we need to de-stigmatize homelessness, so students in need will self-identify and get the help they need.

This is part of why I am open about being homeless, although I know that in the short term it hurts me. I would probably be taken more seriously here and other places if I weren't open about being homeless currently. I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class. I have about six years of college, including an AA and 2 certificates and I am a few classes short of a bachelor's. But I realize that my lack of housing is something that convinces many people I am simply incompetent and I get dismissed and they move on. And that needs to change if things are ever going to improve in this country. As long as people figure homeless folks are merely inept, they aren't going to try to get at the real roots of the problem, like sky high housing costs.
AMA: Patrick Campbell, CEO of Team Behind Price Intelligently and ProfitWell
Hells yeah for chutzpah and grit.
No sir. The magician with the Midas touch is gone. Therefore, Apple has to become a normal company i.e. Spend a lot on R&D, gain little immediate returns but can't cut the budget because their future depends on it.
Five Areas Every E-Commerce Business Should Monitor Using Log Data
I'm surprised that Ripple didn't register with FinCen. It's not hard.

After registering, a US money service business has to file reports on "suspicious transactions". This is done electronically, although the data formats are incredibly antiquated.[1] Each record is like a 1000+ column punched card, and they're filed as big batches. On the other hand, there's not much of an attack surface against FinCen, and since their opposition is drug cartels, that's an issue.

[1] http://bsaefiling.fincen.treas.gov/docs/TestingProcedures.pd...
What is impressive about being somewhat misleading and cutting corners to gain performance?
Exploring PostgreSQL temporary table explosions with Docker
we're still using mysql?

it's still relevant? I never suggest to people who are starting a project to use mysql. (even percona, although I know they do good work).

if there is a case for using mysql can someone explain it to me? it feels like a toy in comparison to postgresql, oracle or mssql.. and is too "warty" for small systems either (where sqlite dominates).

from what I can tell the only real advocates of mysql seem to be those unwilling to adopt new technology.. but this is all my experience and I'm genuinely curious if anyone sees it differently.
That's a good point; it may also allow them to command a higher valuation/offer, if that's what they're looking for.
Which is why you wouldn't pick Russian. You need something more obscure and exotic sounding, that the vast majority of the audience wouldn't recognize. There are a lot of such languages. Possibly Lithuanian was too conservative. Basque anyone? For Dothraki you really just need something really alien sounding.

Early in Game of Thrones when Khaleesi (sp?) hooked up with the Dothraki warrior guy ("you are my moon" etc.) I would infuriate the office GoT geek by my inability to remember any of the names in general, and my humorous (to me) habit of referring to said warrior as "the Klingon dude" in particular. To me if he looks like a Klingon and sounds like a Klingon...
Luxa Sunglasses
You could use that analogy, but only if the NSA really really liked pineapples. They really really like spying on people and therefore like the technologies that allow them to do so. And they have a lot of money and power that would appeal to a company that might want to dabble in the gray areas of legality with regards to privacy.

You might argue that Facebook works to perfect facial recognition and identification technologies to sell them to the NSA, along with that nice full database of people and their pictures. That would make more sense than pineapples.
The Art of Giving Good Advice
I guess... but that's so boring! ;)
Clickable: http://www.savvyist.com
> Every generation says the next generation is worse. It's actually true.

Every generation has said that since, at least (judging from the earliest documented case I'm personally familiar with, which is no doubt many generations from when the trend started), the time of Plato.

> Western civilization reached it's peak right around 1776, the height of the Enlightenment

[Considers status of the Atlantic slave trade, position of women in society, etc., in 1776]

Um, no. Just no.

> Every generation is worse than the last

Its really not.

> and Western civilization will not last much longer unless the trend reverses.

Western civilization isn't on any trend to disintegration, even if you may not like its current organization.

> You can't turn the United States into a Hugo Chavez-style system and expect a different outcome than the one in Venezuela.

In what meaningful sense is the United States a "Hugo Chavez-style system"?
Thanks for that well written insight.

I had the same feeling while studying computational neuroscience.

There is no way in hell the current approaches is going to lead to AGI anytime soon ! The models we have for even the most simplest operations of the brain is not well though out. Even using the term "Artifical Nueral Nets" is an insult to the real machinary that is a neuron.

However, I do not think someone in some basement is going to figure out the solution. I think the people who are working to solve the problem are the army of nameless minimum wage graduate and PhD students across the industrialized world who are studying all the various topics involving hardware, software, biology, etc. All of which are required to create a a true AGI system.

We are no where near creating Strong A.I. but its going to come incrementally.
There surely must be a very hard limit to the number of drug hitmen taking payment in WoW dollars?

I know that's a little facetious but "value" is almost entirely based in what a human can get out of it - and that is almost entirely in the real world.
PayPal has a trademark on "Pal"?
In Finland, municipalities keep a certain number of "substitutes" in their payroll, who are more or less able to cope with most of the tasks of a typical farm. And then the farmers (who are considered a special class of entrepreneurs) can have a maximum of 26 days of holiday per year. These people also jump in when a farmer needs a sick leave. The Finnish term is "maatalouslomittaja".

Edit: I found a description in English: http://www.mela.fi/en/farmers-holiday-and-stand-scheme
So much fun! And the random music is fun too.
Looks well designed. I wish someone would do this for MongoDB!
Apple is still shipping by Air.

I doubt there is 30 days of phone inventory, more like 1-2 weeks. They are keeping their supply below 4 weeks, as part of lean manufacturing. Thus their turnover in supply is less than the amount of time it takes for a shipment to cross the ocean.

This might still be doable, but demand shifts would mean that some models that are suddenly more popular (Eg: the white vs gold colors) would cause outages.

The goal is zero supply- the phone arrives at the store just as the customer spontaneously walks in to buy it.

That would be most efficient.
Would be complete for me if i could use the mouse to move it like agar.io does it.
Looks great! Can't tell anything about the content really... but for the site itself:

- I like the merged signup/in

- The "try customizing this page" is a bit technical and it's far enough from the following text that I didn't think they were related

- I find the constantly changing faces distracting... maybe a smoother and/or longer transition could help?

- After clicking on one of the guides, I got the top bar and a white page - the main image took so long to load that I thought the page broke. This may just happen on slow connections. (I could scroll down already, but wouldn't know that without looking at the scroll bar)

- The footer with about / story / blog / legal links is not available on the front page - on purpose?
Building Large Scale Web Applications with TypeScript
We're still asking this ridiculous question?

MySQL supports UPSERT, it supports a lot of partitioning types that Postgres doesn't (and it's first-class partitioning, rather than you having to hack it out of table inheritance). There really are features in MySQL that Postgres lacks, and I haven't even gotten into the world of replication yet. They're different databases with different features and tooling and communities and third-party software support. They should be evaluated on their merits.
First street legal self-driving “car” (ok, Truck)
Towards a more robotic future.
They should do the same for android then. I'd definitely install it, it seems interesting.
There's something nice about having one's sensory input be the type which one's body has been optimized to process by millennia of evolution...
As someone who liked all kinds of toys as a kid and is largely indifferent to gender as an adult, this appeals to me.
Maybe it's good for live performances in darkened nightclubs.
or visit Israeli Kibutz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
Big discussion on this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9489237

From today's link:

Like other organizations, hospitals deploy firewalls,
intrusion detection system software and other
security products to protect their networks.

I'd like to take the "under" on that. I'd bet that hospitals, like most other large organizations, are really cesspools of virus infected, spam spewing botnets.

I'm only exaggerating a little bit. My intuition is that there are plenty of infected Windows computers in "most" big organizations. Anyone have a link to anything more definitive than my random "intuition"?
It should be tax free. The money was made overseas from products made overseas and sold to overseas customers by overseas entities.

Taxing money coming into a country is really bad economics and amounts to just pure greed.

Countries should want money coming into their markets. Not punishing it.
Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain Text
Facebook supporting “Fast Track” bills to speed passage of the TPP
This is really interesting, specially if it really reduces the burden of running Mysql with failover or multiple slave databases. This is similar to what is currently available on AWS - RDS, but requires separate database instances and is very tricky to implement on development environments or local infrastructure.

I'd be interested in knowing if any of you have tried it or inspected the code in detail.
I've experienced this also with slower selling products like the MacBook Pro.

I think Apple has simply built up a logistics infrastructure based on Air Freight and built it in as a cost.

This is kinda smart because the AirFreight is going to be roughly comparable anywhere in the world.
Having used the app, if this is the future of discussion then I don't want it. There are innumerable ways to trip concealed content filters that then deceptively remove posts in a way that makes it look like community action rather than top-down content moderation. Some of these filters are great for preventing liability for their app, but make the app worthless for useful discussion. I can't wait until they implement their natural language filters so that mentioning suicide or a gun generates an automated community check or police visit, or it's just impossible to violate opaque ideological norms set by app creators in a high-tech version of manufactured consent.

Using modern social apps for me is starting to feel like navigating a Kafka-esque bureaucracy. I don't know the right thing to do to be heard, I don't know the wrong thing to do to not bring down sanctions on me, and I often struggle to navigate the app because I don't know the invisible use patterns behind unlabeled buttons and hidden swipe menus, dot-replies, etc. Am I shadow-banned? Does the app hide my replies until I pass some invisible commenting threshold? How do I page through replies? Are my posts being seen by a few people or everyone, and by what criteria? All invisible.
Memebox (YC W14) is hiring its first UX Designer
It's not necessarily a 'bad' thing. It's an acknowledgment that we're often "forced" to be in situations with aggressive people where cops have defense mechanisms, tools, and we only have our wits. It's a "I've got your back" thing, not in the 'thin blue line' sense, but more "You take a swing at me, I have a taser. You take a swing at the paramedic, you're going to jail."
This is for restaurants. People in villages feed their own livestock, so, no problem there either. But people living in the cities, unfortunately, still waste some food, but it's a lot less than here in the US. So much food is wasted here, it's a serious problem.

In general, in Bulgaria, wasting food is still planted in the minds of people as "sin", so, they try to avoid it in different ways.

I recently try something, which I call "distributed composting". For example, instead of throwing the test of an apple in the garbage can, I throw it in a bush or somewhere hidden where it will decompose and had to be driven away and burned or stored or whatever they do to our garbage.
I’m wondering why we need another one? There are dozen tools out there which do exactly the same… From free http://www.mailtester.com/ to paid https://tools.email-checker.com/.
> I'm mystified by how offering a feature that extends the existing state of the art in addition to offering a feature that reflects the state of the art—the macro system—could possibly be somehow "doing it wrong".

That's a total strawman (seriously: every time I see you deal with a criticism you pull out this flamage toolkit; please stop). All that stuff in the first half of your sentence? That's the stuff you're doing right.

What you're doing wrong is that I can't write that inline in the code and need to write it as essentially an extension library for the compiler.

I don't think it's such a strange request that my DSL implementation look like it does in C or Scheme, e.g. "[Define some quirky DSL hackery] [Implement a bunch of code using it]". I'm likewise mystified why you think that's not a useful requirement or a shortcoming (even a minor one -- you're literally refusing to engage me on this) of your design.

The example code in the linked article is simply ugly. Ugly APIs are bad, even (especially) for subtle features.
FIDO: Fully Integrated Defense Operation (from Netflix OSS)
Thanks a lot for the airplane tip, I had no idea you could get a decent Cessna 172 for 20-30k. That would certainly be an awesome commute.
Until recently I was teaching for another 'coding bootcamp' (or something that could be described as such) and when I was reading the linked article/pdf my jaw was on the floor. We surely weren't perfect, but this type of stuff makes everyone look bad.
This still doesn't answer what Apple actually does. Its all just speculation to the best of the writer's abilities.

And whatever it does, it probably has some good and interesting reasons why it does it that way.
This has been my experience with Rust as well. Came for the C/C++ competitor, stayed for the type system. Also not using it for anything "real" yet, but excited to at some point.
An article on such a system hit HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9484682
A yum update and reboot allowed it to work. You're likely right (or it was some other Xorg bug). Getting color scheme readable was easy (making it look nice and be readable will take a lot more work).

It feels pretty complex, and it seems like it's heavily reliant on hotkeys to be able to do much of anything quickly/easily. I recall being very effective at getting ideas working on hotkey based trackers in the distant past, but it's been a long time, and I dunno if I have the patience to learn enough of it to be productive even approaching the level I'm productive on other tools. It almost feels like Impulse Tracker is its ideological ancestor, in its reliance on keyboard navigation. Which some folks love. I'm not necessarily in that camp these days.

But, still an interesting experiment and UI design for music.
>> Random Reads: Indeed LSM Tree ->454 seconds; Kyoto Cabinet B-Tree->50 hours

That's ridiculous. AFAIK, Kyoto has the fastest random reads as per a levelDB analysis[1]. Not sure how this stacks up against RocksDB, but stating that the IndeedLSM tree is 2 orders of magnitude faster sounds suspicious.

[1] http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html
"anonymous flavor" or "anonymous style" apps
Thank you so much for checking it out and for the feedback, viraptor!!

- Good point on the "customize this page". I showed it to someone today and they thought it changed the page "skin", like the color of the page. I will muse about how to make it clearer...

- You're right, the transition is quite slow. I think maybe it is jquery being laggy? I'm pretty newb with javascript, I will look into if there are any smoother transitions.

- Lol. That's what I get for being close to a university and having really good connections. I will try to figure out how to make it faster on slow connections.

- For the footer, not on purpose, I just didn't want there to be too many things to take them off the homepage. Also the About/story/ is pretty outdated so I need to update that. I will add it in after I update, since you think it is useful to see early on.

Thank you again for taking the time to check it out, I really appreciate it!
Anything sufficiently sensitive or representing a US advantage over other nations is ITAR controlled.
I would say an answer of "yes" is a huge red flag. A good CEO needs to understand risk/reward. VCs are investing in risky things, and thus distribute their cash amongst hundreds of start ups, fully aware that most will go to zero. It doesn't matter because 1 will go to $1 billion.

OTOH, family usually can't afford to lose what they give. They make emotional decisions, not financially rational ones.

If a CEO can't distinguish those entire distinguish those entirely different cases I doubt their financial acumen. You go to VC for moon shots, to the bank for proven business models, and to family and friends to build a family 'lifestyle' and asset heavy businesses (asset heavy so you can recoup some of the money if your business fails).

No one rational should believe that their startup will succeed no matter what. We know, with certainty, that it almost certainly will fail. It's a flutter - a bet on a fabulous future (fabulous in terms of success, making a difference, huge wads of cash, whatever). If VCs expect that kind of naivety, well, you get what you pay for. How many other ways will that CEO be naive?
Instagram Marketing – Optimized for Business
Really? When I look at it I only see an eye (viewed in profile) with the legs of the A being eye lashes.
Your friends are living in a xenophobic fantasy.
The thing is Microsoft's Metro isn't even a product, it's just a name for a technology. Why should this company even care. The whole is ridiculous and that's why Microsoft should not have backed down on it.
Personally I'm of a like mind and I consider this progress. I have a bunch of (smart, curious) daughters and I feel a real struggle against gender role orthodoxy when I'm trying to nurture their interests in legos and science and Tolkien and their friends are into American Girl dolls and Disney princesses.

With that said, you can see why retailers would be slow to drop gender categorization. For people who aren't particularly progressive on this issue, Amazon just made shopping harder. For the average adult shopping for kids' toys, I bet the single most valuable bit of information to predicting their purchase is the gender of the recipient.
I must be misunderstanding you, because it looks like you're saying refusing to conform to gender roles makes us more robotic. Which would be ridiculous, so you probably don't mean that.
Key word /may/. I grew up in the backwoods of interior northern california.

And have terrible allergies. I take allergies shots, two nasal sprays, and antihistamines. They still only go away in the snow and rock above the treeline.
Fitness and fatness have a subjective relationship with beauty, but there is an objective relationship between extremes in weight (from over- or under-eating) and health. While the exact relationship is a little different for each of us, eating too much or too little is unhealthy for everyone.

Which is why this notion that weight can only be criticized or celebrated in the context of beauty is nonsense. You can be both beautiful and deeply unhealthy. And that's what weight really is, a health issue. Hijacking genuine conversations about health and turning them into philosophical conversations about beauty is intellectually dishonest. It's easy to dismiss subjective opinions about beauty. It's difficult to address society-wide failures with weight management.

If we eradicated behaviors like starving and binging, issues of unhealthy beauty standards would nearly evaporate. That's the kind of social goal we should all be working to accomplish.
One of the big "problems" with learning at college is the sequential nature of Computer Science.

You have to take CS1 your first semester, then CS2 your second semester, and then you finally have the prerequisites to take multiple classes at once.

Coding bootcamps have a semester's worth of material, so it would be cool if colleges had a one-semester full-time class that covers Intro CS, Data Structures, Web Development, and Intro to Software Engineering.

Because that basically is a coding bootcamp (except coding bootcamps have class all day in lieu of giving out homework).
Product Hunt vs. TechCrunch
It's difficult to use that particular example, because in reality he was still paying them with cash, but just the cash value of the gold coins, rather than the gold coins themselves. I'm not disagreeing with you that the government wants to have its cake and eat it too, but so did that guy. Maybe the case wouldn't have been so clear-cut if he'd actually paid them in gold coins.
It's strange to have Ardour and Reaper up there with ProTools and Logic described as a MIDI sequencer. That's how it started but at some point it crossed over into a full-featured professional DAW and I'm not sure even Reaper has caught up to its live instrument mixing and editing capabilities.

Ableton is literally a sequencer (and much more) and probably belongs in your MIDI sequencer category.