skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wise words.

In my attempt to remain impartial in my opening I think I've come across too skeptical of the existing MOOCs (and by extension other tools). I really appreciate what MOOCs have done for us, and become (so far). They're awesome - and I'll always be an advocate. It's the first evolution in something special. I'm just impatient and want to see something more profound come from it :P

Other then that, I think you're right. We do have a chance to create a bit of a space aimed at bringing people together (for whatever they want to pursue). And looking at keeping the barrier to entry low. Your views have been invaluable! Thanks.
Sound like China is planning ahead. Contrast this with the American problem of nothing new being built:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/here-s-how...
I don't at all understand this.
Isn't the entire point of Soylent that it's just a mixture of supplements with the appropriate calorie content?
Space Shuttle Rising
Plus, in my experience, cab drivers have no qualms with going double the speed limit (more fares is more money).
Am I the only person who thinks televisions don't suck? This all seems to be about smart TV functionality, which strikes me as superfluous anyway. I would rather buy a TV based on stuff like picture quality and size and buy something to plug into the TV for media consumption.
Simple.

You don't need to measure anything like intelligence or creativity to arrive at someone's market worth. Just measure, or estimate, the value of their output.

So: how much value are they creating that other humans are prepared to pay for?
I'd say this is fairly accurate from my standpoint compiling trends[1] from whoishiring threads here on HN. Ember has not really taken off like Angular and React. Angular was a rocket, but React is now rising even faster than Angular did, while Ember just goes along at a pretty flat pace.

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2015/...
> really? so those discussions are all held amongst programmers eager to use these security vulnerabilities to illegally exploit systems?

Those discussions tend to occur on different forums. Their absence here is no sign of their absence elsewhere. And for many of us, our biggest issue with Aaron Swartz is not what he did, but how he was treated.

> Or are they entirely groups of programmers dedicating their careers to being very worried about the prospect that our systems might not be secure enough? Is that not an ethical position?

That's a nice, positive view of security researchers. For what it's worth, it's one I hold myself.

But we don't exactly hear a lot about those who skipped the whole "ethical disclosure" debate, of if their specific position is indeed ethical, and went straight to selling exploits to the NSA or criminal enterprise.

> I think you're grossly underestimating the scale of crime being perpetrated by banks even very recently. Start with worldwide currency manipulation: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/23/opinion/banks-as-felons-or....

Meanwhile, global botnets are common enough that we don't hear about most of them in the news - because they're not newsworthy - except for the rare occasions some security researchers manage to put a dent in one of the larger ones. And everyone gets pissed at Microsoft for mishandling no-ip.com's domains in an effort to fight malware. Not to mention the number of times I've heard of account details of services I use being compromised.

Meanwhile...

> More than 5% of people visiting Google sites have at least one ad injector installed. Within that group, half have at least two injectors installed and nearly one-third have at least four installed.
> Thirty-four percent of Chrome extensions injecting ads were classified as outright malware.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/03/out-with-un...

The only reason Superfish was newsworthy wasn't from potentially injecting ads into your banking website... but from completely fucking up the security of your browser to the point that anyone could MitM anything.
...And if you investigate her on-air quitting, you find out this:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_cold_war-hungry_neoc...
Real food is expensive.
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What purpose? Whose purpose?
Yep, people looked and it's using filter lists, just less of them.
And my reply to that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597857
These are both pretty terrible arguments, due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_%28physics%29 Cars have crumple zones for a reason. This is not to say seat belts aren't good, as they along with air bags contribute to impulse, but there's a huge difference between shooting an egg (or person) at a brick wall at 50 mph while naked, vs. encasing it in sufficient amounts of bubble wrap first. I'll gladly sprint into a tree, or ram a bike into a wall, at such speeds provide I or the tree/wall are sufficiently padded. (https://youtu.be/DEP8juRSBRo)
I've found that whether they mean it or not, friends are often good for a place to crash until you actually need it. There's always a reason they can't let you stay.
Nope. Looks interesting. Thanks
Yeah, but there's no better solution. They could offer versions that correct your diet given a proportion of avg. American diet to Soylent intake, but it would be complicated and very inaccurate.
Totally agreed on the lots of stuff argument.
I have wrote a playpen-mode for emacs last week with which we can play rust without installing rust and without opening rust playpen in your browser. https://github.com/tennix/playpen-mode
>As a physician and, prior to that, military officer, I have been struck by the fierce non-ethics of many software folks.

Yes! Compared to the noble physician, programmers like like Linus Torvalds (Linux, Git) and Richard Stallman (Emacs, GCC) who freely give away the fruits of their labor, even when it generates billions of dollars in value of which they reap only a tiny fraction, are nowhere near as ethical.

Physicians are so ethical, in fact, that medical bills are number one cause of bankruptcy in the US!
That quote is not saying computer generated random numbers are bad. It is saying computer generated random numbers are good. (And human generated random numbers are bad.)

If you simply use the C rand function that is bad. But he's assuming you're using something with real randomness, like urandom.
Great. Thanks. I'm trying to get out of the building more this week to talk to folks at meetups and coworking spaces
Thanks Justin. I'll let you know if I find the silver bullet ;)
Why not use regular Keepass on Linux? It runs under Mono.
Depends whether you're eating the meal alone in front of a screen or at a restaurant. I love frozen pizza. So much. But hell, I know that a shake would be a lot better for me, and I wouldn't exactly miss out on anything memorable.
In Economic Theory, the words "Nash Equilibrium" is said at least once an hour in every lecture hall. It's a pretty obvious focus (see here: http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/AAT-readings/Econ%20segment...). He's an Alan Turing in the field. Also see here (http://econtheory.org/) for some good sunday afternoon reading.
Are there any solid-food equivalents of these powdered foods?
To top it off, getting in a taxi in NY for instance is a bit scary. The first time in one it was a wild ride.

I think people expect taxi drivers to get in less accidents because they are so seasoned. They can come within inches of other vehicles and dangers but with an indy 500 driving skill.

It seems like driving on the edge like this would encourage others to use a seat belt but alas when you have 3 people piled in the car for a short ride it gets overlooked. It really should be a standard to wear a seat belt.

Only kids school buses can get away with not wearing one and that is primarily because a school bus is so huge that others impacting it does little, and if a school bus driver had to seat belt all the kids it would take forever and the trip would be over before it started.
I don't see the part where an ethical boundary was crossed. The examples given, such as when people realized that people working at Facebook write software to make users feel a certain way.

The knowledge that made the experiment unethical, came from the experiment itself. They did not otherwise know what their users would feel.

People found the story they wanted, but it doesn't change the facts.

When I write software, I write it so that people can use it, just as the farmer grows food so people can eat it, and the doctor practices medicine so that people can live with the benefits.

To me, just as to them, it is not my place to tell people what is right and what is wrong to do with what I make; nor do I have the facility.

Timidity and caution are good for managing rare and known dangers, but practicing them too widely will lead humanity to starvation and its natural death with the rest of the unambitious matter in the universe, you can stay back and incinerate if you'd like, but you're not bringing me with you.
From the link mentioned in another comment as a more stable and permanent URL: ""Math Blaster" is a 1983 educational game programmed by Richard Eckert and Janice Davidson, Ph.D. and distributed by Davidson & Associates."

Wow. The timing of this post was opportune, because just yesterday I had a chance to see (again) Bob Davidson, the husband of Janice (Jan) Davidson and a leader of Davidson & Associates, at a meet-up of alumni of various Davidson Institute for Talent Development[1] programs for young people. The Math Blaster software was an early example of successful edutainment software, and it led to quite a bit of revenue that funded other software titles developed in-house or acquired over the years by Davidson & Associates.

Jan and Bob Davidson timed the Dot Com boom perfectly in choosing a time to leave active management of Davidson & Associates and begin funding philanthropy, which for them has been most devoted to developing programs for unusually bright young people in the United States. The best-known program of the Davidson Institute is the Davidson Fellows program,[2] which gets in the news at least once a year as new Davidson Fellowship awards are announced,[3] but the biggest program by number of young people involved is the Davidson Young Scholars program,[4] which includes several alumni and I think some current members who are active participants here on Hacker News.

We talk here on Hacker News about some other software entrepreneurs who get in the news a lot these days for their philanthropic efforts, but I thought I should give a shout-out to one of the early adopters of a career change to full-time philanthropy funded by a software fortune, the Davidsons, because their philanthropy has a direct influence on the Hacker News community.

[1] http://www.davidsongifted.org/

[2] http://www.davidsongifted.org/fellows/

[3] http://www.davidsongifted.org//fellows/Article/Davidson_Fell...

[4] http://www.davidsongifted.org/youngscholars/
The xkcd is bad advice. It mentions 1000 guesses per second.

In reality GPU crackers can do 100,000,000,000 guesses per second. https://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/

You need to add another 2-3 words.
Send them an email and ask. It's a physical good, and I don't think they're hard to get across borders. It's food though... I don't know. Worth asking.
I would say that it depends of how your application is built and what you want to do with it. Sometimes it does not make sense to create a container for each part of your application. It also depends how you are going to use your application. The application might be the main asset of the company or it might just be an external self-contained tool used sometimes by a few people.
Building the Golden Gate Bridge
> Is anyone still using Python 2 for new projects?

Yes, as long as the packages provided by the OS vendors (i.e. Ubuntu LTS, CentOS) are 2.7 by default. Sure, I could just compile my own packages (and I do where necessary), but then that becomes yet another piece of infrastructure to maintain.
Great story.

For those of you who are asking "Why didn't you have an emergency fund?", please consider why you would say such a mean and thoughtless thing.

Are you asking because you want to learn something or are you asking because it makes you feel superior because you made different choices? Do you like it when someone asks you why you made a big mistake (esp when they don't actually care about the answer)?
I'm not convinced this is the case, at least for me. Making it through 2000cal of soylent/day was actually pretty difficult, and I didn't have cravings during the day. Appetite/portion control with regular food continues to be a challenge for me.
Baskerville has gorgeous ampersands: http://www.marsie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/marsie-ampe...
I've been using their API just last week.

As far as I know, this is the only free service for driving distances that can be used with maps other than Google's.
I studied this topic mainly from Algorithms text by Kleinberg/Tardos[1]. Like everything else, if you interested in proving problems NPC, read few examples from book and practice some on your own. Proving problems NPC of some common problems isn't very hard once you get hang of it.

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/0321...
A program where all the inputs are known is called a demo.
From a security point of view, segregation is A Thing these days. From a sysadmin point of view deploying a "work unit" makes a lot of sense, with the "work units" deployed many places.
I've used parse.com free account, created a class named 'cache' with columns 'key' & 'value'. The free plan's capacity is like 100k bigger than your highest paid plan. Sorry, I do not see the advantage of your service.
Odds increasing that huge quake will hit California
Given that cabs last a long time (i.e. can amortize the cost) it shouldn't be too difficult to make an adjustable child seat eh?
From their FAQ (http://jakeshake.eu/faq/):

> Do you ship outside of the EU?

> Unfortunately we currently do not ship outside the EU. We are however exploring the possibility of expanding outside of the EU in the future.
This was a great read. The part where he tried to kill himself by the fountain and the gun jammed, wow. I wasn't expecting that. I am glad the author is doing okay now, it is a reminder that this can happen to anyone at any-time.

As a developer I have had my fair share of job losses over the years, but the one thing that got me through each and every job loss? Savings. I can't stress how important it is to save money. It doesn't matter if you're on $100k or $50k per year, try and at least save a little bit of money from each paycheck.

Recently I was contracting for a startup, like the OP I was earning some serious money, around $10k per month (Australian Dollars) after taxes. After paying my bills, I would set aside some entertainment money, money for a months worth of food/fuel and I would move the rest into a high interest savings account (the interest rate would increase when you cleared a certain balance level) after six months unexpectedly the startup announced they were done, the contractors were fired immediately and employees given a nice 4 week period. I was a contractor, so I had no notice, just a "Thanks for everything"

Usually my first instinct would have been to panic, but living moderately after all of my expenses, I had about 12 months worth of runway. It took me 2 months to find another job, not paying as much, but I didn't struggle. Always save something, because for most of us it isn't a matter of when you'll need it, it is a matter of when.
open street map?
>I think I'll just be hitting my head against a wall, but there no such thing as healthy food

Not even sure what this is supposed to mean. Of course even water can kill you if you take it in large does, so that statement is trivially true, but doesn't say anything much.

There is such a thing as food with harmful (cancinogenic, bad for the heart, causing higher pressure, etc) additives, and there is such a thing as the same food without them. There are cows and chickens stuffed with growth hormones and there are others without them.

Sure some perfectly untouched foods can be harmful in themselves too -- e.g. eating lard. That's OK, seeing that not selling food at all is not an option, whereas not selling food with additives is.

And it's not that those are needed because else food would be prohibitevely expensive. A lot of additives and preservatives those are used to squeeze extra profit margins -- while keeping prices the same or even raising them.

People ate just fine even before the rise of corn syrup in the 70s. It's not like all these HFCS industry and invansion on the american diet "had to happen" because "the poor where starving".

>People fear industrial farm products because they fear science, they are luddites, that's all there is to it.

Some do.

Not all, and there are people well versed in the science and actual processing of food (people working in food chemistry, food industry etc.) that can assure you that's not the only case.

The belief described above -- that complaints against anything "scientific" come from luddites and people who fear -- is a pseudo-scientific ideology, where science is some pure ideal, and not a pragmatic, human driven endeavor.

That kind of belief in this abstract "science" is no less magic and unicorny than believing that the government or the police are good guys always there for the good of society. (And usually serves as a substitute for religion).

The worst thing is that it cannot separate "science" (which is mostly a method, that can also be followed imperfectly, and often has) with "technology" (which is the application of knowledge in building things, and can very well produce harmful stuff either by intention to cause harm, or by intention to cut margins).
Excellent, thank you. I was just wondering whether I should build a custom linker for the compiler I'm building. This should clear that question right up :)
Interestingly, the text itself is modern (at the very least, it mentions a Google Groups URL), but it's still wrapped at 40 columns.

I find that very nostalgic for some reason, and it doesn't seem to hurt readability at all.
The thing that keeps me from really jumping in on Soylent is the lack of a low-carb option. I've made my own LC version, based on recipes online, but it takes a long time and is a pain in the ass, which is a killer considering Soylent's main virtue is that you dump it on the shaker, shake it up, and are done. I'm hopeful that if things keep going well for the company eventually they'll offer a LC version; or maybe a competitor will.

[I know there are things like Keto fuel, but these all require buying a bunch of oil and stuff and mixing it in, which is not the seamless solution I really want.]
Sigh. If you are drinking a Soylent or some other drink because you literally don't have the time to get up from your desk for 30-60 minutes for a meal I question what type of human existence you are living. There are so many things central to living life that revolve around eating (social benefits, maybe fresh air and sunshine, tasting and smelling the food itself) that one misses out on by just drinking a shake and not seeing daylight for days on end. It seems like another way to make people more productive. Who needs a lunch break? Just drink a shake and keep coding! If you don't have any ownership in what you are making why one would give up one of the rights they have as a worker, a break in the day to get something to eat, is beyond me.

With that said I understand the value of a meal replacement if you are trying to loose weight. Soylent seems to be better vs the older meal replacement shakes out there, ie that slim fast junk.
>Honestly I never understood that social norm of not wearing a seatbelt in a taxi.

Same to the social norm of not wearing seatbelts in the backseat (which is where you usually are in a taxi).
The closing example is quite good--if it's my vehicle, I'd rather expect it to prioritize me over the other car. At the same time, what if I'm behind on payments? Or the other car contains a company shareholder?

What a mess.
Does anyone have a link to the complaint? I'd like to see more details.
Interesting point. Also there are many areas suitable for animal grazing that aren't good for crops.

The problem is grain fed meet and milk from an efficiency standpoint.
Yeah, mentioning MapQuest without regards to their OSM efforts seems like a bit of an omission. Intentional or no?

http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
I'm the same but suspect as usual we are not the target market

I have a full media PC running Linux and external speakers hooked to a cheap dumb Toshiba TV since all I really want it to do is accept HDMI and not look crap.
Reviving MapQuest seems about as likely to me as AOL reviving it's dialup business. The simple fact is that the quality bar has risen to the point where maps have become a pay to play space with serious table stakes. You can't just buy a bundle of 3rd party data, slap a nice UI on it and call it a day anymore. Maybe MapQuest could do something unique with merging it's brand name with OSM but even that seems like a pretty faint possibility.

I have no doubt they could manage to remain profitable for some ungodly amount of time by relying on pure inertia from their legacy customers. But trying to find meaningful ways to grow the brand seems like throwing good money after bad.
It's cheap enough for me I don't think about it, what you describe sounds like work to do properly and at parity with soylent's nutrition label. (Other people seem to do DIY soylent, not me.)

Soylent just shows up at my door every couple of weeks, I throw it in the soylent cabinet, and I can make and drink one in about 2 minutes.
"You could probably also get reduce or eliminate social security benefits"

"Eliminate" would never fly politically, and to be honest I don't think it's the right thing anyway. We probably could reduce/consolidate, if we did so in a way that meant (BI + SSI) was never lower than SSI before the change, which would certainly still mean savings.
Please don't delete and repost the same thing repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You can't bubble-wrap the whole world. Please don't try.
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>In 2008, the world turned against bankers, because many profited by exploiting their expertise in a rapidly accelerating field (financial instruments) over others’ ignorance of even basic concepts (adjustable-rate mortgages). How long before we software engineers find our profession in a similar position?

How long until doctors find themselves in a similar position? Medical bills are, after all, the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, and US doctors are the highest paid on Earth.

Meanwhile, software gets ever more cheap and plentiful, and programmers literally give away much of the fruits of their labor for free under permissive licenses. Yet it's supposedly programmers that are in need of reflection and humbling.

Programmers are effectively being punished--by the anti-tech worker protests in the Bay Area, a hostile media (Gawker, Mother Jones, to name a few), and by the incessant push for more cheap, indentured labor in the form of H-1Bs--all because we have not yet organized ourselves into a protectionist racket to gouge the citizenry in the same way doctors have.

Unlike doctors, we have little prestige, yet we are still able to earn high-ish salaries, and that makes us an easy target for resentment: "How dare these 'coders' earn $100k when a lot of them don't even have degrees! I have an MA in Journalism, and yet I struggle to pay my bills!"

The backlash the author predicts is already underway, but not for the reasons he cites.
Seat belts help you stay in control of the car in the event of a collision. If you're the only person on the road, you might have a point.
Maybe this team could focus on the Netflix software itself on TVs. They recently removed the ability to view all movies in a genre and totally removed all sub-genres. The main reason I bought my TV was for Netflix so now I don't have much use for it or their service.