skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With CSS PROFILE it sounds like it's just that some schools ask for parents information anyway:

When can a student fill out the PROFILE as an
independent? A student is considered independent,
for financial aid consideration, if he or she is
or has at least one of the following: is at least
24 years old as of Jan. 1 of the academic year,
is married, is a graduate or professional student,
has a legal dependent other than a spouse, is a
veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces, or is an orphan
or ward of the court (or was a ward of the court
until age 18). If not, the student is considered
dependent. A parent refusing to provide support
for his or her child’s education is not sufficient
for the child to be declared independent.

Financial aid eligibility is, in part, determined
by a student’s dependency status. Independent
students are treated differently from students
who are dependent on their parents. However, some
schools and programs require parental information
on the PROFILE even if the student is considered
independent based on the criteria above.

https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/CollegePlanning/media/...
Something like http://pump.io/ ?
The joke is on anyone who invested in this company, thinking it would be even 1/100 a successful as Facebook. Remember bebo?
I think "getOwnSymbols" should be "getOwnPropertySymbols".
Show HN: Ex-machina – Minimalist state machine in JavaScript
There is no sustainable way to monetize an open source project, except to offer a "premium" service (which, unless you are comparable to Redhat by market cap will probably unprofitable - I think Orable is losing money on MySQL) or you offer closed source "enterprises" version, like so many do, but it must be an exceptional tool, like nginx, varnish or nessus.

So I am very sceptical about monetization of community-driven momentum (the moment you close the code it begins to stagnate and die). Unless you are leader in your niche the chances for earning living from a project are close to zero.

Wordpress or other themes is a different kind of offer.
Java 9's new garbage collector: What's changing? What's staying?
> The ROI seems near-certain, if the article is correct.

Specifically, before getting married you can (have a friend) check with the college in question to confirm that they don't require parents financials for independent students.
Provocative article indeed. But some of the visions seem but naive to me:

Running exactly the same validation twice wouldn’t make data more valid.

What in a Web app scenario guarantees, that the validations are the same, that a potential attacker haven't removed the validation from client code? By embedding the rules inside database you just made it a proxy to the raw data - making it the same old, wrong architecture.

Network failures... should not undermine our consistency guarantees.

Offline... I should be able to do local modifications, then merge changes when I get back online.

So far it is proven, that to get any consistency guarantees in such case, you are severely limited in kinds of data you can process. No library can magically solve the conflicts for you as long as the data is not CRDT. There are not many applications consisting exclusively of sets and counters.
I'm finding it quite useful for longer-form bloggy posts, especially where including multiple images is preferred.

I'm less enamoured overall with the styling, though I've taken my own spin on that: http://stylebot.me/styles/9519

(You'll need to have an account to use that as unauthenticated Ello sessions still default to the Ello v1 style: http://stylebot.me/styles/8070)

Basically: with a slew of embeds (video, audio, codepen, and others), graphics, and a decent (though still somewhat flawed) Markdown support (biggest omissions are blockquotes and lack of distinguished headers, though a few other glitches annoy me), it's possible to create well-structured long-form documents.

Yes, there's quite the artistic community there, and no, discussion's not yet up to the level I'd like to see it, though I'm finding a few interesting voices.

One thing Ello's taken to heart is hacking around the very small social graph (~6-12k daily viewing users, estimated, around 100k monthly), by providing curated communities and integrated re-shares, so that popular content gathers rather than splits discussion as it's re-shared.

The company's done a really good job of not repeating the glaring faux pas of Google+ which alienated much of its core community early on (myself included, though I remain active there), and has been highly responsive to user suggestions, picking up quite a few of the ones I've made over the past months.

There's more I'd like to see, but progress has been impressive and in the right directions, generally.

You'll find me there as @dredmorbius.
> they get to make medical decisions for you

At least in MA you can fill out healthcare proxy forms [1] to shift this back to your parents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_proxy
I will def. give it a try after they published their Android app.
This seems to disagree with you just wrote originally:

> Never think it will be anything big but just wanted to start it.

Don't care about failure. Do it for fun and for the sake of learning. Release often and ask feedback, you have nothing to lose with a side project. Your living is not determined by it so if you wanted to you could start in an hour.

> people will never use it because they are so attached to the older ones

I'm not sure what you are planning, but ignore the naysayers, just build something, show it to people, and iterate. You are not limited by investors, coworkers or anybody. If it's a side project, just do it. Maybe it will land you a better job paying 2x. You can never know if you don't try.
And Google and Dropbox hired Guido van Rossum ...
The only other theory about Fast and Furious that makes sense is that the ATF decided to supply one or more cartels with guns, either as a matter of national policy or internal ATF corruption, and the gun control propaganda was gravy. It certainly wasn't a law enforcement operation, seeing as it violated an ATF cardinal rule about giving guns to criminals.
since some sort of legal status is required for many
purposes in most countries

The idea here is that you get rid of those "many purposes" and treat a married couple like any other people who have decided to spend their lives together.
I went public with my dchizoaffective disorder as a result of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide in San Diego, in 1997.

My objective was to point out that reality is not as concrete as it seems.

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/scizoaffective-disorder/
You are correct - I know someone who told me she did this to get through college with minimal payments/debt.
Do you have stock in any company or work in a startup? If so, parents provide you a huge benefit. How much money is there in the advertising fueled-web when the current batch of 18-35 year olds isn't replaced by a fresh batch? The assumption of at least stable population is absolutely prices into all of the deals you read about on HN.

And increasingly, married people pay a penalty for that, at least in the U.S. tax code. My wife and I would save a bunch of money if we got divorced.
Yes, the website is misleading when it states that "Master Password is based on a stateless algorithm which frees it from the reliance on storage of secrets", which is clearly not true. When you rely on people's brain for storage, not only it's not stateless, but you've just chosen quite an unreliable form of storage.

There's also the issue of the master password being compromised, which would requires users to change all their passwords on all their websites.

I'm surprised these "stateless" password managers keep being made. Either the creators really didn't notice the huge drawbacks, or they did but still want to get their software out.
Cloud sync wallpapers
"Winning through Intimidation" by Robert Ringer is an amazing work that has helped me tremendously.
Currently marriage involves third parties treating couples differently because they're married. That requires a standardized status and seems tricky to do with contract.

For example: different taxation, different financial aid, etc.

You could get rid of all these, but that is a big change.
Zesty is hiring Rails developers
I'm not depressed by it, but I think it verges on silly that such a loophole exists. Marriages of convenience have been happening for a very long time. There is at least one really weird one that's been in the news for the past few months...

It's sort of like taxation. Any system of nontrivial complexity can be gamed.
Feel free. And realise the massive financial risks you are taking by being legally tied to someone. Especially someone who does not have the same kind of emotional bond to you as a genuine spouse hopefully would.
"RXC-R2" is certainly insufficiently verbose.

I think the author might be a bit behind the news on Tunisia, though.
It's good that someone noticed... if you have automatic updates enabled, you have implicitly consented to giving Microsoft what is essentially a root account on your system. They can modify it to both fix - and break - things just as easily.
And then you acquire a Japanese subsidary, or get bought by a Korean company, or hire someone with a Polish name, or you work in a country that has an official language that is not representable in ASCII, such as New Zealand.
I think for the European government, this would not be impossible to achieve.

Yeah, maybe they could emulate their earlier success with the Cookie Directive.
well, that's just the way it goes.
I'd really like to see that as well, though it's been tried a few times and found wanting.

What Social seems to be based around is:

⚫ The directory. A set of users who are known and authenticated.

⚫ Notifications.

⚫ Search. Note absolutely essential (both Ello and G+ launched without it), but I find systems lacking this crippled.

⚫ A posting format. My general preference is for a minimal set of HTML, of which Markdown is nearly perfect (though other lightweight markup languages similarly work). Wrapping that in a user-friendly editor for those who prefer that, butalso preserving raw access, would be ideal.

⚫ Support both bloggy and lightweight ("tweet") type posts.

⚫ Some form of private messaging (Ello lacks this, G+ has a couple of inadequate and annoying options).

⚫ Notifications. These are key. I've argued that (despite many UI/UX failings) this is G+'s secret sauce. Ello lacks a few concepts (especially "subscription" style notifications), but otherwise does well.

⚫ Noise and moderation tools. Another glaring lack of many systems. Reddit's moderator tools are a moderately useful model.

⚫ Tags and/or channels. Another area in which many existing tools are poor (G+'s recent "Collections" is an utter clusterfuck). Old-school blog tags aren't bad.

⚫ In general, something that could be bolted onto a blogging engine would be really useful.

⚫ Syndication. Both inbound and outbound.

I've been casting around for options, nothing's really caught my fancy.
First, please don't downvote people who you simply disagree with. That's just bad style.

> Also It is never ridiculous to let the people of a country decide especially on hard questions after the facts on the ground have changed.

"After the facts have changed". Sorry but I have no idea what you are talking about. The facts have been on the table for about five years now, in plain sight for everyone.

> You seem to believe that there never was the possibility to reach a mutually beneficial agreement to begin with, and Greece should simply roll over and let their economy contract another 25% after it has already contracted 25% in the last years.

There was that possibility but Greece just simply didn't have any real leverage in the discussions. Tsipras mislead his own people in that regard and now he needs to face reality.

And yes the Greek economy will contract. But never was real to begin with. It was all just built on other people's money and it wasn't built to sustain itself after that flow of money dries up. So of course, what's not sustainable will deflate.
A stack of rainbows
Logo on http://stackoverflow.com/ shows the rainbow with the alt: "Marry whomever you love. Even if they're not a developer."
Civil unions are "separate but equal" which means separate but not equal.

And stuffing a few homophobes is good. They have been persecuting LGBT people for millennia so fair turnabout.
Any relationship grouping that is greater then 2 requires very extensive legal changes before it becomes practical to implement. The law is incapable of addressing the possibility of a marriage which can outlast all it's original participants, for example.
I was photographing my own hallucinations. When the visions didnt turn up in the prints I knew it was due to my inexperience as a photographer, so I bought some books on professional and art photography, and learned to develop and print my own film.
The best part of it was that I was basically getting paid to learn Japanese. Had I continued on that path my language skills would be amazing at this point.
Backwards compatibility with Java bytecode editing
Or you just don't trust the government. I don't. If a doctor tells me I need lithium I can take that as a dietary supplement - no need to drug the entire hood. Much simpler and allows individual dosage.
if you deploy an os from a company, consider your box belongs to them.
How Icelandic Yogurt Invaded America
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And if that happens we are back to square one. Greece can't pay this back. Whether it was wrong of them to accept a loan they couldn't pay back is now a mute point. Greece are bankrupt. Everyone just needs to accept that fact.

A new government that accepts the terms of yet another loan they can't pay back is just going to end up in the same mess two years down the line.

Germany wants them to turn into some German style mini-clone. Germany needs to accept that other states are like children; naively, you think you can bend them to your will and force them to behave in this bmanner you think is acceptable, but you are a fool if you believe that to be the case.
You've forgotten to include the plug for FastMail. And maybe you should include the fact that you work for FastMail (it's not that you're hiding it, it's in your profile, but it's nice to mention in the text if you're working for the competitor).

Personally, I stay clear from any hosted e-mail services. I don't care if their backend is open source or not. RMS explains all problems with SaaS in his essay "Who does that server really serve?".

It's sad that the current selection of open source e-mail clients is not that great. Especially, for less technically inclined people.
My suggestion: be the Ello you want it to be, if you're going to play there.

Since Markdown's supported, (with a few quirks), content from any other Markdown-based site works well. You don't need to polish text much.

Add in images. They boost viewership.

Submit posts to appropriate Communities:

https://ello.co/wtf/resources/community-directory/

Search (both internal and external search engines) helps turn up stuff related to keywords of interest. The social graph is small. My experience elsewhere (G+) was that it took a few years for a real community to gel.

And no, it's not a challenge to HN, StackExchange, or Reddit. Or Facebook or G+, for that matter. Yet.

But it's got some good basics and the founding community ain't bad.

Good stuff does eventually get noticed and passed around.
The CA system is so broken. Letting a vendor decide who you should trust to issue intermediate certificates that your software will automatically trust to not issue illegitimate certificates doesn't make the system particularly trustworthy, especially seeing as they are still adding new root CAs for entities with unknown agendas (governmental agencies etc).

Maybe the system could be changed to one where domains can only be signed by the DNS registrar, or something.

It's pretty crazy that any CA can issue a certificate for any domain. And paying for more validation doesn't help you at all, since it won't keep the "bad guys" from getting an illegitimate one from a cheaper/lazier CA.
Religions don't have a monopoly on words. The government, and the people, have a right to name things whatever they want. If the only thing holding your institution up was it's name, then you had other problems to start with.
>I am not bashing the Psychiatry profession.

I think it's fine to bash the Psychiatry profession; it doesn't mean you can't appreciate the work of good psychiatrists when you meet them, and there are probably a lot of psychiatrists who would join you.
Wow, I was looking for something like your project for months!
> see https://github.com/gavingroovygrover/utf88

This is the most stupid way to extend UTF-8 I've seen. The only acceptable solution is to remove the restriction of using only four byte per sequence which would allow to encode these easily keeping all the advantages of UTF-8.

Doing it like they does add an additional layer of encoding and so a lot of complexity a room for bugs.

It was probably made for compatibility but a lot of software will do bad thing with these new "surrogate" pairs so this solution is not really more compatible in practice. And updating software to handle UTF-8 sequence longer than 4 bytes is a lot more easier than updating them to handle such encoding.
OK so that looks quite interesting. It appears to lack search, though? For me (like one of the aunt posts) though, search is a killer essential feature—it turns something like Facebook into the global phone book. This is what i feel i miss out on, being a Facebook abstainer.
Ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80%
I was also curious to find the chill out set so I looked in the source of app.js to find the playlist id and fetch the response:

`curl http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/9875415.json?client_id=0...

http://soundcloud.com/chillcall/sets/chill
Avoiding a total UX-mess in product support
The Berlin Startup Ecosystem Needs an IPO in the U.S
You could see mania as our true state, the one we are most happy in and you could see society trying to take that away so that we can be useful and productive.

It is not hard to spin anything into a conspiracy.
Yah I know but just that I have not started something for myself makes me always think backwards. I've mostly developed stuff for other people
For anyone wondering, it's the Cisco CA/B-F Root CA:

http://www.cisco.com/security/pki/policies/CiscoRXC-CP.pdf

They should know better.
Guess you oppose all those constitutional amendments then too?

The Bill of Rights even expressly notes that the rights enumerated do not cover all rights and cannot be expected to cover all rights, and that those rights not enumerated are not meant to somehow be lesser -

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Big Data, Race, and Why Work-Life Balance Is Overrated
The military is one thing, but I don't foresee a time when DoE is going to able to comment on the "content" of a marriage. Realistically, most of the most significant benefits of marriage are financial. This is just another example of such.
Tech Companies Find a Rainbow of Ways to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
How to Develop a Music Streaming Android App
At least telephony is not a single silo.

Also, the enforcement could be enacted for commercial social networks with more than say 100k users. So don't worry if your personal ideas about social networks and innovation do not fit in.
They don't. They support an optimization for self recursive calls but not general tail call elimination.
I remember when Bebo sold to AOL and made its investors and founders incredibly wealthy.
I thought the same thing, 35 times...
Yep, as an eight year old I dug a hole in the side of a fairly solid sand dune. Just before I went in for about the tenth time, the roof collapsed and I escaped with my life.

Terrifying.
I'm still not following how hardening Nacl against memory corruption bugs can help Chrome, given that Nacl-enabled Chrome already runs content-controlled Nacl code.
Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub
Just accidentally downvoted you. Sorry. There really should be a way to change your vote.
The author says nothing about class- or race-based oppression, either to address or dismiss, so that's a bit of a strawman, and the little bit of well-poisoning you do in your own last sentence doesn't elevate the discussion much either. Who is it we shouldn't be taking advice from, again?
Cracking attempt 3

I've proved in the past (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLiANnRPBU) I can get plenty of traction with a minimal game done by a couple of guys. Moreover, since the RTS is competitive, I can get a feedback and growth loop by organizing tournament with prizes. If the core gameplay works and the updates are substancial, players will come more and more numerous each time.

Here is a video of the RTS (January): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNIFd6jxQbY
Someone asked for sources in this thread. GP provided the NPR source for: "The US government just cut down the amount of fluorine in the water supply." That was heavily downvoted.

So I provided the source for GP's other statement, "And it is detrimental to brain development."

In contrast you've provided a generic source for an old adage. Anyhow the Harvard study mentions all the levels studied, some of which are comparable to US levels.
I'd say in the laws the government should simply recognize all unions as civil unions, leave marriage to your "religion" but I still agree that discrimination based on relationship status is wrong. Every individual should be able to specify who can visit them in a hospital, who is entitled to be the beneficiary of any social security benefits etc. Social Security and health care is dooming this nation and there's a clear timeline for it's demise unless the way they are handled changes, so maybe inheriting government benefits should go away and everyone should only be entitled to what was deducted from their own checks or willed to them by others. The US is looking at austerity in 10 years max, 5 years minimum and the people are too busy sticking up for their favorite party like sports fans on a bus arguing about astroturf and logos while the bus goes over a cliff.
You mean polyamory.

Polygamy is 1 man to multiple women. Polyamory is between more then two people of any gender or combination of genders.
It's not an unusual idea. Iodized salt has small amounts of iodine to prevent thyroid problems amd mental impairment. (Iodine deficieny is the most common cause worldwide of metal impairment.) Flour is fortified with iron, calcium, thiamin, and nicotinamide.

Fortifying food and water supplies helps reduce illness and disease.

(I'm not suggesting that Lithium is suitable for this).
It still works to hinder that guy who sits at the coffee shop trying to man-in-the-middle attack people connected to hit fake wifi.

If you want a system that can hinder a government doing that, or a large organisation, or a corporation. Then look elsewhere.

Do you remember to wipe your hard drive when you get your computer back from the repair shop? They could very well have installed a new root CA without you noticing....
What supporters does Donald Trump have? For that matter, what shred of credibility? It would be interesting to know whether how far he is aware that he is a sideshow act--he could be fully aware, and just regard it as publicity.
Let's be honest - if you don't vet every single line of code in your OS and software toolset, you run the risk of exposing yourself. There are levels of trust to be sure, but there is always trust.
Would this work in other countries? For example the UK?
no ifs involved: blog was specifically listed as one of their marketing platform and HN as their target audience.
I think that Nim fits your description of Orange a lot (apart from the Ruby-like syntax). Please do consider contributing to it.