jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It probably speaks (at least partially) to the culture at Uber - that data and algorithms rule all. For the most part that's correct, but things often get unpredictable when you involve humans - no matter how fair surge pricing is when looking at the data, if people feel like it is unfair, they'll object.

Right now I don't think Uber does a good job at, for want of a less fluffy term, "feeling sentiment". They're extremely good at parsing past data and extracting conclusions, but that's about it.
I have half a mind to make a debit card that lets you whitelist merchants. You use the same card everywhere, but unless the merchant is in the whitelist, the charge fails. Also, you can set limits and rules.

Basically like privacy.com, but why use a new card per merchant?
I think Twitter bought Periscope (In January Sometime) before Meerkat launched (Early March), but Twitter didn't disclose the acquisition until after Meerkat launched (Mid March).

http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/09/twitter-reportedly-buys-st...
Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel:

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Flash runs by default and without consent from the user in most browsers. Not sure what you mean by "not enabled by default" then.
I wrote an article[1] all about it a few months after I originally launched. There was some HN discussion about it too[2].

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/adventures-in-self-publishing

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320333
Small niches are cool, but you probably can't live from ads. Choose a lame subject with lots of users and make a clean and easy to use website.

I have a small directory website. It's pretty boring stuff, but it is a good source of almost passive income. Never published it. I just created the website and sent the sitemap to Google Webmasters. It's 8 months old and I have 400k pageviews/month.

I have lots of projects in idea stage, I want to execute at least two in 2015. My plan is to reinvest all money from this first side project to create others.
Neither fish nor fowl.

Maybe somebody could make a product and make money in this segment but the odds of that somebody being Microsoft are nil. The only context in which this makes sense is keeping this part of the former Nokia alive long enough to sell it.
I agree that fundamental is everything.

I just believe that almost everything in life is a skill and skill requires practice.

I've came across a research paper about deliberate practice and Peter Novig article about Teach yourself how to program in ten years.

This resonate and reinforce my belief of practices is everything.

As for the intricate of how, I'm more of a visual and kinestic kind of learner. Auditory suck. Also I need a book, I sit down and write notes first and then do problems. From there I usually look for a video on that subject for a secondary source. Most of the time a secondary source will give a different view on the subject matter and I get insight at a different point of view. Or that the second source explain it more better or fill in stuff that I didn't realize I gloss over or missed.
I almost always configure Varnish not to cache on Vary Cookie and pair that with some simple changes on the back-end to keep most my pages cacheable.

One, don't blindly set Vary Cookie on every single page. Two, when a page only needs minor variation like a username; store the username in a cookie and use JavaScript to display it on the page.
A big issue worth watching: AOL, the largest pro net neutrality spender, could be gobbled up by one of the largest net neutrality opponents.
Wordpress, end of story.
I get about 10k and 15k uniques per day. I charge direct advertisers between $0.75 and $2 CPM. I fully realize this is a pretty low number (considering how targeted the audience is) but I've spent some time contacting businesses and the only companies that can afford to pay me can only afford $1 CPM rates.

I basically get around a million page views per month, which is the figure I use when I sell ad space.
We are with Steam Clock Software (http://www.steamclocksw.com/). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months.

We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.
how many daily uniques do you receive? and what's your CPM?
You plug it in into a USB port and drag files over to the mounted drive.

I hope that's not the only way to get music on an Android phone because it sounds like a PITA. I don't want to pick through 30GB of music looking for song files to add to my phone. With the iPhone I have selected some playlists that stay on the phone and are updated anytime I plug the phone back into the computer (also works for movies, books, documents, photos). I never have to think about it beyond adding a song to the playlist. I can also tell iTunes to finish filling the phone with whatever music it thinks I might want. From what I gather it uses play counts and date the music was added the library.
I am living off http://www.AwesomenessReminders.com and http://www.CustomerFind.com. For AwesomenessReminders, you can use the referral code HACKERNEWS to save money.
You should really post your bug number. You did file a radar, right? Bugreport.apple.com...
I'm in America with my family so I'll miss this one, but have a great time everybody.
:D Thanks for your positive comments!

> I love the quotes interspersed

You've no idea how hard it is to find good quotes about mutation! (I did try to find a good TMNT quote at first...)

> I was hoping for a GA that evolved a /program/

That would be very cool. I think my next project is going to be a neural network script. But I may revisit genetic algorithms again too, and at that point I'll probably look into genetic programming.
Advertising works pretty well. Basically you should be able to make at least 10c per 1000 visitors (unless you are in a very bad sector).

Obviously there are plenty of other ways too, but as a general rule the more traffic you get the more money you bring in.

If you shared a few of your ideas people may be able to give more specific advice.
I once read lispers discussion on Qi language. One (actual) Qi user told us that he managed to prove that number 42 has type String.

This is the price of optional typings. It leave random holes in your program.
Thanks, this really put a smile on my face.
I just do not get Microsoft. The place is full of smart people so how come the company acts so dumb.

The ipad love it or loathe it works because it's not trying to be all things to all people. It has limitations, sure, but within those it does some things very well indeed (and in fact I would be utterly lost without mine - or rather I would be unhappy to take the step back into the past that not having it would represent).

Microsoft seem to be interested in the world of work (although judging by my recent (enforced) use of Word, making more work seems to be their goal with that product) so why not take the same approach - a new device , a new niche and come up with something? it might just be a slicker netbook with a trimmed down OS or it might be something else. A physical interface for the Office suite perhaps - Spreadsheets are not great on the ipad, for example, so there must be a way of making them nice to physically interact with that is not the tablet/slate kind of way. (or actually why not do cheap research by porting things like office to the ipad and seeing if you can make them really work in that form factor or if something else is needed?)

They say that people want something like this - work oriented - and then they give them an "everything but the kitchen sink" style monstrosity that is not one thing or the other.

This works for Google because android has other selling points but Microsoft can't just throw everything at it and hope something sticks. They need to pick something and think about it.
Agreed, any reasonable developer looks past the magic myth. Like the article says, you read the source code and gain an understanding.

However, I'd dispute the assertion that Rails has excellent docs, it certainly hasn't always been the case. When I started with Rails, in 2006, the docs where woefully out of date. All the latest information that was available was in a variety of disparate blog posts, written by Rails enthusiasts. That was a significant barrier to learning at the time.
You never know until you try ;)
Thank you.

It's rudimentary, but it works. It demonstrates a couple of Go concepts:

- goroutines (to Serve each request)

- interfaces (the Listing type implements the path.Visitor pattern so it can generate itself, and both the Entry and Listing types implement the fmt.Stringer interface so that fmt can stringify them).
I'm starting to get very tired of this way of thinking.

Ideas are VERY important. They give you the direction and aiming point that your 'execution' will eventually be built from.

If the google guys had had the idea to let you search dog shoes instead of the entire internet (even though the idea had been floating around for a while), even if they executed it to perfection. They would NEVER have succeeded. Unless they 'pivoted' (got another idea/direction).
What the Panthers did in California is not comparable at all. I encourage you to listen to the account of the day in their own words.

They came armed (nominal, as they went armed everywhere) to a peaceful prearranged meeting at the statehouse. The media turned it into a crazy narrative because black men carrying long arms were photographed inside the statehouse.
Pharo - There are people interested in supporting it for commericial users. They're trying to get everything MIT licensed or compatible, and Eilot Miranda is working on a fast JIT VM for Pharo and Squeak.
It's unknown whether anyone would have had the guts to actually try to do it if the opportunity arose.

I'll wager that Astronaut crews would have fought each other for the job, same for ground control staff. NASA managers? Obviously not.
no it's not. it's a .NET clone of sinatra. it's a web framework. it has little to nothing to do with node.js. although .net have pretty powerful multiprocessing and async routines, and can therefore be connected to node.js without too much effort.
I think I'd prefer a tool that identifies points of interest for my team to investigate rather than one that actually tries to execute a hack against my servers, introducing possible instability.
> What kind-of time measurements? What kind-of average?

I interpreted the parent to mean a simple average, so I did exactly that: calculated the percentage for each, and averaged them. In the colloquial term, "mean".
At the Hertz down the street from work I can rent a cherry-picker or a forklift if I want (definitely not an airport Hertz). Pretty sure a pickup wouldn’t be asking too much. I’ll check next time I walk by. Me, I just rent my trucks from Home Depot.
Yeah :-)

I never expected it to get out of hand like this.
Novelty accounts do not belong on Hacker News.
I'm not sure whether you're intending to pose that as a problem -- why should language be a barrier to anything? It could open the possibilities to a lot of people in less well off countries.

What would be a problem (and is kind of assumed in what you're saying) is if people stopped learning their native language in favour of English.
Hmm, I guess you're right...
And if you can't stop being an employee, at least stop being a "programmer". You can still program, just make sure you're doing it in the service of something which provably makes the company a lot of money. Mention this every time you aggressively negotiate for compensation.

This works for consultants, too. You'll never hear me describe my job as writing Rails code or Ruby scripts. I do that, sometimes, but I'm well aware that I add value faster than equivalently skilled developers and I charge a premium to match.
There is also no way of knowing how many of the 400,000 actually saw the initial call to action.
Wow, never thought I'd see this posted here! (I'm the creator of this project.) I thought about building my own CPU from relays and/or discrete logic (I met the creators of the Magic-1 and BMOW a couple years ago at a Maker Faire), but it would have taken way too much time and money, so I stuck with an off-the-shelf chip.

My development process isn't that well documented online, but soon I hope to start a blog where I explain how the whole thing works; address decoding, bank switching, assembly programming, etc. And then I'll write some games, add a Forth environment, hook it up to the internet, who knows. All my source code, schematics, and tools will be online sometime in 2011 if anyone's interested.
/me broadly gestures at every well known tech co
Not a bad idea, I'm fine with this change.
Deamon by Daniel Suarez
That's because Apple owns the hardware. It's not really fair to compare the two shops in this way, considering the differences between an OS, and an OS + platform.
9/11 style terrorism was solved by reinforcing the cockpit doors. Everything else has been police state fear mongering.
In Vancouver,BC there is a trial of grocery vending machines in the lobbies of condos.
I'm curious to see how this affects Spanner (Google's new database that seems to rely on extremely precisely synchronized time to coordinate transactions).

Anyone on the Spanner team able to comment?
I'm just curious, to be honest, as I'm thinking of the typical startup scenario where you might have a bunch of programmers with low equity and relatively low salaries compared to a contractor.

Very interesting concept regardless, if I'm ever in the market for an MVP this definitely seems more attractive than the typical outsourced team.
Right. I think this is a huge missed gap that may or more likely may not be filled in the future. A phone USB charger isn't in risk of being a fire hazard, nor an eSATA, nor some RAM, nor a wireless card. Passive cooling is plenty as long as not stuck in a cupboard, and being plugged into a wall brings the benefits of heat transfer to the wall.

I agree that most implementations have got me cautious as well. But it shouldn't be so. I feel the concept has been eclipsed on several fronts and it'll take quite an effort to become mainstream.
> I can see parents and kids going together to play in parks with no care whatsoever.

I don’t know if they have no care. They’ve just weighed the horror of staying in their home with a kid for days on end against their chances of getting infected and chosen what makes sense for them.
800 people died in Italy just yesterday. Stop downplaying.
I think he's confusing both liberalism and socialism with a straw man he emotionally substitutes for both.
There have been numerous attempts to move to open source in Russia. Most of them failed.

Example: Linux in schools.

1. Teachers don't know much about linux

2. Computers aren't fast enough to work with GNOME (which is default in most packages they install)

3. Kids don't get it. Open office is the only familiar-looking application there.

4. They won't be able to apply their skills anywhere

add: 5. Microsoft makes some generous discounts. Simply because something is worth more than nothing. Piracy is very widespread here (this part is changing on corporate level, though).
"Folks making minimum wage currently pay little or no taxes, so they'd see a significant tax increase with consumption-based taxation - an increase they can't afford."

Maybe they would see what it's like to be taxed..and not vote to get everyone else gouged while their income isn't affected.
Many people are not this tech savvy and don't realize this. I think I'm going to do the same thing to see how much data, accounts, and other goodies I can get.
You could just use Diffuse's center panel as the one to merge in to and save.

But there's no way to make it the one that's saved by default. You have to select it as the one to save, and then you have to refuse in the dialog that asks whether you want to save the other two.
I think the companies in general are better than in your one-sided opinion.

For instance, think about hundreds of companies that need to manage financial data. They create solutions to take data from database A and put it into database B. People who maintain this code are usually 100% more critical to the company than an average "awesome programmer". And these people get promoted based on the years of service.
This is absolutely due to the freshness of the post. In fact, it’s already at spot #4 in my results. It is common knowledge that Google pushes up recent posts and slowly sinks them to where they belong after some time.
Are you saying their plan was to attack those senators and representatives, in order to gain and keep power? What evidence do you have for this?
Amazon notes[0] that they "will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases". Looking at my purchase history over the last six years, that number is closer to 0.25% (presumably because many purchases weren't considered eligible).

I still keep my purchases going to my charity of choice, but make no mistake: opting for AmazonSmile contributions won't move the needle on your charity. You have to make contributions directly out of your own wallet. Bonus points if your employer will match them.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/about/ref=smi_se_dshb_aas_s...
Yes, but in a lot of ways, the laws of society are a sufficiently objective moral basis, since those are the rules we chose for ourselves. Undermining those is just bad in so many ways.
To add, suffering also brings enjoyment.

The suffering of hunger makes a meal taste better.

The suffering of the hot sun makes a dip in the pool or a cool breeze enjoyable.
We're working from the bottom up.

Currently the service targets fairly advanced developers who are well versed in JavaScript, understand relational databases (yet don't want to write SQL) and know Git, but have better things to do than administer servers.

With time, we are looking to add one click GitHub push/pull/fork+clone integration, web applications & API mashup templates and finally tutorials for getting started with development in JavaScript for the very beginners.
Anecdotal evidence doesn't really counter quantitative research.

I'm sure there are very smart people that use Facebook regularly.
LIVELINKDEVELOPER.COM / NAMEEGO.COM / OFFERHN.COM / WEARSTARTUPS.COM

Pending account change for the above domains.
That was easy... I would like a decent coffee machine.
The word "sovereign" in that description was not extraneous. In the story, these being tend to literally be countries, in the manner that a King used to be the country. You can't arrest them. They are the ones doing the arresting.
Skip college, you can always go back.

For anyone who is thinking of following this advise please do not.

If you decide you don't want to go to a university then that may be the correct path of you. But, there is never an easier to to study than right after high school. By the time you decide "you can always go back." you might just have a 50 hour per week job, a house note and a toddler that are all way more deserving of your time than getting a degree.

The first six months will provide you with more experience than you'd get in a PhD program at any university (short of MIT or Stanford).

Are you serious? Really?
I wiped out all npm modules and reinstalled node.
Still getting error.
I installed yeoman using:

sudo npm install -g yo generator-webapp grunt-contrib-compass
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

What we didn't add in the guideline is that they also often get upvoted to near-top of the thread, which chokes out interesting discussion. More of the problem is caused by the upvotes than by the comment itself, but it's harder to do anything about the upvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Speaking of Hodak, Transcriptic appears to have been allowed to wither on the vine.
Also instagram, but not whatsapp
This person allegedly created a deepfake video that simulated a child nude, and sent it to someone else. Why was she not charged with creating and distributing child pornography?
Love the status page right now.
https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/

PS. Instagram app/site, whatsapp.com, messenger.com, oculus.com also down, anything else?

UPDATE: Everything back up! (Even the status page)
No they aren't very cheap anymore. You always can get the same manufacturing done elsewhere. It just may not all be available in the same country.
In my experience, Magit is slow even on Linux. On my small repos at home, subjectively magit-status seems to take around 0.2-0.3 seconds. And that's just status, the most basic information you ask of git. Committing is several times slower. On a large codebase at work, magit-status usually takes around 10 seconds, sometimes longer. Again, I'm usually running it to just check some basic metadata (what branch I'm on, do I have a dirty tree, if yes, then what files are changed), so it's frustrating to wait. Honestly, I'd expect stuff like that to update effortlessly in real time without me issuing any commands. This is what happens in some other editors. However, currently I'm glued to Emacs because of Tramp for working remotely in a nice GUI and org-mode for time-tracking (TaskWarrior/TimeWarrior isn't for me).

I prefer Fork on Windows and Mac (prefer the Windows version for aesthetic reasons). Unfortunately, it's not available for Linux.
> I think you still want an OS that is updated, if only for security reasons.

The trick is to make it simple enough there is nothing to update. I still have and use my 2006 Motorola Razr (also have a Palm phone). Of course the razr doesn't get updates but there's nothing to update. It can't run any external code, it can't connect to anything and no sensitive data ever enters or exits it. So, it's the perfect phone.

I'd pay anything for a new phone just like the Razr but with 4G or later, zero additional features. Only reason I also have the Palm phone is that 2G doesn't work everywhere anymore so I need a backup.
> "Australia was a complete shock to my system," says Brian Robson. "I found it very difficult, and thought from the moment I got there I wanted to get out as quickly as possible."

a desperate situation calls for desperate measures
Hardly an option.

Besides one either gets the "don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you" view on things or one doesn't. In this case you clearly don't.
Well, in the tech space this is very easy to explain: They survive by selling new devices. People will eventually buy new laptops to get access to faster hardware.
The thing about London and the UK generally is the real money was historically in contracting. I reckon I was hitting the 6x.

The perm market here has always been silly.
This is how some of my clients send me screenshots. :(
We caught another Java supremacist here :)
More ISPs is competition and more choice for the public. Having a monopoly is surely not competition. There are no two ways about it and no amount of demagoguery will change that fact.