skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I've found the sweet spot for managing and hosting a website for a small business or individual to be around $10/month and I net maybe $5/month/client out of that after hosting fees and time invested. There's a plethora of "build it yourself" hosts out there who use economies of scale to offer simple shared hosting for under $5/month with a site builder engine that's good enough for the masses. Look at A Small Orange[1] as a great example of how to thrive while offering a good but cheap service.

It can be done, but given the small scale it's basically pocket money, not any sort of real income, unless you can build a brand and scale it up. That's the secret sauce: Marketing.

[1] http://asmallorange.com
I put it to you that pens are intrinsically difficult for quality of production systems. Their nature (portable, lose-able, lend-able, steal-able) calls out for cheapness and disposability. Their size and ergonomics call out for precision manufacturing, but the materials must be cheap and plentiful. The measure of a good pen is often its durability, which is difficult to test for in production. The purchasing chain is incentivised for cost not quality - most pens are not bought by their users.

I think this is an almost unbeatable combination - I think we'll be shaking and scribbling cheap giveaway ballpoints for the forseeable future. Even if you buy good pens you'll probably be put in this situation in daily life from time to time, unless you're VERY careful about carrying a good pen everywhere and never lending it out.

The good news is that they can be used as a kind of bellweather. When cheap pens are good pens, you'll know a culture of quality has been arrived at in manufacturing systems for basic products.
I used to have a serious podcast habit - one of which used to run adverts for Audible. Now I listen to audiobooks and hardly ever listen to podcasts and never listen to the podcast where I learned about Audible.
If you're in London, come and see that Cosmonaut exhibit [1].

I volunteer there, and honestly I would warmly recommend it!

[1] http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/plan_your_visit/...
We're stuck with javascript because it is good enough, so switching to an another language, e.g. Dart or VBScript, are not worth effort and consequences. JS even used at backend side. IMHO, it is better to invest into JS than to fight with it.
Thanks. I did look at that page recently, and felt Numpy support was still experimental. But I'll give it a fair try.

What would motivate me would be that Pypy supports the packages I need for my day job, including Pandas, Scipy, and Scikit-learn. Do you know if there are plans to have these on top of Pypy?
Just a couple of minor clarifications:

- Athelion is a plugin for Apache Nutch, which is the web crawler part and has been open source for a long time.

- As far as I can tell, Athelion parses structured data (microformats, microdata, RDFa...) but that's not the most interesting bit. The online classifier of pages and scoring of new links discovered looks like the real important piece.

- Actually, the other two parts of the plugin are modifications of existing Nutch plugins.

All in all, I can't wait to have some time to see it working.
Are you seriously using the "lock in" argument against open standards? Is this a joke?

You could not be more locked in than when using the Office 365 suite. It may happen to have some nice feature for now, but there is nothing keeping them from pulling an IE all over again, and you will be completely locked in because of the proprietary format used.
It is a shame that so few React-based libraries are on DefinitelyTyped. As the project I've been building had quite a short timeline, I've just been creating "any" type definitions for libraries which don't have definitions (in an ideal world, I'd like to create and share a proper definition), which works but you lose type safety and auto-complete for these libraries. Not the end of the world but it allows more runtime errors to creep in.

On the Flow vs Typescript thing, I evaluated both for this project, and almost went with Flow primarily because at the time, I liked that Flow felt lighter weight (it is truly "opt in" unlike TS, and getting the TS setup right was quite hard work), and I was also put off by the overhead of having to write .d.ts files (now I can create an "any" definition for a library in a few seconds, but at the time found it all quite time consuming).

However, I persevered with Typescript in the end, as I felt that some of the features it offered over Flow were worth the extra effort - specifically, the editor/IDE support (Atom with Nuclide for Flow was really unstable for me and the autocomplete still didn't compare to TS) and the fact that Typescript does a full compile of your code, so will pick up on things like mis-spelled imports, which Flow didn't seem to.

Also, I found documentation for Flow (beyond the basics) to be quite lacking, and there didn't seem to be as much community around it - for example, I just couldn't work out how to get it to check React propTypes, which was a pretty important feature for me. Bit of a shame, as its type system actually seems more fully featured than Typescript's (e.g. types are non-nullable by default), but TS's type system is certainly good enough.

I'd say go Typescript at the minute if it's a reasonably large greenfield project, but Flow might suit your needs if it's something smaller (whether that's in amount of code or in team size), or if you prefer the lighter touch/opt-in approach - for example, if you want to introduce it to an existing JS code base. I would definitely say it is worth the effort to go with one or the other, I'm not looking forward to going back to writing plain JS - having the compile stage makes refactoring in particular trivial, without the overhead of having to write loads of unit tests. In TS I'll refactor constantly as I go whereas in a large JS app, it's tempting to put off refactoring as you might miss somewhere and not know until it is QA tested (or the customer spots it is broken...).
One Tweet Perfectly Summarizes How the U.S. Political Establishment Views Russia
I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather than listening to someone talking. Podcasting just isn't for me, but I totally understand that there are people for who they are very useful. Any article can be turned into speech by using text-to-speech software, it would be nice if podcasts could be turned into transcripts with similar ease.
Firefox for Windows finally has an official, stable 64-bit build
Tones are to native English speakers what L's and R's are to native Japanese speakers. Because tones don't carry semantic information in English, we tend to ignore it, which leads to English speakers sounding really weird when speaking any Chinese dialect.
As a follow up, their "equivalent of the Nazi party" was not elected in ANY region :)
Interesting idea, but I fear this is going to end in disaster. It will either be ignored, or else it will prove so successful that you are overwhelmed. I do give you credit for doing something new which is more important than my opinion. I really do wish you luck.

Please make sure you write up what happened and why.
> As a programmer working 8 hours a day in Python much significant portions of it doing Django, and a few hours a week learning Elixir, C and Rust

I think that you've already made your priorities loud and clear and JS isn't one of them.
Sure the alphabet is a big plus for someone who doesn't know any Chinese (nor Korean or Japanese). In the contrary the old writing system (chữ nôm) could be extremely useful for learning vocabulary given how many words are from Chinese origin.

I was working with a Vietnamese-French dictionary (Đại Nam quốc âm tự vị hợp giải Đại Pháp quốc âm 大南國音字彙合解大法國音) and I was struck by how many words I can understand without reading at the definition because they were writing in Chinese characters; of course when it was nôm character this didn't happen. The reading of this words also weren't that surprising compared to Japanese On readings or Mandarin Chinese.
I'm no sinologist but found this book fascinating: "The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy" by John DeFrancis (ISBN 978-0824810689)
True Scotsman.

Complexity does not grow in all areas. You could have a 3D MMO which is more complex than 99.9% of websites without routing for example. Static HTML can include 100MB of JavaScript that simulates something.
Shielding your files with Reed-Solomon codes (2008)
Serial podcast was great. Tim Feriss is good, Dan Carlin is awesome. Any other podcast you'd recommend? Excluding the self promotional internet business types.
Do you believe that will be the same 10 years from now? 15? It takes a lot of time to change an installed base, but that ship has sailed already.
> [...] we must conclude that notion of consciousness is ill-founded and inarticulate, that our understanding of consciousness is incomplete, and that our sense of "knowing" that we or another person are conscious is likely an illusion.

I think I mostly agree with you, but I would argue that if your notion of consciousness is ill-founded and inarticulate, you can't really decide whether it's an illusion either. After all, the subjective experience quite definitely does happen/is real, thus obviously not an illusion, while the interpretation offered for that subjective experience is incoherent, thus there is no way to decide whether it's describing an illusion or not.
If someone couldn't be bothered to even click the red squiggly to fix a spelling error, what hope is there that he put in the time to get the facts fight? Also, why do people care about manufacturing imperfections in the build of products that don't affect functionality? As customers we expect polish in our products.
Winamp's Old Gone Advanced Visualization Studio
Seems to use ~100KiB/s doing normal editing stuff in Writer. Doesn't seem like that's going to scale very well to a whole office typing away?
I listen to a huge assortment of retrocomputing related podcasts (partial list here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544576) using the podcast addict app.

tbh, I'm subscribed to far more than I can ever listen to, and I'm in my car for at least 2 hours a day. Right now, I'm addicted to the ANTIC podcast which features an almost impossible number of interviews with people from all over the early computer industry who experienced working for a fast growth startup, the bust that followed and the hand-off to an unexpected acquirer. It took a few episodes to get going, but it's very addictive now.

I'm pretty much convinced that there's a selection of podcasts for just about any interest. They act as an audio-only companion to my youtube subscriptions...and there's even a bit of overlap between the two communities.

Everything I listen to is very amateur/hobbyist produced (like most youtube videos) and it often shows, but the enthusiasm is often enough to pull me through.

I had completely ignored podcasts until about 3 years ago and started seriously getting into them a couple years ago. I've even got my parents hooked on a couple.
> I find the advertising inside podcasts also particularly annoying.

Really? Most podcast apps replace the skip buttons with "jump forward/back 15/30 sec".
Hitting a button twice is too much effort in exchange for getting content for free?
What don't you like about it? I'm slowly getting used to the layout as I learn Russian, and the position per letter frequency feels about right for me. That is, most of the time my slowness in typing in Russian is a result of poor vocabulary and having to think about word agreements rather than feeling like letters are out of the way.
OK you are right, 12 years and counting (bought one when I moved in here). Perhaps we are less emphatic than you in our jiggling of the stir frying veg?
> I've been pleasantly surprised with the online versions of Word and Excel in the past year or so. I don't do anything fancy with them, but it actually feels like a nicer experience than firing up the desktop versions - I do try to keep all my docs in OneDrive, which helps.

That may be because you only use a subset of Word features ? Have you tried the classic Wordpad ?
Let's start by not stressing race/gender
If you have a long commute, car/bike/train/etc. they're basically perfect audio companions. I couldn't figure out what to do with them either until I decided to stop listening to the news on a daily basis during my commute (it made me too aggravated).
Thanks for the reply. I will do that.
Took me some years to work it out but I have begun to appreciate Slackware since installing 14.1 summer before last.
Ask HN: What book did you use to teach your children math?
This question is obviously for the ones who either homeschooled their kids, or who did some teaching at home besides the school curriculum. I'd like to get some suggestions, opinions, etc. Thanks in advance!
This is all possible - the issue is that you still must define equality if you want to put it in a collection that cares about equality.
This is really interesting, but seeing the woman's right eye move down slightly in the angry/sad scene had freaked me out a bit.
> both Reddit and Hacker News are transparent in terms of submission moderation

I disagree vehemently. Reddit has tools like AutoModerator which censor content secretly. No user knows what's going on. Subreddit moderators only have some insight and it is on their discretion if they want to share it. Reddit is highly intransparent.
New metal films may reduce costs for smartphone, tablet and TV displays
HipChat is a real on premise alternative.

It may not be quite as "slick" looking, but it works very well.
If you use the Apple Podcast app you can listen on 1.5x or 2x speed which is useful.
Out of curiosity, what podcasts do you listen to that have ads? I listen to a couple hours of podcasts every day for a couple years now and have never heard one (beyond the podcast itself asking for patreon support).
Medical Mountaineers: Health Care in the Himalayas
Here we found something: https://twitter.com/rouyashamsai/status/676504438182293504/p...
As a long time MGS fan I can tell you that MGS5 was an unfinished mess.
The rushed release and the unfinished product was much heavily criticised and discussed among the fanbase.

The most publicised issue is that the last chapter that was completely cut from the game, but the issues with the game go much further then that.
One of the hallmarks of the MGS franchise is it long dialogue and cinema like cutscenes, however MGS5 has hardly any dialogue or significant cutscenes.
Towards the end of the second chapter, the game forces you to replay old missions to progress with the main story.
Many scenes just feel janky and unfinished, like the car ride with skullface where you sit and stare at each other for a few minutes while the theme music plays.
One of the major overarching plot points is your characters descent into becoming a "demon", yet I feel that the game really failed to convince me that any decision I made was particularly evil.
If Kojima had more time, maybe he could of done a better job with that.

The best scenes are the ones that made it to the trailer, if the rest of the game could of been at that quality it would of been fantastic.
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the game is that it clearly had a lot of promise and if Kojima was given the time he needed, it could of been an amazing game.
Many companies have that problem.

You have a skilled employee and suddenly they become a diva.

Now you have to put up with the stuff you don't like about them, but you need their skill.

For example: "Hideo Kojima originally wanted the boss fight to last one to two weeks but was told that this was impossible and not recommended." - http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/03/21/hideo-kojimas-top-5-met...
I have that one when running init 4 but the encryption pass phrase is before that stage of the boot up the way my laptop is set up. I'll remember that though...
If we're on the subject of plugs, I wrote Podcast Chart (https://www.podcastchart.com)

Again in Rails, all running on AWS.
Show HN: WhatLane – A fun Q&A platform
Same here, and the last time I used a firearm was in 7th grade agronomy class in North Dakota.

And by that, I mean we were taught to use rifles, not that I used a firearm ON my class.
It is different. The focus is different.
JSweet focuses on TypeScript/JavaScript while GWT focuses on Java and see JavaScript as just an execution engine. Now GWT is obviously adding bridges to JavaScript, but still, it is not the main purpose. As I understand GWT, it still relies mostly on the GWT SDK and on Java semantics at runtime.

If I may add some hopefully-constructive criticism, it feels that GWT (like some other well-known Google frameworks) is trying to address too many issues at the same time... But that's my own opinion and it does not mean I don't appreciate it.
When HN turned into Reddit
Basic API in Node with Angular and Restangular in the Front End
Musk, others commit $1B to non-profit AI research company
Well, there's the case for other platforms than PC.

Also, maybe if you are a major studio who will with certainty release your game within 18 months, perhaps you should. But if you invest heavily and lock yourself to a specific SDK of a single vendor, you better hope the SDK survives and remains relevant.
There are only two kinds of languages - the ones with historical baggage, and the ones nobody uses.
I misused the word "sure-fire," I stand corrected. My philosophy in a sure-fire way of creating a profitable SaaS or even a simple software is to find an inefficiency in the way businesses are run. However, seldom get to hear the needs of small business owners whom most likely do not have the budgets to invest in a new system. It's usually the "big gun" corporations that have the ability to spend sacks of money to fix their inefficiencies.

TL;DR: Small business/startup owners, what is one simple software/service which would seem to be 1) cheap to implement; 2) easy to implement, that you wish you had?
No, not against open standards. Microsoft OOXML is an open format. You might recall it's (controversially) the Ecma, ISO and IEC standard format, and is supported by LibreOffice and OpenOffice. So even if MS did something terrible, the documents would still be editable when everyone switches over to LibreOffice - dependent on how well they've implemented OOXML.

And I'm not even against what Collabora are doing, I think it's very clever. It's an interesting way of hitting back at Microsoft by lobbying for open standards in order to create an alternative solution and a profitable business.

I just don't think LibreOffice stands up to MS Office as a product (yes, I've worked with both) for day-to-day use by normal humans.
I can't help noticing that a lot of people are from Twitter.
Khan academy is a great resource for your child to learn math. It was actually started with the realization that kids like to learn at there own pace, not being waited on by a tutor or teacher for them to understand the subject.
Wordpad is kind of in that no-man's-land between NotePad++ and doing heavy-lifting with Word.

Honestly, it it easier for me to slam together an HTML document than it is to fiddle with a WYSIWYG word processor. It's got a higher chance of actually looking like what I want it to, as well.
TL;DR: to make this work - IMHO you must also be 'money oriented'.

I would like to say that this is not always true ('invest in yourself' and expand your bank account in such way).

Basically you must be 'money oriented'.

Looking into my university, there is a whole spectrum of people, who are all invested in them selves more than 99.9% people in my country. But there are professors who have some successful businesses, and also lecturers who are not 'money oriented' and just like academia, and there are some not so lucky people, who maybe had some bad twists in their life, suffered depression, etc., and just live a basic life.

It is probably to find something similar with people who are not so 'invested in themselves'. There some well established folks and not so well..
>Besides reading is a lot easier for me

Why do you view it as an alternative to reading, rather than a compliment?
I wasn't sure were it came from (did a google image search for this one), should have been more careful. Fixed.
I edited my post, my point was that the market for pure offline office productivity suites has become irrelevant, since the competition now is between a pure cloud-based service and a mix of offline and cloud based service :)
We just launched WhatLane in open beta and are looking for feedback regarding the web design, features, market demand, etc.

Do let us know (you can be harsh). Thanks!
Why I switched to only Node.js and npm and stopped using Grunt
I think we can all agree that you're not representative of the market, and to be honest, I'd guess (with no data to back it up) that the majority of readers here aren't as well.
I thought that, too, but by noon only 3% of Americans are asleep. By 11 pm most of Americans are asleep. So almost everyone is on roughly the same schedule.

No deep analysis from me, just interesting data.
Around 2008 Prof. Mayr stopped teaching discrete mathematics. After that in most of the midterms there was a solvable problem. Often it was something like "Use the Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest paths in this graph. 10 Points" (and the exam had like 32 points).
In what mesure does a podcast compliment a proper article? As far as I see, the only thing that could be missing would be the interactivity (being able to ask question about the parts of the article that we haven't understood and that we would like to clarify), but podcasts don't solve this.
A: "X is stupid, Y is much better!"
B: "Are you sure X is stupid? How is Y better?"
C: "Don't argue, B! Dig deeper."

You figure out who's who.

I was merely trying to understand why thebooktocome thought the profiler was so bad.
For listening I recently discovered PopChinese (http://popupchinese.com/) which provide free podcasts. I like it because even beginner level dialogs are spoken at real speed. And I see the fact they only provide transcripts for paying subscribers as a feature: it forces me to concentrate on actual listening until it get it all.
Teaching Go Programs to Love JSON and YAML
It's a little light on details.

Is this related to the symphony framework in any way, or is it just a naming coincidence?
Do you mean sports fans or actively playing sports? Because there is a big difference.
Rogan? So many ads for Audible.
So it is time to buy new CPU and GPU?
I was more impacted by the fact that every hour, on the hour, there's a pretty significant shift. Of course, 5pm is the big explosion, but pretty much we live our lives based on the clock.
Don't suppose anyone knows how much they paid for it?

Mozilla is a non-profit, so it might be public information?
You can't read while you're driving, doing the dishes etc. There's many times when your mind isn't all that busy but your hands or eyes are. Podcasts are great for that.

I also find them much better for interviews and the like than text, you get a lot of information out of the tone people use, which is lost when it's committed to text.