skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BuildZoom is hiring a head of marketing / growth
OVH puts a ban on business from mainland China. It`s kind of weird. You maybe hate those harassment, and you want to shame mainland Chinese(because almost all other countries, even Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan are accepted). But a) this is business, you should not be that emotional, there are good people in China too. Doing business in this way may only humiliate yourselves. b) you can not just ignore China market, it`s a market no company should overlook.
The guilt machine has gotten so efficient, indulgences are looking like a desirable possibility.
Thanks for taking a look. Do you really think __call__ affects performance that much? I'll look into OpenCL to improve performance.
A big part of a good chat UI is the knowledge of how things looks in the other end.

Real world friendships have ended because of how emoji are rendered differently on different phones.
There are definitely places where China over achieves, and food is one of them. Also, while the architects might have OCD, the migrant construction workers making 10 Kuai an hour do not...which probably drives the architect to tears. My wife is a UX designer who has the same problem with low end developers.

The quality is there, but it can only go as far as the weakest link.
Great! I'll build it. We've already built all the necessary pieces.

1. We've browser sharing scheme:

www.browserling.com/browse/Platform/PlatfomVersion/Browser/BrowserVersion/URL

For example:

www.browserling.com/browse/win/vista/ie/9/news.ycombinator.com

(Loads Hacker News in IE 9 on Windows Vista)

2. We've Live API (https://www.browserling.com/api) that hundreds of people use and that let you already embed real browsers in your webapps.

Combining these gives you great super powers.
I admit I have only skimmed over the page, but...how does Couchbase create the connection? All I see is that you have to share a QR code with others, which is not really flexible compared to connecting ad hoc via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Oh yes, I'd almost forgotten about the misleading, unhelpful or downright incorrect error messages. It's also fun when account creation and login form don't use the same validation rules, so you can create an account but then you can't log into it.
- "invest $1K in inventory" => no, start with orders THEN buy what's ordered...

- "Justin Beiber case" => warning: you can't use people (or pictures or cartoon or...) images like that... and the rights can be pretty high

- "$1 cases for ~$10" => didn't you forget taxes, delivery, lost,... business is not: sell $10 - buy $1 = profit $9

Well... I think you should take a look at the business side
I started out deciding I would never bother learning the Chinese characters and only focus on speech and listening.

But eventually I hit a point where I started to get a strong desire to learn them. I got really curious about them, and wanted to be able to read signs and menus. So I spent a year getting my reading skills up to about the same level as my listening/speaking.

I think that was a nice way to do it. Learning to read helps with listening/speaking skills too, but it's way too daunting to try to learn chinese characters until you can actually speak.

Thanks for the tip for the app. I used Memrise myself.
It's hard to believe that in a market with a billion consumers there is not enough demand for slightly higher goods.

People who want and can afford higher quality goods, can probably also afford imported goods and the higher status they give.
New Project - Angular2 OR React and why?
"Companies like Tencent which makes WeChat, a communications app that seems far ahead of what foreign apps can do"

What's so special about WeChat? Haven't used it, but interested what special could a chat app do.
Could it be because of a lot of spam originates in China?

So some Chinese residents buy the servers to spam others and then they have to clear blacklists for their server IPs?
It shows sloppiness. For a journalist, who makes a living out of working with words, such basic level of sloppiness is inexcusable. You can't expect much from someone who does not respect the most basic, elementary rules of their trade.
VirginMedia (large ISP in the UK) won't accept passwords longer than 10 characters. No spaces or special characters allowed, must contain a number, must start with a letter etc.
Why not work backwards and start making sales before you have stock, so you know if the business is possible, and if so, what kind of margins you're working with to pay for advertising, inventory, fullfilling orders, packing, shipping, wages, rent, etc?

For example, setup your online store and buy your Facebook ad campaign for teen girls, and try to sell them the Justin Beiber case that you could potentially order from China. When they go through the order process, inform them it's 'out of stock', and flag a potential sale in your database. Now, analyze the numbers, look at how much your ad campaign costed, how many potential sales you generated, how much it would cost to order those actual cases from China, how much it would cost to ship them, etc, and see if the business makes sense. If so, start with a small batch of inventory as you said, you'll get more experience with the entire process, any hidden costs or time involved you overlooked, and go from there.
"Even though the case market is saturated, with targeted ads I'm thinking it would be possible." I spent a bit of time in this market years ago... YEARS Ago... Don't enter it. Your thoughts that targeted ads will work prove to me that you're not actually that knowledgeable in digital marketing. If you think that you're going to discover some magic formula to sell these cases that all of the cell phone case creators (including the phone manufacturers) in addition to amazon and much more haven't done and with an unbranded no name business and phone - you're fucking wrong.
Implementing a simple API token authentication in Node.js Passport
What's up with the edit? You can't downvote submissions (afaik?) so what are you referring to?
Snowman Decompiler MIPS version 1.0
I agree. I was rejected not too long ago by a startup with a reason that they thought I belonged in a more corporate environment (I never indicated so). In my experience if a company really needs someone they are much more receptive, otherwise they just come up with a BS like that and worse.
Would love it if there were some kind of markup standard that password managers could read to determine the site's password rules when generating strong passwords.

I have the problem now with sites that don't tell you their password policy - I'll try several times to generate a password in LastPass and then end up with several entries for the same site, which I now need to inspect to determine which one is the one I don't want to delete. Hugely annoying.
Because it is. Once you land a position at the big 4 you're (potentially) on a multi decade gravy train that just keeps on giving.

Even a short stint and an "Ex-Googler" tag on your resume is enough to open doors and keep landing gigs years into the future.

Moreover the top firms are known for engineering the shit out of their software. You're much less likely to run into really bad code or stagnate.

So its definitely worth sacrificing a bit to try and get in.
If you'll notice, I never talked about any interviewing! :) We were talking about pre-hire as a state. It's just that usually that state and (formal) interviews go hand in hand. Interviews are a poor way to hire in general. I think having water cooler type experiences before people are hired, and doing away with formal interviews would be great. This works amazingly well for the most effective teams--the rich get richer in this way, too. Love talking about this stuff! Have a great day!
Stable Release of Orthanc, Free Server for Medical Imaging
Show HN: Interactive map of global CO2 emissions from 1750 to 2010
starts with D, btw.
I've played around with Angular 2 quite a bit the last few weeks. These are my (early) views for anyone interested:

* Templating syntax is intuitive after an hour or two

* Decorators are great! (sidenote: Warning Babel6 decided to remove them until the spec settles down)

* Typescript I'm undecided about. Its a bit of a pain to work with and tooling is still early days e.g. if you want to import a single js file/lib, you create a Type definition file (.tds) just for that. And if you don't want to document every interface in that .tds, then you can give it an "Ambient" aka "whatevs" definition. But in that case it will not be retain its semantics.

* The new component router wasn't ready for prime time 2 weeks ago. I doubt that has changed. And frankly, I feel a bit uncomfortable with how magical it is. That could change though, I know allot of effort is going into it.

* One of the best things is losing many of the hacky artifacts of Angular1 (pseudo-modules system, 9 types of component, config phases etc etc)

* IMHO the lack of opinion built into the framework will still cause allot of foot-shooting around the globe, especially compared to Ember or Aurelia.

That said, if I was going to start a large enterprise project right now, I'd SERIOUSLY consider the core being written in Angular 2 + Redux. I'd have to revisit Ember before I had that decision though, its been over two years ...
Slack's integrations are less powerful than many alternatives. Every chat system has integration options. They have very little to do with Slack's popularity.
I see this done all the time:

Build websites for a couple dozen clients. Charge hosting fees and maintenance each month to keep sites live.

Marking up AWS hosting to $50 / mth and charging some hourly here and there at $100 / hr adds up quickly.
I'm a bit horrified at the naivety of this post. I think the best thing you can do is just try it, with the presumption it will fail. Then learn the lessons why it didn't work and try and try again.

At some point you will realise that the notion there's a "sure-fire way to $5K" is completely absurd.

Some random notes on your idea anyway:

- No-one buys from independent websites, only Amazon, eBay, etsy etc

- You will get no traffic to your website

- Phone cases are a commodity, there is no chance you can charge higher than Amazon

- Buying Facebook traffic to sell $10 items doesn't work economically

- Justin Beiber will close down your website with cease and desist

- You will end up with a 1000 cases that you can't even sell for 99c

- The real money is in value-added high-price items, or in selling services
The startup selling bottles of Canadian air to China sold out in four days
The lib looks good otherwise. Might be a useful educational tool if anything.

In my tests it's 2x slower, but it might not be the main reason. I didn't profile it at all.

Another thing is that it seems like it doesn't use Atlas to scale to all the cores even though my Python is linked against it.
Light7 – A Light and Powerful UI Lib for Mobile Wepapp
I run a couple of temporary email websites like fakeinbox.com and wegwerfemail.de. Earned a total of $3.153 with AdSense and cost about $655 (server, domains) since January 1st.
Such projects are nice for educational use but not so much further when you don't have any GPU implementation.

It's pointed out in the Readme that this was for education but it still wasn't clear whether it's supposed to have a practical use outside of that (some educational projects develop into something useful). If it has (or maybe even if not), it should have a small comparison to other frameworks (maybe Python frameworks only), e.g. Theano, Blocks, Keras, Brainstorm, Neon, .... I think Brainstorm (https://github.com/IDSIA/brainstorm) or Neon (https://github.com/NervanaSystems/neon) are somewhat close to your framework, because they are not based on Theano and thus do not do automatic symbolic gradient calculation but have explicit backprop code. Also, you really should point out what GPU implementation you have (if any), if it supports multi-GPU, and/or maybe other distributed setups.
I had the same problem at the university with a password with '*' in it. It was actually some old bash script behind it which would update random things.
I'd be interested in seeing this with the dot color representing income bracket.
This happens at the developer level too. Of course, occasionally there may be a candidate who is just not there yet. So companies ask you to wait, some for X months other for X years and then reapply. An engineering position is sometimes about the skill sets; my team looks for ML and Data folks. But sometimes it is also about solid engineering chops and some people just need to work more on those. That is not a bad thing; it is just a thing.
I just remember looking into various frameworks at the beginning of the year and trying to evaluate if React was "worth" getting into.

I'm very pragmatic about frameworks. Yes, React might be technically better than Angular 2, but it has to be better at putting food on the table. It probably will be.

In the meantime, there are a lot of Angular 1 projects that will need migrating to Ang 2.
I'm sorry if I offended you. I felt that my argument was discredited by appeal to authority.

I absolutely believe that the difficulties dmbaggett lists are real. I've experienced some of them myself on the few occasions that I've written code that integrates with IMAP and POP3. I don't assume that I could find a solution to all of them in a short time.

But here's what I think: These difficulties are not "a barrier to entry". You don't need to solve all these problems to enter the market. You don't need to compete head on with the best competitors to enter a market. You don't need to make an email client that works for everyone.

You just need to focus on specific audience, and solve a problem that no-one else does. If you do that, people will use your product even though it falls short in other regards. And you can leave the hard parts to the big companies.
Ehhh, I don't buy it's simple a wage/motivation issue

You know cheap immigrant labor in the US also makes squat and they don't do generally do a shabby job. The issue is that no one is held to a high standard here. In the US if you do a sloppy job you'll get fired and they'll find someone who can do it better for the same horrible wage. Here "average" work is expected an no one really seems to mind (as long as "it gets the job done" so to speak), and if you expect more then you're a mean boss or OCD or whatever.

The food is good, why do you care about the windows? The pen clicks and put ink on paper, what more do you need?
SD Memory Cards for DSLR Camera
That article reads like a William Gibson story. It's not relevant to my life but I'm happier for having read it.

10/10 - would laugh about in the pub.
Buy a couple duplex properties in an inexpensive midwestern or southern state. You'll have to save up some money to do this, and depending on that amount your margins may be nonexistent. Being a landlord is a lot less work than running a business and far less speculative, and the profit margins show it. But you asked about income, not profit.
I prefer the dating analogy. Why would a guy or a girl go into a relationship and terminate if standards aren't met as opposed to stopping post X dates? I want to work with a coworker who has my back in the trenches. If I don't get that vibe in an interview, why would I say yes?
Awaken the Force with Kinect and Sphero
Yea, I thought of this too while I was writing it. It's a very personal matter probably, but I've often heard that people on their death beds are more concerned about not spending more time with loved ones than not earning enough money. So I chose to write it as is anyway.
It's really useful feature, because I'm using time tracking software with Calendar combined. I actually use TimeCamp (http://timecamp.com) which suits me perfectly, but I think all the Timeneye customers will be really satisfied with this announcement.
I would love it if there were FCC-mandated password handling standards, like a (long) minimum max length, a (wide) mimimum permissible charset, and forbidden plaintext storage. It's arguably an issue of national security.

(Or some other appropriate regulatory agency).
At the start of every month, buy $350 of the S&P500. At year 40, you should have over $1M and at year 50 over $2M.

https://vestu.com/articles/how_to_make_1m/
Love that "Wake up" is 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30 precisely. So regular, so predictible.

We really need to learn to listen to our natural sleep cycles.
Besides gobbling up Tumblr and reorganizing its news services, I didn't see that many things going upwards as far as the overall brand goes. The only real step in the modern way of things (from a user perspective) was the Yahoo News app, but it also gained little traction. The mailing service is still way behind anyone considers user-friendly, which makes it hard to penetrate the main stream audience. The only good thing for a potential buyer is the audience, which is still massive. Mayer likely won't last long.
It's rather the other way around: Kojima was fed up with Konami's new management. The new CEO didn't really know anything about videogames or who Mr. Kojima was. He treated Mr. Kojima very disrespectfully, telling him that he wasn't really all that important to the Metal Gear franchise.

The new management is strictly business-focused. They believe that free-to-play mobile titles are the future. From a business standpoint, such reorientation may be the right thing to do. From a creative standpoint, this is unacceptable to someone like Mr. Kojima.

I don't know what you mean by "look at what was finally released of MGS5", either. The title was very well received by critics and sold very well, too - unlike Duke Nukem Forever.
Add Y Combinator to the C++ Standard Library
Dating is a great analogy. Hiring someone is like going on a date, but companies are treating it like it is a marriage.
Well, as far as I can figure out, there's no authentication of the plain/cipher-texts? Just an attempt at blind decryption? [ed: encryption without authentication is almost always a bad idea - I'm not clear on what's the status of the various Android versions - but I think you should be able to use AES-GCM -- which of course is a stream cipher. Not sure if one would want to frame that in order to try to leak less info about message lengths or not. I suppose one might frame the plain-text messages in 1k blocks or something before encryption, and unwrap the padding after decryption (of an authenticated cipher).]
Good or bad is very subjective, but in AWS without a support plan, there is no way to contact them except you create a thread in a public forum asking for help. If you are lucky your post is not being ignored then someone will reply you maybe within one day (then back and forth might cost you one or two days to get issue resolved luckily). In DO/Linode you can create a support ticket to them and usually they respond within a few minutes, this is a huge difference.
That would depend entirely on the browsers you need to support. For example I have a product aimed at web designers. Our support in terms of our marketing site for the up to date flexbox spec is about 98%.

Our product is used by their clients. Some of those people are using IE8 and 9. So the approach we take for our product marketing site and the product itself is different.

Flexbox however isn't really designed for full page layout. The UI items it is really great at are often much easier to deal with in terms of legacy support than you entire layout is. You can often use flexbox to enhance a design even if you can't go all in. I would really encourage you to have a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_98SE8WUvLk Zoe works for booking.com and demonstrates how they use flexbox AND ensure legacy support.
I have two books in my queue actually, and this is one of them.

There are parts of my content-property model I'm not ready to share, but most of it has been structured into a cohesive framework of how I:

1. find niches
2. automate site creation
3. optimize w/ gpt (google publisher tag)

I'm sorry to say I won't be releasing that first... The first is due within the next 12-14 days, after which it should take me 1-2 months to finish writing & editing the adsense-property-model guide.

To leave you with something tangible, it's very feasible to produce 5-figures per day with only hosting cost as your overhead ($300/mo).

[edit] without automation tools though, it would obviously be very tedious to produce the number of properties required to have that kind of income by hand. process flow & site generation/management is the crux of this strategy.
I grew up in a similar environment, saw lots of friends and family destroy their lives out of boredom and general bad company.

One of the reasons I hold so much affection for my childhood computers ( Atari 800XL, C64 and the Amiga ) are because they probably saved me from a sad destiny and gave me the opportunity to have a nice profession.

If it wasn't for those machines I might not have been where I am today.
In this case you need to buy inventory first. Buying from China means shipping takes weeks. And you need to get some samples shipped first, to choose your manufacturer.

Your customers will not want to wait for their phone case for 8 weeks. Shipping phone cases one-by-one from China is obviously out of the question as well.

You also need to buy the Justin Bieber rights, before taking orders.

Also do not forget to setup with a fulfillment partner. You do not want to send out 1000 packages yourself.

Having $9 per case to work with is not too bad. Depending on the costs of the shipping (china+fulfillment) and licence, the numbers might still work out.

But I am not too sure on the advertisement side of things. A customer might be too expensive.
Forgot to mention Vic Bret as well!

http://worrydream.com/
I use Markdown notepads like Quiver [1] and Ulysses [2] to get a "pretty view" on my existing plaintext hoard and directory structure.

This lets my data remain portable and still gives me (almost) all the niceties of proprietary formats/editors.

[1]: http://happenapps.com/#quiver

[2]: http://ulyssesapp.com/mac/
OP: Keep all this in mind and change your idea a bit, you have the will the do it, and that's already putting you above 99% of all people.

Good luck!
I need more stuff like this. Everything about this was exactly perfect. The subject material, the pace, the tone of voice, the length. Just perfect.
Calculus Is Not as Hard as You Think
I remember finding somewhere that let me sign up with a +, but not log in with it - unless I disabled client-side validation, at which point the server was happy to let me in.
Isn't this what the whole entrepreneurial spirit is about?

No.

"Entrepreneurial spirit" is abut identifying a problem that people have and providing a solution it, and then building a sustainable business around that solution. It's not just cobbling together something so you can cash in.

Even though the case market is saturated, with targeted ads I'm thinking it would be possible.

The first thing you should do is research the cost of those adverts. Highly targeted adverts are valuable, and consequently they're expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if an ad targeting young women with an interest in Justin Beiber on Facebook will cost upwards of $2 each time someone clicks, so you'll be needing a to get upwards of a 20% conversion ratio just to cover the $10 you're planning to charge, and that's before any other costs. That's not a sustainable business.
In an ideal world both employer and employee would have more time to learn if they are a compatible fit. In practice we have a pretend process where both sides lie to each other and it is only by chance that it works out. I would like to see a world where everyone was more honest about what they expected and where learning that they weren't a match did not mean that one party was wrong.
Makefile and JavaScript
The Reasoned Lisper
Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/the-reasoned-lisper/