skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eBooks worked for me in 2014 & 15. I am the author of an ebook Trello Dojo (https://leanpub.com/trellodojo). I update it periodically and earn a couple hundred dollars a month. Lots of people from all over the world tell me it has helped them, which feels like I'm doing honest, good work with it. I'm not going to retire early from just that, but really want to do a few more, and possibly expand that concept into niche sites/training/etc.

niche sites and blogging have not panned out for me (yet). I feel that's more a lack of time/effort on my part. A test effort showed me my niche could work, but I just haven't committed to really getting it rolling.

I'm also a software developer and have a few service type sites up my sleeve. My thinking (as yet unproven in my own life) is that relatively simple subscription services that "do one thing well" and can be marketed to businesses and government agencies can earn well with minimal ongoing investment. The trick there would be to automate as much as possible- especially support- without sacrificing quality, and periodically dedicate resources to keeping the technology current (easier said than done, I know)

It's hard to balance a current "non-passive" job, family, and side passive gigs, but it _can be done_.
I would switch to Quiver in a heartbeat, but aside from iOS or at least some syncing functionality, it would have to do the following as well:

1. implement search just like nvALT does it. The particular interface to search is one of nvALT's best features, and I prefer it over the 'dropdown' interface that Quiver uses.
2. support for basic vim keybindings to switch between notes (j and k at least).
The golang object pool is a bit of a problem (compared to the JVM alternatives) due to lack of generics. You tend to need to do object pooling when you have tight performance requirements which is at odds with the type manipulation you have to do with the sync.Pool.

So the golang pool is good for the case where you have GC heavy but non-latency sensitive operations, but not the more general performance sensitive problems.
Horseshit. Go's crypto reads from urandom, just like Nacl.
Why do local utilities beg people to reduce their electricity usage?
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Yet another site that breaks your back button. Cool idea, but that bug left a nasty taste in my mouth.
"just because they were born"

Thats an example of a successful pregnancy project.
You realize the idea of JSON resume isn't "Write your CV in json and send that to your employer"... right?

It's actually quite sound: JSON Resume wants to standardize CV fields to improve compatibility between tools, ease conversion, ease theming and such.

It's a joke because it sounds good on paper but the execution is awful. I tried it out and the resulting CVs are look completely unprofessional, except they took three times as much effort.
"Made with <3 while procrastinating on actually dealing with email."
DO definitely sounds like a great company and prefer them as a product compared to Amazon (I just hate the onanism around them, and I prefer to keep things simple and roll my own or a hybrid for many things, not to mention that its cheaper to do so in many cases). Can people use their own diskimages now?
We don't know what he knows. It is entirely likely that he has information - or had access to information - that could have serious national security ramifications, perhaps as a bargaining chip.

The NSA could guess what he had access to, but it's harder to know what he still has. That's a very scary known unknown.
Heroin isn't a psychedelic, we're comparing it to psychedelics (acid and shrooms), not to drugs in general.
The accuser should be made public and held to a high standard. What could Youtube do to get the incentives more aligned so that users infringed upon are still willing to make the accusation, but false accusers would steer away?
Honest question.

Why do we need so many Parse clones now? Don't the dozen or so alternatives (Firebase, Kinvey, Couchbase just to name a few) fill the gap left open by Parse?
Don't apply there?

I usually keep mine in straight .txt format. If that doesn't work, I move on. I've usually investigated a number of places I might consider working and things like this help me narrow it down further.
Great game, really addictive! Kudos!
Yes but it's a political subdivision of the U.K. if the plane flew over one of the Swiss cantons, we don't mention the canton, we mention the main superdivisional entity, typically. It sounds peculiar. It's not wrong, but it's non standard.

Airspace is the dominion of the central government, not the political subdivisions, just like territorial waters.

To add: "flying over" is descriptive, "airspace" is a geopolitical term, in this context. Hence the question. But now I understand it's a pro indep publication.
I'm going to push back on this yet again. My thesis is not that no software engineers are members of the "1%", it is that generalizations that apply to "the upper tier of software engineers in Silicon Valley" who work for big companies are not reasonable generalizations to make about all software engineers who read Hacker News, which is the subject of this thread.
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I built a education platform and plan to charge monthly once I get more students..
http://thinkacademy.io/
http://thinkacademy.io/courses/1/learn-ruby-on-rails-in-4-we...
Ugh, speak for yourself. The idea of having my work and personal identities become that interconnected just makes my skin crawl.

That said, I've long since resigned myself to the fact that I'm probably a rather poor representative of this generational group in which my birthday happens to fall.
I find that format quite heavy, would move education to bottom, trim down each job to tangible achievements/projects completed ("delivered project X using Y" vs "improved features"), remove all stamps & logos, and do away with honors and awards - recruiters in software development are unlikely to be impressed by those unless it's something really big. That would help increase signal vs noise ratio.

Granted, the type of CVs I usually look through are for a slightly different skill set but I believe the same reasoning applies.
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The interned Japanese received 1.6 BILLION in reparations after WW2. Try again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
I also enjoyed this tidbit in the article, which I had not known before:

"The presidential plane of Bolivian leader Evo Morales was forced to ground in Vienna, after four EU nations refused airspace access on the mistaken belief that Snowden was hidden on board."

Can you imagine the feeling of impotence, as a national president, when your plane is forced to land because of such suspicions?
He's spoken publicly through video feeds at conferences etc. If he was being impersonated I'm fairly certain we would have heard about it by now.

Of course you could be cynical enough to say his video/voice etc is being faked as well, but you have to ground your beliefs somewhere and know there is a spoon when there is one...
This is US centric, but the approach I've had good success with is outlined at: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_....

This is essentially what Personal Capital, Wealthfront, Betterment, etc., do for you. I don't use those services because I enjoy learning about personal finance and I think the work required on my part is pretty easy. Your mileage may vary.
Yeah - that angle bleeds through pretty heavily in the quotes. "This is what an independent Scotland should insist on"
Yes, as noted in a sibling comment, The National is a Scottish newspaper that leans towards Scottish devolution/independence. That they would take a chance to jab at "London" is no surprise.
>Here's the lightest round in common use, 22LR, holing 8 layers of drywall sequentially. This is 1/12th as much muzzle energy as .223:

22LR doesn't tumble.

>Here's pricy specialty frangible rounds designed not to go through walls... still going through walls in a test:

Frangible rounds are usually used so it doesn't ricochet and hurt someone. It just becomes dust when it hits something hard that would normally bounce a bullet.
to provide some context on the newspaper that this article is on. The national is a newspaper specifically set up at the time of the Scottish Referendum to provide a more nationalist viewpoint to counter the perception that the mainstream UK media had a Unionist slant.
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Link currently appears to be boofed.
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>but don't most americans support what he did?"

Right or wrong, most young people do, most old people don't.

It's just another in a long list of generational schisms that will be adjusted in the future.
Yea I only spotted that this morning, must fix that one.
What is "pathetic" about it exactly? It works pretty well I think. Haven't encountered any major issues.
It's a Scottish newspaper.
I can see that working wonderfully for Facebook, because it's all internal. But other companies can't really do that, because it's not okay for most other employees at most other companies to do all of their work-related coordination through a third-party.
Skipping 30% of duration of videos using Wadsworth Constant
Not just that, but Yahoo Finance's data download capabilities were a godsend for students like me in the late 2000s. No sign-up bullshit, they just let casual web users download enormous stock price data sets in CSV format. Very useful for my finance classes or econometrics term papers. I was fortunate to have access to a Bloomberg terminal at my school, but Yahoo Finance's efficient combination of displaying key metrics, historical prices and company-related newsires all on one site, navigable from my bedroom, was immeasurably valuable as well.
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Right. I've worked at a place where dozens of different variations of ad copy were tested live against random samplings of users (I'd guess this is what everyone in that business does by this point). Some designs are so much better than others that you can easily eyeball the $ difference just looking at the low-res dashboard. But we didn't go down deep to the level of testing kerning vs. not kerning, subtly different fonts/colors, etc. to see if they had any measurable effect. I think it would be an interesting study. You could probably program a computer to iterate and test by itself over and over until it arrived at the "objectively best" design.
"human considerations when sending people to war, ability to be brutally pragmatic"
Don't you think these two are contradictory? :-)
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You have to ensure that the GC never makes you drop a frame. For 60Hz, that means staying below 16.7ms.

Given that a Go 1.6 GC will still take about 4ms, you have 12.7ms to generate a frame, which can be too limiting for some CPU-intensive games, but is perfectly acceptable for many games.

(In Go 1.5, a GC was much more likely to make you drop a frame, as it could easily average 40ms.)

On the other hand, there are less high-quality libraries in Go than in C++ or in JS. That may be the most limiting factor.
Be wary of those "minor edits": one recruiter took it upon themselves to add to my CV the "fact" that I was an experienced Java programmer (I'm not a programmer of any sort, at least not professionally).
I don't understand the idea. You want me VPN into a VPS somewhere which is on ipv4 and ipv6? But .. if I have such a VPS, why would I want to host services at home (vs. on this VPS) in the first place?

I agree that a VPN is helpful, a good idea. But unfortunately it doesn't solve my problem in a meaningful way: Running services behind my otherwise decent/fast enough home connection.
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>that is, no risk of police, parents (if that is an issue)

If "your parents" are an issue, it's likely you're too young to be experimenting with psychedelics.
No, i'm pretty much limiting my cynicism to Twitter and quotes in print. I'm not willing to jump that far down the rabbithole.
Of course, if you're doing things the wrong way, you can create any amount of complexity out of nothing. I'm not considering this case. Why would anyone care about the amount of "technologies, protocols, tools and leaky abstractions" when the smart thing to do is to avoid them altogether and just pick the lowest common denominator?
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Searching YouTube for “lets play” return an error
They had some big partnerships before this. They did "reaction videos" for movies, brands, etc:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/43g6em/fine_brothe...

I think the risk was losing those sponsors due to the backlash to their licensing plans.
>In my opinion the Baofeng isn't a very good radio

oh yes, it's quite terrible. I helped my friend pick up a mobile radio from HRO and made him hit our repeater, but I couldn't pick up the transmission from the repeater for some reason. as you know, the TX frequency of the repeater is 0.6MHz away from the RX frequency. It turns out my crappy baofeng was being overloaded by the 5W transmit power my friend was blasting.
Uber changed its logo to something pretty weird
Yeah and management alone doesn't suffice. Only managing the adding features and not managing the quality is a problem, and as I see it lack of leadership.
Assuming you mean neutral and ground, at least those are nominally the same voltage. If you mean something else then I'm going to need more explanation of what wires are in that plug, and I'm slightly terrified that it still ran.
Searching youtube for "lets play" or similar (letss play/lets playy) return an error. Any other terms return fine.
Reproduced from two computers and three browsers (chrome/firefox/edge).

Is anyone else seeing this?
Eh. It's a Scottish newspaper, and the countries in the UK are quite different from the US states. Doubly more so for Scotland whose independence ambitions are well known. That said, the newspaper in question is pro-independence, but just choosing Scotland over UK is scarcely a sign of political bias.
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This was done when we initially (several years ago), by mistake licensed our module as GPL without releasing the source. Took us one or two weeks to see if we have any other legal concerns to release the sources, and then released it. We did release all the sources back then, and continue to release sources each time we update module.
We really never went around / removing that code -- because honestly speaking we couldn't care less. Our module wouldn't work without our kernel anyway, and in our kernel it is easy to remove :)
And for those who care / want to use our kernel/module for other reasons, great -- they can work with mainstream to remove this.
Basically -- this is just a dead code.
I like how all it takes to get some cool art is to impose an arbitrary constraint on technically skilled people.
If they turned that version into a service that could run on-premises, inside a company's network, then I think they could have a real chance at becoming the communication and coordination medium for most companies.
Well, formal verification is exactly what I find the most intellectually challenging and enjoyable. There is no way you can apply any advanced math in something like frontend development, and you're very unlikely to be able to do anything anywhere near any formal methods outside of the hardware design.
Any sources? The crazy 14.313 guys just got fined a buttload but not jailed, IIRC.
I don't follow the YouTube world at all, but I still keep hearing things like this. I'm surprised YouTube doesn't punish or at least stop people who make false claims.

I have an idea I'm exploring that would involve making YouTube videos and that (and other things I've heard) would make me hesitant to follow through on the idea.
I'm not aware of any other London boroughs other than Westminster that actually hold the City status though. Being both a borough and a city is pretty unique I think.
Gresham's law and Slack
Demo scene 2.0?
the result is your learning, if you see no results from failures then you're not a very good employee.

but ok, stick with "i was responsible for a failed product"
> saying "when implemented correctly" that Agile, seemingly by definition, cannot fail

Poor choice of words, you are correct. And I actually agree with what you're saying in the rest of that response. Allowing scrum teams the ability to decide how to work together is huge, and I think correct as you point out some of the benefits of that. Rigid inflexible systems are horrible.

One thing that I know puts me generally in conflict with most agile purists is that a sprint should only have a time estimate component, and not a firm end date. Shoot for two weeks,but if it's three so be it.
I think I misread you; if the "subsurface politics" you're referring to here is Scottish Independence, then, yeah, I totally see that.
From the tweet..

>>Must be a slow news day if denying service to a super rude customer gets this much attention

Just saying. Rude customers are nothing new. As somebody who worked as a tech support guy for a call center, for a major US computer company, if anything a rude customer was treated as a opportunity. I would receive any where between 10-12 extremely rude and inconsiderate calls. Many would be very intimidating. And a lot of times, I have managed to get them to understand our side of the story, followed up on their issues, taught them how to use the internet, worked with their ISP's to fix their issues(sometimes people think, no internet is the computer's problem, not ISP's) and some times even given tuitions to customers on how to use their computers. None of that needed to be done, but doing it built very strong relationships.

I can't even remember how many times our customer interaction coach would talk to us telling delighting a rude/irate/inconsiderate customer many a times mattered more than the very quality of the product. Because strong relationships bring people back, they help in word-of-mouth of marketing and helps build brand value.

You do not look at your customers as your enemy. No matter who you are. Especially CEO's need to realize this more.

Would you like to business with a company whose CEO/Employee(s) fights with its customers? It doesn't take much common sense to understand this. If this is the experience pre-sales, how do you expect to be treated after you've purchased the product.
Ouch. That was a decade late to be doing that.

I finished a MSCS in 1985. Ed Feigenbaum was still influential then, but it was getting embarrassing. He'd been claiming that expert systems would yield strong AI Real Soon Now. He wrote a book, "The Fifth Generation", [1] which is a call to battle to win in AI. Against Japan, which at the time had a heavily funded effort to develop "fifth generation computers" that would run Prolog. (Anybody remember Prolog? Turbo Prolog?) He'd testified before Congress that the "US would become an agrarian nation" if Congress didn't fund a big AI lab headed by him.

I'd already been doing programming proof of correctness work (I went to Stanford grad school from industry, not right out of college), and so I was already using theorem provers and aware of what you could and couldn't do with inference engines. Some of the Stanford courses were just bad philosophy. (One exam question: "Does a rock have intentions?")

"Expert systems" turned out to just be another way of programming, and not a widely useful one. Today, we'd call it a domain-specific programming language. It's useful for some problems like troubleshooting and how-to guides, but you're mostly just encoding a flowchart. You get out what some human put in, no more.

One idea at the time was that if enough effort went into describing the real world in rules, AI would somehow emerge. The Cyc project[3] started to do this in 1984, struggling to encode common sense in predicate calculus. They're still at it, at some low level of effort.[4] They tried to make it relevant to the "semantic web", but that didn't seem to result in much.

Stanford at one time offered a 5-year "Knowledge Engineering" degree. This was to train people for the coming boom in expert systems, which would need people with both CS and psychology training. They would watch and learn how experts did things, as psychology researchers do, then manually codify that information into rules.[2] I wonder what happened to those people.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intell...
[2] https://saltworks.stanford.edu/assets/gx753nb0607.pdf
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/cycorp-ai-2014-7
Was just listening to the podcast audio last night. A casual perusal of the connections between the business world and politics (especially local political leaders) would reveal the extreme conflicts of interest in cases such as these. These people aren't protecting anonymous "businesses" or a disembodied "economy", they're protecting their friends, and many times themselves.
So could most of youtube be automated down with this?
In addition to what others have said, you can relieve much of the pressure on the GC by making liberal use of `sync.Pool`.
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...and that wouldn't be wrong, either.

pg's cult of personality is unbearable at times. If someone reads Hackers and Painters and doesn't see that they're getting hustled, they're a fool. Or they see it and are just sycophants, which is even worse in my book.
It's not really out of the ordinary for a Scottish newspaper to refer to Scotland specifically instead of the UK in general.
well, cPanel is needed by clients. VPS doesn't come with convenient fully managed UI and sysadmins to care about your site there.
CloudLinux is required when you want to improve stability/density. Even if density un-important, improving stability is critical & revenue generating activity
Human psychology, the secrecy, the person targeted and the history of lies surrounding the rendition program.

There's nothing inherent about the plane that makes it unsuitable, but people should also be totally unsurprised that it contributes to making people ask extra questions about the flight.
If it was up to the US, maybe things would be that slow, but I think you are not properly appreciating how fast CRISPR is advancing. The CEO of BioViva has already injected herself with edits relating to telomeres, and it's about ready for embryo editing: the main barrier was off-target mutations (this was the problem with the Chinese embryo editing last year), and that has effectively been solved with some tweaks to the enzyme to yield ~0% off-target mutations. As stem cell treatments show, the bioconservatives in the USA can try to slow things down, but the USA is not the only place in the world with biomedical expertise these days.
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You should be ashamed of yourself is an insult specially if you are writing a public letter to Elon Musk.
It was meant to be insulting had he written just a normal blog post on a badly managed Tesla event he would not have gotten such a response. If you are going to insult him publicly Elon can say fuck off in public or he can show you how to fuck off. He chose the more picking reply.
This open letter bullshit is annoying write a blog post or article on something but don't post open letters if you don't want a reaction good or bad.
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yep. Crete 3tb of one time pads, exchange hard disks and enjoy.
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