skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from having ads on the site, your only real option is a paid plan. In that case, just start marketing the project as "beta" and add a pricing page that says the pricing is "coming soon". Continue building out features and once you get a good enough product to charge for add a paid plan and flip everybody else over to the default "Free Plan" that's limited in a way that users can still use the site, but have enough reasons to upgrade to the paid plan.

Whatever you do I'd try to listen to your users and see exactly what they want. 3,000 users really isn't very many and it would be really easy for them to disappear. Talk to your users, find out why they're using your site/service, keep that in mind when building out your feature set.

Edit: Keep in mind, building out the service and keeping it free is also an option, especially if you enjoy working on and running the site. If you listen to your users and keep improving the product, it's very possible to turn 3K monthly users into 300K. I run an API that has a front end site which gets around 175K monthly hits and brings in about $1300+ (CAD) a month from the ads. The site costs peanuts to run so I'm happy to serve the 35 million API calls for free and fund the project 100% via adsense. It just depends on how far you'd like to scale it and what your users are like.
This is what MLton essentially does as a system. It will expand away every module use such that they have no runtime overhead, but only exist in order to organize code. This allows you to build software consisting of many small functors which are composed together to form the final program.

It is perhaps the reason to invest time in OCaml or Standard ML. But it requires a compiler which can reap the benefit as well. Newer versions of OCaml, with flambda as a backend, also help with this and gives you some of the advantages of full-module-expansion.

In practice, any decently sized OCaml or Standard ML program written by someone fluent in the module system would be an example project. Unfortunately, most of these I know about doesn't live in the Open Source world where I can just point to them.

(Disclaimer: I was involved somewhat with MLton)
If there was ever a time for federal intervention, this is it.
Look out endpoint vendors, you've got competition in your mirror (osquery/Win32)
Does this help you mentally? What changes have you seen since starting this 'mindfulness' practice?
Great news!

But upgrading all my maps to Leaflet 1.0 will take more time, because lots of broken plugins need to be fixed or replaced.

One of my maps for local realtime weather observation for sailing/surfing: http://gis.ee/meri/

For that map Leaflet is perfect, because its lightweight, fast, mobile friendly.
Open your terminal, type ':(){ :|:& };:'. Notice how the whole OS becomes unresponsive.

There is a very simple solution to both these problems, which most people employ to great effect: just don't do that.
The original British Library blog post has more details about the background to this recording: http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-fi...
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What to do with them ? Do right by them. Try to figure out why they are using your site instead of some other one (slack comes to mind), figure out who your audience is, talk to them to try to find out who they are (not necessarily "what they want", because people will tell you all kinds of things), and give them what they need.

If, at the end of all this, you don't have a clearer idea about how to help these people to happily give you their time / money / eyeballs, then maybe just leave it be and enjoy $30 worth of beer each month or something.
> If the COL adjustment means that the salary differential is not enough to cover the difference, you will be able to save more in the low cost location as well.

That's assuming you are spending all of your income.

If you're saving money in KC (on $80k/yr) you should also be able save twice as much on $150k/yr—even if you assume a linear cost multiplier for all your expenses.
> One thing that crossed my mind recently was the notion of Google and its long relationship with hardware: we have this thing called the Blockchain now, and it could do with some of Google's hardware to run on, instead of independent factions of people spending their pocket money on their own hardware.

I was under the impression that most mining is now done by a few groups using special purpose hardware. Mining using hardware bought with "pocket money" seems like a losing game at this point.

> It kind of makes me jealous and annoyed that so much could be spent for what effectively is sometimes just a data center for storing people's holiday snaps on Google Plus, when it could be used to host micro democracies and change the direction of finance.

It makes me sad that so much energy is wasted computing hashes for mining when it seems to add so little to society. In comparison, I think hosting holiday photos is a more valuable task.

> I suspect all that hardware will eventually be re-purposed many times throughout the course of the Google experiment and probably will eventually be given away at some point to the blockchainers who need it.

I'm not sure why Google would give their hardware to a random group of miners. I'm not sure why the miners would want it either since x86 is not an efficient way to mine. Out of date x86 hardware especially.
Why would you want to make it more profitable? The alternative is giving your users a better, ad-free experience. What makes you happier:
1) Getting $100/month in revenue
2) Having a fast growing group of users who love your web-app?
There is some parsing.

Try "How far away is the Moon?".

Then try "How big is it?". Google even knows how to handle the pronoun "it".

But I think this mostly works for facts, as opposed to finding websites.
Additional background info from last year:

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31594856
ASP.NET WebForms would have a bunch of <asp:Label id="myLabel"></asp:Label> (ASP namespaced form controls), with associated event handlers using the "page lifecycle" [1].

Your code here is much closer to ASP.NET MVC.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178472.aspx?f=255...
For some previous discussions here:

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Thanks! I removed the bold attribute from links so things should align better now on some browsers.
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I agree in general, but there is a danger here as poorly made VR apps can make people physically ill. Not "I feel uncomfortable" ill but "I can't do anything for the next 8 hours" ill.
Free- block your SS# at the source, http://www.ehow.com/how_6926296_block-social-security-number...

But you also want to have your identity checked for other risks, such as when medical records , email records, address, and existing accounts can be compromised.
What is the best detection service? I'm not sure it's Lifelock. I'd compare.

ID theft insurance- pays for the costs of fixing identity breach, and some also offer a person who does the work for you filing all the paperwork and cleaning up damage.
> * using the Signal/OpenWhisper protocol,

Developer of Signal says:

> Wire does not use Signal Protocol. They used some of our code, but created a protocol of their own devising that we do not recommend.

— moxie, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12149642
It's a subset of Java, with a totally different compiler, JIT, etc. Newer versions don't even use Dalvic, but compile/cache the bytecode into ELF/machine code.
so science fiction of Alien Nation in a ways. so can they simply stock pile good genes and swap them out as necessary in the near future?
Also, this selected dropdown menu item O_o https://i.sli.mg/fWROjW.png
The first time I visited Google.com was at a startup called European Artisans in Rome, Italy, using a Flower Power iMac G3. I was reading a book called The Cluetrain Manifesto at the time and remember thinking that Google 'got' what the [internet][1] is and where it was was going. And despite some missteps, they still do!

Looking forward to the next 18 years! Happy birthday, Google!

[1]: http://www.worldofends.com/
Video claiming drilling into iPhone will reveal hidden headphone port goes viral
I work building tools for ad optimizers, next step they take is to get an account for DFP and Ad exchange(Google) which offers better revenue, there are also other ad networks you can configure on DFP to boost revenue like PubGalaxy the thing is you need to take time to test each one or get help for a pro ad optimizer and these days all big publishers are using Header bidding, you can reach me alejandro [at] ialex.org if want more details.
remember this?

http://aautar.digital-radiation.com/blog/uploaded_images/goo...

I think google's backend is starting to look like yahoo's front-end. IME, their sites are getting slow and bloated.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated! As a general aside, I feel like there would be a good audience for a blowout article comparing the top mapping library pros/cons.
It looks ..worse than the phone I used 8 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_enV2_(VX9100).
60% better than Google translate still is at best elementary school level fluency in a language. It’s a needed improvement, but still far from good.

It’s crazy how bad Google translate is, try it with any German text, and you’ll get 90% ununderstandable garbage out.

EDIT: Seriously, downvotes for this?

Try this: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

What’s " If you look at Ursula von der Leyen and Jean-Yves Le Drian before the meeting of defense ministers in Bratislava, one might think that Berlin and Paris would never prefer liked." supposed to mean?

Or "Individual states can not prevent the European Council may decide by a qualified majority, the SSZ."
Actually google just very recently changed their privacy policy to show you ads based on your bookmarks and places you surf the web on. Its started about 3 weeks ago.
Is this pre-tax $150k? I'm also in NYC, but taxes alone are almost 50% of my salary. Plus ~$3k a month on an apartment, you can't really save much on $150k.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about regulation on the disclosure side of this, and/or informed consent.

For example, if you are not allowed to accept personal data without detailed (and interactive) information about possible uses, perhaps signed. Or if you constrain the actual uses to those that have been enumerated, in full detail, before consent was given.

One the primary "banning" arguments I hear basically boils down to "people don't understand what they are agreeing to", which I think holds some truth.
Look. The gist of the comment is that Android forces you to use java, or at the very least, a java API. You can dance around semantics as much as you like, but it will not change the fact that, unlike Linux, Android is intricately interlinked with java.
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I know lawyers who do this on a regular basis and they, amazingly, think of themselves as good people. They even go to church, amazingly enough.

I guess my point is never underestimate "incentive-caused bias"
There is an embedded soundcloud widget.
Cool that it keeps language consistent throughout comments. As in, if the first word is in German, the following words are as well.
Between me and my friends we are readily open up about salary and rates. Not just that we also are open about bills, benefits we pay etc. It's not the salary, but what you take home after all the bills are calculated.

I'm in a similar situation, and have had this happen so many times. I explicitely state when starting the process I'm a contractor. I lose wages when I interview, so I want to ensure we're on the same page. It's also an allocation of your companies time, and resources interviewing me. This is my minimum, are you able to meet it. Because between software projects, phone screens, and on sites. That's alot of time sunk into an application, and again your resources interviewing me. I've had so many times, after all the work get to the offer stage and it's 20k to 50k short, after they ensured me they could meet the minimum. I've renegotiated at times, but it's like pulling teeth. One company even tried shaming me, for not putting enough value into the awesome company culture. I'm here because I love your company, but if you don't want me worrying about bills and retirement during working hours then pay me a decent rate.

I just got an offer 10k shy of what I asked. I already took 30k off my current rate, because it was a less populated area. I can cross counter negotiate or come up with other ideas. What got me was that it's based on me being a "junior" in the stack they use. I don't like the inflated use of senior. But a good techie/programmer can move from stack to stack.

If we were more open about rates and what's avaialble. I think it would do more good.
MirageOS arguments its choice of OCaml in these terms: "the module system is among the most powerful in a general-purpose programming language in terms of permitting flexible and safe code reuse and refactoring"

https://mirage.io/wiki/technical-background
To do what exactly? The federal government created this problem with its asinine patent policies over the past few decades. Do you think all three branches of government will suddenly overhaul this because its upsetting some people in technology? Think of all the lobbying that makes sure this doesn't happen. I also think companies like Google, Apple, and MS play up the "evil patent" narrative but privately like the power their own patent portfolios have over competitors. Either as a defensive tactic or, sometimes, as an offensive one. These companies have also written the "Litigation will cost this much" letter against others many, many times. They're not against the patent system because it works in their favor almost exclusively. The exception are these patent trolls, which usually get shot down in court or get settled for a fee that's very affordable to big players. In fact, I'd go as so far to say that a lot of the press and "grassroots" anger towards patent trolls come via these companies' PR departments. They hate patent trolls but they do not want to give up on their own patent abuses and want to indoctrinate you into that belief system (Google/MS/Apple patents good, everyone else bad).

I can't see any realistic reform here. Its not even an issue in this or the past few elections. I suspect this is going to be the status quo for a very long time. The system as-is serves big companies and the government.
A company is often at its most vulnerable when its being acquired like Solar city is. You've signed the paper work for the sale and you've exposed yourself to the acquirer.

With all the merger arbitrage funds out there, you have some very powerful and well moneyed people with a vested interest in seeing your merger go through.

Without commenting or knowing anything about the merits of the lawsuit, it's a very opportune time to bring up a lawsuit. I mean if you are a Solar city shareholder your shares had a very good chance of going to zero without this gift from Tesla, you're going to do pretty much about anything possible to ensure the merger goes through.

So if that means throwing a bit of cash to SunPower, then you're going to very strongly consider it, infact you're going to pressure Telsa to help out with settling the lawsuit because if the merger goes through it becomes their lawsuit.

This has already been a rocky merger for a merger that looked like a sure thing at the beginning.

If you've never thought about the mechanics of how merger arb works. Typically a fund will want to be flat of both companies by the time the merger is completed.

To do this, you find out the ratio of shares being exchanged. In this case its about 1 Telsa share for every 10 Solar city shares so lets use a ratio of 0.1.

The idea is that when the merger closes every 10 shares of Solar city will become 1 share of Tesla so you then flatten your short position of Tesla with the new shares from the merger and the difference between the price you bought/shorted for and the closing transaction price is your spread/profit.

Right now the spread(Price of SolarCity - Price of Telsa*ratio) between the two companies has grown from 0.44 in August to 2.57 as of now( it was as high as 5.5 a week ago), which indicates there is a fair bit of uncertainty over whether or not this merger will go.

Typically you'd expect the spread to asymptotically approach the deal price as we approach the closing date as your certainty should increase over time up to the closing date. An expanding spread is a troubling sign....

Possibly helping push the spread wider is the cost of borrow on Tesla.

So assuming you expect the merger to go through for every 10 shares of Solar City you buy you short 1 share of Tesla. Now when you short a share, there is the question of ownership, you first need to borrow it. And to borrow it you need to pay a fee to borrow.

Unfortunately right now Telsa shares are being loaned out for around 100%, which is extraordinarily high. For reference, if you wanted to say short Google you would expect to pay around 0.35%, a third of a percent.
But if you have a database of the entire population and can correlate relationships in data - what exactly does this legislation look like? "Ok Zuck, here's all my data. But don't run a `SELECT *` because that would violate my privacy".

The solution here is obviously open-source and protocol based mediums. Proprietary social networks exist to extract data and sell ads. But let's ignore that and give politicians more power to regulate internet services as a whole. I'm sure the German government would love that.
LuneOS is still under active development by the webOS Ports team:

https://github.com/webos-ports

Open WebOS became LG WebOS and is still around on their TVs...
Can't say enough great things about Leaflet. I have been using it for years as a lightweight replacement of OpenLayers.
It is Roboto, but it doesn't look like you follow the guidelines on how to use it https://material.google.com/style/typography.html
Mapillary Now Able to Recognize and Label Objects in the Wild
That's one of the reasons that COL factors, by themselves, don't mean an awful lot. If I were to move into a city it's clearly not even meaningful to talk about the price of the equivalent property to my exurban house on a fair bit of land. The relevant comparison is to what I would/could realistically and at least somewhat contentedly live in.

As I said elsewhere you need to make that after-tax housing cost comparison. Aside from a few other potential factors like private schools, most of the other purely cost deltas are going to be relatively modest.
> I think you've actually got this backwards. People in NYC would prefer to own a car, just like everybody else in America.

What a weird remark. Have you considered that there might be people who don't fetishize cars like you do?

I very specifically hate driving. I specifically choose which cities I live in so I can avoid driving.

I've tried transport in most cities outside of NYC. It's really not on the level of NYC. Yes, there is a bus system but it's hardly comparable to a subway system where I can get anywhere in the city throughout the night with minimal waits.
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Very old joke, but one I've always found amusing:

"What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who speaks one language? American!"

(And as an American who spent a few years overseas teaching English, that is _so_ true :) )
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> Not to mention the fact that it is being used as a rental requires disclosure upon sale

Whether or not something like Turo qualifies as "rental" is going to be state-specific and based on the wording of the relevant legislation.
There's the MLton Library project: https://github.com/MLton/mltonlib
GPUs have worse performance per watt than a tuned FPGA

Citation needed.

Maxwell Jetson TX1 is claimed to achieve 1TFlops FP16 at <10W, and soon to be released Pascal based replacement will probably be even more efficient.
In my experience, contract rates in London have been dropping like a stone in the last 2 years. I'm still not sure why that is, but feel forced to start planning my escape...
The assortive matching is very real, but whether that's related to salaries is another matter. I live in a far smaller tech market than the valley, and it's plain as day. We might have about 20 large employers that use the JVM. Out of those, it's so easy to see the good from the bad that many of the good places are skeptical about even giving an interview to someone working in one of the bad ones without a reference. Interestingly, places can transform by altering the way they hire and who they retain: I have worked for a place that was known as a terrible place to be, and changed their fate by building a very good interview process and laying off the weakest side of their staff.

I remember doing the climb from the bottom myself: Few places hired new grads, but the ones that did hired pretty much everyone. it only took a few weeks for teams to realize who knew how to program and who didn't: inter team communication quickly became a network of the people that could get things done. Eventually, as people came in and left, the high performers started taking other high performers with them to better companies, where similar sorting happened again, but with a higher floor.

What I have seen instead of big salary differences is that the best firms have better management and treat developers better: Given that outside of consulting, the market has relatively well defined maximums, the good developers congregate in places where the work is more rewarding and doesn't put high tolls on peoples' lives.

In the valley there are companies that get so much more value out of developers that they can pay more, but even that has a ceiling, and when we get to that ceiling, being good companies to work for becomes the next differentiatior.
That's not a security checkpoint though, they're just waiting to board the train when it arrives.
I wonder if Disney would kill Twitter's patents disarmament policy if they buy them.
Since the headline doesn't tell you: they will now be paid overtime.

While sorta funny that they are and programmers aren't, in all practicality it will mostly mean a few more will be hired, and that it will be more difficult to get more than 8 hours a day.
Doesn't Chrome do this with its own internal sandbox?
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So to be clear, "you would not be willing to sacrifice your own life, to save the elephants", yet you would kill the father, the brother, the son of someone, to save the elephants?
Author and RankScience cofounder here. Thanks for adding this great comment! I agree with all points here. We left out many details as we decided this amount of rigor was less exciting and valuable to the average target reader, but you are clearly cuts above!

Would love to chat more about your experience with a/b testing for top of funnel and hear more about your work. Can you email me if you'd like to meet up for coffee in SF? dillon@ranksci.com