skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I had a good idea about the company from the get go, so wasn't really concerned. I was still in college when I started donating my time to DuckDuckGo and never dreamed of ever being fiscally reliant on it. I am very used to contributing to FOSS projects since it's how I learned to code which fit right into the DDG culture. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that even if DDG flipped in 6 months I wouldn't be in any worse shape since I was consulting while donating time to DDG. It's just great to work for something you believe in that challenges you everyday. Gabriel's concept of Inbound Hiring comes with an Hors d'œuvre of sink or swim culture. I think this is a good thing; especially where we are at now. Thanks again!
A few things to think about:

1) You are still growing quite rapidly, so you need to be wary of killing off that growth. I think your method of giving ~3 months usage free will go a long way in retaining that growth

2) I don't think it is too expensive on a yearly basis, but maybe give them a discount if they pay by the year? Even if it is a couple bucks. They will already be inclined to pay for the full year because it isn't that expensive and $2.40 is a hassle to pay every month. Give them an additional reason to stay with you the entire year.

Good luck
I've actually tested this, so I have the exact answers! The author just saw the estimate of 1; he hasn't measured it, it seems. The estimation by Windows Explorer was wrong in my test but the actual difference wasn't so significant.

In my tests, the time of "a lot of small files" is dominated by the USB stick slowness (800 files totaling 5 M took 80 sec from the HDD and 90 sec from the network share), and the time of "copying a big file" gets two times slower when the sizes of write blocks to USB stick are not "convenient" and that happens in the "network to USB" case (130 MB for 7 sec from HDD, 14 sec from the network share).

Note that Windows by default doesn't cache writes to the USB stick; specifically, the scenario "plug out the stick without unmounting" is supported, whereas the last time I've checked I had to unmount USB sticks on Linux to be sure that everything is properly written.

So once you don't cache writes you're at mercy of the USB stick, which is reasonably fast only for one specific block size (specific multiple, actually). When you don't get the best block size over the network, you'll get slower writes to the USB stick.

What I see in my tests (on Windows XP) is that the copying is done by CopyFileEx API, which uses blocks of 65536 bytes (64KB) from the local HDD but uses blocks of 61440 bytes (that's exactly one 4K block less than 64KB) over the network, which is then slower on the USB stick.

Conclusions:

a) Don't copy small files to the USB stick on Windows if you need speed. It's hundreds of times faster (when the bytes are counted) to copy an archive of the files vs. a file by file.

b) If you want efficient copying of bigger files from the network share to the USB stick, avoid CopyFileEx API function, at least on Windows XP, use the software which writes in 32K multiples.
Why the obsession with creating "jobs"? I'd rather be investing in robots that eliminate manual labor and paying people for more intellectual pursuits.
I think we all know the real reason South Korea is cloning dogs.
Another way tobuy a house
Another way to buy a house is an entrepreneur which serves me to make a trade deal – the house in the picture with a real house (I sell the pixels of the house picture. The revenue from selling those pixels will be used by me to buy a real house).
Downloading UDIDs from the Apple Developer Portal
List of salaries at top tech companies
Arsenic Life Won't Die (Carl Zimmer)
LightComm - the new way to flash communicate. 
LightComm - the new way to flash communicate. LightComm is a cool Morse app, which allows you to flash Morse messages via the phone for EVERY text message you want to. In case of emergency you can press the SOS button and the app will automatically flash SOS Morse message to help you out.
> So, if "breaking the law" is an issue for you, there are legal drugs out there.

Just wanted to point out that despite selling grown versions is usually illegal, in many countries it's perfectly legal to buy and sell the spores of psychedelic active mushrooms (like the Psilocybe cubensis), since they don't contain the psychoactive compounds. There are a few reputed online shops that ship them to many countries. Of course, you must be willing to grow them yourself.

EROWID's law pages[1] are useful, but do proper research before buying.

[1]: http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms.shtml#law
They were using the "Big 5" personality inventory, which is generally considered the gold standard in personality psych. Myers-Briggs is not widely used in academia, except maybe at business schools.

Five factor models have a neat history too. They were started back in the fifties by taking questionnaire results for the appropriateness of tens of thousands of words and doing dimensionality reduction. That got down to a few hundred dimensions, then further research narrowed it down to dozens, until about thirty-forty years ago when they were narrowed down to five and subjected to more rigorous consistency checks.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
I am not favorable to unregulated use of drugs. I've known a couple drug-users, and been around quite a few. For whatever reason, their lives were/are not good. Success (in any realm) did not seem to be theirs. There seemed to be an unwholesomeness that pervaded their lives.

Now, that is anecdotal datum, and it is of course reasonable and plausible that an analytical and careful approach to the business produces a better effect than simply taking bong hits for the lulz.

Therapeutic drug use, IMO, should be investigated with all due scientific process and rigor.
There are lots of lawyers who make money just with that, never mind bankers…

Of course there are provisions in place that make it easier for the banks to communicate, as this is in the interest of the banks themselves. That doesn't instantly revoke every odd tax law that came up in each country over the course of a few hundred years of financial history…

Yes, it's possible for me to wire money to anyone in Europe, if I run through a few hoops. And, well, it's not that much harder to wire it to the US or Nigeria.

That doesn't mean that this is the approach you want to take with a customer. You want to make it as easy as possible for the customer to give you money, so it would be great if you'd accept the preferred way to do that in his native country. And as I wrote above, not everybody's preferred way is via credit cards. Never mind that there's still a number of different currencies…

The EU (and esp. the Euro) made it much easier. That doesn't mean it's easy.
“Twitter feeds are reporting false information..."

I feel like that needs to be the social default. The only reason this is even remotely an issue is because some people at some point decided that they would trust twitter for critical information.
That Act is only in effect in the US, though, while drugs are forbidden in many countries.
A big problem for me is that every time I drop into the shell, I'm in the shell. And I hate the shell like I hate nothing short of, I don't know, Nazi zombie robots. I've been using Unix or a derivate for more than twenty years and I have never lost my loathing for the shell.

And don't even get me started about C the language. It makes me want to go find Ritchie and punch him in the junk.

Why is rsync not a binary linked to a useful librsync? Why STILL TO THIS DAY a grep/egrep difference? And why did Apple integrate Interface Builder -- their best piece of software, IMO -- into Xcode?

Let's not even get into Google.
"make them use git" - given that the entire business is built around git, I should hope so. Git isn't the most user-friendly VCS, but why shouldn't a competent designer be able to pick it up? I've even got our designer working with branches.
* Cheap Kindle (sans touch)

* Kindle (touch)

* Kindle that doesn't need wifi (touch 3G)

* Old Kindle that they need to sell off (w/ keyboard)

* Kindle w/ video + web + games (Fire)
The trouble with Steve Jobs (2008)
I think ideone and/or your editor converts tabs to 8 spaces. Trying a tab indent followed by an 8-space one raises an error in native IPython for me. In any case, we're using normal CPython compiled to JavaScript, so it's unlikely to change finer points of the behaviour like this.
"Used to" for him/Slashdot would have been a loooong time ago.
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I liked the fact that it is much faster than ideone[1], even though it has way less languages.

[1] http://ideone.com/
One nice thing about significant indentation is that it forces new programmers to learn how to indent their code properly. I'm taking an Intro to Java course now (in retrospect, I should have tried to place out), and most of the students in the class have absolutely terrible indentation.

The only major downside of significant indentation is that it makes it impossible to define multi-line anonymous functions in a clean way.
They should add Blekko and DuckDuckGo as options, too. I don't know if DuckDuckGo can pay them, but Blekko probably can.
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It's no parachute so that it can land on the moon or mars where there is no atmosphere, or very little atmosphere compared to earth.

I'm sure that the first few tries will use parachutes too because I'm not sure rocket science is far enough along at this point to do it without.
> Hey Rookie! Please Facebook to play.

No thanks.
Love it. This site is hella-fast and responsive compared to the other "Try [x]" web apps I've used before. Love the addition of LOLCODE.
Personally, it took me a second to figure out the lambda and eg buttons, but I didn't find it frustrating or difficult. Pretty smart if you ask me.
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Right, they are still making money off of every transaction. It seems ridiculous to discourage debit card use. They are just greedy and want to charge both customers and merchants for essentially being a middle man and adding little value to the transaction.
When discussing this with a colleague, I was reminded of: http://neugierig.org/content/unix/
The New Way (Or $1 Less To Rihanna Means $1 More To Tegan And Sara)
Or A Dollar Less To Rihanna Means A Dollar More To Tegan And Sara.
Yeah, I saw this too. You'd better make sure you're going slow enough before you turn that thing sideways or you'll do a Challenger...
I think it's more likely that the programmer screws up in keeping the separate servers independent through database migrations.
I would say that it's mostly based on the culture you cultivate for your brand and yourself. In Gabe's post he mentioned Initech, the company from the movie Office Space, because it represents the quintessentially shitty corporately inundated fortune 50 company. Consequently, when I think of FOSS programmers, their job is either to work on this FOSS project (hired by yahoo to work on freebsd), or they're unfulfilled by their current job and use FOSS as a way to be creative and enjoy their craft. Prolific people are driven by obsession (my opinion); so even if they use that to make ends meat, it's not the end of the line for their work.
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Did you create an HN account and submit this so that you could measure the HN effect? :-)
I know what you mean. But the STEEM emulator is excellent. (It even does TT high res - 1280x960 mono.)

http://steem.atari.st/
Play Go online with your friends.
For a number of years, I worked for technology news sites. The Slashdot effect frequently brought sites down, particularly in the earlier years when /. seemed to have more influence (this was before HN, Stack Overflow, TC and a number of other blogs) and load-balancing, cache and other elements were not optimally configured on our end. Breaking news or particularly controversial topics could bring upwards of 50,000 uniques/hour. This was a big deal for us.

Global news sites can experience far bigger surges when a major story breaks. Around 10 years ago CNN started switching out its regular home page for a version that stripped out video and most images when major stories broke. Not sure if CDNs and better Internet video technologies have reduced the need for this ...
This is a great approach but there's a sorta hybrid outbound/inbound version you can do too: headhunting. Find people working on similar projects or working on technologies that support your work and actively hire those people. I know that Mozilla does this, at least, as my friend got headhunted by them primarily for being a prominent Selenium developer.
There's just one thing I'm going to say, which young people also should know - are you sure what you're buying is what you think it is?

The one time I tried 'LSD', it wasn't.
There's an official Twitter add-on that enables this on earlier versions of Firefox as well:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitter-addre...
Wiring money to anyone in the EU _is_ easy now.
Might not be the case for UK people because they still need to deal with foreign currencies ;)
"90 years ago, I think Jamis could have written a similar deck about why cranking a Model-T while pumping the throttle was just the hard work necessary to enjoy driving."

I feel like these points are contradictory. If it is "all about the user experience" and you're advocating using more sophisticated and cognitively intensive, but conceptually cleaner and more repeatable, processes like the arch... then shouldn't algorithms be important?

It's all about the user experience, right? While our job may be complicated and involve a lot of math; at the end of the day we're to present an approachable front and clean interface to the intent of this complexity.

Or are we just raging because software is hard? I have no sympathy for people who aren't constantly improving themselves. Writing software will probably never be easy; and nothing Ryan has said (or that Node.js does) changes that.
One of the (possibly) profound effects of psychedelic experiences is the dissolution of boundaries-- a heightening of the dissociative pattern matching behavior that we call human cognition to the point that everything seems relevant to everything and nothing is really different from anything else.

To an extent this is trivially true, and it certainly inspires a lot of not-too-insightful discussion about how we're all stars, man, but it can also point out the important but non-obvious fact that your neighbor is a person just like you are, having exactly the same experience of consciousness that you are, and so is the President, and so is that bum on the street, and so is that person in the country across the river that you're supposed to hate. She's just like you, and you can't hate yourself. So it shouldn't be surprising (for this reason among others) that people who smoke a lot of weed find the idea of war to be a waste of time when, really, we could all just be relaxing with some good friends, music and food.

Is it really that hard to imagine that this idea, whether brought on by drugs, education, or meditation, is threatening to the few in power who use these artificial divisions to control the many?
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Monbiot is a shining beacon of integrity, in very sharp contrast to most of his peers. Exceptionally detailed in citations, the ability to change his mind and fight furiously for a cause he was previously against (Nuclear power), and now this.

Here's to hoping a few more follow in his footsteps...
I'm not disagreeing with your example, but isn't that a much wider problem? After all, any business or individual can set up a web site, stick an official-looking form on it, and harvest card details. They don't need any sort of payment processing infrastructure to do that, and clearly nothing PCI DSS says can protect against all malicious strategies for compromising card details.

My understanding was that the parts of PCI DSS we're considering were intended to cover carelessness where a legitimate business collects customer details but then leaves them vulnerable due to internal security failings. If the details don't hit the internal network, those failings can't happen, so it is reasonable to exclude them from the scope of the corresponding parts of PCI DSS.

Beyond that, I'm not sure I see any difference between the embedding scenario and the common practice of redirecting to a payment service's own web pages when a customer reaches a certain point in the order process. If you're exposing a vulnerability that lets an attacker compromise the embedding, they can almost certainly compromise the redirect in the equivalent case as well, and in reality it is unlikely that most customers would notice even if there were clues to give away the attack in some cases.

I'm also not sure what you mean by keeping your main environment outside the scope of a PCI audit. For the payment gateways we've been looking at that offer both hosted and embedded integrations, it is common that the hosted one has minimal audit requirements but the embedded one comes with certain audit obligations for your web site even if you're relying entirely on their system to handle the card details.

Now, if this isn't a mandated practice in PCI DSS, then I do see your point; I've always assumed it is, since everyone we've looked into seems to do it, but in fairness I haven't just looked it up today. However, if that is part of PCI DSS then in fact sites using the embedding strategy are subject to more rigorous scrutiny than those that simply redirect, even though essentially the same attack vectors are probably available for both.
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You guys are crazy. What a waste. Heavy machines, power hungry machines. How much carbon is spent to deliver and run these? What an environmental waste!

Donate to a charity instead.
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After seeing how all the ads and flash websites slow down my dad's Firefox browsing experience, I tried to switch him to Chrome. After a while, he switched back to Firefox by himself.

The reason? He uses the dropdown box in the location bar as a kind of bookmarking mechanism. Chrome doesn't have such a location bar. And he's not content with using real bookmarks, it has to be the location bar dropdown and nothing else.
Fair enough, I'm working on email authentication but fb auth got me off the ground quicker!
Doesn't work too well with my Swedish keyboard layout. If I want to use "[" or "]" I'd normally use Alt Gr+8 or Alt Gr+9, that doesn't work. This makes it almost impossible to code.
I guess you were lucky, or I might be very unlucky. I think the problem might be I have close to 20.000 bookmarks, most of them neatly organized and tagged. The export chokes after a minute or so and just shows a blank page. Grabbing via the API (using curl or WGET) gives me a very incomplete dump.

Last export I did was earlier this summer. I never imagined they'd screw up so bad. Now they don't even reply to my e-mails.
Why isn't the print function working in Qbasic? What restrictions are there in the compiler?
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I remember watching that video. It was a while back when they first launched the "moderator" features on youtube. Wish I could hunt for it now, I think it was under his "vloggity" account.

At the time he was also talking a lot about launching a scripted media company for youtube and stuff. Mentioned that he makes a LOT for his affiliate stuff.

Think for example that he ran a "netflix club" where once a week he would review a different movie on netflix and discuss it with his viewers. Any of his viewers could us a "phillyD" signup code and get a free month of netflix.

I don't know what the netflix payout is - but - on 1 million views per video. Say the NF payout is $5 a 1% conversion pays $50k per week which would be $200k in the month that he ran the series.

And how much do they get from Sony the week they talk about giving away a new camera? The week they promote a Qbids auction? The week the makeup girls give away a bag of "rimmell"?
> Taking action makes a difference, dropping acid does
> nothing for anyone. End.

Converted to:

> Taking action makes a difference, <blank> does
> nothing for anyone. End.

You could insert anything into this sentence. Heck, I could insert "reading a book" into that sentence because "reading a book" is not "taking action," yet reading a book was one of your examples of a 'good' thing to do earlier in this thread.

You're ignoring the possibility that something that 'does nothing for anyone' can directly influence someone to take actions which do something for someone. E.g. if someone drops acid/watches a documentary/reads a book and it directly inspires them to open a soup kitchen for the homeless, how does that fit into your world view? Are the two things completely separate and without causation? Or is it only the influences related to drugs which hold this place in your mind (i.e. can never have a good outcome, so therefore if there is a good outcome it can't be because of the drugs)?
"So... you're defending that type of architecture?"

No I was nitpicking about some factual inaccuracies about Egyptian pyramids - I wasn't making any comment whatsoever about software.
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not sure if this is useful to any real users?
seemed as if they were trying too hard to explicitly imitate Ira's speaking style.

This is exactly what it sounds like. I don't understand the appeal of this, sounds like a ton of work just to sound like someone else.
That's what we are using for our app (http://laskuapp.com). We are based in Belgium. The process with wirecard was quite long but went smoothly and the people we were in contact with were super friendly.
Why the MBA 11 is now my sole computer
in CPython (at least, on my mac) mixing tabs and 8 spaces works perfectly fine. try it out!
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Addendum: And then very likely the most successful European copycats will get acquired by a the same US company when it really wants to expand abroad...
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"piling rocks in a heap"

The Egyptian pyramids are quite incredible bits of engineering - hardly "rocks in a heap".
Maybe the real problem isn't that UNIX/Linux suck, but rather that these are extremely hard problems and there are no easy solutions.
You might be hitting the fact that QBasic actually requires keywords to be in capitals. The original IDE did the conversion for you, but repl.it doesn't. We should really be more lenient about those. For now, check the existing examples and use your trusty caps lock.
What? Care to back that up with some references? It sounds like made-up nonsense to me.

>Windows 7 also increased the processing latency of the OS.

Huh?
What will crack Apple's garden is a combination of things. First, HTML5 will definitely help as iOS loses market share on both phones and tablets and developers want to work with more people. Second, as other phones (Android) and tablets (Amazon Fire) gain market share, working on iOS first becomes less and less attractive. Third, as the suit over Apple's collusion with the big publishers to price-fix the ebook market goes forward (you can thank Apple for causing all the ebooks to go from $10 to $14/$15 on Kindle and other retailers and being more expensive than actual books). Fourth, as more developers get tired of Apple's childish behavior in their app store about who can and can't play ball (Adobe and 3rd party toolkits for instance) and who can and can't implement features (we'll take 30% of that nice web-based media serving platform you have even though we had nothing to do with it, thank you).