skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do this to make money while you figure something else out. The work is labor intensive and may require a truck so it's not for everyone but it may be for you.

If you've ever gotten new tires for your car, you know that the auto shop charges $3 to $4 to dispose each of your old tires. The auto shop charges you because it usually costs them the same amount to get the tires disposed.

The large auto shops usually have agreements with a tire recycling company for picking up the scrap tires on a scheduled basis. The small auto shops have to either take the tires to the recycling facility themselves or store them at their shop until they've gathered enough quantity to meet the pickup requirements of the tire hauling company.

The problem for the large and small auto shops is that most states have very strict rules on storing the tires. For example, the tires cannot be stored out in the open where rain can fall on them and possibly create a breeding ground for mosquitos. So naturally, to avoid hefty fines, the auto shops want to rid themselves of the scrap tires as soon as possible. Having a reliable 'company' come pick up the tires within a couple of hours of making a phone call would solve the problem, however, as most auto shops will tell you, finding reliable tire haulers is not easy.

That's where you come in. If you have access to a truck that can hold 100 scrap tires, you can make at least $200 per trip to the recycling facility. Most auto shops will be happy to pay you at least $3 per scrap tire. Many recycling facilities will charge you $1 to take each tire off your hands. This means you get $2 for each tire and for 100 tires, you get $200.

If you don't have a truck but do have a large enough place where you can store up to 100 tires and keep them dry, you can have the recycling company come pick them up.

In order for this business to be feasible, you need to have enough small auto shops in your area to regularly supply you with the tires or you'll need one large auto shop that is not satisfied with their current tire hauler. In either case, you'll need to be a registered business in order for the auto shops to legally supply you with the tires (otherwise any Joe can pickup the tires, collect the money and dump the tires somewhere).

You also need to have a tire recycling facility close by to keep your costs contained. Here's a list of scrap tire facilities in the Tri-state area along with the amount they charge to come pickup the tires from you. If you deliver the tires to them, the prices will be slightly lower.

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dshw/recycling/stftf.htm

good luck
-Samir
I was about to take your dismissal of my '+1' seriously until I noticed the vast majority your comments on HN are all contrarian and basically content free. Except of course when you're blasting others as 'hivemind'ed, or to complain about one of the seven words you can't say on HN. For the record I'm an Orange County Republican so I came to my opposition of Monsanto by my own volition.
#1: A large company called Sony recently had almost 100 million accounts stolen from PSN. We all assumed that because they're big, they wouldn't do stupid things like store our passwords or credit card numbers in plaintext.

If Facebook can't fetch data from its own infrastructure, I would be seriously worried, more so than I am right now.

#2: I understand them wanting to preserve trade secrets like facial recognition, but I still would like a general idea of /every single thing/ Facebook has on me. That's like a bank storing a bunch of information on me while refusing to disclose certain parts of my bank account because they're "trade secrets".

You're right, not everything Facebook does is bad. But they don't have the users' best interests at hand and when you need to worry about a site tracking you across the Internet simply because you have an account and they can, that's the time to worry. I'm surprised we haven't seen more lawsuits than the media is reporting.
Of course it should. But a rule that says you're banned because you're too open with search engines is insane. robots.txt should have nothing to do with it.
"If you had a blog, I'd read it."

Thank you! Blog possibly to come. Actually, a lot more writing to come. (Speaking of hare-brained leaps of faith to follow our callings, I'm actually working on a novel right now).

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OP: "Friends" who can't respect the stones it takes to quit your job and seek your true calling, and furthermore, who insult instead of supporting you emotionally when the shit hits the fan - well, they can go straight to hell. They aren't your friends, they're asshole leeches who don't have the stones to do it themselves and instead seek to bring you down because of it."

While I agree with you in spirit, I think there's a crucial point to be made: if you step out of the box to do your own thing, all of your friends are secretly going to think you're a little nuts. The trick is figuring out which ones think you're crazy like a fox, and which ones think you're just crazy. Relish the relationships with the former, and avoid getting dragged down by the latter. The good news is, your friends will make known pretty early, and vocally, which camp they sort themselves into.
That's the sort of debate you get when you leave all those juicy articles about this that and the other political thing out for the flies to land on.
IOS 5 Notifications and Reminders: Yuck Why can't they play nice?
I think this is a more recent development actually, that started in the last year particularly. Hacker News had a much more business and startup friendly environment, but the anti-capitalist attitude is a sentiment that was found mostly at the bottom, downvoted for their mostly incoherent rants. It's unfortunate that their numbers have gained.

I think one of the biggest signs to always look for is how many comments a story has. You'll find the older, better commenters tend to be more conservative with their comments and only joining the discussion when they have something worthwhile to contribute.

Hacker News has grown a lot in the last year, and obviously many of the new users are people who don't actually run their own businesses. They view making money as somehow abhorrent. The same kind of mindset you see in these new occupy wall street protests.

But lest I take us off on a too political tangent, I'll end it here. Politics does not belong on Hacker News.
It looks like you have some room to refine your searching / filtering. I'm in the Seattle area and it's picking up some noticeable noise.

e.g.:

"Tacoma cannery property to be repositioned: Pinnacle Foods Group is looking for a real estate developer who can ... http://t.co/UobgHb39

and

"Online entrepreneur pitches for funding for app ... - TasteBand.com: An world wide web entrepreneur is looking t... http://t.co/JKAnZdBk
Yes, this is something even I observed as an intern. Amazon environment is very dynamic and chaotic (at least the group I interned in was).
The primary example in this post seems erroneous to me.

handle_payment if trans.is_payment? and return

.. will never run handle_payment, whether the condition is true or not.
Good grief, please move this off the front page. The guy obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
Google Engineer Accidentally Posts Rant About Google+
There are significant parts of Amazon where this does happen - but it really varies from department to department, and manager to manager.

The depressing thing is, when you do get some time off after pulling long hours for a tough project, it's all done under the table. Amazon is extremely cheap when it comes to off-time, so managers essentially have to put their ass on the line to let their reports get well-deserved downtime.

Kudos to the bosses that do it, but one of the reasons that eventually convinced me to leave was that... things like this shouldn't have to be done with a nudge and a wink.
How much would it cost without Windows preinstalled? Will they even sell it without and OS?
The 2600k is about $75 more expensive. The 2500k, which is closer to the FX8150 most of the time, is about $25 cheaper.
Nike hasn't been an ethically questioned company since 2000. In fact, they're pretty universally acclaimed as one of the most ethical companies in the world now (google Nike Most Ethical). Most of the Monsanto data in this thread is decades old, as well.
Kik for Blackberry(take that iMessage)
I have had a 30 inch at home for the past 3 years, I'm looking to upgrade to twin 30s. At work I have a 30 inch, it's all so inexpensive, that its not really worth discussing.
We're going to be more flexible with our monetization in the next few weeks. $20/year for unlimited was a last minute addition to the launch so that we could get feedback like this. We don't want to pigeonhole ourselves into one model just yet. Opening it up for unlimited sending and charging for other actions is definitely on the table.
Get a list of Months by Locale in Android…
Let the snake eat its own tail:
https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/#url=https_3A_2F_2Fd...
Where people don't use Facebook
The Creative Class Is Alive
While this is blatant FUD, there may a grain of truth to what MS is saying. Malware and phishing detection are heavily dependent on external servers for accuracy.

I hope other browser vendors don't just dismiss these functions MS touts, instead look critically at if these functions to see if they’re worth implementing.

Also I love the fact they picked up on a typo:

>doesn't [sic] have most of the features that help protect against modern threats
I'm assuming you have the same concern about your emails, right?

By the way iMessages are encrypted end-to-end (but I wouldn't expect you to believe or trust Apple on this).
I'm in the same boat and have been teaching myself to code. Fortunately I don't find it too difficult. Tedious, yes, but try to think of it as any other subject. There are a few basics to memorize and then you are free to create your own vision from what you've learned.

In regards to languages, I've heard it really depends on you and what you are hoping to achieve and almost every programmer I've spoken to has a distinct preference. I'm under the impression this is something us newbie hackers will determine over time...? None of them have been able to recommend any particular book though so I just went to the library, checked out a TON of books and leafed through a few chapters to determine which ones I appreciated.

Which websites are you looking going to for tutorials on HTML and CSS? I have one that I really like but I'm trying to find other resources...
I see a lot of ideas come through through here and very few of them either put a smile on my face or have me thinking I'm going to use that, or it at least needs book marking.

Congrats I smiled, bookmarked, and did a search. I think you're onto a winner :)
Can't a service throttle the login attempts, though? Or are we talking about trying to reconstruct passwords from a stolen database?
Let’s Whine About Google Dart
This article appears to make the following argument:

1. Ruby/Rails developers use Ruby/Rails even though it is slow because storage access is slower (and thus the bottleneck).

2. Storage access is about to get much faster as people switch from spinning disks to SSDs.

3. Therefore, people will start using faster performing languages because app server language will become the bottleneck.

However, there are two questions I have about this argument:

1. How much faster are SSDs in common database scenarios? Presumably, they are much faster for point queries? But is it 2x, 10x, or 100x? How much faster are they per dollar (e.g., how do SSDs compare to tons of spinning disks in RAID)? Will they impact common caching scenarios (e.g., memcache)?

2. Are app servers ever the bottleneck? Modern web development seems designed for stateless, horizontal scaling ("scale out") at the app server layer. Further, this stateless, horizontal scale out requires no effort for even the smallest shops, through things like Heroku, App Engine, EC2, and similar services. Will it ever make sense to trade off expensive programmer time (by coding in a lower level language) for less app servers at all but the most extremely popular websites? Is there some compelling reason the app server layer should not be stateless?
Microsoft Goes Big data. Bringing Hadoop to Azure
This is a neat tool. Great idea. One suggestion is that, do no default to Grand Havens.

Suggestions
1. People who dont look at the search bar at the top would have no idea
a. why there isn't any job postings for their location
b. How to search for jobs in a specific location.

2. Could be a good idea to get the browser location and search for that, to make the site instantly relevant.
Wow, this guys knowledge is wrong.

Dynamic languages can be faster than C now, and are only improving. Implementations like pypy, and luajit2 really are rocking. JavaScript implementations are also getting real fast.

C++ doesn't need to use manual memory management, and hasn't for ages. You can use it, but it is optional. Perl was often mixed with C/C++ libraries, including mod_perl with apache - the real webserver written in C.

With WebGL there is coming a massive amount of GPU power available to apps from JavaScript. Which also has available WebWorkers, which allow multi core use. As well, as vector instructions. The speed available for processing is truly amazing.

There's just too much wrong in this article, so I'll just stop writing about it now. Usually I enjoy his articles, but this one is way off. On the other hand, maybe it is just a really good troll?
I don't understand. Now Ruby and database are slow, so it's OK to use Rails. When a database is fast in future, I will stop using Rails, LOL.
If I were to get selected during this round, when would I actually be expected to report in Chile?
Ok, but based on the die size and the transistor count we could have had 12 Thuban cores in the same amount of space.

It really feels like if we are going to go with more cores, why not make them simpler? Why not dust off the old Athlon K7 at 37 million transistors. Roughly 54 of those fit into the 2 billion transistors making up the 8 core bulldozer. Bulldozer has an Itanic feel to it, no that is too harsh, it has a P4 feel to it.

I really feel like desktops are done, GPUs have this biggest effect on desktop perf right now. It would seem to focus on the fusion A series parts and the server. As a server side dev, I would rather have more cores (more cache actually). I don't need memory coherency (that should be mitigated by the hypervisor).
Blender please sir!
Ironically, I can't seem to view this page in Safari on iOS 5. Can anyone summarize what this says?
I've been looking for something like this. But what can you do about Facebook and LinkedIn and the websites that are sharing my information in the first place? What happens when these websites pull my information again? Figure this out, but I like where you're headed.
Shell like pipes for python
On most forums, there's an option to turn signatures off. I almost always do this.
I'm familiar with the inter-state sales tax compliance functions at a number of firms and it is a tremendous burden. Not only most states, but numerous municipalities impose sales tax as well. As the article mentions, the problem is that Use tax[1] obligations are generally not paid by destination-state customers. This actually makes a great argument for why the federal government should collect a national sales tax, that is then distributed back to the states.

Regarding the legality of states attempts to collect sales tax on inter-state transactions, we can look to the commerce clause[2]. In the courts, one test that has been used is to ask whether a tax creates an unfair advantage for in-state commerce over inter-state commerce[3]. If you take into account the compliance demands created by an inter-state sales tax, I think the answer is almost always YES.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_and_use_tax

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

[3] http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/interst...
There are a lot of really great products that simply cannot be built by a scrappy startup, and require the ginormous scale of a place like Amazon to pull off.

Not only for deep funding pockets, but also for existing relationships. Say you had an idea that would dramatically improve online retail - you can either develop a white-box solution and try to shop it around (and have them clone it out from under you), or you can build your own online retail empire (good luck), or you can join one.

It's part of what got me to stick around AMZN as long as I did. Myself and some colleagues were very much of the internal-entrepreneurial mindset. We developed lots of prototypes, some of which received rave recognition throughout the company. I left after I realized my management chain (can't speak for others) had little to no real interest in turning them into products. They were more than happy to give lip service, trophies, and have me put together presentations on how innovative and scrappy we were, though.
Tips for Crafting a Pitch That Wows Journalists
For my 'idea document' I've been using Gnote in Linux. Quick and easy to jot stuff down, and just add the ~/.gnote folder to Dropbox or SpiderOak for automatic backups of new and modified notes. Very seamless and effective.
However, speed of execution does not matter when your development speed drags. When you are developing a product, you need to be able to move fast.

However, the JVM doesn't necessarily mean 'Java'. If you get free performance and more efficient development, there's no advantage to using a poorly architected inefficient runtime.
Is that because you haven't read Magic Ink, or because you have read it and you don't think it's "paradigm-shifting"?
Bulldozer is aimed more at servers; for your needs, AMD has the "Fusion" line of processors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion

That said, the Bulldozer chips have relatively power-efficient cores, and it will shut off power to cores that you aren't using. If your system isn't particularly loaded, there's no reason for it to burn enormous amounts of electricity.
Autism and the Crystal Baby: chomp chomp
Why is that less good? Let the market decide whether it's an effective alternative or not. If somebody can learn just as well from that medium then let them. Eliminating an entire department isn't a bad thing -- education is about the students, not the teachers -- regardless of what the unions would have you believe.
How to make an online portfolio?
Thanks, I do need to learn more about button design.

We A/B test that hero section and selling features didn't perform well so we downplayed them. We've had a lot more signups with other ideas more prominent (Like "Sharing Art Enriches Life"). Believe it or not, the current page is the improved one. I never posted on HN before because I knew I get grilled over how bad our old design was. Maybe I'll get it to "good" status soon......

Edit - I see now the button you refer to. My designer had a nice one that was done properly but it had different text. I made this one to A/B test the current wording, and amazingly it outperformed the original by a wide margin. However, you are correct, we need to see if making the text on that button "correct" (with the current wording) improves things even further.
Cyanogenmod 7.1 now available for ultimate Android customization
Any idea when this will trickle down to github:fi?
R is really good for playing around with data, but if you need to do some number crunching, R is horribly slow. This slowness offsets the advantages of having statistics specific features. Python itself is not too much faster, but PyPy is. I would pick R in most cases, but when speed is a factor, another route may be better.
What a great story for those of us who can't jump out of life to be a freewheeling startup. It is ironic that I found this link on Ycombinator of all things - a site I find somewhat elitist to many of us who don't have the luxury to shift into 'hackers'. More stories like this need to be told - especially from those seasoned veterans who have massive amounts of experience. Kudos to you!
Monsanto is an extreme case, and therefore inspires a lot of passion. I'd say the vast majority of people on HN are pro-capitalism and pro-innovation, but have disparate views on business ethics and the efficacy of various regulations. In the eyes of many, Monsanto crosses the line between "good honest competition" and "dangerous and malevolent would-be monopolist."

Also: Way to paint people you disagree with on this issue as "very anti-capitalist, anti-innovation, pro-taxes..."
> What's the benefit to the community the other way, aside from voyeurism?

It's one of those fantastic, really wonderful Stevey's rants, on a par with "the emacs problem". I'm really incredibly happy to have had a chance to read it. So yes, it's probably bad etiquette, but OTOH will it hurt Google in any way? Certainly not. So, hey, thanks for the mistake M. Yegge, and continue the good work.
EBay launches X.commerce ecommerce ecosystem
AWS Web Event: Running a Lean Startup on AWS
Shareholders pressure Blackberry to consider selling/merging
Awesome! What other software are you guys planning to support
My other piece of advise is that I would stay far away from being compared to Siri. You will by definition always lose, as you are not processing contextual statements. Just bill this is a (big)improvement on Google Voice Actions.
Good point. If I had abandoned the art industry like PG maybe I would have sold my startup to Yahoo by now....

I think that you may have highlighted something I was trying to say. Sure, maybe I got lucky and "nailed" it, however, spending 12 years working in a given industry makes it more likely that you'll nail it. Not that you need 12 years experience, but, I guess that was one of my points. That if you actually experience "problems" of a given industry, you have a better shot of hitting upon a solution that people want.
A manufacturing union would aim to block jobs being moved offshore. Why wouldn't a teacher's union do the same? Just because "management" is the public / government?
> ""But, I pointed it out months ago"... would result in "therefore its your fault because you weren't persuasive enough!""

And then this would get noted in your performance review.

Weakness: bias for action.
I really like this proposal -- all the interactions with the repository in one place.
And next year, they can just show the same videos again, and lay off the teachers. Everyone wins! (Except the teachers, so maybe that's why the union should fight for it, eh?)
Also: Xcode 4.2
Heh, true that.
If the FBI prosecutes for it, it doesn't really count. That's kind of like saying you can't eat at a restaurant because some chefs poison their customers. Sure, but it's illegal and not the typical state of affairs.

I don't believe that kickbacks are common (I'll change my stance if evidence shows that they are wide-spread), even for on-label uses. I'm pretty sure they're still considered a serious ethics violation and probably illegal.
But all the same issues apply, i.e. if you can't disentangle your code from proprietary interfaces enough to open-source it, you probably will not be able to put a service API on it that third-party programmers will be able to use without a lot of handholding. (And Google doesn't do handholding, as just about everyone knows by now.)
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Devil's advocate for a moment, but every way that I'm aware of Monsanto letting people die is essentially an economical one: They ruin people's ability to buy or labor for food...which makes the comparison to the RIAA just one of a different scale. If the RIAA were even better at taking money from people, people would starve.

Of course, it makes no sense for the RIAA to starve its working musicians, but the ones who have stopped selling above margin?
A lack of house style is a huge sandbag once you have more than a few developers.