skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key to think about side projects, is that they're just that - projects on the side. If it starts taking up full-time hours and responsibility than it's not really a side project anymore. For me, I have my desk job. Then I have my startup I'm trying to turn into my "desk job" if you will. And finally I have my side projects.

These side projects are mostly fun, or the fleshing out of an idea. But I really don't undertake any that would take a ton of time or effort - unless I'm really, really interested in the solution (it hasn't been done or a better perspective on an old idea, etc). This way I don't spend a ton of time - maybe a week of a few hours here and there - to launch it.
Love the UI and the auto-quotes on empty posts :)
I would consider the fact that they have only been able to increase the vertical resolution by ~300 pixels in 20 years to be pretty terrible.

Meanwhile the images we view on those same screens have increased in size by nearly 20 times!
But then you could be tweeting old and/or outdated/incorrect news. Why delay your posts?
Why is this getting downvoted? It's cynical, but definitely a legit and structured response.
I should've remembered the density difference...

According to omniscient Wikipedia, diesel is 83% the density of water, so the 33 feet that water can be lifted via suction becomes ~38'.

The Trieste used the buoyancy of (incompressible) gasoline to enable a return trip from the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Strong work lifting all that fuel!
I'm not worried about some societal standards definition of 'sanity'. If you want to skydive into a volcano to celebrate your 80th birthday then go ahead. But depression as I understand it distorts your beliefs about yourself to the point that they can't be trusted at all. The problem is not the belief/desire/information per se, but how it got there.
The ability to bookmark the same webpage in different folders of the tree structure would already be a huge improvement.
Because it stems a flow of twitter posts?
I've been working on one for six years now. Id say that it is 70% done -- I just cant bring myself to define, map, and execute that last 30. I'm putting other ideas on hold until I finish this one, ideas that could be viable money makers, but I dont want to leave the original one without at least putting it in front of people who do not know me. I can say that I have learned a lot in the process that will be used for the rest of my career. I'll free myself of this burden by launching in December -- I'll post here as "Look at my 2000 day old startup idea"
You can downvote all you like, but it is an accurate statement of the defamation law of Commonwealth nations such as Australia.

Google would have handily won this case long before trial in the U.S., but this case did not take place in the U.S. It took place in a different country, where the laws allow plaintiffs to prevail in these sorts of situations. If you have a problem with that, become an Australian voter/legislator and lobby for the laws to be changed.
Second wave feminists decided that that word in particular was bad no matter the context.
The difference is how the signal is sent. When you change the resolution in XP for instance, a low res picture gets sent to the display which then has to up sample it, and it looks sucky. On the new MBP the picture sent is always the native resolution of the monitor, you just change the size of the UI elements according to your preference.
Retailers or tax collectors.
Much more context is needed :).

- What are your responsibilities? Do you have a family?

- Do you have loans or are in debt in any way?

- How much do you have in savings? Can you afford rent for the next 6-12 months? (I wouldn't take into account the money from the side project)

- Is this side project something that you think/hope can grow big? Do you want to work on it full-time?
Production of news content is happening without the news papers. It is happening without taxing Google 1 billion Euros.

Who says it is outdated? Do you have stats on that? I get more news content now than ever before. There clearly must be money in it, or enough that people haven't stopped producing content.

Also, who says it is a societal good that we must protect? If society no longer values news and refuses to pay for it, who are you to decide we still should?

There will always be demand for news, it just depends on where the demand is.
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I can't figure out what your site does (beyond "sharing tweets") by looking at it. I assume that information is hidden behind the login? I'm not going to sign in to a site just to figure out what it does, much less authenticate via another service.

Is this so I can tweet a bunch in a short period, and the service will spread them out over the day? I seriously have no idea.

Sorry if this comes across as rude, I don't intend it to be. I just cannot figure out what the service actually does.
Gee, waiting until Windows 8 releases before filing a lawsuit rather than before hand when the damage to your "company" could have been avoided. I wonder why that is...

Seriously though, even disregarding any previous prior art, Microsoft already did stuff like this back in 98 when it was called Active Channel.
"Halloween Bash" as in a Halloween party, I'm guessing. Not exactly a 'timeless' name, but seeing as it was put up on Halloween...
I'm also in finance. I'm constantly amused by comments on HN that dismiss "Wall Street" and the investor class in general as being stupid when they show a poor understanding of markets themselves.
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Out of the 19 comments in this thread, 3 were by 3 distinct Braintree employees.

In all of my time reading HN, I don't think I've ever seen so many employees of a company post in a single thread.

I'm not really surprised there's a few initial downvotes for negative responses. I initially wanted to ask the downvoter to explain their reasoning, but decided not to as it would probably just read "people reading this response goes against the interests of parties I'm associated with" :)
Yes that's it.
A little UI weakness is not going to allow disruption of a strongly networked, community-driven product like SoundCloud.
I'm sorry, I don't follow your rambling sentence. My 'tech house' comment was purely an example of alternative genres which are not covered by this site.

The web and media is full of the kind of garbage streamed on this site. There's a real gap in the market in my opinion to nail the underground electronic music scene. Everything from leftfield electronica to techno.

Over the past 7 years or so I've seen the underground house and techno scene in London become so unbelievably huge. Which has just meant that opportunists jump in and create generic and bland versions of the music that I love.

Over the past 3-5 years its gone completely mainstream and the kind of garbage you hear in the charts is the same as from the OP. So it's not presenting me (personally) with anything.

I'm personally interested in a way to promote the better underground artists out there without having to hand pick each.

I don't have a solution for this unfortunately. I was hoping that the OP link would have been it. This is why I was disappointed. Because there are still lots of incredibly talented producers out there being totally buried by the torrent of sh*t that you hear these days purporting to be "house music" or "tech house" or "dubstep".
I assumed that you were referring to compilation time on his netbook, but I guess you were referring to download time over dial-up?
When you're reading a cool article on the web and want to share it with your various social networks, you simply add it to your Buffer.

You configure your Buffer to post to your various social networks at various times/days (configuration is 100% up to you).

Your content automatically gets shared without you having to think about it at all. When you find something cool, add it to your Buffer. Done.

This is great for folks/brands who like to be sharing useful content consistently throughout the day/week, rather than "as they find it". Obviously, this works much better for evergreen, less timely content.
In the spirit of the article, boost range also has a reverse filter, so the following would return a reversed range similar to python's generator expression

using namespace boost::adaptors;

s | reversed

or

reverse(s)
Well, you wouldn't seem to be able to get through the first point. Which is an analytic critique of emh, not a behavioral one. So you either don't understand this or are mixing your metaphors. Also you argue: I don't understand X, therefore...PQR follows. Which is not solid ground, generally, to make sweeping statements.
Generators are placed on the top floor to simplify the exhaust path, which must terminate at the roof.

Pumps are placed next to the fuel because pumping liquid over any significant vertical distance requires the pump to "push" rather than "pull". The fuel is placed in the basement because nobody wants to sit next to a tank full of diesel.
Stripe Kicks The Crap Out Of Competition But It’s Not Just For Developers
is this part of the app open-sourced? it's a great idea.
I am glad that a patent troll has directly attacked one of the software giants. Now hopefully Microsoft with its deep pockets and legal team can crush this troll.
Is it possible to sue a patent troll for time and legal fees if you win the original case?

I know they are basically shell corporations, but it would be great to see these patent cases incurring some risk for the trolls.
Shame it's written in PHP
When I was doing research on this for my startup a few months ago, we found that Braintree easily beat Stripe on price. This is just icing on the cake.

Braintree's not as glamorous (I think), but if you're doing a large number of transactions, Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢/transaction is quite high.
Bias against Google? I love their products! I Use their Search Engine. I Buy Products from their Ads. I Use their gmail client all day long - happy to get directed ads. Use their Map Client.

I love all the free stuff I get from Google.

Their latest GoogleVoice App is amazing - if anything, I have a huge bias for google.

It's okay to be analytical about something you love. Apple makes money on hardware. Google makes money on services. Each have different business models, and will price their products accordingly.
It won't be as good as Haskell for memory safety. For example, this program, using only C++11 idioms, crashes:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

int main() {
std::vector<std::string> v;
v.push_back(std::string("Hello"));
v.push_back(std::string("there"));
for (auto ii = v.begin(), ie = v.end(); ii != ie; ++ii) {
v.clear();
std::cout << *ii << std::endl;
}
return 0;
}

Preventing this sort of thing requires strong guarantees about aliasing (to ensure that "v" can't alias the vector being iterated over), which the C++ type system can't help you with.
So 1000 startups, meaning 100 real new startups (I doubt startups that are already into payments using other platforms would switch), of which 10 or less startups could really do 50k in transactions, meaning 10x50000x0.027 = $13,500 (tops and not $1M) in loss for Braintree... But I am sure they are getting way too much marketing out for this.
Now I'm confused, is competition healthy or is it an affliction from which a company "suffers?"
I traded happily to Haskell where I get my category theory, my light pool of processes, my HM type checking, my functional programming. I miss OTP and soft-realtime and would go back to Erlang in a heartbeat if I needed those---I may, indeed, use it to write one of our API servers, but I just don't see using it for projects where soft-realtime and asynchronous processing isn't the central conceit.

I would, for instance, never write an embedded language or parser in Erlang, but I do it constantly in Haskell just to play around with ideas. I also think there are opportunities for other kinds of powerful parallelism in Haskell such as the Par monad or the Data-Parallel stuff. Those things would obviously be possible in Erlang, but I think not worth the trouble.
You still need to be careful: 4 years is not that long. Middle Ages people were exposed to very harsh environments and still lived to 30.

I started getting neck pains after 11 years into my programming career. I attribute it mostly to programming on a sofa with a laptop -- in this position you constantly look a bit down (if a laptop is on your lap) and your neck will not like it.
As ugly as awesome ;)
1g ipad did not have a camera and it was immediately replaced by 2g ipad for me
> with an OS level automatic tiering.

Yes, exactly. And citing the source you provide, "This [OS level automatic tiering] is almost certainly done using Apple's Core Storage logical volume manager, introduced in OS X 10.7. As a volume manager, Core Storage has the chops to weld the two separate drives together into a single entity and handle the relocation of files between one tier and the other."

So, then, if you can show that you can merge two disks with CoreStorage, and get it to tier them such that recently used apps and files get moved over to the SSD... what more details do you need?

See also the promoted comment on that ARS page: "First off, I am 100% certain this is HFS+ sitting on top of CoreStorage based on comments made to me by by certain former coworkers who are still at Apple."
Why? I also have one of these optibay's, and it doesn't contain any active parts: It's just a piece of metal to make your drive fit in the place of the CD drive. Why does this cause issues on the SSD's?
Here is some information on the setup @ 75 Broad St:

"The 17th and 18th floors of 75 Broad have been reserved for generator farms that can accommodate as many as 40 machines. Big doors will be installed in the facade of both floors so the generators can be rigged into the building.

A 41,000-gallon fuel tank is being installed in the basement, with a separate generator and three redundant pumps to supply the generators on the 17th and 18th floors. Each tenant will own its own generator -- E-Spire already has one installed outside on the setback on the 17th floor -- but the building will sell them fuel."

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/10/realestate/commercial-prop...
I agree.
Minimalism in the "unix" sense (Write programs that do one thing, and do that one thing well.) is beautiful.

Minimalism to get rid of all this useless fluff that no one ever uses is practical.

Minimalism in coding, not using overly complicated structure,functions,etc Is great for your sanity as well as anyone who has to deal with your code.

Minimalism as a feature on a checklist is going to harm anything or anyone involved.

If your obsessive about optimizing and tweaking your project (and try to keep a practical head about you) eventually the line between form and function will merge, that's when you stop.
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Looks great, you could add an animated logo, on mouse hover... something that will make it spin ;) here's the CSS

http://pastie.org/5143946
Your analysis is true although now Braintree's pricing is that of Stripe's - at least for startups who can't or don't want to spend cycles getting a stand alone merchant account. So it's good to make that distinction. I suspect the value with BT is that once you get real traction you can opt out of the more expensive rate into something more competitive - probably as soon as when you're doing a few thousand dollars per month.
75 Broad Street; Turning Buildings Into Telecommunications Hubs (1999)
I think this might be useful for 'very-low bit-rate' video quality, so you would get somewhat more pleasant gradients instead of blocks. It would be kind of amazing to do the smooth interpolation in time-domain too, so the resulting video would be frame-rate independent.
Indeed: "Malcolm Gladwell got into hot water in 2005 by telling a story about games he played in the pages of the Washington Post that turned out to be almost entirely untrue. In print, Gladwell is often knocked for reducing social science to easy epiphanies and is occasionally called out for ignoring evidence that contradicts his cozy theories"
But they can make so much more money dripping out advances. Look at Apple, that's been their entire MO with the iPhone.
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Sure, I used the word 'theory' incorrectly, I should have said 'explanation'.

As I understand it, hidden variables are fine if you're happy to throw away locality, which is exactly what Bohm interpretation does and exactly what we're talking about here.

Since your analogy is purportedly showing me how MWI is local, showing me that something that is significantly different (i.e. is a hidden variable explanation) is also local doesn't help a lot.
Actually a pulley might be slower when you think about it, lets say you have 10 guys trudging up the stairs each with 4gal in a bucket, that is 40gallons going up stairs, as opposed to one 4gallon bucket being pulled up, then emptied, then dropped down, then pulled up. So the question is how long the load / unload cycle is relative to the bucket brigade cycle.

When constructing my earthquake preparedness kits I spent some time looking at what happened when folks were in earthquakes both in reasonable infrastructure places (Chile) and less reasonable (Haiti) and non-existant (Turkey). That led to having a 'suture kit' in my day pack because one of the common themes was that there were emergency personnel around who were trying to help but they were often without or short on basic supplies to treat severe lacerations. I have no illusions about being able to suture myself up if I needed it, but I do have hope that I could find someone with the skills to do so. And by having distributed emergency supplies with lots of people, it means that as more people collect the better supplied the resulting group will be.

So back to our flood, a number of buildings include a lift system on the roof for moving heavy things in and out of the building that can't go by elevator. One preparedness solution would be to have a way to utilize that system with a bunch of buckets that would let people do this without carrying up the water directly. If it could be made part of the regular gear that they have on site for doing lifts, that might be a positive thing overall.
Just as a fun comparison we currently have 235,600 updates in the queue at Buffer :-)
That is a strawman requirement.

It is sufficient if the C++ code I write is reasonably readable to a fellow C++ programmer. I really don't care if it is not readable to a casual observer.

It is nice that Python code is readable to even to non python people. But it is not a requirement for every language.
Competition is good for consumers. So in essence this is probably one of the positive effects Stripe has on the payments landscape. Not only are they offering a well-received service. They're also forcing their competition to come up with ways to make themselves appear more attractive. Would Braintree do the above if they were the only company offering such a service? My bet is they wouldn't even think about it.
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> P.S. Yes, I know I don't really need that much resolution, but still.

I call bullshit ;-) as at 15" retina is 4Mpix. In a short time span we'll have 20~30" retina)class at that size and they could very well be 9~15Mpix. Of course billion pixels is way too much, but it means that it will scale to the future (I'd love to have a wall-screen with this)

Anyway, multiple links are on the lower part of the rightmost column, available from 1024x768 to full res in a variety of formats.
I've used DPI scaling in Windows 7 for years now, since I used Win7 as the OS on my HTPC. My television is the only large enough surface where with the higher resolution i've needed larger text.

That screenshot you link to is of Skype, and I would not use Skype as a standard example for anything. Even if MS owns it now, it is a poorly designed program by today's standards.

The only UI problems I ever had with scaling was with iTunes, and that was at >150%. I write it off as Apple not optimizing the UI for Windows.
Sorry, that was my point. The new concurrency stuff in C++11 still isn't the same as go's goroutines. Certainly my application would not work very well if a goroutine mapped to a thread. :o
I understood that there was a fair difference in viewable area - 49% when web browsing. I don't know what that means, and it sounds like a crappy stat, but I heard it somewhere.
A few different reasons we keep them split:

- Jitter. Others have mentioned it, but I'll repeat it. These systems run carefully tuned microkernels to try to avoid any spurious interrupts, placing disk storage directly in the system would cause a lot of problems. Most applications require a careful lock-step progression to keep the calculations relevant; having one node take even 1% longer on a step wastes tremendous amounts of compute power for the system as a whole.

- System lifecycle management. As mentioned in the article, supercomputers are only cost effective to run for ~ 4 years; but data storage can outlast that. De-coupling storage and compute makes the transitions a bit easier; you can still get at the old filesystem even when the last generation machine has been scrapped. Also, this helps with access from related-but-disparate systems - you do need to get the data in and out of the machine to do anything useful with it, and potentially interrupting or degrading compute performance for external file access would be a problem.

- Power, and power stability - filesystems, especially large distributed systems such as Lustre/GPFS/PVFS2, do NOT handle power loss well. Best current practice for HPC centers is to keep the storage subsystems, file servers and disk arrays on backup power, but the compute side is directly run from the grid. Embedding disk in the compute would either require UPS'ing the compute platform, or anticipating filesystem corruption.

As with pretty much everything in the industry, people are looking at approaches to solve these. There is some inertia as you speculated, but it's becoming obvious that I/O is the new bottleneck as systems scale up any further, and you'll likely see some storage start moving in closer to the compute system.
There are thousands of laws on the books that never get enforced. Some of them are just funny, like the ones you see on the internet that forbid, you know, women from driving in a house coat. Some of them get ignored for good reasons, though, until you get a climber in the AG's position.
No, I don't. But I think this shows a lack of understanding on the part of the data centers. Datagram said they'd tested their generators prior to the storm, but apparently they were unaware that the electrical switchgear was located in an area that would readily flood. During a flood, what good is a generator if the electrical equipment can't be used? Would a possible solution be to have the generator output run directly to the datacenter, and to have the ability to isolate it from the building ("mains") power?
Not to mention you need an account with them in the first place and Braintree is well known for having a ludicrously strict risk team.

So yes, this is just a marketing gimmick.
Did you try to compress the resulting SVG files? Gzipping them will usually make them 3-4x smaller.
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What usability problems do you see with DPI in Gnome? I can freely adjust the font-scaling across Gnome and... well for the past 2 weeks straight I can't remember having any issues.
Yeah that would be cool, added it to our list :)

Also, we are planning to show how good/bad your battery performance is, in comparison with other users having the same phone model.
I use MicroMemory 1GB battery backed PCIe cards for my ZILs. They work quite well.