skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, working to pay for it counts as "whatever it takes" too. And doing "whatever it takes" doesn't have to involve stepping onto others, but it may require grand personal sacrifice.
I believe I read a summary of a study once that found the happier people try to look on Facebook, the more miserable they actually are. I don't remember the details well enough to describe them here, but basically somebody who is having tons of fun isn't going to bother telling Facebook about it- they are too busy having fun. The people who spend a lot of time telling Facebook about all the fun they are having are actually trying to put on a front.

So, when I detect that on Facebook, I have learned to dismiss it and perhaps pity them just a tiny bit.

Clues: People who seem to be super happy 24/7/365- not many people actually are! Also, people prone to bragging OR "humble bragging"
Apparently I did. How silly of me.
I have one client I work for 5-10 hours a week consistently. Absolutely love doing work for them. They always pay on time and things work great. So I totally know where you are coming from. Basically find great clients and treat them really, really well and fire your bad clients.
> It's just that perhaps we, as a species, aren't yet used to dealing with a constant flood of our friends' successes. It can make even a little failure feel like you're letting down your entire social circle.

I really don't like implications of this. On one hand, we have all of media bombarding us with sad, tragic or stupid stories every single moment. Many people (myself included) stop reading general news and/or watching TV, because the only thing they get from it is feeling that everything is bad and about to fall apart. But on the other hand, if we can't handle the success stories - because we get jealous or depressed - then what kind of news can we actually process without harming ourselves?
Assuming it was designed to be moddified in the way nessasary. Once you want unanticipated changes, having the source makes things much easier.
Generally at low-moderate restaurants (especially ethnic) the problem is "getting staff to pay attention", at slightly better restaurants my problem is "JFC leave me alone, we're trying to have a confidential conversation". At great restaurants (e.g. Alexander's Steakhouse in SF/Cupertino) they are good at figuring out exactly when to bug you.

Tech could certainly help the lower end restaurants up their game, even if not as relevant on the high end. And on the high end, I could see some kind of CRM making a lot of sense, if they don't do it already -- knowing my preferences on table/etc. is easy if there's only one maitre 'd and location, but if you've got a few locations, tech would help share information.
I have observed that even when you set height and width attributes, the area is not always "staked-out." Of course we'd assume that it is. I'll need to get you some browser and version details about this.
This seems like a "might makes right" sort of argument. Since the American government is much more powerful than the Afghan government, we can mistreat Afghans. If we did the same thing to British citizens, there'd be quite an uproar. I think we should aim to treat everyone the way we'd want to be treated.
This made me think of the Netflix outage the other day. When people like my non-technical parents say things like, "did you hear Netflix went down," they don't care that it was Amazon that really went down. I don't use Soluto, so I don't know their customers, but I doubt they care that Microsoft has dropped the ball.

It's a chance we take when we deploy to the cloud, and services like Heroku only compound it because that's an additional point of failure. I'm not sure a giant "it's their fault" finger point is the best way to handle a problem, but I assume they feel pretty powerless, so finger pointing is an option.

Good luck resuming operations. Hopefully you won't loose too many customers.
Would be interesting to hear more about how you built it.
This argument can easily be extended to people's actions in the bedroom when no money is being exchanged. They can lead to pregnancy, spread of STDs, violence... and yet, I imagine, almost everyone supporting the minimal wage would vehemently oppose regulation of sexual activities by, for example, only allowing married couples to engage in them.

Right? No one here thinks that we should limit single motherhood by banning extramarital sexual relationships? Or the spread of HIV through anti-sodomy laws?

EDIT: OK, maybe I didn't write that clearly but both low wages and sex can lead to negative externalities. Why one should be strictly regulated and the other protected from any regulation?
I suspect the friendship paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox) may have something to do with it as well. It looks like you're failing to keep up with your friends in terms of an active social life, because most people have fewer friends than their friends do!

The fact that Facebook now displays "friend of friend" things probably only exacerbates the issue: a large proportion of your updates are likely to come from people with anomalously busy social lives, who are friends of many people and make it into many other people's feeds. And the ones you take note of, likely even more so: the person who did nothing and didn't post about it doesn't really register.
If the binary blob does not match the source code, that will be discovered quickly. Also, if the Government (or other entity) is doing an audit, it does not seem like much work to compile from source.
On that note it would be interesting to see if the EXIF data is typically included at the start or end of JPEG files, or if it varies via compressor.
It's not so much a "might makes right" argument, but a "people in my community are more important to me than people in other communities." One of the fundamental purposes of the U.S. government is to protect us from them. That's why we have different rules governing the relationship between us and the government and them and the government.
"Incidentally, there is a completely non-subjective way to calculate inflation: choose a fixed basket of goods."

That 'choose' part is subjective. http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ (stress added):

"The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for _a_ representative basket of goods and services"

Your 'or at the very least a 20" TV' acknowledges that, too. How do you objectively choose between the two?

Similarly, "like appendix removal or aspirin": who determines that "aspirin" is the actual good, and not "pain killing" or "prevention of strokes"?
I'm sat here, in my dressing gown. My fingers are greasy from eating crisps all morning. My back aches because I spent all night playing a stupid video game. The gin hangover isn't helping either. My week off work has been a wash out. I didn't write any code, I didn't cook anything other than pizza, and I'm beginning to smell of used dish water.

Is Facebook really to blame here?
Language without proper IDE(Eclipse) support isn't worth much for me.

ps. i'm not cool enough to use notepad, vim etc.
Yes, the attorney general has been going after app developers that DO NOT have privacy policies and fining them $2,500 for every download without a privacy policy.
Wait, I thought the reference to "bedroom activities" was about homosexuality and/or general deviancy.
> It uses some random JSON data I found. msgpack is more compact (87% of the JSON representation), though not dramatically so.

And you can probably end up with a draw if you gzip both
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Waspdb - pure Java Key/Value (NoSQL) database library for Android
You can employ mixed approach.
For example, buy Windows while using OpenOffice.org.

But I argue that for large-scale development it is feasible to develop a Linux distribution that will fit schools better than Windows ever does. With everything school workplace needs, installable in one click.
Potentially, but I think the gap facetime/skype fills is real time, whereas snapchat is async no matter how you slice it. It's explicitly a call+response method of communication that the receiver can engage right away, or view tomorrow, and respond tomorrow. While sending a recorded video or highly compressed pic will benefit from more efficient data transfer, its still not quite the same as a live open video chat.
I'm trying to parse this explanation. What's the difference between a monad and overriding __getattr__ in Python?
One SaaS Marketing Experiment Produced These 80/20 Insights…
Naive advice. It seems the author is paid primarily to work on a software package for the biology field, which I think skews his view on the applicability of his advice for other scientists, for whom software is usually just a tool rather than a goal in itself. Take for example

" If your software is too complex to obtain and operate or can only run on one platform, then few people will bother to try it out,"

Seriously? He expects people to run, let alone test, support and document their code on multiple platforms? There is no grant money in doing such mundane tasks, not to mention that maintenance of such is boring and orthogonal to the original research.

Most of his advice seems to stem from ideological views re: open source software rather than from an attempt to help scientists or science in general.
Ask HN: What your new years resolution?
"it is" -> "it's" ("its" is the possessive)

What Krugman said is literally true (he gives examples in the article, I have given others). And the actual point that he makes about the relative nature of the debt and thus the question for governments as to wether to work on the numerator or the denominator is one that you yourself brought up, unprompted.

Finally, his biggest point (AFAICT) is that this is debt that is largely internal, therefore it doesn't actually make the country poorer.

In fact, you brought up pension funds: these actually have a big problem when there isn't any "safe" government debt to invest in. Heck, they are actually starting to get into trouble now, with the yields of that government debt so incredibly low (recent emissions of Danish and German debt had negative interest rates, so you paid some money to the government for holding onto your money for a while).
Just by looking at the photos in the article you know it will be a crazy one. Great saturday read material.
Philosophy Bites.

Du Nord Football Show.

Responsible sports.

I prefer to read about tech.
This is the most elegantly concise summary I've seen of the topic.

It also reminds me of a humorous video from the MySpace era about what was called the "MySpace angle" — people use the best possible view of themselves for their profile picture, which potentially means obscuring some less desirable aspects. This can easily be extended to any other aspect of today's digital self-presentation.
Because the attempts to regulate sex are not based on some desire to reduce pregnancy and the spread of STDs, but are rather religious control over private life dressed up in friendlier colors.

Nobody has ever seriously attempted legislating away sex.
The only moderately interesting thing I do with email (other than, er, email), is use my drafts folder as a place to save notes so that I can access them from the cloud.

I open a new draft email and set the subject as "Board meeting 30th December 2012". Then I jot down quick notes when I need to in bullet points.

I do the same when I'm interviewing someone (after letting them know that I'm listening but that it's important that I take notes about some of the technical areas we ask about). When I look inside my drafts folder I see a nice list of events that I took notes at.

It also works great when you wake up in the night with a new idea or blog post which you want to jot down. I can head save the draft, then pick it up on my phone on the way in to work.
I find with these things that failure discourages me from using the service so I fall off whatever wagon immediately, rather than recording my failure.

Any suggestions for working around that?
What I said is that "evil" is useless in the sense that it doesn't have any explanatory power. That is, "Why did he do that? Because he was evil" is BS.

Yeah, here we go with the strawmen again. I never said "someone did X because they were evil". I said they were evil, implying what they did is evil in my books. But then you wouldn't have anything to whine about, would you.

In it Hannah Arendt describes how what we perceive as "the great evils in history" like the Holocaust, were not executed by "evil" people (fanatics, etc), but by ordinary folks who "accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal".

What makes you think that not questioning enough isn't already enough to be considered evil by me? Someone asked ME if I consider Mao evil, I said yes. Which wasn't even to say "as opposed to me or anybody else".

Oh, and I saw videos of the Eichmann process and I saw no love in that man, no awareness, no nothing. And to me lack of love is already evil enough. Someone who mindlessly, coldly carries out orders is evil in my opinion, yes; that is, they are to be fought and not remembered once overcome. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR MOTIVATIONS. I only care for how cancer grows in so far as it helps to excise it more efficiently better.
Freeing up the time of compulsive bit chasers?
I would love to hear about how you wrote / published the eBooks and launched and marketed them.
JavaScript image histograms with Canvas
I imagine it can be automated. Sources can be any moving data be it weather, market, stats, transcoded visuals, medical signals, etc, and can be output in any media for different purposes. Speed can be variable and programmable along with timbre, ADSR tone shapes and spectra et al ala some sound-shaping programs in the market. Knowledge got2surf presented can be applied.
When can we move beyond blaming a cloud service and just owning up to the decision? Soluto chose to use Azure and knew they were taking a risk. It's their fault for choosing to use Azure, and unless they signed for a 100.000000000% uptime guarantee (which I'm sure they didn't, given no one would give such a guarantee) they have to own up to any faults.

This extends to those services that blames AWS as well. It's not a good habit, and customers (like we saw with netflix) don't care -- all they know is that their service is down.
Yeah, I actually think keeping up with the downbeat stuff is a bigger drain of Facebook than the upbeat stuff. Sometimes it's welcome, as I'm able to keep up with people who I don't talk to as much as I'd like, and know what's going on in their lives (I keep up more with my Greek cousins than I would ever do if I had to phone them). But sometimes there is emotional/family/etc. turbulence from acquaintances that I see on Facebook who I'm not really close to, and then it makes it sort of awkward: should I send this person condolences? do I know them well enough? do they think they know me well enough that they would expect me to (or at least appreciate it)? etc. etc.
I don't think that's a majority opinion. And if it is then it's certainly not a new trend.

I don't plan on dying at 40 anyway.
Because then they'll know they need to use a different proxy and change the bot behavior to avoid detection.
The employer pays 6.2% of wages up to $110,100 for Social Security and 1.45% of wages (no limit) for Medicare. It's small but known quantity.
^what he said. Seriously, I wish you had the time for something like that.
Throughout the discourse I maintain that "evil is a theological notion" and one that doesn't describe reality (the two go hand in hand).

You cannot tell me what I mean by the word "evil". You can tell me how you interpret it, and I can tell you, and did so a lot of times, that you got it wrong. But then the ball just kinda flops around in your half of the court, repeating the same initial false claim about what I said.

That the Earth is flat is "objectively wrong" for example.

Wow? I was obviously talking about moral judgement, not factual correctness. I asked for an apple, you gave me an orange.

And that theological terms such as "evil" explain what people are in objective reality is "objectively wrong".

You must be some kind of masochist, because you STILL keep going on about that strawman. I told you, over and over again, I have my own compass for what I consider "good" or "evil", and anyone who isn't trying to be dense would know what that means. I never used to explain behaviour, but to describe.
I upvoted you for expressing a contrarian point of view and because I think posts should gravitate to 0 or 1 if they are not really rude.

If you've followed "The Patio11 Story" (soon to be a motion picture at a major Hollywood studio), I think one of the key things that sticks out is "Bingo Card Creator". The first time I read that, I thought "that's f'ing ridiculous". And then I read he was making money at it. But not millions or anything absurd, rather, a number that would not really be a respectable salary for a Bay Area based software guy, but just the same was something you could live off of in many places. I think that's what grabbed so many people's attention... this software business that was not "cool" (a Haskell-based file sharing social network!) or innovative (based on 5 years of graduate studies of network optimization algorithms!) or based on a brilliant hack, but on something that sounds, frankly, kind of silly, but opened a lot of people's eyes to the value of making stuff that helps out "regular people".

The story to that point really does engender a feeling of "well... ok, if he can sell bingo card stuff... maybe I can make something that makes money, even if it's not quite the next Facebook", which I think is something more people ought to explore, really. I get a very non-zero-sum-game feeling from BCC.

OTOH, the consulting stuff is based on patio11 being "internet famous", or at least famous in one corner of a part of the internet, and feels a lot more like something that is... not zero-sum (he provides real value, IMO), but more along the lines of "anyone can do it as long as they're internet famous or have some other significant advantage", which actually does exclude many of us, something that bingo cards manifestly do not.

I hope that was somewhat coherent and in no way construed as a slight to patio11, who deserves a lot of respect and gratitude for sharing a lot of ideas.
Ease of consumption from Cocoa (mostly Touch) applications?
It goes back to Job's argument about cars v trucks. For the majority of what people want to do, car are fine. But some people need trucks. The iPhone is a car. A touchscreen with a stylus is a truck. It's a similar dichotomy to laptops for consuming web content, and workstations for editing video.
You are right to be baffled. We in the US are also baffled.

The US has a horrible wireless data market. It's not like the UK or Europe in general. The companies here have a strong enough legal lobbies to keep their monopolistic control over data. We're behind in terms of the amount of bandwidth we can access and how much it costs. These companies typically make over 50% margin on profits while at the same time complain that they do not have the resources to expand bandwidth, or that the US is too geographically spread out.

Almost all the "unlimited" plans in the US actually has a limit. Typically, after a certain amount of usage, the bitrate gets capped. There are a good bit of wifi, but I suppose that then depends on if you want to find a coffee shop just to chat on FaceTime.

I'm assuming the article was written by an author living in the US.
1. where do you get the data?

2. do you know about http://myepisodes.com
Thanks to Nathan for writing this post, and thank you Neya for commenting and letting us know about your transition.

I occasionally see posts on HN by people right as they are quitting their day-job (or dropping out of school). Those posts are filled with enthusiasm, and they frequently suggest that everyone else should follow their brilliant decision.

Hearing the RESULTS of Nathan's first year was very powerful (moreso than hearing about his hopes or plans for his first year would have been). At the same time, your comment was valuable to remind me that Nathan's experience may not be representative.

I hope to see more of these 1-year-after-my-decision reviews. Thanks for sharing your experience.
No one's "blaming" anyone. The expectancy is that cloud providers work their asses off to fix stuff that gets broken, which is the case.
This brings up some important points. Yes, we need numbers. Let's get them.

Progressive jpegs do not necessarily need to use more RAM. The FAQ I linked to also says "If the data arrives quickly, a progressive-JPEG decoder can adapt by
skipping some display passes." Win!

Also, why do you say "up to 3x" more CPU? Is that an estimate based on how many scans you're guessing a progressive jpeg has? A progressive jpeg can have a variable number of scans -- we used to be able to set that number, which is totally cool!

As for the compression benefits, you say "progressive very rarely achieves a double-digit win after that." We web performance geeks LOVE single-digit wins, so you can't burst our bubble that way.

Yes, Mobile Safari has trouble with images. Period. But Mobile Safari does not progressively render progressive jpegs (I wish it did). So we can make it a best practice without worrying about Mobile Safari. When the web is full of progressive jpegs, Apple will have to deal with them. It's not an evil plan, it's the right thing to do.

When you say it doesn't look that good, are you saying that for yourself personally, or are you saying it for your users? We need to think about what they see. As I say, perceived speed is more important than actual speed, and the thing that excites me most about progress jpegs is not the file size savings, but instead the behavior of the file type in browsers that properly support it.
Have you actually tried anything other than the desktop? What software did you use to gauge the power of this new graphics card?
MessagePack Has nothing to do with JSON.

This page is a good example of how marketing copy can undermine your product.

MessagePack is a data serialization format, it has about as much to do with JSON as honey has to do with milk, but they went and started a flame war with no more than 7 tiny words, "It's like JSON. but fast and small."

Bam, ruined their own message. Now instead of reading that page thinking "What can message pack do for me?" you read the page thinking "Better than JSON huh? I'll be the judge of that."

Marketers could do us all an enormous favor, themselves included, if they stuck to promoting the positive aspects of their products instead of the negatives of the competition. It puts the consumer in the wrong mindset. Why would you want someone wandering around what is essentially your store looking for negative aspects of your product. Seriously, just stop being negative.
This is sort of tangential, but that browser chart reminded me of something I've been curious about for a while: Why do certain browsers only render foreground JPGs progressively? Is it a rendering engine limitation or an intentional one (perhaps for usability during page load)?
The value of the article is not in its statistical likelihood, but rather, in recognizing how his assumptions blinded him. And actually listening to people.
"Our service is down because Azure is down" definitely sounds like scapegoating (regardless of whether it is the case, Soluto should have a contingency plan)
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