skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote Big Brother (http://bb4.com), and it was 99.5% free (until we sold out to Quest/Dell). Originally a lot of our revenue came from support.

We just offered 3 tiers of support. For $250 a year we'd answer emails. For $500 we promised an answer within a day. For $750, within 4 hours, and for $1000 a month I'd take your phone call.

So, people are paying for your time, and for access... I was shocked my how many people opted for $1000 a month phone support (direct access to the developer/author).

Otherwise, support continues to be provided by a mailing list, group or other mechanism.

Good luck!
I don't think that the people who commented above are "armchair parenting." They're speaking in the position of the 13 year old kid. And we are all definitely qualified to pass judgement as a 'teenage' version of ourselves.

'A 13-year old is not an adult.'

- This probably varies per culture. My personal opinion is, if you treat someone as an adult, they will behave like an adult. If you treat them as a kid, they will act as a kid.
As a new dad, I can attest that you can survive (and be productive) on a lot less sleep then you think. The trick is that you have to be a lot more active in the day, so you are actually tired at night and can fall asleep fast. And, you have to avoid stuff like alcohol as it really messes up your sleep cycle.
My reading of the Route53 prices is that you pay $.50/month/domain, plus query charges after a million. How do you pay $0.20/month? I find it very irritating that Amazon says "Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee." when there obviously is a minimum fee of $.50/month, even if zero queries are resolved. There are entire low end VPS servers that cost only marginally more ($14/yr) than what Route53 costs for one lousy domain, i.e. one entry in a database table.
Oh, if only corporate subordination were military style. A fresh Marine recruit knows the names of the five links in the chain of commmand between him and the President; meanwhile, Peter Gibbons has to answer to eight bosses, some of whom he hadn't heard of until they drop by to ask if he got the TPS report memo.
After the results of the last few months, I wouldn't bet against ya Nathan. Give 'em hell!
Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
There was a time being above asm, having non-register data types, functions and libraries was considered being a high-level language. I'd consider C higher level than FORTRAN 77, for instance.

You just need to be old enough ;-)
Task: Write a script exploiting the vulnerability to install Chrome (/Firefox) and set it as the default browser, thus improving the lives of the users AND developers. k,thx. :=)
I took on a very similar challenge in 2012 although I gave myself a year to do it mostly because I didn't have the benefit of market penetration to validate my idea before starting. Because I'm a developer I started with my idea, then went after the market which I think may have cost me a few months in the beginning. I also very much under estimated how slow the real estate market is to adapt to new technology so I didn't fully reach my goal but I'm 2/3 of the way there and think I'll get the rest of the way plus some in Q1. I really wish I had of documented the journey the way you are. It would be a super valuable retrospective. Maybe I'll do one of those fancy year in review blog posts that all the cool kids seem to be doing.

I think it'll be important for you to learn as much as you can about RoR so that you can accelerate to launch as quickly as possible and start getting those clients in the door. Anyway, good luck with reaching your goal!
"The Netflix Web site remained up throughout the incident, supporting sign up of new customers and streaming to Macs and PCs, although at times with higher latency and a likelihood of needing to retry. Over-all streaming playback via Macs and PCs was only slightly reduced from normal levels."

This is simply false. I tried Netflix streaming on both my Macs and my Roku and neither worked. The site may have been up, but the streaming was down for Macs (and any computers in general I assume), not just TV boxes like Roku.
They probably mean something like macros and embedding DSLs.

What they probably don't mean is any sort of non-trivial automatic programming--writing programs that, for example, search through possible ways to solve some particular programming problem in assembly. Which, amusingly, is the one thing I've been using lisp for lately, working on program synthesis.

Of course, I would probably be a poor addition to this page because I would much rather use Haskell or OCaml. And because I'm using Racket rather than Common Lisp, which looks to be the theme of the page.
Thanks, great article! Pickpockets fascinate me.

A recent hobby of mine has been to steal people's straws in drinks at parties (a way to practice without being arrested when you fail :-) )- it's a fascinating thing to do: you have to observe how people behave, how they react when you talk to them, when you point at something with one finger, etc. I recommend trying it.
Mind if I ask which registrar? Just curious. My email address is in my profile.
Microsoft Releases Fix It Tool to Address IE Zero-Day
Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired- not that much effort to impact 30 million people. You might dismiss Instagram's innovations, but dismissing the importance of an interface is like dismissing a new programming language because there are already programming languages that are Turing complete.
job != life. You need balance. Maaan.
Connecting: A Short Film on UI Design
Gun control in the US - fixable bug in the system, or fundamental design flaw?
Everything quoted in the GP can be said about writing in general. It's excellent advice, but it's not specific at all.
What, no way to sign up for an email list? Patio11 will not be pleased...
It really, really depends. Mostly on the area you're looking at. A lot of people say it's a buyer's market, but that's only really true in some places -- even at the height (pit?) of the real estate crash a good house in a great location was never 'cheap'.

Silicon Valley is a very, very hard place to buy a house right now -- inventory is crazy low.
Stop replacing working systems with crappier solutions
It means he knows better than you even when he doesn't. ~

~ = snark, allow me one snark ! :)
You could be having the TLER problem. WD green drives can take a long time to do error correction - this causes the raid to drop the drive as failed. This solution is to respond with an error quickly and let the raid fix it with parity.... but at least it doesn't drop the drive.
Or buy more expensive drives. Wait isnt that the idea behind RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks..

You might want to look at this...
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1285254

btw, I am currently working on recovering an 8 bay drobopro thats in a reboot loop...
Um... Clearly this would be a major bit of usefulness, but to suggest that hybrids etc would be a thing of the past? Obviously it charges so efficiently that it has lossless charging and the car would go for ever. Seems somewhat similar to perpetual motion. An over zealous extrapolation maybe?
Procastination 101
"Rapidly changing commercial realities" haven't produced a tool as useful or flexible for analyzing large amounts of financial data as Excel. They also haven't produced an alternative word processor that can correctly read and format any arbitrary Word document. Go ahead, try and tell your boss that you never read that important memo he sent out because your office suite mangled the document.

For interacting with the business world, Microsoft Office is absolutely essential -- a bargain at thrice the price.
FrankenRobot - Android injection library based on resources qualifier mechanism.
A simple injection library for Android: uses Android resources qualification mechanism to map interfaces to concrete implementations.
FrankenRobot takes two string-array resources; one of canonical interface names, and the second of canonical concrete implementations.
You can specify a different implementation for every imaginable resource qualifier (be it API level, screen-size, locale, etc.), and FrankenRobot will instantize the most appropriate implementation using Android's resource qualifier mechanism.
Would have upvoted if not for the web link at the end of the comment.
Correct. Probabilistically, I'd say it's the same as long as that earthquake is under the ocean. Yeah you'll get 30M tsunami with a 9.0mag earthquake (most likely, I'm no geologist).

So yeah, AWS going down should be something _every_ company that runs its services on AWS including providers like Heroku should take into account as far as their architecture goes. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. You _will_ have downtime.

Period.
I'm doing this for a project I started, OpenPhoto. It's sort of like Wordpress in that anyone can download and install the software. And like Wordpress, we are trying to monetize it by providing a hosted solution.

I quickly found, for us, that hosting alone wasn't sufficient. So now we are offering complimentary solutions along side the open source product. We let you import photos from Facebook and Instagram for free. You pay to do it from Flickr.

We also automate some tasks that would otherwise be nearly impossible. Such as migrating from Deopbox to S3 (one aspect of the product is that you select where your photos are stored). This feature also let's us offer storage provided by us (required to get users up and running immediately. Then we can let hem change their mind later.

It is early in the game but people are paying. Hopefully enough users will. It becomes a win for the project and the creators since active development can continue.
Irrigation isn't a public good. Public goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, neither of which apply to public infrastructure.
Carmack talks a bit about one optimization he used in the doom 3 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk#t=1h51m45s
Yes, although under its preferred system of ownership, the idea of owning a house you don't life in doesn't make any sense, since it's based on usufruct or use, not title.

But under capitalism, no, my initial thought would be that that is not exploitation, since there's no surplus value.
I already knew Stripe had bad service, but....
So we are a client of Strip.com and have used their services from almost the day they started accepting clients. Just to give an idea, our current business with Strip is at $543,900.82.

Their offering is great and their technical service is pretty good. However, anything that deals with service regarding anything other than technical - its the worst service ever. No responses to email (the only email they have is support@stripe.com), they NEVER reply. They will not give you a direct email or number to any staff member. They do not offer a general phone number. They don't respond on Twitter. They have a "live chat room" but as you sit and watch their handling of customer issues you will often see, "we will look into it and someone will get back to you". They are worse than Paypal.

I was really rooting for them when they hit the scene and I really like their offering. I am hopeful that they will start acting like a real company.

Oh, the reason we wrote this is because if you go to their site right now you will see this:
"Stripe support will be closed 12/31 and 1/1. (We'll still be watching for anything urgent.) Enjoy your holiday!"

Really?
Well, I for one certainly value your comments in here. I think I might just go adjust my TTLs to very low, just for spite.
What's it waiting on, and who other than Val is working on it?

Answering my own question: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-progs....

... and Valerie Auror's less active on that than I'd thought. Hrm.
I continued to be able to use Netflix through the problem from my Mac, however it would take multiple minutes for the stream to connect (it would get stuck at like 7%--or maybe it was actually 0%--while buffering, but with patience it would work).
Top guitar innovation videos of 2012
Sorry for the me-too comment.

It is apparent to me that if you had the shekels to throw in a certain direction 3D printing would be one direction. It seems to be hitting that inflection point.

Self-directed tuition is the other: Khan Academy, Coursera et al., cheap scalable global education. Total game changer. When has this happened before? Never.
Can this do a websocket upgrade on the same http port/connection?
Surely you recognize how ridiculous it is to give parenting advice from a teenager's perspective. Parents have been teenagers. Teenagers (at least at the heart of this discussion) have not been parents.
As a founder, it's often better to start where your own pain points are, because sometimes you'll stumble upon an incredibly massive pain felt by the entire world. Now you're ready to do business.

Be advised, however, because even if you manage to identify one such sharp pain point, and even if you have a solution, only rarely will you successfully be able to repackage it and market it to the masses. But to put in perspective, if you're working towards an affordable solution 99% of the world is compelled by extreme pain to use, you might very well be working on a billion dollar business.

The question is, when are more startups going to realize that the biggest pain in the room is as clear as day? It's right in front of every single one of us. It's only a matter of time before people in massive numbers realize that 24/7 surveillance of all telecommuncations isn't fucking cool. People are already flocking to VPNs to get around downloading restrictions, so what happens when people realize they need a VPN to send a private email? Here the truth is contagious, and government elements can only repeat lies successfully for so long. The problem of the surveillance state is the very definition of sharp pain:

Compared to the markets for cosmetic surgery, real estate, knee pain, back pain, ANY market you can think of - the prospect of having all of your telecommunications stored indefinitely if not monitored in real time by regimes teetering on the edge is an order of magnitude more concerning. When you consider that a 24/7 surveillance state by definition constitutes neverending pain, it's really no contest.

Unwanted, unconstitutional surveillance measures are creating a seering hot, absolutely intolerable pain for the entire human population. This is a pain that demands a solution, ASAP.

As a startup and as a developer, there are very few pursuits more worthy of your time than furthering human rights and averting absolute tyranny.

Curiously, thanks in large part to Bitcoin, the startup community now has the power to fund itself anonymously and innovate solutions that actually matter, without outside interference.

The clock is ticking.
I think the best way to learn programming is the same as it was in 2012. Or 1995. Or 1970. All you need is a compiler/interpreter for language X, an introductory course for language X, and a nice entry-level CS book. But most of all, you need passion. Without it, you are doomed to quit.
Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
Even being a Linux fan boy, I still hate OpenOffice/Libre because it's so clunky and doesn't play as nice as MS Office when you need to do some complicated things for the workplace. I actually even prefer Google docs now over OpenOffice and find the gmail/Drive integration so handy.
As for the Greece thing, MS has a good product (Office), but a bad OS (for the money they charge). They need to approach this differently, like porting Office to Linux.
Hackulous Shuts Down, Taking Down Popular Pirated App Source Installous
Hmm, that might help. GitHub Link? I'd be happy to take a look!
I wasn't trying to sell you another server. conventional wisdom is that you should have your secondary DNS on a different server, on a different network, run by a different provider, not another server with me.
This issue, IMHO, is lisp's #1 problem towards greater acceptance.
It's a good point and unfortunately one I figured would get confused with what I wrote so I hummed and hawed about writing anything.

I don't think you can distill the world down into "Good vs Evil" -- it would be easier if you could.

What I do think is that power has an innate tendency to protect itself and concentrate and the mechanisms by which it does this _anywhere_ are all strikingly similar -- i.e. if you put them all in a pot and boiled off the water, you would maybe 3-5 different ways for doing this.
Along the lines of-
http://www.microaggressions.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression ?
Clearly you haven't thought this through.

Security is sometimes a trade-off but in this case there is no trade-off involved. Google can just as easily block the malware without the potentially defamatory language.

The accuracy of the algorithm is utterly irrelevant.
CrowdTilt
Lots of people are bored. This is the kind of garbage that should stay off HN. A contentless POST. I believe that's a HEAD.
The title suggest (to me) that Steve Mann is talking trash about Google Glass, and also suggests (to me) that there is a technical reason why Google's version of computer prostheses specifically can cause brain damage.

It doesn't seem inappropriate to consider this "linkbait"
Just because 30 million people are using it doesn't mean it "impacted" them.
I personally don't advocate it, but everyone has their own prerogative. I really like seeing such companies get crushed by the market, but many of them seem to be successful.
To be fair, I was able to grow my beard after I started.
"That's not falsifiable."

Besides that we have some conception of beauty ideals throughout the ages, as captured.
Thanks. I guess I stand corrected on this count.
You should grow up. Greece is in the midst of an economic crisis. Even if MS Office does worth its price (I disagree), Greece has to do everything it can to lower its operating expenses.

The equivalent to your argument, is a person making 20,000€/year, asking for a small family car and you suggest a Porsche because "it worths every single cent".
Ask HN: Tech scene in Portland?
I'm considering moving out of SF and I've got my eyes on Portland. I've been a JavaScript engineer for the past 4 years, working on large-scale e-commerce applications, advanced visualization, mapping, etc. I also have a fair amount of experience with Java (J2EE, ATG, Grails, Spring, Hibernate, and others). I can't seem to find find much information on tech jobs up there, which makes me think that there might not be much available outside of a few large companies like Intel. Can anyone shed some insight on what might be available up there? Are the salaries competitive with respect to the cost of living?
Good luck Nathan.

I'm aiming for the same goal for my existing startup. Except in 3 months and the app (https://carelogger.com) has been running for a few years (almost entirely part time or while I was employed).

My app had been free for the majority and an earlier attempt to make it profitable was half-hearted, before we made it free again.

Now, we have a B2B version, a large email marketing list, and multiple native mobile apps coming out next month. We hope these will push it to profitably ($4-5k/month) by then.
Yea, like what if steve jobs shipped the original iPhone without copy and paste? Oh wait...

Apple was always a balance between perfectionism and "real artists ship", at least from the stories I've heard.
"Being a non-programmer, I don't have the tools to easily tell the difference."

Then you shouldn't. Period.

EDIT: It is unfortunate that the types of people (quick learner, genius at a subject) are not considered for engineering jobs usually because the interviewers don't know how to interview. They ask stupid technical questions instead of having a technical conversation and what code on a whiteboard.

Why not do calculus with an abacus?

Not to mention the problem of people who make hiring decisions having no idea of what the problem they need to solve is and hire unqualified people under false pretenses. The old bait and switch.
I'm aware that many systemic problems require multiple people to resolve as your incredibly insightful comment notes.

This post however, is complaining for the sake of complaining. I for one do not rail against the Second Law of Thermodynamics for destroying my beautiful perpetual motion machine ideas.

Similarly, offering vague pablums on the state of business in Silicon Valley without real solutions is at best indulgent.
I like that, if only because I plan on / am doing that anyway :) I am amazed by what is already possible with "just" a modern browser and a decent machine, and the fact that it will get so much better in the near future..! I played games on my Amiga 500 just yesterday, in the afternoon I painfully tried to get SDL to draw enough pixels fast enough to make particles that look nice (forget alpha!)... now I can draw whatever I want with awesome speed, even without being an optimizing or math guru, send a link to someone or a million people, and they can play it seconds after I made the last change. WTF? Forget flying cars; did any of you see this coming 20 years ago? I love it :D

Oh, and happy new year! May you find many ways to make people happy, so they may make you happy in return.
Drawing fireworks with TikZ in LaTeX - Happy New Year
What a bizarre thing to do at a party...
Le plus grand programmeur de tout les temps
Flagged for hysterical link bait.
Someone isn't using MS Office apparently. I've seen more incompatibilities between various versions of MS Word than between LibreOffice and any version of MS Word.
One I personally really like is typing "target modules lookup --address" in the debugger, followed by a hex value. Really helpful if your app crashes without an interactive stack trace, as it lets you figure out where the crash occurred in your code.
If you want to stabilize a structure, strengthen it.

As the article notes, weakness of the glutes and hamstrings, combined with a relative over-activation of quads and spinal erectors, is part of the problem.

Most people with poor posture, especially past their mid-20s, are suffering from underdeveloped musculature generally.

While several of the exercises noted are helpful at targeting muscle activation, if you really want to develop the posterior chain, and other muscles, in a balanced fashion, focusing on major lifts is going to do far more for you in less workout time than a bunch of small/isolated movements.

Deadlifts, squats, rows and chins, and yes, some mirror-muscle upper-body work with bench and overhead press. The recently posted "Everything you know about fitness is a lie" article (http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou...) details this pretty well.

For acute treatment, the PDF is handy, but you'd be far better off to invest in Starting Strength. (http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/about)

And yes, foam rolling also helps.
Right, but this is a minor subset of your initial premise. And even in that subset, outside of water/mineral rights[1], you are talking edge cases. A road is a quasi-public-good until there is a traffic jam. Central park is a quasi-public good until it is occupied by a permit holder, etc.

Second, The public policy rationale for these "investments" is to provide quasi-public good as services. For example, the public ownership of military installations is not a "public good" in terms of property (you cant take a walk at area 51) but defense is a quasi-public good (avail at ~zero marginal cost to the broad public).

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Its important to just keep some perspective. Public goods and "profitable investments" (eg, rent seeking ones) are quite distinct concepts. And in part we entrust assets subject to massive rent-seeking to be held in common ownership "for the public good" expressly to avoid exploitation their rent seeking potential.

[1] The exploitation of water/mineral rights relating to public land are often well trodden areas of legal and policy debate, and span levels of abstraction (state/local/regional etc).