skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the isn't a lot of public information about the costs and processes involved, compared to say the number of tutorials on how to build web app or a mobile app.

This is because your are in the field. Say you were a person, who has never programmed anything in their life, but has a great idea for an app. Where would you even start? It would seem to me that finding good programmers is as difficult as finding good factories.

> I noticed that the actual cost of the 'product' is less than 40% of the total project costs.

This is why Apple is the largest company in the world, not Foxconn.
I'll give it a try, thank you.
Ah, it will probably interest me, thanks. I'll try the first book.
The maps look absolutely beautiful. Can I suggest you drop Apple a call and offer your assistance? I just came back from Singapore, and good portions of their hybrid maps were basically unusable because of cloud obstruction. (To be fair, Google also has a bit of cloud coverage of Singapore - but their hybrid maps were completely usable).

Cloud obstruction of satellite imagery six months after Apple released their mapping data, seems to indicate a fundamental lack of knowledge of how to deal with those type of obstructions, so hopefully your call will be well received.
Hedge fund managers are heavily overlapping with the upper middle class.
If this was just a post on language I think I totally agree - it is a tricky word to define. And I hope you saw the comment above on the ironic origin of the word.

However I got the impression from several things in your post that you don't like the commonly held ideal of choosing leaders based on merit (i.e. meritocracy):

(1) Donald Trump is somehow an example of it at work (see my comments about him above).

(2) It discriminates against those from disadvantaged backgrounds who likely will accumulate less "merit". BTW - I agree this is a problem with both "meritocracy" and the world generally and should be adressed in various ways.

(3) It somehow implies to "some people" that "none of the people in positions of authority are bozos".

(4) Meritocracy does not "minimizing false negatives".

You seem to be against the ideal not just that particular definition. The only positive thing you say is that it is better than "picking leaders at random or having some dictator appoint his drinking buddies".

Do you like the idea of making choices based on merit? You seem to be both criticizing it as a goal and saying that it is not practical.

I get the sense you would prefer making decisions based on some sense of "justice" rather than "merit".

BTW - Love your many great posts on development. Thanks you very much. I feel awkward debating a hero.
How about democracy?

Meritocracy doesn't mean merit gets paid (that's free markets or whatever), it means merit rules.
Right, but if you believe the narrative that some people seem to be promoting (not raganwald, mind you, I'm generalizing a bit here), they'd have you believe that going to a State school is like a career death sentence or something... the narrative seems to be "Ivy League or you might as well commit suicide, unless you're the rare lucky chump like Zuckerberg or Gates".

I'm just pointing out that things aren't quite so skewed. You can go to school at a reasonably reputable State school and still have a pretty good career... Ivy League not required.
You have mentioned backup and not 'sync' so for backup there are some cheaper (and good options) - BackBlaze, CrashPlan, Amazon Glacier (dirt cheap). First two are not exactly 25/Yr but are cheaper than SpiderOak especially if you go for longer subscription. Have been using CP for an year now but BB's interface is a lot better.

See if you can setup your own OwnCloud on your Linux server(this is an open source Dropbox like service).
Treating the big guy one way and the little guy another may be "pragmatic" but that's not upstanding in my book. Sure, it's within their rights to do business with whom they want, but it doesn't mean we can't call a double standard when we see one.
Games like these are relatively easy to make with modern game engines like Löve. There are many original indie games in early development worth checking out:

http://love2d.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=5
Banks is still necessary to migrate analog currencies to digital currencies in todays financial economy. People trust banks and they would also be offering support on how to use the new currency, and with their investments on the highest security to guard their assets, it's much secure for them to generate the wallets and safeguard the information and incorporate them into the main currency. Banks are absolute necessity for propagating the new system, and merging the old currencies into bitcoin.
There was actually some blowback, noteably this:
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/03/princeton-mom-to-all-student...

Of course, it won't affect Patton much. <%= ruling_class_joke %>
Gwern has an amazing writeup of Modafinil, including his own (DIY "double" blind-trial) experience, effects, etc:

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Highly recommended for anyone even slightly interested in the workings of Modafinil. His own experiences are described in the most detail on this page:

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It's bad terminology. The lights aren't synchronised, they're centrally managed or centrally co-ordinated.
Shoot me an email, I own a few gaming wikis I would love to chat sometime.
Ask HN: How can I propose a work-from-home deal with my current employer?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I've been working at this company for the past 8 months and so far it's been great.

I fit right in with the culture, brought in a ton of good practices for the team, shared my knowledge as best I could with team members and actively encouraged friendliness within the group. I like to think that it's one of the reasons it's nice to work here.

I even saved them a lot of money because I can speak English and actively sought out great deals with vendors.

I'd like to switch over to working from home so I can spend more time with my kids and wife and be less stressed.

Do you guys have any tips on how to propose a work-from-home deal with a company?
I don't understand why everyone is so big on switching away from Google these days. Some of my coworkers have been doing this as well.

Instead of giving away your personal information to one place, why not give it away to 10 or 20 places?

I think it makes sense to use the best tool for the job. At least when it comes to email, maps, and search I would argue that Gmail, Google Maps, and Google are the best services by a long shot.

Not to knock Duck Duck Go, but it would drive me crazy to have to do multiple searches or go through more results just to find something I could find on Google in the first half of the first page of results.

Sure I would get used to it eventually, but it's not worth losing my own time/productivity over.
That's entirely possible. Joe spends 3 years writing a program. Jim realizes that the program doesn't need to be written, and that if you frame the problem in a different way or use other resources available to you, you can come up with a better solution without writing any code.
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To me the point is that when you start arbitrarily enforcing rules against some people (small guys) and not others (big guys) it smacks of hypocrisy. Maybe you can explain how it was just blind process -- it still stinks.
Neither did I but the video was so cute that I bought a pack (actually three with friends to lower the shipping per pack)
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Define "merit" and whether such a thing is desirable to me.

I don't have much love for a cockroach's merit.
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If any big companies today would be the first to utilize Bitcoin and use them, they would really glad that they did, with the prices of bitcoin soaring, the more people invest in it the more the price gets higher and people trusts the currency, it would be really wise to invest in them. Imagine if any of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Paypal would use them first, it would be faster to propagate bitcoins into the main financial system, and I think they will make a really good and wise decision.
Why is it odd ? On Facebook you deliberately only share what you want others to see.

Emails and web searches in particular can be pretty incriminating if made public.
> According to a recent report from Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, 20% of America's millionaires never attended college."

Considering something like half of Americans have never attended college, what does that tell you about millionaires?
Right, so you have your migration to Rails 3 ready to go as soon as Rails 4 ships. When Rails N has shipped, consider Rails N-1 to have become the "stable" release and Rails N-2 to be deprecated.
FDA already gives a special monopole privilege after clinical trials. FDA want to encourage companies in doing clinical trails, including on drugs which has an expired patent.

Evergreening is companies seeking monopole privilege after that original patent protection and the FDA protection has expired. Nothing to do with clinical trials.
Sell over priced merchandise.
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But it also leaves a whole lot of merit on the floor with the demerits.
Third comment, but it bears repeating. Dovecot.

I use it with Postfix, using Dovecot's virtual domain support to host various domains/mailboxes. Dovecot with sieve sorts mail server side. It's fast and works incredibly well.
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I thought the same until I actually worked with one. This guy can build things in a week that a group of 5 competent programmers will do in a month.
or in Austin any time between 3pm and 6pm

I think you mean "or in Austin any time between midnight and 11:59pm the next day.

Used to live in a condo with a direct line of sight to 35, it would be no shocker to wake up at 2am, walk to the bathroom and glance out my sliding glass door randomly to see 35 backed up.
Make a turntable.fm for YouTube videos.
Wow, this is awesome. Features I love: practice mode; cookie-man mode (brilliant); and the learning section that visually explains the AI's.
From my understanding, the C10K concept is more a thread problem than a RAM limitation. It happens when each request create its own thread on server (as in Apache or IIS). Computer have problem to run 10,000 threads in same times: too much time is consumed by the OS to find the one thread that is not blocked/locked or waiting for datadabase results.

Node.JS solve this problem by doing all in Asynchronous way (in only one thread).
GO solve this pb by doing clever threads (goroutine).
Functional programming seems to be very good on this issue (no need of lock mecanism and light thread).
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The real issue here is the queue of cars waiting to get on the freeway. Any street that crosses a major freeway and offers an onramp can be backed up for miles in both directions. Synchronized lights may help with purely street-level congestion, but increasing throughput on the freeways is what will really clear the streets. I've clocked travel times of anywhere from 1-1.5 hours to go 8 miles, and all of the wait was due to congestion at the onramp.
Its a nice project but I was wondering if there's any larger objective to this than just creating this for the sake of it
Ask HN: How can I propose a work-from-home deal with my current employer?
Hi guys, I'm currently working for a company here on a regular 9 to 5 schedule.

I'd like to transition over to a work from home arrangement, and have I have no idea how to do this.

When I first joined the company 8 months ago, I let my interviewer know that I was actively interested in such an arrangement and he said that it's something we may consider in the future but in the short term that's not something they could accommodate.

Do you guys have an pointers on how to smoothly make _the switch_?
I wonder what's wrong with this comment, I get downvoted for wishing out loud for a supercomputer to code on?
Most of the time filters are "all of", not "any of". A lot of companies may disqualify you if either you lack the necessary skills/talent or if you're a bad cultural fit. Disqualifying based on your CV just saves you time in this case - if they aren't going to hire you anyway, it's better if they let you know quickly rather than drag things out.
The way all companies should handle promotional emails
'I understand there's a lot of poor applicants for jobs out there. However, believe it or not, there's just as many poor employers in the "start-up scene".'

The problem is that the poor employers think they are the next google/amazon and the poor applicants think they are the next kernighan/carmack
There's a second problem too. There are a lot of derivative products that are impacted by these cycles. Take Raisinettes for example. If you were the company making Raisinettes and one year you can make them available because the market is functioning, but the next year you can't because the market collapses, you know what happens? You simple remove that product from your product offerings. It's possible that once the market returns to normal, the derivative product is no longer offered because the company making such a product doesn't want to spend time and money making the product, taking it to market and marketing it if the market may just collapse again the next year.

This is a serious issue for any agricultural product where there are a lot of derivative products. The maple syrup industry in Canada for example keeps large reserves to make sure companies making derivative products can bank on a solid supply of maple syrup at non-volatile prices.
>>Note that Novartis threatened, yesterday, “to stop supplies of new medicines to India if the country’s top court refuses on Monday to grant a patent for Glivec, its cancer drug.”

Trust me as an Indian I can tell you these supreme court rulings are pretty much a engraving on the stone which nobody apart from the parliament of India can erase.

What this basically means is the supreme court ruling stands final without any change.

Will be interesting to see how Novartis responds. Last time our country faced these situations(sanctions etc) we made attempts to not depend on others and be self sufficient.

The net result is it has been beneficial to us and disastrous to companies in the west[Read: Growth of IT industry, space research, defense self sufficiency].

If Novartis decides to take these extortion tactics. The Government of India might as well invest heavily on pharmaceutical research, and come out with some real alternatives and then compete with their western counterparts globally.

A lot of people will suffer, but this is the likely outcome I see, Given the history.
Why not just use an antenna? I'm missing something here. Aereo sounds nice for people who want to stay connected to their hometowns when living away, but if you're in Tampa why stream Tampa OTA TV when it's free over the air?
agree with this, actually I prefer to write to people who post <name>@<company.com> rather than jobs@.

I feel it is a more personalized chat :)
As a disclaimer, I only made it through a few chapters of Capital before I gave it away.

This distinction was not invented by Marx. In fact a lot of Marxism was invented by Marx; most of it was an extension of the prevailing classical economics. He read Smith and Ricardo.

The key problem with original Marxism, as it was with classical economics, was relying on the labor theory of value. Marx runs with that to come up with a theory that says some people are systematically skimming the value generated by others and that a series of cyclical crises will cause the total collapse of capitalism at some future date.

Every time there's a market crash or a recession, Marxists bestir themselves to tell us all "I told you so!". The problem is the same as the Rothbardian Austrians blaming it all on the Federal Reserve or Keynesians saying it's a slump in demand. Too simplistic. (I'm a Hayekian, an economist who put "I can't explain particular examples and neither can anybody else" at the centre of his theory of economics).

Complex, chaotic systems naturally move around their phase space, often with large oscillations. That's the bottom line. You can't eliminate the boom/bust cycle. It exists in every industry and always will. Sometimes bigger industries go through the cycle and everyone feels it.
PBS relies on syndication fees to fund their programming. If viewers were able to circumvent geographic broadcasts, it would undermine their national network system. Soon, only a handful of broadcasters or producers would be left, and anyone outside their area wouldn't have broadcasts any more.
Unfortunately it doesn't line up all that well because of the heavy distortion of the time scale map. For example the red area in the upper left corner is clearly the Mass Ave corridor in Cambridge, which in real life lines up with the red line, but you can't see that in the overlay.
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I install crashplan on everything. Cross platform (java I think) crashplan+ is 60 bucks a year for "unlimited" storage and I'm pretty sure you can set up the client to be headless. You can also have them generate the encryption keys or just provide them with your own and not upload the private keys to their servers.
I'm doing a lot of that (UI testing) in my Let's Code Test-Driven JavaScript series (http://www.letscodejavascript.com, starting with episode 41). My next Lessons Learned video (#10, coming out this Friday) covers the underlying theory. There's a free trial if you want to check it out.

If you're more into Java, or then I also do a lot of test-driving of a Swing GUI in my original Let's Play TDD series (http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play). It's a lot less polished than Let's Code TDJS, but it's free.
A bunch of reasons, some valid and some not.

In the 90s, people felt exactly this way about Microsoft. Part of it is simply market strength and longevity. Like the Yankees, people just get tired of always seeing and hearing about Google.

A lot of people have issues with Google's business policies. Very little human support, even for paying customers. Websites that rely on Google's traffic both fear and are frustrated by Google's (unintentional) power over their business, and this includes many startups.

Some people are unhappy with Google's recent moves, including a lot of former employees. The new focus on Google+ and sunsetting of several products has alienated some people who are concerned about Google's identity and goals.

Lastly, some people feel that Google's employees tend to be either arrogant or naive. It's important to realize that people have developed these strong feelings over many years by interacting with Google's products, so when employees assume that Google is great and "would never do anything to hurt small companies" or something like that, it angers people who feel like they have personally experienced just that.

I certainly don't believe most of these concerns are valid or judged by the same standards any other company would have, but that is the nature of being a for-profit company so central to the workings of the Internet.
What is a recommended accelerated developer program like hackbright but for everyone(not just women)?
It's been just over 3 years since I last practiced law, and I just let my last state license go inactive. I couldn't be happier with how things have turned out. The job hunt can be frustrating, but after a few months, someone took a chance on me as a mobile developer, and now I've got 3 years experience in a decently hot field. The best part may be the people. There are jerks in every occupation, but nothing attracts and cultivates horrible personalities - bosses, co-workers, and especially clients - like a law office.
I feel if this ancient Chinese wisdom were accurate, you could substantiate it with some kind of study, and the "Ancient Chinese wisdom" part would be merely an amusing anecdote relevant to the data.
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With your statement, you assume that the state is the owner of everything. That mean that the car in the house is not yours, its the states car that they give to you as a privilege.

I for one object heavily on the idea that the state is the owner of everything. Physical objects I got in my own house is mine. Not the state. However, state privileges, be that the right to carry weapons in public places, sell drugs, manufacture weapons, or export dangerous products to any country that I like is not rights. They are privileges give out by the state.

My car is not a privilege, but a property I own and has rights to. Privilege given by the state is not property. please stop mixing the two concepts up and try to make them look like one and the same. The state do not own my stuff.