skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone coming in cold to freelancing will spend time building up to this level.

They may need to take $50/hr jobs for a few months to build up a portfolio and references, and gradually raise your rates. Good, reputable clients will stick with who they know before hiring someone from the 'outside'. After that, referrals from their current contractors, then friends at other companies. You'll be working at this tertiary level for a while when you start. It sucks, but you just have to put in your time.

As a general rule of thumb, I also do not recommend taking gigs with individuals. The line can be blurry, but generally 'guy with an app idea' is not anyone you want to work with.
Well when someone else learns to do what AA does at the scale of AA then it could happen.

It's not like alot of smart people haven't' tried. The airline industry is littered with the corpses of failed companies.
Tux3: a write-anywhere, atomic commit, btree-based versioning filesystem
Has the day come for Google+?

I'm willing to put up with a lot from Facebook, but the one thing I absolutely detest are these full-page video ads. I've given up a lot of websites (e.g., Yahoo!) because of them. In fact, the only place where I'll tolerate them are porn sites.
Private would be huge for me. I wouldn't think of using it without it.
Disappointed because people have a different view of certain languages? What's wrong with PHP? You don't like it, don't use it. I personally have been making a living using PHP and am happy with it, for 12 years. Stop being snooty.

Edit:: here ya go. http://teespring.com/php-deal-with-it
It's not the resisting justice when people with guns storm in. It's the trying to escape justice for decades before that. It's really hard to claim you weren't given "due process" when you made every effort to avoid that process.
Wow, I wasn't sure if that blog post was some sarcasm from some trolls or a real article.

I could quote lots of parts, but here's one of the funniest ones:

>> But intelligent iteration wasn’t possible because of our obese development costs, which left us without any funds to product iterations.

>> We wasted money democratically across developers, patents, e-mail platforms, and a sales pipeline tool

>> Hidden inside our minimum viable product was a separate mobile application to gather data on logic model performance.

The sad part in it is how they blame the process for their failure when they got it all wrong.

However, one thing I've got from this article is how hard it is to create a good mvp. The balance between Quality vs Learning vs Minimum is tricky and highly dependent of your customer. I.e. You create MVPs to learn fast so you can iterate faster.. but since you're still trying to validate your hypothesis, it's hard to decide what is really minimal or valuable.

I guess MVPs is an over-used word.. I prefer prototype: A first or preliminary model of something, esp. a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied. Basically, you use prototypes to iterate really fast and test your assumptions, and then, you build a mvp from what you've learned.

I prefer prototype because it's clear on both side that it's not the real product. It's a temporary phase to test the ideas. But again.. way easier to say than to do. I'm currently in that "prototype vs MVPs" phase and I'm struggling on determining the best next step. The fact that I'm working with health professionals with sensitive and highly important information clearly doesn't help.

That would be amazing if a lean expert reading this would feel generous enough with their time to help me with that "next important step" (phzbox at gmail).

Anyhow, thanks to Casca for sharing his experience.. Learning from failures is more often than not better than trying to copy a successful strategy.
I got stuck for 2 hours waiting for "paperwork" flying from Chicago to Philly. At least I managed to finish my book.
Is it me or is it just a metallic hot air balloon?
People focusing on the excel error and rebuttals such as this one are missing the point. The R/R argument fails because the causal inference itself is bunk. There are few plausible reasons to believe that higher public debt --> slower growth, but many reasons to suggest that slower growth --> higher dGDP. Public debts are private sector financial assets, and they are the result of deficits that represent a net flow of income from the government to households. The risk there--excessive inflation--is almost the opposite of the one suggested by R/R.

However, if the economy stalls and GDP growth slows, that leads to lower tax revenues and higher transfer payments (unemployment, etc), which will contribute directly to the deficit.

The level of confusion one sees in most any discussion of government debt/deficits is really mindblowing sometimes.
I agree, except when the amount of debt gets so large, and goes way beyond the immediate. Then it becomes much more clear that it is a problem.

There is a case to be made that in 2008-2009, a big, debt financed, short term stimulus could have been helpful. But when that metastasizes into long term spending that doesn't look like it is going anywhere soon, and doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything, then it is worthwhile to sound the alarm.
Correction: 74% of the American population carries net debt, even if it's "good debt". Inflation would act as a mini-jubilee to rebalance the economy between producers and financiers.
...and in this case it's not even the seller who forgot the semi-colon. The seller asked if a semi-colon was needed and was told it wasn't, only for the build to break on compile, leaving Bob to edit the source. But the seller offered to edit the source for Bob.
Youtube pre-Google was still Python, from the way several Youtubers have told it to be. Maybe an initial prototype was PHP, but not what was running when it was purchased.

And trust me, there is no way Google ever would have said "rewrite it in Python." They would have said "rewrite it in Java," like every other frontend they run (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, etc).
1Password GPU brute-force with 3M hash/s
DARPA's 'Argus' camera drone: continuous wide-area surveillance
I used to see conflicts all the time
Actually, the PR can be quite bad because the immediate goodwill that comes from whatever help they can provide to the cops will eventually, over time, be superseded by the growing suspicion that these data giants are in league with police authorities, which is generally an impression that data companies do not want to embrace.

News organizations have dealt with this conflict for a long time. In any given reportage of a crime scene, news orgs have hours of footage and rolls of film...however, news orgs will, in my experience, almost never just hand police this information, even under threat of subpoena. Why? Because the news orgs are meant to be completely independent of the state.

It's not just an ideological stance, but has practical implications: at my college newspaper, the police demanded to see the photos we took of a riot that we didn't publish, and we declined. The photos we took were possible because people don't see us as collaborators with police. However, if the press is suspected as an arm of the police, then a press photographer is going to get punched in the face at the next riot.
Mainstream economics is centered around recommending policies that ensure bond-holders are paid. It all leads back to that. If there is too much debt destroying the underlying economy causing bond interest payers to default, lower rates. If rates go to zero, print money to pay the bondholders. If that causes inflation raise taxes and cut spending to pay the bondholders (a.k.a austerity), etc. The political economic dimension of the relationship between bondholders and the people who pay there interest is an important missing component from our understanding.
Debt and Delusion (2011)
Still a problem as you can't guarantee the timestamps on images gathered.
Well, there is the answer to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560247
That'd still be 'internet-facing' though, by your definition. Yes, it might require one more round of cracking (the simple interface), but the machines are still connected.
Yelp extorting small businesses
It does everything better.

NOTE: I'm biased, I created Vagrant + VMware. But go ahead and ask VMware users.
Thanks for the suggestions and thanks even more for the illustrations too! I totally understand where you're coming from now. From your illustrations it's clear that having a few elements anchored to the bottom of the quote in fixed locations means that quotes are clearly separated. Good point.

As for the tabs, I believe we've stripped them from all the quotes. However, we do indent all paragraphs apart from the first in a similar fashion to books and long articles. Originally, we planned for people to quote much lengthier quotes (in which case it would improve readability), but I take your point that it makes it more unreadable in shorter quotes.
Stephen Hawking talks about unified theory and his biggest 'blunder'
I'm picturing a disk failure, or a RAID5 with two dead drives. Someone at AA franticly running disk recovery software.
Thought that was a Branson quote:

"If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." -- Richard Branson
This is true in a sense, but we're not talking 60% vs. 0%, but 60% vs 55%, or (in fact) 7.2% vs. 7.1% (in the case of the US servicing its debt). The fact that we're talking about shaving a tiny amount of debt servicing by, say, gutting education seems more like "I'll save money by getting rid of my cable bill, but now I can't work from home".
Hi Matt, don't worry - we really appreciate and reflect upon all kinds of feedback, specially the most honest ones. We may disagree on various topics, but that's what makes a good debate!
This happened to us last time. We were rejected. This time one of our links was viewed, once.
Typescript is a superset of JavaScript, while Dart separate language that comes with a dart2js compiler. Not really the same.

More so, Dart has it's own VM.
I am familiar with remainings of Solaris, that is Illumos and its technologies, likes zones, dtrace and native ZFS, but the problem is that I personally wouldnt be very hasty to use such young OS in production, and I think I would have even more issues with convincing the management layer to do so, once I would manage to convince myself ;) But, even if that'd happen, that's again just another good stack, like FreeBSD and Jails, and not fancy framework like Docker.
Well, this is Ryan Air, the airline whose core concept is abusing both its customers and its employees.

Edit: oh, and they systematically under-reported take-off weights in Germany (and probably elsewhere), paying less fees than they should have, i.e. fraud.
I'mma start a breathmint birth control kickstarter.

They'll be made with honey and you won't have any babies if you donate $25 or more.
Yes it would because the test of scientific knowledge is whether it be confirmed with a different data set.

If a conclusion is only provable with one specific data set, then it can hardly be considered a universal objective truth of nature.

By analogy: if I drop a hammer and tell you that gravitational acceleration is 9.8 meters per second squared, you don't need to come over to my house and borrow my hammer to test it.

Sharing data and code is helpful for error checking, as it was in this case.
What the original artists intended may well not have been as good as what they ended up creating.

As soon as you hear George Lucas say the words 'what I originally intended' you should run a mile.
Resuscitating this item from about 2 months ago, because after yesterday's tragedy, some will no doubt call for these over major public events. The logic is both compelling and scary:

"OK, review incident site +/- 24 hours, all entities traveling through that point, where did they come from, where did they go to?"
I remember something in David Friedman's writing to the effect of how no layman ever argued with him about anything in physics (where he has his degree) but everyone feels qualified to argue with him on economics (what he is professor of). I think linguistics is similar. I only took a couple courses, but I frequently see people offering up opinions as if their instincts were a valid counter argument to well established science (like whether people have a conscious grasp of the grammar of their native language).
Android anyone?
Yes you are. Have you been to a police station lately, like as a witness or a victim, and have had your information processed?

Here's a very telling example that happened a few weeks ago in NYC, with arguably the most advanced police force in the nation (NYPD). A woman was violently beaten and robbed in a subway station. The mugger was wearing a fraternity jacket with his nickname that, if you entered it into Facebook, you would've found his public facebook page full of photos of him wearing that jacket.

The police took a month to release this brutal video. It took commenters on Gawker, of all places, to doxx this guy on Facebook, who ended up getting charged with the crime.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators...

Do not assume anything about the technological capability of law enforcement.
19-year-old auctioned off 10 percent of her salary for 10 years
Here's a nice comment on some of the dangers of setuid/sudo on shell scripts. The more you know...

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/364/allow-setuid-on-...
Why the Simulation Argument is Invalid
But since anyone hoping to make a new product should be talking to his real potential customers, why would he not talk to them directly, instead of say, trying to get them to use WTF?

Anyone other than his real-life potential customers giving him feedback is.. well, not going to give him the feedback he needs, no matter how well-intentioned he is.

Then there's the issue of someone potentially stealing your idea, etc.
I concur. But it could be interesting to have hot-air balloon technology innovated.
I can't wrap my head around how extraordinarily complex airline reservations/logistics systems are. I'm kind of surprised you don't see this more often.
You have to monetize your audience
He has a FAQ entry about that:

> With my device I bring the "cold parcel of air outside the balloon" inside my device.... The pressure difference between the the two parcels provides the force that lifts my device. By being able to bring the cold parcel of air inside my device two advantages are obtained over the hot air balloon. First, my device is not restricted to only moving in the atmosphere as is the hot air balloon.... Second, I am able to control how cold the cold parcel of air can get. Thus a greater pressure difference can be obtained which will in turn provide a much greater upward force.

Sounds to me like he's essentially hooking up a fan to a sail boat like in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Virgin has, but that has cost it horribly.

Someone did a focus group awhile back about all the nice things an airline could do. And everyone was really excited about all the niceties that were on offer.

But then they asked everyone to raise their hands and to pull them down once they were no longer willing to pay that much.

At around $30 extra, over half the people had put down their hands. At $50, all but one.

For whatever reason, people de facto hate paying trivial amounts extra even in exchange for significant improvements. That's why we end up with really shitty flight experiences.
We've had several issues over the past few months. To be fair, I should note that they did brand the Linux VMs as "preview" (which is just another word for beta). Even though they were already charging for the product, they didn't guarantee an up-time SLA either so we were well-aware it would be a risk using the product.

The biggest issue by far? Random VM Reboots

We thought our applications or some particular package was causing our VMs to randomly reboot. After thorough investigating, we found out that our code was perfectly fine. The folks on the Azure team were rebooting our VMs for internal upgrades. They oddly were doing this without any advance notice. This would affect our application servers, database servers, and even our development/staging instances. Another frustrating aspect was the fact that they would often do these upgrades during peak traffic hours (9 AM - 5 PM Pacific Time).

Without a better solution, we just wrote some code to ensure that our application supervisor would auto-start if the system were to reboot which helps mitigate the problem. Hopefully these issues no longer occur now that they offer an 99.95% SLA.

As for your other question, my start-up is Pepperdeck https://pepperdeck.com/
The graphviz dot language: http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation.php

It has good support in org-mode and a there's a nice haskell package that takes the dot code and turns it into an internal graph representation.
Creating 3D Spaces On-Demand (Matterport)
Sorry, I think it as a more common word in portuguese than in english (maybe I mistranslated it too).

Maecenas would be someone that gives money to an artist be able to produce its art. Long time ago, before artists could access market to finance themselves, great artists (e.g. Renaissance artists) often needed a Maecenas to pay the bills while they were creating their masterpieces. No financial interests, arts for art sake (sure, other reasons like vanity, social influence, power demonstration and etc were involved too).

Not sure this was an accurate explanation, but I tried.
Why wouldn't they, TypeScript does nothing to improve JS performance, faster start-up or iteration times, optimal tree-shaking, etc, it just makes it worse.

Dart is also focused on improving the state of web development with Web Components http://www.dartlang.org/articles/web-ui/ - fixing the DOM with a holistic and consistent API: http://www.dartlang.org/articles/improving-the-dom/ - and providing a single unified abstraction for classes and IO providing much better composability than the fragmentation seen in JS.
Also, I've just submitted some tips for getting the best out of memcached in case anyone is interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560764
I clicked through to read the criteria used to determine if a twitter user was likely fake: sadly, I fit a lot (hell, most) of the criteria.

I guess I better get going on Twitter before software deems me a bot, as opposed to someone who just isn't that into it.
Working remotely.. can sometimes work, but when a team is together fighting the crazy battles to create a successful company from the ground up, you really need to be together to form the bond and grind all the hard shit together.
Microsoft's photosynth[1] sounds like a good fit to automate much of what you're describing (without the time function).

[1]http://photosynth.net
Knives in airport cabins? No thanks
I think the same. I have dream to build one myself, but lack the expertise and the time for it. However, I think on it very similar to how build a "normal" app: The end-user, thinking in the most tedious work (like debugging, pass data & transformation, etc) then think in how could be it write. In fact I look at my past projects and try to remember what were the parts that waste more time...

But is certainly harder than think: How make recursion?
A note on distributions of true versus fabricated data
Well, Linus is. But by extension that makes git awesome so you are technically correct (the best kind).
Email PG, he may help. I have heard of him renaming accounts for people before.
If anything this makes Federal Debt more useful and attractive than private debt.

The problem isn't that households can't "print currency" (in a sense they can) but that their debts aren't denominated in the currency they can print. Thus, the US government is in a relatively unique position that, for example, Cyprus and Greece do not enjoy.
This thread reminds me of the "hunt for things on Mars" online tools https://www.zooniverse.org/project/planet_four.

You could basically tag all the specified features in images (in this case it would be faces, bags) and add special comments if you thought you saw something special (a person you recognised, a bag make, an apparent clue).

That would crowdsource the facial/bag recognition and identification aspects without giving scope for trial-by-webapp.
Mike Pall was the first person I've ever met (via his postings and projects) that made me think, holy cow, this dude is way smarter than me.

I've heard some people conjecture that it's actually a pseudonym for a group of people.... but I actually prefer to think it's one guy, by himself, getting awesome shit done.
Or worse, parents with young children stuck at airports losing their mind.
Boston Bombs: al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine taught pressure cooker bomb-making
We decided to avoid publishing an indexable listing of public projects so we can protect the privacy of our users at least to the extent where they don't publish the unique, indecipherable link themselves ("Available to anyone who knows the link"). We think it's the most ethical approach for handling this situation.
On my system that Go program does not seem to be tail call optimized. Look at the memory consumption over time. You aren't seeing an OOM because Go performs stack growth as necessary.
Looks like they use Sabre:

UPDATE, 1:43 P.M.: The Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed the ground stop. “GROUNDSTOP IMPLEMENTED BY ATCSCC ON AMERICAN AIRLINES NATIONWIDE AND AMR AMERICAN EAGLE INTO DFW, LGA, AND ORD AT THE REQUEST OF AMERICAN OPS. STOP REQUESTED AS RESULT OF AAL SABRE SYSTEM FAILURE.”

from http://www.dallasnews.com/business/airline-industry/20130416...
Spending isn't a good analogy to GDP either. We should probably just dispense with the analogy altogether...

The bigger point is that debt is often the lubricant of growth. E.g. we're FAR better off borrowing money to educate our kids than saving money and raising kids with no knowledge or skills.
I feel like the statement:

"Neither Einstein's fundamental premise that mass can warp space nor Newton's fundamental premise that mass can attract other mass can comprehend this easily repeatable table top experiment."

is the crazy person way of saying:

"This experiment disproves classical mechanics and relativity."

I'd be more apt to believe the crazy assertion if it weren't worded crazily.
Dove Experiment Aims to Change the Way You See Yourself
What is geek culture?
Maybe that's OK: we know it's a tentacle, others can just blissfully think it's a tail.
Right, but the core idea that high public debt leads to negative growth is not correct.

And that's a big deal. Even if you want to claim that high debt slows growth, your economy won't implode, and the political arguments have used the concerns over implosion as the dire necessity to deal with the public debt.
If you uploaded your video on Youtube (like I did) you just visit the video page and click on the "Analyse" button.
United's failed in November, although for a much shorter duration (hour or so). As luck would have it, I was flying United that day, and I'm flying American today =/
Yes, I think Michael is saying it will never work.

Michael: "If you go to HR, you get fired." "If you go to your boss^2, you are similarly fucked..."

I think that's terrible advice.

I'm sorry you had to vote with your feet, but I'm glad that you did. The only way boss^2 or HR have a chance to learn is if employees do what they're supposed to, and Michael is actively telling people to not do what they're supposed to.
"The notion that to get respect you can't point out problems with the existing system is a sign that the system is sick."

"pointing out problems" is vastly different from what this woman did. Saying something like "Put down the crack pipes" is not "pointing out problems". Do you agree?

Saying things like "Put down the crack pipes" will not work. Do you agree with that too?

If you agree with both of those things, I think we're all on the same page here.