skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great comment.

I'am a self entrepreneur and I do some web designing from time to time. I recently got a lead for a organization which had EU funding of 250'000€. They wanted me to roll two sites with independent designs and features which's content had to be editable. I offered them my full consultation in choosing everything from ground up, but they kept on asking for the price. Once I told them I never heard anything back.

I offered to do the sites for about 0.5% stake of what they got from EU, but they apparently thought it was too much.

Recently a friend of mine was observing me coding and he was astonished of the complexity of it. As he said, 'For me, a button has always been just a button with no further functionality.' I also let him to change the source code as he was interested to see what effects it has on the program. He deleted a single bracket and was amazed to find that the program failed to run. I then continued to tell him that no matter how big your codebase is, a single mistake such as that might screw it all.

He now understands my frustration better.
> The problem with Windows is that there isn't any such super-select, unlike on Linux (see epoll, signalfd, timerfd...)

> I can't really use IOCP, because I need keep things reasonably portable

LOL!

You outright dismiss the solution because it isn't "portable". What does "portable" mean here? Portable in a particular platform?!

Portable between what exactly? IOCP has been there since Windows NT 3.51 -- it's "portable" between the Windows-es.

Your epoll, signalfd, timerfd, etc. are Linux functions They're "portable" between the Linux-es.

i.e. The "portable" solutions you like are just as non-portable as the "non-portable" solutions you outright dismiss, making Microsoft's Windows designers look like idiots.

You're never going to find a solution while considering the Linux platform to be the "portable platform" and Windows to be the weird kid on the block.

Sadly, you're not the only person who thinks like this.
The testmonials on that site are complete fabrications. Gawker never said "Social Roulette just rewrote the rules for online gaming." nor has it ever mentioned Social Roulette and the Gruber quote also does not exist, only someone tweeted it at him. Testimonials that are lies are shameful and dishonest.
The good news is you never have to go to the gas station for day to day usage.

For most people this will mean dramatically less time "filling up."
I see some negative responses to this, and I understand what people are saying, i.e. that people here are already familiar with 4HWW concepts so this is nothing new.

However, there are many people out there who are familiar with these concepts, and want to act on them, but keep putting it off. So seeing this kind of thing hit the HN front page once in a while, because reading it again rekindles the idea in the minds of those who are interested, but haven't yet acted.
The Tesla BlueStar slated for release in 2016 or 2017 will be a $30,000 electric car that competes with Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. Because it's electric, the cost of fuel and maintenance is likely to be significantly lower that gas powered cars.
You might be too hard on yourself.

It is ok to start many things. Do not think you have to finish something just because you started it. That is a very heavy burden and will discourage you from starting new things.

Sometimes, it is valuable to reflect on things you have accomplished, and avoid judging yourself when things don't work out as planned.
How often do people do that for CPython?
Was this with American businesses?

No. UK. I didn't think the US generally had direct debits in the same way the the UK did?

I'm asking because I find the use of credit cards to be somewhat rare in the most of Europe. I may be mistaken though. I'm wondering if this is likely to hold for Europe.

You can't really talk about "Europe" when it comes to general CC usage - some countries it's normal and fine. In others it's a little more unusual.

In this particular instance it was the UK. However it was only one test in one context so I can't say whether it would generally apply. I wouldn't be surprised if it did for B2B - since there are very big usage differences in the way that businesses of different sizes manage direct debits and credit cards.

(For example - there are several places I've worked where I've had a company card. I have never had the company bank account number and sort-code outside of my own companies. So at the very least asking for me for a direct debit would have removed all possibility of an impulse purchase. I would have had to go to my boss, or my boss's boss, to arrange for the accounts department to setup the direct debit.)
Test drive one.

btilly made an excellent comment as well on how it fits the 'new tech eats the old tech' model. The upshot is that at some point in the future all cars will be electric, period. The reasons are pretty clear, its a superior way to build power trains if you can get the performance, range, and refueling issues solved. Tesla has, basically solved those problems for a market that is somewhat price insensitive.

What is funny is he is playing out of the 1901 Automobile handbook, where, if you recall, Standard Oil started putting up gas stations everywhere even when people didn't have cars. Because it encouraged people to get cars. Elon is putting up supercharging stations along popular driving routes because who doesn't want to drive to visit when the gas is "free" ?

Nobody who has heard his plan doesn't think that if successful he will be one of the worlds top automakers. The only question is whether or not he can pull it off. And as more and more hard problems are shown to be overcome, the more people believe he will. And the stock goes up because its really under priced for what, in the fullness of time, will be a 100B company :-)
Thanks, that's a great list. Reminds me to read some classic fiction again.
Why does this have to be so political? Why does it matter to you if CPython continues to exist, just use PyPy if you want to?
Well... I am naive about collaborative software development :)

Do users post to the firefox bug tracker when features are removed like in the gnome case ? How is it handled ?
I can safely say that is not true. The weight of a bullet is pretty small compared to the weight of a cylinder. Try it (not the shooting part). It's not a big effect.
This is such depressing reading — it's all about "me" and doesn't give a damn for anybody else. I guess on a spiritual level this is why I hated the 4 Hour Work Week cult: It was all a sort of cult of being self centered. And on the flip side I think this is why I admire Bill Gates: Because he's taken the money he has and is actually trying to improve the world. There needs to be a bit more of that in the tech industry...
I like that this note about discipline has itself become a distraction. To be true to the note would have meant finishing an idea in progress, rather than browsing to HN and posting.
Good post, Lance! I always walk away with good tips to use from your blog.
The creator was being facetious and the fabrications were meant to be obvious enough that no one would take them seriously, right?
The problem is that you're thinking of a supercharger station like a gas station. You get annoyed at the 5-10 minutes it takes to fill up your gas tank because you have to do it every week, because the gasoline fumes make them very unpleasant places to be, and because you almost invariably have to fill up at frustrating times (e.g. in the afternoon so you have gas to get to work the next day).

But a supercharger station isn't like a gas station. In an electric car, your routine charging is handled at home, overnight. The supercharger station is for emergencies and long trips. It's not a place you go to after a long day at work so you you can get back to work the next day, it's something you can work into your road trip, something you can combine with bathroom breaks and getting a cup of coffee.

The robotic drive throughs are a lot more expensive for a questionable amount of value-add. The vast majority of people spend most of their time in a usage mode (commuting to work), where in-home charging is sufficient. But they also go on the occasional long-drive. That's the use-case supercharger stations fill. After that, what's left? Who takes long car trips (200+ miles) on such a frequent basis that a 30 minute charge in the middle (that can be easily combined with a rest-stop break) is a major inconvenience?
مشاهدة مباراه ريال مدريد واسبانيول مباشر
مشاهدة مباراه ريال مدريد واسبانيول مباشر
مشاهدة مباراه ريال مدريد واسبانيول مباشر
مشاهدة مباراه ريال مدريد واسبانيول مباشر
مشاهدة مباراه ريال مدريد واسبانيول مباشر
Web Startup Directory..
I found this very helpful:

http://www.slideshare.net/jessedee/steal-this-presentation-5...
This problem is also present in Haskell and it seems to work out pretty well there
Make Failure Fear You
> And when looking back over transactions at the end of the month - the maps are dang handy for jogging my memory...

Whenever I get an email from ING about a transaction or deposit (one that isn't totally obvious) I do this:

Click "Forward".
Delete all text/images.
Write a few words about the purchase or deposit.
And send it to myself.

That way I can look back in Gmail at any time and know EXACTLY what I spent that money on. This is helpful because sometimes knowing WHERE I spent money doesn't tell me anything about I actually purchased.

For example, I have a Debit Card Purchase of $10 at Farhad Monadjeem. What in the HECK is that???? Oh, that's actually the car wash at Mobil; the owner's name I suppose. This system is also great for online purchases, so I don't have to login to various websites to see what item(s) I purchased; it's all in my email.

Easy and extremely effective!
No, it isn't obvious that the listed testimonials are fake.
Even more amazing is when you aren't dealing with a client (who is by definition clueless) but a manager (who really should know what it is that he is managing).

Ex : "This client's site is all fucked up. A simple upgrade isn't possible because it was written 3 version back and the formats for everything changed. Rewrite it from scratch using this hideously complex tool which you've never touched before. It'll take you only 40 hours, right?".
At this point, I believe a director at a movie / theater director or an FX Supervisor would make a better manager for programmers than most management / business professionals.
Two assumptions you're making:

1) That English is the poster's native language

2) the poster did not use auto-correct
I think this is under appreciated. Its impossible to install fuel stations near the office, its easy to install plugs. I'm waiting for the City to figure out that charging 25c a kW for charging in their parking garages is a net win for them. People plug in when they are at home (usually, our CTO is in an apartment without an easy to reach plug). In that scenario, most of the time, perhaps 90 - 95% of the time you never are 'waiting to fill up' the car is just always ready.
I loved this. Will be adding it to my desktop too. Fits like a glove actually.
I still don't understand the mindset behind all these clones of BTC thinking having a hard cap and eventual deflation in the monetary supply of their cryptocurrency is a good thing.

What I want is something like PPC, except do it even better - you want a system that will generate coins just enough to make hoarding money a net loss. So if the coins themselves are rapidly becoming more valuable, you should introduce some algorithmic way to inject a lot of coins into the monetary supply, and if they are losing value you want to throttle coin generation.

It would require the distributed network to agree on what the coins value is doing - which would be very complicated. But just flat fixed inflation of the monetary base annually works better than having a finite money supply that eventually means you are doomed to a deflationary spiral.

It is probably chief amongst why BTC is such a commodity right now - since we already have over half the total bitcoins already in the system, the monetary base over the next hundred years is only going to grow less, and as more people want in on BTC, there is higher demand for a resource that has dwindling supply (especially once the rate of lost wallets and the coins therein outpaces the mining of new blocks).
Show HN: I built this (my first) Facebook application in 5 hours. Is that slow?
Of course, it's wireless, everything's wireless these days!
I think you mean a 1/6th...
Thoughts About Quality And Information Asymmetry (2011)
print ("Click", "Bam!")[input()%6==4]

Tee hee.
I enjoyed the slides. Great job!

Many people like me are new to whole Unix system and need trainings like this. I did not even know that I can upgrade my bash via homebrew.

I don't dare to switch to zsh yet. I'm afraid if it messes up all my bash_profile, rvm stuff and Vim configs. I have a bad memory with fish_fish
Dostoyevsky is a great. Still haven't read The Brothers Karamazov.
I've been freelancing since 1997. It has its perks, for sure, but it's not simply "become a freelancer, work two hours a day, fulfill all your dreams!" That's as much of a stereotype as "become a freelancer, work in your underwear, never take a shower!"

Making a good income as a freelancer requires work. And clients. And paying attention to clients' needs. And spending much more time organizing your financial and business life. And dealing with work/life boundary issues. It's something I like to refer as a "job."

And he's certainly not "retired," as he seems to claim, if he's paying the bills freelancing. It kind of sounds like he's decided to take a major income hit in order to have more lifestyle freedom (aided by living in a place with lower costs of living). Which is totally fine! Especially when you're young. But that's a major trade-off, and not one that should be taken lightly.
He only started giving away money and doing good once he was absurdly wealthy and had financial freedom. How does working a normal full time job do more good for the world than freelancing and pursing your own interests?
I don't get the issue. In OCaml you can do

|y -> y + x

If y was defined in the outside scope, the case scope just shadows it.
Link: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/332516435488280577
You're right, FULL_NO_HZ isn't mentioned in the blog I linked. It's more similar to CONFIG_NO_HZ.
Your odds never change, this is not how maths work. It's always 1/6, just like the odds of getting heads/tails in a coin flip is ALWAYS 1/2 no matter how many times you flipped already. Odds of receiving a certain outcome X number of times in a row can change,but the odds of a single event never,never,never do. Even if you flip a coin 10000 and got tails 10000 times, your 10001 flip also has a 50/50 chance of being heads or tails.
Employee Sues Intel Over ‘Kick Me’ Prank
I completely agree. I'll address specifically this issue in one of my future posts (on how to get started).
well, maybe that ~1000€ were far to low.
I just searched for a few different mutations of the phrase "background transparency" in their bugzilla and didn't see any. I was expecting this to be a case of an end user not taking the time to see if their issue was already in the bug tracker, but if it's in there, it's hard to find. If there were really multiple bug reports (which I'm not saying there weren't) then bugzilla has a pretty bad search feature.

It's a pretty big problem when bug trackers are exposed to a group of non-technical users. Stackoverflow has a nice feature where it does a real time search of existing questions as you type yours in to prevent duplicates. I wish that was a considered a must-have feature of bug trackers.
My point is that the code really doesnt matter in many "startups". Just the fact that someone will buy.
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Well that didn't take long.
Exactly. Or to put it in a different way, the total time you spend waiting for your car to recharge/refuel is way lower for an electric car. The electric car is optimized for the 99% case (where recharging at home is sufficient). A gasoline car is optimized for the 1% case where you take a road trip.

You get the exact same effect for people who claim they need a pickup truck instead of a small city car just so they can transport some furniture or motorcycles or a Christmas tree in the back.
One thing that I love to do in Haskell, and which Haskell is especially suited to, is writing interpreters and parsers. The other week I wrote a brainfuck interpreter (https://github.com/imeckler/skellfuck) in a couple of hours. Parsec, along with monads and functors, make this kind of thing a real joy to write.
I see your point, and I'm sure the technology will improve, but if I had to choose between "being annoyed for 5 minutes", and getting free charging for my car forever, I think the option I'd choose is obvious.
2001: A School Odyssey
That's a pretty big leap of faith assumption though. Does anyone have a source or a revolver?
I think you'll find that calling a current customer to find out why they are cancelling does not fall under any country's definition of telemarketing.
There’s no gnome-terminal mailing list. Since "bike shedding" is struck down with regularity on the bug tracker I wrote the guy directly before he made the commits.

I asked why he wants to remove the feature. He said it’s loosely connected to other features that are buggy and he doesn’t see the point of the feature anyhow. Whether I had a justification for the feature to stay.

I replied and gave him two good reasons, one of personal merit, one of technical merit.

Then nothing else.

Then I discovered that it indeed had been removed, while I was following git snapshots. So I checked the NEWS and Changelog, ReleaseNotes and git. No mention. Could’ve been temporary or unintentional.

So I wrote the guy again to ask what’s up. No reply. Then he replied with a non-answer only pointing to a FAQ entry he made the same day with a distracting workaround.

So I checked out git locally to see where the code went.

It turned out among unrelated commits where the code was #if 0’ed out only to be removed a few commits later with "delete dead code" etc.

So I wrote him again to ask why he did this. No reply.

So I downgraded to the known-good old version and waited for release time. Same story repeats with other people. Apparently nothing personal because of my tone.

So. Conspiracy or justified puzzlement about this behaviour?
Flywheel? It could be a flywheel you spend all week pedaling up to speed with human power.
The company doing the battery swap stations is called Better Place -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place
Starting from zero solves the "one right way to do it" problem which is mentioned in the blog post.
Some of the most memorable episodes of that show came from the third season. Give it another chance!
Gee, looks like this shows how great it is to rely on a platform to build something sustainable.

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Yes, I know the abstraction is possible. In fact, I ended up implementing a nearly complete BSD socket API emulation on top of IOCP. Just don't lose the sight of the context, which is Windows does a lot of things right and my point being is that it doesn't.
Do you have any idea what you just tried to play?
Spot on. I will add that freelancing is a business. Thus it survives or thrives on the marketing. If you suck at marketing or hate to do it, you won't do as well. That's why I sell a marketing system for freelancers. Most are simply lost when it comes to it.
The author should do more research rather than just blindly copying Tesla ad copy: Tesla's batteries are not the most efficient in the industry. The LEAF is rated at 140 wh/kg [1]. Nissan makes their own batteries. The mid-grade Model S battery is only 120 wh/kg.

[1] http://www.mynissanleaf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Battery_spe...
It should have just been part of Python 3.
"It is designed to put you in control and bring freedom to everybody."

That mantra should not just affect the product, it should be the way the whole project functions too.

How is it freedom if they decide that a feature I use is no longer relevant, necessary, chose to remove it and don't inform me about it? It also doesn't give me control, does it?

The whole behaviour of the devs on that thread is completely in-elegant, so much for that part.

I also fail to see how that mantra excludes users that do spend a lot of time in terminals? Don't we deserve nice and elegant things and to be brought control and freedom? They explicitly state everybody, that includes us terminal mungers.
I had to install aircrack-ng. Upon doing so and watching for about 30 minutes, I saw my MacBook Pro and iPhone 5 both leak an uncomfortable amount of probes for SSID's my devices have attached to. The thing is, quite a few SSID names are unique enough it nailed the specific devices I had attached to and through Apple's geo-coordinate database, their coordinates.

If the author is reading I just sent a pull request for a defect in the 'SSID Search' page. Thanks.
Replacing Bitcoin now would be like trying to replace gold with platinum or replace HTTP. It's not going to happen, no matter what technical advantages another currency has. Bitcoin has critical mass. Sorry. Game over.

I don't say this as a Bitcoin fanboy. Bitcoin is far from ideal, but it is good enough, and capable of evolving to stay good enough. In my opinion, there is zero chance of another cryptocurrency being superior as money in the near future.
I have actually written about the pros and cons of freelancing in a previous post, showing that it's not all rosy: bucketlistjournal.com/post/46601822485/pros-and-cons-of-freelancing

(and P.S. - I personally did not relocate, so my living expenses are still high)
Ask HN: How do you purchase a Github username from someone?
If they have no name, url or email and the account has been inactive for 2 years? Would Github facilitate a communication?
One of the most interesting long-term plays here is when Tesla builds a truck.

The #1 and #2 best selling "cars" by volume are trucks and trucks represent ~4 of the top 10 best selling cars overall. (1)

Musk has said that he has "this idea for a really advanced electric truck that has the performance of a sports car but actually more towing power and more carrying capacity than a gasoline or diesel truck of comparable size," Musk said.(2)

While this is probably several years out, as it would likely result in an all new wheel-base, etc I think that would be a hugely compelling product line if it can compete on the same stats w/towing / carrying capacity

(1) http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2013/02/top-10-best-selli...

(2) http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130410/...
.25 a kW is a hell of a bargain if you are plugged in for 8 hours.
Google gives away Android as a competitive moat to both a) increase the amount of time spent on Google Services and b) decrease the threat of a mobile monopoly changing the default search engine (Imagine the threat of an Apple with 80% of the market and the negotiating power they'd have for the setting of default mobile search)

A fragmented, federated mobile ecosystem with more players results in more people using Google services even if competitors can take Android and strip out the Google-installed services (e.g. Amazon).

For Tesla, making electric cars in general a success will increase demand for electric infrastructure investment, and in turn, a robust electric infrastructure, along with cultural normality of electric cars, means increased demand for their own products.

Android really hasn't increased ad space all that much. If people use mobile more than desktop, the likely result is mobile is leading to decreased ad spaces, just from the mere fact that the screens are smaller. So if anything, it is a defense against a downward sloping trend.
Was The IT Crowd shown in the US? (at the same timeslot?)