skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which raises the question: what's the breakeven volume for Butterfly Labs customers? As more and more people buy their miners, how does the time to recover its cost dilate?
That is spot on, work is not the meaning of life for the French. While for others, being without work is a life without meaning.

I can't say I encounter many unemployed people in France that could in any way be called depressed.
I'm a game dev and right now I'm making myself a simple ajax website to show off my portfolio.
I saw this and thought, hey perfect!
I tried it out and now I dont see the point of it... There doesnt seem to be any ftp access to where the site is hosted so I cant create new directories or upload multiple files at the same time. (As far as I can figure out anyway)
Theres plenty of free adless webhosts that have ftp and php if you want. Eg. http://www.000webhost.com/
Neocities just seems like a another one of these with less features atm.
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So do you have any actual advice or are you just here to tell me that I'm doing it wrong? I invite constructive criticism, but I get enough destructive criticism as it is. I don't need any more.
1) That's actually factually wrong (check EU work statistics) and a little racist -- adopting the stereotype of Germans as working robots. Here's a pointer:

"According to a new research on working hours in countries of the European Union, Greeks work 42.2 hours per week. more than all other Europeans. The research was conducted by the National Statistical Service of Britain for the period April-June 2011. German people work 35.6 hours per week, French 38 hours, the British 36.3 hours, while the Irish only 35 hours. In addition, according to the same research, full-time workers in Greece and Austria are working more hours (43.7) than workers elsewhere in the EU" (from the Guardian).

2) Nope, they mostly got/get lots of unqualified immigrants. Not to mention that the integration of Eastern Germany post 1989 had an enormous cost that nearly toppled Germany's economy.
Except that they are often stuck on his company's domain knowledge. That's not something they can google. I know, he should have better docs. Shouldn't we all?

Regarding the framework they use - They started with oscommerce, but rewritten it so heavily part by part over the years that I don't suspect there's anything of it left (which is a good thing by my count).
I would say that comedians have always been among the top professional A/B testers (long before the buzz around A/B testing). Their entire professional success or failure depends on constant small and large adjustments to their routines based on testing and feedback. And when it comes to being funny and staying funny, comedy is brutal and completely unforgiving.

Here's a great 50 minute segment, with Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK, in which they discuss various aspects of their material and how they work with it (adding / discarding / making adjustments and so on):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAxoRh06XM4
Last I lived in brazil they needed to guarantee only 10% of advertised speed, if I got 70% I would be happy
I knew relatives who lived in and around Canarsie (Brooklyn) in the 40's --there were more Euro-immigrants there than now. One died from a robber slitting veins in his arms, the other from a stabbing (by strangers in both cases). So it seems to have been a voilent city for much of its history, not just something which came after the WWII boom subsided and sliding into the socio-economic issues of the 60s and 70s.

I'm glad to see the city enter a new era of relative peacefulness. Now, I'd like to see the infrastructure upgraded to befit a great modern metropolis.
Be the expert.

Call your local chambers and biz groups and offer a free seminar on logo planning and styling or the best way to do whatever you do best. Find non-profit groups and do the sane thing. When you are in front of a group, you become the expert. Give everyone that attends something free to download from your site and let them optin to your email. Make it so when their friends say they need someone, you come to mind. Give away ALL your knowledge. Do it yourselfers will remember and refer and those that need help will ask.

Hold/sponsor a local best business idea contest and give away a logo or biz card design. Get the local press to publicize and write about it before and after. Team up with the people that are helping you to help them publicize themselves and give away an hour of their services. Have local powerful people that are highly networked and recognized as judges so they remember and talk about you.

Always be willing to advise and help to the extent it doesn't kill productivity.

Volunteer at local events doing what you do and get your web address on their promo materials.

Blog, blog, blog about what you do, local community, new businesses, etc. make sure to include your community name.

Take successful business people to lunch and ask them for advise and offer to help them in any way you can. They'll remember you when someone needs a referral.

Create a network of local creative businesses both competitive and not. Hold a monthly luncheon to discuss your business and help each other grow. Find the ones you like best and refer business to them that you can't or don't want to do.

Write a press release for every new client signing. Send to local paper and blogs. Post on your site. Make it all about promoting them with mentions of you.

Talk up and refer every local business you know or meet. Always be about helping them to connect and grow. The good actions will come back to you. Constantly be a connector.
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I think I am, but it's a different story, and when I work it doesn't really help my case.
It would have to go down further to be not worth doing, since he covered the cost in ten days, and the electricity cost is less than $2/week. At $7/week for example he would roughly break even over a year even factoring in the cost of the device.
I like Java. I am able to be quite productive with it along with Spring and Guava. Hibernate, though somewhat finicky, makes dealing with databases almost trivial. I honestly don't see any reason to learn Scala other that syntactical simplicity. That said, I love Clojure -- it forces me to think differently and I like that.

Some people hate the java ecosystem --Maven, ant, gradle etc. etc. I find Maven to be incredibly useful , though not simple. Cruise Control with Maven and Junits simplify code management greatly.

Then there is Servlet 3.0 specification with standardized async support. My benchmarks on spring async controllers on Tomcat 7.041 show mindboggling improvements for some my particular use cases that involve several Webservice Apis .

I thought I would put it out here. I have witnessed no fall of Java. Only better hype from other language proponents.
Just curious (being new to python) why is that? is there something particular about the syntax or how it compiles that makes it preferred for scientific cases?
CENotifier: growl-like notification UI compoment for iOS
Rubbish. There is a massive lack of jobs, just like everywhere else in Europe.

That's what I said. (?)
I'm not sure how this is a 1-bit interface. It seems like it's '1 bit per minute'. If you arbitrarily choose a unit to use 1-bit to realize, you can build almost anything. For example even the highest end '24-bit' ADC and DAC chips around are often 1-bit supersampling (sigma-delta) architectures. You can communicate through human speech with a 1-bit interface, for some definition of a 1-bit interface.

I'd also add that random combinations of flashing lights is horrible from a UX standpoint, anyone tried programming a universal remote that only communicates via flashing lights?
Yeah in that case I concede the point. Edited my comment.
This is not wise in my opnion. You do not have to go to the other extreme because some programmers do mistakes when using IDEs. What CAN be done is keep improving IDEs and make the autocomplete features, for instance, smarter and more interactive. One idea related to that, for example, that I've always had in mind but was always lazy to implement is a smarter contextual Copy and Paste feature (i.e. "hey, this variable is already in this context, do you wanna rename this and declare another variable instead?" in a visual way).

Let's be honest, who here never had a "copy'n paste" bug. I always kid around the office that developers should not have CTRL+V.

Also, one might argue that by his point of view you could just program in assembly, or in XKCD butterfly style.
I like to tell IEEE754 as an improvised story, because it's so rich in history as far as data types go.

They were first introduced in 1941 on the German made Z3 compuer. Whic means, yup, we can blame nazis for 0.1+0.2 == 0.30000000000000004

In all seriousness, more programmers need to understand this. I've seen more than a few beginners go rant about how awesome their language X is when contrast against language Y because language Y has bugs like 0.1+0.2 ... then they're blown away when the see their language too has the same "bug".
> What does "European first" even mean, though? To be friendly with other European nations/cultures is one thing.

It's easy, I'm feeling myself European it might seem dumb or impossible to you but it is. I think we're very much alike, we love the same sports and take our holidays in the same places, more often than not people have ancestors from another counry in Europe (mine were from Italy). When I was young I spent holidays in Austria, Italy and Spain, I played with kids from all these countries and it never seemed we were differents. I can tell you growing up in such an environment is probably what's make me think I feel European first. I'm sorry if I don't have a better explanation for what I feel.
You guys will probably think this site is "a little over the top" heh, but I think its very interesting: http://vigilantcitizen.com/category/moviesandtv/

"“Of course, many serial murders are nothing more than the work of a single individual acting out a graphic horror movie he saw, or responding to powerful “psychotic” impulses for aggression and predation. But many other serial murders involve a cult protected by the U.S. government and the corporate media, with strong ties to the police. These murders are actually intricately choreographed rituals; performed first on a very intimate and secret scale, among the initiates themselves in order to program them, them on a grand scale, amplified incalculably by the electronic media. In the end what we have is a highly symbolic, ritual working broadcast to millions of people, a Satanic inversion; a Black mass, where the “pews” are filled by the entire nation and through which humanity is paganized, brutalized and debased in this, the “Nigredo” phase of the alchemical process.

The French adept Antonin Artaud, architect of the theory of the “Theater of Cruelty” with its transformative power, and the inspiration for the extreme sex-and-death media of our time, had this to say about the processing of the Group Mind: ‘Aside from trifling witchcraft of country sorcerers, there are tricks of global hoodoo in which all alerted consciousnesses participate periodically… That is how strange forces are aroused and transported to the astral vault, to that dark dome which is composed above all of… the poisonous aggressiveness of the evil minds of most people… the formidable tentacular oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon appear undisguised.’

The issue of controlling humanity with esoteric words and symbols encoded within a play, a media spectacular or a ritual is one of the most difficult for people to comprehend. That is why most people are viewed with utter contempt as “cowans,” “the profane,” the “gentiles” and the “goyim” (cattle) by secret society initiates. “I think we are farmed,” Charles Fort said of humanity. It was Fort who also suggested that man deliberately invented the dogma of materialism in order to shield himself from the evidence of what was being done to him by means of psycho- spiritual warfare methods hyped by “coincidence,” symbolism and ritual.”

- Michael A. Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

http://www.amazon.com/Societies-Psychological-Warfare-Michae...

I'm sure there is no truth to any of that though. Just ramblings of paranoid psychotics.
Notebooks about everything
Neat. Playing with parsers is fun!

FWIW, a similar tool exists that works with most C-style languages, `uncrustify`. Might be worth looking into as well?

http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net
I, for one, am very appreciative of this course, and the professor for taking the time to do it. Doing the first week's assignment, I've already learned a lot about programming for NP-hard problems.
Change is hard to accept when done by force.
Also, killing Reader is kind of dumb, if you count all other "less useful" Google products that are still around.
Yeah, their password policy is silly, especially for Office 365 accounts. They don't allow space characters either; its like nobody there reads xkcd, let alone any modern recommendations. I suppose they rely on their lockout verification policies, like a lot of banks (your bank password is likely not case sensitive, as an example)
Hey, it took me close to an hour to setup ownCloud (it's tricky to get it working correctly on Nginx). Now that the dust has settled, it's really nice. Thank you for making this.
Where do you draw the line between "A/B testing" and "learning and improving", which nearly everyone does. Homeless people will figure out how to get better results from begging, chefs will learn how to cook food that tastes better, and these things have been going on for a long time - what sets comedians apart?
Steve Martin talked about his process making his comedy routine in his autobiography. His process was essentially A/B testing, although not as precise as this approach can be today.
My employer migrated to MS hosted exchange, so I am also experiencing this. I think at the time I had a 20+ char password, and it never complained. For some reason though, they have changed their UI's now on things like live login pages, and it is HERE that you can't supply your full password any ore. I had to reset my password to be 16 chars to be able to use the web interface. The back end was working just fine with 20+.
and most of it is on github https://github.com/alphagov
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The main problem is that the waiting list is currently almost a year. If you order a miner today you won't see it until 2014.
He's not a PM. Just a developer, admin and entrepreneur. Although recently he delegated all his dev tasks to other people. He found pretty decent people too. At least one of them turned out to be pretty good PM, all decent programmers. All in all he's doing fine. He had to fire just one graphic designer and one marketer because they tended to watch too much youtube at work while still having things to do and one of his programmers quit because he didn't want to work 8h per day at the office. He still does about half of his work for my friend remotely as a freelancer. Growth of his company is pretty impressive. Recently he had to swap offices because he outgrew his old one.
And this is why people get cranky at articles like this, people are not adult enough to take them as what they are, puff pieces to build the esteem of children.

Could a 15 year old child invent safety equipment for the trillion $ mining corps. Of course not.

People with 4 year degrees in engineering have as much commitment and inventiveness as children and money to boot. Plus a fully developed brain.

As is always the case child age x invents new way to do blah, invents object blah they of course haven't.

As a tired cliche does it have a place on HN. Is this site aimed in part at children is the question?
Don't you mean 'man tar'? The most common usage is right in the intro. I don't use it much but always have to do the same...
Why is it hard to offer directory creation?

What would be wrong with giving people a chrooted slice of noexec filesystem with a usage quota set, that they could manipulate as they pleased?
Apparently I have a "big sreen". ;)
Here is some math: first, the graph of business profits as a fracition of gdp is at an all time high :http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4fe2807feab8eaca7f0...

Profits are only generated in two situations: one, overregulated or rigged markets where competition can't drive prices down, or two, due to market demands that have not yet done long run corrections to push labor into certain high-demand industries.

The problem here is that there is no high-demand industry in need of labor. What is happening is, for the most part, the first (overregulation creating false markets) and if we are going to have that, you need to correct for the siphoning of money into the tiny class of business elites holding ownership of dividend shares in businesses with these margins.

Your two options are to deregulate a large portion of the economy, or tax the rich and give it to the poor. The former would be nice, but I can't imagine socialist-heavy France taking that approach. The problem is I think it might be too late for the former in the first place - the productivity siphon has been in effect for decades due to international manipulation of national law to favor big business that has concentrated wealth and resources too heavily, so even if you deregulated many industries the investment capital in competing with entrenched players in markets, even those with artificially inflated prices just isn't there. When you concentrate money that much, the few with the means have no reason to part with it and drive new innovation outside of the safe law-created false markets they can throw money in and expect money out (the most extreme example is to be a bank getting free money out of the US fed at 0%)
Hey, I registered and I'm liking the idea. The design is pretty cool but there's a few usability flaws. First off, it's quite slow to load pages. I'm not sure why that is, perhaps because it is just in alpha and isn't on a perfectly suitable hosting environment, but speed should definitely be a priority.

Second, on the page that lists projects, the plus sign icon indicated to create a project was a little hard to spot. It's further away from the majority of the content and there really isn't anything to make it catch the user's eye (even though it's likely the first action a user will make).

You could use contrast to make it stand out more. For example, the first thing that caught my eye was the "Feedback" button on the right. It is a darker black and contrasts from the rest of the page, and so it sticks out.

Incorporate some of these tips into your design: http://goodui.org/
Sets are even seriouser business.
It's sad to see people clinging to misconceptions when you can check your facts in a minute. Thatcher destroyed Britain's economy? Are you serious?

The successful welfare state you are talking about is already considered a failed model, because of the numerous people taking advantage of the system. I am quite sure you don't live in Europe...
frankly I don't really understand it. I mean we do real geeky numerical computations only once in a while for a week, and then we spend a few months on CSS IE compatibility. I never remember what kind of computations break my numbers in what ways and how I know if I can safely use == or not in my case (and if I can't, how big the epsilon should be).
I don't think it used to? I remember needing to explicitly state tar -xjf for bz2 stuff. I do it now reflexively. If it's handled correctly by -xf, that's awesome!
What about the ones on Ebay for $500-1000? If the breakeven is so good, why wouldn't those people just plug them in?
Total BitCoin mining n00b here. How much could you mine per week without a device like this? A few dollars?
Also, when adding a task to a project, there is no immediate feedback that the task was added. I had to refresh the page to make sure it was added.
Looking at the Talk page, it's surprising to me that the page isn't self referential. How can't it be?
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These are the most presumptive headlines. Programmer encapsulates many disciplines just as a writer encapsulates those who write comics, novels, plays, ads, articles, law and speeches. Stop assuming everyone is a web developer. And don't deign to tell programmers what they should know.
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Yeah, I'm curious about that too. I'm feeling rather glad I jumped ship to e-mail a couple of years ago and will probably (though I'm not 100% sure yet) let most of my RSS-based stuff fall into disrepair.
As a comedian and a A/B tester, I feel somewhat qualified to answer this question. There are similarities with what comedians do and A/B testing, but the big difference is that A/B testing is (or, in some cases, should be) scientific. Comedians can't think about statistical significance. But what sets comedians apart from chefs is that comedians get instant feedback. Chefs, in most cases, don't serve the food and watch the faces for emotion (although I just watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi and he does, maybe that's part of his success?)
The fact that gender is mentioned in the headline and discussed there and here points to a different standard for males and females I think. If it was just a passing reference, no problem, but the fact ITS A GIRL is somehow amazing. That's sad.
Definitely you can have both extremes when it comes to asking. Same friend, when we worked side by side years ago tended to ask the questions loud even before he asked his own brain.

Personally I'm big fan of rubber duck debugging and narrow communication channels.
They are also presently working on tracking and taking pictures of cars with missing plates. They'll still be able to figure out the model and year ranges. There might not be that many silver SLK with missing plates. They could also auto alert when a vehicle with missing plates is encountered.
Could someone please explain why Butterfly Labs don't mine the coins themselves, but sell their devices instead?

As far as I understand bitcoin (and please correct me if I'm wrong), bitcoin output of the system is fixed, so if you produce (or buy) a lot of super-duper fast ASICs, they will generate less bitcoins per unit. If it is correct, then butterfly labs success inversely correlates with specific miner success, as in the more ASIC-s they sell for a fixed dollar price, the less profit their buyers receive. This seems somewhat conflicting to me.
Remember, a tar file need not be compressed. `tar xf' will certainly work fine on `foo.tar'.
Not sure why that was downvoted. I'm sorry I offended you, downvoter, but in my defense I've seen much more inane comments not downvoted here.
You should let us know what features you offer in contrast with services like Basecamp.

Why should I register on your website?
That's how coffee joulies work! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Joulies
I think that the problem with GeoCities was not the content of the websites hosted in that platform but all those ads and popups annoying us all the time. If I'd redesign a similar I would take this as a bad example and try to keep it cool and easier to navigate. I think that the platform could not interfere in the hosted page.

Congrats for the idea. That's a great action for sure!
Yes, but (a) the decline / rise of difficiulty will continue, and (b) there's a year long waitlist.
from the article

"the second reason [they aren't just mining themselves] is far more practical: bitcoins, for all their current value, are still speculative. A large amount of US dollars is a large amount of US dollars no matter which way you cut it. It can be readily exchanged for goods and services. Bitcoins themselves don't necessarily hold value, and it's difficult to exchange them in large quantities for an equivalent amount of dollars. "
Oh, with == it is pretty simple: do not _ever_ use it on floating point data.
In a gold rush, it's often better to be the one selling shovels.