skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've filed almost 40 MSO interop bugs with LO and 20 with AO over the past as 5 years. Far as I can tell only about 3 or 4 of them have been fixed.

This is a personal issue with me, because I lost some face with the owner. I had pushed for OO instead of MSO 2007/2010, but after a partial migration, it was clear OO was not up to the task.
Cartesian dualism (aka substance dualism, the idea that mind and body are distinct objects) isn't particularly popular in mainstream philosophy. Property dualism on the other hand (the idea that eg., mental states and physical states can't be fully explained in terms of each other, but that people possess both) is quite popular.
>Do the people running this business know anything about actually washing clothes?

Funny, isn't it?

Look, I applaud anyone out there hustling for business. And in that sense, this is a very interesting small business idea. But I'm not sure how it needs (deserves? earns?) VC funding. It isn't terribly novel (there are 4 or 5 SF competitors listed in the article), there's no barrier to entry and I don't fully understand how $25 can cover all courier/labour costs without it using minimum wage labour.

Yet, somehow people are making the leap that the path leads from from here to replacing all home washers and driers with large, centralized, industrial laundromats, with hybrid electric logistics, all run by solar power? Interesting.

I think this is a tough thing to scale. But I've been wrong before.
100% agree with you, always weight damage it may cause.

In the case I mentioned, this was a well known bad actor in the auto circles known for ripping first time buyers off with shady tactics and misrepresenting facts.
Let's see which way the wind is blowing .... hmmm... I sense an opportunity for profit!

I think that I will create a business to develop technology that lets us block undesirable thoughts. We will use an EEG cap as the sensor, some machine learning to detect undesirable thoughts, then a bone-conduction speaker to play distracting and disorienting sounds whenever our detector is triggered.

Perfect.

Do you think I could get some government funding for this?
A day without X
Has anyone ever increased the rate on their existing client by 30%+ before? How did it go?

Currently in a situation where a contract was offered to be extended again, but my roles have creeped way outside of coding/documentation into screencasts (which reqd purchasing a better machine + Adobe CS), engineering support, and sales trips in the future.
The GP did not say we're living in a dictatorship right now, merely that such a possibility in the future should not be dismissed out of hand.

Oh and by the way, you are familiar with the fact that the American government has murdered its own citizens, and that a hundred of them have been detained (and I suppose it's safe to assume, tortured) in Guantanamo? Yes, I know they are most likely not random innocent people.
No, the business is bootstrapped.

Bootstrapping is not a crime.

So you just work out of coffee shops and stuff?

Dumping the office or co-working space saves at least a few thousand dollars per year in rent, and potentially transportation costs and commuting time as well.

He's not funded or seeking funding, he doesn't go to the networking events and hasn't been through an accelerator.

I don't care for these things either. They tend to be time sucks and overly focused on investors.

Look, I am skeptical of those Tim Ferris apostles whose "passive income" businesses are based on spammy blogs, apps, and affiliate sites. But don't sleight startup businesses because their methods of operation don't fit your definition of a startup.
Indeed, and this is why we ended up choosing KM over MP. With KM you just "identify" a visitor whenever you want and if there's already another anonymous cookie, it'll tie together all events retroactively. We couldn't find an easy way to do this with MP when we looked at it.
A voluntary filter is not tyranny and it's fucking disgusting to compare optional filtering of semi-random webcontent with governments who murder and torture their citizens.

You are the one that made the equivalence, not the person to which you replied. Nice straw man.

This UK porn filter is a step on a path. Yes, that current position is not tyranny, but it's a step on the path to it. Frogs can't be dropped into boiling water, but you can turn up the heat a little bit at a time until they boil. That's what's happening in the US and UK right now. The end result will be tyranny, and it will end with murder and torture of citizens.

Btw, in the US, we've already started murdering our citizens[1].

1. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/obama-assassin...

EDIT: remove "Boiled" before frogs to clarify my intent. Thanks coldcode.
Thanks for that. In over 20 years I've never worked that one out :)
Yep, without the denominator of how many people were using a specific mode, you can't really determine some kind of safety ratio.

In some ways, the map functions as that denominator. That's still pretty interesting. Also, it's pretty clear looking at the correlation between injuries and auto occupants how much more dangerous it is to get in a car than on your feet. :)
I wouldn't really say that at all. His largest presentation was at Black Hat and he hasn't done anything nearly as publicized since. The pacemaker presentation would have been his first presentation of note in quite a while.

I'm not saying there's a conspiracy here, I'm just not saying there's necessarily not one.
I don't know but here's what he father had to say: http://www.infowars.com/snowdens-father-describes-son-as-a-m...
If you have a problem with what your children are exposed to lock them in a box, not the internet.
Engineer vs. Hacker Quandary
I don't know, I tested both ways myself and the headers were the same both times. To clarify, my account is an apps account, there's no plain-gmail account in my setup. I only have one account, the other domain is just an alias to it (so my SMTP settings of the account just pointed to itself).
I don't read French but Intel's current official compiler documentation..

http://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/docli...

..suggests nothing has changed. Search for "non-Intel".

Maybe ICC generates code which beats GCC even when run on an AMD chip in one particular benchmark but that doesn't mean it generates better code in general.

Personally I will never trust the Intel compiler, because it's part of their business strategy to generate bad code for AMD processors.

Even if the claim in the original post about being "generally 15-20% faster" were true for Intel chips, it wouldn't be 15-20% faster on AMD or Intel's documentation - which clearly states the compiler generates inferior code for non-Intel chips - is wrong.
This is the "minimum" of "minimum viable product." A lot of startups like this are started/validated by the founders and their friends doing the equivalent of picking up peoples' laundry, driving it to the laundromat in their hatchbacks, tweeting about the service while the clothes spin, returning the clothes with a smile, and hoping the customers tell their friends!
>Right, because these founders have clearly spent less time thinking about operational costs and margins than the 5 minutes you've had to think about it.

I think the SV deadpool is rife with founders who spent too little time thinking about operational costs and margins.

Just sayin'.
After reading rlvesco7's comment, I immediately deleted my Mint account. It always made me uncomfortable to have all my financial data sitting in the cloud. I stopped actively using it a few months ago.

An open source service sounds interesting, but I don't think I'll ever be willing to post all my financial data to a web service again. It would be great to have a locally installed application that could keep track of all those accounts. Having some algorithms run to help me save would be great, but it would take some demonstrated assurances to get me to provide even anonymous data for the machine learning process.
OK, that is the confusing thing. I thought you were making your personal gmail account send through your apps account (since it owns the domain). I guess it was unclear because when you said 'Gmail' I thought you meant gmail.com gmail, not apps mail.
Indiegogo brings Tokoloshe to life in South Africa
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* Our Boredom, Ourselves (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Schuessler-t....)

* In a Constantly Plugged-In World, It’s Not All Bad to Be Bored (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/your-money/why-its-not-all...)

:)
The Social Sharing Golden Rule: "And What Excites You About That?"
Thanks for the perspective. Sounds pretty familiar. Aside from missing math syntax, Python by itself/packaged can be great -- until it's slow, which leads to the real problem for me, that compiling mixed Python/C[++] and dependent libraries is just absolutely horrendous on Windows. Unfortunately, Windows is where my users are.
Yep, jails, containers, solaris zones all the way back to IBM mainframes have been similar core technologies. Docker it self isn't containerization, Docker builds on Linux containers but adds a layer to dramatically simplify the build, distribution and execution of containers and that's what makes it game changing.

docker run gtihub.com/some/project

That command will clone, build and execute a container based on the contents of a repository by simply dropping a Dockerfile in the root of the project. That's a fundamentally different level of usage beyond any existing container technology.
I work at one, we're in DUMBO. My email is in my profile, and yes we're hiring ;)
So maybe I did. Better go back for some more coffee I guess.
i entered last year, for the first time, as a solo entry, and it was way less fun than i expected. i think i didn't pace myself well, and i took it too seriously, stressed out over things, and was exhausted before the end.

this was the first "competitive" programming i had done (i've been a software engineer for years, but never entered competitions). i was wondering if the above is normal for a first time, and whether it gets easier (and more fun) as you get more experience. anyone got any advice? thanks.
The conversation has been known to continue:

SG: "You should join our company as chief growth hacker, since it's a great fit for your skills and experience. You'll work 100 hour weeks. We're thinking $60k a year and 0.5% sounds fair. Come change the way the people $VERB."

PIH: "Where do you get to the part of the sales pitch where I get something out of this deal?"

SG: "Did we mention the free soda?"

(I'm joking... but not by much.)
I can almost guarantee that the 11-month max is Amazon's policy response to the Microsoft permatemps lawsuit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp - scroll down to the Vizcaino v. Microsoft section.
Nice. This is my kippt bookmark list for Go: https://kippt.com/adnaan/go.
Hmm yeah, it is confusing. I will clarify, thanks.
Goldman Sachs Interview Question
Distributed Actors in Java and Clojure
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Do you know these useful MS Excel templates that you can find throughout the interwebs? Calculate the needs of a BBQ for X people; lifetime savings calculator; freelancer budget calculator, etc. (for some examples: http://www.spreadsheetzone.com/category.aspx?c=159)

Find one that is useful for you and transform it on a cloud-based software. A spreadsheet as a service, if you will.
I qualify. I'm a stay-at-home dad and don't work much during the day. A few customer support emails or a tweak here and there. Lately I've been working hard nights and weekends on a new project to scale things up a bit, but it's not related to maintaining my current income.

There are a lot of us out there. Speaking for myself, I can say I don't talk much about it to other people and pretty much never around startup entrepreneurs. The article sums up the feeling I get on the receiving end...
I think it's larger than you think. I don't hang out with many developers and I know a guy who fits this mold. That's 1 out of the maybe 500-1000 acquaintances I have who are generally of above average intelligence/education.
Funny Out of Office Messages
Tom Clancy's Threat Vector comes to mind....
Show HN: Write apps with car data using our device API
My porn-blocking blog post got porn-blocked
I don't fit in those buckets. I have no external funding and no desire for it. I'm not in it to change the world or for a big exit - I'm in it for freedom.

Freedom to steer the business in the direction I feel is right. Freedom to work on what I choose is important.

The one advantage of this approach is that my primary focus is the needs of my customers, rather than the needs of my investors.
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What would have happened if it was Osama Bin Laden in Moscow airport.
73 percent of Ouya owners haven’t paid for a single game
Yep, it would seem that KISSMetrics has a better implementation where aliasing can be called several times (as stated here: http://support.kissmetrics.com/apis/common-methods.html).

The fact that it links accounts retro-actively though can be dangerous, in the scenario of publicly-accessed devices. I'll have to admit though, this is not the common case.

I guess my personal gripe with what MP and KM are doing boils down to: if you can't infer stuff about who is visiting my website, be honest about it and don't.
Pop neuroscience is bunk
Travel doesn't really change things. The issue is sovereignty; relations between nations remain stuck in a place very close to the Hobbesian state of nature. Insofar as this is a problem to solve, the solution is popularly accountable governments with broader geographic scope than existing nation-states.

Note, however, that, there's not much movement in this direction (EU expansion is pretty much it) anywhere in the world, and some movement in the other direction.
The state nanny approach to internet censorship.
Connecting: type ssh and the hostname. Disconnecting: type exit or ctrl-d or whatever on the remote end. That's enough for many people.

For a group of people as large as HN, there are bound to be many people who are experts in one thing, and marginal with others, so articles like this are likely to appeal to them, and be useful.
the problem with Tor is that it's slooooooooooow.
When I first learned Java in school, I cranked out a couple of Android apps. I coded one in 30 minutes. It currently has 24k active installs with a total of 125k people trying it out. Free. Horrible programming. No unit tests led to a scenario where setting the alarm at midnight resulted in the wrong calculation. People love the simplicity of it. People hate the simplicity of it.

It has the potential to make $5-17/day. I'm guessing if I corrected/updated the code, it would jump in rank. If I could generate 13-15 apps that fit into this type of niche, I would easily reach $5k/month with lazy/horrible coding. If I just sat there for one-two full month(s) churning out one app a day, I would probably be able to reach that goal.
If the workers are being classified as contractors, then it's important to have an arbitrary cut-off that limits how long they can work at your company. Otherwise some people can get kept on as contractors indefinitely, when they should have been re-coded as full-time employees.

Of course, this isn't a limit on length of employment, just a limit on the length of someone's employment as a contractor. Plenty of companies use more of a "contract to hire" approach, and make a decision whether or not to convert employees to full time at the end of the contract.
The Mask You Live In
You may be young, but in your final sentence you speak great wisdom.
Haskell for Web Developers
I think you may have missed the subtext of the article.
> Does Passive Income Hacker actually exist?

I think patio11 is the "poster child" of this:

> Profits: $38,598 (up 66% from $23,230)
>
> Wage per Hour: Approximately $1,000, given that I worked
> for approximately 15 hours integrating the new design and
> spend approximately 20 minutes a week doing support.

(Source: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-o...)

The reality is that it's a little more than "20 minutes a week" if you tally up all of the labor over the lifetime of the product, but then again, most people don't include how much they've worked in the past when they're asked: "How much time do you spend working each week?"
To many researchers are turning up dead lately.
People like us do stuff like this
I thought that was half of the point of the piece.
It's interesting to see that the old reader class had a method 'readShortLE' that read an unsigned LE short and returned it as a signed integer; the 'readShort' being called in the new buggy code reads a signed short and returns it as a signed integer. Unfortunate misuse of naming (in the first case, naturally). I certainly would not have guessed the difference were I just reading the code.

It's unfortunate that this breakage all started because the original (correct, it seems?) code was too slow due to method call overhead. If people hadn't felt the need to optimize, this bug probably wouldn't be there - but I guess the Dalvik VM can't inline in that scenario, or something.
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1138/

In Seattle a few intersections have been singled out as the most dangerous for cyclists because of the number of collisions involving cyclists there. Considering they are also the highest-traffic intersections for bicycles, it doesn't actually say anything about how dangerous they are per cyclist-trip.

Crashmapper is useless without knowing how many vehicles pass each intersection per day.
i used to use it all the time on dialup connections. these days it's largely just a pain in the ass.
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Fabulous Friday: It's Infographics Once Again
Isn't it sad that since the NSA revelations it's very easy to speculate? It doesn't take much to stretch the imagination any longer.
If the ability to use ssh stands between horny teenage boys and lots of pictures of naked ladies, the boys will be profficient in ssh in no time.
5 years experience is very different than 1 year of experience repeated 5 times.

Many positions aren't designed for growth, and you really need to ask your self if you have been growing professionally when in that position. You risk losing whatever edge you once had.

IMO having side projects (with some sort of attached business goal) / and some contracting is a great option if you aren't ready to leave a job that is going nowhere.
D&D's Return: From Dungeon Master to Webmaster
The folks at Android Police posted about it weeks ago:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/11/second-all-access-ap...

It also was already patched. Good write up though.
There was a debate in Finland when the child porn filter was introduced a few years back. One guy had a website where he kept database of sites which were blocked but did not contain any child porn. Aftermath was that the site was added to list and that raised even more questions about the whole censorship idea. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsiporno.info)

Unlike in Britain, the consumers did not have an option to opt out from the filter although it seems that majority of ISPs don't use it. Later on ISPs were forced to block piratebay.org and there have been discussions about blocking online poker sites etc, because Veikkaus enjoys monopoly in gambling and betting business in Finland.
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I don't agree with that. The value of bringing the personal computer to the masses is way higher than saving the lives of the bottom 1 billion.
Nitpick: Cartesian philosophy might be obscure, but I don't think it's a failed theory in the sense that, say, the phlogiston theory of combustion is a failed theory.

Even if it was ultimately discarded by philosophers, it allowed the modern field of epistemology to develop (which wouldn't have really been possible previously), and (arguably) contributed to the development of physics by excluding our mental vocabulary (thoughts, experiences, beliefs, etc.) from the study of the physical world. At the expense of our ability to understand said mental vocabulary perhaps, but an improvement on what had been thought previously.

I'd compare it to how a particular module in a program might be important for some time, since it provides some basic functionality that is required in order to develop the rest of the program, but that after some time is no longer needed and refactored out in favour of something more sophisticated.
Here you go:

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-...

He also wrote this:

http://www.coderslexicon.com/downloads/the-programmers-idea-...
That's kind of an odd comparison, using unfused C code compared to fused Haskell code. Their point seems to focus on stream fusion's advantages and possibly that optimizing C takes more effort.

To quote the paper: "Clearly “properly”-written C++ can outperform Haskell. The challenge is in ﬁguring out what “proper” means."
Well, the simplest way is to toss a website up with some affiliate links. Eventually you'll get a few hits, at least. Technically, then, you will have earned some passive income, albeit not a lot.

To make it big, though, relies mainly on luck and the skill to recognize when luck has provided an opportunity. For example, a lot of these people with passive "affiliate" income are essentially very lucky that they recognized the niche and were in a position to be able to exploit it better than (or at least as good as) anybody else who tried--it's not common, or even 'infrequent'; I'd say it's rare at best.

Or you can do what "everybody" else does: have a job (freelance or otherwise) and, eventually, exploit your connections and network into a product (like PIH's SaaS product) that produces passive income. This, of course, takes years unless as in the above you are very lucky. Even then you have to have some good fortune to maintain steady employment, not be hit with any of a number of life's possible mishaps, etc.

Personally, I think passive income from, e.g. dividend paying equities in the Gambler's Emporium known as the stock market are more likely to provide regular passive income than hoping that working toward some hit affiliate stream or niche software market will payoff without luck.
There is a good blog devoted to passive income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/

They also have a podcast, which I have listened to. It's not bad at all.
First, he would have been released from detention earlier if the Supreme Court hadn't dismissed his first case for an error in his habeas petition.

Second, Bush was not "judge, jury, and executioner." Bush persued a policy on his interpretation of the law. The Supreme Court smacked him down. He backed off that policy. Padilla got a civil trial. It took time because litigation is slow and always has been. But that's an example of the system working, not an example of it descending into dictatorship.
To be fair to your mates, a lot of places that claim to do 'Agile' do a shit job at it. It turns into a cargo cult where they wrap their bad practices in Agile lingo to make them sound good. I've seen that happen a lot at various companies.

If that's the only 'Agile' you've been exposed to, then it's perfectly reasonable to think 'oh man that agile thing is such shit'.
Given Nuance's past behavior, I fear Apple may be facing a another lawsuit very soon.
The first rule of being a passive hacker is... ;) That being said, they are all over. I find too many and I can't act upon them all. I've always had an interest in business models and successful companies/people in "non-sexy" (to most of the HN crowd) areas.

Sometimes it seems that everyone is all wrapped up in solving first-world 20-to-30 age bracket problems (social, picture filtering, SaaS for other 20 to 30 year olds, etc). Nothing wrong with that, but there is so much more out there. IMO, it is way more interesting and has much more impact on peoples lives.
100 days of my bootstrapped app. Built from scratch, made it to TechCrunch.