skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does your one-person operation let you pay the bills or do you do it on the side?

I sometimes see small shops here on the streets of Lisbon and they seem like specialty shops where (I imagine) old men who have perfected their craft sell their wares and services. When I pass them I think to myself that the world would be way better if everyone sought to be a master of their craft, if they just focused on one thing and on doing it well...like Jiro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-aGPniFvS0).
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From Idea to 10 Paying Customers in Less Than a Week
Thanks for the suggestions, i'll implement them.
Can you elaborate on how exactly the use of the word "increasing" is some smoking gun for unrecognized entitlement? If I'm understanding your point it seems absolutely ridiculous. Obviously "increasing economic mobility" includes conceptually providing mobility to those who currently have no mobility at all.
I think we need to take a step back and get to the part where it makes sense to use these tactics against drug users.
> Errors per LOC is allegedly constant, across all languages.

This implies that more expressive languages(more expressions per line) are less prone to errors.

You conclusion would be correct if he had stated that error per expression was constant between languages.
Thanks, $5 one purchased!
I did a search for bobx... It brought up some... Interesting... Results!
you'll be the judge of that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIKaushS72k
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It will make a lot more difference to those who are wealthy as well. But not in a good way.

USA Inc. with every citizen as shareholder would work like this: I earn $100K/y, my neighbour just $0/y. I pay $20K in taxes, he pays none. We both get $12K/y from BIG. For me it's a dividend. For my neighbour it's free money. So what's my incentive to work? Screw this, I quit. Now, USA Inc. get's $0/y from both of us. For 4 months we still get the cash, from the surplus. But that runs out, and now we both get $0 and are jobless.

BIG will only work if there are more people who work than those who don't work. Making things easier for people never actually helped them. Those who succeeded had to go through hard work.
Beyond 3 or 4 fake users, I think you'll soon realise how difficult it can be to be a) motivated, and b) original.
Very nice idea. Anyone know of an equivalent for fake e-commerce product data?
Surely if someone asks for a citation then they need to provide at a minimum some countering anecdotes. Otherwise their "[citation needed]" is even weaker than my anecdote-supported assertion... And if they're going to present countering evidence, why not just do so without the superfluous "[citation needed]"?
"If you're not paying for it, you're the product."

I have to say that I disagree with this meme in general. Google does not sell me (yet, at least) to its advertisers. It sells screen real estate and placed links. Sure, the links are very targeted, and more specific than much (probably not all) advertising that preceded it.

I know that this meme is trying to make a general point, i.e. "there's a hidden cost to using this service", but I think it's overly-general and unnecessarily negative. Many people enjoy newspapers and TV that rely primarily on advertising for their revenue. I actually find Google's sponsored links on their search results to be very helpful on occasion, and at other times I find advertising a problem. Why the tendency to be so dismissive and over-simplify?

I also think that this meme is part of a general trend of finding pithy ways to sound smart without acknowledging that most issues, such as the way web services should be funded, are actually quite complicated.
>>>"Surveys show that 35% of consumers aren’t interested in wearable computers at all and another 35% think that Glass is a useless device. Sad numbers.""

I wonder what the surveys said about mobile phones in the mid 1990s. Probably similar - I remember thinking that I wouldn't need a mobile phone back then.
Not at all, not static. I'm just saying you cannot give people free money and not take that money from somewhere else. FED has been doing this, the quantitative easing, for some time now, but it's not feasible in the long run. Wealth is created, not given.
The problem is, that so many projects for so many things exists. It is hard to find the matching project, thats why many people invent the wheele again.
Earlier events, if they actually occurred, were very small-scale; They killed a handful of people, and were very difficult to confirm - with blood tests eventually being held up as a smoking gun that chemical weapons were used at all.

What happened on August 21 is an entirely different matter: it involved a large-scale rocket barrage on a dozen locations in discontinuous rebel-held neighborhoods which gassed entire city blocks; the gas persisted long enough afterwards to kill people such as journalists who responded to the reports. Hundreds of Youtube videos of the fairly characteristic aftermath exist, with the bodycount presently at about 1500. The areas gassed were threateningly close to the core of Damascus. This much cannot be reasonably contested.

The US government reports that it was listening in on the phone calls from one military commander to another and heard comments indicating regime involvement. They are also claiming to have identified using aerial imagery the area the rockets were fired from, the preparation three days before, and the actual firing of the rockets:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nearly...
The first job I would automate would be the job of Tech CEO.
Rich People Behaving Rich
Submit a patch. Show them how it could be better.
My favorite is the 'most politicians or CEOs are sociopaths'

I think the psychology of sociopath is complicated enough without the need to assume one who made it to the top is a sociopath.
Well, he also identified something HN users are willing to spend $5 on it seems.
I thought about starting-up a company about stuff I like to do in my freetime, like creating video-games. But when I look at the game industry I get the fear that it's a bad idea.
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What is The Spreadsheet Problem?
Why do you think it seems optimal for their use case?

A quick glance over LevelDB's features gives me the impression that its bulk-write performance would not be sufficient.
I never found out if Yegge was talking about Jeff Dean here, or maybe Urs Holze:

At first it's entirely non-obvious who's responsible for Google's culture of engineering discipline: the design docs, audited code reviews, early design reviews, readability reviews, resisting introduction of new languages, unit testing and code coverage, profiling and performance testing, etc. You know. The whole gamut of processes and tools that quality engineering organizations use to ensure that code is open, readable, documented, and generally non-shoddy work.

But if you keep an eye on the emails that go out to Google's engineering staff, over time a pattern emerges: there's one superheroic dude who's keeping us all in line.

And why couldn't it be that way? Those people exist when companies start, you probably met a couple of them.
One of the arguments of the rebels is that they never had access to such weapons, which is absolutely false. In other news in May 30th Al-Qaeda's Jabhat Al-Nusra members were arrested in Turkey possessing Sarin Gas. Which, oh coincidence, is the same gas used in latest attack.

Also logic dictates it's very unlikely that the Syrian government, which is winning the war, will launch Sarin Gas in a Damascus neighbourhood (which is the capital, and thus where Al-Assad and this relatives live), leaving the US and its allies with an excuse to strike. Also Washington didn't want UN inspectors to stay longer to investigate, and it's doing everything possible to strike before UN inspectors can reach any conclusion. Without talking about Kerry proclaming US government has "proofs" but unwilling to show these proofs to anyone... Sorry, this is a "déjà vu".

Besides, witnesses and a AP reporter say it was the rebels who performed the attack.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-sau...
Thanks for the feedback!

To be honest, that discovery was accidental, my main discovery has been that a huge amount of freelancers are having problems with Market Positioning.

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Hope you enjoy it and benefit greatly. I'm messaging everyone personally within UDEMY anyhow, so you'll get a message from me, but if you need any help throughout the course, let me know.
> corporate cronyism

I would think corporate cronyism is what liberalism tries to solve, by regulating it with law. It's hard for me to see how a Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, or McDonalds would come close to being regulated without any federal government. Given, it's far from being effectively taken care of right now, but I can't help but think removing any kind of regulation around large corporations would be good for society.
The first episode of the 2nd season of Black Mirror explores some of these ideas. I highly recommend it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes#S...
Extreme isolation 3: coding a CRUD app (with full example)
Part of the problem here is that any open [web] community will eventually contain more people who've joined after you than people who joined before you. Consequently, stuff you learned long ago is still new and interesting to the majority of the population.

I had a interesting discussion with @ColinWright a few months back about how you might design a forum based separate cohorts for each time period in which people joined, and on scoring each post separately within each cohort - if I had a few months to spare I would love to try building & launching that. Sadly, I don't.
Let me explain: in a communist country, people had various jobs. Each job had a different salary. But everyone had a job, everybody had income. So, if you asked anyone "Do you earn at least $100?" - all would say "Yes". But some could earn more if they were in better jobs. Obviously that meant you didn't actually have to work to receive salary - that's why productivity sucked. Not so different now, huh?
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Offer three days ago for people to improve their accent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6304783

(I'm not affiliated.)
Looking at the examples, I cannot see why a Glass would be useful for me. I remember ingredients for something I want to cook. I can remember where I parked my car. I have a paper map for driving directions to unfamiliar places.

However, a Glass would be great when traveling/visiting a land which language I don't speak, for example Japan. The Glass could automatically translate signs for me and make me feel less 'lost'.
> show me a Libertarian, and I'll show you someone with a sheltered upbringing

For what it is worth...

When I read that, I had a flashback to the first man I ever met who identified himself to me as a libertarian. I was probably about 13 years old and I didn't even know what a libertarian was. He was a middle-aged black man of average means who, I think, was born in Indiana and had ended up living in Pahoa, Hawaii (one of the cheaper places to live in the state).

Ironically, his name was Obama Buckner (Obama was his first name, unlike the president). I googled him when the president won the election but he had died a couple of years prior. I wish I had thought to reconnect with him sooner because he was a big part of the local BBS scene, and made a major difference in my young life. I would really like to have talked to him now as an adult with more perspective on libertarianism so that I could understand what path led him to his beliefs.
Not admittedly for corporate welfare, but their priority is stopping the pennies going to wheelchairs first and then maybe look at corporate subsidies.
I'm not sure about the optimal use-case match. Sparkey is for "mostly static" datasets where on disk structures are generated by a batch process and pushed to servers providing read only access to the data to consumers.

leveldb on the other hand, supports concurrent writes and provides features to handle data consistency and cheap gradual reindexing.
That if Israel isn't backing the rebels. Israel doesn't like Syrian government -basically because it's one of the few Arab states that has a logical stance against Israel dominance in the region-, and hopefully a new government will be more "puppety" to their interests. Also Syrian government is pretty secular, which also bothers most Arab nations. Most US arab allies would prefer a more "islamic" government, probably this suits Israel as well so they have more justification in their "preventive" attacks (like they do in Lebanon with the Hezbola excuse).
Ok. But reread the original comment that brought up the matter of a trivial proof.
"Both of his products, while seemingly very different, actually serve much of the same audience."

Exactly. That line is very important. In reality, he had an idea for a product and an existing market he had direct access to. That "less than a week" bit should really include the time it took to build the audience in the first place, which is probably a lot more than a week. A somewhat disingenuous claim.
That raikoth link is really good, but isn't this a case of "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"? I mean the raikoth article is just a big list of lies that libertarians believe, some subtle and complicated, some just plain stupid. How did they get so convinced without investigating these things? I welcome stigmatizing such fervent belief in comforting (to the believer at least) lies as childish.

And I say this as someone, like the author of your link, who sees great value in some of the free market ideas.
Broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4, and quite pertinent:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039c5cs
On the example, it displays the gender as male and the title as 'mrs' - Is this a typo or an actual response?
Lot of people with lot of free time and $5 entra bucks.

I really dislike this kind of posts on HN.
>>Errors per LOC is allegedly constant
> then a more verbose style will have a higher error rate.

I think that's what he means.
Why? What is there to dislike?
We used to have a "simple" makefile, but once we started to support multiple development environments (OSX, various Linux flavors) it got more and more complex. Autotools actually brings a lot of functionality as part of the package and is what people expect. I'm no fan, but it works for our use case.
They wrote a database to solve an operational need. From experience I can tell you that's an endeavour you should strife to spend as little time on as possible.

I think it's a miracle they produced something they feel comfortable sharing with the world. If you write a database in house, and the tool chain and the argument processing are the only things done haphazardly, then hats off to you :)
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Your English has improved tremendously since I've known you.

You only need to launch another successful project which will in time develop a strong international community like redis, then you'll speak and write English like a native. :)
The question is: if you're going to work with MUMPS, what are your chances of getting to write new MUMPS code rather than maintaining legacy code? And even if you write new code, how much of it is going to have to interface with legacy code.

I'm pretty sure the answers are "really slim" and "all of it".
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If you become the market leader then you make bigger bucks.
It's not that all political systems are doomed not to work. They will work, just for various durations until they are replaced by another system that solves the problems that the previous one couldn't, which then itself has it's expiry date.
Dale Carnegie in his book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) says exactly the same:
"Fundamental Techniques in Handling People 3-Arouse in the other person an eager want."
Maybe it is also a reaction to what is often remarked upon as the falling signal to noise ratio: if everyone may expect to be skewered, then fewer will be encouraged to post.
I've used all flavors of Linux (from Gentoo, when there was no installer and I had to use dd, to Ubuntu). I still love Linux, but I don't use it anymore as my main system. I have 2 problems with it:

(1) I want the computer to work for me, not the other way. I used to like to hack everything on my computer, but after years and years of doing that, I've lost my patience. I want things to just work and not break after every damn update. I want to be able to do my real job and use the computer as just a tool.

(2) It looks ugly, the fonts are really bad, nobody cares about UX when designing apps, etc. You can say that I can change that, but as I've said: I want the damn thing to just work out of the box. I understand that maybe you don't care about that, but that's why it's me who's using a Mac. Don't get me wrong, it's nothing wrong in using Linux, it's just not for me anymore.

I'm still using the command line more than the GUI, though. But that is a choice. It combines the best parts of both worlds.
That "Signing public keys to ensure their authenticity" is exactly what (any of the possibly as many as 600) public CA's that your browser and/or OS come pre-configured to "trust".

Who the hell are "Xramp Global CA"? "VRK Gov Root CA"? "UCA Root"? "Trusted Certificate Services"? They're all just random selections from the first page of trusted root certs in this OS X machine's list of System Root keys. Any of them could choose to "authenticate" a public key that claims to be my bank. Apart from the few pinned certificates in Chrome (I think mostly Google certs), I've got no more reason to believe any SSL connection I make is "authenticated" any more than Iranian Gmail users should have had when a DigiNotar root CA cert had signed those rouge Google SSL certs.
It's not the contracting that was bad it was the kind of contracts you were getting. Did you pay off your mortgage and set aside some money for your kids?
False Medium
> but not possible to not pay for something and not be a part of the product.

I'll reuse a newspaper example fo simplicity. An ad company might pay to reach some portion of the audience (for instance the female worker segment between 18 and 30). But you don't control who will actually accesses the paper, and the 5 years old boy using it to craft paper boats is not in the target and just happens to use the product.

A company doesn't have to monetize 100% of their user base, and it might not want to for any reason. There is no binding forcing a user of something to be on some side of a product/not product fence. It can be neither, ot can be both.
>A better algotithm calculating the karma as an average over all your comments maybe could help

The metric I would most like to know is how many votes my comments got divided by the total number of words in my comments.
You're right of course, however we need to make a distinction here.

First of all there's the issue of how strong is an encryption algorithm. For example RSA is based on the problem of factoring large numbers, a problem that's generally considered to be hard as we know of no efficient algorithm for solving it. But we haven't proved that factoring large numbers will remain a hard to solve problem in the future. The NSA could very well have custom hardware for efficiently factoring 1024-bit primes by now and the upcoming quantum computing is a real threat. If they haven't done it by now, 1024-bit keys will become breakable in the future, however 2048-bit keys are another issue entirely and 4096-bit keys will probably stay unbreakable.

But, even if breakthroughs in solving the integer factorization problem will be made in the future, as long as P != NP then perfect encryption is possible. In fact, we already know of encryption schemes that are provably unbreakable even with unlimited hardware at disposal, the problem being that they are also hard to implement, so we ended up with making tradeoffs.

Second, it's far easier to attack a particular implementation, to bypass the encryption algorithm entirely, e.g. attacks against the key generation system, side-channels, the protocol of the software system we are talking about, etc ... because software always has bugs, as in zero-day exploits that one could make use of.

For this reason - if indeed the military is using different encryption algorithms for different security levels, algorithms that aren't used in the wild, then to me that's a pretty bad idea, as far more often than not it's the implementation that's broken, not the algorithm. And in case of inside leaks, the implementation is always easier to get a hold of, compared to the key.
"now you have to improve your accent, then you have to look certain way."

Culture is a likely intermediate step. I'm not into watching other people play sports, or top40 music, or drinking beer as a hobby, or watching TV for 8 hours per day, or going to church, and that occasionally makes it difficult to relate to people who have their entire life revolve around those topics (aka stereotypical Americans).

I speak perfect midwestern "newscaster" English (Guess where I live? We all sound like that around here, so its no competitive advantage.) However it is still hard to relate in small talk. True stories : "What did you do Sunday, we went to church, went shopping and bought the latest Miley Cyrus cd do you have it yet? Then I got drunk sitting on the couch watching football all afternoon for nine hours and three six packs, still kinda hung over this morning". "Um, well I went for a 4 mile hike around sunrise before it got warm, then hacked around on my computer for most of the day, spent some quality time in the workshop soldering together a little micro controller project with my son, went outside and watched a really cool thunderstorm around dinner time, then watched some youtube video series about dwarf fortress and laughed at the host's antics (LOL he made a hole in the floor next to his well into the ceiling of a lower level, then managed to flood his well, then tried to wall up the flooding corridor with the hole still in the floor, then as usual the dwarf built the wall trapping himself on the flooding side LOL F-ing dwarfs), then the host panicked.) This is usually followed by crickets on both sides as we consider each other's lifestyles insanely boring and a total waste of time. I find it best to size someone up and if they look like a boring bubba type then simply avoid all small talk about culture, but sales/CEO/manager types cannot.

When conversations like this happen to me, its merely funny, but when a CEO tries to talk to a business partner this has serious financial costs. The problem with a Korean dude wanting to spend the first 15 minutes of the sales meeting talking about his epic starcraft battle last night is not just the accent.