skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you have something good, the chances you'll be successful without marketing are way worse than the chances you'll be successful as a startup in general (which already suck).
As mentioned in the initial comment, this isn't an option for me.
In my high school you had to do a senior English thesis by reading three books of one author and then writing a thesis tying together the themes and characters.

I chose Tom Clancy. My English teacher said I was crazy and "would never find anything in those books writing about".

Somehow I pulled it off and got an A on that project.

So basically, I got to read Clancy books for school. :)
I did rather assume that but consider this a retraction of my assumption.
I find it disheartening that every technology that takes us in the right direction, but which is not yet cost effective, is constantly pissed on by people who expect immediate solutions and who fail to see that these things are not going to develop themselves.

Sure, it is a tax dodge for rich middle class people, but if people could just keep their envy in check for the decade or two it is going to take to bring costs down and sustainability up, this is going to benefit a lot of people.

How else are we going to incentivise companies to develop better solar panels? Seriously, I really want to know.

We are seeing the same thing with the Tesla Model S in Norway right now. On one hand people dismiss electric cars because they are not yet as sustainable as we would like them to be. On the other hand they get their panties in a bunch because you can now buy a really good car (with amazing performance) at the same price as a regular car. In Norway the Model S costs ~550k NOK. A petrol-powered car with the same performance figures costs ~1,500k NOK -- nearly 1,000k NOK being taxes. (Interestingly, the Model S is the first electric car that many people would consider buying as their only car. So far, electric cars have been toys for people who can afford a second or third car, and who want to park for free and use the public transport lanes).

It is going to take a lot of development to make solar panels sustainable. The more of a market we can create for them, the quicker development will take place and the quicker they will become available to broader segments of consumers. And we'll just have to tolerate that to push the industry forward, we will have to dangle some incentives in front of those who are able to take part.
I would guess there is likely no increase in house price, especially for current solar panels. If I live in the house for the next 10+ years, it's questionable what value a 10-15 year old solar panel array will have, especially if the next owner will need to either change them out or remove them in 5-10 years
Possibly not the same one, but here Wolf Blitzer treats Clancy like a jerk. Clancy seems to handle it quite well. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/12/se.05.html
If you're sincerely interested in solar panels you should look into doing it yourself. It's not as complicated as many of the solar retailers want to make it out to be.

Step 1) Buy panels direct with mounts
Step 2) Mount the panels yourself. They aren't super heavy, just fragile. The tricky part here is measuring and drilling the holes you need to get them secured to your roof properly. Or buying a slanted frame if you have a flat roof.
Step 3) Hire a licensed electrician to wire them up.

That's pretty much it. Total cost for a 9kw system will run about 13-15k after the electrician. You'll get 30% (almost 4k) back in rebates bringing your total cost out somewhere around 10k. That's a 5-7 year payback for your average american home.

There are a number of online solar panel distributors that are reliable and have been in business for quite some time.
Tango down :O(
I also grew up reading both Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton and it greatly shaped the way I look at the world. It's sad to see them go and I've yet to find someone who writes in a style either of these men that can compare lately.
Any resources on best practices for a bastion host?
The _only_ reason muggers take wallets at gunpoint is so that they can make money. Not every way of making money is desirable for society. Why is this so complicated to understand?
Front End Developer

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Potential Other Titles: Javascript Developer, MVC Developer

About This Position
Want to make a killer platform for online games and promotions played by literally millions? Second Street is looking for a front-end developer that is passionate about their work and has a constant drive to make the user experience better and better.

This is a (contract and or full time position) which will work out of our Olive & 10th Office in Downtown St. Louis MO.

Our Technology Stack
- JavaScript speaks to our back-end via a RESTful JSON API
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- HTML Templating in Handlebars
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Primary Job Responsibilities
- Be a key team member of our User Experience team and a development scrum team
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Skills Required
- Extensive Javascript knowledge
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- MVC experience a big plus
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- Passion for design and user experience
- Likes to tackle problems in unconventional ways
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<<Paper is not clear on how their scripts work because they don't show exact scripts per output.>>
You can found more information about contracts and the flags used on Bitcoin Wiki.
Probably not much actually. Google tells me that California's population is about 38 million people. So, on average, you get less than $10 per person as a one-time "credit" (or however you'd call this). Even if only 1% of people needed coverage, they could get $1,000 worth of coverage which doesn't take you very far.

I'm not saying that that budget is reasonable or unreasonable, but that puts the amount in perspective a little bit.
A business sector has arisen to address this issue- companies will pay for and install the panels for free, allowing the household to consume the electricity for free, whilst the company will profit from the subsidy for the generation.

Of course, those with the capital themselves are going to do better still, but that is the very nature of capitalism, hardly unique to this issue.
"Screen time" (TV, tablets) has been demonstrated to be harmful to childhood development in children younger than 2. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends ZERO screen time for children younger than two (this includes background TV).

Some carefully planned educational programs like Sesame Street have shown to be beneficial in older children. Screen time should be minimized though, as it isn't a replacement for interaction.

Does do read the article, it teaches the parent to avoid commands like "put your shoes on" and instead substitute interactive talk like "we are getting ready to go out, what do you need to do to get ready?" That lets the child reply with "shoes" or "coat." It is about interacting with your child.
Thanks for the input, I have since modified this a bit to make the links more visible.
Our Own Little Accelerator
IKEA promotes itself as ethical and clean. Selling solar panels is part of this marketing buzz that IKEA has created. This submission is a direct result of IKEA marketing.

Some people may not want to buy from a company engaged in such vigorous tax avoidance.
I actually read the book before I saw the movie and it was great! I think partly it holds up because he wrote it before anyone was making any media out of his books.

All the other books clearly are written with (movie/video game) in the back of his mind, but that one was just straight prose.

Can't agree with you more, folks should definitely read it if they haven't. Then watch the movie again with a much greater appreciation for the story.
The problem with ghostwriters is as a wargamer (both cardboard and silicon) I always read his books as Very accurate realistic wargamer fanfic with lots of background material for those outside of the hobby. Oh and he tried to add a little color to his counters ... err I mean characters ... by making up little stories about this guy always wanted to visit the state of Montana after he defected or whatever.

A real "Tom Clancy" style book would be take an exciting game of, say, Steel Wolves or Hornet Commander and remove all the dice rolling and turn it into fan fiction by adding a little imagination to the characters and tons of background for people outside .mil and outside the wargaming hobby.

Unfortunately what we'll get is a ghostwriter who will probably steal the plot of an ancient WWII era submarine movie and make it Clancy-style by adding a dude who wants to defect to visit Montana and the main character would be named Ryan and the tech details and "wargaming" would be completely butchered into laugh ability by anyone actually in the .mil or into wargaming.
Exactly even if you live in the same house for 18+ years and have all the same stuff, experiences can differ quite dramatically in life.
At the end of the day after I built something with my hands or even dug a pit, I could sit back with a beer and truly let my mind go, content with what I'd done that day.

As a programmer/developer/architect, my mind is never really free from the work I'd done. I always think about how I need to refactor this or that and what is yet to be done tomorrow. Now I drink until I forget the day.
Making Sure Things Get Done: Are You Setting the Right Goals
I was wondering what the difference is between the hatred for the win 8 change compared to the change from win 3.x to 95 (nt 4)?

Was it just because not so many people used win 3.x and so ms could change it without so much moaning?

If metro was developed instead of the windows 95 start menu, would it have been hated as much??
Yes, I used some online calculators that predicted how much electricity I generated based on the size of the array, the amount of electricity I used, and how much I could make selling the electricity back, as well as rebates, etc. I can't remember the actual link for the calculator, but it was pretty thorough. Of course, there was a lot of guessing that needed to take place, like the rise in electricity prices, etc.

And as far as I remember, the ability to sell electricity back to the utility like PG&E isn't something that is guaranteed in the future. However, I could be wrong about this point.
> They have handled their Android line terribly, and I can't blame Google for not wanting to deal with them.

Exactly - I'm frustrated with Verizon, not Google.

The only reason I've stuck with them is because I'm grandfathered into unlimited 4G/LTE data. Even then, I'm still toying with the idea of switching to one of the GSM carriers - I can't decide if it's worth walking away from the unlimited data, though.
Sad. I really liked the earlier Ryan-verse books (I've not read anything by him after Bear and the Dragon).

My favourite remains Without Remorse. I miss a film adaption; Jim Caviezel would be perfect as Kelly.
I was going to buy a Nexus 4 as an Android device to play with, not as a primary phone. Since they sold out and I don’t feel like spending $350 on a phone I won’t use as a phone, I bought a refurbished $119 Nexus 7 first gen on EBay instead. I’d be happy with a lower spec phone that has a smaller screen running stock Android for around $250 but it appears no such thing exists.
I hear that - skim through Love's Linux Kernel Development and see what you think. It sounds like you're going for something much lighter, so maybe something along the lines of the "Little Book on Coffeescript?"
As stated in the case, most users don't know what the assistant is doing. So by your analogy the assistant is reading the mail without permission and then secretly using what they learn to make money for themselves.

In such a case, we would certainly blame the assistant.
Public EV charging stations now number about 64,000 worldwide
Calling it a subsidy seems weird to me. Every state I've lived in will pay you if you generate more electricity than you use. You are providing power back into the grid, of course you should be paid for it. That doesn't sound like government support to me.
Tips from Breaking Bad for Startups
really? all the ops people that I've worked with have been pretty enthusiastic about it, more so than a mysql instance with bugs in 5.5 that created huge performance issues with multi-table joins (i.e. http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/13817/mysql-5-5-stran...)
Looks like an interesting service for managing typical application content like mail templates. A free tier would be great to try it on a project. Does anybody know similar services or open source projects that are mainly a CMS with an API combined with a good end-user editor? Git based would be a plus.
Odd...I had a Samsung Focus which took better pictures.

Seeing some Nokia/iPhone pictures makes it look bad.
Everyone's tax money goes to a select few who screwed the state over (or.. went through their loopholes successfully, however you want to look at it). None of that sounds like a good stimulus to me.
> SQL parser is very finnicky

In what way is it finicky?
I am not familiar with the climate on the SF Bay area and don't know how effective the shade would be. It think this would be ideal for a house in Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, May be Southern California.
Our exchange works without third parties, anyway that's really interesting, we'll check it out, thanks :)
Ah the the unethical 80s.
I remember Stanford had post new rules of professorial entrepreneurship. Some were caught commercializing students' work and/or forcing students to delay publication of the their thesis work.
It wasnt all computers; some of the biochemists did the same thing with drug research.
Still hit and miss though. Bought a laptop that even had somewhat decent 3d acceleration, but would horribly lag on 2d terminal output.

Returned it and been using Intel and Nvidia exclusively now - no problems whatsoever.
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There seems to be a certain aspect of the night owl that is present in many programmers, I for one am far more productive in the late-afternoon and evening than I am in the morning. Setting a morning-to-evening schedule isn't going to work for a lot of us.
If he's doing serious work, then he's probably using OpenCL, and as far as I am aware, the Gallium drivers do not yet fully support OpenCL. When I checked earlier this year, they were getting close, but not yet usable. Has this changed?

Can I finally get rid of the proprietary ATI drivers and still run OpenCL reliably?
I took it as "That's a bummer" not "Your work is shit".
Domain seized too apparently
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306331.0
That makes two Clojure using startups acquired in one day.
I know how scripts work in general. I mean, it's strange that you display script outside the output. E.g. on page 7 you have two outputs and only one script.

Another remark: what does mean "description message is ciphered"? You mean signed? Because ECDSA does not do encryption (like RSA), only signatures.
Shoehorn Zurb Foundation into Weird Stuff #1 MiddleMan
My disclaimer is: I am NOT an AI researcher. I don't have the mathematical background yet.

As to Schmidhuber and Hutter, Google them. This is their book: http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Artificial-Intelligence-Algo...

If you can't understand the math in that book, then you are basically not going to do better at the Formal UAI field than the crackpots have done for decades. I mean no disrespect, but nobody has actually discovered an easier to understand theory of UAI that gets equivalently good results.

A book from 1986 is definitely obsolete, and definitely applies to Narrow AI rather than AGI. The General/Universal AI field in its modern form dates to roughly the early-mid 2000s (2003ish is when AIXI was published in the Journal of Machine Learning and they got their own conference in 2005... which was kinda crackpotish).

On the other hand, to be encouraging rather than discouraging, one of the things about the AI/Machine Learning field is that you can discover far less than "ahaha, talking robots now!" and still have a useful discovery. A* Heuristic Search was a useful discovery that powers a huge fraction of modern video-game AI, even though it will never take over the world.

For instance, I read a blog post yesterday about writing improved "rock paper scissors" bots and came up with a nice little model of strategic "I know you know I know" Sicilian Reasoning that I scrawled out into a Reddit post.
I spend 99% of my time in Linux, so there is some gaming there as well, especially now that there are a lot of great titles with support on Steam. I rarely ever boot into Windows anymore, mostly for games that I can't play on Linux (or can't play well on Linux).

If I wanted something for work only and wanted to use open source drivers, I'd buy Intel or nvidia now. The ATI 5870 exists to drive up to six monitors over displayport under EyeFinity, so this was as much of a work investment as it was a play investment (it's great for both).

I want to be able to work AND play with this card that I paid good money for. The binary drivers are officially supported, and with that label comes some expectation of quality. Perhaps my expectations are unreasonable, but I've been very disappointed with the quality.
For those who are struggling to understand what this is,

It's basically a 'content store' that provides a supposedly nice interface for people to create all sorts of content and then it exposes that content back to you via an API that you can use in other places such as a CMS.

Good idea in theory, hard to execute because there is no common interface/standard.

If there was a common interface/standard you could use/build services like this to essentially decouple your content/data from the skin on top.

For example you could just pull the plug on CMS X, and 'connect' your content to CMS Y if it has a better user experience.

Easier said than done.
So The Dread Pirate Roberts == Ross Ulbricht?

Was just a matter of time. I'd be interested in knowing how they traced him, considering how overtly cautious he was known to be.
Fast focusing is neat, but I'll wait to see how it compares to current top-end smartphone cameras that offer backside illuminated sensors with larger pixels.
Did you even read the article? He mentions emailing friends and family as a good place to start but anyone who has actually tried to market an app, or a brand or anything else has realized that leveraging your personal network will only get you so far. OP then suggests you use twitter to find people who are posting on the internet that they have a problem your product might be able to solve. That sounds like a bad idea to you?

Also, listing a couple companies that became successful without using tools that didn't exist when they started doesn't prove anything. That is like saying "Union Pacific, GE, Ford and PacBell all became astronomical successes without using the internet, so you shouldn't use the internet either."

There is no reason to handicap yourself when trying to get off the ground.
I'm skeptical about everything. However, I try not to downvote that which sounds pseudo-scientific even when it contradicts deep preconceptions. I try to remain open, intrigued, and investigative. Fewer things in life have several major, unbiased studies that can act as evidence. It's helpful to reject any broad claim of a "fact" while accepting it as a matter of thought.

Hmm...

Upon further consideration, in defense of downvoters, the person's claim was pretty extreme to reject the benefits of brushing. That makes it a disservice to his/her other point. Ah well. Most people haven't tried oil to remineralize. Most people won't. I'm in the minority of those who have, with empirical benefit.
They don't need to. Their customers are unable to switch.
I have run into this from time to time, occasional deadlocks in MySQL. I think it was caused by occasional exceptions while in the middle of writing a transaction, then me leaving the connection open via connection pooling without doing either a commit or rollback.

The obvious way to fix this is funnel all database writes through a common set of code that always avoids a problem.

But there's another way I've fixed this, too. In the past I have also fixed this by moving my highest volume writes into a queue that happens in a few small threads that separate in a way that avoids all contention. This architecture lets me smooth out load spikes and gives better performance anyway.
Programming is programming.

It depends on what you are programming that makes it terrible or a joy.

Im right know payed to do another CRM in PHP and Id rather gauge my eyes out at the end of the day than continue with it. Im not solving any problems at all. Its just business/stakeholders/managers/whomever that decided a few months ago that their CRM needed a "facelift" and here we are. We use some new frameworks (slim), TDD, bootstrap/jquery, talk about agile/lean but in the end the problem we are solving is just some stupid shit like making a document or presentation better than what it was before. And the users are joyful. They got to look at something new while at work. They compete with each other with who will be picked to be among the pilot group, the new the cool. Like kids. A day looks like, fix some "bug" in on the server in an older application among arcane spaghetti-code, or some client-side jquery platitude (oh its you ie8 again?), write some new "functionality" which is fetch this data put it in there display it like this, take this data validate, serialize and send it over there. This is not even programming, it is bullshitting.

Then I go home and relax and read, after a while Im ready to play with python and C, solving minor and sometimes bigger problems. Trying out some machine learning at the moment. Ah the joy of hacking. It fills me up for next day.
:-O wow, I really really want to read about how they found him ... just curious to know considering all of the self-professed safeguards he had set up for himself
Maybe they're doing CAD, or other 3D modelling of some kind?
My all time militaristic fiction novel too!
Criminal complaint -

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