skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet. We are working on that next. Let me get back to you in a few weeks when we have that ready. I will shoot you an email when it is ready.

I guess this is for w3counter. In early 2000s, I was working for Internet.com, I was the lead developer behind thecounter. So I am pretty familiar with the business. We were serving counter/simple analytics for 2.5 million sites. Lots of fun. :)
Well there was some mention.

> We can probably add software to that list: early software engineering work found that, dismayingly, bug rates seem to be simply a function of lines of code, and one would expect diseconomies of scale. So one would expect that in going from the ~4,000 lines of code of the Microsoft DOS operating system kernel to the ~50,000,000 lines of code in Windows Server 2003 (with full systems of applications and libraries being even larger: the comprehensive Debian repository in 2007 contained ~323,551,126 lines of code) that the number of active bugs at any time would be… fairly large. This lead to predictions of doom and spurred much research into automated proof-checking, static analysis, and functional languages

Of course, you need to be pretty confident in your proof-checker. If we aren't totally sure about machine-proof methods, then we comback to the "Doomsday hypothesis" at the end of the article, where many results are invalidated at once.
I have you heard of LS3 [0]? It's another DARPA project designed to bring autonomy to platforms like this. The controls work Boston Dynamics doing is very innovative.

Google is doing great work, but it's much more on the refinement and engineering side. These guys all worked on the DARPA grand/urban challenge and putting in time to make the base level tech robust.

0 - http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/TTO/Programs/Legged_Squad_Supp...
Allegedly. I wouldn't trust this article as proof of anything.
As a correction, as this road appears on the BBC's Motorway Cops regularly, and there was an incident featured in this weeks' episode (1): There is always an empty lane, which shifts depending on the time of day. Accidents are apparently very rare, and the speed limit is 50 mph, compared to 70 on a regular motorway and 60 on a 'normal' road.

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03c7h9y
You can actually install Linux with Hyper-V. I use Windows 8 Pro x64 much of the time at home and have a Debian VM set up with Hyper-V. Though, I do not use a desktop, I just SSH into it for development. Plus side is you can keep a 512MB VM running all the time without caring if it's consuming resources that way.
you cant say a salary is good without listing the cost of living.

that salary would barely cover my cheap rent, and maybe 3 month of food...

it is like living in san francisco with a "good salary" from the outskirts of idaho.
Also, see this:

http://www.gwern.net/The%20Existential%20Risk%20of%20Mathema...
It's not non-tech, but there are numerous opportunities in the publishing / content sphere which shouldn't result in you getting sick of coding but would still use your skills.

For example, my company gets subject level experts to curate e-mail newsletters that go out to other developers, but more generally you could be (paid) blogging, writing a book (for a publisher or on your own), recording screencasts, doing online training, and any manner of things like that. For some of these you might end up doing "research" type coding but not actual "arggg, I hate this client!" type coding which it sounds like is what you really want to avoid ;-)
DailyCred cofounder here.

We do not (currently) manage pricing and plans for you, so that's a plus for UserApp.

We are more focused on user management, oauth simplification (FB, Twitter), auth, and user analytics.

We're also VC backed (Google Ventures) and are storing millions of accounts. Because we have a few larger clients bringing in real revenue, we're not going anywhere anytime soon.

Some unsolicited advice for UserApp:

* You need to address lock-in. It's the first thing everyone asks us. We designed our platform for zero lock-in and account portability for this very reason.

* This space can be a hard sale. People are reticent to store their user data in the cloud. (As they should be!) Compare that to the next social/mobile app that people will try on a whim. That's the bad news, but the good news is once you've "wowed" a customer, they will likely be a customer for a very long time -- even if you make export easy.

* Lastly: good luck!
I don't understand this comment.

On digitalocean you can get 4G RAM for 40/month, 8G for 80. Running nginx and your favorite backend of choice, you will be able to handle any traffic your startup is getting. If you can't, you are already so successful that paying more won't matter....
> People who keep the water running all the time while they brush their teeth or shave drive me nuts.

Mixing valves have existed for a few decades now (unless you're in the UK, which is still waiting to discover plumbing I believe). There no reason to leave water running.
A newer one that's not mentioned in the article: http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/donate-an-artifact/
If you dont want to do your skilled job (programming) you can probably only do unskilled work and that is low pay
That wouldn't really work. Most providers subsidize their Medicare patients with commercial patients.
This site looks beautiful and very well thought out at first glance.

I think there might be a use case for this for simple projects, but the privacy implications of this in light of NSA and other government spying makes this unusable for most potential applications.
Yes you are right, the effect is limited: you die. That's true of every black swan - the worst that can happen is everybody dies. But I don't think that anybody would consider that a "mediocre" outcome. And at the end, you could/should quantify it in your model, or at least mention it as an unknown in your ROI.

You do not mention any studies of long term effects and you consider FUD raising the possibility that there could be adverse effects. When more and more studies show negative long term effect of substances that were considered innocuous (like vitamins), it's not FUD, it's being reasonably cautious.
'I'll never make enough money just working on my full-time job (in tech)'

As a programmer? If you're not making six figures now, you will in 2-3 years. How much money do you need?
Cause it is tasty.

Not everything needs a blog post.
> They cannot be allowed to do this.

Government shut downs are practically the norm since the 70's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown_in_the_Unit...

The federal government shut down once under Ford, five times under Carter, eight times under Reagan, once under Bush Sr., and twice under Clinton. Both parties have been responsible over the years.
That was a concern I had too, so we tried breaking them in half, but didn't notice much difference in her nighttime routine after a week. We actually gave up on the melatonin for a while after that, but I decided to try again with an increased dose after talking with a coworker. Their child is more severely ADHD, and he was taking 5mg per night (and Ritalin).

The pills I have are a dual-release version, so that might have had an affect as well (http://www.swansonvitamins.com/swanson-ultra-dual-release-me...).
Anyone used Melatonin w/ 5-HTP?

Is it safe (is it worth it) taking Melatonin if you're under 30 years old?
Sometimes people grow weary of this industry and craft.
What machine proofs do is concentrate the risk of errors on the proof checker. That is great if your proof checker is reliable, and catastrophic if it is unreliable. Fortunately, proof checkers need not be complicated; you only need a small kernel, from which you can build the rest of the theory.

The other issue is usability. Coq is awesome, but proving something more complicated than basic arithmetic results is hard to do. Likewise with ACL2, PVS, and similar systems. It is getting better, but we are still not quite there.
It doesn't even have to be a long beard. I gave up shaving regularly years ago and can't imagine shaving every day.

It might be because I have really dense hair but I always hated shaving. Maybe if I had this razor allegedly designed for thicker hair I might shave more often. Maybe I'm part Indian and didn't know it? (Although I doubt any of my ancestors ever set foot in India let alone came from there.)
ZeroMQ and Rust: helping us block malicious domains
Just another perspective: I was management through my 30's, went back to programming in my 40's for various reasons (mostly control of schedule and ability to pursue side projects). I really enjoyed getting back up to speed and learning new languages such as Python, Javascript, C#, as well as new tools and workflows (git etc).

Right now though, I actually miss managing, in the sense that I enjoyed being in the tech lead/CTO position, and leveraging the combined talent of an excellent team. You may want to shoot for that sort of position, once you get your skillset as an "individual contributor" up to where it needs to be. It would seem somewhat self-defeating to spin your 10 years as "pushing paper", when you could presumably call it "leading a team to victory" or at least avoiding abject defeat.

The truth is, a combo of tech skill and social awareness enough to herd cats is a very valuable thing in our industry, I wouldn't throw it away due to frustration or boredom.

Also, do some personal FOSS projects and get your github account looking active.
California’s New Feudalism
What about the level 9 ???

Nice works btw :)
What if you started doing a little bit of freelance on the weekends. Make your rates low, just get your feet wet and get paid something for your time. That way you'll get exposed to the new technologies, see how it feels, but not take any huge steps?
"You're doing it wrong" ... seriously though, there are a series of steps that will result in a good shave without blood loss.

The most important is to understand that the hairs on your face act like spaghetti - they are so much softer when they have absorbed some water. So the key is, shave after you get out of the shower, or make sure your face has been wet for a few minutes before you apply lotion or gel and start to shave.

Second, go slower!

Third, either move your face muscles around or actually use the fingers on your other hand, to pull your skin taut in the area you shave, this will minimize the chance of a cut.
You are correct that we have a higher confidence in the fire rate for gasoline cars. You are not correct in implying that we have little idea of the rate of fires in Tesla cars. We don't have '1 event' worth of data, we have '100 million miles' worth of data. That aside, yes, we should update our estimates based on future data as it is virtually certain that the numbers will fluctuate. Actually, they already have, based on there being more miles driven and no new reported fires. But few people remember to update their confidence based on a lack of events.

Note that there have been a lot of fires in those 3 trillion miles driven by ordinary cars (not just 1), as even a quick search shows: https://www.google.com/search?q=burnt+out+car&tbm=isch
I agree strongly. Ideally this would be a self-hosted project.

This would eliminate most of the potential privacy issues that might inhibit usage of this.

I'd love to see something like this take off because its time wasted that prevents you from working on a core product idea.
Has your water changed (perhaps you moved around)? Deposits make the edge rough, some water will make more of them.

It is also somewhat more difficult to get a good lather with harder water.
Wha? A low-end Prius is ~$20k. A low-end Tesla is ~$65k. The US median household income is ~$45k.

If you can afford to spend the average household's entire annual income on a car coolness upgrade, then yes, you have disposable income to throw around, and no, you're not middle class.
hn commenter on job satisfaction threads: I'm motivated by challenges and working with similar minded people, not money.

hn commenter on minimum wage threads: everyone work for minimal sustenance.
The intended meaning is that your parents are less technically capable than you are; which parent is specifically chosen is simply not relevant. Would you have preferred, "Not your Dad's bitcoin wallet?" This is not sexist, it is ageist.
I own half of a wine garden in San Antioco and cut the wines every winter. I sewn and sold more then hundred motorbike saddles. Its a nice winter job, that pays good for a craft. I've organized uncountable concerts, produced a few dozen bands, and pushed 3 of them into the charts. I even worked a few times for compagna.de as an escort for woman.

But all this is just a hobby, compared to coding. I'm happy if they break even, of give some small money, but my main income is a semi passive income from maintaining a CPAN module that I've published 15 years ago.
Until you bust a tooth :(

(this had happened to me twice)
> Popcorn, it seems, was the original clandestine movie snack.

Haha. I have a big coat with inner bags where I can fit two 1.5 lt sodas, I always sneak snacks when going with my friends, since, at least in my country, every snack is ridiculously overpriced (around 5 to 10 times the original price).
Stock market, knock on wood.
Extreme weather will impact business climate
You should take a look at the research [0] people are doing using the little dog [1]. They are creating some very interesting planning algorithms for unstructured terrain like that.

0 - http://cs.stanford.edu/groups/littledog/
1 - http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_littledog.html
I'd have to concur, and can strongly recommend, if anyone has the interest to go even farther, try straight razor shaving. You might want to get a straight razor shave by a professional first (there's an Art of Shaving in Vegas that will do it), then consider learning to do it yourself. At that point, you're no longer throwing anything away! But of course it takes a bit more time, focus, and attention to detail, plus you have to keep the razor sharp (which can be another ritual in and of itself).
The assumption is that as automation goes up, demand for people with even "advanced skills" goes down.

That is, if all N billion of us "[move] with the times", then the jobs still won't be there for us to fill.
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Actually when I started PHP3 was a hot new thing :-)
Yes, when your sole motivation to work isn't to provide for the necessity of survival, you can use your influence in more egalitarian ways.
Depends on where you live and how much time you have. As a programmer, your main skill will earn you more in an hour than most people earn in a day. That said, don't burn yourself out, mix up your skills.

If you drive a Lyft, you could pull in an extra $20/per hour. Do the math as far as what gas and maintenance will cost you.

Can you do pet sitting or house sitting for people out of town? At least in SFBay, that's about $20/hr on Task Rabbit.

You could also give your time away since it sounds like you have available time after your full time gig. It is a chance to meet new people and out of that, though you shouldn't expect it, you could land some side gigs.
Gigya looks to be a lot closer to a DMP in an advertising world than a SaaS login service. They help getting visitors to identify themselves, that's a completely different positioning and feature set.

Knowing my audience and being able to monetize that is not the same as managing billing.

That said, it does sound kind of interesting, but from my own experience, I'd probably choose to build payments and billing myself.
Can anyone recommend a service similar to this (a backend framework) but which allows you to keep your own data?
Reminds me of the late lamented Pertti Lounesto who made himself quite unpopular by looking for counterexamples to some accepted proofs and posting about them repeatedly on Usenet. See http://users.tkk.fi/ppuska/mirror/Lounesto/counterexamples.h... for example.

Lounesto was a controversial and sometimes reviled figure, but I (purely as a non-mathematician and sometime reader of his posts) was very sorry to hear of his death in a swimming incident about 10 years ago now. Nice that his website is still available though.

I tend to agree with his idea that it's valuable to search for counterexamples to newer proofs - a sort of application of Popperian principles in the mathematical domain I suppose. I've no idea on the validity of his claims about specific counterexamples, though.
> That's true of every black swan - the worst that can happen is everybody dies.

Not at all. Taleb like to use the example of selling insurance and shorts, where your downside is unlimited. Millions, billions, trillions... Think AIG or LTCM. Not everything has consequences solely for health.

> You do not mention any studies of long term effects and you consider FUD raising the possibility that there could be adverse effects.

In the absence of any evidence whatsoever for that, and plenty of positive correlations, short-term studies without any problem... Yes. It is FUD. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

> When more and more studies show negative long term effect of substances that were considered innocuous (like vitamins), it's not FUD, it's being reasonably cautious.

Only some vitamins show any mortality effects, the mortality effects while real are pretty small, the vitamins did not deliver the long-term health benefits promised (but never really demonstrated in experiments) which might offset the harm, and the vitamins were being consumed in huge doses. The first reduces the possibility of any such outcome, the second points out that you are exaggerating the harm, the third means that vitamins were a purely speculative play unlike melatonin, and the fourth reduces the concern that any such thing would happen with melatonin when one sticks to the suggested doses like 0.5mg rather than 5mg.
Oracle sold a product that was absolutely essential to pretty much every major business: there isn't really a good alternative to a transactional relational database running on middle-to-high-end hardware for a lot of companies. Selling something business-critical to customers with deep pockets is a pretty good business strategy. And they only had a couple of direct competitors in that space.
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Apple TV, from what I gather, was mostly a side-project for Steve Jobs. Something to play with while the focus was on iPhones and, later, iPads. Especially from that perspective it's actually a huge success, and a good way for Apple to dip its toes in an area that many expect is their next Big Thing.
It's evidence in the sense that proponents of basic income always describe shiny future where all the low-skilled work done by robots forgetting that other countries with no such basic income still exist.
Well, that the Constitutionality of all things is ultimately determinable by the Supreme Court is of course subject to judicial review, there was nothing in Marbury v Madison that has any direct impact on the Origination Clause whatsoever.

I don't mean to be dismissive, but I don't see what point it is that you're making. Please clarify?
I wrote 130,000 lines of code over the past ten years. I completed it. It's God's temple. Now, God kills people, like in exodus, cause they ain't listening.

God sent flaming hail, blood red Nile, grasshoppers, raining frogs, pharaoh did not listen, so God killed people and they still did not listen, so He parted the sea and they escaped.
You see, there is this thing called historical reasons for things to happen. That post was actually very entertaining and informative.
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"I'd also like to see a ticker that shows how the deficit is behaving during the massive furlough ... is it going down?"

Doubtful; historically furloughed employees are given back pay once a shutdown of this nature is over. Also don't forget all the lost productivity from all those employees sitting at home instead of doing what they normally do.

"are furloughed federal employees eligible for unemployment compensation?"

Yes.

"we can see what it's like without most of the government"

I don't think you can. If you didn't mow your grass or trim the landscaping in your yard for a week or two no one would likely notice. Let it go longer and all of a sudden your property is the eye sore on the block and you're going to get angry calls from the neighbors.

I'm with you on government being generally too big or rather inefficient but politicians never seem to want to address that in a meaningful way it's always in terms of we are spending to little or to much. Instead they might look at making it easier to fire an under performing worker and provide more budget flexibility and incentives for automation and efficiency instead of just throwing more clerical workers or benjamins at a problem.
Not my decision, unfortunately. No girlfriend I've ever had liked beards, and I don't like to sleep alone.
My understanding is that that is true for immigration, but not for customs. There are still limits on the amounts that can be imported into Switzerland, even from the EU, without duties [1]. Some products are more restricted, e.g. a limit of 0.5 kg of meat per person per day [2]. Anecdotally, this is rarely enforced, except during summer barbecue season, and customs officials have the authority to stop vehicles within 10 km of the border.

[1] http://www.ezv.admin.ch/zollinfo_privat/04342/04343/04344/04...

[2] http://www.ezv.admin.ch/zollinfo_privat/04342/04343/04349/04...
The incentive to work would finally be that work needs to be done.
Young people save too much says economist
Those mandated insurance premiums are not cheap unless you are a post doc, hehe. Swiss spends 10% GDP on healthcare, which is higher than most Western European countries though not as high as the USA, which is at about 17% now.

Income taxes are low, but you get reamed in the store for daily goods and food.
Lurking global health crises
This is an interesting point of view. That kind of role would make my transition easier, if it exists - obviously I have to put in the work of finding it.
A basic income only serves to maintain the status quo for those at the top. It's a release valve on political pressure to bring fundamental changes to the system to better serve the lower classes.

In the US, one can look how the Section 8 housing program serves a similar pressure-relief function in the housing rental market. By giving essentially free rent to those who cannot afford current market rate rents, it relieves political pressure to reform housing policies that keep rental rates high while also inflating rents and property values, heavily distorting the rental market. I think one can easily view the Section 8 program more as welfare program benefiting property owners rather than lower class renters.

A basic income would have a similar effect on the general cost of living, inflating values and benefiting the wealthy. Again, like the Section 8 program, this will be a welfare program benefiting the wealthy because this basic wage will simply flow upward and concentrate at the highest economic rungs.
Cartridge razors are safer only when installing the blades. The cutting surfaces of single blade cartridge razors and DE razors are largely the same. Single edge and injector razor designs were answers to the same problem.

More importantly to Gillette, however, is that they control the patents on each new cartridge design they come up with. The patents on DE razors are long expired. As such you must use OEM or licensed blades in your Gillette Fusion but I can use any blade in my Gillette Super Speed.
I've never eaten popcorn at the movies, and have long thought popcorn smelled disgusting. I wasn't pleased when that American tradition was imported into Ireland when I was a kid.