skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death"

I've always liked that term (which I presume you used ironically). It's the most pessimistic way one could possibly describe the state of "If I don't ever touch anything from here on out, I'm still pretty much set for life."

I assume it was a Venture Capitalist who coined it, since VCs don't like profitable companies that get slightly more profitable month after month. People, however, pretty much universally would think that was a rather nice predicament to be in.

Congrats on the Ramping!
It's probably closer to a more extensible version of Ninite or even a friendly version of SCCM.
Other examples include http://www.apple.com/iphone-5c/ and http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com .

Trent Walton actually wrote an article about it: http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/

I myself sometimes trigger animations depending on the scrolling position. But I don't depend upon the exact scrolling position to show or hide elements. I, like you, don't like this trend. It's like a vertical slider, where you can only stop at pre-defined positions.

It reminds me of custom scrollbars implemented in Flash or JavaScript that act completely differently, especially slowing down the scrolling movement (you need to turn your mouse wheel 10 times as much to scroll one single page).
> rationally as an investor.

Shouldn't you just buy an index fund, as a rational investor?
The path to SOA
How Yoky Matsuoka Created the Modern Robotic Hand
Trust, But Verify
Tesco to scan queuing shoppers' features for advertisers
The minimum wage was equivalent to over $40,000 in 1967.

No. Real GDP/capita was about $20k back then - the average person produced about half of what you claim was the minimum wage.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USARGDPC

In the 1960s, America had roughly half of all global manufacturing to itself. A lot of that was due to our manufacturing base surviving WW2 fully intact. However, we saw the benefit of that, and it showed up in the form of jobs and wages.

And today we produce 2.5x more than we did back then. Manufacturing has not declined, it's merely become more efficient.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IPMAN
i thought that 80+ hours work was irony. it's really interesting if it's not irony.
A quick google search suggests home ownership has increased, and people are buying much larger houses than before. So no, looking at buying a house gives the same conclusion.

http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007032701?Ope...
They are only blocking the HTTPS version in Shenzhen (not sure if that's the case for other regions).
FWIW:

$ curl -4 https://icanhazip.com/
88.…
$ curl -6 https://icanhazip.com/
2001:470:…

(for me it's worth a yay)
If electricity price is the main problem, why not go solar?
Those who don't engage at the top of the funnel won't be able to afford advertising to the bottom of the funnel.

I Can't think of a single founder who blogged high quality original content consistently for more than two years that didn't turn his audience and readership into a successful company.

There is a massive misconception about blogging and content marketing in general that gets ignored by people. Creating content that can't be found anywhere else, content that represents the true voice of the CEO or founder and their vision is top of the funnel marketing that makes advertising and regular marketing MUCH MUCH More effective.

Content is the long game, and builds on itself one reader at a time. Eventually it breaks through and than every piece of content you produce gets massive exposure. Exposure at a much more affordable price than any other strategy that exists in the universe today.

Tomorrows leading companies will be the ones that realize they must become the media company for their niche. They must be the go to place for the best information in their industry.

Startup CEO's that don't blog are missing out on the big picture and should really learn to prioritize the value they can create.

Just look at Moz.com and Hubspot. Two great companies poised for massive growth that built their audience by blogging, one reader at a time.
Google.cn isn't blocked but it's only a page that basically redirects to Google.com.hk.
Thanks! The current server setup is: 2x2GB servers (web+workers), 2x1GB servers (DB & replicated backup), 2x512MB servers (one HAProxy loadbalancer, one running redis & memcached). All running a fairly recent version of Ubuntu, based in the Netherlands datacentre. I could run it on fewer servers but I like to separate out the roles so a failure in one place doesn't take everything down.

For the first month reliability was a bit spotty but for the past 3/4 months it has been really reliable. The only problems I had at first were network latency which they seem to have resolved now.

I'm happy to answer pretty much any questions about my projects! There are currently 1687 users. Signups go in bursts when I promote the site; once I've got a number of improvements done over the next month or so I'm going to try to promote it again.

I'm also really excited by what other people are doing with the codebase. There's a chap in Japan who's managed to get it running for his figurine fan website, which is impressive mostly because my documentation is so shockingly bad :D
80+ is doable if you work from home. I often code with my daughter sitting on my lap. I also do lot of work in my head without computer.
Only if all you consume is heavily pre-processed.
Sticky footers, flexbox and IE10
I like the idea behind this - it would be sort of automatic version control for writing if you added the ability to view your url history.

What's your tech stack?
Cute design. What are the long term goals?
I don't think having a exploitable kernel counts as being 'open' by any measure. I cannot understand how people are ignoring the security side of this.
What a silly thing to think. I think you'll find that Fisher's development of likelihood and explicit probabilistic modeling is rather important in Bayesian statistics. You'll also find that Fisher was not only one of the top 3 if not the 20th century's most important theoretical statistician, but that he was one of the top 3 if not the 20th century's most important theoretical geneticist. This sort of fanboy Bayesianism is really rather embarrassing.
but isnt 50% upfront too much? If I were a client, I would never pay 50% upfront because what If the developer is not capable of delivering the product.
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Google is useful to more people, which means it's less useful to people who are happy with things like the O Reilly Google Hacks.

There's some switch somewhere to force it into "Literal" or "verbatim" mode. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3239452 http://insidesearch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/search-using-your... (These are the posts that give me the '1 in 600 searches used the + operator correctly' factoid.)

I think my current problems with Google are

1) Lack of predictability. I have no idea what terms might be substituted, or what they'll get subbed for. I don't know what terms get stemmed or not.

2) Recentism. Google is great at finding things from this year. Finding stuff from before 2000 is harder, and before 1990 is really tricky. (I don't have any examples! Normally I keep them.)[1]

3) Desire to return many hits. I'm happy if I enter a search term and don't get many hits. I'd rather have a few hits, rather than many hits that are less relevant. I'd rather have a few really bad hits, and thus know that I need to tweak my search terms, than get many sort of okay hits.

But for most people Google is great. Having said that, I switched to mostly DDG and I really like it, except I'd like to be able to force a more English (and not US) result cloud; and I'd like to be able to enter a term, have it translated into other languages, and search for those. This would be a way to break out of the English speaking bubble.

[1] I find it weirdly hard to find minor news events from before 2000, even though they're online and covered by newspapers, even if I use Google's time limit settings. I'll start to keep these difficult searches.
Free because I think the project has potential but the developer seems to not be interested in investing money on a redesign. If a free design can renew interest in the project, I think its a worthwhile cause.

On a related note, I also do free designs for open source projects (eg. vlc, ack). So if your have an open source project that you think could benefit from design, feel free to get in touch with me.

Working on such project helps me not just get my name out there, but also lets me learn a lot more than I can in commercial projects, since I usually get more creative freedom when I'm contributing my time rather than being paid for it.
the UK's is actually the same, on a graph where the rest fall. I wonder what that means is different about us?
Well here's something I didn't know about this story: apparently Haber was a German nationalist of Jewish descent who was also responsible for the world's first major chemical attack, which killed about 6000 allied troops.

"A week after [that] attack, [his wife] took Haber's service revolver and shot herself, dying in the arms of Hermann, their only son."

Edit: oh god, this is the Zyklon B man.
Finding the right people for our team is far too important to outsource. We don't work with recruiters. Seriously, we have a recruiter vodoo doll; if you contact us we're going to stick a pin in it.

Love it. I'm a C# dev on the other side of the world from you, but I'll be here if you ever need me.
Depending on what you use the IP for, asking a third party for your IP address could be an interesting attack vector for a MitM attack.

e.g. you need your IP to tell a remote server to send you something. You connect to the IP address service to ask for your IP, it should return x.x.x.x but it returns y.y.y.y instead. Any connections to any port on IP y.y.y.y get forwarded to a similar port on IP x.x.x.x meanwhile the MitM takes a copy of all of the data going back and forth.

It's not foolproof, and there are a myriad of ways to defend against it, but it's definitely a reason why I wouldn't trust any third party service (even DDG/Google) to get my IP address.
> People wanting to run companies take note.

True, but people with time machines set to return them to January 1976 (when this story took place) probably don't need to worry about such details.
I recently interviewed at Twitter, and one of the engineers I spoke to kept talking about Twitter+TV. It's something they're actively pushing for, as strange as that may sound.
Google's Eric Schmidt Lambasts NSA Over Spying
Apologies I think I misread your first post a bit, so my comment may have seemed a bit overly harsh.

I don't think the family thing is much of an excuse for having to work 80+ hours though - if anything that should be a reason not to work that hard. I know developers earning what I am, supporting a family like yourself, perfectly happy with their life. I guess it depends what you want though, if you want to send your kids to private school and not have them have to pay for their higher education then of course sacrifices need to be made.
> while breeding profligately

Except, of course, that all our experience indicates that once education levels, healthcare and general prosperity increases, reproduction rates drop.

If anything, if this effect continues, we'll reach a point soon enough where a shrinking population starts to become one of the things for us to worry about. Some countries already do worry about aging populations partially as a result of this, and it already is a major aspect of immigration debates in many European countries.
Should one learn R if one already has some experience in data analysis with Python?
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- Real passion for developing great frontend interfaces and websites
- Proven experience in writing html5 + js + css(3) code
- You’re always playing with the latest js web applications and frameworks
- A lot of style and an eye for great, lean design
- Neither photoshop nor git are challenging for you

Backend:
- Real passion for developing great web apps
- Proven experience in Java & web technology, possibly Grails
- Building & maintaining scalable architectures using modern tools
- Enthusiasm for beautiful, pragmatic code and an eye for simplicity
- Looking past your Java IDE to play with servers, databases, and web services is our everyday playground

Our web app is built in Backbone, with an API based backend built on Grails.

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Apply at https://uberall.com/home/jobs or email jobs@uberall.com with your CV and a bit about you
tmux and i3 seem largely equivalent (working on the basis of arbitrarily nested horizontal splits, vertical splits, and tabs); tmux works on the server side with detach and reattach; i3 supports things other than terminal apps; neither supports using the mouse to drag & drop tiles for rearranging (that being the only thing that makes me not bother using i3 regularly)
Reboot Buggy Gets Back to Its Off-Road Roots
I've used http://ip.jh.gg && http://ua.jh.gg for ip/user agent needs.
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What are we supposed to see here?
Google Search Now Includes Etymology
It's the freedom. You're a ball on a chain at pretty much any company.
If I were you, I would just set up an ec2 instance on Amazon and then tunnel my traffic through ssh. Why rely on some VPN??
The 90% will get paid.

Likely paid in digital currency for performing manual labor or creative work inside Virtual Worlds.
Grand Designs - The Computer Cut House (Video)
>> basically you have to micro-manage the project in extreme detail

Welcome to outsourcing to unknown people.

(The customer probably had some other job.)
Good point. It's a known misconception that the act of mining serves only to create new BTCs. Since Bitcoin clients only accept history branches that have the longest proof-of-work, the mining is essential to prevent a forge of the history branch, not just a single forged block since most users have established good practice to wait at least 5 confirmations before approving a payment.
A very astute observation. I will note:

1. 6 years, largely and increasingly specialist financial industry work, earning 5x what I did when I started, so you're right on that point. Unfortunately some curveballs have meant the net effect on my QOL is not as great as you'd expect.

2. Only 40-50 hours of those theoretical (i.e. subject to life) 80 hours number are billable. The remainder are my attempt to escape the rat race -- what is the hourly rate of those hours? Impossible to know - that's where the risk/reward of entrepreneurship lies.

3. As far as I can tell, I have maxed out the right side as a "no name" (although it's quite difficult to know if this is true!). From what I've been reading, and what you've confirmed by saying "work on your value", the next step is to make a name for myself. This is a tricky concept for me. Any advice? My current strategy is to direct my energy at building something in my "rat race escaping" time that will draw attention to me locally, hopefully leading to new opportunities.
Bink 2.2 integer DCT design
So if you're in a position of responsibility over employment, sit down for an hour or two and learn the handful of questions which you should never ask, lest you get sued.
Swiss telco’s cloud aims to draw customers who are fearful of spying
> I find it weirdly hard to find minor news events from before 2000, even though they're online and covered by newspapers, even if I use Google's time limit settings. I'll start to keep these difficult searches.

Might be because the pages are updated after the publication date. I don't know that google is able to find that type of structured info in each news page. Actually a specialized search engine which is focused on date functionality would be invaluable. Maybe someone like archive.org would tackle that. It would be great to search even pre-WWW results, such as historical archives or radio transcripts.
First off, I really enjoyed it, well done!

> I can get up to around 110wpm without errors in a general typing test, but because of this constant mistargeting, I was capped around 60wpm with 90% accuracy.

Same here, most other tools measure me at ~130wpm (if I'm nicely warmed up) but I couldn't get above ~65wpm/93% accuracy on the game.

I'd agree with the other comments about a faster progression through the game. I'd like it to quickly move forward to roughly the level I want to be on. Shunt me forward a lot, if I die then shut me back half way from where I was (e.g., 1 > 20 > 40 (died) > 30 > 35 (died) > 33 > 34, etc).

In my ideal 'expert mode' I'd want to be playing so that it quickly finds a level that I can complete a certain percentage of the time but allows me to die a few times on a level before assuming that one was too much for me; some times you get caught out by something random that causes you to fail to complete on a level you'd normally have no trouble on.
We use Prolog extensively at RainBird - I could definitely be considered a fan!

As always it's about using the right tool for the job. Prolog is a great choice for many symbolic type problems. We use it as the basis of our knowledge representation and inference platform.

Prolog is often considered too slow for production use. Again this depends on how you're using it, use it for solving the right kind of problems and it's quick. Very quick. Using multithreaded SWI-Prolog and it's C++ foreign language interface we're able to reason over large data sets with hundreds of thousands of concepts very quickly indeed.

Another common misconception is that you need to be a logician with a background in formal logic to work with Prolog. You don't. You need to get your head round declarative programming, which can take a while if you're not used to it. It's worth the effort though, even just so you've got a new technique for your toolbox.
actually what blockedinchina.net does it, it takes the website URl from form and query it from a system whose internet is tunneled to a China based server. So the qurey reply is based on internet on that particular server(internet on a particular computer or ISP in China), hence this might not be reliable.
Actually MS broke HTTP protocol on that one and it lead to some very interesting exploits. Malicious user could upload a GIF to some site which allowed image uploads. Image would appear normal to a casual observer, except that it was specially crafted so that IE thought it was actually a JavaScript file (because it guessed the file type on its contents and didn't obey server-side set MIME types) and executed it -> XSS.

I don't think Linux does anything remotely like this. It does allow you to use "file" utility to guess the contents of the file, but it doesn't act on it.
Thank you! We aim to help developers compare and find programming books easier and faster. We'll be adding more books and categories from time to time. Long term goal would be to help developers who are in need of source but have no idea where to grab them. We'd also like to add features that users can interact with our web more while showing how cool, fun, and magical programming actually is.
I'm not a js coder but this is really fun to take an eye on the dogescript
you are right, this is because the website you mentioned makes use of more than one server based on different region in china.
Google’s Schmidt: NSA Spying on Data Centers ‘Outrageous’
Is there an app for that?

(I suspect there will be, soon. It's a simple matter of software – and battery life – once everyone is carrying a networked microphone.)
Anyone care to explain the DES misuse to laypeople? And why do some passwords have a salt(?) and some don't?
> If someone was to link the two (ie, a local Hawala agent accepted a Bitcoin transfer from an untrusted source, and then moved the money via the trusted Hawala network) then almost all the problems of Bitcoin would go away.

http://www.ripple.com
You'd probably make more selling the solar electricity then
I came across one called "Simple Directmedia Layer" or SDL, I found an example using it to create some simple graphics in a teach linux magazine. You can download it via apt-get (this is Ubuntu, it might be a different command on another distro). There is a libsdl1.2-dev and a libsdl2.0-dev.
Hope that gives you a pointer (pun not intended).
Most of the work in software is done in head without computer. I think I effectively write code for maybe 1h-2h a day in very high intesity bursts, rest is just refining ideas/architectures in head. The latter I can do it while doing some boring house chore or while driving.
Lipton appears twice on this chart. Did that slip past the editors? Makes you wonder if any other brands on the chart are in the wrong place. I don't have time to check them all.

Edit: I don't think L'Oreal is owned by Nestle either.
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It's incredible and useful because there are some others like me, who would rather reboot to Ubuntu/Fedora/etc just to avoid the hostile developer environment of windows, even for small tasks.

There is a severe lack of good commandline utilities. The ones that exist, require so much effort to set up. Just because it is possible to develop on Windows since 1992 doesn't mean it is a pleasant experience to do so.
"People below the 2013 poverty line have more goods and services than the middle class of the 60's and 70's"

I agree they do. However, lots of people no longer have just the dad working. Mum needs to work as well just to get by. And those goods are created oversees and bought for much lower prices. And -last but not least- all those goods are purchased using debt much more than in the 60's/70's.

I find it shocking the US now has more people on foodstamps than people in fulltime jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports there are 97,180,000 full time workers in the private sector. But there are 103.4 million people currently enrolled in any one of 15 subsidized federal food assistance programs. It saddens me to see this.
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http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/rap-genius-enterprise/
Hehe...only in Silicon Valley will people look at you funny because weekends are not subconsciously part of your work week.
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I'd love to use something like this. But so far that's not going to happen (and it seems it won't ever be possible).

Ignoring the fact that most devices I'd like to put this on (I have some old handsets, I'd like to put this on my wife's phone etc.) aren't supported - that's fixable - I'm unable to accept a mobile OS without Wifi support.

And I have a hard time thinking of a solution to this problem. I'd love to hear something different, would be grateful if someone could prove me wrong, but I'm really pessimistic that this will change..

All the other tradeoffs are fine. Camera, GPS - not an issue. But data connectivity and Wifi are the basic requirements to use my devices.