skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another option is to put it up for sale for the Kindle (kdp.amazon.com) and at B&N as ebooks. At one point I had 5-6 books on kdp and even made over 4 figures one time. I haven't promoted them at all for a good 5-6 months and still make a couple hundred each month. Non-fiction tends to do well; there are many guides out there on how to rank better for your book (use certain keywords and categories etc) so that could be a good avenue for you. One drawback is that it takes 3 months to start receiving your payments.
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I can wrap any HTML/CSS/JS framework into a native wrapper. That doesn't make it "native focused". All my apps are currently built with Phonegap and a heavily customized jQuery Mobile, then wrapped, compiled, and deployed.
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Yes, but individual advantage has lured people away from building wells just for non-profit reasons. Be it economic profit, or even social capital as claimed in the article. Or both.

I don't even think that these things are good or bad, they're just human. And in a way, FOSS has lost its innocence and goes the path of all human endeavours.
Yeah, I'd be SUPER surprised if it's not FB credits all over again, with devs receiving scads of no-value Amazon promotional coins.
Spotify raises 250 Million at 4 Billion Valuation
Bitcoin doesn't use RSA.
Organic does not mean the farmers cannot use pesticides and weedkillers, they're just restricted to specific ones.
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Very high failure rate (including one case where my wife called the fire department because something was burning in the house and she couldn't identify it), warm up time, and has to be treated like HAZMAT after it has completed it's six months of duty—indeed, what's not to love about CFLs, and why should I bother checking out an alternative?

Yes, I purchased my LED bulbs in anger. We'll see if I've been had.
I'm flattered! -- though I prefer to think of it as being in the about.me space. This was just a 48 hour side-thing that I wanted to put out there. And for the record, it doesn't make any use of LinkedIn's API whatsoever!
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> In terms of energy efficiency, CFLs are halfway between incandescent bulbs and LEDs.

That isn't true. LEDs are equivalent to CFLs in energy efficiency. The only LEDs that are more efficient are either lying to you (they claim the light is more directed so it "counts" as more, and they uprate the bulb), or they have worse color accuracy so you are not comparing equivalent bulbs.

> The heat source of CFLs is much larger than LEDs, so the average temperature is lower even though the total amount of heat is higher.

No. The heat source is not larger - it's in a different location, it's in the bulb part and it emits infrared light and is sent into the room. With LEDs the heat is made in the base and stays there.

> With all those coils and folds, CFLs have a larger surface area than most other types of lamps, so they cool easily.

That doesn't explain why an incandescent that makes 6 times as much heat can manage, but an LED can't. It's not the cooling of the bulb, it's the type of heat - incandescents and CFLs make their heat in the form of infrared light that is sent into the room.
Yes. No one uses the word "egress" unless they're installing basement windows, and I would hope that when I crack the billion mark I don't need two assistants to towel me off when I'm done swimming.
At least in theory, they're more power-efficient and last longer (though, as this article suggests, that may or may not be true). Things that are pretty much universally true, though: they turn on faster, have no warm-up time like most CFLs, are more often dimmable, and typically have better spectral distribution (though not as good as incandescents), which tends to make them less likely to impart the sickly cast that things lit with CFLs take on.
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It's a common theme. In The Hunt for Red October, the Russian captain (who holds one missile key) murders the political officer (who holds the other missile key) and publicly holds both keys for himself.

Just prior to that, they use their keys to jointly open a safe containing the file with their orders (analog to decryption?). Maybe that's what the name is alluding to.
But the interesting thing is that he didn't have a "name" either. He started by sharing some of his technical knowledge, set a challenge and has been pushing himself to the limits every few months, since then.
No IP address is saved in the block-chain. You would need to trust the source of this IP listing service, and still you wouldn't be able to actually prove people's real IP address if they were using systems like TOR to send money.
This is not a fucking conspiracy theory.

In our society gender roles are strictly enforced and policed. It has gotten better during the last few decades (though there have also been some regressions) but it’s still pretty bad.
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It may be worth mentioning that RMS is really far from homeless or starvation:

http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N59/59stallman.59n.html
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Here are a few services that do this already:

https://www.harp.io/

http://www.site44.com/
When I first loaded it (just a minute ago) a woman was pictured. On reload and since it's a man.
> Looking at exchange rates in this manner changes one's perspective on volatility. For example, since the beginning of this year, the price of a US dollar has declined by more than 98%, from BTC 0.074 to just over BTC 0.001, which makes the dollar look like an extremely volatile currency!

Sorry, that's clearly nonsense given that the dollar wasn't similarly volatile against other currencies.

Would you slam on your breaks in the middle of a road full of fast moving cars and believe that it was actually them all suddenly accelerating?
Don't look for ideas, look for people that have a problem that they are willing to pay you to solve.

So, the question is "Ask HN: What is a problem you would pay for someone to solve."
To be clear: within a Marxist framework, the only way to gain capital is to exploit others. So your second half is correct, but your first half is wrong, unless (which I suspect you are) that you're using a different definition of exploitation than the article.
I don't write open-source software. I also have a backlog of potential clients. If a company demands a Github, I say thanks, but no thanks.
I'm not sure how it sounds like sniveling losers... It's like entering a painting competition, spending hours creating a piece of art and the people running the contest saying "Just put it in that closet, we already have our top 5", without even glancing at it". Developer time isn't free, and although I didn't think we would win, at least having someone take a look at what I gave up a weeks worth of nights for would have sufficed.

Also, if the winners were eligible, that would help. I would have never entered a "Best Salesforce startup of 2013" competition with a week's worth of work.

https://twitter.com/alexwilliams/status/403723331007832064
Chess is great, but I prefer "Go." (An oddly named game.) Had I learned it when I was young, I feel I would have benefited greatly.
The only lawsuits Monsanto has ever filed have been against farmers who both got cross pollinated with their seeds, and then knowingly took advantage of this by using Roundup chemicals. Monsanto has never filed a lawsuit against a farmer who didn't use Roundup on their crops.
Surely you must know that the only acceptable equality checker in JS is "==="?

"==" is for wimps :-)
Why when you click on the wallet does the last transaction on some of them go to 2013 when the list says 2010?

http://bitcoinrichlist.com/address/1Du2jAQsBQnkkVZkN4oqC46tS...
But has he played Judah Friedlander?
The company hasn't existed long enough to have much of anything.

This blog post (with some example code) can give you a flavor of the sorts of things we do: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/time_varying_conversi...
Sure. We are actually focusing on providing a native-style programming model though: http://ionicframework.com/docs/angularjs/views/modal/
One has to take a grain of salt with Stephen Wolfram's claims of superiority.

Nevertheless, it appears that people have to pay to use "the Wolfram language" (although there might be scenarios that allow "free usage" for the purpose of attracting users who will eventually pay for using the language if they want to scale up their work). The concept of paying to use a language is troublesome in terms of common understanding of what a language is.
If Anand played the king to the eighth rank instead of to h6, Carlsen would have kept checking on the seventh and eighth ranks, with a draw by perpetual check.
"Why doesn't every programmer have a great GitHub profile? The same reason not every mother of 3 children looks like a fitness instructor."

Exactly this.
Oh, I hoped that would recreate Winamp's AVC. Sigh ...
Amazing. How he reverse engineered a service? Thanks.
Thank you, more examples if you have them please; this is inspiring stuff for someone who just wants a lifestyle biz working at home doing my own thing.
Youtube wasn't the breaking point for me, twitch.tv was. Granted, the streamers themselves do have control over this, I found it utterly annoying to see the same 1 or 2 ads played over and over in my face. Once I had ABP installed, the whole internet suddenly became faster to load too. The only annoying thing is, some websites that have those annoying ads that scroll across the webpage will now result in a dead-iframe blocking its content. Fortunately, I know how to right click, inspect element, navigate to the iframe container, and delete it, which, takes about 5 seconds.
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Yes, but you took Apple to task, singling them out as the worst offender, when this clearly isn't the case - Apple really have tried to make programming accessible to the masses. OK, so Automator failed, but at least they tried. When was the last time you installed a linux distribution that came with graphically-assisted scripting out of the box that was more polished than Automator? Oh, that's right, never.

Also, your whole premise is just wrong. There's been a ton of research showing that the hard thing about programming is not syntax, or tooling, but thinking in abstract terms (I'd link, but I don't have access to most academic publications these days :( ). You're not the first person to think "Hey, if only we could make this whole programming thing more accessible to everyone, everyone would do it!" And yet nobody has succeeded, or even gone close. The best we've managed is to make it easier for an interested amateur to learn to program normally. We've got good documentation available on the Web. Every PC can easily install a wide range of language development environments, for free. Large numbers of frameworks are available to allow you to avoid having to do the heavy lifting for areas where you don't have the time / brainpower to become a subject matter expert. These are all positive developments, but the fact is that 99% of the population still can't even explain in plain English (or Spanish, or Chinese or whatever it is they speak) to a developer what it is they want a system to do.

When was the last time you saw a spec written by a non-programmer trying to explain a business process? Did they even try to explain what happens in error cases? If they did you were a lucky sort, because I've seen dozens of these types of documents, and none contained information on how to handle error conditions. They'll tell you to pull an employee out of the database based on the name, without stopping to think that several employees might have the same name, so you need to have some unique identifier. They'll tell you that an action needs to be done on the first of the month, but they'll forget to tell you what to do when the first of the month is actually a public holiday. These are the problems that we, as programmers, are trained to deal with, and which most people just don't seem capable of doing. And "easy" tools aren't going to help them, because the problem isn't the tools, it's the abstract thinking.
The point of the linked article is the bulb will not last very long when hot. The article never said it wouldn't work.
Why are the screenshots in this article taken from klout.com instead of twitter or facebook or wherever they were actually posted?
I'm not so sure we won't see the desired solution, and soon. Pretty good illumination over a reasonable field would do the job. LED bulbs may get there sooner than you think, unless their reputation is irredeemably tarnished by the defective (read: not meeting minimum expectation) products being overmarketed today.
Heh I agree with your concept a bit, I was thinking about that myself. But here's the counter -- WHO REALLY WANTS TO RELIVE THE DARK AGES?!!

Great headline:
"Crypto-Currency of the Future Promises a Return to Medieval Economics via Anonymous Self-Proclaimed King"

Even in those systems, people had to WORK to get that $$. We're kindof seeing that now with those setting up the Bitcoin infrastructure, but early adopters are richer than they at this point -- just by trading for a couple magic beans before the masses decided they HAVE TO HAVE THEM!!!

I think the coolest thing would be if cryptocurrency folks set up the Bitcoin ecosystem decided there was a BETTER digital currency, and just utilized that same tech stack with the better product. F--k Bitcoin it was an experiment and it can rot
> glass is made of dirt
Close. It's actually made from silica sand, soda ash and lime.
Fair enough. I do think it does make a good example of prevailing attitudes, regardless of whether the author has them.
CFL's also get hot, but the heat is on the coiled glass tube, so the heat and light radiate from the same place. Because the coil is the radiator, they ventilate heat naturally. In order to trap the heat in a CFL, you would need to design a fixture that doesn't let light out.

The problem with LEDs, is you need a metal radiator positioned to not block the light. In a recessed fixture, the heat can get trapped.
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"What you don't know" refers to the present moment.

"And no one will tell you" also seals it for the future.
Indeed. I've been using github lately too, writing code for a charity even, but it's not code that can or should be open sourced.

Github-ism is a bit like credentialism, it lowers your risk but risk is where the interesting stuff happens.

There are two ways to hire, the lazy risk-minimizing way and the non-lazy investment minded way. If you put a maximum amount of effort into trying to reduce the risk of hiring you're going to cut your potential RoI off at the knees. You only hire people that are currently employed, because you want to rely on someone else's work in evaluating a potential employee. You only hire people with the right credentials who have relevant experience in exactly the technologies your company is using right now. You only hire people with very explicit demonstrations of their coding capability. Candidates that have such an easy time proving themselves are naturally going to be the easiest to hire. Not just by you, by everyone. Which means it's going to be more expensive to acquire them.

You should still acquire employees such as these, but if that's all you're doing you're throwing away a lot of potential. If you can manage to put together enough internal talent to be able to interview candidates even remotely well enough to make an independent and more or less objective check on their skills and capabilities then that gives you a potentially very significant competitive advantage.

Some of the best coders I've worked with came from diverse backgrounds and didn't have the "right" credentials or resumes. Several of the smartest and proficient programmers I've worked with have not had college degrees. Many others didn't have CS degrees.

Being able to find these folks and hire them because you can tell they have talent is a great opportunity to extract RoI from the hiring process, which is normally seen as just a cost-center.
We actually have 10 on board not including myself. Two of them are very surprising. Thank you for your communications and offers of assistance. If anyone can assist in getting communication going with AOL let me know ASAP.
What am I supposed to be seeing here? Chrome 31, Windows 7 x64. Maybe my proxy server is screwing something up, because I mouse over the blue area, and then the scroll bar goes wonky for a bit, and then it turns red and says "game over".

EDIT: yep, definitely proxy, seems all the stuff from http://nojsgame.majorov.su/ is blocked.
Really? I always read it as an endorsement.
> developers who would like a quick solution for seo until they have time to address it in more detail later"

Makes sense. I'd hope that the price is low enough that they decide it's not worth ever having their own setup.

> 3.99 is a weird number for me. Just throws me off. I'd raise it to 4.99

Thanks, advice taken. To any late-comers, please contact me by email if you're interested in a subscription at the previous price :)
Crazed dictators exist, so robots make them more dangerous, not less. And robot builders are likely to get targeted by everybody. So no bloodless machine fights.
If in the UK take it back to the shop and tell them why. It is faulty - it is sending personal data out to the internet.
How does writing python qualify you to pose things you don't know are true as facts?
No it does not make the text correct, people often conflate ObjC and Cocoa. Thanks for mentioning Apportable.
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I wrote most of this, but the name on the page is my cofounder. I just forgot to create a tagline for myself before posting it. My background is math/physics/trading.
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In this sense, "native focused" is not about what it does do, but what it doesn't do:

- It probably doesn't work in IE or Firefox, because it's focused on working inside embedded WebKit/Blink.

- It probably isn't appropriate for a "responsive" or "progressive enhancement" situation, because it's assuming it'll be in an embedded browser, on a known device, with js on.
Yea, I'm thinking we will apply a platform-specific rule to those certain components, because I agree with you. One Android-specific thing we added was left-aligned header bars, but it's only a start. Android support is probably 70% of the iOS support right now, just given time constraints for the alpha.
I definitely don't think that they are bad, just not great. It's not even really a lack of content like with the Salt docs, it's more of an organization issue.
To put it in perspective, Bitcoincharts.com [1] reports that the market trade volume is around 200,000 BTC (I believe this to be a 24hr stat). BTC-China is currently the largest exchange and their 24-hr volume is 67,500 BTC. So yeah, several thousand BTC being traded at once could be a significant disturbance in the force.

I wonder if it would be possible to come up with some kind of market indicator to detect when one of major holding addresses starts to sell off on one of the exchanges. This may be possible if the escrow/intermediary accounts are known. If one of these 'major holders' really felt like being evil, they could test out some of the BTC to USD processors to see how well their setup to handle large transactions and nuke them with 1000BTC conversions. Coinbase.... BOOM!... BTCQuick.... BOOM!

[1] Bitcoin Charts / Markets - http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/

Edit: turns out Coinbase has a 50BTC/day buy or sell limit.
Note, this isn't a list of rich people, it's a list of rich _addresses_, and one can have many addresses.
> They use 30-40% less power

That isn't true. Only LEDs with poor color accuracy are more efficient than CFLs.

> CFLs burn out quickly if used in fixtures that are turned on and off frequently

People claim that, and it makes sense, but it doesn't actually happen. Modern CFLs do just fine.

> LEDs don't flicker/strobe like fluorescent lighting

Florescent lighting does not flicker, and cheap LEDs actually flicker more than CFLs.

> Cheap LED bulbs don't produce bluish light like cheap CFL bulbs

Walmart CFLs cost $1 and have excellent color. It doesn't get cheaper than that.

It seems you made your mental list more than a decade ago and have not updated it as CFLs have gotten much much better.
The Pirate Bay is now a rouge torrent site. Tell your friends to stop using it.
No mercury inside.
Ah, your argument was "a miss here is a missed opportunity to do something else, so they should be pricing in the opportunity cost." Valid, I think, but I've got to give the ramifications more thought for any sort of substantive response.
FWIW, the correct term is transgendered, but most transgendered people I know are not offended by "tranny." It's all about the context. "That fucking tranny" will be offensive while "I love my tranny, that bitch is awesome!" will be looked upon as a nice thing to say.

Regardless, the author is trying to use shock value with the photo at the top and by including conversation that is entirely irrelevant.
I've spent a lot of time recently working on my own LED lamp designs. Heat dissipation is indeed the biggest problem, the second being the cost and complexity of interfacing to an AC network of 230/110V.

I think new kinds of fixtures will need to be designed, as well as new standards for DC distribution within the house (I am trying out 48V and 24V). Retrofitting existing infrastructure with LEDs makes no sense: we get wasteful, fragile and inefficient systems.
Great example, if you know more like this selling SaaS webservices by one or two people please do share.
And that addresses' EC public key is not public.
Headline is misleading.

The magic phrase in the article is "could be".
Which are not released unless you break them. And even then, just open the windows for a couple of minutes.
No I didn't, especially as a minority myself. I was commenting at the fact that it was strange that the post was rapidly changing.
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Way smaller scale but back in 2011 I heard about bitcoins and crunched some numbers. I realized that at the current price (~$16), I was able to make profit mining them on my desktop since it would only cost about ~$12 in electricty per coin.

I got myself 3 or 4 coins (I wasn't even in a pool at that point) but then the price crashed in late 2011 and I eventually forgot about it. Since then I've reformatted and I remember having that "Oh shit" moment as I was reformatting but after looking up the price I realized I was only out about $10. This was late 2011.

Now every time I see a HN post about a new price milestone I kick myself. Today I could have sold them for ~$1500-2000.
Like RLISP, the implementation language of REDUCE?
In fact you can leave the ship anywhere in the game window. As long as you are not moving it, the collision detection does not work. (Anyone knows why?)
I've had that too - fire department and all.

The UL has now required end of life circuits in all CFLs so this won't happen again in new CFLs. (And new is relative - this regulation came about a few years ago.)
No the entire history of bitcoin transactions is public that's the only way the whole thing works because that allows anyone to validate that a given account has enough coin to settle a given transaction.
There was a checker playing computer called Chinook that had something similar happen at one point (iirc one of its databases was corrupted).

Definitely worth listening to the story: http://relprime.com/chinook/
There are several types of fluorescent lighting, with different color temperatures. Granted, their spectra is not the same as sunlight, but you can mix more than one type for a more pleasant effect.
It would be trivial to write a script to watch the top however many addresses for movement. You wouldn't know if the coins were headed for an exchange or not, though.