skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started practicing immigration law last year and I have been envisioning a platform almost exactly like this recently. Particularly your eligibility test -- you nailed it. I think this is a good value proposition for people who want to DIY their petitions.

What is your marketing strategy? Adwords may be tough because you will pay $4 per click, competing with lawyers who earn $2,000+ per conversion while you'll get $99.

Are you looking for only big investors? I can't invest much but would be interested in getting involved in some way.
They're working on it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/28/cpp-con...
> Dude, that's like a guy from Alabama saying someone from England speaks a different language.

Related story: I grew up in northeastern USA. When I was young someone from Scotland came in for business. I went fishing with him and my dad. I had a hard time understanding most of what he said.
I'm a US Citizen, currently living abroad. I dread going through CBP when I have to come back through the Orwellian gauntlet. It's as if anyone who wants to travel outside of the US is unpatriotic. I couldn't believe how nice and professional Mexican, Belizean and Guatemalan customs agents have treated me, especially considering the disdain and contempt a seemingly large proportion of US border officials hold for members of those same countries.
They should list the price on the website
Try using ssh to restart a failed service, or quickly grep through a log file with the on screen keyboard...
What does Opera offer that you don't already get with Chrome/FF + a couple plug-ins?

I mean what is compelling enough to make you choose it over the above options?
This is `exactly` why I need a keyboard on my phone.
Wow, there is money in this? Why am I wasting time working on legitimate and difficult products? I'm a fantastic frontend web developer, and this seems like something slapped together very easily.

Definitely want to try my hand in this. I don't know anything about SEO and marketing though. Where could one learn?
¿Cómo crear una contraseña segura?
800,000 Galaxy Gear smartwatches shipped to retailers
It does seem a bit wasteful, but companies producing ASICs are fighting for lower power consumption. I would expect future power consumption per GH/s to go down.
Actually I went and did some searching and even found a few roundups of dozens of styli and didn't find any with an eraser for iPads/regular Android devices. So I think you're right.
I think we should just wait before making assumptions about what IDE is going to get the most love. ;)
Not using capital letters for the first word of sentences ?
No, it's just a question of selling them these shorts and greatfully profiting from it when the merits of the company pan out on the market.
Makes sense - I'm not super familiar with how to make that happen in JS, so it's all new to me. :)
Yeah, we don't prevent deadlocks. Stylistically, we try to avoid mutex locks for this reason, but sometimes you need them, so they're there.
The dropbox client only uses a fraction of the CPU of every other cloud syncing client I've tried, and even most simple menubar utilities. Do you know of one that uses less CPU? I'm genuinely curious.
It's a bit silly to allow the marketing to influence you in a positive OR negative manner.
This reminds me of http://everything2.com/
Telegraph... colossal fail. But note that the first wire transfers in 1871 were done on western union's telegraph system. Yours is an interesting question. The tulip mania bubble people like to reference was less than a year long, so BTC is already beating that.
More money than what? With a better model in place, it's possible they'd make even more money. But we may never know because of political BS.
Best travel companion
Do we really need a power station just for [more popular and frivolous technology than Bitcoin]?
TRANSHUMAN - Do you want to live forever? (full documentary film)
What are you going on about mate?
He could also use his birth certificate as well.
I don't get the argument. The power requirement of running the entire world's monetary infrastructure is probably much bigger, no?
While it is not dependent on the cloud, it does leverage it to do things such as copy and paste between apps / tablets, and storage of assets for the pen.

(Disclosure, I work for Adobe).
I would love to see Windows Surface drivers so I could use this with Photoshop.
Two spammy comments from brand new accounts and a co-founder dropping by to let us know it's the 'best travel companion'?
I've been using Rust for finite element method research, and I've been pretty happy with the results, the code is faster than my previous effort in Julia. That may be somewhat of a second system effect, though. I had trouble with detecting in Julia what the effect of the garbage collector was, I don't know if that's improved or not. The code in Rust has no shared/gc usage at all, so I'm pretty sure what the effect of garbage collection is :)

One thing I like about Rust is that it makes doing allocation-free performance-critical calculations somewhat easier and safer. This is because I can preallocate my data before critical loops, inside the constructors of implementation objects, then hand out borrowed, non-mutable pointers to this data to clients from these objects. That way the clients don't have to pass in buffers to use, which is none of their business -- it would break encapsulation for them to even know what kind and how large of buffers to pass. The clients cannot detect that they are actually receiving a pre-allocated, shared buffer.

In other languages that would ordinarily be very dangerous without extra effort, because if they or some other code turned around and called routines that used that same pre-allocated buffer again, then the data would be silently written over, in an "action at a distance" way which would be a nightmare to maintain.

But Rust "freezes" the contents behind the immutable borrow, making sure that it can't be borrowed mutably again and thus cannot be changed, while the immutable borrow is in use, from anywhere in the program, all resolved at compile time.

This allows getting very aggressive with the pre-allocation strategy.
moreover, he considers it a system with graft to be preferable to what he endured in the US, which basically is an attitude of massive entitlement. While I personally believe a person should generally have the right to unconditionally enter any country, this guy doesn't (as evidenced by his excitement and apparent delight at passing through border controls). So, what, is 'getting the green light' some sort of personal validation? And getting rejected such a huge personal affront that he will never go back to the US because he knew he couldn't bribe one of the officers?
So Europe is shitty because your mom almost got killed by her government? How about tens of millions of native Americans who were systematically exterminated by their government?

While America was founded on some really great and unique ideas and concepts (your declaration of independence comes to mind), the execution is less than stellar. That in and of itself wouldn't be a problem if you wouldn't claim that you're somehow better and more exceptional than everyone else.

You don't believe there aren't other places in the world where people go from rags to riches on daily basis and where opportunities are abound? You think the rest of the world lives in caves and mud houses? The best way to remedy that would be to get a passport and get out more.
New app for capturing reactions
Why I’m an entrepreneur
I thought, "Oh, that's kind of interesting" when it first tracked the pencil and I thought it was done. Nope. It followed for the rest of the video. I started feeling nauseous, and I don't even get car sick.
And if/when it fails, Bitcoin can reasonably claim to have shown that distributed computer-based currencies are feasible and people will use them. Even if a successor comes along and solves Bitcoin's problems, you could justifiably say that it only succeeded because of Bitcoin.
And I'm sure that you'll get a nice letter in the mail accusing you of breaking some sort of law that attempts to protect them from such shenanigans.
I disagree with a lot of VS UI ideas (all caps menus?) but VS still remains the gold standard for IDEs. C++ IntelliSense makes me immensely more productive in a very tough language to parse. And UI designers like WinForms are 100% more pleasant than laying things out in code.
>Over the last two weeks especially, many in the upper echelons of international finance are moving into the bitcoin space in a mich bigger way than they had before.

Do you have a source for this? I haven't heard of any major hedge funds buying bitcoin. It's still considered quaint in the internet circles I frequent.
I admit that it's certainly technically correct that you cannot embed a U+0000 into UTF-8. Of course, anybody who actually needed to be able to represent U+0000 in a C string would simply represent U+0000 as 0xC0 0x80 and be done with it.
A digital mirror display built with seven-segments.
Yeah. I'm having Dropbox disabled on my laptop by default because of how much CPU it'd randomly need evey single file change.
Yep that is true. The author discusses this here: http://www.oditorium.com/ou/2013/04/krugman-bitcoin-resource...
Do you need ID to travel from L.A. to Phoenix?
You aren't looking at the whole picture. In fault states, the insurance company would have to pay out to the other party in the case of an accident. That money needs to come from somewhere, namely the premiums, which is why they go up after there is reason to believe it could happen again. This isn't about emotions or ethics but rather cold logic
Logging event data in JSON format - limitations
I know you run Django for your site(s)... How do you handle the blog part? I've been unimpressed with django blog plugins, but maybe I haven't found the right one.
C++ has ways of dealing with memory and garbage (i.e. memory no longer in use), such as `malloc()` and `free()`, or reference counting, or destructors, and not all of these are as fast as you want them to be in every situation (e.g. see the numerous malloc implementations), so in performance-critical applications/operations, you have to be very mindful of memory use and optimize correctly (e.g. by using memory pools).
2D or 3D, out of curiosity? I'm just getting my feet wet playing with game programming (a 2D engine, and likely using Nimrod itself for the game logic as well as engine) in nimrod, and am going to be blogging about it.
"So currently mining Bitcoins requires power levels somewhere between the one produced by the Hoover Dam, and the world’s larges coal fired power station."

Emphasis on "currently"

Disruptive technologies are almost always costly in some way or another until more widely adopted.
"But my mother fled a country (her European home country and the country of her birth) that tried to kill her and every one like her."

Bad things happen, US has its own sins with wiped-out indigenous populations. The idea is to correct ourselves and to make things better. Apologetic attitudes aren't helpful in this regard.
BTW, which is that European country if you don't mind?
Wait how is this better than Surface Pro? Seems like it has the same features.
Announced in 2006, released in 2007 with Mac OS X 10.5.
URLs or domains? If the latter is enough, you could just install a DNS resolver like dnsmasq and configure those domain to redirect to 0.0.0.0 or so. Example config:

address=/[banned domain]/0.0.0.0

Then either configure your dhcp server or clients to use the router as the DNS resolver.
My thoughts exactly. Switching away from Chrome I loaded Ghostery/NoScript/ABP into FF. Then became concerned about system resources (FF still bloated, moreso now with extra plugins), then heard about the NoScript/ABP feud (as well as NoScript having a Russian dev), then finally that Ghostery was run by an ad company. All started to sound a bit ridiculous.

Currently have disabled Ghostery as a first step. Still running the other two, but I like the sound of Request Policy and Disconnect mentioned elsewhere to replace them. Happy to enable ads on sites I support, but not keen on the rest of the creepy tracking.

Oh for the simple life...
> The border control doesn't want to hear about nice food or nice wildlife or other blah blah blah. Direct and cooled down answers will do. "On Vacation" is fine.

This is a horrible way to greet people to come visit and spend money in your country.

My experiences traveling abroad are that most of the other countries have agents that don't make you feel like you are a burden or threat. Imagine actually feeling welcomed when you visit a lush vacation spot.
The current cost of fraud from chargebacks and identity theft from traditional credit cards seems like it would dwarf any eventual power consumption of Bitcoin miners.
‘The Ads Free Internet’ Is Menacing Online Publishers: 95% Blockage By 2017
How to write a Ruby C extension that wraps a static library
I don't think they lied. Like someone said below, "artisanal" is used for everything now. It's become more of a marketing term. It may not be right, but don't blame 53 for this.
It's a shame to lose someone at such a young age. It seems he certainly contributed more than his share to the world.
The US is requiring Lat-Am countries to enforce US patents on Chagas treatments, rather than let them be manufactured locally at lower cost.
In the long run, there will be no border controls or limitations on immigration in the world.

Why? Well, for one thing these controls hardly work at all. Look at the population of illegal immigrants in the US to see how a long fence with vicious patrols and vigorous immigration enforcement still doesn't stop the immigration.

Secondly border and immigration controls violate human rights, without due justification. And no, "too much immigrants are inconvenient" is no proper justification for hunting, arresting, detaining and deporting actual human beings.

Thirdly cross-border trade and immigration is too valuable for both the poorer and the richer countries.
To be fair, Rust probably would have needed this for some other reason in the future. I see this more as making Rust a more complete language.
ChallengePost Helps Companies Harness The Power Of Hackathons
I don't see much if any of Oberon's spirit in any those languages. Maybe Go, though I don't like it much. Part of the point of Oberon was the minimalism - each of Wirth's language got simpler and smaller, and the system aimed to remain tiny too.

In terms of the language, the Oberon 2 language report is 17 pages of which 1.5 pages is the full EBNF for the grammar.

Then again, looking at the new stuff from the people keeping Oberon alive, it seems much less interesting to me as well.
So you have created a http://news.ycombinator.com
It was on truereddit on the guys blog: http://dasmag.nl/why-i-will-never-return-to-the-usa/

His crack about a major tragedy (levees breaking) probably is what did him in.
I don't think your comparison makes sense. When Amazon was at the stage Dropbox is at now investors were taking a risk I thought was insane. That risk paid off, but there are countless examples that didn't. Amazon now practically owns their space and has inexplicable license from the market to reinvest in infrastructure or outright avoid profit. Few other companies are in this position, so comparing valuations of Amazon and Dropbox is assuming many things I wouldn't agree to.

My point was about why people get cynical about a company that is actively making money but are more lenient on ones that aren't. When profit is an uninteresting point in the discussion, it tends to not be discussed.
Exactly.

I was a bit taken aback that the tone of this submission was, "See! Bitcoing worked!"

Uh, no one outside of a few small circles has any idea what it is. And any currency as volatile as Bitcoin is broken.
That's a horrible way to greet visitors - or to make them feel like they need to research the police before visiting a country.
Well, yeah, but more like 97,89%, from what I gather. From time to time I fancy this idea of toying with some NLP package to calculate percentage of the HN comments that go like "Yes, but no", "Cool, but meh" or "Sure, but no way".

Oh wait, what did I just do?
Yeah, kinda weird. Why didn't they port rails to ycp instead?
I guess I won't be watching NFL games then. I can live without them. As for baseball? Boring sport anyway.
Way too much content on the page you linked, especially since it's what seems like a self post by a user? Why not link the main page that identifies the goals/target of your website right off the bat with some cutesy one liner or animation or 3-step website flow so I know exactly what I'm getting as soon as I visit?

Your UI is supposed to make me want to stay. It's very bland, right down to the logo. Where are the colours? If I stay more than 10 seconds clicking around and I don't love it, I'm gone, sorry but there's millions of sites out there I could browse.

I don't understand how it works. I click the links on the left (why are they randomly generated?) and it just generates more random links, and for some reason has peoples avatars on top? Why? What happens if you get 100,000 users, what function will the top avatars serve? Why not have a members directory?

Why did you link me a link that says /essay/? Is that a users self post? Shouldn't this explanation be summarized for easy consumption by the user upon first visit to the root domain?

Really think about the flow of your site and the UI/UX. Right now, I am very uninterested in using this website. No offense but if you want this to go somewhere, the benefit has to be painfully obvious.

Sorry for being harsh but I was just typing the thoughts as they came right to my head as I viewed the page, this is how I think and I'd imagine how a lot more users think.

Right now this seems like a cute side project, put in the time to make it a real product.
Reuters and AP are reputable and have reporters on the ground. AP has won 50+ Pulitzer prizes. See http://www.ap.org/company/pulitzers.
Yes, this is like the old DOS days where e.g., your games had to be programmed with your specific make of sound card or you would have no sound (or PC speaker only). What we need is an OS-level API that allows apps to be mostly agnostic about what device is giving the input. And device manufacturers won't need to release app integration SDKs -- just code the OS driver.
What would be the best way to get the initial traffic for a blog like that? It's always been a major stumbling block for me.
But if you generate C code from Haskell, don't you have the same problem as before that it's difficult to reason about runtime characteristics due to laziness?
notice he isn't offering a job to work on an android port. He is offering a job to a top developer who is up for the challenge. But since there is no budget allocated to it ("there is not specific android job listing"), then this new top developer will work on iOS for awhile.
Watts/(GH/s) will go down because of ASICs, but that will make mining more lucrative and they will have to up the difficulty which raises Watts/(GH/s).
Thanks, will take into consideration!
A CEO's passionate defense of stack ranking
Apple Now Accepting Water-Damaged iPhones for Trade-In
Strikes me as a smooth blend of both. But the segment of the public that inspired this move can see through the translucency and won't be satisfied until they stop giving us scraps and start inviting us to the table, so to speak.
I did a similar thing years ago, here's the Flippa auction (sold for $20k): https://flippa.com/127164-no-1-blog-about-casual-games-in-sp...

I'm open to questions, although here are the main aspects of it:

- Started a blog in Spanish about indie/casual games, mostly for fun

- It was part of a (very small) network (NexoBlogs.com) run by a friend of mine on his spare time

- After a year or so I ran out of things I wanted to write about, but then I noticed some terms driving most of the traffic, and focused on them. At this point I was making probably $40 a month

- A year later, after focusing on those terms, traffic grew a lot (even though for most "big" keywords I wasn't number one) and revenue was maybe a couple hundred bucks a month

- At this point I started looking at affiliate programs. Ended up with BigFishGames' which pays 25% of each sale and keeps the cookie on the user's computer for a year

- Another year went by and I was making around $1K or a bit more a month, quite comfortably

- I spent almost a year basically not writing (I'd write a generic summary once a week). Traffic still went up

- After that, traffic started declining, so I hired someone from oDesk to write for 5€ / post 20 times a month to write new content

- As you can read in the auction, at one point income from BigFishGames dropped a lot and I decided to sell it since someone else could do better with it, and it sold for the amount I wanted

- It ended up netting me (sale price aside) maybe $20K in total, and it was my only source of income for a year while I traveled around South East Asia
Congrats Ryan! I've been asked a lot recently about how to get into growth. My immediate reaction is to say "build something you want and try to make it grow". But that takes an incredible amount of time and has a lot of risk, especially if you don't know how to code.

A better recommendation is to build, say, a landing page for your idea. Drive some traffic with ads or whatever. Harvest intent from those people, and talk to them as potential customers. Iterate and optimize this process, and you'll be practicing "growth hacking" with more agility than most companies.

There isn't a line of code involved at the start, but there are about a dozen skills needed: creating & optimizing a PPC campaign, crafting a clear marketing message, using tools like unbounce or optimizely to iterate messaging, doing customer development interviews, etc.

Only when you know you have meaningful interest do you start to build.

They don't really teach this at university, so I'm really excited to see Tradecraft take off.
Snapchat is worth more than $3B
That's exactly what I did earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6754061

I actually expect I'd have lost the bet if they'd taken it, due to my way too generous terms but that's not the point.

The point was to try to illustrate that "oh it'll crash" is a nonsense prediction.

Be concrete, and put your money where your mouth is, or realise that you haven't actually thought it through.
And you believe this is something a typical user is capable of, let alone that they would do?
Performance overhead definitely varies based on the workload: http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1308296-SO-UBUNTUKVM59 (on the AIO test something was definitely wonky, maybe fsyncs weren't being obeyed)

That's with a Linux hypervisor though, so I wonder if SmartOS has any more impact on performance.
Ah good point. That might explain it.
But telegraphs are virtually gone in the western world, X.25 has very few installations. Tech doesn't ever fully die out, since just when it is about to a subculture grows around keeping it alive.

The printed page is centuries if not millennia away from becoming a niche subculture.
Take BLU Acceleration for Cloud for a spin
I remember seeing that "4chan on HN" thread a few days back and they were ripping apart this Dropbox post.
30 hrs/mo * 24 months = 720 hours

24 months * (1000 / 2) avg $/mo = $12,000 [1]

$12,000 earned + $36,200 sale = $48,200 total income

$48,200 / 720 hrs = $66.94/hr

Given the exceptionally high risk, I'd have to declare that a ROTI fail but different people value their time differently.

[1] My revenue calculation assumes a relatively steady growth.