skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what you say about the product is true, I'd strongly suggest you hold out just a bit longer than you want to. You may put yourself in a situation where other people get rich off of your labor, and you get nothing because you bailed (again, assuming the product is that good).

It sounds like you have a sales problem. Find someone really good at sales and try to get them to join the effort. Sales cures all, and it'll give you the 9 to 5 income, and slightly more regular hours, that I'm guessing you'd like to see coming in. With sales you can delegate some more of the labor that's crushing you.

Also, if your product is stellar, you can probably raise serious venture capital and accomplish the same thing until you get sales up.

It's often said that people tend to give up right before they get to the finish line. I happen to agree with that. Being a successful entrepreneur usually involves being able to endure pain that other people can't or won't, making it possible to stay in the fight long enough to succeed.

The task is to balance this equation: hang on longer than you feel like you can, but not so long that you do permanent damage (monetary, mental, physical, relationship, whatever type) you can't recover from. Getting that right gives you the best shot at success and limits the risk of regret.

If you're really, really, really certain your heart isn't in it, then bail in a way that perhaps enables you to retain a stake in the venture long term, and try to leave it in good hands.
I... don't know where the sarcasm or hatred came from. Do these questions seem unfair to you?
You'd definitely encase them in a pipeline. Something durable. That would be much cheaper than multiple pulls. 1/2" wall 8" diameter steel pipe is real strong and pretty cheap compared with doing a second pull for a redundant cable. But you make a good point about redundancy.
A lot of this seems to boil down to a combination of seeing others misuse tools and assuming that's what they're for (which is a communication/teaching failure, not a failure of the tool), and looking at stepping-stone solutions.

Take binary packages, for example. Sure, eggs did that. Sort of. But they also introduced a weird parallel universe where you had to stop doing normal Python things and start doing egg things. So pip eschewed eggs.

And meanwhile the community banded together to find a way to separate the build and install processes, the result of which is the wheel format:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/

Similarly, virtual environments are still being improved (with the improvements now being integrated direct into Python itself).

And yes, you can use pip's requirements files as a duplicate way to specify dependencies. And people do that, and it's unfortunate. Because the thing requirements files are really useful for is specifying a particular environment that you want to replicate. That might be a known-good set of stuff you've tested and now want to deploy on, it might be an experimental combination of things you want others to test, etc., but that's something setup.py's dependency system isn't good at. And repeatable/replicable environments are certainly an important thing.

etc., etc.
I'd totally grab her book if it wasn't almost $40. Cracking the Coding Interview was amazingly helpful during my job search.
Homejoy and it's leadership are committed to trustworthy and fair business practices and reviews. See Adora's response from April 2013.
http://blog.homejoy.com/kfJh5xY8LOe3pJZtAG9J9RD2
Stories.

I'd want to write a book for the general public, and people love stories more than anything else.

Biography of a Bitcoin millionaire. How he discovered it, what made him believe, how he felt, his poor childhood growing up. Class-hopping. It'd have to be spiced up and a bit dramatized.

Bitcoin Hacker. Bitcoin is a hacker's dream, irreversible bits on weak connected systems. I think I'd forget the straight facts here and just write some fiction based on true events. Write about the geeky childhood, the dark nights, the discovery, the rush... the struggle, the late nights pumping techno. The final victory. The fear. The mix of guilt and excitement. The secret and pride of wealth... that could never be openly shared.

Bonus points if you can take these two and juxapose them. The honest Millionaire who looses everything verses the looser who smarts himself a fortune.

Take a story like that and give it to someone 10 years back and it'd be straight science fiction. But these are the realities of what's actually happening today.
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I'm mostly just curious where you even came up with that notion. Out of everyone I know in New York only one guy ones a car and he's daft.
No, because then it would have to get passed again in that form by the house

Both houses of congress must pass the same bill for it to go to the president.
Perhaps you could have a nice looking "Our Food Sources" page that details the markets, farmers, etc? I might be the minority on this, but when I see food locally sourced I'm more likely to buy it than generic food brand X.

Locally sourced to me = fresher, healthier, and better for my local economy obviously
Anyone who can code or do sysAd/devOps would not pay for $79/month for a status page. But if you think of it as a business owner, anyone would.

Developing your own internal tool can be done if you can spare resources, but most of the time it will be done half-baked. Statuspage.io provides you with minimal overhead - unless you can spare dev resources, do your own A/B testing, ensuring it's up, managing another internal tool for your status pages takes up a lot of work. Another git repository to manage, another project held in everyone's cognition.

During downtimes, usually everyone is poured into solving a problem. Not updating and doing status pages.

You can say that Statuspage.io can be replaced with a wordpress website at it's most basic functionality, but even that wordpress website needs someone to take care of it, to make sure it is up and running during your lowest points. Extra stress, extra thing to worry about.

For anyone who runs a huge web business (see their list of clients), $79USD for a reliable service that acts as a crucial part of your system that faces customers during the lowest points of your service is pretty cheap. Compare it to the hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars you may lose in damage control during a downtime, just because your customers had no updates on what the hell is happening.

PS: I do not work for statuspage.io
I'll second this. I review books on my blog[1] and set it up so that visitors can choose whether or not to follow the referral link or a non-referral link.

About 2/3rds of people follow the referral link.

Out of the several thousand pageviews and several hundred clickthroughs, I've accrued a grand total of about $60.

Unless you have thousands of clickthroughs, or you spruik products with high impulse value, Amazon referral links are not very lucrative.

[1] http://chester.id.au/book-reviews/
Just from browsing the two sites on my iphone, statuspage made their case better. Would I pay that much for their service? Maybe if I was a funded company it would be more attractive than wasting man hours. Do I think someone can undercut their price? Probably ...
Homejoy and it's leadership are committed to trustworthy and fair business practices and reviews. Check out Adora's response from April 2013. http://blog.homejoy.com/kfJh5xY8LOe3pJZtAG9J9RD2
So the totality of your criticism of a story from one of the best security reporters in the business is sigh and "doesn't get it right"?

And this is the top comment on Hacker News?

Sigh
Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Oneness Pentacostals, various others. Being all-inclusive isn't the point, nor should it be.

If you want my personal definition of "Christian", it's this:

1. There is a god.

2. I'm not it, and neither are you.

3. Jesus is.

4. Therefore, Jesus is the boss.

After that, all the rest just sort of flows out of it. It is amazing how many doctrinal issues either instantly disappear or don't even matter anymore. You don't end up with all sorts or absurd "how many angels can fit on the head of a pin?" questions to argue about endlessly, with one camp saying 144,000 and another saying 144,000,000. Instead you get real questions, like "what does God want of me?"

It would be like having a major disagreement within a company over if the shoe size of the CEO is 12 or 13. The CEO doesn't care if you know his shoe size, he cares if you do your job or not.
1) persistence: battery-backed UPS and synchronous replication. No WAL anywhere. I'm thinking about ways to do disk-based storage without synchronous IO, to provide decent performance with higher storage capacity

2) no joins supported yet. However, the benchmark that I performed (on the blog) involves 3 updates across random nodes. I designed InfiniSQL specifically to perform multi-node transactions very well, because that's the Achilles' heel of every other distributed OLTP system. I plan to implement joins, but expect them to perform decently for the workload you describe.
Pretty much all aspects.

Have you ever sworn at your computer?

As a result of swearing at your computer did it refuse to work for you the next day?

Have you ever had to bring your computer into an office sit it down and ask it to come in earlier even though you don't really care what time it shows up?

Have you ever had to defend your computer making a typo and costing the company $100,000 to people who are so careless as to ignore the redlines under their misspelled words in the email regarding this issue?

As a manager you are a human shit shield for the people beneath you. In addition to being a human shit shield whenever the budget is cut you must pick who gets a paycheque and who doesn't when the budget is cut. At the end of the day after letting people go, you toss a coin walk into your managers office and then find out if you made the cut.

The only really good thing about being a manager is that when comically stupid decisions get made all you have to do is keep a straight face and delegate actually implementing it to someone instead of having to code the atrocity yourself.
Not to discount your experience, but at the large enterprises (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc.), Program Managers make the same money as Software Developers at equivalent titles. Program Managers are not JIRA monkeys (I love JIRA, by the way), but generally have coded in the past and have a better grip on reality than some MBA candidates.

The tradeoff is this:

1) PMs get broader visibility across the org, which tends to result in faster promotions into management for "good" PMs.

2) PMs atrophy technical skills and become more dependent on the larger organization (they acquire more firm-specific skills in econ talk) than do equivalent developers.

So, sometimes if you like your company and want to advance quicker, you will be willing to trade away some industry or general skills for firm-specific skills to get faster promotions or more power.
Except it is clearly scaling much faster than economic growth.
Thanks! Hopefully we'll come to NYC sometime in the future :)
Not sure what program you're talking about but you won't meet investors by taking classes at Stanford, you meet investors by meeting investors.
This is why you should install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode... and only let aps that actually need it access the internet.
Is it me, or does the BBC video player volume go all the way to 11?
Since you have a kid the startup should be very compelling to consider it.
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(1) Its free. You're fucked.

On the other hand,

(2) Why aren't these people put in jail?
It uses 2pc so it won't really scale.
How much do you take, and does it really work ? Any secondary effect?
It's very expensive, they won't be able to hold that price long term. For now it's still a young and growing field, all boats are rising.

I often see eg Pingdom take flak for being expensive. However, their basic account is a mere $10, and $40 for their pro (a lot less if you sign up for a year). It's a trivial cost for them to offer the exact same status page product, just stapled on to their existing offerings. With their massive customer base, it's also very easy for them to instantly dominate the 'status page' market, and make it all but impossible for StatusPage.io to thrive long-term (assuming a good product).

Given the cost of offering these types of services is navigating toward zero per unit, in my opinion there's no chance a company can hold a $80 per month price tag.
Which, despite being a nice idea in theory, now means that when you've forgotten (usually) and still need food, now you end up taking a car back with your paper-bagged groceries.
Yeah, I think that was largely my reaction as well. Attacking virtualenv in particular because you've seen others use it as a replacement for a completely isolated environment just says that at the very least they didn't understand its intended use case, and perhaps OP doesn't either.

Also, while I support his offering a full-isolation alternative, realistically not everybody is going to want to develop in a Vagrant environment. It's a great solution if you're willing to run with that sort of overhead, but not everybody is.
Definitely used this app for quite sometime. I did notice that it had required a number of permissions, so one day I decided to ditch it out of principle.

For those looking for an alternative, I've been using the Telsa light, and loving it. Highly recommend. The author even outlines the exact permissions that he's using, and why he's using them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoils...
I feel people who consider themselves to be "intellectuals" or more generally people who "see" the present world situation more clearly (whether it be the geopolitical, societal, or technological aspects of it) have the duty to write about it and inform others.

Perhaps this is what we have come to. Because of corporate chain-of-command issues (think Bloomberg in China) professional journalists can't speak the truth anymore, so we need citizens to do the job. As the article points out, the main thing that is missing is not the information/revelations but the synthesis of this information. What is the System? How does it work? How are they fucking us? Who is pulling the strings? What is the good fight?
In happy news, they actually broke ground within the last week in downtown Detroit to begin infrastructure upgrades required for the M1 (Woodward Avenue) rail project.
I stuck to HN's "preserve the headline" policy, but a subtitle might be: what Jimmy Choos, tattle sheets, Murdoch, oil and railroad barons, P.K. Dick, McClure's Magazine, hyphenated Americans, and HSBC have in common.

I've been engaged on my own threading-of-multiple-needles project over the past few months, and while Adam Curtis's line is a bit different from the one I'd draw, the common thread he does find is striking, insightful, and original.

I'd also like to hat tip Dieter Muller who'd shared this on G+:

https://plus.google.com/110168665701189567035/posts/dzr7LNLu...
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Stay in school, coast if you want to, work on personal project and have fun and socialize. You will probably never have as much free time again. I got out after 3 years and looking back I think it was a mistake.
Oh dear. What's the right way then?
Some people use Python as JS or PHP, why not also make it behave like that?

In reality, even if this is satire (which I believe it is) I'm sure if enough people will know about it, at least one of them will use it seriously.
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What a laugh - to meet you on here. Yes my comments were about SIF 3.x. Now that said the best thing that happens with SIF is that schools and Edu Authorities get their Data into order - so it can be used properly externally - WHILE - it remains under their control. So this means ALL the SIF 2.x projects can migrate to SIF 3.x with a update to the software (as I pointed to its on GetHub) - but they dont have to change the data, the business events, their authorisation etc. So SIF 3.x bring both a low entry option for those wanting to share there data and a migration path for those existing.

I have a full online course in SIF 3.x and the Open Source Framework if you want to learn more.
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Regarding MemSQL:
- we have just released v2.5 with full support for JSON and online ALTER TABLE across cluster
- MemSQL performs great on both OLAP and OLTP
- it scales well: we have several hundred node cluster in production at Zynga
- license cost for startups is $1
What happened to all of the excitement about functional programming?
> After another three generations or so, chips will probably reach 5nm, and at that point there will be only 10 atoms from the beginning to the end of each transistor gate, he said. Beyond that, further advances may be impossible. "You can't build a transistor with one atom," Samueli said.

I don't get it - did people assume that chips could get infinitely small?

Seems pretty obvious that Moore's Law would fail at some point.

Disclaimer: I didn't know about this law before today so I'm probably ignorant of something.
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The problem is that few of these people feel directly touched by patent issues and that is certainly the case for their constituents. For the average citizen patents are far removed from their daily reality. This means the issue has little political power. And this is probably true across all political alignments.
1. The fewer steps, the less chance of making a mistake. With node/npm there is no need to set up anything, 'virtualenv' is enabled by default, just npm install and you're set.

2. Some tools make it easier to detect the mistakes and guide you to a solution. Some present you with unintelligible messages or a (for end-users rather useless) stacktrace. Others describe the problem nicely (in prose), point you to FAQ/documentation or tell you what the most likely solution is.
It's like the exact opposite of Perl's "use strict" pragma. ;)
No surprise here.

I recently switched from iOS to Android, and the two readily available app stores on my device(Google Play and Amazon)are little more than a cross between a digital flea market and the wild west.

Google would do well to copy Apple's approach to app store curation and locking down their OS so that shenanigans like this can't be pulled off.
> $123.00 HOURLY RATE

Wow. What is your usual rate outside of oDesk?
I think you mean 2PL.

It does really scale, check out the benchmark report on the blog. http://www.infinisql.org/blog/2013/1112/benchmarking-infinis...

For deadlock-prone workloads, it will likely not be as good, admittedly.

I'm considering a variation on MVCC that gets around the single transactionid bottleneck, but the currently implementation is based on 2PL. http://www.infinisql.org/docs/overview/#ftn.idp37098256

For concurrency management algorithms, there are no good ones. Only those that are less bad than others in some cases.
The underlying Raft library for etcd can be found over here: https://github.com/goraft/raft

Some additional resources on Raft, including a link to the raft-dev mailing list, can be found over here: http://raftconsensus.github.io/

Raft has worked really well on etcd so far and it is nice to have a simple easy to reason about algorithm to work on top of. Etcd is moving quickly adding a simple to use fair mutex API, improved scriptability via etcdctl and several improvements to the core API in recent weeks. Come join in.
I really wonder how much companies earn by selling information about their customers, their contacts lists, their location, etc. Is it that lucrative?
Congratulations!

Do you have benchmark reports?
Agreed. We have plenty of examples of services which dump data out of a SIS and then run custom scripts to organise it for this use or that, from putting accounts into AD to creating a census or students ids for state. All been done. There are other businesses like StudentNet and GroupCall which are doing much of the same thing for cloud Identity as a Service. Some of these guys can offer the addition of real identify matching services and the tracking of students across schools.
I noticed that as well and assumed it was a spammed linkbait. This was a great read btw.
> These "quant" people are pseudo-scientists, alchemists.

To a certain degree, you're right. Their job is essentially that of a fortune teller - to predict the future.

Markets are so complex that there is no single 'model' that can predict them. Furthermore, there are always winners and losers, people who lag the market and those who beat it. Coming up with a 'model' to beat the market is essentially the same as coming up with a model to win at poker. You can use statistics and math to inform yourself, but at the end of the day there's a certain amount of the unknown you have to deal with...
Things that glimmers like gold in phones and computers and wires, are gold plated. It's likely worth the time to pluck out the shiniest parts and save them in a pile. A pile that grows in value over time. And increases in value the larger it gets.

Also, it's fun to take things apart.
Rockefeller's personal fortune alone amounted to ~1.5% of the US' GDP

I'd have to dig for the references, but as I recall it was Rockefeller or Carnegie whose income (or at least that of their companies) comprised a percent or two of GDP.

In terms of wealth, Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest individual in modern times. From Wikipedia:

By the time of his death in 1937, estimates place his net worth in the range of US$392 billion to US$663.4 billion in adjusted dollars for the late 2000s (decade), and it is estimated that his personal fortune was equal to 1.53% of the total U.S. annual GDP in his day. When considering the real value of his wealth, Rockefeller is widely held to be the wealthiest person in history.

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

A related reference I strongly recommend (and Ida Tarbell makes an appearance there as well) is Daniel Yergin's The Prize (both a book and PBS/BBC TV series now available on YouTube). The arc inscribed by the development of petroleum is truly staggering.

As to what changed: 100:1 EROIE energy, high-yield mineral deposits, a lack of complexity brakes (pollution, NIMBY, anti-trust, and similar rules), as well as the vast potentials available through exploiting nascent energy and mineral wealth, as well as the huge technological advances of ~1880 - 1930 had a huge amount to do with the wealth accumulated at that time. I see this as more having to do with multiple low entropy resources than regulation, thought that has had some effects. And the negative externalities were tremendous as well, from economic instabilities (the late 1800s saw tremendous busts, despite a gold-backed currency) to corruption and abuse, to pollution and discrimination.
Hackers and early adopters are using Perl in 2013? Sure you aren't off by 12-15 years?
I don't understand what you're saying. I don't own a car. I live in Santa Cruz, where disposable plastic bags are also banned. I do my grocery shopping using reusable bags either on a bike or taking the bus. Where do "forgetting," cars, and paper bags enter into the equation?
Oh yeah, they do that. Yes, it's an ST reference.
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Such short sightedness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBCgiFhmNA .
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I think I cant understand what a world run on bitcoin would look like without a global war.