skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically I looked at my growth curve - and in october I understood that I was in the "learning to sell" phase thanks to Rob Walling (MicroConf Europe):

https://www.wisecashhq.com/blog/images/build-learn-scale.png

At this point (and I discussed that with bootstrappers), the sane thing to do is focus on increasing the angle of the curve, learn how to sell better etc.

My axis of progress include things like improving the copy-writing on the home page (not catching enough) to increase conversion rate, improve the sign-up process, offer free email courses (on how managing cash flow with WiseCash will affect your life for good) to people going by my blog, offer useful articles, etc.

I split my time between freelancing and this work these days, and I make sure my company remains afloat by using WiseCash (which is fairly meta, when I think of it).
You may have missed the discussion from last time in which Theo explains the benefit of having older hardware. The dissatisfaction with OpenBSD seems to eerily mirror the incredibly short-sighted criticism of NASA funding : "Why do we spend all this money to send junk into space?" Which conveniently side-steps the innumerable benefits it produces.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=138973312304511&w=2

The answer to that is not news.

On a regular basis, we find real and serious bugs which affect all
platforms, but they are incidentally made visible on one of the
platforms we run, following that they are fixed. It is a harsh
reality which static and dynamic analysis tools have not yet resolved.

Now, If you don't realize this is the reason we try to run on the
older platforms, I am sorry but you have really not tried to stay in
the loop of what makes OpenBSD a vibrant ecosystem. If you aren't in
the loop regarding this, then your mail comes off pretty darn preachy.

> The recent discussion of a need for a replacement
> Vax for package-building illustrates that.

The vaxes being asked for draw almost no power, but it supplies the
same benefits as the other architectures.

Regarding shutting them down, there other social problems.

Yes, we remove about 10 of the architectures. We'd slowly lose the
developers who like to work on those areas. They also work in other
areas, but ... I suspect they would another BSD that supports them.
The only reason these two extensions were pulled was because they were causing bad PR for Google. Until that article on Ars Technica, Google had consistently taken the position that there was nothing wrong with what those extensions were doing.
oh thats cool. Well, we are also working on something similar, so i was just curious.
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To be honest I haven't noticed that it's non-snappy (I am on Nightly but use Regular at home). I'm bit biased towards Mozilla, but I don't think it is lacks much polish. Chrome dev tools are better, but the gap is closing in that area.
Including the NHS number is bad too.

It's a great shame that the information sharing systems are so bad because all that medical information is potentially very useful.

While anonymising data is hard things like including postcodes and NHS numbers is just stupid.

Don't forget this change is just about GP data, hospital data has been allowed to be shared for a while.
Google and read up about "adverse selection". You are wrong, a retail investor/trader should never (ever) place a limit order. You have negative expectation on those orders, since you are (on the whole), slower and more naive than the other participants in the order book, who are either machines with response times measured in micros or humans who are more devoted to watching the market than you (since it is, after all, their job).

To give an extreme example, let's say you stick a buy order for some equity at the best bid, and a large event happens shortly afterwards (say the employment numbers, the non-farm-payrolls are released). Consider two scenarios. a) Number is good, market takes off, you didn't get filled and you've missed out on profit you could have made had you just crossed the spread. b) Number really bad, everyone else is already out of the market, or fast enough to get out of the market, but your limit order is sitting there like a duck in a shooting gallery, gets filled instantly but the stock tanks well past that level, and you're already showing a loss.

Your expectation on a limit order is negative. It is more likely to get filled when you don't want it to get filled - this is adverse selection. Unless you really do have the tools to compete.

Even this assumes that you are directly accessing the market, it is even worse if you go through a broker. They get up to all sorts of shenanigans, including what they call "price improvement", where they'll jump in front of your limit order by some tiny increment.
My guess is if it werent't for Wozniak, Steve Jobs would have found himself another Wozniak or would have put himself into a situation where he would have not needed a Wozniak. What has Wozniak accomplished since he left Apple?
You totally ignore the exploitation part...

You can't just "create wealth" like magic. You have to do something to build wealth. and for billions of dollars you either have to do a great deal of something or do it to an incredible degree more successfully than someone else. The question is are you going to screw over someone else (or even a large group of people) to make that happen in a society where the next biggest fish probably has little compunction about doing so.

Its a rhetorical and philosophical question really, but your answer that you can create wealth so you don't have to exploit anyone, isn't even a thoughtful attempt at an answer. The ideas don't even touch each other.
Taxing their profits encourages them to spend any spare cash hiring more tax payers rather than sitting on it.
If it wasn't made immediately, which could have ended the story, an appology is never happening because it's tantamount to an admission of legal culpability. Also few CEOs of large orgs have the spine to take any risk for the greater good because they're beholden to their board and their shareholders. That's just the way these folks are, by and large.
Yet, despite doing all that we don't see it going well in practice.

The problem is stuffing things in the brain isn't a great use of one's time especially when years of doing that can be replaced by Google query.
Thanks for your posts, primitivesuave. I have to say I was surprised and extremely disappointed with the ridiculously defensive (of mostly strawman arguments) and needlessly accusatory posts in response to yours.

Needless to say this is an issue which constantly generates weird hate from certain aspects of geek culture, but I'm glad you're taking actual steps to improve the situation.
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Global availability.

After a few years, Stripe is still only available in a handful of countries. If you live in a country that is not only not US (tier 1 for pretty much everything), but not even the handful of high-priority countries like Canada or UK, your options are greatly reduced. For me, for example, it's PayPal or FastSpring - I would love to use Stripe, but I simply can't.
You have no actual idea how a limit order book works do you?
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Surprisingly, that doesn't seem affect the add in the physical paper...
The bigger issue is trying to pass this off as somebody else's fault, which comes off as weak bullshit.
It sounds like your are not so interested learning to programme but rather it is just a means to building this project you have in mind.

That being said you should just choose a popular web framework like Ruby on Rails or something like CakePHP. This means that any problem you run into will have been encountered and solved by someone already and you can pretty much just Google your way to a half decent prototype.
My mother smoked when I was growing up and when she was pregnant.

Each time I inhale a tiny bit of cigaret smoke, I immediatly feel bad and start coughing. Really feels like a poison.

Here in france, a pack of cigaret will soon cost 7 euros. I'm glad. It's a great way to penalize people while reducing the deficit, and encouraging them to stop smoking.

Each time I hear someone complaining about the cost of cigaret in france, I tell them "well it's a great way to finance chemotherapies".

Smoking is a luxury. When you feels you don't have a sharp mind or enough energy at work, and you boosts yourself with a coffee and a cigaret, okay, but I don't think you really need to have those boosts. I'd prefer getting fired instead than competing with drug addicts.
"I own a house without a microwave, ask me anything”?

Seriously, though: never saw the point. I do all my cooking from scratch, and heat up leftovers on the stove. Once every few months I find myself doing something where it would be more convenient to have a microwave, but it’s no more often than I find myself wishing I had a sous-vide cooker or a bread machine or electric kettle or any number of other kitchen gadgets. We have a smallish kitchen, and I’d rather have more counter space to work on when I’m cooking.
<irony>Infrastructure provided for free by MPS?</irony>
Use whatever you're most comfortable with.
Thanks so much :) I'll take a look at the logo and see if there's anything I can do with it.

Appreciate the feedback. Is it something you'd personally use?
> All the money, fame, and the joy of owning your own company

I think drug sellers says the exact same thing.

Of course, thats the problem here. One person is describe the work, while the other is describing the sought result.

Everyone wants money, fame and a rich life. That is not the issue. The question is how to get there, and what you need to do in order to get the money, fame and rich life.
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I'm not a junkie nor an addict. I have used e-cigs in the past, as I enjoy the flavor. There are liquids that do not even contain nicotine. I have used it in public. Your assertion that only a junkie would use one in a public place has been debunked.
I'm sure that it all helped. But I definitely remember asking, on several occasions, why we would ever want to use radians rather than degrees, and why they seemed to be in such weird increments. And no one ever really told me.

The animation was helpful in that it explained everything very quickly and obviously, obviating the need for a numeric or verbal explanation.
The hard part is not the high level algorithm - most of the common ones can be prototyped for toy systems in trivial numbers of lines.

The hard part is system interactions. E.g. the GC needs a way to identify all the "roots" (references from outside the heap, such as registers, the stack, or pointers that may have been retained by external libraries etc.).

It also needs a way to identify which parts of an object are pointers and this varies with language. "Generic" GC's like Boehm's solve this by assuming you've done nothing to obscure the pointer, and then assumes everything that could be a pointer into the heap is, but this fails miserably for any language implementation that uses bits for type tagging, for example, and retains too much memory in many other situations because it isn't precisely determining which fields are pointers.

Then you have issues like threading models (threading and GC are intimately linked, as if you don't block all threads during marking or moving/collection, you have all kinds of additional exciting issues to deal with to ensure you don't break things)
Anybody who worked anywhere near Jobs will observe he was one of the biggest assholes around. I know quite a few people who worked in, or near his sphere - and they are all pretty consistent on this point.

And yet, who else in modern history has driven as many companies to such such success, and lead the creation of so many great products?

We had a ton of the NeXT machines at my university, and I still believe they, more than anything, demonstrate the height of Steve's capability of creating a company and product. Anybody who used Sun's Desktop OS and associated applications 5 years later saw how far ahead of the market NeXT was. I thought it was a far superior product to the Macintosh, which, by 1993/1994, was starting to get long in the tooth, and by 1996/1997 had fallen behind Windows in platform power/flexibility, causing me (never particularly religious about the platform I worked on - best tool for the job and all) to leave the Mac behind and switch to Windows (Followed by a switch back in 2003 when OS X took the lead again)

Does anyone honestly think Apple would exist today (and certainly not in it's current dominance) were it not for this single individual?

And, is it really a coincidence that Pixar rose to the heights it did with Steve at the helm?

Sadly (speaking as one) - technologists are for the most part fungible, you can swap out one for another. Designers/Architects are somewhat more rare, but they can be identified, recruited, and hired.

But Geniuses/Leaders - they come but once in a lifetime, and we admire them for that uniqueness.

Certainly doesn't mean we have to like them as people though.
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I started off my Python adventure in Flask, and now pretty much use Django for everything - I found that when I used Flask, I'd essentially just start re-implementing Django.

Also, Django REST framework is utterly amazing for building APIs.
I always find the anti-smoking crowd incredibly hypocritical when they jump in a car without second thought. There are many cities in the world where it is claimed the pollution is equivalent to x cigarettes per day.

I also wonder how many control experiments are done to deduce that "second hand smoke" is causing many of the problems described, as opposed to air pollution from diesel engines.
Notifications are the crack-cocaine of instant gratification
A big problem with research into nicotine is that it has been conflated with tobacco smoke. You should really substitute "nicotine" with "tobacco smoke" in these sentences.
Thanks so much for your feedback. At the moment I'm learning CSS and some more advanced HTML, once I feel comfortable with that, I plan on learning one of the above languages.

For this project - as I'd like to develop is asap - I may outsource and learn alongside development with the aim of one day being able to maintain and develop myself. Though I know it'll be a lot of hard work and probably a long time before I'm in a position to do that.

Thanks again for your feedback.
Costs of replacing infrastructure are higher than the costs of fraud. That is the reason why nothing happens. Financial institutions know how to count money.
Several insurance companies will pay a cash incentive to use NHS services rather than claiming on your insurance [1]. For example if you need to stay over night in hospital and choose an NHS hospital instead of a private one they will give you £50 or more per night.

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="NHS+cash+benefits"
Linux 3.13
> probably use a framework like backbone, angular, or ember.

Absolutely, do not do this. Just use jQuery at first. Don't use a framework until you experience WHY you need a JS framework.
I think there's a general misapplication of the Dunning-Kruger effect, too, which can be seen in this article. Most people (like the author) use the Dunning-Kruger effect to mean:

"stupid people don't know they're stupid."

This is true, but not the way the authors meant it to be taken. It was really meant to be addressed as

"maybe I don't know I'm stupid."

... taken that way, I think the author might have written a different article, wondering if he himself might be shutting away criticism.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/revisiting-why-incomp...

> Unfortunately, in those places ruled by the smug and complacent, a classic paper has become a weapon. The findings of Dunning and Kruger are being reduced to "Stupid people are so stupid that they don't know they are stupid." Rather bluntly, Dunning himself said, "The presence of the Dunning-Kruger effect, as it’s been come to be called, is that one should pause to worry about one’s own certainty, not the certainty of others."
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This is a good move by Google.

Back when extensions were first released I wrote one, and over the years it became pretty popular and built up a good (200k plus) install base. I foolishly took some money for it last year, and the buyers stuck ads in it.

The rating have declined from 4.5 stars to 2.5, but I still feel bad for the users.

Somewhat ironically, it is actually open source, and the code is available for anyone to fork. I beleive there is a fork out there now too, so hopefully that will do better.
Most users won't care about anything but i386 and AMD64 as supported platforms. What they should care about though are the bugs that was found because OpenBSD also runs in VAX, Sparc or some weird MIPS platform.

Supporting the weird and older platforms help make OpenBSD better, they aren't support "just" because some developer think they're funny. In the future you might care about ARM support and porting OpenBSD will be easier because they didn't only support i386 and AMD64.

If everyone did as you do and buy all the releases I don't think they would have had a funding problem. I don't currently run OpenBSD, but I still donate €20/month because I would hate to see the project go away.
Ask HN: Better options than grad school for getting into bay area software dev
I've been trying to find employment as a software dev in the bay area, but I feel like the best jobs aren't available if you haven't:

A) Gone to a top tier school.
B) Know somebody
C) Had the type of experience that requires having gone to a top tier school or knowing somebody.

I was considering trying to get into a high tier grad school, but its not something I really want to do, I just don't see any other clear options for progressing as a software dev, and was hoping that someone could share advice.
> So nobody wants to buy me pizza? Is the bitcoin amount I'm offering too low?

Got to laugh seeing this today.
MRA at this time is strongly linked to wingnuts.

That is not to say there there is no benefit to considering the rights of men or the problems that men face with issues like violent attack or custody disputes.
Good that you raise Google as an example!

As Google is currently paying almost no taxes, I'm curious that how and how much is Google spending its money to support stuff now supported by the federal government?

For instance, how much is Google paying to people living on federal welfare money, and as the current job markets are what they are, would they have to decide between starving and stealing to survive, or could they still survive with Google handouts?

Military spending is a huge portion of the federal budget. While it is ludicrous how much money is being burned in it, what kind of shape would be military be with the money Google & co are currently spending to support it?

Medicare and Medicaid also are big items in the federal budget. How much is Google spending to offer health care to people who cannot for whatever reason, e.g. disability, cannot pay for it?
Nasty foul bitter bile.

Mnay teas are not at all bitter. Did you only try the cheap tea? PG Tips, Tetley, Typhoo, that sort of thing? The cheap stuff is horrible.
Reading code is harder than writing it. Don't rely on maintaining your devs' app as a way to learn.
So concentrated nicotine in liquid form is potentially dangerous and should be treated with caution. But how does the ratio of quantity ingested in the course of ordinary use to lethal dose compare to OTC meds?
@Of_Prometheus

You're hellbanned. Wouldn't normally bother to say anything, but you've gone to a lot of effort there, and most won't see it.
Don't go with PHP. It's obsolete and obscure programming language. Look at Python (Flask), Scala (Play Framework). Tool selection is important. Do not listen to those who say that it does not matter.
An LD50 of 30 mg/kg means that for a roughly average 60-kg adult, a lethal dose would be 1.8 g of pure nicotine. Were you suggesting you would have to bring a vat of it to scalding temperatures and pour it over yourself to kill yourself with it?
Thanks so much for your feedback. I think with this project I'm going to look at outsourcing the development, but roll up my sleeves and learn as much as I can at the same time.

Currently I know a bit of HTML and CSS and I'm looking to 'master' both of those and then pick a language to try learning. Though after reading your reply, I feel I need to learn Javascript too.

Really appreciate your thoughts on Ruby and thanks again for taking the time to reply.
South Africa is a very close approximation of what happens when you impose decades of apartheid and then let a small elite class of blacks in on the fun without actually dismantling the inegalitarian economic system itself.
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No, I don't have a bluetooth keyboard. On the Macbooks I use the built-in. On the iMac I use a wired keyboard.
I did also mention boiling water systems like one touch "Quick Cup" type jugs or even boiling water taps as are popular in posher houses now.

Nonetheless, I don't find it so farfetched. We are a wellish-to-do gadget heavy household and we're content with a gas kettle. Other people continue to drive manual transmission cars. Some people even use Internet Explorer! It's a funny old world.
Fuck Kim Dotcom. He's a scumbag piece of shit who deserves to rot in prison. He plots and schemes way to put hundreds of millions of dollars into his pocket off of the works of others. Anyone who supports him should be ashamed of themselves.
>He paid $4000+ (I think) extra and has nothing to show for it.

Besides the fuel economy that will hopefully pay for that investment over time.

Cars that shout "I'm saving polar bears!" may be needed to get enough early adopters but then hopefully the technology has enough benefits on its own that it becomes just another feature that people value for its own sake.
The merchant presents the bill to your phone. You approve the charge by entering a code on your phone.

This requires a) having a mobile phone, and b) having a properly-working mobile phone (battery charged, able to receive a signal, etc). That's a lot to ask for a lot of people in a lot of locations. If a device representing a third party is requires, we'd be better off with an RSA-type key fob.
Sure today yes, but you have to put that into context.
Lots of respect to jbk - though it's kind of weird that the author listed jbk's "VLC" (non startup) in the subtitle.

And ... how can this list not mention Fabrice Bellard, without whom neither QEMU (essential to KVM and VirtualBox), nor FFMPEG (very significantly behind the scenes in VLC, Handbrake, YouTube, Chrome and just about any other media related software) would have been. If you have used the internet for 60 minutes today, it is quite likely you've used a Bellard derived product.
FYI: View with JS turned off to avoid the paywall overlay and stop the article from disappearing.
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I assume he made a deal with the artists and we are not downloading illegally?

Nice design, btw the animation is maxing out my gpu.
The technology choice is a consequence of your needs. If it is a one page web app maybe node.js + JS-framework-at-your-choice, or Rails + Angular.js are good options; if it is a "classic" web app there's plenty of options: Rails, Django, Play (a Scala framework), PHP, Haskell, it's up to your tastes (I would seriously consider Yesod for example, an Haskell web framework); if it is a normal app Haskell, Java, Scala, C, Python/Pypy, Ruby, ...

I suggest you to choose some options, play with them for a short time (2 days - 1 week), and finally go for one of them.