skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My free-to-play Solitaire web app, at http://www.solitr.com/.

It's making a bit over $1,000 in monthly ad revenue. Traffic is at ~3k dailies.

I did this as a weekend project 2 years ago, and at some point migrated my blog to it to pick up DomainRank. Other than that I've mostly left it alone.
In my experience it's not so much a matter of "legitimacy" or "transparency" so much as pragmatism; charities believe that "$10 buys and delivers an anti-malaria net" makes more than "$10 supports our work in various ways"

Whether OpenBSD believe transparency would increase donations enough to be worth the bother is of course another matter. And if they to and forego some donations that's up to them.
Gravity Byte may be a great app. But, it does not make a great first impression. You may want to try to give the app a more cohesive art direction. For example, in the app screenshots, I see 4 different fonts. Also, the game graphics don't really grab my attention. Keep in mind that most people are judging your app almost entirely by the screenshots.
so this brings them in line or lower than google's cloud storage https://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage/

Great to see this competition. Does anyone know if s3 and gcs are comparable to azure's locally redundant or geographically redundant storage? The new pricing is basically in the middle of the two for azure.
We were tired with dealing with the often steep pricing on geocoding when you reach your daily free limit (e.g. Google Maps starts at $10k/year). So I built this service so I can use it myself and hopefully it would be useful for others too.
'My point is that the police can't do their job without information, and almost all information given to the police is volunteered by innocent people. Far fewer crimes would be solved if everyone clammed up when the police knocked on their doors, and that'll inevitably lead to more crime.'

Right. So let's just remove the need for a warrant, and revoke the fifth amendment. You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, citizen.
you may ship your app with any database you want. Easiest to use is a pure-JS datastore, like https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb or sqlite. I prefer NeDB, it should work just fine for <= 1GB of data.

If you want to use a non-embedded database, you have to build your own installer, though.

The solutions offered by the chromium part (localStorage, indexedDB) could be worth a look, too. But i have no experience with them when using bigger amounts of data.
That's only true if we are truly far past the days of COINTELPRO.
After a hasty search it seems this has made it to the HN front page before. The comments are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2141542
Chemical process turns any plant matter—even trees—into biofuels
Explanation and examples here: http://www.bckmn.com/blog/track-all-the-things-in-google-ana...
As with all instance types, what you see in the Instance Storage column is the ephemeral storage available to you as /dev/xvdb, etc. The root volume remains the same at 7 GB, and for this instance type it must be EBS-backed.
Well I think the idea is that it is a good general metric which should average out over thousands of pages. Just because one section of the Java language spec is wordier than the corresponding one in the C++ language spec does not mean it holds for the entire document.

But I concede the point of complexity; the C++ spec is no doubt more dense. I just don't think it deserves to always be singled out as the most overly-complex/bloated language. The difference is not as big as the cliche would have people believe.

Also, the article is about adding to the standard library, which is much smaller than Java's and .Net's, so invoking bloat is probably not appropriate in the context of the article.
In two hundred years, hopefully the Mexican economy will become much stronger and we won't need it. There is no wall to the north to Cananda. It's more likely that Americans would want to flee to Cananda than vice versa.

Btw, the Berlin Wall was built to keep people in, not keep them out. Understand the difference?
How can an ASP web form & web service be hosted to access a local, SQL database?
"hey, I'm literally paying people to threaten me; is that a logical, wise or sane thing to do? No. So stop doing it."

Did you also stop paying taxes?

/jk
>What he has gone through is nothing compared to those who fought for Civil Rights.

You're right. Thanks to the connected world we live in, Snowden was able to take his fight on the road and place himself out of reach before anything that extreme could happen. That's not to insinuate that being forced to leave your home, your family, your friends, and everything you've ever known, possibly permanently, isn't pretty terrible..

>Claiming Snowden would be tortured or disappeared is beyond stupid.

You mean like Manning wasn't? Sleep deprivation and extended solitary confinement is torture for a reason.

>He is a public figure, it would be a black mark on the US government that anything violent would happen to him while in custody.

He's only a "public figure" because he ran and was able to keep somewhat in the spotlight (partly by continually releasing information). When's the last time you heard anything about Chelsea Manning? She's effectively "disappeared". The leaks are out of the media, efforts all for naught because nobody remembers them anymore.

And as I've spent the last 5 or so posts trying to convey, you don't need to inflict "violence" on someone in order to ruin them. Locking someone in a box with no human contact for 23 hours a day does that nicely.
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Silliness.

Why in the world would the the US kill Snowden? They have nothing to gain and everything to lose. You think the Russians are stupid enough to send a goon to threaten him? The second he gets out of that interview he's going to tell the media all about it.

You've watched way too many spy movies.
Or they plan on overages. They charge '$0.02 per GB thereafter' which works out to 20$ per TB so they break-even on bandwidth at ~1.2TB. Sure, some people can get vary close to 1TB without going over but for most people it's hard to manage bandwidth that exactly.
"How very coincidental"

Colour me surprised too. Just 5 minutes ago I was searching for a false name generator. My heart leapt with fright on seeing my recent history at the top of HN.
Does anyone have a similar golang workflow that they would like to share?
Exactly the same case for me too. At first it seems like it would be great, but it was wearing away at the passion I once had for my career. I now spend my days looking at cat videos and playing games rather than focussing on personal projects. I move jobs in 2 weeks to a harder job with better pay and can't wait.
Angular === Community
And my point is that you can't take Snowden's assertions at face value. His behavior doesn't comport with someone who was a patriot and found himself facing a difficult decision to disclose.

It's far closer to that of a "mole".
so.. us addresses only?
$5 is not cheap by app store standards. It's a fair price for an app in that class.

As to whether you're entitled to support or feature requests, you can make an argument both ways. One could generate some word of mouth by following up on (simple) feature requests.

In one of the apps, Fourier, the reviewers say that the horizontal frequency scale is off by a factor of 2 (but the frequency display elsewhere is accurate). That's a small thing to fix that hasn't been fixed since Apr 2012. I think that at a $5 price point, my expectation is that the app is updated with at least bug fixes of that variety.
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Many countries have 1gbps (Hong Kong, Singapore, Turkey...) but only if Google does it in the US in a city or two does it get some public air time.
Firefighter writes Google Glass Apps to make saving life easier
According to the aws blog[1] you can now launch these instances from s3-backed AMIs. Its not clear if this still uses an ebs volume or if it can now use an instance volume.

[1]: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2014/01/aws-update-new-m3-feature...
Such a simulation would reveal a lot about the creator's beliefs, and essentially nothing about reality.
> defending a cultural value of openness

'Openness' amongst a community or society and openness with regard to the government are not one in the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
I never tried to do it myself but many people spend winters there. Or even telecommute from there.
I guess it's a place to live cheaply by the beach. Cuisine is also nice as I've heard.
Also free http://geocoder.us/
That logic was bs from the beginning they just taught they could strong-arm the students into submitting.

It's the typical shoot first ask questions later philosophy that intelligent well educated teachers should never have used.

If they would have addressed their concerns from the beginning to the students i'm certain they would have complied.
Same with Icelandic names. Also, the GPS coordinates were often out at sea or on a mountain. Using openStreetMap it should be easy to generate more plausible coordinates.
>NSA has no interrogation capability at all.

Dumbest thing I've heard yet today. It reminds me of the scene in Demolition Man where Simon Phoenix cannot kill Dr. Raymond Cocteau so Phoenix enlists one of his ne'er-do-well friends to dispatch him.
No they don't; I've referred multiple times from the same machine using different users.
I'm assuming by wealth, you mean actually producing a good or providing a service?

I know we have to draw the line somewhere, but it would be interesting to throw in some renewable and non renewable resources for transforming goods.
A standard "Statement of Activities" and "Financial Position" (the nonprofit equivalents of a Profit and Loss statement and Balance Sheet) would be nice.

These don't include every expenditure in detail, just the totals in broad categories. Yes, even that might generate some debate but when you're asking for donations you should not be offended if your benefactors would like at least some high-level insight into how their donations are being used.
I did get a chuckle at this backhanded positioning in the very first paragraph (which I highlight in _ _ below). Kind of set the tone of what I expected in the note, but was disappointed to see:

"In retrospect, I agree that we could have been more patient in asking the developers to take down _information they had appropriated without permission_, before taking the actions that we did."

The entire note has an odd, arrogant read to it. If the new tool in fact provided complete comments as well as numeric scores, Yale would have cheered and saluted them ... but because they didn't, Yale shuts it down? Is that really the issue?
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I like the big "HOME.HERO.HEADING" at the top. And "HOME.WHATEVER.HEADING" is quite amusing...
Not available in India. Rats.
https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2...

This is the official press release. Still they don't give a source for those 16 million credentials...
Mining scrypt coins is proficient. I make $400/month with 2 machines I built 6 months ago.
>The NSA doesn't create vulnerabilities in software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
The three myths of global poverty - 2014 Gates Annual Letter
Yep! Unfortunately we will manually have to add support for each country (including getting data, normalizing it, etc.) which is quite some work. We're planning to add support for additional countries if demand is high enough.
For an API, you can also try http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ (which is kinda free -- and uses OpenStreetMap data).

The biggest problem we've had is changing non well-formed addresses / ambiguous addresses into canonical addresses with lat/lng. Google Maps wins on that front.
> actors transact only when the net outcome is more valuable to each of them

At least, the perceived value, but often times in real economies this does not match up with actual value at all. People hoping to better their fortunes end up making poor decisions to that end, particularly -- but certainly not limited to -- poor people without much financial savvy. This part of the simulation seems perfectly accurate to me.
I don't disagree with that. The brand is huge and will find a way to at least keep the lights on here but how many people are really going to decide to spend their $9.99 a month on this? Most people won't even pay Spotify $9.99 a month for radio and a virtually unlimited music library since oh yea it's all also available for free.
Somewhat different area, but earns me around $300 a month- Churning credit cards for rewards. So called “award/travel hacking”. 2 new credit cards per calendar quarter, conservatively estimate each signup bonus is worth $600 (if you know how to redeem them, usually that means for travel).

Have to live in the U.S. and have good credit to do it, but I’ve been at it for a few years now and haven’t paid for airfares or barely any lodging costs on almost all my travel. Working on an online class that teaches how to do it, looking to sell that for some “real” passive income.
He's using the word 'wealth' in a imprecise, non-jargon sense that is something like money, or the open market value of all of a person's possessions, or the economist definition. Without teasing those apart it's hard to make any sort of economics simulation that will give results that are interesting in a practical sense.

But hey, Python has lots of cool packages that are useful here, which is the real point.
Same, cstross...C Stross..it can't be the Charles Stross...holy crap it is the Charles Stross.

Only tpratchett would have elicited the same response.
While this is very interesting, the profiles may need to be "tweaked" a bit to be realistic. For example, the first profile it generate for me was a:

-Female

-Fitness instructor

-Weighing 205.9 lbs

-Standing 5 feet 1 inch

Individually, any of these things might be ok. Any three could even be possible. All four, however, just doesn't seem to work.
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This is very cool! We use SmartyStreets because of the price. Where did you get the addresses database?
Pretty awesome - although I keep on getting Ferraris and type two Diabetes. I guess it goes to show that you really can't have everything.
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Within GNOME there is pretty complete financial transparency. There only a few who go over the numbers. I believe in "trust, but verify", though I don't check anything at all. I do see one or two people checking the financial figures. I really appreciate them taking the time to do that.

I agree with you that very likely anyone requesting this is not going to really donate. But at the same time I think the people who do verify the financial figures (independently) should be applauded.

I have seen other examples (not GNOME) where the lack of transparency caused things to happen that should not have. Sometimes even with the best intentions actually.

So regarding: what would I like to see? Nothing :-P I'm ok with a "not going to do that", as long as you don't dismiss that financial transparency (or an audit) does have its benefits.
I've been doing freelance geocoding gigs for a couple of institutions in the past years (canadian addresses), with only open source tools and data.

I also wrote a primer explaining the basic geocoding ideas:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca/2012/04/lean-geocoding.html
I run Built With Bootstrap (http://builtwithbootstrap.com). It's making 4 figures a month at the moment.

It's mostly passive income as I spend no more than a few hours per week actually working on the site. Though I spend considerably more monitoring the stats and feeds etc etc

My biggest win with this site is the extremely low cost to run it - something I want to talk about more if anyone's interested. My only real regular cost is the domain name! Pretty phenomenal for a site that continues to attract thousands of visitors per day :) a model I'm proud of and hopefully can continue!

But of course, all standing on the shoulders of giants! Many thanks has to go to far more talented people than me... both for the site's foundations and it's popularity.
But what are they?
It's also flawed in that most transactions increase the wealth of both parties. Even though wealth in this context includes non-monetary factors, (e.g. I exchange my time for money), it still means that the interactions in the article (two people meet and one ends up with some proportion of the total money) are very unrealistic.

It might be a realistic simulation of professional poker players.
Neat website! Very clean, simple pricing. Thank you for batch geocoding to minimize network traffic...

How does the accuracy (as well as address parsing capabilities) compare to the completely free solutions such as Nominatim[1] or DSTK[2]?

Both services provide capabilities for local installations, obviously with no query limits and minimal latency.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

[2] http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
Interesting. What interesting things can you do once you geocode a street address? How are you (your business) using this?
I bet every song is equalized with extra bass.
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I believe they have a daily limit as well. They also charge $50/20k addresses for bulk geocoding which is way more than what we charge :)
Run PHP client-side or in Node.js
$5 is cheap. By any standard. You proved it yourself, by purchasing the app BEFORE emailing him. If you think it's expensive, I trust you can outsource building a replica of the app for less than $5.
S3 is locally redundant; buckets live in a specific region you put them in. You could roll your own geographically redundant storage by mirroring the same data into buckets in two or more regions, though. With the new pricing, two-region mirroring would run you between $0.136/GB/mo and $0.17/GB/mo, depending on whether you also wanted local redundancy within each region or were using "reduced redundancy storage" for each copy.

Joyent's pricing is slightly better if you want to roll your own multi-region storage: http://www.joyent.com/products/manta/pricing (Also comes with an interesting Unix-compute service where you can submit jobs to run over the data where it lives, rather than having to download it into a VPS to process, which I find more interesting than the storage itself.)
Any way to see when this was created? Do these ipython notebooks log create/change events? Just curious to see if this was a recent creation or just a recent discovery...
Selecting "Hobbit" also adjusts the generated height to around 3 feet!
Your phrase was "Is there any point in taxing companies at all - they provide jobs for tax payers."

How is that not "X provides jobs therefore X should not be taxed?" Note too my followup: How many employees and how many FTEs does one need before this special exemption kicks in, and why that level?)

You propose an alternative, which is that liability protection is covered by dividend tax.

That's not practical. Google has never paid a dividend, and Berkshire Hathaway has only paid a dividend once since Warren Buffett took over. There are many other companies which don't, or which only rarely, pay dividends.

Why should their shareholders get liability protection when they've never (or almost never) paid said tax?

I see you omitted capital gains tax from your list of two possible tax sources. That of course only applies to companies which make a profit, so shareholders who don't make a profit from their investment (or who never realize their gains over their life) are still getting liability protection for free.

You seem to argue that only the people should pay taxes. That's a perfectly reasonable argument. But as soon as you allow for an entity which is able to control money independent of any person - ie, a corporation - then by definition "any contribution imposed by government [...] whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name" is a tax on that entity.

There's no reason for the government to allow a special entity without getting at least something in return. You don't like income tax on corporations. But you haven't explained why you don't like corporate registration fees or the Maryland law which imposes fees based on the number of issued and outstanding shares. For that matter, if a company isn't taxable because it isn't a person, then who pays property tax, payroll tax, customs duties, sales tax, etc?

That is, why is income somehow special from all of the other taxes that a corporation pays?
In all fairness, it was not completely shut down. The main computer and some heating was left active. I do not think that time keeping was biggest worry.

That being said, a hundred other things could have gone wrong and mission control would have had no idea that something happened. Meteorite impacts, misalignment of the solar panels, software bugs, radiation damage and a faulty wake-up sequence are just some things that spring to mind.

Bad thing is that most of these could result in the spacecraft not even being able to send out a ping. Or any information that would tell engineers what went wrong and how to fix it for future missions.

Imagine just listening to silence and not being able to find out if any of it was your mistake.
Nice animation using WebGL which shows the location of Rosetta:

https://util1.estec.esa.int/rosetta/where_is_rosetta/
Setting up bureaucracies = we're going to take a long time to figure this out, hopefully long enough for everyone to forget this. Then our crappy committee will get nothing accomplished, except this smokescreen act of course.
Yes, I was about to say the same. I tried a few "Hispanic" names and they looked absolutely weird.
On the other hand the notion of a "reasonable" Hispanic name can be quite broad. Names in Spain can be very different from names in Argentina (where Italian surnames are quite common) or from US (when it's not uncommon to have an English name with a Spanish last name)

Not sure about that, but other name set can have the same problems if they try to cover a language shared by lots of people (like Arabic)
I know this kind of thing has been done before, but this is my attempt to bring PHP to the browser (and Node.js.)

Hopefully it will be useful for reusing validation code/dependency injection containers client side, etc.
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/pontiac/firebird/used-...

You can be the first to own one!

Only a 1995 model though :-)
Great job, guys! This definitely opens up some nice options. Reminds me how much I miss the old TIGER/Line file formats, though.
I wrote a book on adult ADHD. I published it 3.5 years ago, and it brought in $75 last month.

It used to bring in more, but some people wrote very negative reviews which were upvoted, so its sales dropped.

I don't feel too bad because many people who read it say it is unusually helpful and accessible.
Will Google be doing something about spammy guest posts that cite a bunch of so called experts who are part of a link scheme network like Young Entrepreneurs Council?
Or do they get a pass because they post on big name sites like these:

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/ask-the-entrep...

http://www.smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2013/05/10-ppc-mar...

http://www.business2community.com/online-marketing/8-tips-de...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/young-entrepreneur-council/9-s...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2013/09/25/six-tips-to-en...
I just flew out of Tijuana Airport from San Diego. Took public transport with no problems at all.

We'll see what the project brings to the surrounding area, I hope it's a positive benefit for everyone.
Microsoft removed Tor from machines as malware