skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atlas is my consultancy business and spawned Staff Squared as a way of scratching our own itch (I needed an app to help me better manage my team). We hunkered down for 6 weeks and got something horrible but workable out of the door 2 years ago...

As for implications:

- Splitting development time between the product and the clients has been hard but gets easier as our clients get used to it. We book in sprints of work on Staff Squared in our schedules way in advance. I line up two solid weeks for the entire team every quarter and this time is sacred. No amount of customer complaints get us to move this time. The amount of time I block out increases with the growth of the app. There's a constant backlog of minor tweaks, so if any of the team find themselves at a loose end they always revert to the Staff Squared backlog (We use a trello/harvest combo for managing this).

- Managing sales - our office manager has stepped in to help the onboarding and sales but ultimately as CEO of Atlas I've done the lion share of this work. This has meant a lot of overtime on my part but tbh I enjoy the work. Given that our aim is to transition in to a product company that does a bit of consultancy on the side (as opposed to a service company with a couple of products) this is short term pain I'm more than happy to experience.

- Staff development - One of our programmers wasn't performing incredibly well in her position as a programmer. She's always had an artistic flair that a lot of programmers aren't blessed with, and so I decided to take a punt and move her on to Staff Squared full time to help me with marketing and UX. She's transformed beyond recognition and now my right hand woman when it comes to making changes to the Staff Squared app UI.

- Using the products as a sales tool. I hoped this would happen...we're not usually able to show/tell potential customers what we've worked on before to any level of detail as it'll breach confidentiality. Not so with our products (we also have www.fundipedia.com). If a potential client wants to see what we're capable of we ask them to sign up to Staff Squared and kick the tyres as it were. This has actually resulted in more Staff Squared customers too. Double whammy!

- We've had to drop any customers not willing to pay our full day rate (some were offered discounts back in the day which we haven't been able to readdress). With those customers gone, and Staff Squared out there as an example of what we're capable of, newer, bigger and better customers have arrived for Atlas and we're now fully booked for pretty much all of 2014. I have no doubt this huge upturn in customer work is as a direct result of our pushing our own products forward.

- The development team are happier than they've ever been. They get to work on an app they're incredibly passionate about (inbetween client work) and see the direct results of their actions in the form of more paying customers. It's a great tool to incentivise a team of people who are already very well looked after individually.

I hope that helps, if you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them.
How Java and Scala objects are laid out in physical memory
Speaking of dogecoin, I want to pick up some dogecoin without any bitcoin on hand to trade and without elevating my risk to fraud any more than necessary. I realize there are forums and presumably faqs, possibly "the same way you'd pick up bitcoin," but what is the HN prescription to go about doing this? Given that it's relatively nascent, low turnover, goofy and so forth, I'm apprehensive when hearing "very coinbase, wow" elsewhere.

I also realize I should find something else to do, but... I love that friggin' dog.

Tl;dr this article neglects to mention the viability of dogecoin on 2014 due to idiots like me. It appears I'm not the only one..
If you read the reviews, one of the issues with them is some are from people who had dealings with Hadeed which did not ultimately result in a sale for Hadeed. There are reviewers that state they decided to not have the carpets cleaned after the price change and tactics used. These people if real have a valid opinion of the business from their interactions, however would likely not show up on any customer lists.
I was under the impression that all bitcoin transactions were on-chain. How do off-chain transactions work?
Sorry, it's very hard to even conceive the constraints and abstractions under which a bike would be worse for the environment than driving. First and foremost, riding a bike relies on sustainable energy (grow, eat, repeat). Cars are still far far away from being remotely sustainable.

Car vs. bike discussion may have (some) sense when it comes to commuting distances, adverse weather conditions etc.
Kids these days. They get on a theme, the sky is blue, I love you, and roll with their goody-two-shoes thinking life is all hugs and kisses.

Life gets complicated when you get past 18 and more people on forums like this aren't.
The algorithms link is broken.
It's dangerous to claim anything is the only reason something happened because it increases the odds you could be wrong.

they simply do not care

If it's negligence that you're implying, consider a more valuable alternative. The expiration link bug is starting to look like the HN test of one's ability to tell what's important to care for. Any hacker would want to develop this ability.
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The "JavaScript is like Self" fallacy is just another variant of the "JavaScript is like Scheme" fallacy. It sounds great to the person claiming it, and to an unsuspecting audience. But on closer inspection, the similarities between the two languages are minimal at best.
JpnForPhp - Japanese toolbox for PHP
On the other hand, China can do pretty much whatever it wants.

Within a remarkably short distance of China. It does not have the equipment or expertise to globally project serious power for extended periods.
Is this a rare occurrence? 198% of "very little" is still very little.

I would've thought the figure often fluctuates by much more than this.
It doesn't really matter if Nakamoto really is the NSA (maybe "Satoshi" is the middle name and his first name is even Aaron, making the initials NSA, did anyone ever think of that?!), the protocol is open and any weaknesses or backdoors would eventually be discovered.
Args.js – Optional and Default parameters for JavaScript
This is how I use pngquant in my thumbnailing workflow: https://gist.github.com/gigablah/3110899

At 100x100 pixels, I find that this produces small (~8kb) PNG thumbnails which are still sharp with no noticeable color loss.

(Disclaimer: I'm a beginner at nodejs)
Map: http://tiananmenstremendousachievements.files.wordpress.com/...
Note that this is about the tv series, not the physical theory.
I'm surprised that it has essentially been shown that it's easy to corner the mining market/pooling such that 51% attacks are feasible, yet nobody is bearish over this.
I think they mean manages because it was a very difficult achievement with significant hurdles. It's like if I had a difficult time with school but I worked hard at it and I say "I managed to graduate."
Target, Neiman Marcus Credit Card Hacking Reveals Third-World US Payment Systems
I've been trying to use Ghost for a small project, but I've postponed it until the {{#has}} helper[1] is implemented. There is currently no simple way to display a subset of posts.

[1]: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/1574
Slurry Discussion Continued:

If you are making the argument that there is a monetary threshold that needs to be met in order to be happy (for a normal person) I would agree. What that exact threshold is I am not sure. In my youth I had enough to be happy on 40k a year even though I wasn't, but this was due to a lack of understanding/perspective.

If you are making the argument that money directly buys happiness, I would say this is a short sighted and incorrect view.

Did I summarize your point in either case above? What was your exact point? I'd like to discuss further.

Also, pertaining to the specific article, satisfaction and happiness (while similar) are two different things for me. I am not sure why they took a survey concerning satisfaction and assumed that "satisfaction" is synonymous with happiness for all participants.
Very interesting points of view. I share the analyse.
what.cd was one I noticed this morning.
I watched an episode of this show once. It wasn't very funny. I don't think it's part of some grand conspiracy to belittle nerds. It's just a crappy show that anyone with an ounce of sense won't waste more than 20 minutes of their life on.
This is good news! I will definitely evaluate it now and decide whether it is worth away from Chargify which we use now.
Hopefully this decade we will be reading a news story about polio's global eradication.
One of the ideas I'm trying to convey is that the structure of the code is different from the syntax. With Clojure, special forms like def, if, etc, provide syntax in that each one has different rules for how their arguments get evaluated or, in the case of def, how the environment is changed. On top of that, you have macros which allow you to introduce arbitrary syntax.

However, all Clojure code does have the same uniform structure. It's all composed of s-expressions, which are either atoms or other s-expressions enclosed in parentheses (for lists), braces (for maps), or brackets (for vectors).

Thanks again for this feedback, having to explain this has given me some ideas for how to improve the chapter :)
Ah, that explains why it works without crashing Chrome (as HTML5 WebGL monkeying does).
geenstijl.nl,
cex.io
and a number of others i forgot - i just noticed it the past 3 months.. perhaps a lot of new sites switched to cloudfare during that time?
This maybe slightly OT, but could someone explain what etcd does?. CoreOS hosts containers and an etcd instance run on host (master) and on each container. Is that it?

Let's say I'm on on a VPS and I'm running multiple instances of CoreOS each hosting multiple containers. Can etcd be used in this case?
Fried air or not. It's being used by a lot of people on Reddit now to give and receive tips. Every day new merchants start accepting Dogecoin. It's excellent to accept micropayments!
Such bikes do exist. Unfortunately people's expectations of cost are skewed by cheap bicycle-shaped objects in department stores.

Look at nations that have cycling as a way of life. "Mama fiets" (apologies for potential misuse of Dutch language) are robust bikes for carrying children and shopping around.

There are puncture resisting tapes that can be applied to tyres.

Most people don't need fixed wheels, nor 20 gear derailurs, but would do well with 5 well chosen gears.

Aluminum frames (with modern welding and tube shapes) are light and robust. And probably a good use of recycled aluminum.

And people tend not to educate themselves about cycling. Having the seat post at the right hight makes a huge difference. Using the balls of the toe on the pedal and not the arch of the foot makes a huge difference.

Many people would be served well by a £500 bike and a book about cycling. Include a basket and some panniers and mud guards, with a can of spray lubrication and a few spare tyres and replacement chains.

I agree that cycle shops usually are not set up for this, and that the image of flourescent lycra is off-putting to many people; and that it would be great if commuting by bike was more accessible.
Cleaner properties implementation in categories
Big Bang Theory is a depiction of what idiots think intelligent people are like. Those characters do not exist in real life.

IMHO UK's IT crowd is a much better and funnier depiction of geeks (albeit Moss is a bit exaggerated too).
That entire (mostly valid) point could have been made in 1 paragraph.
That's interesting from an academic point of view, but in my opinion spell checkers that don't take into account the context in the sentence (words before, syntax, context) are so 1990...

I'd prefer to see research in this direction rather than speed improvement on a method we all know doesn't really work. Because your typo is close to one entry (an existing word) in a list (the dictionary) that you maybe never heard of before doesn't mean you intended to type this.
NSA proof

So a system hacked together by a few clever people is somehow proof against an organization that owns more computer hardware and employs more Ph.D. mathematicians than pretty much anyone else, and has access to most of the fibre through which most of the worlds' IP traffic flows?

Sure. I am also interested in the bridge, the swamp, and helping you deposit those millions into my account, to whom should I post my most intimate personal details?
NodeBB, fastest forum using Node.js and socket.io
Something is wrong when you are selling image quality and your site features blurry artifacted images.

The animations are nice, but they are basically doing frame by frame 704 × 396 movie that look terrible when pushed to 1920 wide.

Just use a proper video format, which is much more efficient.
A worthy third option is "per mile".

I got 160K in 16 years out of my last car. It cost about $20K. I figured its total lifetime cost including gas and what little maintenance it needed at thirty five grand. So figure about 20 cents per mile. That's cheaper than average, then again it was more of a beater of an old car that most would tolerate. Mechanically fine, but cosmetically a mess. So yes twenty cents per mile is not totally ridiculous.

Being a purely recreational biker I suspect I've only got 1K or so miles on my "Giant" bike from 1992. It was about $300 but the way tires decay (why so much faster than car?) and general minor repairs I'm sure I'm in for $500 by now. So I'm paying 50 cents per mile, or about 2.5 times more than my commuter car costs the environment.

Worst of all, being a recreational bike, I've caused $500 worth of environmental destruction just for fun when I could have meditated or bird watched or gone hiking. And if you get rid of the recreational bikers, that's a large market segment so costs and enviro-damage will increase. Aside from the obvious win of get rid of recreational bikers, well, they'll just drive to the mall with their new spare time or whatever.

I'm sure I could game the numbers and if I had a recreational car and a commuter bike the numbers could be made to look different. One problem with a commuter bike is the weather only cooperates about 1/3 of the year, and my car goes easily six times faster than my bike, making the commute punishingly impossible.
Please could someone change the title. I was disappointed, and wouldn't have clicked through if it had been clear that the article was about a TV show.
Then you wouldn't have been able to spend as much time reading text against that background.
This repl snippet should show that you're not actually changing a data structure in place. Rather, you're creating a new data structure and changing an existing binding:

user=> (def a [1 2 3])
user=> (def b a)
user=> (def a ["a" "b" "c"])
user=> a
["a" "b" "c"]
user=> b
[1 2 3]
http://www.dotproject.net/ had a very good structured php source.
I have learned a lot from it to be a better java developer. back in the old 2004's...
For around 3 months I had a commute of 5~6 hours a day. It involved bus, train, subway and a small part walking (~15-20 minutes) During the same time I was getting my driving permit, so I was adding time to attend classes, etc

It was pretty awful, I had to wake up to catch the 4:30 bus most of days to be at work at 7:30, and then got home at around 8pm

Once I had car permit, I was able to reduce it to 1:30 each trip (if you avoid traffic jams), which is also bad, but felt like a huge improvement.

After 2 years in that situation (with a lapse in another work at around 20m by car), I'm now able to walk to work in 30 minutes. It feels AMAZING :-P
Uber Vehicle Attacked Near Paris
Actually, that's not true: PouchDB runs on node (via LevelDB) and doesn't need an actual couch server. :)
Everybody sells
Cool project, but I can't help but wonder why people are so quick to rewrite Nagios instead of spending less time and learning about Nagios.

The DSL isn't that confusing, and there are many many options there. I've been able to set up a very comprehensive monitoring service using it, and while I too once cursed its complexity, it was worth it in the long run. Certainly didn't take as long as it would take to write a clone.
I've read theories like this before, and I gotta say, I don't agree with them. A big part of his argument hinges on "The humour in The Big Bang theory relies on the audience siding with and relating to Penny, the character coded as “normal” in comparison to the main four guys."... and maybe we're watching different shows, but the one I watch has more humor from the guys' standpoint (and often at Penny's expense). Yes, there is some humor from her standpoint, for people that identify more with her—but there should be, she's a member of the cast, and there are people who relate to her. But there's far more humor for people who relate to the geek characters (since there's more of them).
I think Apatow's Freaks and Geeks was the best representation of what it's like to be a nerd/geek/freak/outsider.
I hope that folks at the NSA don't know about the 51% bitcoin attack.
Rumored Windows ‘Threshold’ Update Could Recast Microsoft’s Key Platform
Everytime I see something like this announced, I always wonder to myself why people don't just use Retroshare?
Very proud of this release and so glad that I was able to lend a hand in getting it out the door. Can't wait for 0.5 :D (and can't wait to find out its code name).
I find it refreshing. In an age where everyone on the internet is trying to "tell a story" it's nice to just have some plain facts and information presented in plain old text once in awhile. Seriously, how many "why our startup failed/succeeded/grew/shrank/lobotomized" articles do we need? It's nice to have people doing actual analysis with numbers once in awhile.
> JSON style literals for hash maps would be nice

I believe that we plan to use a macro to achieve this. After our planned enhancements to macro invocation syntax, it might look something like this:

let foo = map! {
bar => "hello",
qux => "world"
};
If computronium is a substance 'optimized for maximum computing power', then neither an iPhone or a slide rule are computronium.

Computronium by that definition would be more like an entire planet terraformed to be a massive supercomputer - something with maximum possible computation density.
Who said the french people don't want cheaper taxis with Uber? Did you ask them? So why say Uber is anti democratic?
Who's barring people from working with Uber? The french government -> that is anti social, in a country where unemployment skyrockets.

I really don't get your point. At all.

BTW, did you read http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/an-uber-car-was-attacked-ne...
It would just get changed back. The powers that be at HN usually like to make sure the original title is preserved.
At some point prior to WWI, the Chinese built a small temple on the island. It's doubtful they ever inhabited it. Then, in the 1940s, a private fishing magnate claimed the island and declared it (and some other nearby islands) an independent micronation. Nearby Vietnam, China, and Taiwan all objected but were too busy to do anything about it. He later found himself arrested by the Philipines and "sold" it to them for one peso. They built an landfill airstrip there later.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_Cloma#Free_Territory_of_F...
Try running them on MBPr then ;) And don't forget that they get blurred even more by webkit while scrolling - I guess -webkit-translate is the culprit responsible for that.
considering the current London traffic, they were faster back in 1930's...
Discovering The Secret Hack To Drinking And Getting Stuff Done
The chaps that keep the CloudFlare global network running do seem a bit busy than usual today. I asked if there were "more attacks than usual" and they replied "Yes" and rushed off to do something.
New methods devised by spammers to hack your Inbox in 2014
All transactions on/within exchanges are off chain.
European antitrust case targets US movie studio contracts
1. Sadly you ignored the example I posted completely.

2. Integrating by source code is valid for some use cases, but it is definitely not for all. E.g. low level libraries like crash reporters which can not be platform independent. Or libraries that rely on platform specifics, like UIKit on iOS.

There is not one approach, one way that fits all. For some libraries/frameworks are the best, for others direct source code inclusion is best.
Great! Have been looking for something like this lately! First impression is good. But what i can't seem to find is a http notification. I would like a http alert if something is down for a x number of consecutive pings. This way i can do some API calls or implement my own alerting.
They are called the Pagasa Island by everybody but the Chinese propaganda ministry.

Anyway, I think this is all more Chinese interior policy, to divert public attention in China from the many problems the CCP currently has to maintain itself in power. As any government, the need a "foreign enemy". Or, in China's case, a handfull of foreign enemies: Japan, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, maybe Malaysia.
Uber confirms 12+ "flat tires, eggs, broken windows" across France
all this wrangling seems to be an unintended consequence of US threatening to intervene in Syria, and then backing down - it might have been smarter not to raise the threat in the first place.

On September 14, 2013 - US and Russia agree on the deal to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons; signals that the US does not have the intentions/means to back up threats of military force;

23 November 2013, China then sent air force jets to Senkaku islands;
Just buzzword used for cashgrab.
Reverse scrolling a video is really slow, unless you set the key frames close together (in which case, you don't really gain much file size wise).
I don't see any parallax here. Seems like normal 3D triggered by scrolling.
1) Fill the bathtub with water - as pumps sometimes die

2) camping equipment (sleeping bags), electric lights etc

3) small camping stove (use on balcony only)

4) battery backup pack for cellphone or backup cell with cheap pay as you go #

5) Warm clothing

6) Friends/Family - go to their place
You guys are being way overly critical. I think the website is unique and cool. Reminds me of the those nice story boards on NYTimes.

Also, works ok on Chrome Macbook Air.
what if he doesn't want to be found?
There's also significantly more deprecating humor aimed at the geeks, which for me offsets any humor I derive from relating to them.

Plus, the geeks really come across to me as too overly stereotypical to be relatable.