skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "within reach" angle makes more sense here because there is often a lack of choice for most Americans when they look at who offers cable/internet in their area (e.g., only Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, etc.). I think this will get better as things like FiOS and uVerse expand (hopefully), but for right now many of us are "stuck" with a provider.
Nope. In their ideal world, Comcast will eventually get 100% and then be nationalized. Then, politicians can finally get their "fair elections."
> Also, the exit path is less obvious in Europe, you're basically praying that the same tech gods that do tech M&As in the US will want to in Europe

Do you really need an exit? For most traditional companies (non-startups), the goal is "become the biggest/most profitable player in your market", not "sell to the highest bidder".
The difference is much lower if you run the App Engine request a second time. The first time you run it, it needs to spin up an instance which can take some time. If I run it a second time I get 770ms for bitballoon and 955ms for App Engine, which is much less significant. Also, running the test from my local computer, app engine wins out presumably because Google's network is basically unmatched when it comes to proximity to your users.

Additionally, if you actually define your static files as static, then it doesn't even need to spin up instances to serve them.

I've certainly had my criticisms of App Engine in the past, and for certain workloads it's not appropriate [1], but for mostly read only websites like blogs, news, landing pages, I even run a forum on app engine, it's perfect.

In fact, that blog post where I complain about the cost of app engine for hosting my game is itself hosted on app engine. It cost me 6c the day it hit the front page of hn. I pay more for the domain than I do for app engine hosting.

[1]: http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2013/06/switched-away-from-ap...
stdin/out for node.js

var i=0
,stream = require("stream")
,rl = require('readline').createInterface({
input: process.stdin
,output: new stream.Writable()
});
rl.on('line',function(line){
process.stdout.write(((+line || 0) * ++i) + '\n');
});
process.stdin.resume();

I actually know several languages... ;-) Just find that node is my go to tool these days.
"I also find that Europeans for the most part don't want to do billion dollar startups"

There is indeed a diff in europe. But having said that, I would like to argue a few things.
a) Anyone would want to get a billion dollars.
b) How many billion dollars startups do you actually know? Not in the money given to acquire them. But in the actual value. In the "wtf, they gave how much for what?!" category.

I am going off in a tangent, but I think an important and relevant one. $ is the world currency. It's backed by the us military. You print billions out of thin air, faster than I actually breath.

In my, maybe naive eyes, billions for bs web or mobile services, among other things, translates to me to: "Holly f*. There is so much inflation coming my way, from all that printing, it's not even funny. I am a couple of years, tops, away from being forcefully transformed from "financially ok", to "fubar-ed, can you give me 500$ to get a piece of bread, pls?"

It's easier to be "large", when you are the empire, print billions out of thin air, and "bring democracy" to the rest.

How many billions was the "let's make a language called 'C'" startup? ..I read billions for bs, and I see inflation and destruction. ..Maybe it's just me.
Bitcoin gambling has a very low entry point.
Taxes aren't violence, they're dues for engaging in the external economy.
Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check
I was thinking about that. Do you think it's worth living there rather than living at home for free?
> that also requires the decompression algorithm to be similarly aware, which can be a problem if you're distributing the compressed bits widely.

Well not necessarily... An HTML-aware algorithm could for example rearrange attributes in the same order everywhere because it knows it doesn't matter.

Actually that would be a nice addition to the HTML "compressors" out there.
FWIW, from the world of SaaS: I charge five figures a month on Stripe, over a few products. Ticket size ranges from $29 to $2,499, with the largest numeric cluster at +/- $30 and the largest contribution to revenue at +/- $500.

Margins on the products range from 60% to 90%+, so optimization on the 3~5% that Stripe accounts for is not super-meaningful to my business. (For completeness: also use Paypal, at their 2.9% tier. Have never been dissatisfied with what I pay for CC processing.)
Watching it now.
What's the most important takeway, pg?
A friend of mine once commented "If you need to use sshfs, you've already lost"
> I love the entire concept of calling a top commenter "prominent".

"Prominent" in the sense of "highly visible" or "widely known". I don't see the argument against that label.

Maybe you're thinking of "preeminent"? That would be a higher bar.
It doesn't affect the dynamics, but it might affect the radiation emitted by it as seen from the outside. All particles in the dilated reference experience the same dilation (approximately - it does vary radially, not sure if significant).
There are examples of advanced functionality performing well enough. Google Docs is quite fast, especially for what it is.

On the other hand, there are sites which are conceptually much simpler but incredibly sluggish. Twitter is a particularly bad offender after you've scrolled down a few pages. Or any other site that uses a ton of Ajax with little regard for the consequences.
Yes, I often read the comments, decide that the article is uninteresting on that basis, and leave it at that.
also don't forget the gazillions of viruses in that era. Business networks paralysed by out of control worms on the internet. Good times.
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Your post has a lot of points that lead the way for us who are starting. Very helpful and honest. Thank you.
Thanks, any suggestions or feedback as to how I could improve?
Why-i-like-groovy
It's not very true that you're locked into anything anymore. See Mono, Xamarin, Sharpdevelop, etc.
Yea - it can work just as easily on your own server but the idea is that you don't have to worry about hosting at all and rely on S3 which is the most reliable AWS service.
There is not much difference. The relativistic factor is 1.030107, that is a ~3% change.

EDIT:

My amateur physics say that the gravitational well adds 9.7% to that.

I tried the same calculation for earth and it gave a sensible result: a change of 6.95 * 10^-10.

Here is an answer from physics exchange which gets the same result: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10089/gravitation...
fascinating that users get it and they are successful. we purposely removed all this "crap" from our homepage so people don't get drawn away ...
I'd love to see a general list of techniques you use, as best practices.
It is a lock in (most technology does lock you into certain dependencies) and it does cost money. But, it's all so easy to use now / saves you lots of time. You can roll out anything using PowerShell these days. Or just copy VMs with OS/IIS/SQL already set-up.

Deploying everything can be one-click. VS even has git integration now.

The old IIS is like you describe. But, the latest IIS is fast and easy.
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How would this be different than using Amazon S3 with s3cmd (https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd)? I understand scp is stock in all Linux distros, but Amazon S3 is extremely cost competitive, allows archival to Glacier, and allows for immediate verification of data integrity. It only takes moments to install s3cmd from the command line.

Please don't think I'm being a debbie downer. I could be wrong.

TL;DR Why is this better than S3?
Taming your fear of failure before it destroys your freelance career
What really happened to toyota (2011)
You're probably right that it's a limiting belief/excuse on my part, but the reality is dating outside of college is more difficult than doing so as a college student. This is compounded with the fact that like a lot of other techy people I was awkward with the opposite sex in high school. I still haven't fully gotten over that attitude now that I'm in the real world, and you were obviously able to pick up on that. But I'm working on it. I have interesting hobbies, go out every now and then (mostly to concerts), I'm trying to dress better, and I work out a few times a week (which has done wonders for my self confidence). But hey, if you've got any dating advice I'm definitely willing to listen.
I do not want an algorithm. My point was closer to: there is no algorithm, and so this approach doesn't work.

What I actually want is a different approach that rejects authority.
We're not comparing apples to apples to say Bitcoin transactions are free or cheap. Credit cards are a mature piece of technology that has optimized the costs over the years. The credit cards processing fee is something that has so much behind it (consumer protection, interest-free crediting, etc.) - you cannot compare Bitcoin to this at all. There's no consumer protection with Bitcoin - you're on your own, so, compare transaction fees of cash to Bitcoin, not credit card or remittance fees to Bitcoin if you want to be taken seriously! Yeah, it works with the young and inexperienced who don't know all the complexity behind the status quo.
Maybe ten years ago I would have said that, but these days it seems they are typing their "documents" into an email composer or a website form (be it a frontend for blogger, wiki, wordpress, etc).
Stack-data-structure-and-applications
I honestly can't see how someone could function without the internet in this day and age. Even for minimum wage jobs you typically have to apply online. Not to mention just finding those potential employers would be pretty arduous without a connection . Asking someone making $7 an hour to pay $50 - $70 a month for internet is unreasonable.

I don't know why it isn't treated as a utility at this point, since to have any shot of upward monetary mobility it's essentially required. The answer of course is to make providers common carriers, but money and political will make that extremely challenging.
This is brilliant piece of British humour.
The guy really deserve answers from Herbert George Wells society, still operating from the corner of Baker St and Marylebone Rd.
Well, the TLS problem is why we'd also want QUIC. But that's another story...
If you need a DB that's read only and updated infrequently you can just store the content in JSON files and parse them client side. Of course if you need to do writes it gets more complicated.
credentials aren't stored anywhere, only your auth key from snapchat.
That's about 11 days per year, or 43 minutes per day.
> Shell scripts come close, but ignore the elephant in the room (Windows).

I use mingw and make, never had a problem on windows and it's not like mingw is heavy to download. Most people use git and git comes with a bash on windows too, so 0 excuses to learn shell scripts.
Why do you need to 'watch' mtr? It functionally behaves as a watched tool to begin with.
It's a bad idea to encrypt passwords, but that's beside the point.

> If a dictionary visit is required, you've failed the audience.

If you take this to its logical conclusion, we end up in a world where English ceases to be the language of Shakespeare and more like dogespeak. No one will be morose anymore, just very sad, and no one will know what it means to be awestruck.

Someone will always need a dictionary. That shouldn't make us afraid to show that we have a vocabulary spanning more than 500 words, or that we have an education at all. God forbid we encourage others to stop talking or writing like 16-year-olds on E! TV.
Your mind fills in the gaps. What makes a picture NSFW is what it makes people think, not so much what it actually is.
"Market" is an exaggeration. It's a battleground of flawed trading bot algos, immature investors, internal fraud by exchanges, and some shady characters ("Fontas", "whales", etc.).
Hi all, I'm the author of the article which was a 750-word cut down version of the presentation I did at Slush and the subsequent blog post I wrote:

http://christianhern.tumblr.com/post/67066816410/why-i-am-lo...

Agree with some of the comments below that it was short, generic and "mass market". The thread below was (and is) the only intent of the presentation, blog post and subsequent article... to make this a topic for debate.

-Do I believe a European startup can compete with an American startup Day 1: YES
-Do we have the same level of ambition: Sometimes
-Do "we" (VCs, Angels): take as risky bets?: NO
-Is entrepreneurship the best way for Europe to grow and Europeans to thrive: YES!

Judge me on my actions not my words (which, fair enough will take some time to prove).

(and the role of government and hubs is for another time... different mutator which varies greatly across Europe)
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It's even weirder because the missing 30% are not out of reach because Comcast just didn't get to them yet, they are out of reach because Comcast doesn't actively enter into competition with other providers. They have silently split the market.

So the numbers really don't mean anything.
A Minimal Linux Setup for Kernel Development
Because I'm dumber than a sack of rocks, apparently. :|
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Maybe the ecosystem should stop trying to profit from someone else's work.

All of us profit from other people's work, and we all deal in derivatives, including Flappy Bird zero.
Yes, but this is specifically separately covered is my point. If you take two disjoint areas and combine them, you have not changed the "choice" landscape at all. If anything the arguments that should be made is that this makes Comcast/TimeWarner more powerful in the net-neutrality debates (which I think is actually a very strong and much more meaningful potential result), not that it is somehow affecting actual monopolistic realities for most Americans (or at the very least, this should be conclusively shown as opposed to listing verifiably unrelated statistics). I guess my position is that this is setting up this debate for failure. If you make the unsubstantiated claim that less Americans will have choice, and they can actually prove that its not practically different from today, it makes this argument not very effective.
The problem is the majority of the companies who are stalling the IPv6 upgrade are in the US; which as chimeracoder stated is not going to feel the crunch as bad as other countries. People are very short sighted for one; and for two are afraid of 'breaking' what works.

I have even setup organizations with native IPv6 addresses (no tunnel) to watch them fear and lament it.

There's a thousand excuses and people need to look upon this as an opportunity; to up their skill set and mentor a new generation.
Oh, that's cute--I like that. :)
I can't tell; did this guy lose 50% of his $1200 or not?

If he did and AirBnB is just keeping it, shame on them. That's gross incompetence and people should rightly boycott.

If he didn't, he should fix the article to show that in fact AirBnB isn't grossly incompetent.
We very much avoid the use of very much in gene- general!
Here is the script of the 3D scene (not minified) http://images.businessweek.com/graphics/airbus-a350-3d-graph...
I don't know coffeescript, but I'd guess it's because the first comma indicates "this is an argument list," so the next few items get treated with list/array syntax rules where commas aren't required.

(Had this comment thread left open in my browser since Friday. Noticed no one replied so I figured "why not," even though I might be wrong :V)
It sounds like you just don't know Windows/VS/IIS as well as you know the other stacks which is entirely understandable since I'm guessing you don't work with them very often.

For future reference you can compile VS projects from the command line if you want using MSBuild, that's all building in VS does. As far as IIS is concerned you can maintain all it's configuration via config files so an experienced Windows admin could have 1000's Windows servers up by lunch too. They'd probably take all day to get a Linux server up though.
Júlio Turolla Ribeiro's answer is far better. I guess that young people have lost the ability to think outside the computer. Some of us still remember school classes, and business presentations in which presenters pointed at the board with their finger, or with a two meter long stick called a "pointer". The pointing was almost always in the same angle as the photo that Julio included, either from the left or the right. Of course, from the right is more natural for the right-handed majority.

The fact that some engineer tinkered with the computer representation of the pointer for code efficiency reasons, does not change the fact of hundreds of years of history in which teachers pointed at an angle from the right. I'm sure that if you hunt up old movies (black and white ones) where there is a school/university lesson being portrayed, you will see a pointer in use in this pose.
Moreover, their business unit's licensing/pricing team are chasing your code forever to suck more margins from its use.

While developing with MS technologies, you must accompany any code, tests and documentation with a "My License" folder with "licensing.cs" files to calculate, the implied licensing costs of each piece of code you develop along with all required MS components down to the metal. Finally, you must make sure the relevant "My License/licXX.cs" gets updated with changing licensing policies.

Next to your developers, designers you must staff an MS certified licensing specialist, or for larger projects a License team with a director level position to analyze, plan, design, test, negotiate and pay licensing costs.
The general rule is, you never tell someone suspected of fraud why they are suspected of fraud; it will help them figure out how to not be suspected of fraud in the future. You also want to give them as many required telephone interactions as possible. A) this slows them down if they are trying to automate the process and B) It's much easier to determine whether or not someone is trying to defraud your service over the phone.

If the credit card you are using is stolen, eventually the billing company will have to charge back your purchase. Enough chargebacks in a month and the billing company gets a HUGE fine. It is in their interest to err on the side of caution in cases where something like this occurs.
I'm not saying it's not! Learning to copy line drawings accurately can be fun and being able to do so is an important foundational skill. I'm just saying there's more to drawing than copying things you see.
Never seen a Skyrim Cover that epic
>>there's no indication they had any problems serving their customers at any point

"we started having issues keeping up with customer demand"

"To keep things running smoothly, I scaled up our Heroku Dynos, but quickly realized that things needed to be rewritten as soon as possible to avoid major problems."

What you are saying is possible, by the article suggests they either did have problems serving customers or there was major risk of that happening...
Hi, I didn't lose anything. I said if I cancel I'd lose 50%, if they cancel they lose 3%
Merkel and Hollande to lay foundation of ‘protected’ EU internet
4096 is a good goal, but there is a much more obvious benefit at 1024 since it would fit within the IPv6 1280 MTU (i.e. a single packet). I recall hearing stories that the Google Homepage had to fit within 512 bytes for IPv4's 576 MTU.
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Cellular automata implementation on iOS
Anyone feel like calculating the energy embodied in just the rotation of this star?
They are committed to the language because it makes them profit, yes. What did you expect from a company? A bunch of academics who are committed the language on its theoretical merits alone, even if it causes the company to hemorrhage money?

The kind of "commitment" that you refer to is one that results in perhaps wider acceptance (perhaps not), but /definitely/ will annihilate their existing strategy (lock-in).
Are you citing Skype and SAP as _exceptions_ to your rule?

As far as I know, Skype was started by Europeans in Europe. And so was SAP. The SAP founders appear to be about as German as you can get.
We just shipped a Mac app on top of Cactus, an open source static site generator based on django.

http://cactusformac.com
Now would be a good time for Google to update us on their longterm plans for their fiber rollout.

It's my one hope at this point since Google isn't someone Comcast can just buy and of course Google realizes the importance of not allowing a single entity to control something like our access to the internet.

So when will Google fiber hit Denver and beyond?
What...I don't even...what does that even mean?

Don't be silly.
Maybe something like Prose.io (Jekyll based). It gives you a very rudimentary interface to edit your posts for a static site.
They would add even more value if they were supported by the Express versions of the product.
Maybe. Or maybe we will suffer tremendous amount of pain for some period of years after which we will have a much brighter future as opposed to an ipv7 that made too many concessions and left us with a mess that would be politically impossible to ever fix.
Yes, I'm one of those superstate people. I understand where you are coming from, but am much more pessimistic about the viability of a EFTA-type agreement. In fact, I'm almost convinced that the EU, as it is today, cannot survive if it is not further integrated.

Both these statements of mine hinge on my observation that the strength of a political entity can only be determined at a time of crisis. For instance, the internal economic imbalances of the EU will always make some countries overall net-winners and some net-losers with regards to trade balances. This will inevitably lead to crises.

The USA have just as much imbalance between their states as we have between our member states, but they have one thing that we don't: Federal redistribution. If you live in Alabama and recieve social aid, get farming subsidies or are employed by the military, that is paid for by the whole, not just by Alabama. So it doesn't matter if Alabama is bleeding money in all directions.

In the EU, this is not the case.

I would thus expect an EFTA-EU to fracture or implode when the economic interests of the "big" countries are not aligned for a prolonged period of time. Nobody wants to live as a net-loser in perpetuity.

Also, the EU actually has built-in decentralization! If you look at the contracts, there is ample mention of the "subsidiarity principle" and when you take a look at the legislation, it becomes clear that they actually mean it. There is even some grumbling from the highly-centralized EU states, such as France or Poland, about the increasing significance of the sub-national organizational structures (regions).

The democracy thing could be fixed, if the will was there. Assuming, hypothetically, that things continued to go the way they have gone for the last decades, the EU actually will become progressively more democratic. After all, the EU parliament only came into the power it currently has with the Lisbon treaty.

If the political will to unite Europe dissapears, the EU will collapse like a house of cards, for all the institutions and legal frameworks it has right now can't hold it together alone.
i.e. ride the bus?