skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't sound like you may necessarily want to expand this funding source, but if you do, I also run a content-heavy site that currently runs on donations. I've been doing it without paying a dime myself over the past 8 years or so.

Some things I've learned:

- Ask for specific dollar amounts. It'll give users an idea of what they should type in.
- Make that donation link more prominent on the page. The "this PayPal link" <a> tag is pretty hidden at the bottom.
- Offer incentives. I give my donors a trophy for their site account when they give something, and there are certain tiers (e.g. gold trophy for $50, silver for $25, etc.) Requires a bit of management on your side of things, but it could pay off.
>>> In my experience, 20 hrs of project work / week is the ceiling for a solo professional.

Same here. Also, you can't really do more than ~5hrs/d of productive work. Personally, I don't see much point in trying to pull extra few hours when I can do the same amount of work tomorrow in 1 hour or less. It hurts the income a bit but I am much much happier.
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Is this a sales tool for companies that don't know they are already dead?
It's pretty difficult to have a conversation of any kind, let alone a productive one, without threaded comments. I feel like the site is stuck in the 90s along with Fark.
Carnot's theorem is irrelevant to solar cells, as they aren't expanding-fluid-driven heat engines.

Multijunction cells are the way to go for increased W/m^2, but are very bad W/$ at the moment.
pg's essays have Month Year after title, e.g. February 2009.

http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

I think the cheap feel to blog posts partly comes from exact date (and time even) that's often shown on each blog posts.
They are, but the same thing applies--every plant that mosquitoes pollinate is also ably served by other species.
The "Laravelesque" way to do this would be:

- POST route to a controller which calls a model which handles the database stuff, then redirects to..

- the GET route which calls a controller which calls a model which pulls from the database and returns a View which parses the result of the query into a template.

Although you could do it all inside the route closures as well if you wanted... I don't know how much extra overhead there is doing it one way versus the other.

If you want to use Laravel I might suggest picking up one of the starters you can find on github or reading up on MVC, it's really not that hard although it can seem complicated because Laravel puts so much effort into trying to cover every possible model.

Although, given what you're describing, Slim Framework with Twig and a simple class for SQL might be easier.
Why do people persist in believing things that just aren't true?
Twitter itself was a a spin-off from Odeo (http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/) which was a podcasting/audio sharing service.
If the moon was orbiting the earth faster than the Earth's rotation, then the effects of tides would increase the Earth's rotation and decrease the moon's orbital velocity. This would result in the moon descending.
There was clear information that "If Agency will find that information gathered from NSA program will benefit to US it will be used, even if it's private commercial information". So yes, it's related to NSA. And very funny.
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How do you know it won't work?

Have you launched startups before?
I see what you mean now. I agree that each of the low-order bits of the 106-bit product is available at some point. Not necessarily simultaneously, but yes, it seems like little additional effort for processor designers to keep these somewhere and assemble them in another register or something.

For some reason (maximum depth reached?) there is no “reply” link at the bottom of the post of yours at which I understood, so I am replying here.
Scientists may have figured out how to convert light into matter
It does indeed do ellipses - just pass a falsey value for forceAspect in the constructor options and it will let you select an arbitrary ellipse. You can also pass a float value for forceAspect to get that aspect ratio (e.g. 1.777 = = 16:9 TV screen).
Uber drivers form association to ‘protect dignity’ as Uber jabs at Teamsters
My opinion is that very few pages gain anything from animations, but the trend is heavily followed on Themeforest. I was enthusiastic about our first purchase from them for a project at work, but ended up fighting and tossing out the garbage for 2 days.

Does anyone know a theme marketplace with serious designers?
I don't want to be a downer, but - you signed up you and your staff without any details on how this is secured on the server?

It looks promising, but I'd want to see more information before I kept anything sensitive here - and by its nature, that's going to the only thing it would make sense to keep here.
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It's also notoriously painful to register a .ie domain. You need some connection to Ireland, but even if you do there are restrictions on what you can register (needing to have a company name or registered business name matching the domain, for example). They have loosened up considerably on the discretionary domains, but it still seems to take at least a week to get your registration approved and completed.
Not really the same, but Passport offers easy account authentication.
People on the Internet get really angry about this. "Of course you should have a dateline on your posts!" "Readers are smart enough to understand when something has long-term value!"

Don't listen to them. Of course readers are smart enough to perceive long-term value in a blog post. But they don't, because appreciating that value requires them to expend mental energy to fight against the blog format. Instead, they see a blog post and:

* Assume that because it's on the blog it was written in a single draft.

* Assume that it's part of some larger conversation amongst lots of bloggers.

* Assume it's an invitation to a discussion among readers rather than your definitive take on an issue. (For extra fun: add a series of complaints about not having "comments" enabled on whatever you wrote.)

* Assume that it'll end up syndicated along with the rest of your blog posts on "Planet People Like You" or whatever blog aggregator you end up on.

* Assume that it'll be followed up on in some future post.

In general, the reader isn't wrong about this! Those beliefs are continuously validated by the majority of blogs. Which makes me wonder why anyone would sink days or weeks of effort into a piece only to deliberately position it alongside every other dashed-off blog post.

I think you can get immediate value just by doing what Patrick said: write a blog, but don't call it that. But you can do things that are much more creative, too. Our crypto challenges started out as a text file of 40 3-paragraph challenges. We thought about putting it up on the website, but we worried that we'd end up getting skimmed by people on (not to put too fine a point on it) HN who wouldn't really understand them, and end up "debating our own posts" with those people. So instead of publishing them, we accepted email addresses for people who wanted them, and doled them out 8 challenges at a time. More than 12,000 people signed up; we're finally releasing them in their entirety, along with solutions in every single mainstream language and a bunch of weird ones, in a Black Hat talk this year. It became one of our most profitable recruiting vehicles.

It was originally a blog post. Man, that would have sucked, if we stuck a date and a title on it and hit "publish".
Show HN: "What the fuck should I name my child?"
Best environment I ever worked in was at Apple, where we had "pods", 8-10 closed single-occupant offices around a central area that had couches and a large whiteboard.

Want to concentrate, or shut out the annoying gabfest? Close your door. Maybe put a sign up if you really don't want to be disturbed (I only did this once).

Want to participate in the design session happening right outside? Just open your door and scoot your chair over. Grab a whiteboard pen and jump in if you want to contribute.

Most open space is a short-sighted cost savings measure that comes out of the wrong budget, designed by people who are not engineers. The space designers I've talked to seemed to be more interested in "the language of the space" and color coordination and carpet wear, and always spoke condescendingly about noise and distraction concerns. Maybe the "pattern language" stuff is important, but I'd be happier if architects and the people who pay them really understood how engineers work.
Why are the dates in the screenshots for the years 1984 and 1985? Is this a reference to something? Date arithmetic overflow? Dead clock battery on the demo server?
In the late 80's, when compilers for micro-computers still generated crappy code, it was quite easy to write tools that would map back to the source, if one knew which compiler was used.

Most patterns were as easy as tracking down bytecodes.
1) Its interesting to contemplate a "death star" the size of the moon but of immensely lower density. Could be handy! All the cool aesthetics and applications with none of the planet killing tidal effects.

2) I think the alternative earth dwellers would have some interesting gravitational slingshot opportunities, given something that heavy and that low. Perhaps an interesting multigenerational mega-engineering project would be placing a giant spherical ball of lead in high-ish earth orbit for interplanetary vehicles to slingshot around, not necessarily moon size but a serious chunk of metal. Perhaps a large asteroid or two could be refined down to solid metal (to allow close approach to the center of mass)

3) The ham radio moon-bounce people would be excited to hear it'll take little more than a HT to bounce a VHF signal off the moon, although the multipath might make it impossible to do more than CW and the short orbital duration makes it nearly as annoying to operate as a low orbit satellite. None the less the effect on the ionosphere would be very interesting to look at / think about. Multipath in general might be a very serious problem for radio communication on a planet like this.
If you're selling "unlimited" service for a fixed price, of course you want to encourage customers to use less. ISPs don't care about new services; they're already getting as much money as their customers are willing to pay so increased profit must come from reducing costs.
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Writing a book and selling it is just fine. But writing the same material as a free article on a website and failing to attach a piece of metadata to it is a "dick move". Thanks, The Internet.
Google Wallet actually uses the same technology as Chip+PIN, EMV (Visa payWave).
I like this as a concept, but I wouldn't recommend to build websites with it. I wonder how user-accessible websites built with famo.us are — for example I can't just use my arrow keys to navigate up/down and tab'ing through elements does not move the scroll-bar accordingly, this could be an issue for some, older internet users.
Thanks for confirming my crosspost :) However, as I was just saying, wouldn't it be nice to clearly see that we're talking 0.x directly on the website and not only when we install the npm package?

EDIT: Thanks for your answer, I am going to stop crossposting now :D
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Though the article didn't state so explicitly, I assumed the author is thinking that extroverts can still find ways to collaborate with groups of people (e.g. conference rooms, informal meeting areas, maybe even a cluster of open desks), while introverts can now get someplace isolated to work. And that these suggestions mean a workplace should offer both options, submarines (haha) and open desks for different types of employees.

I know, I'm probably assuming a lot. Hopefully the author thought this and isn't suggesting an entire workplace is converted solely for one type of employee over another.
looks good; Cant trello be used to do something similar? how is it different?
All references are from Watchmen. Just a little bit of fun while writing copy
This is all lifted from an HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723291.
Some people conflate blind faith and patriotism. I am pretty sure that what they really wanted was the former.

All organisms want to survive (political, economic, etc). Now if the NSA could just deem cancer a threat to the national security of the country then they could put their super computer power to good use.
Well, anger may lead to various possibilities. I had reverse engineered certain cloud storage service client protocol when I was told there won't be any cake (properly functioning GNU/Linux client software customers were promised for a long time) for me and I have to fuck off. And I had not published it only because RE laws in my country seem to be totally messed up - they literally say I can't publish my findings. Wish I'd live somewhere saner.

Still, as I believe, quite a lot of people use Hangouts. Sure, there must be a hacker somewhere who's upset enough to mess with the software.
Austria?! WTH? Are they afraid Hitler 2.0 The Sequel might rise up or something?
Interestingly, MFC was painful at least partly because instead of MVC, it wanted to drive you toward a Document/View architecture, where Document had both Model and View. This was painful exactly because of some of the problems that MVC was designed to fix.
Some interesting possibilities - but my first reaction was to vomit. (I use sc to push out my tracks.)

Carefully following and unfollowing sc users makes sense; and music and the sc stream to me is much more fun than the twitter one. I don't like getting all the sc reposts (I'd like that filtered out, whilst providing artists with a way to push out messages (which can be filtered out too))... anyway, the best thing for sc to do is have some sort of bitcoin integration.. tracking plays and allowing tip distributions from a listener's wallet to a producer's (and sc can take a commission and provide stats, and also give artists insight into their most valuable fans.) That'd actually be good for music (but twitter won't have any such vision.) After that, sc should do something with video or tickets. If anyone should buy sc, it should be yt - the other big music discovery platform.

If I were sc, I'd tell twitter to go shove it -- unless there are financial imperatives that make that unfeasible.
Due to tidal forces, I suspect that the moon would start to steal some of Earth's atmosphere. I'm not sure if that would slow it down or not.
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Cortex: as a single datapoint, I'd pay a totally voluntary subscription for metafilter. Make it an option, and I'll do it.
Yeah, we are working on a website redesign that addresses this. So much to do, so little time :)
Funny. My thought was exactly the opposite: too cheap.

I pay Netflix about $10/month for a significantly less valuable service than bringing in new customers. That to me sets the pricing floor for any business webapp.
What are they basing this message on?
What is most disturbing is that NSA & DEA seem to have such a Cozy relationship.

Given that one is a mostly domestic agency and the other is supposed to focus primarily on Foreign Intelligence, this incestual relationship sets up many troubling opportunities for abuse.

Absolutely needs to be stopped.
I don't feel as if this gives me anything over trello, which is free. Is there anything i'm missing?
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Doing anything worthwhile can’t be done alone
Yeah; there is more than one use case for viewing video, one of which is on-demand video. Netflix does really well there. But it doesn't handle "event" TV (think sports events or American Idol) or the "I'm bored and don't want to have to think about what to watch" use case. Those two are huge, and while I think that eventually those use cases will change generationally, the 30+ demographic isn't likely to change their viewing habits any time soon.
It's definitely a matter of taste, and it's fine that different folks prefer different stuff. The flat model works well enough for Metafilter -- we're constantly seeing thoughtful, responsive conversations on all kinds of topics in the site's discussion threads -- but it's a virtue of the web that there's a variety of models out there so different folks can have their preferences met.
It might be just me but I'm really annoyed by sites that do not have a easily discoverable pricing page. I would probably take a look at the product if you tell me what paid plan you offer.

Without this information I don't bother.
Which highlights the fact that our broken drug policy is actually costing us quite a bit more than the $30+ billion a year usually quoted.

I'm not one for conspiracy theories but this kind-of points to the NSA working for the DEA working for the prison corporations.
...Because I know that the position they are working pays minimum wage in my area. Are you just trolling now? Some of them may have been around long enough to earn small raises, but nobody in central Kentucky gets $15 an hour to flip burgers or ring up gas or gather shopping carts.
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yeah, my point here is that Meteor gives full-stack (yuck) developers all they need to build quick apps. Hoodie targets UX/Designers/Code-copy-and-pasters.

Full-tack devs will be incredibly quick with Hoodie, like they would with Meteor (or vice versa), it’s just a fundamental difference in design and implementation.
I think you're right about appearances, but design isn't the core of Patrick's point. If you called your posts "short tutorials" and had a little section on your site that listed your "short tutorials", your work would probably get cited more, and do a better job of marketing your services.

In particular, some clients will eyeball your list of short tutorials, and see "A/B Testing", "HFT Algorithms", and "Ad Placement Optimization" and immediately form positive associations that they won't by paging through your old blog posts, which is something I just had to do to write this paragraph that very few casual readers will actually do.

You write something, you think it has lasting value, you should say so. It's a corollary of "ask for the sale".
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768726, which contains links to other comments I've posted about this.

Also, we're working on an alternative to /newest that will widen the time window for new posts and will hopefully solve this problem.
Is there something like this for rails? I am an okay bit-above-junior rails dev, but I can't deploy to anything other than heroku (and I cant find any good guides on learning to manage a server/deploy).
Let's face it. Silicon Valley has hit the big time. The sheer size of our industry coupled with the impact it has on everyday non-technical citizens means we are a political force to be reckoned with. Monetarily speaking, we're not quite as powerful as, for instance, oil and defense, but we more than make up for that in the respect we generally afforded by the population. However, the industry's rhetoric and attitudes haven't caught up to that fact, hence these sort of blunt political statements.
Isn't it the same as LAN?
Algebraic data types and pattern matching are bliss. It's almost a cliche, but you don't know what you're missing without them and once you know them you'll wish every other language had them.
Can you go into more detail when you say "handling users"?
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Less than you might think. It's not a trivial matter to get an .ie domain. The IEDR's rules make things difficult if you can't either (a) demonstrate a connection with Ireland the reviewer will accept or (b) demonstrate that you trade in the Irish market. There are ways around some of their rules, such as getting a registered business name from the CRO, but it really is a pain in the backside.

I write this as somebody who works for one of the biggest .ie registrars.
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It would certainly be trivial to make a diagram of el/az of certain craters or mountain peaks referenced to earth magnetic north so as to make chronometers and such for determining longitude irrelevant. No need for precision chronometers would have some subsequent effects on the industrial revolution etc. Of course on the other side of the planet they'd need such "high tech" instruments as chronometers so in sci fi mode, the high tech far siders would likely end up conquering the near siders via higher technology.

A geostationary moon, if tidally locked to present the same face to the earth all the time, would certainly be a convenient termination point for a space elevator. So rather than a space elevator dumping you off in space, you'd be dropped off on the moon. Of course some genius will start transferring the earth's biosphere, oxygen, carbon, etc to the moon and just dumping it there to terraform it. Obviously (?) you can't just run a garden hose to the moon and suck on the moon end and expect a flow rate, although it is sci-fi so maybe if you pressurized the earth side up to something approximately ridiculous, you'd be able to squirt water across to the geosync moon. I would not want to be in charge of that project...
You can build that functionality if it's really a problem. Also surfaces within Famo.us afaik are just like normal sections on a webpage where your normal tabbing and arrow keys will work.

But if you're building more traditional looking web apps in famo.us, I don't think you'll run into the issues you're talking about.
How exactly did you convince the IEDR to let you have hood.ie?
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Nope you're not missing anything. The longer you wait to use the URL, the less secure it is. I could just generate a bunch of random URLs and wget them until I get something.
Not only that, The Intercept (or actually, First Look Media) has hoovered quite a lot of high-grade journalists.

I'm slightly miffed because they got Matt Taibbi to leave Rolling Stone.[1] And I'm still waiting for his first piece with FLM. Man must be wading neck-deep in documents and politics to keep him from writing.

[1]: https://firstlook.org/2014/02/19/matt-taibbi-lead-first-look...
Another +1 from me. I've been using it to do 1000s of requests/second in a project for over a year now. It's a little bit of work in that you have to explicitly get then return a connection to the pool, but the "defer" syntax makes that as painless as possible.
Can we finally save public data?
The names seem to be all Anglo. Which is fine, if that's the target audience, but these names would be weird for someone of Indian/Asian/Middle-Eastern/Russian/Eastern-European etc (i.e. plenty of places where you wouldn't call a boy 'Henry')
There definitely are some accessibility issues especially for those with limited mobility where using the arrow keys is a necessity.
If you are publishing the crypto challenges, does that mean you have stopped giving them out as challenges? I requested in on Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:23 PM Eastern Time and did not get a response.
At the risk of being accused of completely missing the point of the article, I read the article linked within it:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarksons-9-most-o...

I have to say I've long thought Clarkson was less an "edgy" comical car guru, and more a high paid bigot - I think that settles it :P
Chrome. Although Firefox is non-free now too so it hardly matters.
I'd rather not have to pay for things using a device that costs more than what's in my checking account.
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