skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many ecommerce (specially in fashion) end up selling their own products: Topshop, AsSeenOn, Fab, etc...

You can also see this at your local grocery store, they have their own version of every major product at a discounted rate.
This hardly even talks about the templating package in Go, which is really good. They have found a nice balance between ease of use and functionality.

It reads a lot like mustache, but has the power of a language that allows you to mix markup and code. Its worth checking out in more detail.
You really can't just throw your hands in the air and say "No, that's sampling bias." Do you have a source to support your claim?
If people are open to it, I would really love to hear some anecdotes about making the transition from working for a big tech company to doing independent consulting. It seems very hard (often forbidden by the company) to pick up clients on the side while being an employee, but quitting a job without any clients is pretty scary. And I'm not even clear where to find clients (who will pay a reasonable rate).
Yes, Inc. Consulting.
# of executions in Texas since 1982 is probably a fair percentage of the total number of executions since that time. Don't have time to look it up, sorry!
I can't see any links on any of their pages to the source code. Multiple links to the GPL and about Free software but no route that I could find to the source itself.
This is why Google's IPO was headlined with the statement "Focus on the user and all else will follow."
Sure. But it's idealized version of earth. It doesn't says anything about seas potentially filled with poisonous species, the large dead-zones, non existent corrals, etc.
Ok, so you've destroyed 10 small businesses and replaced them with 9 startups that fail after 18 months, and 1 that becomes a massive success. That's a win for the VC, and those 10 startups are "on average" profitable.

But it's still a loss for society because now we don't have those 9 small businesses or their 9 "disruptive" replacements.
In California, an LLC is treated like an S-Corp and you get charged the Corporate tax rate in addition to paying your regular income tax. Unless you feel the name of your company requires the protection of an LLC and make enough to justify the 8.84% (minimum of $800) additional tax, skip it.
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If Excite killed Google, it is likely someone else (perhaps even Googlers who hadn't been hired yet in the hypothetical world) would build Google instead.
I am currently doing this. What I am doing on the side or the companies I am doing it for does not compete in any way with what my day job company produces.

Edit - I do have the problem you are describing though. Where to find clients who will pay a reasonable rate. Don't mean to spam but since this seems relevant, full story here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7821974
At the time of writing this 262 responses and 0 "life style" business. That seems pretty nutty to me. Maybe "high growth" captures more than how I read the poll author's intent, but 91 of you are chasing funding/VC/big exit and 0 of you are building a profitable business that can fund its own growth that you enjoy and want to keep control over?

FWIW I'm 7 years in on my fully bootstrapped, profitable, strongly growing, multi-million dollar business, and couldn't be happier.
So what happens when the NSA does it without permission and keeps discovered vulnerabilities secret?

Is this setting up a precedent?
If it's a true business (not a hobby), you'll be able to justify contracting/employing someone to run your systems and serve customers. But checking-out for an entire month is a recipe for disaster.
This chart gets trotted out in seemingly every resolution-related discussion... does anyone know where the numbers come from? I've always assumed they were pulled from somebody's ass, but I'd be interested to find out if that's not the case.

Very curious since it looks dubious to me but gets thrown out at as cold hard fact every single time.
I believe that chart is for video viewing. That's important for a TV, but on a computer monitor you also spend a lot of time reading text and higher resolutions tend to provide benefits for longer with that.
I find the inches and feet to be easier to use than said pound and stone .... Not to forget those silly cooking measures like cup, bowl, tea spoon etc... which obviously are not standardized. Talking about weird measure, is the fact that properties seems to be advertised in number of rooms and not square meters or square feet.
As is your server.
Site is down now, but this is from the FAQ:

> What is the PirateBox?

> PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. Simply turn it on to transform any space into a free and open communications and file sharing network. Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movements, PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless communications and file sharing networks where users can anonymously chat and share images, video, audio, documents, and other digital content.

> How does it work?

> Simply turn PirateBox on to transform any space into an offline communication and wireless file sharing network. When users join the PirateBox wireless network and open a web browser, they are automatically redirected to the PirateBox welcome page. Users can then immediately begin to chat anonymously, post images or comments on the bulletin board, watch or listen to streaming media, or upload and download files.
Hm. I'm a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer, and I think this stereotype ("only extremely accomplished programmers should work on the kernel") probably hurts more than it helps.

I'm not sure I've ever met someone who wanted to contribute to mainline and didn't understand the responsibility involved. What I think we see more of is excellent programmers who think they aren't good enough for the kernel, with the result that the average age for core kernel developers appears to be increasing all the time. It's not a great situation.

I'm not saying my opinion is representative of all kernel maintainers, but I'm personally in favor of losing the "you must be this tall to work on the kernel" rhetoric.
You're webserver is broken. Anyone have a cached link?
This is the story I think of when I hear about Google founders described as if they've always had this "Vision."
True, but many of the things OpenBSD are doing to their fork are making automated capture of errors easier. Their work getting rid of the layers of crud around the OS memory allocator alone mean that tools like valgrind and other profilers now have a fighting chance of actually being useful.
When California released a similar database a few years ago, it completely convinced me of the horrific barbarism that capital punishment is. It is no deterrent to crime, and the risk of killing not just innocent people, but genuinely reformed people, is far, far too great.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I've always considered "lifestyle" business to refer to something that pays your salary, but that doesn't really grow beyond maybe hiring an admin or two. Something like an Insurance Agent type of scope.
S-corp, independent contractor. I work in capital markets mostly for big banks.
Was anyone else surprised that Google would try to sell for only $1.6 million when they were apparently already large enough to have employees at the beginning of the dotcom boom? That number seems way too low.
In a traditional render farm that's not an issue. As the new supercomputing centres have shown, there's a huge push to add massive amounts of GPU power to these because it's more cost effective.

I'm not saying GPU rendering is easy, it's way harder to do correctly because of memory constraints, but the performance of GPUs over CPUs (compute per watt, compute total) is a gap that's only getting wider. It's easy to add a few thousand more shaders, just add another card. Not easy to strap on another 12-core chip, you need to engineer from the ground up for that.

A GPU also has access to all system memory via DMA, so that shouldn't be an issue. It's just going to be hard to coordinate that data transfer in a performant way.
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Video (pt_BR):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEipDDN4Jag

Translation:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=StW2vkj6
This is my experience as well, just across the pond from you (West Michigan).

Home users demand the world for $19.99 a month and no contract. Therefore, they get terrible Comcast / TWC / ATT (essentially, they get what they asked for).

There are a lot of people trying to run the "independent ISP" gauntlet, all over the US. (And I'm biased, as I am one of them). But those consumer prices usually only work if you offer bad/slow service, have a complete monopoly, or have government subsidy.

Since most Independents don't have or won't do most of those, they have to focus on business, as those are (usually) the only people who care enough to put actual money into service.
Calling something "ugly" isn't humble.

Putting "humble" in bold is an ironic admission of obliviousness.
I am pretty sure sjwright is being sarcastic.
It's also the 4th of 4 options. I realize I didn't even see that option before I responded.
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Check out General Assembly's Git instructional, its pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDLoe_2MBc
Even worse is stupid fractional units like ounce-inches instead of foot-pounds.
Many more should be added. Start with Aldrich Ames, Bernie Madoff and Robert Hanssen.
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I'm surprised by how manual the whole process is. I think labour is so expensive in the west that any manufacturing of small low value items is incredibly highly automated (see youtube for lots of videos of how huge automated production lines work). There's no way you could employ someone to manually bond 80 LEDs a minute in the west and still have a competitive product.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...

!cache in DDG will get that for you in future.
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I have a contracting LLC, a startup LLC and a regular job.
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Kelvin starts at 0°.

There's a maximum temperature but it's really stupidly hot, where the particles are accelerated to nearly light speed because of thermal energy.

The temperature of the sun would be 0.00000000000000002° in your crazy system.
Tufte is only one perspective? The point is that information is more important than presentation. Making something pretty should never reduce the accessibility of the information or take away information. Mary's slides are much more informative than the redone slides. If there's a perspective that stresses pretty over getting information that's an incorrect perspective.

Decluttering can increase access to information, but again it's all about getting people to get the information, not admire your ability to draw pretty icons and pick fancy colors.
Well, I had to adjust this. For me -5 and above is T-shirt weather...
Ask HN: What's your relationship with your sold company?
There was a story on MarketPlace yesterday about Juicy Couture's sale to Liz Claiborne (http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/marketplace-thursday-may-29-2014 around 20 mins) and one of the questions that the host asked the founders is what is their relationship to the brand since they've sold. It made me wonder how the founders on HN relate to products that they've once been close to. What's your story? Did you sell or get pushed out? Do you use the product? Do you agree with its current direction?<p>Thanks
Allow me to expand on this a little:

Anything an LLC pays as "regular income" is an expense to the LLC and is not taxable at the LLC level, with the exception that the LLC will have to pay payroll taxes. Of course the wage earner will pay both Federal and if applicable State income taxes.

An LLC has flexible tax structure, and at the federal level may be taxed as: 1. a sole proprietorship; 2. a partnership; 3. a C-corporation; and 4. a S-corporation.

An LLC may provide legal protection (limited liability) to its owners; however, that protection is generally lost when it is a single member (only a single owner) LLC.

You are correct that the California franchise tax (minimum of $800 annually) is wildly expensive compared to annual compliance filing fees in other states.
Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zWSCSbJ...

I built a piratebox using a cheapo tplink router about 2 1/2 years ago. I'm somewhat surprised nothing has been built using commodity Android phones since then. They'd be better suited to the task as far as having a battery built in, better antennas, etc.
The benefits-- which would be far greater than the metric system (more difficult too)-- would come from having a universal language, regardless of what it was. And English is surely the best placed; being the world's second language, where not the first.
Thanks for the invitation. I'm afraid I'm already married, however, and to a startup founder to boot! :-)
I originally formed my s-corp for contracting. I was in and out of places and it was a lot easier from almost every angle (getting paid, paying taxes).

I wound up getting full-time position eventually, but continued building my own websites. The s-corp acts as the corporate umbrella they all fall under. Maybe it'll be a "real" business one day, but it's a moderate one in the meantime, and worth the separation.
Quit my F/T job 2 years ago. Got 40k funding from an accelerator. Later received 150k funding. 2 months ago I developed and released a product which is seeing high growth and good revenue! There's 5 of us now, living in the same house. If you're curious, it's a Chrome App for the Chromecast, called Videostream.
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This post is factually wrong, and misguided. Here's why:

#Preamble: Except on Windows you cannot run Direct3D anywhere else. Unless you plan not to publish on Android, iOS, OSX, Linux, Steambox, PS4 etc. you will have to target OpenGL, no matter how much you dislike it.

#1: Yes the lowest common denominator issue is annoying. However, in some cases you can make use of varying features by implementing different renderpaths, and in other cases it doesn't matter much. But factually wrong is that there would be something like a "restricted subset of GL4". Such a thing does not exist. You either have GL4 core with all its features, or you don't. Perhaps author means that GL4 isn't available everywhere, and they have to fall back to GL3?

#2: Yes driver quality for OpenGL is bad. It is getting better though, and I'd suggest rather than complaining about OpenGL, how about you complain about Microsoft, Dell, HP, Nvidia, AMD etc.?

#compiler in the driver: Factually this conclusion is completely backwards. First of all the syntactic compile overhead isn't what makes compilation slow necessairly. GCC can compile dozens of megabytes of C source code in a very short time (<10ms). Drivers may not implement their lexers etc. quite well, but that's not the failing of the specification. Secondly, Direct3D is also moving away from its intermediary bytecode compile target, and is favoring delivery of HLSL source code more.

#Threading: As author mentions himself, DX11 didn't manage to solve this issue. In fact, the issue isn't with OpenGL at all. It's in the nature of GPUs and how drivers talk to them. Again author seems to be railing against the wrong machine.

#Sampler state: Again factually wrong information. This extension http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/sampler_objects.txt allows to decouple texture state from sampler state. This has been elevated to core functionality in GL4. The unit issue has not been resolved however, but nvidia did propose a DSA extension, which so far wasn't taken up by any other vendor. Suffice to say, most hardware does not support DSA, and underneath, it's all texture units, even in Direct3D, so railing against texture units is a complete red herring.

#Many ways to do the same thing: Again many factual errors. Most of the "many ways" that author is railing against are legacy functions, that are not available in core profile. It's considered extremely bad taste to run a compatibility (to earlier versions) profile and mix&mash various strata of APIs together. That'd be a bit like using Direct3D 8 and 11 functionality in the same program. Author seems to basically fail in setting up his GL context cleanly, or doesn't even know what "core profile" means.

#Remainder: Lots of handwaving about various vaguely defined things and objecting to condjmp in the driver, again, author seems to be railing against the wrong machine.

Conclusion: Around 90% of the article is garbage. But sure, OpenGL isn't perfect, and it's got its warts, like everything, and it should be improved. But how about you get the facts right next time?
Can anybody explain why the Race column is stil there? What is the relevancy of this statistic? Why not sex, or religion?
The application broke because it couldn't handle unexpected input, I think you stated the problem and it was the application. OpenDNS has been clear about returning an HTML page of adverts. I appreciate the category level filter and the ability to block known harmful sites from my family's casual browsing. When my wife or kids want to browse to gun, gambling, typo-squatting or hate sites they'll need to learn how to resolve IP addresses (and I'll be proud of them). I also hope they'll learn to code and safely handle unexpected input.
[Edit: you didn't say your application unsafely handled the input, just making the point and not meaning to sound too snarky]
There are instructions here[1] for building your own. Which includes:

1. First download a copy of install_piratebox.zip and a customized
copy of OpenWrt for the MR3020, WR702N or MR3040 to your computer
from: http://stable.openwrt.piratebox.de/auto (be sure to download
the “*squashfs-factory.bin” file that corresponds with your specific
device).

Also says:

Using OpenWrt and off-the-shelf hardware, you can build a PirateBox
1.0 for as little as US$35. Check out the OpenWrt DIY page for more
info and visit the OpenWrt Discussion Board for support.

[1] http://piratebox.cc/openwrt:diy

[2] http://stable.openwrt.piratebox.de/auto/install_piratebox.zi...
Wow, this is awesome. Exactly what I was looking for.
Skimming the list, it seems only few of them are really repentant and understood the consequences of what they did. But, for the few of them, especially those referring to their family and children, it is hard to see what benefits their death will bring. Maybe some closure for the victim's family, but in some case, it sounds like the guy being executed as not much more in common with the criminal.
I added the life style business well after the post began based on the suggestion of one of the comments.
It has benefits, like it works perfectly with Metric, where Fahrenheit is based on arbitrary numbers that have nothing to do with anything else.

A 1x1x1 cm cube of water at 20°C weighs 1 gram and has a volume of 1mL.

Temperature, weight, and volume are interlinked this way.
"Now go find some globes in a thrift store. Buy them, steal them, I don't care."

That would be a strange spot in life to get to: caught stealing a globe from a thrift store to design a fantasy planet for worlddreambank.org.
Thanks, that was quick :-)
I updated my about with a slightly encoded version of my email, if you want to continue.
I agree the exception for government agency is inconvenient to say the least...
An LLC with one member can choose to be treated as either a disregarded entity (sole proprietorship) or corporation for tax purposes, an LLC with more than one member can choose to be treated as either a partnership or a corporation for tax purposes. The default is disregarded entity or partnership (depending on whether the LLC has more than one member), and the election to be taxed instead as a corporation is made federally by filing with the IRS, the California tax treatment is based on how the LLC has chosen to be treated federally.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/businesses/bus_structures/LLCompany.s...
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The title for this is incorrectly applying the public suffix list (https://publicsuffix.org/) and comes up with "tx.us". That's not the registered domain name here.
First, Java has fibers[1]. Second, Adder has nothing to do with that. It's a low-level concurrency construct, that many languages would be happy to have. It doesn't matter if you use kernel threads or fibers, concurrent data structures are a great tool, and Java leads the way in that area.

[1]: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/05/01/modern-java/
As a human attempt this is breathtaking. Bringing back tigers, etc. Phenomenal.

Something troubles me - not specifically about this attempt but such attempts in general.

I live a few miles away from the "Meadowlands" in New Jersey - a good example of land thought to be useless and in the need of 'improvement' and yet it is rich enough to support wildlife within eyesight of NYC. People have drained it and dumped unmentionable crap in it. Cars and refineries pollute it. And yet it survives and provides much of the areas o2 and has other useful functions like providing a resting place for the dead bodies from the real life 'Sopranos'. I've seen deer and woodchucks by our datacenter and coyotes have been reported poaching dogs in the area.

"Unimproved land" I think they call it - marshes, wetlands, swamps and bogs. Sometimes we rush in to improve 'wastelands' that are not wssted land. Wetlands and tidal flats are the basis for life and there are more biomes than the visible 'pretty' ones with lions and tigers and bears...

A forest burns down and it remains an ugly, smelly blight - but it becomes a different ecosystem for a geological instant ( a few human generations...) But there is a human impulse to 'fix' it. Like we fixed Australia by introducing rabbits or the US by adding starlings and English sparrows. Our improvements often become problems in their own right.

It is hard to argue with building forests, though. There is no place I personally enjoy more. The forsets of the Catskills or the Adirondacks. Or the ones I grew up near in suburban NJ. WHen I lived in Korea - looking out at Buhkansan (largest mountian in the Seoul area) in the winter - I remarked how the mountain looked like a closely cropped head or hair. My friend informed me that was a legacy of the Korean War napalm (or whatever it was called at the time) was used to clear the mountains of hiding places. The trees were so even because they had been planted in the postwar years, so the forests I enjoyed hiking in were the result of a huge communal amount of human activity.

Again - mad props to this guy and the community around them. I suspect that he rescued land that was ravaged already by human activity as well as the mentioned flood.
I live a few miles away from the "Meadowlands" in New Jersey - a good example of land thought to be useless and in the need of 'improvement'

"Unimproved land" I think they call it - marshes, wetlands, swamps and bogs. Sometimes we rush in to improve 'wastelands' that are not wssted land. Wetlands and tidal flats are the basis for life and there are more biomes than the visible 'pretty' ones with lions and tigers and bears...

A forest burns down and it remains an ugly, smelly blight - but it becomes a different ecosystem for a geological instant ( a few human generations...)

Again - mad props to this guy and the community around them. I suspect that he rescued land that was ravaged already by human activity as well as the mentioned flood.
Dude... chill. I never said ban it. Please don't put words in my mouth.