skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redeploying is pretty automated, but it looks like I need significant caching on the front-end to cope with load.
Young developers should save 50% of their after tax income.

In some ways, this industry is awesome: to be able to make six figures in your early 20s is an incredible benefit and potential head start on financial independence.

In other ways, this industry is incredibly cruel: you will run into age discrimination and the other headwinds mentioned in your mid 30s, if not earlier.

I tell the folks I mentor to think of themselves as professional athletes with a 15, maybe 20 year career.
Rough situation.

I am not sure you will be able to find anything in the programming area on such short notice that will pay out that quickly.

However, this might be a case where you look outside of that, and take more pedestrian approaches to get you the cash needed to ride out the rough patch.

Day labor, its not programming, and it doesn't pay much, but it could be enough to put food in the belly, and a roof over the head. I know in the US there are all kinds of day labor companies, and construction will occasionally hire for unskilled on a job site, and pay cash.

Recruiters/Staffing/Temp: Find someone that has a client base of people that need software staff augmentation immediately. I am not sure it would solve the problem in 2-3 days, but you might get very lucky.

Original response was dead on though. Hard to say what can be done without knowing where in the world you are.
However, if you know that, and can put a price on your naive happiness, you can make a choice about whether you'd like to develop skills that will help you in a large number of areas of your life.

So, yes. Sacrifice that naive happiness. Sacrifice your willingness to believe things merely because you want them to be true. Sacrifice your false confidence. Use your better aim to set a wiser course.
Previously it was running a reasonably heavyweight Perl/CGI front-end on 512Mb RAM.

It's now setting with 4Gb of RAM, and a load of ~40.

The single biggest issue is that the front-page either shows "marketing" or "your details", so it is dynamic and being generated on-demand.

I'll update to cache.
Go, Colourspace, and All the RGB Colours in One Image
There are still plenty of other spots in paid results for the competition :)
Show HN: I made a deck of GLITCH playing cards
Sorry for the green username, long time lurker first time contributor :)

It all started with a dream. I love playing cards and I've always wanted to make my own deck. I started the initial work years ago but took it seriously a few months ago. I launched the campaign on Kickstarter about a month ago.

It took a lot of work to get it rolling. I found some amazing support on reddit and on twitter and it just kind of snowballed from there.

It really took off after being featured on VICE and LaughingSquid.

I'm doing an IAmA over on reddit right now, if you are interested:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28t9zw/iama_playing_card_designer_amaa/

Here a some pictures of the project (* I had a lot of fun :)
http://imgur.com/a/MKnES

And (of course) the kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/457846685/glitch-playing-cards-printed-with-by-uspcc
Yep.

I should mention that 99.9% of domains will fall into standard form ( handle.domain or ip.ip.ip.ip )

As such, You are definitely more likely to let a user enter a bad URL they did not intend because it validates then to let a uncommon domain actually be used.

As such- a much simpler regex would likely 'make more people happy' than being 100% correct to tech spec.
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Unblock out of region content with Digital Ocean and sshuttle
The answer to this I would think would be to get to a point where growth is icing on the cake, and then streamline your current business to the point you only have to be involved for major things.
I'd love to try this out, but it seems that it uses some luarocks that are unavailable (sundown, cwrap) .. or .. at least, my attempt to do a standard install with the instructions as given has resulted in luarocks not finding any of the required rocks .. anyone know what might be causing this?

(EDIT: Never mind I figured it out - if you have a luarocks installed previously, you must do:

$ mv /usr/local/etc/luarocks/config-5.1.lua /usr/local/etc/luarocks/config-5.1-old.lua
$ mv /usr/local/etc/luarocks/config.lua /usr/local/etc/luarocks/config-5.1.lua
>"Things Vim can never have"? Details please.

He gave several, did you read the article?

A proper extension mechanism for one.

A GUI that's not just monospaced fonts (or just some stylized buttons triggering functions, as Gvim, MacVim etc).

Ans lots of other things. As a matter of fact, a team even started refactoring Vim itself a few months ago, because they feel the current code doesn't cut it and they want to have a codebase that can be properly extended and get rid of all the legacy cruft.
Doing pretty well at basic reasoning skills has a lot to do with good decisionmaking, in that it's required.
https://m.imgur.com/49k1UbP
Anyone could easily pick it up and check out what you had in your library.

This is subjective, of course. I'm lost every time I have to change songs on a friend's iPod classic :-). Give me traditional buttons or a touch screen any day.
That's confusing cause and effect. Depressed people become more rational, but it's not rationality which is causing the depression. Because, there are several ways to become more rational that don't cause similar increases in depression.
rotor noise tends to be really wide band, simple filtering won't be able to remove it
Samsung will reportedly reveal Android Wear smartwatch at Google I/O
Yes, but this information didn't come from cab companies. It came from the NYC Taxi & Limo Commission: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/home/home.shtml
clickable link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/457846685/glitch-playin...
This is described in "the Newtonion Casino" (an amazing book about a bunch of people who build 8080 computers into their shoes to beat roulette wheels).

Roulette is rigged in such a way that the best strategy is to not play. But, after that, you take all the money you would ever play on roulette and put it on a single number.

They talk about some of the other systems. They also talk about the skill of the croupiers to throw the ball such tha they can predict roughly (enough to beat the odds) where it'll land.
Why not just slap Varnish in front of that and be done?
Codrops COLLECTIVE #121
It's kind of the ultimate Randian ideal. The producer, exercising his/her power of thought, to the maximum, creating untold value. Ultimate mind over matter.
It's not working in chrome 35.0.1916.153.
I tried to drag different things (links, text, pictures) and I always get exceptions in the console and nothing happens except that the drop field shows a check mark.
Error: http://pastebin.com/Cm7z3YtJ
If this app were ever to be wildly successful, enough people would try to leave the theater at the same time that cinema operators would either lock the toilets or start having intermissions.
Yes. If we stop advertising we stop getting sales proportional to the advertising spend. Most people arent coca cola.
Couchsurfing.com for the immediate housing problem, maybe even make a friend you can lean on for the first week and try to get them back with a nice dinner once you got some cash flowing again.

If cost of living/food is a sustained problem, try to save up and fly to a place where that won't be your noose around your neck. Perhaps southeast asia once you've saved a bit. Again couchsurfing for a softer landing there as well.

If you freelance, I see no reason why you need to stay in a place that costs a lot to live in. Move elsewhere.
Mastering the Body Language of a Video Interview
>If I were a demon from Hell, charged by my infernal masters with increasing rape as much as possible, I literally could not think of a better strategy than talking about rape culture all the time.

I don't understand the proposed alternative. There is a widespread disconnect between the ethical view of consent ("enthusiastic yes") and the equally common disregard of consent ("well, she only said no the first time but then got real quiet...seemed OK"). Families and friend circles often fail to support rape victims or confront rapists. We're facing a structural cultural problem, and the solution is to...not talk about it?
It doesn't cost that much actually; once I find a permanent place and buy groceries etc. I can live off maybe $600-$700/month. The issue is really just that I need money last-minute.
Reconstructing Cave Story – Coding a game from scratch with C++, SDL and VIM [video]
Luckily there are effective techniques that pessimists can use to interrupt and challenge unduly negative thinking, thus hopefully preventing them sliding into depression.
>It's a culture shock, overall. It's like moving from Windows 8.1 to Slackware 14.1. Even if the latter is far more transparent, well designed and productive, it's just so different.

Nope, Slackware 14.1 is not "more well designed and productive". I want a graphics editor with full CMYK proofing support and Smart Objects. Do you have one for your Slackware? Didn't think so. How about a DAW I can collaborate with any major studio, like say Pro Tools? Didn't think so again.

Of course those are MY use cases. But you can't generally talk about it "being more productive" (in general) unless you specify for what uses. For mine, it's very near useless. And that's the case for millions of people too, even if their needs doesn't include Pro Tools or Photoshop. They invariably include other stuff that Gnome/KDE don't give them. And the myth that "most people just use web and email" is also BS. Normal, everyday people, do tons of stuff Linux doesn't cater to well, from wanting to edit their child's birthday video on the PC, to wanting their laptop to sleep when they close the lid.

Slackware 14.1 might be a better for a server OS (but then again Centos and even Ubuntu LTS have eaten its lunch), but not for what lots of people use Windows for.

>Dijkstra sardonically quipped that COBOL cripples the mind and BASIC leads to irrecoverable mental mutilation.

Yeah, but then again he was all theory, and could snark about everything. Most of it is to be taken with huge grains of salt. Not to mention that the snide against those languages is ironic, coming from the guy who gave us ALGOL.

>I'm not directing this to the author, specifically. It looks like they tried, at least. We're content with inferiority. Try getting a person who's used to 20 years of QWERTY to switch to DVORAK. It may not be that difficult at all, but it requires stepping out of our comfort zone.

And what for? To adopt a ho-hum keyboard system, that's presented as a magic bullet for gullible people. DVORAK, the 80+ year old late-night-tv-special of keyboard systems.

http://www.economist.com/node/196071

https://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html
Weekly Webdev Recap #CW25 2014
Did it again a day later and same result. Though I noticed that the more I replayed the clip, the easier it got for me to "hear" the phrase within the distorted clip.
I don't understand by what you mean by "overseas". Are you not legally allowed to work in Canada? Why are you listing your money in USD? Sounds like you made a couple of bad decisions and you need to find yourself a full time job.

If you really have no money you should probably use your credit cards until you find a permanent job. Or ask your friends or family to loan you money while you are getting yourself back on your feet.
In addition to patio11's advice, I want to add: give yourself 6 weeks of vacation. Call it an unpaid sabbatical if you need to. That will adjust your attitude, especially if you return and the business is still functioning. Be very blunt and tell people that you're running on empty and when you return you intend to readjust the company's attitude or if they won't change, then your role will at least.
Where the People Are: Chart of the World’s Population by Longitude and Latitude
Do you only work on projects that are 100% open source?
Reading this comment made me very very sad. I've been programming computers for over 3 decades, and this is how we started off in my day. The "MyComputerification" of IT education during the 90's has a lot to answer for...
Why not put in some of the new TLDs as test cases... ;)
I suspect you're right in that it's never given you all the results. I'm pretty sure that it's given me many more than 300 or so results in the past, though, whereas that figure seems to be google's idea of the max any user could possibly want now before they refine their term.

I think mars is probably not the ideal term for testing this sort of thing - just too many hits. I tried mars "philip k dick" and found the same thing - 30 or so pages and then it refused to give me more results. Increasing the obscurity level somewhat, devil's vindata vanilla search vs. verbatim search did indeed show a reduced set of results for verbatim (the vanilla search results including hits on devil's vendetta)

Overall though, if you're looking for more fringe results for common search terms, millionshort.com might be worth a try, where you can remove hits from the top 10^n sites for your term it says.
I don't see a way to add txt records, which are important for many things. Nor do I see srv records or others.

The documentation also doesn't make it clear because it links TinyDNS format, but says you're using a simplified version without mentioning any real details.

Are there any plans to support / document these other record types?
Going Public Roadmapping With A Public Trello Board.
Damn sorry :) Thank you!
Making A Toolchain, Not Just A Tool
I don't understand: how is this better than/different from python (with numpy, scipy, theano and FFI)? Is this a language preference thing where people just want to avoid python?
Get a food services job temporarily. Also, buy groceries and cook your own food. Even microwave meals only cost about $1 each.
As much as I find these taxes ridiculous (and also hard to predict for a business owner), Couldn't they just add 3.62% to their billed costs to cover those expenses? On a $100k software gig, this would be just $3620 or so. Round it to $105k and they should be pulling in the same amount. On $10k it's just $362. So that would maybe shift a $10k project bid to $10.5k to cover those taxes and still bring in the same net to the company. Would that really make them uncompetitive? "Cost of business" and all that?
It was even pretty much done and ready to be released, but they wanted to focus on Star Fox 64. There's ROMs of it floating around on the internet if you look.

Here's Wikipedia's page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_2
His headline of "one hit and you are hooked" suggests he hasn't had much experience with drugs either.
> and studies on child porn show pedophilia is less common where it’s more accessible.

There's no link to the research.

Does anyone have any links? I'd be interested to know of this is just more lack of reporting of crime in a country that doesn't do much about that crime.
Sounds like you started the wrong type of business. When I started my online business, I had 1 main rule: I didn't want to deal with clients or co-workers. Now, I've got multiple projects that are bringing in six-figure incomes and I have to put in about 1-2 hours of work per week as a solo entrepreneur. I walk my dogs at least an hour every day, I work out, waste time browsing sites like HN and reddit, and am about to embark on a year-long digital nomad lifestyle with my wife. So, it can be done.
An economy of scale doesn't necessarily mean they price their phones lower. It could mean they offer more expensive products at the same price and with the same profit as their competitors, or offer equivalent products at the same price but higher profit than their competitors.
> The USA recognizes state law as a defends against Federal tyranny.

In this case, the law allows for local tyranny. Just imagine e.g. a 30% sales tax - as long as you live in the city, you have no way of getting around this tax: "If you can't afford to move... well, not my problem"
The paper sure is interesting and should add value to the debate and approaches to SEM. To discard it by scoffing at eBay's execution would indeed be your own loss.

My biggest take-away is the saturation of advertisements and the effects it can have on running ad campaigns. Yours seem to focus on the common correlation-causation misinterpretation, and faulty measurement approaches.

I do think there are enough problems with the paper to not grant it the authority to speak for an entire industry (as Slate put it). eBay is just one (and a very big and unique) advertiser in this arena, and every move it makes (even to measure it) changes the entire ad network.

> They also used a geographic split as a control.

Thank you for this correction.

Aside: The problem with eBay's non-profitable advertisements seems to me a beautiful problem: The paper authors subscribe to the benefits of saved costs. I do not think that the marketing department of eBay subscribes to this benefit. For them, and external ad agencies, the more ads your run, the more clicks you get, the more you get rewarded, the better your monthly reports look. People at eBay's online marketing department must be smart enough to realize that many of these ads were worthless to the company, yet it was worth it for them to empty the monthly budget on a list of generic keywords.
It is essentially a Lua equivalent to Theano. A significant difference, though, is that it makes running your NNs on GPU extremely easy.

Also, it is endorsed by the main deep convnets research groups (Facebook, Google).
This article defines many of the reasons that I've been disillusioned about American "sports". They are just a money making vehicle at the expense of society. Just recently (like an hour ago) someone from MLS was on ESPN talking about making MLS the best league in the world (seriously?) "so that our fans get ENTERTAINED by the best players in the world". It's football (or soccer), a sport, a passion, a social endeavor, not an entertainment, corporate money making vehicle. No wonder MLS is a laughing stock for the rest of the world. There is nothing wrong in making a profit, but at the expense of society?

P.S: Sounders and Timber fans, you guys rock!!
From http://brandonhsiao.com/, it looks like he's in Vancouver.

[EDIT: Ah, The OP has updated his post]
First, the proposal doesn't suggest a solution. It only suggests that one approach is flawed.

Second, you can explain proper consent without lecturing on issues like lax enforcement and prevalence of rape.
Depending on the attitude of the city you are in, your personality and what kind of creative skills you have, you could also potentially make some "hold-over" money quickly by busking (street performance). I personally am really not a big fan of busking, but I've thought about what I would do if I suddenly needed some cash in pocket very quickly and the quickest (legal) way I can imagine getting cash in hand with no initial investment is day labor, street performance or panhandling. Seems like a long shot, but if you're a super good guitar player or something and Vancouver doesn't have strict laws about street performance, you might be able to make enough to keep you fed and housed until a freelance job pays out.
1. Learn to make your idea.
2. Pay someone who knows how to make your idea.
Thanks to Luajit, the code you are writing will be compiled to efficient byte code which runs very fast. It's because Lua as a language is simple enough to produce light bytecode that can run in the CPUs cache.
Numpy will always do the job, but when speed is really critical, you might want to look into it.
For 5. having a lot of experience interviewing the kids coming out of college can outweigh the fact that college was a long time ago. If you interview 1-2 candidates per week for 10 years, that's 500-1000 interviews!
How safe is it to allow apps like this access to my accounts?
> You say you're in a foreign country, and you don't have any family back home who could help with the price of an airline ticket? In that case I would suggest going to your country's embassy and explaining your situation.

Embassies aren't "get out of jail free" cards. Sure, it's better than nothing - but they get tourists without a return ticket home so often that there are strict policies on these sort of things. Even if they do help you, it might end up in you getting your passport revoked for a significant chunk of time, etc.
Android 4.5 Lollipop – Changing the Way You Interact
This is not uncommon. Client work trades a single boss for multiple ones, even if it means you get to have pizza and beers at work.

The way out is through. A smattering of ideas:

- Take some time away, even if just a day. Yes, I know you can't afford to: do it anyway, to get some perspective and distance. If you want to hurry up, you must first slow down. [1] Don't forget to get a good night's sleep, too.

- Fire the clients that create the most stress or who are questionably profitable. Take a loss (in profit and/or reputation) if you have to. The first thing to do when you're in a hole is stop digging. (As suggested by others: drastically raising your prices is also a good way to separate wheat from chaff.)

- Don't shoulder it all yourself. Get whatever outside help you can from friends and family, and most importantly, be open with your employees about your circumstance. If you're upfront about where you're at, I think you'll be surprised at their willingness to problem-solve. If not, at least you were straight with them, and you can part ways amicably; if you put on a brave face while bullshitting them, they're much less likely to give you some slack.

Above all, don't forget that perfection is impossible, in your craft or in business, and you will never be able to please everyone, either clients or employees. You've got more spine than you think, or you wouldn't have started this enterprise. Use it, and make the hard decisions you don't want to make. You will hate doing it, but that dread in the pit of your stomach will finally go away.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festina_lente
My point is that there probably isn't a state of active fear of the government for most people, as in they're literally cowering in a corner. Of course, this is nearly literally true for some people today (like Edward Snowden) and has been literally true for lots of people in certain governments in recent history.

But anyway, despite there not being an active fear for most people, there certainly would be an immediate fear upon receiving word from the IRS, because the tax system is so hopelessly complex that every single filer is almost certainly guilty of violating some law.
One alternative (which appears to work with alcohol problem drinking) is to tell people what other people like them are doing. Thus, all the newspapers and tv programmes talking about the perils of binge drinking and how everyone is drinking too much and how it's harmful to them and the nation - that just makes people think that excessive drinking is just what people do. But if you tell university students that people their age tend to drink about 8 units a week (or whatever the actual real average is) then they realise that they drink a lot more than that and start to cut down.

Telling men that "most men think drunk consent is not consent" would be in line with this, and is I think what the article is talking about.