skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming the technology behind this is either of two things:

* An implementation of probabilistic nanopayments (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Nanopayments)

* Massive amount of extremely small transactions.

I'd like to know if any consideration has been made for the amount of data hitting the blockchain when this scales. A flood of transactions will cause fees to rise higher than the principal payment.
The vast majority of people on earth live either north of the equator or in the tropics (so no traditional seasons in the first place).

I just moved to Australia, and we have `inverted' seasons here, too.
How Quickly a "Genius" Startup Can Tank
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These are excellent responses as usual, and I'm coming to this a few days late, but I wanted to add another answer for someone who maybe isn't willing to bite off quite as much sales skills as tptacek and patio11 are suggesting, or are dealing with a buyer who doesn't have the authority to go against the agency rule - i.e. the dev manager wants to bring you in, but he has no idea who he has to talk with to get you on board as an independent contractor, and you're not on an approved list, and two people tell him that he can't do it, and three months are going to go by and meanwhile everyone is frustrated, including you, who wants to work.

This is a common, real-world scenario, and we see it all the time. Agencies, in fact, are used to it: it's called payrolling.

If you find the work yourself - i.e. someone wants to hire _you_ but needs you to go through an agency - then ask for the names of three agencies they work with, and if any of them payroll. (They may not know the answer to that.)

Then call all three, tell them the hiring manager and anything else you know about the financials (you might know bill rate, or what you want to make, or both), and tell them you're calling all three agencies, and you'll go with the one that can make the best deal. That's a win for the agency (a little money and another person on the books with that client) and a win for you (in comparison to the $65/$130 deal). Factoring in things like employment taxes and such, you can assume that you'll keep ~90% of the bill rate. (So $65 would become $117 total comp: if they're required to employ you and pay taxes, offer insurance, etc., more like $95 to you. Look, almost a 50% raise.)

We're a small agency (~50 engineers), and we usually have 3-5 people we're payrolling because either the client called us and asked us to payroll, or we got a call like the one above and decided it was worth it.
Ask HN: Comcast business IP routing is broken?
Anyone else is seeing issues with Comcast misrouting IPs for Linode Fremont/Hurricane Electric?
I was interested until I noticed it was pay-to-win. Instantly closed the tab.
Two costs to implementing that: 1 - people get nervous giving out their CC info. 2 - sometimes people like be anonymous (famous or cheating? not going to give ID).
You can click the button and it's John McCain saying "Hell No" from his Party of Hell No speech. There was a bit on the Daily Show about it and I thought making it in to a button would be funny.

It is not a technical masterpiece, and it was built in about an hour. But I am proud of it.
Wait a couple of years and author finds erlang or scala...
I wish I'd used those exact words in my clumsy footnote.
Programmer productivity is also very hard to measure. Just this afternoon I finally nailed a tough problem that I 'd banged my head against for weeks and then set aside while I was watching an episode of The Glades, when I should have been "working". Goofing off can be highly productive.
Does Linux count?

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.os.minix/dlN...
In addition to Flexbox, there is the CSS Grid Layout: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/

There's a polyfill for it, following the 2012 version used by IE10: https://github.com/codler/Grid-Layout-Polyfill
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Pity he didn't have a look at Erlang. It's not likely to be the "next big thing", but it's really good at what it does.
Right, but flexbox is fairly new. CSS sucked because it made the most common things people want to do really really difficult. Most people gave up and went back to tables because tables give you an understandable grid layout with trivial effort. CSS is just now starting to make the most common layouts easier.
Fibers is a not a fork, it's a package that is included as a dependency with pre-compiled binaries for all the major platforms.
AutoTrader.com is a good example of a successful startup within a large company.
I'm making potato salad.
Most "problems" with CSS (with the exception of vertical centering and a few others) are caused by the fact that people can't be bothered to learn CSS.

It's funny: if a programmer is told to write CSS but doesn't know how, he'll copy-and-paste from Stack Overflow, get a shit result, and say that CSS sucks. If a programmer is told to write Elm but doesn't know how, he'll learn the language, write some decent Elm, and be happy. Now, who do you think will have the better time - the person that actually learned his tools or the person that copy-pasted CSS from Stack Overflow?

Even if you assume that CSS is as horrible as the author would have you believe, the 'solution' of Elm is preposterous. As another commenter [0] said: it outputs a crazy amount of divs, all the styles are inline, you lose the CSS ecosystem, and you lose performance. Even the demos of Elm for layout are completely broken.

[0] http://pchiusano.github.io/2014-07-02/css-is-unnecessary.htm...
HE/Fremont IPs are routed to East Coast with 100% packet loss:

3 te-0-3-0-3-sur03.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net (68.85.190.45) 9.350 ms 10.003 ms 11.028 ms
4 te-7-1-ur12.sanjose.ca.sfba.comcast.net (68.87.194.130) 12.359 ms
te-1-1-0-7-ar01.sfsutro.ca.sfba.comcast.net (69.139.198.174) 16.199 ms
te-1-1-0-9-ar01.sfsutro.ca.sfba.comcast.net (69.139.198.178) 11.900 ms
5 te-0-2-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.91.121) 14.191 ms 16.276 ms 15.595 ms
6 he-0-12-0-1-pe04.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.87.2) 15.877 ms 15.729 ms 16.187 ms
7 * * *
Showception
Drivers selling parking spaces in San Francisco are potentially open to fines of $300 according to the city attorney.

It seems very polite that they're going after sites like Monkey Parking instead of simply reserving spots for $5 or $10 and then busting the sellers at $300 a pop.

I suppose that in that case, Monkey Parking would just become a component in an entirely different sort of ecology.
Unity3D to support Metal
Why Go is Great (for servers)
True, cost of living is high in Australia - especially so in Sydney and Melbourne. Generally speaking though, salaries scale to accommodate this.
Show HN: Regex Expansion in Node.js
A rich person usually inherits more money. Abolish inheritance and almost all of the capitalistic problems disappear.
Edward Snowden and Daniel Ellsburg at HOPE X
Deterministic parallel and distributed programming. Quick intro
The most worrying part is the flip side, which is the takedown notice must state that “under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in the notification is accurate.” [512(c)(3)(A)(vi)]. In fact, here it is[1]:

> Qualcomm is the owner of an exclusive copyright for each of these documents. Cyveillance is authorized to act on behalf of Qualcomm, and has a good faith belief that the publication and/or disclosure by your web site is not authorized by Qualcomm, any of Qualcomm’s agents, or the law. I certify, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notice is accurate.

The pertinent document: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_sony_huashan/b...

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-02-Qualco...
Agreed. I benchmarked Node/V8 vs. the JVM and while Node has lower memory usage, Java is as performant while being more reliable, with less variance in HTTP response times, due to the better garbage collector.

http://www.slideshare.net/olegp/server-side-javascript-going... - there are some graphs from slide 46 onwards.
Creating a Tinder bot by watching iOS traffic (with real-time stats)
It was lowered by 10x recently, to .5-.1c: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3305
When I hit a wall - shower or gym.
That's pretty fucking serious. Any other confirmations? What happens next?
sure it is hard to measure objectively, but I can tell I am significantly less productive than 3 years ago when I started my job. There were just two of us in the office, so either we were talking with each other or concentrating. Now there are 4 and constant interruptions.

I suppose it is because the in house database I have been building and maintaining is used more heavily and as such I am a source of knowledge for a lot of stuff that goes on in the organisation as a result. I am personally less productive, but the organisation is more productive. Now if only I could persuade the users to read the error messages and think for a minute ("there is no sample in the database with the name blah" ), rather than come straight to me and ask me to fix it, then we would all be a lot more efficient.
I've learnt many technologies over the years and I will no doubt learn many more. Your statements above don't consider the important question - the relative complexity of CSS compared to other aspects of web development.

"You can't be bothered to learn your tools" isn't terribly helpful when you've just given someone a hammerwrenchbathplug.
Don't worry, I saw the value pretty quickly.

I'm just wondering why that poster is trying to put a spotlight on your submission history. It just seems like they're trying to somehow degrade your work by pointing out something I guess most people find pretty personal, and it just frustrates me that they would do that. Keep up the good work.
Yes, experiencing the same from 67.188.232.131
> I'm not so excited about Go, I honestly find Rust better.

Same here, but Go has productive libraries that can help you hit the ground running. Just with the packaged standard libraries, you can do things like have a useful webserver going. I prefer Rust though and might stick with JS until I exhaust it .. or until Rust matures enough to put into production and then jump fully on to Rust. Rust compiles to llvm-bitcode, unlike Go, so that's a win for me.

edit: I stand corrected - https://github.com/go-llvm/llgo
I'm not willing to pay more than face value for tickets so, if scalpers didn't exist, I would be better off. I'd have an x% chance (where x<100) of getting tickets at face value.

There are rich people who are willing to pay up to 4x face value. They are very happy to pay 2x face value and get to go to every show they want. Without scalpers, they would pay less per show, but would totally miss out on some shows.

The scalper benefits those guys, at the expense of guys like me. It's not true that the scalper benefits nobody but themselves.
The file is dissected here: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/reading-xkeyscore-rules-so...
Looks good.

I currently use http://tudb.org/articles/2014/03/31/vpython/ for pretty much all of my python projects (also, i am the author of vpython).
"We’d be driving along and yukking it up and I’d pop in Congolese rhumba icon Papa Wembe’s “Awa Y’okeyi” and everyone would be patient for a couple of beats. Then somebody would break in with “Alright, what the hell is this?” and derision would ensue. The CD would come out and some indie thing slid into its place."

Hum, so his friends are extremely limited in their ability to understand anything not desperately mainstream. That's more or less the definition of limited cultural openness and poor taste for me.
I like cilantro just as much as the next bloke... I even plant it on my garden, along with Basil/Albacar, Spearmint/Hierbabuena and other cool ingredients.

But why oh why is there a post about cilantro on HACKER news?
This is turning into reader's digest ¬¬

Whenever you do some hackety hack thing with cilantro, please do share.
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That is so true! Also i discovered i'm way more productive in winter, than in this summer period. Just last few days ago i was thinking how to make me more productive, so now i decided to change a little bit my workspace, it should bring back my productivness i guess.
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I agree totally on your points when it comes to pasteurized milk - I was commenting on a comment that claimed regulation wasn't necessary because farmers would boil the milk anyhow, which is simply not the case.
This is really great. I'm pretty impressed with the decent amount of initial content. Where did you get your initial contributors? Is it entirely organic?

Regarding spam/inappropriate content, if you need any advice/guidance on how to best identify/block naughty people, feel free to send me an email.

Separately, I see all your submissions to HN are about loneliness, and Solo seems to have iterated through a number of names/goals, I'd love to hear how this idea evolved to what it is today.

Solo/Solitude is fantastically better than Anon App Anonymous Instagram, but one couldn't know that beforehand, what led you to change the name and what lessons did you learn along the way?
My instinct was to disagree with you because I've been doing CSS for so many years and still find it frustrating. Then I realized in all of those years, you were right, I never did take the time to read a book on it.

I don't want to understand CSS deeply, because the fact is I hate using it. I find it overly difficult to get right. I find it illogical at times. I used to find figuring out the differences between browsers in regards to it a nightmare (not so much anymore). But, you're right, perhaps if I read a book, it would all be much easier. The 10 hour investment in really understanding a good book, would make the many years of messing with it and hoping it works seem wasted.

The only way I've kept my sanity is through using frameworks like Bootstrap. I feel like I rather delegate the responsibility of learning what I see as a mess to the designers of a CSS framework. I figure, if I can understand so many complex things well, and using CSS is still a challenge, it must be CSS, not me. But, maybe it is me. On the other hand I feel in my gut, after many years of working with Interface Builder/Visual Studio and other IDE's GUI layout tools, there must be a better way for non-designers (and designers for that matter) to do this.
What gets me is when someone misspells my name in email. When my name, spelled correctly, is sitting there in the To: header.
I went to a Mexican restaurant here in Barcelona. The cilantro they added literally gave me a flashback to 13 years before when I had been living in Mexico, even though I had been making tacos with my Mexican girlfriend ourselves at home. It was the key ingredient that gave the tacos an authentic taste our own home made ones had been missing. It gets added to our own ones these days.
Show HN: A better way to get Kerbal Space Program Mods
My TL;DR: Multi-process architectures may suck on machines where you don't have enough CPU/Cores for your workload; or the design of your software requires a lot more processes than common sense would dictate.
https://github.com/SirCmpwn/KerbalStuff
I must not be people.
Hook me up if it's possible :-)
I think you're thinking it's aesthetics that sells music first. It isn't - it's its value as a cultural token that sells it first. Aesthetics operates within there.
The thing is they buy these photos from outside vendors and I imagine they are very expensive to get. There's decent coverage from urban areas, but I don't think it scales up as well as street view driving. Also, it's certainly neat for checking out areas in general fashion, but I'm not sure it's especially useful.

EDIT: predicate
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I was never taught politics in school. I learned Scottish history (where I am from) when I was way too young and have forgotten much of it, which is a shame when people ask me about it.
I too would like to evaluate lease versus buy.
Yet to encounter a monolingual English speaker to be able to pronounce my first name "Ward" (Dutch speaking Belgian). Only one I know of was someone who had spent several years in Paris (so he knew French and wasn't actually in the monolingual category anymore).

I recorded this one several years ago: http://wardje.eu/dll/ward.wav

Let's not even get started on my last name...
SFPark's most useful feature - the per-spot sensors - was disabled last year ... Kind of a shame, that would have eaten Monkey Parking's lunch, I think. Not sure if people really used it or if people use Monkey Parking at all, but the hate doesn't really help the image problem that tech already has in SF.

> It's a similar thing for making restaurant reservations. If restaurants start getting hit with a ton of no shows to the point where they're losing money, it doesn't take long to figure out that it's listed and file a cease-and-desist order.

Trying so hard not to rage here. I own a restaurant. Reservationhop guy could have spent literally a few more seconds taking his idea to the logical conclusion that he should work with restaurants - just like EVERY OTHER service involved including the ones in his defensive blog post. Nope. It's like all he saw was "oh, something like ticket scalpers for concerts!" and ended there.

Not sure why they jumped to the stupidest option possible instead of taking a look at seriously starting something in the big, generic, terribly done to date foodservice needs area (everything from reservations to POS systems) or becoming the Airbnb of privately owned parking spaces. You'd think they'd see the nonviability of their ideas sooner.
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This is kinda the direction i am going to, while creating sites for clients and a cms for them (iterating on it, every website). Your layout is much nicer though :P

PS. I also like the CMS's that use Blocks for creating a website, eg. what https://buildwithcraft.com/ is doing.
Impressive mobile support as always. Very well done, kudos nyt!
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I am working on a very simple side project, and its taking a lot longer than anticipated. Its difficult when I can only grab an hour or two at a time. Refreshing to see you admit taking two years over it. I assume you must put some emphasis on quality.
Anyone else notice that suddenly there are a dozen or so "Show HN" on the front page? I think this spurred a new way to hack your way to the top.
> everyone finds 'workon' invaluable, a position I do understand.

At first I wanted to praise virtualfish [1] and its ability to automatically activate a virtualenv when I cd into it, but then I realized that vex's way does indeed make more sense. What do we do in a virtualenv? We basically just run pip to do various things, or run the program (in case it's an application and not a library) or test suite.

So yeah, I think I'm gonna switch. The added portability is a nice bonus.

[1] https://github.com/adambrenecki/virtualfish
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How 'Killing Two Birds With One Stone' Kills Us and Our Work
The Co-Founder and CTO of Adtuitive, an ad platform startup, defending advertising! You make Upton Sinclair proud!

Like I said, "When I talk to anyone who's livelihood doesn't rely on advertising or marketing, there is near unanimous agreement that advertising is fundamentally manipulative and dishonest."

People can be stupid. People can be manipulated. Propaganda works. Take political ads. Which ones work best, the ones that manipulate your perceptions and emotions and ignorance, or the ones that "respect [your] time and intelligence" with the honest whole truth?
Isn't webapp2 preferred for python webapp dev in GAE? I'm also starting to build a python based webapp in GAE and confused whether I should start with Flask?Django or Webapp2 itself.
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yepp, it's on my todo list :)
McDonalds doesn't require reservation and nobody would pay for a reservation to McDonalds. In order for the scheme to work, you need to have restaurant that is so popular that people would pay premium just to get a reservation there. That's not McDonalds, that's usually the same one-off, unique restaurant, and rich people would seem to care well enough for it if they agree to pay just to get into the door. So there's no threat to such restaurants in it, and it mere existence denies such threat.

Now, I think it's a very dick move for other reasons - because if it succeeds it would actually make the world a worse place - restaurants just start charging for reservations or stop taking ones remotely. They make a couple of bucks but everybody else suffers a lot. It's despicable.
I've been looking for this a while ago; all I could find were relatively expensive apps that didn't really work. Thanks <3
Now this is something HN worthy
Similarly, anything you've installed in that virtualenv that installs itself in a bin folder (pip, mercurial, django-admin.py, etc) will be in that bin folder, and calling them from that directory will execute them in the context of that virtualenv as well.
....What? Why not in JS?
Shocking but true: students prefer jolt of pain than being made to sit and think
... or both you and the GP are partially right and _both_ are holding us back. :/
Can you suggest an intro guide to zsh for former bashers?