skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. That's common sense. If you don't do something on the internet, there is no data. No data = nothing suspicious.
I launched WiseCash (https://www.wisecashhq.com), a cash flow forecasting app for freelancers and small businesses publicly in July 2013.

This is bootstrapped using freelancing. We are currently at $800 MRR and growing.

I'm having a lot of fun helping people get more freedom of choice in their lives!
This is indeed true.

However in quite a few places the practicality of prepaid metal gas cylinders beats installing electric utility lines & meters, ensuring efficient transformers, preventing pilfering/meter tampering, etc.
So you hounded this guy until he didn't care enough to protect his property, great business tact...I don't understand why you divulged all of this on the Internet, if I were you I would make sure no knows that this is how you do business.
Id, Ego, and Super-ego
They can start with using HTTPS for everything and hosting things like analytics (Piwik rocks!), javascript libraries etc. themselves.
Walk two perpendicular loops. Try tightening the loops. On a torus, one will not tighten to a point. See Perelman and the problem he solved.
Off-topic, but I'm proud to have my thread mentioned in your post. :) A long time went by after I posted it, and I still haven't launched anything, just a couple of nearly-launches. I hope 2014/2015 will change that and wish everyone to not hesitate and just do it!
JVM is impressive until closures are involved, in which case when inlining is not done (either because it cannot be or ever-changing heuristics are not met), you can drop back to virtual calls and performance suffers a great deal.

Compare to C++ where closures can be used with virtually no penalty and aggressively optimized. Even C with its trick of passing an extra *void for environment comes out shining performance-wise in comparison.

Edit: There's a good discussion of the problems that JVMs have in this area at http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2011-04-04-fixing-the-....

"The Problem is a hard one to solve; (i.e. it’s not the case that we’ll wave our wands and do a quick fix & rebuild HotSpot and the problem will go away). John Rose, Doug Lea and I all agree that it’s a Major Problem facing JVMs with long and far reaching implications."

Maybe progress will be made soon though, with more pressure caused by increasing use of closures in the new streams library and with anonymous function syntax available now.
I don't think this comment deserved downvotes, because it makes an important point. If we want to preserve open standards - and I definitely do - then using them has to be straightforward. Think about it: how many of us grow our own food, generator own electricity, dig our own wells? Damn few. We subscribe to the big central services for the things we consume, because life is short. We cannot expect other professions to grant us special consideration that we don't grant to others.
Betteridge's law of headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
"It also records details about visits to a popular internet journal for Linux operating system users called "the Linux Journal - the Original Magazine of the Linux Community", and calls it an "extremist forum"."

WTF? I guess I am on a list. Who knew being an extremist was so easy?
I think that having algebraic data types and pattern matching will actually make Rust nicer a lot of higher level things than Go.
If you like that, you can put:

set editing-mode vi

in your ~/.inputrc (instead) and all GNU libreadline using programs will give you vi keys instead of emacs :-)
Corporations do not have the responsibility to maximize profits. Why do people keep saying this? They have a responsibility to do what is best for the corporation. Sometimes that means spending more on health coverage to retain employees, or give to charity or other programs. It's not all about money.

Often, it's almost all about the money:(
Yeah, I actually don't care if people mispronounce my name at all, but I really dislike mispronouncing other peoples' names, and I also really dislike putting other people in the position to struggle with the pronunciation, then if they get it wrong, I'm in the awkward position of either correcting them and causing them to feel bad about something I don't care about or (for people with whom I will be having an ongoing relationship), let them continue mispronouncing my name until they hear someone else (potentially me), pronounce it correctly (potentially making them feel even worse for all the times they made the mistake). It would certainly be nice to have a database of names and pronunciations.

That said, this does not seem like an ideal solution to me, because it sorta has some of the same problems that just telling people how your name is pronounced has - makes it seem like a bigger deal than it actually is, possibly won't work anyway, etc. Name pronunciation is probably just a bad situation in general.
This may sound trite, but: Use shortcuts instead of the mouse.

(This is one reason that Emacs and Vim are incredible editors and tiling window managers absolutely rock. There's basically never a need to touch the mouse unless your stupid window manager has decided to defocus the window.)
NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged
It's not impossible to get life-changing money by being an employee in a start-up. But it does require a bunch of things to all line up, many of them outside of the employee's control, many others the employee hasn't even considered.
Ask HN: How to determine your value to a startup
I was recently recruited to write a web crawler that will become the heart of a piece of software created by a new startup. They are talking about offering me 5-10% stake in the new company. I felt this was somewhat low, considering there's only 2-3 dedicated programmers and only 4 people involved in the founding of this startup. How can I determine and demonstrate to my new overlords (one of them is a longtime close friend) that I am worth more tahn 5-10% before we get started working?
Many people flock to libertarian political views (and consequently, business models) because they can't see where their selfishness ends and the rest of the world begins.

Consequently, it's not surprising that the defense of their positions ultimately devolve in to convoluted rationalizations for 'do as I say, not as I do'.
I agree that the CAD pricing may be a deterrent to US customers - still deciding on that one, but will probably change it to USD to see if conversions improve.
With my own handwriting, once described in school as "bovine diarrhea committed to paper" (a rough translation) I have come to admire people's handwriting in a sort of wistful way.

I think a discussion around this post would be incomplete without reference to the font made from Dijkstra's beautiful and clear hand writing. http://lucacardelli.name/indexartifacts.html (search for Dijkstra) or if you prefer a pdf preview http://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Dijkstra.pdf

I wonder if Ramanujam's handwriting has received similar treatment.

A sidenote: while searching for Dijkstra's font on Google had an experience that had but disappeared from my memory. It has been a while since I have been in a situation where I am unable to google to the the page that I know exists on the web. This is the second time in the week that I felt this, something afoot ? In any case wanted to find the letter to Dijkstra asking for permission to use his handwriting for a font.
> USA 1776-1915 - Went from 3rd world to 1st world, fastest time ever, despite a civil war and many other challenges

There are so many errors here that its hard to know when to start. But lets start with this--at no time that the US existed did it bear a relation to the more developed nations of the time similar to those of a modern LDC; it was a set of reasonably wealthy colonies of the world's dominant power that was almost immediately upon independence the dominant economic power of its region.

Your description confuses being born on third base with hitting a triple.
The headline and pitch are misleading (clickbait?).
This is an article about people who tweet about xkcd. Which is a combination of people who read xkcd and people who think "Oh, look at this cool comic my friend showed me. I should tweet about it!"

It isn't accurate to extrapolate data from such a specific group to the whole.

[Also, privacy badger blocks squarespace on this site, which breaks the styling ]

Edit:
Relevant SMBC comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3374#comic
The thing is, Rust seems rather simple. The difference is that Rust introduces some concepts most people are unfamiliar with, like lifetimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
What did you do to get the word out to the world? Word of mouth? Ads? Tech blog writeups? I have a pretty polished app I wrote a couple of years ago but it didn't even cover the AWS fees once I dropped off the free year. :( Great app, I just don't know how to get the word out...
The point of a name is so that people have an easy way to refer to you; so what? The point of anything is purely utilitarian, and people still get attached to them. I got a cat so that I wouldn't feel as lonely when my housemates went on long trips; that doesn't mean that after taking care of her for four years I'd be happy swapping my cat for a different one, even though they might be functionally identical as far as cats go.

People get attached to cars, books, CDs, photos, musical instruments, and all manner of things. A name is honestly one of the least-weird things to form an attachment to. The point is, that's not the only point to a name.
The minimum wage hike, coupled with property tax increases for transit, bridge tolling, and lack of effective transportation options will result increased investment and growth in the Eastside of the Seattle Metro region.

Bellevue is already undergoing a economic boom, and thanks in no small part to the action of the Seattle city council and King county I don't think there is an end to that in sight.
I don't. If you want to fight, I'll support you. I donate money to causes that I know raise my XKeyscore, and I subscribe to magazines that I know raise my XKeyscore. My long term plan is to find somewhere where this is not happening, and move there, though.

If I were planning to stay here for the rest of my life, I wouldn't risk political posting on the internet, donating, or subscribing. You'll get more help for me as long as I can rationalize it as only worsening a temporary situation.
There is a linux Open Source QT based project that is quite similar [1].

Or, if you have xscreensaver installed you can just run the following:

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -bs -program bash

[1] https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term
Early-Universe Explorer Looks for Answers
The Hot & Heavy List of Heroku Development Resources
Seedhack: Spacebar when you are ready
Sure, I am always happy to give feedback. By default it will be unfiltered and not nice on purpose, so be warned or say "be nice". :)
One of the biggest difficulties for "easy and secure" key exchange is that so many people want to be able to access private communications on many different devices.

How do you authorize a new device in an "easy and secure" way without simply outsourcing the problem to an intermediary who is then in a position to attack you by authorizing its own devices?

This issue has quite concrete implications for the security and convenience of lots of existing security tools, from GPG to iMessage to Skype to Firefox. They've chosen different approaches but the underlying problem and associated tradeoffs apply to all of them.

On the bright side, there are now a lot of people exploring the space of possibilities for dealing with these tradeoffs.
The magical tactic
It's a conservative meme that raw milk producers are being unfairly persecuted, in those circles it's supposed to be a paradigm case of the overly intrusive nanny state.

In reality, there is hard epidemiological data showing that selling raw milk (edit: e.g. through the normal store channels) can lead to serious harm including deaths. So FDA bans it for interstate sales, but it's up to the state to decide how to regulate in-state sales. Just like any other food safety issue.

NSA is extremely unlikely to be involved in enforcing regulations against raw milk in reality, but in the mind of the conservative conspiracy theorist it's all of one totalitarian piece.
There is a blatant bug in the computation. Do not trust the site!

Enter $100k as the startup salary, and zero equity (0 shares, $0 strike price, no funding round, any sale price for the liquidity event happening after 12 months).

Enter $150k as the big co salary, and the default 5.75% rate of return.

The result should be Total Big Co Earnings = $152,875 ($2,875 is the interest gained on the $50k salary diff for 12 months), but instead it shows $196,947!
One of the big problems with the DMCA and a lot of similar laws is that they have no built-in protections for abuse. Anyone is allowed to claim anything and because of legal fears, many content hosts immediately side with the alleged copyright holder when there is no proof whatsoever. The only way I can see this not being a problem (other than a repeal of the DMCA itself) is if such actions start to have consequences.

Bot or not, this is an intentional action by Qualcomm. Github should push back against this if it wants to remain credible in the open source community. Are there some general provisions in the law that allow it to respond to abuse (which this is a clear case of) with their own lawsuit?

Of course, the Qualcomm repository should be pulled. Permanently.
Matt Coffin on this week in venture capital [video]
I may be biased, but this was one of my favorite talks at DConf :3.

You can find the source to higgs on GH: https://github.com/maximecb/Higgs

More info is on Maxime's blog: http://pointersgonewild.wordpress.com/

And our subreddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/higgsjs/

You can also stop by and say hello in #higgsjs on freenode.

We're looking for contributors of all skill levels if anyone is interested!
Google Alerts British News Outlets About Deleting Their Links
I guess that's what you get with a "general purpose programming language."
Startups: "I Have No Idea What I Am Doing" by Buffer's CEO
We need to start working toward a generic plugin for word replacement so that I can merge this with my existing s/cloud/butt and s/keyboard/leopard substitutions.
There is no state of no data. You are known to exist, you are known for not participating in something that is common for your group. That, in combination with the thousands of other data points about you will determine whether you are of interest. That may determine whether your car gets searched during a traffic stop, or whether you're put on a no-fly list.

This is not complicated to build, it is simple to build, and the only logical way of accomplishing what the government claims that they're attempting to accomplish.
I'm a physician, and I have worked in several VAs, but don't work in one presently. They vary significantly in quality, but the good ones where I have worked are excellent by any standard. In a good VA, the bang-for-the-buck is untouchable anywhere else in the US health sector without compromising on good care. Sadly, bad ones are still bad.
I was going to make the same comment. Not everyone who reads xkcd tweets about it, or even uses twitter.
Flagged. Repost:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7981002 which was then reposted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7982507
At first I missed the links "Nerd talk" (as I usually don't click on -potentially external- links). They add quite interesting insights!
I wonder how it'll compare to eventually to be launched James Webb Telescope.
Interesting read. I think it poses a good question about what can be rented/sold as it pertains to information. I think MoneyParking is a bit different than Sweetch from what I can tell so I don't think they have much to worry about. I agree with the other comments that the article is pretty slanted and not very well sighted. But it's a blog. Can't really expect much journalistic integrity from a blog these days.
It's still pretty tied to Google; the routine reminders to "sign in with your Google account!" are one aspect of that.

That said, it's still pretty open as well, and being FOSS, it's certainly doable for there to be a fork (if there isn't one already) that strips out everything Google-related.
Thank you. My blog is rather old and still runs on app engine. First time I ever hit the free quota.

Should be up again.
If you're building a Macintosh System 6 or 7 style page, use this site[1] to create 1-bit Atkinson[2] dithered images which will fit perfectly.

[1] http://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson

If you actually used a Mac back in the late 80's / early 90's, this site's output will give you a heady shot of pure, undiluted nostalgia. I wasted half an afternoon once, converting images for my imaginary Hypercard project.

Photoshop will also give you options and allow you to reduce colors down to an 8 bit or 4 bit palette, with a variety of dithering choices, or for the true lofi look (It's 1991 and I used the school's lab scanner for the first time!), no dithering at all.
The Honey Trap: How Beauty Can Lead Us Astray
The lack of data about you on the internet is likely more anomalous than whatever data you're trying to hide originally was.

Not finding something when you should find something is suspicious.
Enhanced repertoire of brain dynamical states during the psychedelic experience
Oh, that helps a lot, I found that it enhanced the conversation wonderfully.

http://bit.ly/1t27WBG
Startups aren't good in themselves, they're good if they bring about helpful innovations or good products etc.

Skirting regulations to privatize a public resource and make money off of it harms society as a whole, so it's better to have as few startups like that as possible.

Also, this article claims that this one, widely supported government action is indicative of a "broader trend", but it offers no further evidence and I'm having trouble thinking of many other cases. Arguably, SF has been rather forgiving of companies which skirt regulations without really harming the public - like AirBnB, Uber, or even Google buses.
When I said framework I meant standard library. The most important thing to learn is not the syntax of the language but the standard library. They know everything the language can do and will most likely use all of it's features somewhere.

Thanks for clearing it up, I think standard library is a better term :)
"House of cards" can't film at UN
I wonder if the plane flies during the day or night? I would assume that for a given mission its one or the other, which makes me also wonder how fast or slow it flies. Even though it is looking in the infrared - wouldn't the daylight still affect it?
It's my understanding that drivers don't have it so great. They generally work for the medallion owners instead of for themselves. They certainly can't experiment with their business model (pet-friendly cabs? credit card only cabs? setting the fare at pickup? multi-passenger, multi-destination schemes?).

On the passenger side of things, aside from the lack of innovation, getting a cab in certain neighborhoods is problematic. Cabbies profiling potential fares is still a problem, despite regulations. There are other availability issues as well, for example when the weather is bad or when you get "upstreamed" during peak commute times.
> What constrains landlords rent prices?

Competition.

> If you increase the minimum wage won't the landlords just subsequently increase rent?

Yes, they will -- as will people selling other goods that are in demand by the people receiving more income. Under any reasonable assumptions about supply and demand elasticity, those receiving more income as a result of the minimum wage increase will still be better off after considering the specific inflation in the price of certain goods and services resulting from the greater income received by them as a group, but not by as much as a pre-increase analysis that ignored the market-specific inflation would suggest.

> So essentially increasing minimum wage is just funneling money to landowners?

One effect of increasing minimum wage will be funnelling some money to landlords and others selling goods and services to the people receiving increases, while funnelling some money away from those selling goods and services to the people and corporatiosn paying the increases. (Often times, those will be the same people, though different specific goods and services.)
I've never met anyone who lives in SF who thinks buying/auctioning public parking spaces is a good idea. Every single resident I know thinks it's just a shitty thing to do and makes the city worse for everyone (other than the people leaching money off the system I guess). Note that the author of this post lives in Paris. Parking in SF is certainly a pain, but auctioning off spots is just going to lead to fistfights in the street.
"Looking back to when I started Buffer, even though I had learned a lot from my past startup experiences, I truly didn’t know what I was doing and I approached everything with that mindset. I was out there to learn and I knew that the only way I was going to progress was to adopt a very open mind. I’m writing this post because when I stray away from this mindset, I lose out as a result."
Joel speaks almost for everyone. I feel sometimes the same and I am not in any way as accomplished as him....
Am I alone?
The sheer stupidity of artificial intelligence
Oh, I see. Aggregates consumer demand for a given product and negotiates a discount for it.
I'm even very forgiving of this. In America, I feel like every name has a few different variants, especially anything that had to be transliterated from another character set (even the German name Müller comes through sometimes as Mueller and sometimes as Muller). Because they're so often some Anglicized version of some foreign name, it's hard to have an intuition about the right way to spell many names - even something simple like Goldman vs. Goldmann, Green vs. Greene. I imagine that most people store a name in their brain as how they pronounce it, plus some hint about the spelling if they've been burned before ("Hmm... I remember there's a silent j in there somewhere, but where...").

Names are tough in our wonderful melting pot, but it's a small price to pay for having every kind of ethnic food available in all our major cities (and in many of our minor ones).
Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Closed-Loop Reporting
in 2012 i started a loose html-only info-site. But there was sincere effort put on, and one thing lead to another- it turned out a commercial info-site being taken quite seriously by the industry- soon a business model evolved - and things came up. Good employees and a lot of online help in coding got things through. Now our portal earns revenue- i never knew the stuff would be taken so seriously.
I literally experienced a sense memory from viewing this. I could smell the slight smell that old, hot CRT monitors emitted -- probably some volatile mix of things that give you cancer.

Wow!