skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you were referencing this, but just in case:
http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Dynam...

Used quite pleasantly by Rapture JSON: http://rapture.io/jsonSupport
I really wish people would actually do this. I call this "driver karma". For every person you let in, you get to go in front of another person. If everyone followed this heuristic, we wouldn't have a problem. Oh, and if you let a bus full of people in front of you, your score is increased by the number of people on the bus :).
Chicken fries?
I have 50/100 FiOS and consistently get higher speeds in tests. The only ISP I've ever had where I get higher than advertised.

(They still suck, because HD Netflix is unusable at peak times without a VPN.)
One thing that I noticed, is that the more expensive the hotel, the worst is the WiFI. Same applies when I have to pay for WiFI - the more I pay, the worst it is.

I've found that 3 star hotels that offer free WiFI usually have the best speeds/service. Whereas 5 star hotels that usually charge $14.95 daily have the worst.
No. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder or paraphilia; not a sexual orientation. This is thoroughly discussed and documented. The APA has changed any such notation in the DSM.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/apa-correct-...
Im a bit surprised that that thing fit under all the bridges on the Danube
I agree it has it's cases in a Tor sort of way, but in terms of "replacing the internet" which I think was the original title of this HN post, I don't think it's feasible.

I'm not outright dismissing the technology or the thinking behind it but it certainly wouldn't fit a majority of use cases as we use the internet now.
Well, depends on what you consider cheap and talented I suppose. For example, there are loads of people in Portland and the surrounding area that are employable for far less than you'd get in the Bay Area (by about 35%). You have to work at it though, it's not as bad as offshoring, but you can't half-ass it. The talent won't go as high as the Bay Area, but you'll probably be able to find folks good enough to make the kind of CRUD apps most of us are making anyways.

Here's a list and the cost of living delta vs. San Francisco (which translates into direct salary costs for your business).

Portland, OR - 35% cheaper
Nashville, TN - 80% cheaper
Atlanta, GA - 70%
Miami, FL - 50%
Tampa, FL - 70%
Huntsville, AL - 70%
Northern, VA - 20%
Blacksburg, VA - 60%
Charlottesville, VA - 50%
Virginia Beach, VA - 60%
Fredericksburg - 40%
Richmond - 60%
Williamsburg - 50%
Phoenix, AZ - 70%
Columbus, OH - 80%
Tri-cities area, WA - 70%
Boston, MA - 20%
Newark, NJ - 25%
Austin, TX - 70%
San Antonio, TX - 80%
Ft Meade, MD - 30%
Chicago, IL - 40%
Minneapolis, MN - 50%
Las Vegas, NV - 60%

Off the top of my head, if you can't hire people in Austin, Nashville, or Las Vegas, you're doing it wrong. All of those have large tech industries and/or are near large cities with big populations. Nashville is near both a big city and a major national lab. They're also cheap enough that you can basically hire two people for the price of one in San Francisco.
Infibeam - www.infibeam.com is an India based ecomm company and was totally bootstrapped. They're worth > $5B
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cool :) have you thought in making it a b2b?
I'm not sure if you would call starting in NIH raising money, but how about SAS Institute?
You are guilty of letting a lot of really messy data ruin some really nice theory!

So, with assumptions of stationary and independent increments, the Maunder minimum shown in the graph
would have probability less than zip and zilch of
happening in which case we would reject the
assumptions.

You also are analyzing sun spots while the OP is talking about dangerous CMEs. It's been a while since I studied sun spots: You are saying that a sun spot is just a small case of a CME? Or is a dangerous CME not just a big sun spot but a different animal?
What's needed is a list of hotels that offer wired ethernet. Nobody seems to advertise that, and it can be hard to find out.
"I personally think we should go to the guillotine, but shooting is probably the right way to go," Kozinski said.
And, also relevant is that MS was founded in 1975
> It is optimal only when the local driving culture allows it to be.

Yeah, which is why almost the entire article was about the campaigns to change the culture, not about justifying zipper merging as optimal.
He/she may be referring to C# with its 'dynamic' type (and Dynamic Language Runtime)
At LAX the economy lot is $12 a day. If you park at one of the FlyAways and take the bus it's $4 a day.
> SMS spam is very rare in the US

The only sms "spam" I have seen.. I think ever, having had a mobile phone in Australia for ~13 years and now Thailand for about 2 years, is messages from the network operator (and its sister companies), here in Thailand. In Australia I don't remember ever getting "spam".

My point was not about "professional" spam, it was about the potential for personal abuse. Someone posted in the thread earlier about racking up $~200 of sms charges against a friend's ex girlfriend.
Also don't forget to establish a VPN connection. This might sometimes even help with slow running DNS resolvers in place over DHCP and it helps for sure to protect both your surfing habits and your unencrypted traffic.
Why so bitter? Gosu's a decent language that makes up (and continues to make up) for Java's deficiencies. Yet Gosu's syntax is very close to Java's, keeping the learning curve comparatively low. Basically, if you're proficient in Java, you'll have no trouble moving over to Gosu and, in contrast with say Scala, you'll also have no trouble reading other people's Gosu. But unlike Java, Gosu is designed to be both an embedded scripting language and a general purpose programming language.

As an enterprise software company Guidewire needed a statically typed scripting language directly compatible with the JVM, one a Java programmer could easily pick up, and one that could blend powerful features like type inference, closures, enhancements, properties, open types, structural and dynamic types, built-in templating, etc. Guidewire also wanted to directly and seamlessly use the power and flexibility of the scripting language directly in application source code. Why distinguish between a scripting language and a general purpose language? Why force your customers to juggle two separate languages? 12 years later it's still difficult to argue against Gosu. Sure, Java 8 is catching up in some core feature areas, and that's great news for JVM languages, but Java as a language is still not appropriate or even usable as an embedded scripting language, nor is it suitable for many of the other use-cases a very large scale web application requires.

Can Java 8 dynamically compile and load classes from source at runtime? Yeah, that's important too :)
While I'm not defending the practice of vaporware, it's not the root of the problem here. The root of the problem is that if you have a policy of working unpaid overtime, unless you are lucky in finding only wise or scrupulous employers, your life is going to be trashed.

To you, it is completely irrelevant whether the reason your employer ordered you to trash your life was because the salesman sold vaporware, or because of the phase of the moon; the outcome for you is the same regardless of the reason the order was given. You have to change your policy of obeying such orders.
The pricing of OnMetal appears relatively competitive if not on the expensive side. I think the best way to make the case that OnMetal is worth the premium is with a series of system benchmarks comparing their solution to comparably priced AWS instances.
I guess I mean that they shouldn't be exit lanes at all, but should be used as extra capacity to facilitate zipper merges. In the case above, the exit lanes stretch back almost 1/2 a mile, which is waaay above the actual demand for that exit, esp in the evening hours.
Correction, if you want to be a bay area VC backed entrepreneur. Oddly there are businesses started in other parts of the world.
> the valuation is way north of $1bn...

That is an understatement ... MSFT's current market cap is $366 bilion and the all-time high market cap was $616 billion in December 1999.
Seth, I'm very impressed with your level-headed response here. As others have said, thank you for writing the post that you did. I've been in similar situations so I know that wasn't easy. People will be upset with you and that is their prerogative--after all, you did make some big mistakes and you know it--but the best thing you can do is make your apology, learn from it, and move on. Good luck!
CircleCI allows their software developers to work remotely, so that's kind of the best of both worlds.
Thanks for responding. I actually made the account because I haven't commented on hacker news before though I read it all the time. I just feel strongly about it so I had to write a response.

I stand by my comment.
Some people want a standing-only desk. And it would be pretty difficult to get an adjustable desk for 150$ For what they are offering, and how much it costs, pretty neat little package.
"Van Aken has grown 16 Trees of 40 Fruit so far, and they’ve been planted in museums, community centres, and private art collections around the US."
Not really a concern unless the cars are being shuffled constantly. It takes a long time for an alarm to drain a battery, believe me I've had some awful neighbors.
Maybe they pack cars in five deep and then dig the cars out when required. Also there doesn't need to be a gap for people to get in and out between cars.
I think for a yard tree that is also serving an ornamental purpose, you are often doing that no matter what.

40 varieties of fruit sounds a lot nicer than 40 pounds of black walnuts (which have a thick, tough, stinking skin if you even think you want to harvest the nuts).
I don't know that they're quite at $1BN dollars yet, but Qualtrics in Provo, Utah bootstrapped for a very long time and achieved pretty impressive success before accepting (not needing) external funding. Their CEO has gone quite a few articles and interviews about it, so it's a good use case to learn from.
> [...] inconveniencing everyone behind them for the self satisfaction of having helped the one person they can see.

Or because you know that otherwise they'll be at that crossing for the next hour if nobody's willing to let them by. Perhaps there are some funny allusions to net neutrality to be made here...
> Whereas 5 star hotels that usually charge $14.95 daily have the worst.

The people that stay in these hotels normally aren't paying for the rooms (business trips for instance), so the company will pay the cost of the wifi for the duration of the stay without question
Have you thought about JSON-LD ? Having some semantic web meaning on top of it would be really cool !
WRT to your footnote, I also can't count the number of times I've seen that person on the side street come into traffic and get t-boned by the car that didn't stop in the next lane over. Letting people cross traffic like that isn't just illegal, it's downright dangerous[1]. As a motorcycle rider, few situations scare me more than seeing a lane of stopped traffic next to a clear lane.

1. The same thing applies to stopping to let people turn left across traffic, where the left lane of oncoming traffic is stopped and the right lane is clear.
+1 to this, I don't know how many times I've saved my bacon by having a access point with me. I use the TP-Link one (mid-tier Chinese OEM) and it has on more than one occassion gotten me much better wifi throughput than the hotel provided wireless. One hotel I stayed at had every access point on the same channel! That was kind of funny, in a sad you-really-don't-know-what-this-is-do-you sort of way.
As near as I can figure, the OnMetal servers are 3x-5x what I'd pay for dedicated servers from, say, a Hurricane reseller, and the virtual servers are more than 2x as much as comparable Linode servers, with the Linode servers offering way more SSD storage, more bandwidth, etc.

Not to mention, Rackspace charges you $120 per terabyte of data transfer, while you'll get several terabytes of transfer free/included when buying from Linode or most dedicated server resellers.

That seems like a hefty premium for...what? The Rackspace name? Is there any reason to believe that Rackspace has better uptime/reliability than Linode? Any reason to believe Rackspace has better hardware than Linode? Given that neither company — as with most cloud providers — provides any truly meaningful transparency, it's impossible to say.

For my money, I think I'd rather spend less of it, or spend the same amount and get more/redundant servers.

I'm genuinely struggling to understand the value of Rackspace.
Option 1 leads to "no, after you" behavior, steers two cars directly at each other, and probably would be a disaster.
I live in an area where drivers are extremely selfish...so zipper merging typically doesn't work here.

This is backwards. Zipper merging doesn't work when drivers attempt to be unselfish by merging early, which results in vigilante lane blockage of those who weren't as considerate. In other words, I'm not being selfish when I block late mergers; I'm enacting justice on other people who were being selfish.

The system works when all parties recognize that the best thing for everyone is to merge late.
All I get is a header and footer with white nothingness between them. Chrome 36 on Windows 7.
It's good time to remind Americans that civilized countries don't have the death penalty.
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Oops, I read your case backwards (I'm not familiar with that exit). I thought you meant that there were too many people exiting for the one exit lane, so you were proposing people from the 2nd-to-right lane should be able to zipper-merge into the exit lane right before it exits.

The reverse (merging out of the exit-only lane to stay on the freeway), I think usually works better with a late-merge, but you do still have the problem that you can't do a proper zipper merge, because the lanes aren't fully merging, so you can't alternate one-right/one-left. Instead some cars want to lane-change and some want to continue in the lane, which adds at least a little complexity.

It could be partly improved by signage changes though, it sounds like, to just mark the exit lane later.
I think there's a certain point at which we need to accept, and are accepting, that droughts will happen and that we need to prepare for them.
Is this going to lead to a crack down on playing unlicensed, non-royalty free music on streams?
Have you tried out the new app? It uses the exact same styles as Mobile Web, and should allow you to scroll.

This is the new native app we released a month or so ago - the older one wasn't as good :)

(One of the app devs)
To me Scala is not so much "post-functional". To me it is "mixed-paradigm", which in the mix as Scala presents it, is scaring me.
How much data are you consuming? $100 a week!!

If you are in a Virgin Mobile (Sprint) 4G area with coverage - then buy one of their hotspots (used on ebay to save $$$), $5 a day buys you all the data you can eat & it stays fast. You can connect more than 2 devices. Save $86 a week.

Alternativly, get on Verizons pre-paid plan: $45 a month for unlimited voice & text, subscribe to auto-pay & you get 1GB a month for free. You can buy an additional 3GB for $20 - you have 90 days to use up the data, the use your iphone as a hotspot.
If the idea is to prevent pain, there are many simple methods. Heroin overdose? Carbon monoxide?

I'm theoretically OK with the death penalty for heinous crimes, but in practice I oppose it -- the chance of a false positive is way above zero with the current legal system.
We really, really need to stop growing lawn grass as a region.
I prefer to choose hotels by the amount of bedbugs in the TripAdvisor reviews.
google is a cancer
> Zipper merging is only optimal if traffic is already slowed down dramatically.

I agree. But note that the idea of Zipper merging is when traffic has already slowed down, not when it is still moving.
Would like to see this for coffee shops.
You could achieve very large savings in many things if you fly a lot and the oparations are routine.
Also risk should drop a lot.

It's still not inevitable that such things will happen with reusability automatically. Most likely the first reusables have high maintenance. But they can be improved.
Ideally I'd like for Hipmunk not only to display the speed, but also optionally include the price in the totals, so that hotels with more-expensive wifi are penalized when hotels are sorted by price. I'm going to pay for it every day anyway if I go to that hotel, so I may as well have it reflected in the total.
Please read his post.
You don't have to justify low salaries to the IRS conceptually, you just can't use them to avoid paying payroll taxes.

I would assume that companies like Apple and Facebook have competent tax teams that make sure their obligations are fulfilled, even if that means paying payroll taxes on a portion of the stock-based compensation to their executives.
Agreed. It is great that he is being open and honest about his morals.

But if I ever learned that a business partner were so dishonest with me, I'd drop them in a heartbeat. Business relations are all about trust and integrity.
A bullet to the heart is going to be as fast of a death as you can get. Only a few seconds for unconsciousness to hit because of loss of blood pressure, and with hydrostatic shock[1], it can be even faster.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_shock
No, it's provably optimal in flowing traffic as well. However, the "merge point" is variable depending on traffic speed.

Obviously when you're going 100 km/h, the ideal merge point is significantly farther back than when it's stop and go. Nobody is saying you should wait until you're 20 feet from the barrier and then swerve into the other lane. But it's not like that's unique to this situation.
This is fascinatingly baffling. I'd love to meet the author in person.

I don't know how much existing technology was used, but the feature set sounds quite expansive for 6 weeks of development. Seems like the guy must be a pretty good developer. Aside from the HN shilling, it sounds like the launch marketing was done well.

But then a few surprisingly bad bits: "we had a long heart to heart about 3 weeks after launch". 3 weeks? Just how quickly were they expecting success? Followed by "I assumed that the way I worked on projects (remotely over SSH or SFTP) was how everyone set up their projects" which suggests they did all this without even the slightest bit of market research.

I wish the team good luck in the future. It seems like some smart people made some strangely simple mistakes, but I bet they've got a great chance to be successful in the future.
We're in surprising company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_co...
Studies* show that it doesn't deter crime and isn't cost-effective. What's our rationale?
yeah, but if you google this company and see other articles about them, who their customers were, and how many people they had, it's pretty clear this was a lot mroe than just "slipping through the cracks". I'm sorry, but allowing a company to grow to that point without even the most basic handle on the books is gross negligence, not just incompetence.
Ah yes, the define-civilized-to-exclude-the-US argument.
Probably, but let's be honest here: that was going to happen even if Twitch was never bought.
“Measure what is measurable, make measurable what is not.” – Galileo Galilei
How can a modern society still think it is ok to carry out the death penalty?

Stupidity like this belongs in the Middle Ages, not our times.
good point. I solve it with a report for spam, and the acceptance of policy.
I think this excellent feature also serves as a great example of the shortcomings of maps. When I saw the tweeted screenshot of the most recent version of this map, I thought, "Oh shit, the drought is all over the place!"

However, actually going to the article and seeing the D3 animation...I see that it's...kind of the same as before? That is, still not great, but not overall more of a severe drought? Or is it? Just because it looks like a few areas have receded, I can't say for sure my eye is summing up all the drought-areas correctly...so even with the time-lapse, it's hard to tell if things have gotten worse, or better...

And of course, "better/worse" compared to the last few months is just one thing to care about...I'd also like to know how the drought level right now compares to last year, last decade, etc....and while we're looking at the past, I want to see what the rates of change were in those past timeframes, so I can judge whether or not the change from this month to last is drastic or expected (based on the cycle).

The bottom of the article contains just that chart (which is why I think this is such a great feature)...of course, you lose the geographical information, but at least the perspective is there. One minor improvement, with a small tradeoff in clutter, is to overlay a small part of the Palmer Drought Index chart on top (or near) the map, so that anyone visiting this map, now or in the future, can have some perspective at a glance on how bad the drought is...because without that frame of reference, just about any quantity of orange/red over a geographical map will be dramatic.
It relates back to a real problem in the Linux ecosystem today - the assumption Windows Computer == Linux Computer. A false assumption, especially when you get into the realms of device support for specific motherboard features, wifi cards, expansion cards, etc.

If anything, the real problem is the lack of an easy to reference directory of Linux hardware from the buyers perspective, rather than from the owners perspective. IE, "I want to buy <insert part> (or <notebook>) that supports Linux, all the parts manufacturers provide open drivers or documentation, and all the parts are compatible.

The lack of such a resource probably turns a lot of potential Linux converts off.
perhaps name collision is not rudeness but getting the person's twitter account suspended because he's frustrated with them certainly is.
The reason I believe what Seth is saying here is that if he chose to lie to make himself look better, he could trivially have done far better than this.

If he were putting someone else down, I would agree with withholding judgment - in either direction - until we heard both sides of the story. But he did no such thing. Nothing in the article contains any hint of blame for anyone except himself.
Which would be fine so long as there's a reasonable amount of competition. Too little competition means price gouging. Too much competition means everyone focuses on cheating rather than creating value. It would be more productive to focus on figuring out how to enact regulation/deregulation to tune the level of competition rather than bashing capitalism.
Braintree was bootstrapped until pretty late
> > My jokey way of putting it is that HES "takes anyone with a credit card."
> That's nice & humble of you, but it's not precisely true.

Thanks for pointing that out. I meant no disrespect to the folks who sign up to HES for the long haul.

Someone mentioned that HES courses are less rigorous, and I believe that's true. (Although Greek and Latin were still pretty tough!) On the other hand, the students I met were all extremely motivated and hard-working. It changes things a lot when everyone in class is attending voluntarily on their limited free time and out of their own pocket. I'm sure we weren't as smart or intellectually curious as an undergrad Harvard class, but I had way more respect for my peers there than I did in my own undergrad setting.
This is the commonly held belief that is false. It is false because traffic is caused by lack of capacity, not inefficient driving.
Just because you want to turn left, doesn't mean you have to sit helpless waiting to do so. You're allowed to turn right and locate a safe place to turn around.