skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the other commenters have focused on whether the business is viable - but it may just be you need to try a different marketing tactic. Paid search is very difficult to turn an ROI on. I ran a search consultancy for awhile and I would tell people that PPC was a lot like blackjack - you can lose a lot of money if you're not paying attention or are new to the game.

The big players like themeforest are going to enjoy higher conversion rates off their paid traffic because (a) they are well-known and (b) they also rank well organically (there have been multiple quantitate studies examining the correlation of high converting paid search campaigns with high organic search rankings).

Try a few other marketing vehicles, get more data, and only then make decisions about what to do next.
in the FAQ: "Download codes are rendered invalid, as soon as a download was completed successfully. Incomplete downloads are recognized and do not consume the code."
Actually the number of transactions grew +90% year-over-year, which is pretty fast growth! At +90% year-over-year, Bitcoin will reach 600k transfers/day in 3.5 years (what Western Union does today). Compare 2013Q2 with 2014Q2:

- 2013Q2: 3.0 million transactions

- 2013Q3: 3.8 million transactions

- 2013Q4: 4.8 million transactions

- 2014Q1: 5.7 million transactions

- 2014Q2: 5.7 million transactions

You can get these values from the graph at http://www.quandl.com/BCHAIN/NTRAN-Bitcoin-Number-of-Transac... (select QUARTERLY).
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/02/global-temperature-upd... gives 'data from RSS dataset for the 214 months October 1996 to July 2014'.

You can make your own projections: they are likely to be as accurate as any others taking into account the success rate of climate modellers.
Awesome
Soo, what is it capable of? Antigravity Device? Nuclear Batteries? Warp Engine? Any practical applications?
I think the topic should be "When all ice melt"
Shrug. 'Real' native ads forthcoming, I guess. Or more API restrictions. Or both.
> how bad is it going to get?

The only honest answer is, nobody knows. Which means that we should not be making plans based on the belief that we can predict what's going to happen; instead, we should be planning to be adaptable, so that we can deal with whatever happens.
I think I found another one, and it looks like it swapped twice:
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=Aesthetic.esthetic

Edit:

Another: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=Archaeology.archeology

A very early switch: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=Toward.towards

Another: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=catalogue.catalog

And another: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=centre.center

A weaker one: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=fibre.fiber
It's not really good for that, unless you want to prevent someone from understanding their own nginx binary.

Undefined behavior remains undefined behavior, and you could arm against overflows more easily with just -fstack-protector or even ubsan.
> It talks about a 216 foot rise in sea level

In 5000 years. That's a lot of time to adapt.
and as they say "standard lib is where modules go to die"
Google Wallet's "Tap and Pay" works with select phones in the US: https://support.google.com/wallet/answer/1347934?hl=en

You might also be interested in Coin: https://onlycoin.com/
I first learned about destructuring through Clojure. Lately I've been working on a Firefox extension and discovered that Firefox JavaScript 1.6 supports destructuring (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), too, and is very pleasant to use. I hope it makes it into the ECMAScript 6 standard.
bottom right if you have js enabled...
Please use ctrl+f if you believe I said that. The only one that comes up is you.

I'm done talking to you.
>How many adults buy their booze illegaly today? none

Its a lot more than none. You can't buy good traditional local corn whiskey legally, and quite a premium is paid.
I sent out a couple of emails last month but I had to back out from the application process for family reasons. Pretty much everyone emailed back and some even personally asked me to reach out again once I am ready to go for it. All in all its a much more responsive channel.
I'm fine with the idea that you like perl but the way you present your statement, it's almost as if you consider not understanding how to use the java type system as a compelling argument.
> Even better and cheaper, stop putting that much CO2 into atmosphere.

You're assuming that that will fix the problem. But the climate models that have enough positive feedback dialed in to amplify the effect of CO2 into something significant are overpredicting warming by a significant amount; so it may well be that stopping CO2 emissions won't help to stop climate change.
Check out the Revised Standard Edition, and particularly the "newer" books of Maccabees, Esdras and Sirach. These are also known as the Apocrypha, a collection of books that many Bible translations considered more than necessary for their purposes. They are quite interesting. I've found an incredibly exciting close friend that talks to me verbally...Jesus Christ. Interfaith.org has an incredible collection of the texts online at no charge. Extra information that truly is transformational.
You might want to remember that moose came out in late 2005. Back then I remember plenty of blog posts titled similar to "You did what with Rudy!?" (typically an attack on ruby's general slowness and the strange things people were doing with the rails framework... errm twitter <cough>)
priorities. the whitepaper draft was meant to solicit criticism. it hasn't been shot down.

there's no point trying to convince the general crypto community that believes bitcoin is the first solution to the byzantine generals problem. i'll fix that later.
Yeah, don't accidentally hit the back button to go to the previous page. There's no history, so you'll end up here and you'll have to start over.
So what if it was controversial? Some decisions are controversial. This one received more discussion, input, and thought than most other plans. Just because it did it doesn't make that decisions wrong or unethical.
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This is an amazing site!
What I'd like is a small library to complement lodash/underscore with utility functions required when using high-level ones. It's very annoying to have verbose

_.each([1,2,3], function(x) { something(x, 'param'); }

when it could be

_.each([1,2,3], $.call(something, _, 'param'))

It seems like the current solution is to use _.pluck() or similar functions for common use-cases, or use _.partial which I find even more verbose than standard functions.

e.g.

_.map(objs, $.pluck('person.age'))
promise.then($.ret(some_fn, _, 'a'))

promise.then(some_fn) doesn't work because what we want is to return some_fn from within a function.

promise.then(function(x) { return some_fn(x, 'a'); })

I know there are ways around, but those are not unified in a standard and coherent library that could complement other high-level libraries.
I would be interested in seeing a similar list for Haskell. Like OCaml, it's a great language, but definitely has a few long-standing warts that could be fixed. (Among these, the many competing streaming libraries and cabal hell come to mind. Though maybe the first ain't so bad, since they are all pretty high-quality.)
Ask HN: How to get started deploying an Online Game?
I intend to deploy an online game and I didn't see many resources/references concerning this subject. It is something I would like to execute myself.

There are individual topics that I could read up on from: Unix/Server Administration, Network Security, SSL, CDNs (mostly the vendors own documentation), Load Balancing, Version Control, Databases/Replication, Metrics, Mailing, Payments, Streaming, Optimization, Websites, Virtual Machines, Backup, Handling Cookies/Sessions.

But no source that integrates them all. I understand there is a lot to know, but anything that could provide me with a quick framework to work from would be appreciative.

If not one book/blog/tutorial to rule them all, I would even be grateful for specific recommendations for any of the topics stated above (or others that I might be missing?) as that would save me time from pursuing false leads.

Tips or advice are welcome as well.
The University of Wisconsin has a reputation for being unusually liberal for a Midwest campus.

I can assure you that the Madison Veterinary school is far removed from that liberal slant.

There are several intensive essays involved in the Vet school application process, and if they get a hint that you are applying because you've "always loved animals" and/or you "want to help ease their suffering", your application gets tossed fast.

That vet school is a serious business for serious professionals.

Maybe they are all like that - I don't know.

I have a feeling it's because the Midwest has such a strong farming background that the kids are already used to the animals getting slaughtered at the end of the season.

The corporations know the hardcore testing/experimentation is necessary, so they help make the school successful and also help mold the students' attitudes while they are young.

It's like being a soldier.

The rest of the world can argue about what's morally right or wrong, but you do your job, stay professional, push the boundaries, make discoveries and help mankind.

At the end of every experiment, the subjects get euthanized. SOP. Do it until it doesn't bother you anymore.

Start with mice/rats. Move up to rabbits/pigs/dogs, then on to monkeys.

It's hardcore, but somebody has to do it. (Or maybe not. But what do I know?)
This wikipedia article point to some good sources on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_risk_from_global_war...

The tldr is that many scientists do believe that a significant % of species will go extinct at the current rate of global warming. But there is the standard uncertainty, as there always is in complex topics like this.

>There is medium confidence that approximately 20-30% of species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average warming exceed 1.5-2.5 °C (relative to 1980-1999). As global average temperature increase exceeds about 3.5 °C, model projections suggest significant extinctions (40-70% of species assessed) around the globe.
I for one would not like to live behind a several thousand km seawall that is 65m high.

When that wall then breaks the only way to not die is to own a helicopter or airplane.
I assume your joking about doing an equivalent experiment with human beings, right?
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> People have tried and failed to pull them off.

Evidence? None? Oh you poor dear.

If I had 51% of the Bitcoin network, I could break it. You are once again relying on willful restraint.

The fact you don't realize its the same concept makes me not care what you think, honestly.

I'm not going to bother to reply further.

> You're conflating stealing money with breaking shitty systems. You can (and should) break shitty systems without stealing money from people.

You stated:
> Why the flying fuck would I show restraint towards a system that claims to be designed for the safe storage and transport of money? You bet your ass I, along with ten thousand others, tried to find ways to game/break Bitcoin. And guess what? We can't, because it's well designed.

If you had gamed Bitcoin, you'd steal real money. Much like the person that claims something exists that can't be found except in his posts...ya, best of luck to you but this is a waste of my time.
Credit cards work out just fine.
There is an ongoing conversation here about the tax rate. I think that as we get more comfortable with legalization, the tax rate will actually go down as I think the state is leaving revenue on the table right now.

I think the more interesting question is the future of medical marijuana in Colorado. Right now it's a giant loophole that effectively gets you around those higher taxes. I know many folks who have kept their MMJ cards, there remains nothing actually medically wrong with them.
Unless something has changed in Ruby, multiple inheritance would be one. (although some say that is bad, but hey timtoady)
Thanks for the feedback. I can tell you for now the app will have some of those features :)

What do you think about the questions on OKC? Would you take time to answer fun personality questions to find collaborators?
I think it is a natural human reaction to physiologically distance yourself. If you didn't then there would be no scientific progress. That being said if a person were to go out of their way to be especially cruel or sadistic or unethical (obviously it depends on your definition of cruel) then I would say that the person needs to be removed and if necessary charged with a crime.
Recently watched this video, which describes why underscore is actually making this difficult through its design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA
I see what you mean now. Odd that they think that way though. Sure, there's more clutter, and if your app contributes to that, I suppose the 1st bump is all you get, but if you have a quality product, the sales process is the same as in any other channel.
Veganism is a logically consistent answer to this question.
On another note, as an advertiser on Twitter I'm surprised that I'm not allowed to create ads to be displayed to users in countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Ukraine, Argentina, Poland, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Belgium, Greece, and all lesser populated countries.

Since Twitter removed the option to create ads that target users worldwide, it's impossible to create a campaign that displays ads to users in less populous countries.

Has Twitter made a deliberate decision to not monetize their "long tail" foreign users?
That's a good suggestion. Have you had any virtual collaborators that you met and worked with online?
Where you leaped from vegetarianism to preventing carnivores from eating animals.
I should point out that these are slides from a full day class where people also do a lot of exercises. You can see the whole thing at https://github.com/moose/intro-to-moose
> Most likely only a fraction of globe could afford this massive earth engineering.

Do you have an estimate on the costs of such engineering, and better yet, a comparison against the estimated cost of preventing climate change enough that this engineering isn't necessary?
I've already checked out webhook, looks great.

However, I run my sites on my own server. Are you planning to offer a version that you can install on your own hardware?
house boat
It's too early to tell. They only just started issuing retail licenses this past month. It's slow going because each store has to meet stringent standards. But they're opening one by one.

The taxes are applied at a rate of 25% at each level of the system: growers, processors, and retailers. The remainder are standard business taxes (B&O tax) and sales tax.

From what I've seen, everyone involved has been very conscientious in implementing this law and have made adjustments to ensure that it works. If the black market continues to thrive due to taxation that is too burdensome, I expect they will adjust accordingly.
Sure. And just for attributes, there's also delegation, read-only attributes, builders, lazy init, roles, modifiers which are enforced at construction time (if `required` is true).

Moose isn't hard to implement, it's actually had quite a few alternate implementations even in Perl. Python has enthought's traits package, and I've just been pointed to https://github.com/frasertweedale/elk as well.

BTW it sucks to nit-pick, but the Moose version isn't any more verbose than yours:

package Foo;
use Moose;
has 'bar' => ( isa => 'Integer' );
It's a coping strategy, that indicates that they aren't psychopaths.

People who deal in harsh conditions become more clinical and detached. Farmers, doctors, soldiers and call center agents all share similar behaviors in this area.
I love this kind of stuff.
>>> Even better and cheaper, stop putting that much CO2 into atmosphere.

You might want to talk to China about that. At least the US has been actively trying to reduce emissions for some time now. China, India and other countries simply don't give a fuck and won't sign any treaties that attempt to reduce CO2 emissions.

Also, when alternative energies are actually affordable for more middle and lower income families, you'll probably get more buy-in. As it sits right now, unless you have a lot of cash laying around, affordable, renewable energy isn't likely:

$35,000 for a Prius?

$30,000 for a small solar array with a 10+ year ROI?

$63,000 for a Tesla (the actual overall cost environmentally speaking is actually higher CO2 wise than most current SUV's)

Maybe someday, but that day is so far off, I'm not sure its feasible.
I've used Umbra's Bungee Card holders for years now, RF-protection is just an added bonus: http://www.umbra.com/usd/catalogsearch/result/?q=bungee

I haven't tested it, but it's better than nothing, right? And much cheaper. I've a few cards, so I bought two (different colors). For those also in Toronto, you can pick them up at the Umbra showroom off Queen and John. For everyone else, there's Amazon, local stores...

That said, when I looked at this project, I saw it as something I wanted -- not for fraud, for personal convenience. I'm sick of carrying so many cards. I was like, crap, I only have Visa in my wallet, I wonder how hard it'd be to add PayWave support? Right now my hopes lie in rumoured iPhone 6 support of NFC which might in turn encourage global adoption of phones for payment ... and perhaps with one-time credit card numbers, right? One can dream...
Not quite. There are some major differences: we go mobile-first and the idea is to match collaborators, not projects.

Have you tried meeet.co?
People might want to participate in and support the Bitcoin ecosystem, for economic, political, or technological reasons. People might just be curious about the technology and want to play with it.
Why does it matter if something happens in nature? Do you think animals don’t suffer in the process of being killed by other animals? I’m not necessarily saying that we should all be vegetarians (what if we raise and slaughter animals so that they experience less suffering than wild animals do?), only that this is a lousy argument.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that Madison in general is one of the most left of center, left leaning (more liberal than liberal), cities in the country, not just the midwest. I can also tell you with 100% certainty that the University is even more left than the city. I think the difference here is that this is an example of people seeing how their hot dogs and hamburgers are made and they are not used to it. Its messy and sometimes unpleasant. The people at the UW are highly ethical, talented, dedicated professional scientists who are doing their best give as much dignity to these test subjects as possible while at the same time trying to further science and the betterment of mankind.
> Start with mice/rats. Move up to rabbits/pigs/dogs, then on to monkeys.

Why not move on to humans afterward? If it's okay to perform unethical experiments as a means to an end, then why not perform them on humans for the maximum benefit? Unit 731's experiments provided agreeably valuable evidence, demonstrating the value in human experimentation; and it's hotly debated that many tests on animals are applicable to humans to begin with, demonstrating the overstated value of animal experimentation. So if it's true that knowledge trumps morality, we're not taking advantage of that fact.
I don't particularly mind being unpopular, although I'm sad that so many are so thoroughly wrong. It's not particularly their fault; they've been poorly educated.
The black market isn't all stabbings ... certainly in CA, it isn't. I make good money and I wouldn't think twice about going to the black market for my medicine if they had crazy tax like that here. I mean, I (and many other people) already won't shop at places that don't roll sales tax into their prices.
Sorry, "break [the] mechanisms", of which the system is composed. Also, nice dodge on the other point.

So far your only arguments are that he got "internet cool points" by gaming a broken mechanism, even if Stellar turns out worthless, and... Oh, that looks like it.
"Being high on meth is a completely different phenomenon than being stimulated into wakefulness"

A substantially quantitative, but only slightly qualitative difference. Take enough caffeine in the right delivery method to get addiction cravings, cardiac stress, dehydration, and severe insomnia, and it will be dangerous too.

We prescribe amphetamines routinely, to children, in low doses, and view no 'really stupid and dangerous things' or 'physical destruction'. Even as a common ad-hoc recreational drug (taken in much higher/faster doses), it's not seen as particularly dangerous compared to meth - because it's of reliable formulation and known dosage, with no adulterants.

Much more common than euphoric abuse is non-prescribed use at low or moderate doses, for the same effects by people who haven't been diagnosis-shopping but want to pull an all-nighter study session. The drug war attacks this use just as much as euphoric party-drug abuse. This is also the kind of thing militaries have always used amphetamines for - and we presently trust the pilots of billion-dollar fighter jets with the effects.
>The Federal Government shouldn't regulate any good or service that doesn't cross state borders.

Black people truly prosper when excluded from the local economy. Makes them feel like Real Mercans.

Wait, no! That other thing.
Recruit a hands-on, technology-focused co-founder that can help you establish the infrastructure and foundation for your application. That will allow you to focus on the creative aspects of the game and running the business - and it will prevent easy-to-make screw-ups from compromising any success you may have on the horizon. :-)
So far we have been tracking the worst case scenario models. If feedback loops like the release of the methane stored in the arctic permafrost begin to run away from us, it could get pretty bad. We haven't seen most of the warming yet - most of it has been going into the oceans, but now they are reaching their capacity.

The earth's climate is a complex system that is incredibly tricky to predict. But the more we know about it, the worse things seem to be. :(

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2014/06/new-video-repo...

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2013/02/video-on-froze...
Where in this article did it state that the experiment was unethical?

Only 2 people objected over what was essentially 2 different committees (with different people on those committees). Both committees approved two different, yet closely similar, plans. The person they quoted, who objected on the similar plan 2 years ago, seemed to object based on nothing but his feelings. In the article he stated, “We’re killing baby monkeys.” That is not anything near a reasoned, logical, scientifically backed statement on why their plan was unethical. Would it have been ethical if they proceeded with their plan, let it run its course for the year, then let the monkeys live until their natural deaths?
This was discovered a week ago on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8090272
Many thanks for the link. Thanks, I needed that. So, the link has not only temperature data but the IPCC predictions. Terrific. I put the link where I can find it easily and won't lose it. I'd been hoping for just some such article. Terrific.
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