skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I'm not sure where the hostility is coming from

I'm not sure how you read hostility, but okay.

> In no part of my comment did I remotely advocate or even hint at anything like that.

And you obviously missed the thinly veiled Star Wars reference. Perhaps next time I'll put it in quotes.
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I think comparing 9/11 to events like heart attacks and car accidents is silly.

There is a big difference between the loss of 3000 people due to a deliberate attack on your country and the loss of 300,000 people due to heart attacks.
One technique is 3 months in the Schengen area and then 3-6 months in UK/Ireland, 3 months in Schengen, etc... as UK/Ireland are not Schengen and Americans can stay for up to 6 months.
I disagree on the ^H's. In practice, AWS and SoftLayer spent as much or more time with the 2013 class than the Rackspace people did. I don't know about 2012 though...
I'm actually considering starting a cleaning business, and I'd love to get your perspective. I'm a full time software consultant, and I'm looking for a way to get some semi-passive income flowing. Anyway, if you have time, please reach out to me at sean.d.hi at gmail dot com.
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Unfortunately for the first version I didn't track hours (I am now). It took all of last summer (June to August) of nights and weekends. Not too bad considering it was only a few hours per week b/c of being more active outside due to Summer. It's PhoneGap based, so much of the effort wasn't so much writing features so much as learning/figuring out the tools I used: KendoUI Mobile for the UI, PhoneGap Build for building native versions, and Knockout.js. I come from a .NET backend background, so I wanted the new challenge of building an app with frontend tech, not only for CSS/JavaScript practice but also benefiting from one codebase for multiple platforms (iOS, Android, and WinPhone 8).
For "Experimenting With Babies," I used Google Drive for rought-draft stuff, then switched to OpenOffice. By the time you're passing it back and forth with your editor, you'll need to be using something that's compatible with Word, because that's what your editor will be using (assuming you're working with a traditional publisher).

For "Correlated," I used a lot of natural-language generation, so I suppose you could say that my editor was Sublime Text, at least for the drafts. Then ported into Word format.
You should try pluginbag.com which offers much more than ThemeForest.
visionmedia mentions a settlement here [1].

[1]: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264#issuecomme...
They haven't been putting money into that since 2011. And their own page shows they would have been at -$3B in 2010 even without the pre-funding mandate. https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/...
A couple of data points:

American Express sent me a new card—unprovoked—about two months ago that is chipped. As mentioned elsewhere, it is a chip and signature card (as opposed to a chip and pin). I'm nothing particularly special as a credit card user so, if I received a card, seems the roll out has already well underway.

Another point is, as mentioned elsewhere, PayPal already offers a chip and pin compatible bluetooth device in a few countries marketed as part of their PayPal Here brand[0].

[0] - https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/how-to-use-paypal-here
I've had a few posts hit the front page over the last couple of years. I had between 5,000 and 10,000 unique visitors (as Google Analytics defines them) over the following 24hrs for each post.
What's really frustrating is the preference for signature. It makes almost all US chip cards useless outside of the US and Canada because, for whatever reason, standalone terminals and even some online POS pads will trip over the "signature preferred" bit. It also means that cards like you list are not usable at a signature-only terminal, even one like SquareUp that can do online, live verification.

Why can't the US financial system just _follow_ the rest of the world for once?
Interesting example but still further nonsense. A no confidence vote isn't political instability, that's exactly how the government should be working, ie political stability, especially when you have coalition governments. A government losing power in a no confidence vote happens all the time. That's like saying the US was plunged into ypolitical instability when George Bush Sr. lost his second term because of the "no new taxes" misstep.

Political instability is what happened in Syria, Thailand, Egypt, etc over the last few years. Contrast this to Canada where the same coalition government broke down and cause several elections over a span of a few years. But an educated perso would never consider Canada to be politically unstable.
Approached the traffic filtering from a number of directions - I log and background parse the incoming traffic to look for IPs and ranges that are generating excessive traffic, and get notified of issues. From there I can temporarily/perm block them if desired. I also have a script that can temporarily block all Tor exit nodes, as occasionally I get attempted spamming/scraping from there.

For automating scraping/spamming protection, I would consider something like CloudFlare Security though, my own tools are good enough for now, but I would still be vulnerable to a DDoS or a botnet scrape - it's enough to stop one-man scrapers but I'll need something beefier soon.

Ad formats that seem to work best: 728x90 by a long margin. I generally top and tail the content section with a leaderboard ad. I do serve different sizes for mobile etc, but the leaderboard works way better. I've also experimented with skyscrapers and boxes, which performed very poorly (skyscrapers especially).
You say jQuery "gracefully does nothing", I say the code fails silently and the application breaks anyway with no real indication of where the problem lies.
I don't think anyone knows what would happen to an area after 400 detonations.

My (wild) guess is that you'd get a blob of extremely hot rock melting its way down through the crust and enough fallout to sterilise the Northern hemisphere.

So kind of a dumb idea from a strategic point of view.
Great question! There are a couple reasons people use Geocodio over or in addition to the major providers, like Google:

* Google's free tier is 2,500 a day. But if you need more than that, you have to sign a yearly contract ($10,000+). Our pricing is 2,500 free a day with additional lookups at $.001 each.

* We don't place any restrictions on our geocodes. The major providers often a lot of restrictions on how you use their lookups, like having to use it with a particular brand of map, can't use it in a backend, can't resell, can't store them, etc. Our lookups are completely restriction free.

* Related, at the enterprise level, we have an option for unlimited geocoding for $750 a month. Major providers usually have a daily limit for their enterprise plans, such as 100,000 lookups a day.

* We provide additional data that people often need along with lat/lon, like timezone, Congressional district, school district, and state legislative districts.

* We're non-developer friendly. We have a CSV upload option (http://geocod.io/blog/2014/04/30/csv/) that lets people upload a spreadsheet of addresses and download it directly from the same dashboard.

A big difference is that we're US-only for the time being. Additionally, it's worth noting that our data is close to Google quality, but not quite. They've embarked on an ambitious, admirable, and expensive quest to map the world and have cars driving around the globe daily. We don't.
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> I'd like to monetize this by selling city specific nomad guides on how to set up in each place and letting people find jobs remotely.

Isn't NomadCost being monetized already via “preferred by nomads” feature?
Also Denver/Boulder and SLC on the US side are not exactly low population density.
Generally no. When I add info it tends to be in bulk (augmenting existing information pages), and then this will be done as a stand-alone project - the info tends to need lots of massaging and making intelligent to give it value.
I just meant that any given chunk of technology is pretty useless without people who can use it in deployment and tactical/strategic integration.

I'm very familiar with the engineers and computer scientists you refer to.
I don't understand this valuation - it's makes no sense to me. Can anyone explain how SnapChat could be worth even a fraction of this? Where is the value in SnapChat's user base, future blackmail? It's not like someone using SnapChat is in the appropriate state of mind to follow any ads in the app. I don't get it...
>Posted: Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Although it seems to be a nice and overlooked feature in Gmail I don't think this is news after 1 year.
This article disappoints me because it seems to boil down to:

BAD: making money by selling software
GOOD: making money by selling ads

So how do you make money selling ads? By getting a bunch of users and auctioning off their private information.

I wish more people in the position to fund software development would support a model where your users are your customers and not just eyeballs to be sold to the highest bidder.
Similarly, I'd like to ask how you would explain the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism to the families of the thousands of people that died in the twin towers.

This is how: in that year alone, 2001, over 10000 people were killed by gun homicides in the US --over three times as many random, pointless deaths as 9/11. Last year, there were over 15000: an increase of nearly twice as many families mourning the senseless death of their loved ones as the 9/11 families, but every year.

And twice as many people every year die of car accidents --sudden, random, untimely deaths. Every year.

These are inconceivable amounts of suffering, of mourning families and communities rent apart: almost as if the population of an entire mid-sized town got randomly obliterated every year.

And then consider that, in their name, hundreds of thousands of other innocent families around the globe have gone through --and still go through-- their very same suffering on that day: losing their loved ones to unimaginably violent attacks out of nowhere, absurdly justified by some abstract, foreign notion --collateral damage, preventive strike, what not.

The numbers don't lie. As a society, sooner or later we will have to come to terms precisely with the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism, and the grotesque price we have inflicted the world (and ourselves) with.
Thanks, It might... What would you like it to do? All tips are welcome!
Perhaps, but "it'll happen Real Soon Now" isn't either, really.

It is happening for me right now: My commute is to walk down my stairs. A moment ago I finished a teleconference with a group of distributed people thousands of miles away.

Even just looking at tools -- we once went to a central location because it had the tools necessary for work, and even as we computerized we had the desktop on the corporate LAN, etc. Communications was limited and often very expensive.

Now we all roll around with mobiles and laptops, with mobile workability that allows us to work virtually anywhere with equal ease.

It is happening for many other people right now. The "giant office" model is one that some companies still pursue, but many others are going to flexible or work at home models. And for people like me it means that I can live on acres in the countryside.
Human Rights Watch pushes for review of Australian WikiLeaks gag order
If you're under 40 years old, it's better to invest entirely in growth stocks over dividend stocks[1].

In theory, dividends are a great source of passive income, but with effective yields of 2-3% you'd need a lot of capital to generate any meaningful income, i.e., a $1M investment would pay around $30,000 annually.

Dividend stocks have never performed that well; they never appreciate 10-20x like certain growth stocks, they usually underperform relative to the market, and when the market declines they all go down just the same.

Here's an example: over the past two years P&G (PG) and Coca-Cola (KO), two dividend stock favorites, are up about 20% and flat respectively. The S&P 500 index is up 40% in the same period, Facebook (FB) is up over 200%, and Tesla (TSLA) is up over 700%.

[1]: http://www.financialsamurai.com/better-to-invest-in-growth-s...
It was certainly an area that I was interested in and understood. Also, I made a conscious decision to choose something that would have interest for a very broad group of people, or that was owned by a lot of people.
It looks like the prices for Berlin are a bit more reasonable on the spreadsheet now (but not the site yet), but yeah, considering there were 1000+ <€30/night listings just on AirBnB when I was looking last month... it seems like there needs to be a better way to sample/get prices that's more representative. The methodology/approach is somewhat flawed (I also just spent a couple months in Tokyo earlier this year there's some discrepancies there that others have pointed out as well).
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I do like the idea of being a remote system administrator, but the trust issues seem to scare people away.

(Though I realize you're doing more than that if you're renting out physical boxes too.)
Just like how 37Signals is worth $100bn.
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
What are the practical steps for monetizing a web service?
I've been working on a library for a while and I've come up with a way to monetize it by making a web frontend for it. With a bit of marketing I think it could make some money (not a lot, maybe ~$10,000 a year given my sense of the rather niche market) I want to know what are the practical steps you take with this sort of business.

Do I have to form a company? Should I be patenting and trademarking logos and stuff? If I just make a website and start taking payments, what are the tax and legal implications? My library is Apache v2 licensed but I imagine the frontend / service would be proprietary. I heard I should consider switching the library to MIT.

I am planning to move abroad in a few months so I don't really want to start a company in the United States. I've just never created a paid service before so I'm really naive about how to go about it. If anyone has experience here or a good link, I'd appreciate it.
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There shouldn't need to be any learning of markets or navigating of postal office policies. This is a business like any other meant to serve their customers. Shipping a package should and needs to be as easy as checking out at Wal-Mart.
People often forget how awful the west treated the bottom of its society at the time. For a black in the South, the soviet union (or more likely Cuba/communist latin country) probably looked pretty good.

That's not to excuse or downplay these country's mistakes. Let's just not forget our own.
What would differentiate 11main (or any other Alibaba property) from offerings in the US? Amazon probably has quite a few people locked in with Prime and their Kindle devices (I know I wouldn't switch e-book providers) so I wonder what exactly would 11main do better?
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Who writes? How do you make blogging efficient?
I'm just glad that Amazon has competition. I love them, and I don't want them going the way of the Comcast-style behemoth.
Whisper Systems no longer exists. Open Whisper Systems is a project, not a company. It's not a commercial entity. There is no profit model, no business plan, nothing. It is free, open source, donationware (in both money for devs and dev time). The people directing it are well known and have repeatedly shown themselves to be very switched on. All code is open to audit.

See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_Systems

There's no need to be so cynical with this lot.
Sort of. I took various information sets (some external, some my own), and spent a lot of time pivoting them, merging them etc so that they could be useful. You couldn't find the information as it is on the website elsewhere in the same form, but you could research and produce it yourself, albeit at a much slower pace and with a lot of insider knowledge required.
For some reason I got a popup highlight for the first time today.
A fine example of design for the sake of design.

Is that an amateur proposal, or was this accepted by USPS, polished further and paid for? Based on the amount of text fillings, looks like the latter is true. In any way, what I see is highly impractical, and the brand book is far from complete. Here are some things I dislike about it:

-All caps. This is wrong, and it should be fairly obvious even to a child, when pointed out. Millions of people will see media based on it, and a generation will grow up, struggling to read all-caps price lists, all-caps footnotes and navigating all-caps menus on their smartphones. What's worse, is that they will subconsciously accept it as part of their lives and surroundings.

-Too much visual clutter: completely unjustified use of borders, underlines and dotted lines – also in between semantically same elements.

-What does "→" mean?

-Clickable elements are indistinguishable from statics on self-service terminals and smartphone apps. Footnotes are impractically small even for a HD screen.

Overall impression: somebody, truly oblivious of basic usability principles, thought that infographics (the Daily-Mail-grade ones) and UITableViews are cool, and built a company identity around them. And the other guys sold it.
Looks like underscore character ("_") is used when the letter can't be determined - so in fact it had no idea what your "S" was ^_^
heh. if only i had the power to downvote. even then, i wouldn't downvote folks who simply disagree with me. i love to argue with them too much!
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Further, he didn't decompose the sin function into a Taylor series, while insulting other people's maths and programming skills.

Uncool, bro. Uncool.
I've had great success chatting with programmers. I find them via blog posts, tweets, etc and then send them an email asking for a quick 15 - 20 min chat. In the email, I tell them I'm not selling anything, reference how I found them (shows 'proof of work' on my part), and tell them a bit about the project.
I think you misunderstood the request (providing the option to drill down doesn't create more mental work), but I also disagree about "we all have friends and fam"... the typical digital nomad is NOT traveling to see family in friends; they're (for example) someone from SF traveling to SE Asia.

My own family & friends are split up all over the world (and my wife's parents live on the opposite of the world from mine, and we've lived in 3 different countries at one time or another but now are sort of in-between them), but it's still really unusual.

I'm pretty sure the calculations are assuming you don't have family/friends to host you.
And the inflation rate in India is 8.9%.[1] so 7% interest is terrible. Doesn't beat inflation. Your money still loses value over time.

The US has had very low inflation in the last decade or so with very small deflation in 2009.[2] but interest isn't beating inflation here either though.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_in_India

[2]http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...

As far as "high yield" savings goes, for a normal savings account or money market account you'll be looking at 1% being the max rate right now, if you can find it. Last I took a glance I saw .95% being the highest. Those are for online banks. I get .85% with Discover Bank (online savings account). I also have a 17 month CD that earn me a whopping 2%. That was a one time special my [brick and mortar] credit union was offering. Those accounts are FDIC (or NCUA) insured.
Why wait for Wayland instead of running KDE on X on Android?
It's a communication platform that the younger generations are using as their primary form of communication. That is big.. not saying it's $10B big, but SnapChat has the chance to become something larger than just stupid selfies.
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You are correct that there are typically easier ways to ship. However, needing to know how to work the system is emblematic of the greater problem with USPS. Desk service is an important aspect of the mail system, and, while it may be alien to some, people need assistance with USPS' wide range of services.
Did FB reference mori? I didn't see it in the README. I was curious if it was just a NIH policy, or if they had reasons why mori didn't fit the bill.
>splitting out the NomadCost creates more mental work for a visitor than is necessary for the purposes of comparing cities to one another.

It'd be more helpful is not like the split version has to be the default.
But that wasn't what the choice was.

It was between maintaining the capability of such a nuclear war to deter aggression, and not maintaining it and surely having been invaded by the Soviets.

For the madness that MAD was, for all intents and purposes, it actually worked.
IIRC the bank->merchant liability shift for the US is scheduled for sometime next year. The banks can't very well shift the liability if they haven't given their customers the new cards!
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You could than likely charge significantly more for it if you positioned it as a way to learn to play the piano - ten bucks (or twenty) is much, much cheaper than a teacher.
I use a combination of Trello + Google Drive
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When Adam Savage shows the contents of his replica of the Jason Bourne's "go bag"

from the Bourne Identity's Swiss bank scene he briefly touches the subject of bank

notes not being too close to the real stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQbbtnTz1KE&t=346
6-person strong content team headed up by an editor and a deputy. Plus a few freelancers making regular submissions for more variety.

Board with each team member's output being tracked through stages from pitching to external sites, to progress on internal pieces and projects.

Research pieces, PR, opinion, news updates etc. And now we're expanding into video too.

We run our main site which is a SaaS business, and then we also have a supporting content site, basically an online magazine pitched at our target demographic for the SaaS side. Let's us show that we're experts in our field and funnel into the business.
Hmm... one problem they have already is their brand name. "11 Main" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
While I probably fairly well agree with the content of the article (I haven't read all of it), this shouldn't really be on here.
And Brooklyn, with all the hipsters and many other people who couldn't afford to live in Manhattan, is also Foundry, same as upper Manhattan? Denver/Boulder and SLC hardly have much in common with the rest of the Empty Quarter either. I have another reply in this thread explaining more about that. And where does Las Vegas fit in? Nevada as a state is very liberal in some ways, much more so than other states in the Empty Quarter.
I like square cash a tad more! It supports any platform (by design) and it works great for me.
I'm currently reading 1491 by Charles C. Mann, excellent book about the Americas before Columbus and how much of what we have been taught is either incorrect or misinformed. A follow up to this is 1943, what happened in the Americas after the arrival of Columbus. A great pair of books.

I'll also say Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and The Story of B are two of my favourite books.