skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What's the alternative, though?"

The easiest answer to this (and what most language teams do) is not have tacit default functional stacks. Typesafe have gone the odd route, not the standard one.

"I would hope the community benefits from the halo effect this has on Scala"

That may or may not happen, but my experience has been the opposite. An example is Play (which I quite like). It is a very opinionated web framework, that many developers have quite rightly decided didn't match their opinions. By tying the brand of Scala with the brand of Play you make it so that I as a Scala advocate have to fight for both together, even though there are many other Scala web frameworks, and I might not even be fighting for a web project, just that the negative connotations of Play leak into the discussion either explicitly or implicitly. Think of the Ruby case, which is currently more extreme than the Scala one. If someone says they do Ruby development, it is quite natural to think they do Rails even though I'm sure there are other Ruby web frameworks and Ruby the language could be used for any number of things.

This impact is even worse for something that has a really bad reputation like sbt. For many developers their first impression of Scala came from fighting sbt and that negative experience colors their whole opinion of Scala. For years I literally said some variation of "just skip sbt and use maven/gradle/ant etc." trying to get people to divorce Scala from sbt in their mind. Sbt has finally reached a point where instead of saying that I just say, "you'll get used to sbt" which is better, but I can't with a straight face say that sbt is not part and partial to the scala experience (for instance you mention some sbt work is part of the scala core teams responsibilities). If nothing else the other stacks you may encounter make use of it, so you need to have an understanding.

"You seem to be implying incremental compilation is restricted to sbt: it's not!"

I'm sorry if I implied that, you certainly can use zinc standalone or with other build tools besides sbt but the experience is not very polished outside of the sbt use case.

"Also, regarding sbt: it survived because of the awesome sbt community"

No it didn't. For years it was worse than the other alternatives and the only advantage it had was that it was the "Scala" build tool. It is now at a point where it needn't be actively avoided but when I think of all the sunk cost spent on building sbt and fighting to build with sbt it makes me irrationally angry.

"The core Scala team (which I lead) is shamefully still using ant, although we plan to move to sbt this year."

There is nothing shameful about this at all and I wish you'd stick with Ant for all the reasons I've mentioned above.
There are a lot of niche opportunities in larger segments. The hard part is always getting attention / traction, getting those first thousand customers to pay, getting enough money to afford some marketing and support (if necessary).

Just a simple example: HomeAway's huge vacation rentals business. Within the larger super category ('for rent by owner'), there are long term rentals, and that's a niche compared to the much larger vacation rental market. Several years ago, you could have created a modest business around that smaller niche, charging $30 or $50 per year for a listing. 10,000 listings at $50 per year becomes a nice, likely quite profitable, small business.

Real estate listing concepts are great if you can get traction and listings, the costs of hosting and serving up the data and images might as well be zero.
Why We Merged To Form Onevest
What does four decades of terrorism in the US look like?
It's been over a year since the team started with justmoon's bitcoinjs-lib and I'm very impressed with the result. Good work, kyle, wei, and everyone!
First of all, I hate the word "techie". It's almost like a racial slur. The word makes me sick. I don't want to be lumped in the same group with this asshole: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/01/article-0-1B1DC13A...

... or this guy: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WS3fM3LB...

I also find it obvious that the rage is mis-directed. The villains are (a) the NIMBYs, who are mostly owners rather than renters, who keep the supply of housing artificially low, and many of whom have nothing to do with tech, and (b) the Valley elite out in Atherton, who've created the most "placist" paper-belt economy in existence right now.

The reason I pin this on the Athertons is that, because the VC strategy of the past 15 years has been to take well-known and illegal financial strategies for public markets (e.g. pump-and-dump, collusive market manipulation, insider trading) and apply them to unregulated private equities (where they may be unethical, but aren't illegal) they've had to keep their industry concentrated in one geographic area, because the VCs can't put anything they do in writing. The result of this is an unnatural concentration of new jobs in one tiny geographic area, starving the rest of the country. It's bad for everyone but them. The Bay Area gets congested, while the rest of the country falls to pieces.

However, the likelihood that the bus vandals will direct their anger at Atherton or the NIMBYs, where it belongs, is really low. Instead, they attack middle-class tech-company employees who've done absolutely nothing wrong, and who are just as victimized by the exorbitant rents (by 40, they'll be facing age discrimination and have zero net worth thanks to SF rent) as anyone else. It makes me think that most of these anti-tech protesters are just trying to start shit with no strategy or real cause.
Take great care to sign contracts for anything significant you expect to get. I did something like this once and after spending a long time enhancing it, suddenly the acquantance decided he didn't need to share the profit anymore.
10-20k total if it doesn't go viral outside of HN.
Maybe 100-200 concurrent at peak.
Don't worry about your server, unless it's a box at your home it should handle the traffic...
That's terrible !
Up The Down Staircase – Testing With Users
I had a project that was number 3 on the front page for a good part of a Saturday.

I had 7500 unique visitors from HN including the traffic coming from linkbots that re-serve HN links.

With a single node.js (express) app on an EC2 medium instance and I was fine. I got about 10% conversion rate. It was a game with a signup page that required you to register first.

The single instance held up the static content and the app itself for a while. In hindsight I should have used an nginx reverse proxy for the homepage.

--EDIT-- here is the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364927

--EDIT2-- changed conversion rate typo from 1% to 10%
Wandbox – a social compilation service
We use consul. Each instance has it's own bind setup with DNS forwarding and it forwards normal traffic on through the regular DNS servers and anything in .consul on to the consul client running locally.
Keep the rent low. A great tenant is awesome.
In regards to the book's online version, I like how it has code examples that one can edit and run inline among the book's text. I often find myself, while reading a book on a particular language, opening up a new project in an IDE or a REPL in order to fiddle around with what the book it trying to teach. This makes it much more fluid.

It was a pleasant surprise. It is a nice concept I have not previously seen done. (I'm sure someone can come up with examples of where it has previously been done before but this is the first I personally have seen it.)
I'm really interested in how you managed to monetise your addons. I've made some fairly popular addons in the past but I'd always considered them just free things I throw out into the world.
The UK conversion was only really done because it's an EU requirement, some people are still unhappy with it, and the vernacular is still using the Imperial measurements. Fortunately the scientific community gave up on the foot-pound-second system and has switched. But we're still using plenty of connectors based on 0.1inch spacing, and PCBs designed in "mils" (thousandths of an inch).

(In Orwell's 1984, he makes a point of having a bystander in a pub complaining about beer being served in liters. Just another symbol of dystopia. Some people still think like that.)
Please implement it anyway, but then with SI units! Thanks! :)
I had a motorcycle which I had bought for 126K INR. I was not using it much except to commute from home to office. I was going to sell the bike, then suddenly this idea clicked. It took few hours to make and host indiarider.com(people can take the bike on rent). Its been two months now, I have made 15K till now, 7K last week.
Those numbers are all made up.
I'd learn about the options on http://flagtheory.com/
Embeddable shared whiteboard (jQuery plugin + backend service): https://awwapp.com/plugin/

Around $500/mo at the moment, with very little marketing and sales effort. Putting more effort into sales now, aiming to have it cover one full-time person on the project in the next few months.
We've had a couple of blog posts hit #1. From memory, we received around 35,000 visitors on each occasion, spaced over the course of several hours.
About 10 to 20,000 in my experience for a site that's on the front page for about a day.
I have a house my sister and her partner rent. Some may say never do business with family, but we've been doing it for a few years now, and they've never missed a payment. I pay down about $1k every 4 months in principal.
Built an iPhone app which is still featured by Apple in the new selfie category. 90$/mo with no marketing costs. :) The app called Picr.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/picr-everyday-photo-reminder/id...
Perhaps less primary research is needed, and more secondary research i.e. more reviews.

It strikes me that making the scientific literature machine-parsable and query-able may help a great deal.

Currently the literature is "scraped" to produce scientific metadata which is stored in databases such as PubMed. Of course, that's back to front. Experimental data, findings, methods, workflows, etc etc should be stored in databases of some sort, and "literature" produced by querying the data.

A pipe-dream, of course. But some steps have been taken towards something approaching this.

https://sdm.lbl.gov/sdmcenter/
http://authors.library.caltech.edu/28168/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...
what happens if that fails
Illegal prime number
Cebu seems nice. Has beaches but is still a city.
Start Up Launches Eyewear With Interchangeable Lenses and Raises $750k
Bitmessage protocol specification v3
Yes, I had pretty much have the same numbers.
I'd be willing to put money on the general person never needing more than a small portion of their library but for the rare exception, at which point a free Scroble-ing service or YouTube suffice. If you reflect, are you really going back to the depths of your music library to find track 11 off that one less-popular (insert band name) album?

It's simply the philosophy that most of the stuff we keep with us on our TB hard drive laptops isn't actually stuff we need to keep with us.

Obviously Apple considers your philosophy to be an edge case to their intended business model and would rather not offer you moderately priced options to upgrade, which is certainly a shame.
Just use the Paypal shipping link, you just enter the recipient address choose your service and package size and you are done. Print the label on your printer drop the package in the mail. You also get the benefit of Commercial Base (COMBAS) pricing. Which is significantly cheaper than physically going to the post office for the same services.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now
UK to allow driverless cars on public roads in January
I'm not sure why people even bother bringing up RasPi and its ilk here. It's very clearly targeted towards a different audience: professionals who need to develop hardware/drivers for Intel tablets. Just look at all of the headers they've broken out, the test points on the board, the LED display for bus/early boot debugging, etc. The Raspberry Pi was designed with extensibility in mind, designed so the headers are on one side of the board so it can be enclosed sensibly, no extraneous functionality, simple construction, etc. This thing is just a reference tablet board minus the touchpanel, with all of it's I/O ports exposed.

You certainly can built Quark/Atom SBCs into a "RasberryPi" like device, but this is not the device you were looking for. It's a terrible hobbyist board. Perhaps some one will use this board to develop a decent hobbyist Atom SBC/"NUC" - Intel's certainly has enough publicly available documentation to make it happen now.
This could be even more problematic for vision-impaired readers. Low contrast text should be avoided out of consideration for those with less than perfect sight, even if it looks "cool".
2 isn't an employee problem, its a system problem.

They feel the big brother need to authenticate the heck out of you and your money and manually handle packages all at the same time, so a transaction takes 5 minutes and you get a fabulous line that takes an entire lunch hour to navigate.

The way it should work is vaguely like the automated checkouts at my public library, one human being who does virtually nothing other than reboot machines and create new / renew cards.

So a human being does the Big Brother tracking thing to authenticate your D/L and CC once. Then for all eternity you step up to a machine, slide your DL and CC thru the reader, you slap a sticker on the package, you throw your package on a conveyor belt, all good.

I think a system redesign could get transaction times down to a fraction of a minute and reassign humans to do stuff humans are really good at, like debugging a system they're experts at, exception handling/customer complaints, all that big brother authoritarian BS that they enjoy so much, and teaching other humans, while getting humans out of the work that humans are awful at, like following brainless repetitive procedures, manual labor, and data entry.

Where do you put all this conveyor belt and vending machine junk in existing post offices? Well, if you're not going to have people standing in lines anymore, how bout putting the gear where people used to stand in line for 30 minutes at lunch hour.

Another fix would be sh!t or get off the pot WRT big brother / evil empire stuff. Either get rid of all of it which would save a lot of time, or go all in (more likely, because its more profitable for 3rd parties) which means automatic scanning of drivers licenses and CCs and fingerprints for all transactions, which sounds bad, but if automated would be a heck of a lot faster. (Edited to make it clear I think they're achieved a local maxima of wasted time WRT big brother BS, so any change would almost by definition of a local maxima, speed things up)

There is also a bigger systemic issue WRT scrapping entire parts of the system. If big business can ship whatever they want to Canada without it being inspected or (properly) taxed, or dudes in China can ship me literally anything without the customs system doing much of anything, why not just scrap them? Get rid of the whole process, customs forms and everything. Its not like anything will change other than the elimination of a huge waste of time.
That's cool, but how do you deal with speeding fines?
Blogs mostly, and ideas I come up with like http://codeht.ml although I don't put ads on all of em.

Would love any marketing ideas, as I don't know how to spread the word quickly and effectively.
Interestingly the data loss argument wasn't aimed at you, but at someone arguing they just needed their laptop with a big HD and nothing else.

There's many options for providing yourself access to the desktop at home from a mobile location, at which point you can access those obscure files.

It does seem that the tablet isn't a great product vehicle at the moment for a Tb portable desktop.
very relevant

http://priceonomics.com/when-yahoo-reigned-supreme/
Great book but... is it finished yet? Doesn't seem so [1].

[1] https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript
Check out http://weatherhobo.com/ for more in depth temperature based filtering.
I "bothered" because the Pi was explicitly used as a target for comparison in the original title of this thread.

And I'm not sure where the hostility is coming from, but my point was actually similar to yours, minus the abrasive attitude. My comment was about different capabilities and use cases, and I criticized the label "Raspberry Pi" in this context - which, in case you missed it, was in the original title of this thread.

> You certainly can built Quark/Atom SBCs into a "RasberryPi" like device, but this is not the device you were looking for.

In no part of my comment did I remotely advocate or even hint at anything like that.
just from ads?
It seems to hold when accessing yoku, letv, Tudo, but that's about it, and even then the local internet can be even. If you have to use a VPN, be prepared for pain and heartache, and have lots of patience.

Why would anyone want to nomad in Beijing? Breathing would be your biggest problem.
I've been following this book for a while now and I'm pretty thrilled to see its reception here on HN.
This book is an excellent introduction to front-end development (and even a little backend since it does include a chapter on Node.js)

It has an excellent balance of design patterns and introductory knowledge to attract the new and also seasoned developers who are beginning to look at javascript more seriously.

(This book is also a great primer for anyone who did not understand Javascript the Good Parts)
Congratulations! Sad though that even a featured app only pulls in $90/month.

My own iPhone photo app, Liquid Lens:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liquid-lens-real-time-psyche...

actually briefly cracked the top 200 photo apps this month and pulls in more than $90 but is still only in the coffee money income bracket.

After four years of the indie iOS thing I'm tooling back up to do web dev again.
nobody cares about this in this thread.
re: buddhism: read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's not about motorcycles. ;)
#2 x 1000, after my last experience with surly disinterested employees at USPS I took my business to UPS this weekend.
Cost slightly more but 0 paperwork and much better service.. Handed a list of addresses to the guy behind the counter, he filled the paperwork , printed the labels etc.. It boggles the mind this isn't standard at USPS which just seems to be a puzzle (#1)
A good mix of ETF funds from Vanguard Canada. It has been a very good year for equities, and all I had to do was literally not touch what I had bought.
This depends a little on the area and culture. Certainly there's always less variety in a suburb, but there's sometimes good quality and interesting things, there's just not the variety.

Or maybe the places I'm thinking of are "great small towns"? What would you call Pleasanton? (I think it's pretty clearly a suburb, and not terribly much more, though certainly it didn't start out that way...).
yea, adsense only
i smell Dota2
Not proud of it, but around $500/mo thanks to 3 white label dating websites. Easy money, no maintenance needed for 2 years now...
Could make much more with some time invested in it!
I am based in India. There is not much infrastructure to check the speed. You will find traffic police with such equipment only in cities. That too if you are lucky.
Tracking client-side errors in Google Analytics for easy diagnosis
You do realise INR == Indian rupees, right?
nobody cares about this in this thread.

I care.

The branding, no matter how good looking it is - and it is good - must in the end enhance the product. But if the product itself is confusing, the branding and styles can only do so much. Concise product goals make the work of the designer more focused and the end result would be beautiful to use as well as look at.
Dividends on stocks.

I've never had an idea good enough to make an app out of, or build a company around. So instead, I started investing a small amount of my paycheck in to my brokerage account. Buying lots of stock in Dividend Kings[1], I've earned $25 this year, with another $20 through October. It's not a lot, but I'm fully thinking long-term.

1: http://long-term-investments.blogspot.com/2013/02/15-Best-Di...
The correct people to complain about are the ones preventing housing supply from rising to meet demand.
"Administrating" a few servers that are rented out (ie, running apt-get every week and fixing the occasional symlink the tenants break).

-$2000/m in power/space/bandwidth in costs

+$4000/m in fees

Banking a little under ~$1700 after I account for taxes for what amounts to an hour of effort a month.
They don't have speeding fines in India?
My passive income, Ghost Theme marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/ Revenue around 100 USD per month. Running for half year need more marketing for better revenue. Ghost blog is the next big thing in blogging space.
Ask HN: Economics/market information resources for industry and product trends?
How does one find out economic trends such as "this industry is growing at X%" or "this industry is stagnant/declining"? For example, sales of X was $1B market growing at 25% year-over-year. What are some 2014 examples and resources for finding this information?

Signed,

Young person who spends too much time on HN
There aren't very many trust-worthy hosts that come close to Hetzner in the US market.

I use WebNX, and love them. They have a particular west coast focus (first major location out of LA). Their prices are a bit higher than Hetzner, but they provide an amazing service, have a solid network, and the prices are great; plus they'll do any custom setup you need. They frequently have deals on WebhostingTalk.

Check out Versaweb: http://versaweb.com/dedicated.php

You can get a E5-1650v2 with 32gb of ram and 50tb of bandwidth for $139 (no setup). They're a quality host, and their network is very fast.

Reliable Servers / Constant.com have some great prices and deals from time to time. Their network is great. They're comparable with Servermania mentioned by another post (Servermania is out of Buffalo; Constant is out of New Jersey, the DuPont Fabros datacenter).

ReliableSite.net is pretty great: http://www.reliablesite.net/

They're out of the same datacenter as Constant.com mentioned previously. Fast network, good prices.

The only one of these that comes close to Hetzner pricing is Versaweb however.
According to Marijn Haverbeke's twitter feed[0]:

"I am happy to announce that the online edition of Eloquent JavaScript's 2nd edition is done, and online at " http://eloquentjavascript.net

[0] https://twitter.com/marijnjh/status/494433950505644032
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The most polite way to put it is people who willfully refuse to learn any market, are only given the alternatives of being frustrated or ripped off, often without understanding which is about to happen to them. So in this individual concrete example, basically you're saying that for a willfully uninformed customer, the USPS has made a policy decision at a high level to frustrate you instead of ripping you off, and you'd like to do business with someone who will rip you off instead of frustrating you. I donno if that's a huge win or if most people would really prefer that, especially if the alternative were explained to you.

I've shipped exotic electronics prototypes to Canada, all by myself, gettin it right the first time, about as exotic as you can get without involving ITAR, with only minimal and brief research. If you get ITAR involved, then I do feel your pain, but ITAR isn't the USPS's fault, even if they're the easiest people to lash out at.
I see the transfer of ownership, I don't see anything about money involved. Am I missing something or was using 'sold' misleading?
Then there are those "magic pens" which are supposed to detect fake bills but actually just detect low quality (high starch) paper. James Randi, in his wild, younger days, would spray real bills with spray starch to cause a little chaos at the bank.