skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe my memory is poor but I seem to recall SmugMug being somewhat similar in its early days for photo hosting. Svbtle could have done similarly in the blogging space if they'd charged early on.

In terms of single/small group companies running profitable Internet services though, there are tons, not least the well known ones around here involving people like patio11 and Amy Hoy. I'd say the sky's the limit. Indeed, it might be more fun to think of what services could never suit the model..
Amazing project btw i'm in different underground, like burner & co. For the burner this could be a valuable ressource. And if i may make a suggestion for sofia and some place it could be nice to add the local hackerspace ( http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Sofia ) i know that there is one in sofia. If you hire i will be glad to work for you bussiere[AT]gladosx.tv
Generally, "nanny-state" refers to the presence or absence of a social safety net, and not so much to censorship. The US provides less of a safety net.

As for authoritarian-ness, the press freedoms in the US are greater (Australia's libel laws are terrible, for example) but the US also incarcerates its citizens at a frightening rate, executes people, seizes property, and runs a prison camp on an island specifically to deny inmates normal rights. You decide which is worse.
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And civilised.
"So if the attack was a research project (i.e. not intentionally malicious), it was deployed in an irresponsible way because it puts users at risk indefinitely into the future."
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Local main language should be included?
I suspect that books are way undersaturated.

The reason is: paper. Dead tree books weigh a lot and waste space. Therefore owning a library is a cost. Costs to move, costs storage space, costs effort to collate and maintain and protect.

E-books do not have that cost. Having a hundred e-books in your purse is a normal thing. Having a thousand? Well, it might make sorting through your personal equivalent of a branch library a little more fussy, but it won't weigh more or waste space.

People may not have more time, but they can divert time to books, and they can divert re-reading time to new-book reading time.
Malaysia likes it even less than DFAT does.
Don't forget to click the "Read the full press release here" link for more context from WikiLeaks. For some reason, I thought that would just take me to the original document located further down the same page (so I didn't find the page until I got to it indirectly via search engine). I wonder if anyone else made the same mistake?

https://wikileaks.org/aus-suppression-order/press.html
I've never run a sole proprietorship. I started Matasano with 2 partners, and we had dozens of employees when we sold the company.
See also SPARX, a mmorpg game that teaches CBT techniques.

https://www.sparx.org.nz/index.html

Currently has an unuseful page about restrictions for anyone outside NZ.
in my humble opinion, the "look" of the usps isn't their problem on the retail side. it's the fact that it's a complete and total PITA to ship with them, coupled with the wrong incentive structure for their employees.

1. streamline the process - one form to ship something, a letter, a package, whatever. one sticker goes on the package to indicate the shipping class (certified, etc). none of this a sticker here, a red stamp there, etc.

2. incentivise employees to be PRODUCTIVE. i don't know much about their existing compensation plan, but every time i go to a PO, no one seems to give a shit. i ship a lot of packages on my lunch break. the PO is PACKED at noontime... and there's one person at the desk. REALLY?

anyway, i could go on, but they have a long, long, long, way to go.
My wife and I have a carry-on suitcase each. It's easier than you think, really.

That said, when we packed up to move we put 20 of those staples file boxes in my parents' basement, so we sort of cheated on storage. When we look back now, though, we're pretty certain that we could go back and happily ditch most of that.

Also, we're living in old city Krakow right now, and there's a plentitude of parks. I saw a ton of green space in Wrocław and Warsaw, too (Warsaw has a huge city park), and it can't just be Poland that values green space. I assure you it's possible.
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The weather rocket was launched from the island where I grew up in Norway (Andøya in Vesterålen, just north of Lofoten). After the event a local marketing agency created this t-shirt: http://baardmichalsen.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/tskjorte-0...
Ask HN: How much traffic to expect if your project hits HN front page?
I have no idea what the population of HN is, not the global distribution thereof. I'm working on a pet project that I would like to show of at some point, and in the event that it actually hits the front page (unlikely as it may be), I would like to know if I have the budget to spin up enough servers to handle the load, or if I should just point people at the github repo.

When other people have had their project show up on the front page, is there any pattern of how many concurrent users you topped out at, and how long most of them stuck around?
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It's not about the effort. It's about the fact that I disagree with websites using units that the majority of the planet doesn't use. Just like some websites use Fahrenheit units,despite them being used by literally 3 countries out of over 120+ we have on Earth. That's what standards are invented for,and we should keep to them.
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And likewise with temperature. I grew up in Iowa where it fluctuates from over 100F (40C) to below 0F (-20C) but that doesn't give it the same climate as San Francisco's near-constant 70F (20C).

For that matter, colorize high temperatures in red as well.
Some of the text is so low-contrast that I can't read it.
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There is also Mori[1], a JavaScript API for using ClojureScript's persistent data structures:

[1] http://swannodette.github.io/mori/
I looked at this recently to try to pick some values off a high res png of a pdf. That was a little too ambitious for this library. It's probably good for smaller images with a few words.
For who is wondering how it looked like: http://bit.ly/1tsn8aK

(photo not mine)
Or to be more practical for the anglo-centric HN audience, the percentage of population which can speak English.
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I think this site calculates the cost of living as a transient; staying in short-term accommodation, eating meals out, etc. The spread sheet specifically asks for the costs of meals and hotel rooms, which is probably why it skews high.
Prelude's support libraries plus at least the curl package: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/curl
I was wondering when you have time to work, most of the time you travel and seeking hotels, internet, startups, ...
I would be interested in more information regarding your marketing for these apps, if you would be open to writing about it
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I'm outta control on this page!

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Its not yet passive because i choose to spend most of my time on it to make it better, but i bought a cleaning business 10 months ago. I recently took a consulting contract for some additional money for expansion and it does run by itself (in the capable hands of my biz manager), however there are more optimisations i wish to make to it. Its the hardest thing i've ever done, but its at a stage where if i wanted to, i could simply take any time i wanted off and all i'd need to do is spend 15 mins a week entering payroll.

I've written about it before, if you want to look through my history.
We've thought about this and get excited. Great idea.
Inspite of all the criticism that Javascript gets it's so easy to just dive in and start messing around. The game projects seem like a lot of fun.
Excellent. I've been awaiting this one. I'm at the perfect sweet spot to make maximum use of it.

And I do love good writing...
You may find MBox interesting:

Mbox is a lightweight sandboxing mechanism that any user can use without special privileges in commodity operating systems.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/mbox/

I had trouble running it in Ubuntu because of AppArmor..
Epoque: Shout and You Shall Receive
This is not true at all. News Corp owns 7 of the 12 major daily papers and sells close to 70% of all the newspapers sold in Australia. Murdoch is known to keep a close editorial eye on the Australian market, paticularly The Australian, his pet loss-making broadsheet.
Given the history in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_British_privacy_injunction... , the sentence "The court would be very careful about making such orders" carries little weight.

We've been round this a few times. It would be nice if there was some sort of general, fair, system for preventing people's lives from being ruined by intrusive scandal reporting or unsubstantiated allegations. The current system is the opposite: the press is free to report what they want, except in rare cases where people with a lot of money or power get to suppress substantiated allegations of wrongdoing that the proper authorities are unwilling or unable to investigate.

The Aitken and Archer libel cases stick in my memory; in both cases, conservative UK government ministers got substantial libel damages by lying on the witness stand. In those cases they were found out and eventually imprisoned for perjury. Since then I always read "prevent damage to .. reputation" as "suppress valid accusations of immoral behavior".
A little nit-picky thing I have with the USPS's choices are their add-ons for tracking: USPS Tracking (end-to-end), Return Receipt (proof of delivery), Signature Confirmation (update to date tracking and proof of delivery) & Certified Mail (allows receiver to track delivery).

WTF - these are barely differentiated and only confuse people who don't mail things often. WWSJD (Steve Jobs) - probably have a single add-on choice he'd call something like PackageKit which would be $2 and include up-to-date tracking (for buyer and seller) and proof of delivery.
West Jerusalem is Israeli.

The status of East Jerusalem is uncertain. Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 80s but the international community has not recognized Israel's sovereignty there.
Marketing is a deliberate attempt to promote a product with the intention of selling it. If the authors or publishers of Yo approached Scoble or the Youtuber and persuaded them to feature their product, that's marketing. If Scoble or the Youtuber came across these apps on their own and randomly decided to mention them then that's not marketing, it's just luck.
> Internet is very relative. Can be extremely slow and extremely fast in one city.

My experience has been the same. Maybe it could hook into https://www.hotelwifitest.com/, but even that isn't too accurate.

The hotel I'm staying in at the moment (well known business brand) provides 2Mbps, but I can get 50Mbps over 4G. The only issue is that data is very expensive here, so I can blow $40 worth of data in 2 minutes at that speed :D For coding that's fine, but if you are doing video editing or such you'll probably want something faster and more data.
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> Flipkart recently moved away from the Amazon warehousing model to an online marketplace model and I've heard nothing but complaints...

Could be worth noting Taobao here. Starting as C2C (unlike Amazon / a warehousing approach) it has largely moved to a store-based approach (B2C).

Given that Flipkart are moving towards B2C (via stores) it would be interesting to compare and contrast complements and conflicts the couple have in their respective markets.
Depends on if you want to experiment to tweak for you, or learn something about humanity. I'm thinking of seed selection in your own garden/farm compared to seed research.
hopefully the idea that i'm working on right now...:)
Show HN: MonitorCoin – Check all crypto exchanges from one app
Responsive, Fluid-Width, Variable-Item Navigation with CSS
I submitted a pet-project called ngProgress[0], a progressbar provider for AngularJS. It's not a project per se, more a smaller library I decided to share here. It was on the frontpage for almost one day and on the second page for a day as well. I got about 10'000 visits during the first day and about half, 5000 during the second day. This also includes shares on Twitter that came after posting it here.

Most people just opened the page and closed it within ten seconds. The second largest group had the page opened for about one minute before closing. Please note the landing page for ngProgress[1] is very simple though and has almost no engagement except demo for the library.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6250112

[1] - http://victorbjelkholm.github.io/ngProgress/
>The judge is just applying the legislation passed by Victoria's democratically-elected parliament.

It's also naive to think "democratically-elected parliament" means much. Democratic control in modern democracies is a joke, a one in 4 or 5 years opportunity to vote a mere yes/no for tons of issues a party stands for.
> Secondly, NomadCost != cost of living. NomadCost is based on short-term staying in a hostel, hotel or apartment in the center, working in a coworking space and having a basic meal three times a day. That's the average digital nomad's lifestyle. They move around every few months, so they can't rent long-term. So NomadCost will be way more expensive than cost of living for a resident.

I suggest you to let the user expand the NomadCost into the three things you mention: short term staying, coworking space, three meals a day? Why? I may be planning to work nomadly in Tokyo for example, and for me it would be cheaper than what you mention because I can stay with my in-laws (and possibly could use the office of some friend). On the other hand, I would pay the same amount as a normal nomad for the meals, so if I knew how much they cost I could more accurately forecast how much it would cost me to stay in Tokyo.
true that.. :)
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Bought a house 12 months ago which included a great tenant. Rent checks showed up early every month for the last year. So far the house has been such little work I sometimes feel confused then surprised by his hand written envelopes addressed to me in the mailbox.
Don't compare apples and oranges - this board is not meant as a pc-equivalent.

It's selling point are the numerous UART- and GPIO-Ports. This is a DevBoard, not some random mainboard.
"business brokers" exist almost solely for this very reason - acquiring quiet offers for a business. Find one with recent sales in your geographic / industrial area.

However afaik the business equipment / stationary world is a hard and low margin one, so I suggest your friend starts to prepare - clearing out small debts, tidying up paperwork, having a "sellers pack" prepared with all usual questions answered, reviewing employee contracts and pay scales, just house keeping in short.

Also it's worth looking to see if you can attract the attention of companies likely to acquire - do you have a local delivery or knowledge advantage? What major chains are sniffing round your existing clients - they alone would be worth talking to - always much nicer to buy a guaranteed contract than spent years on a sales force approach.
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DRIP = Democracy Relegated In Parliament?
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http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2010-06/15-linux_ocr_software... is a very simple comparison (linked from the post).

So with a small enough test set, abbyy is infinitely better
A fitbit sits on my wrist as I write this and I had considered buying that scale too, if I could expect it to be accurate (this is my biggest issue with my scale).

If and auto updating scale means you remember to weight yourself regulary then that is very good investment.

I was mostly writing for those who would hesitate to purchase such an expensive scale especially since I believe owning and using a scale is so fucking important. Not knowing the number means you are too likely to let your mind play games with you and end up having to lose a ton (hopefully not literally) instead of being warned in time.
ODROID-W – Raspberry Pi compatible board with smaller form factor
Hey there! I'm moving to Tokyo in September (from Australia) and I'm after any tips that I can get :)

Mind if I comment hi-jack and ask if you know of any particularly good areas that I should be looking to rent in? I'll be working close to Shinjuku station.

Also, I will be working a day-job, but I hope to work on some side-projects too. Where is a good quiet place to go and work?

Co-ba at $160/month is tempting, but I'm not sure that I'll be there often enough to justify that cost. I was hoping that I'd be able to find cafes that would fit the bill.

Thanks!
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If you end up starting a successful company this will in retrospect look like a brilliant move. But since most startups fail you may find that you are totally unhireable. There is a small window of opportunity to get these kind of companies on your CV and to learn from brilliant mentors. You can always go start a startup afterwards.
I liked that the demo shows the program failing. Nice to see the capabilities AND the limitations displayed front an center. Definitely impressive.
Are there any good resources in getting the appropriate visa/permit to work in foreign countries? I just got the go-ahead to work remote and I'm looking into working abroad, but information on remote working and the appropriate visas seem few and far in between.

To those that have done it, where do you look/who do you ask when looking for this type of information? Do you just get ahold of someone at the appropriate embassy/consulate or is there some service you can pay for to assist with the process?
I'm not sure, but I think it's eaten itself.
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Damn dude, nice work, I've been following your developments on /r/digitalnomads
Thanks. Looks like one of those voluntary rootkits that installs defensive code in a role that malware has been known to occupy. It's a good sign for AppArmor that it prevented it from running :)
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there is a software called AirDroid lets you connect via the web with the android mobile phone (via app). It has a user friendly interface (not as timeviwer which is direct remote control). Allows you to send sms, view photos, see contacts ... Is there some kind of software to access ipad to android phone like AirDroid?
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Bucharest confuses me. Walking around the city you see more luxury cars (mostly BMWs) per capita than almost any other European capital. But the median wage is 1000 Euros. None of the locals I've asked (friends, family, etc.) ever have a solid answer, so maybe the internet can help.
>Well I mean this product as it currently stands will give him an idea about traffic to a crowdsourced comparison site and little else. What'll be the business, putting on ads or allowing cities to pay to become "featured" nomad hubs?

For one, ads are not a bad idea. Startups are not just for $5 billion buyouts -- they can also be $500/month side projets.

Second, he already said he has an idea about selling guides for how to setup business in each of those places.
uh oh! Thanks for letting me know - I wasn't able to test it on iOS8 - I'll check it out and try to fix it ASAP.
Websites. Totally autopilot. Only $300/mo. so its nothing compared to my regular income/job, but its a car payment - and it does beat working.
Unless it goes viral outside of HN, based on my experience of a few front page hits, you can get 10K-50K visitors. As most of visitors will bounce, serve a static landing page and you can handle the traffic easily with a single server
#2 is the #1 reason why I don't like dealing with the USPS for packages. It's easier for me to run to the post office and have them walk me through the process of the more complicated shipping (non-domestic primarily), but the people there are ass holes. Between the post office where I live and the office where I work (in two different states), I've never had a good experience. There's always some pissed off, rude middle aged woman who acts like I'm an idiot for not being familiar with all of their complicated protocols and rules for shipping.

So yeah, branding isn't their problem. It's the service itself that blows.
Built an e-commerce site, pro bono, for an acquaintance and get a profit share each pay period. Occasionally I monitor, upgrade, enhance, and fix it up which results in more income. Great Situation!
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Using Fahrenheit (the degrees column for each city) as a measurement isn't very international.
Bucharest ~ $1800 is exaggerated, honestly, if you live alone $500 are more than enough.
I'd love to hear about other people's workflow when it comes to address that issue - are you simply re-provisoning the all shebang if a critical component is to be updated or change? or relying on etcd/zookeeper as mentioned? or ...
What sort of websites?
Anybody can vouch for Philippines? Which city is the best?
I agree ~10,000 visits for a standard front page story, with ~200 simultaneous visitors.
I do like this - can't wait for the sequels:

- Conway - the first person shooter

- Conway II - no more nice evolution

- Conway text-RPG - "life! don't talk to me about life!"

- Conway multi-levels "The high life"

- Conway or the highway

- Conway the Barbarian

(I think it's time I stopped)

Nice one.
Very proud of this, my first passive income ever: developed an add-on for a popular video game and it's been making me $60/mo.

edit: to mention that it bounces around between $1.50 a day to $2.50 a day based on usage
This is a really broad question, and it depends largely on where you're from, where you want to go, and what you want to do. Can you elaborate? If you just want to have a good time for a while I'd check out whether your country has working holiday visa arrangements with any other countries.
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From your page: "I tried jq, which seems very good. However I was not quite able to grasp its syntax, so I gave up searching and I created my own."

I use jq on an almost daily basis, so I can sympathize with your plight. jq's syntax is documented quite well (if rather succinctly), but one non-intuitive thing is that it is possible to end up with non-JSON output if you use jq's array ([]) operator rather than the map() filter. However, I still prefer its syntax as one pipeline similar to UNIX one-liners rather than several command-line args, probably purely out of similarity to how I think about the data. I think about its transformations, rather than as independent selection and projection steps. This may be personal preference, but I'm curious as to your thoughts on syntactical choices.