skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I build small web apps, like http://blankpage.io/
Since the last thread on this I've cut my costs from $200 a month to about $5 a month, but it took months to rewrite the backend to do that.
So still losing more than I'm making.
From where do you get your affiliates?
Bought some website on Flippa for $1,500. Lost $1,500. Didn't do enough due diligence and the expected ROI was too good to be true (3 months instead of usually 10-12 months on this platform). The previous owner was making money from it but parts of the mechanism to make the business work turned out to be unethical.

I shut it down and it's a good lesson learnt: only spend time or money in a business you understand, and preferably that you build yourself. Since then I'm focusing on my startup (instaroid.sg) which is not passive at all but brings revenue on IP I own.
because the greater fool theory doesn't really work. and often you turn out to be the greater fool.

better to focus on building something of lasting value. then when you exit doesn't matter very much
Look at the line in the cash flow statement showing changes in unearned income. If Prime and any other annual subscription services are growing, then the cash flow from new payments is greater than the profit recognised from existing subscriptions.

Also, what other people said: changes in the balance of payables and receivables; stock-based compensation isn't a cash flow but is recognised as a cost; debt funding.

In general cash flow is not equal to profit, due to sometimes large differences in timing.
Probably won't until Servo is ready. I'm more interested in Mozilla releasing its sandboxing system already.
I look forward to the day we can track larger populations of this this data in real time. I say this because yesterday me and a good friend got back from a long road trip and one of the more interesting ideas I thought we discussed was the notion of an ever-increasing level of synchronicity between each of our creative/entertainment brainwaves, whether that increase in overlap could be mathematically predictable, and finally whether a gigantic clap of overlapping unified consciousness could be considered a type of singularity. We also joked about which of our favorite youtube videos could do it.
No, not as a character flaw, but as a reasonable response to a huge amount of stress.

I still agree that he is dangerously ambiguous and mostly incorrect though.
This is great. You should work to get publishers to donate x% of ad inventory to charity of their choosing. They can then write off the inventory's value for tax purposes too.
Both developments are being overseen by Jim Keller:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/K7-K8-Inventor-Back-at-AMD-Pr...
Timing I guess. All the metric users have moved on.
The Swift compiler bugs mostly have to do with the fact that it segfaults when it encounters recursive `enum`s and `struct`s. I wrote what the code ought to look like alongside the "fixed" bits, so perhaps that'll help make it more clear.

And as far as the compsci kung fu goes—I'll admit this probably isn't the best intro to it all. It's nice that Swift gives leverage to pull these kinds of gymnastics off, though.
My first little webapp/project. Any feedback from the HN community would be welcome.

Am I right in thinking that markdown is catching on more widely than the coding community? Writers and non-technical academics seem to be becoming aware of its merits as a cross-platform medium.

I am using this for my own simple on-the-fly slide production before lectures I give.

Who do you think might use this? What features might I consider adding? My first instinct is github/gist integration to allow versioning and collaboration between writers, as per the #scholmd / "scholarly markdown" proponents.

Is there anything like this already?

Thoughts and opinions gratefully received!
> Well, not really, because somebody will have to build all those elaborate abstraction layers people will use.

It's almost as though you completely ignored my next sentence, which clarified that great engineers continue to be valued outside of abstraction/infrastructure companies.
I was just yesterday wondering why Kramdown wasn't the default. Among other things, it supports Mathjax. Then I came across this in the announcement:

"Kramdown as the default Markdown engine - In addition to better error handling, Kramdown supports MathJax, fenced code blocks, nested lists, tables, and much more."
I had this Android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hour.chat on the front page last week. It got 45 upvotes and also around 450, pretty good.

So for an app you could probably say 10 downloads per upvote.
Is it based on Divi template?
Even though it's single-threaded (not with web threads maybe?), it can still be asynchronous, which is where the issues really lie.
They did indeed have a warrant for the info. The problem was how they chose to pursue obtaining the info- that is, installing a MitM black box that could read all customer email going through it, not just the citizen for whom they had the warrant. I'm not sure if they promised or not to only snoop on that one individual, but even if they did you would have no way of knowing if they're telling the truth or not. From what I read, he wasn't necessarily trying to protect Snowden, but protect the rest of his userbase.
>I think it's a bit odd thinking of programming languages as a career option.
Look at 99% of the jobs ads out there and they are looking for specific languages.
I doubt that it can keep up with the Intel AES-instructions on a Xeon.

Maybe for like... $1000... AMD would have a solid offering. But $3000 for this? Really?
> I think that... running an alternative environment on already existing hardware is a better goal.

I agree, and we know for a fact that it's a good goal because it's pretty much been the strategy of every desktop Linux distribution for decades. You don't need to own the hardware, you just need to make it work on someone else's.
Facebook Flux: Explaining Actions and the Dispatcher
Wayland is not network transparent. They say it's "out of scope". You'll have to use something like RDP. http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_8
Where is their address, how do I just send them bitcoins?
"Please resend as a PDF or Word Document."
How Buffer Got Us Over 4,000 Social Shares
I'm doing something like this.

Where did you get customers?
Pffft, GPG doesn't work if you want to communicate with other people. It's very difficult to get people to use it, and the UX is horrible for it. On top of that it's even harder to use on mobile platforms. GPG also doesn't have forward secrecy.
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At first glance this seemed really creepy and invasive, but it seems like they're just measuring 'engagement' and predicting user preference for ads. If that leads to more interesting ads, I'm not entirely opposed. On the other hand, it's treading awfully close to Huxley/Bradbury territory.
Honestly I've never got the news as a satire business. A solid 50% of reporting now-a-days can be read verbatim with a smirk and be comedy. I mean this is Stewart, Colbert, and Oliver have practically made a career out of doing. The extra step of making up stupid stories just seems like its trying to hard.
Isn't part of what happens is that the expectations of customers change, so these providers (in this case, dentists) have to make these changes? It's not necessarily about providing a better experience for the provider (though it does do that in many cases), but a better, or 'expected' experience for the customer?

If customers expect to be able to book online (and as a user of services like ZocDoc, FreshDirect, Instacart, and Homejoy I do expect these things now), then providers who do (theoretically) provide these things will have an advantage of those who don't.

Not going to argue for or against the 'upside' part, as I do think that is debatable, at least in the short-term. A big part of this is avoiding 'downside' by not adapting, IMO.
Show HN: A Chrome extension to get around the WSJ paywall
That's not really fair. Little Rock isn't the nicest place but I know someone with a very nice summer home in the Ozarks.
Another technical mistake in the New Yorker article: it implies that since the missle was armed, the fire could have produced a megaton-sized blast. Not true: the component that undergoes fission in all US nukes designed after 1945 is spherical, and for the component to release significant amounts of energy, the sphere has to be compressed by a very precisely-timed combination of about 20 explosions of conventional explosives (TNT or such). In fact, a new kind of electronic device needed to be invented by the Manhattan Project to meet the precise timing demands.

So, although it is possible for the fire to ignite the conventional explosives, it would almost certainly have not done so in precisely the way needed to activate the atomic components of the bomb -- at least that is what I have read somewhere. (Sorry, I do not remember where -- maybe Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQ.)

The worst thing that could realistically have happened is that the fire and a conventional explosion would have spread the radioactive components of the bomb (particularly, plutonium) into the environment, in the manner of a dirty bomb.
I found this an interesting quote:

> “Frankly, Kai just made decisions, and it just happened
> without a lot of committee meetings,” Ng said. “The
> ability of individuals in the company to make decisions
> like that and move infrastructure quickly is something
> I really appreciate about this company.”

That was, initially, one of the more interesting things about Google. You wanted to start a project and could get resources to run it in the various data centers relatively easily. If a guy like Ng was frustrated inside of Google by 'committee meetings' keeping him from getting things done quickly, then that says something about the current state of affairs there.
I know a chiropractor and physical therapist who've done exactly that. It boggles the mind.
FTFA:

[Ng said:] “The ability of individuals in the company to make decisions like that and move infrastructure quickly is something I really appreciate about this company.”

That might sound like a kind deference to Ng’s new employer, but he was alluding to a clear advantage Baidu has over Google.

“He ordered 1,000 GPUs [graphics processing units] and got them within 24 hours,” Adam Gibson, co-founder of deep-learning startup Skymind, told VentureBeat. “At Google, it would have taken him weeks or months to get that.”

Weeks or months? I wouldn't expect Google to get them in 24 hours, but has it really gotten that bureaucratic there?
> If you've ever tried to get help you'll know that they just put you on whatever pill gives them the biggest kick back.

I have to heavily disagree with you because I don't want your post to dissuade anyone who may be considering looking for help from doing so. It is not an intractable problem. I have tried to get help, and received it with zero medication. The key is to see a therapist (PhD - talk therapy) not a psychiatrist (MD - prescribe drugs).

Weekly talk therapy + mindfulness + meditation worked extremely well for me, over the course of about 9 months, in terms of dealing with anxiety and depression. I don't feel "cured" but I feel way more in control than I did before, and I am no longer afraid of depression and anxiety, I've literally learned to cope.

As someone who is very comfortable with the fact that I was in therapy at one point, I really want to encourage everyone to try it, even if you are completely happy right now. Think of it as casually taking intro classes in learning to deal with the stress of life, and learning some basic emotional coping skills, not some way to fix yourself.

All that being said, there are people for whom I would guess drugs are preferable. I had that discussion with my therapist and we agreed they weren't for me. I can't speak for you, but I would highly suggest the multitude of non-drug opportunities for addressing mental health issues since it seems like the drugs aren't necessarily helping. Your doctor should be able to refer you to a talk therapist, but if not you should really consider switching doctors.

Finally, my contact information is in my profile, anyone who might have any questions about any of this or who is considering trying therapy, please feel free to contact me.
I don't disagree.

My point was, to take a simple example, at places like Booking.com [new] people will typically find out about the used CPAN Date classes from the code or their table neighbour. Not by rolling their own or crawling all of the CPAN before finding DateTime.

But sure, the internal code will be a bigger issue.
Animals That Taste Only Saltiness
We haven't had any issues at all (running this setup since December 2011). Encoding.com has been running since October 2012. They have a feature where you authorize them for an S3 bucket and create a rule that any new files placed in that bucket will get converted based on a config and then uploaded to a different bucket. So when we have new videos, we upload them to one bucket, and within minutes they get converted to webm, ogv, and mp4 and moved to the hosting bucket. The app reads from Cloudfront for either progressive download for HTML5 video, or streaming for Flash. Pretty easy to set up and 0 ongoing maintenance.
End-to-end means that Microsoft has no capability of reading the emails, or share them with anybody, as they are not in any end of the communication.
We've built our own dataset, largely based on the US Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data which we've converted into a useable format. This is why we are US-only -- most countries don't provide such data, and if they do they charge an arm and a leg for it (ex., the UK).
Great Circle Intersections
What other options were there? There was only one SSL key. Once you can MitM one user in that scenario, you can MitM them all.

To my understanding Lavabit didn't have a system in place for separating out one user like that, and the feds would likely have been disinclined to wait for the development of one.

So perhaps we should take this as a lesson in designing systems to be as secure as possible even with legitimate warrants rather than as a sign of warrants being abused.
Square released some dashboard-graphing software they wrote called Cube. Which is a clever name, sure, but google 'square cube graphing' and you have no chance whatsoever of getting an answer related to what you want to learn about.
One major difference is that x64 SEH is completely different and requires function tables to be generated for any JITed code.
The whole point is that expectations do change but so slowly that there is 0 incentive for a dentist to switch their practice over from what they know and what works well to your shiny new software which works with mobiles, tablets and so on.

You do have a market: new dentists. But old ones are just happily going to roll along with their gear until either they or the gear dies of old age. And then they or their heirs will sell the practice to a new dentist, who will have to wonder about re-keying all the old data into your shiny new software or to focus on what he's best at: dentistry.
How come every time I post about the platform I've spent 3 years building someone here decides to vote it down? I'm just curious. Is it really something you don't want to be spoken about?
Over 1000 hits today for my code editor, yea
How I screwed up growth hacking
I completely agree with this. In some cases focusing on a single language or set of languages can be a good idea - especially when it is a language in high demand and it means you know the ins and outs of a lot of different frameworks a la javascript. However, there is no downside to studying a lot of different languages because it gives you general experiences that you can apply to other languages, it helps you pick up new languages and toolsets, etc. The most basic example is that a programmer who only works with imperative languages should dabble in at least one functional language, because that can change the way you view algorithms, data structures, and overall program layout.
The last few years I've been building up a portfolio of dividend paying shares. In the previous 12 months dividend payouts have totalled GBP 2488.31. There has also been some capital growth.

The portfolio is inside a SIPP (self-invested pension) and the funds funnelled into it have been the profits from my contracting business which would have been liable to higher-rate income tax here in the UK.

Keeping money from the taxman which then makes me more money is great, shame I can't access any of it until 2040 ;)
How is it a problem that we were able to solve a problem with less engineers? What fuckery is this?
Jesus they're going to have Microsoft send me a movie ad of their next flop.

I don't see why they didn't just take FB's money at what has to be their peak relevance. The only advertising opportunity I really see is unsolicited snaps. But I don't see users liking that.
But once the Engineering component has been hammered down as much as server costs were in the previous generation ('Sun pizza boxes with Oracle' turned into AWS on OSS), what's the next largest expense line?

If the next most expensive thing is the marketing spend, so that the company gets the required exposure in overcrowded app stores (for example), then the VCs are painting themselves into a Hollywood hit role - at best.
You guys need to get a solution to this:

$ blockify install grid-section
: No such file or directory

http://forums.blockify.co/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7
It doesn't boggle the mind at all. People want results and income, not elegant software. The more it does the more it gets in the way. Better crap software written by a domain expert than great software written by what a programmer thinks a practice needs.
I get 30 minutes on a HobbyKing Bixler 1.1 with a 5aH battery. I'm using an EzUHF for control with an EzOSD and 1.3Ghz for the video downlink. In a noisy place, like the suburbs of San Antonio, TX I could get 4 miles of range reliably before the video started breaking up. I'm in AK now and have flown to 12 miles with rock-solid video.
Opteron A-series is ARM. The pure numbers (ie: Opteron 4360) are x86.

Also, expect more AMD marketing gaffs. They fired a good chunk of their marketing team a year ago when they were downsizing.

AMD got good stuff coming IMO, but they are billions of $$ in debt and have been operating at a loss for a few years.
Misleading title. Looks like they were able to predict 40-60% of the variance. And we're talking about tweets.
My Startup School Europe talk: The Technology
I used to run a number of niche sites that used product feeds from affiliate sites. They were highly seo optimised and until Panda and Penguin they were making me ok passive income. They dripped off the scale last year and have never recovered so last week I canned the hosting account to stop the loss of hosting payments. Time wise everything was automated.
Its a devkit.
Maybe things improved after he left. Remember it's been a while. I'm the one quoted in this article btw, I'd be happy to clarify anything.
This is a development kit.
It seems to me that doing something as a career, you're expected to be really good at it. There's no way anyone can just pick up Perl and write good Perl code without a dozen best practice errors. Hiring someone who doesn't know Perl very well basically guarantees a high rate of bugs in your codebase.
Palm-sized mini PC projects display, uses IR for touch
Its a dev board; not really something you'd use in production. Its a small run of reference hardware for devs to get started on; by the time its ready for release OEM's will have much more affordable kit for end users to buy.
I'm not sure why you disagree. Of course there are multiple factors and some of them counterbalance. And of course what I mentioned is just one of these factors.
It depends, 1000 GPUs is a lot of money. Even if each GPU was $500 each, that's still $500,000

Granted, in Google terms that's pocket change, but still, I'd imagine there is a rigorous requirement for a solid business/project plan before management sign the dotted line.
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Oh, no, I get that, believe me. It's millions of lines of code in Access--from the technical side it boggles the mind.

The business case is quite clear. :)
How's the performance on the immutable vectors?

I wrote an immutable vector library once, but it turned out impractical to do game physics with because it was too slow. Switching to self-modifying vectors fixed the problem. I think the performance hit of allocating new JS objects might be too high for games.
This is absurd. How many people where creating their own languages 20 years ago? Everyone and their grand ma is building new languages on top of javascript. The expertise level of software engineers is going up! 20 years ago, how many people could build a VM from the ground up? Have you visited github lately? Sure, an average engineer can do much more today, and the reason is because of these great engineers, and they are not fewer by any means.
Well there is the ImageNet challenge http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2013/results.php I'm not sure if Alchemy or Rekognition maps to any of those teams though.
The bar for being a cashier isn't all that high. I bought a gift card at an IKEA in Shanghai for 100元 (about $16). IKEA's web site seemed to indicate that their gift cards couldn't be used across countries, but I took it to a cashier at a store in California to see if that was true. The cashier happily informed me that my card was loaded with 100 dollars. When I expressed surprise, she gave me a receipt that correctly showed 100 CNY.
The Responsive Startup
Guide to Dependency Injection in Scala using MacWire
Very interesting. I'm surprised that Swift is already expressive enough to support constructs like this.

Swift is young enough that it hasn't landed on a particular philosophy yet, and I wonder if it will bend toward ML or more in the direction of Go. For example, protocols and functions currently seem somewhat contradictory; getting the Unicode-compliant length of a string is a function, countElements, not a method, for example.

The fact that Swift is both OO and functional (with generics to boot) means there is an inherent conflict in the language that could lead to multiple styles of using it becoming popular. Witness Ruby's stylistic transformation as it became popular and started trends that now make the old standard library seem antiquated by comparison. Or C++'s transformation through the STL. Or Python's engagement with functional programming (which never really was able to transform it away from its OO origins).

By comparison, Go is simple and inexpressive, so that it's practically impossible to break style; indeed that seems to be core to Go's philosophy.
I’ve Been Taking Myself, and My Design Career, Too Seriously
I have been thinking about looking for a new job. I seem to be fairly well paid here as far Spain goes, so I was looking at the corporate option as they are the only ones that seem to pay more. Its all .Net or Java. And they ask for in the job ads. I agree there is a fault in turning down an experienced developer because he (or she) hasn't got experience with a specific language. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. All the time.
It's not that I want to avoid medication I just want whatever can help. I am talking about when you see your general practitioner and they prescribe you the usual antidepressants. A psychiatrist can prescribe much more powerful drugs and probably provide a better diagnoses too. I have not been referred to one of them. I've been to a clinal therapist and while it helped a little bit I'm still no where near what I feel is normal. Going to a therapist is a major time and money commitment. I luckily have a job that is pretty flexible. The most helpful thing for me is exercise which gives me a temporary relief for a few hours afterwords but sometimes I don't have enough energy. I also keep injuring myself and that prevents me from being able to get a good workout.