skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a technical book this year (well the project took almost a year and was released this year) and it did indeed help build my brand a bit (although there are other obvious concrete steps I should take like improving my portfolio and writing a technical blog). The author is right that it's a colossal effort. I went with a traditional publisher, and they expect high standards. They will provide you with several editors, reviewers, etc, but ultimately you need to spend the hundreds or thousands of hours sitting down and typing the 300+ pages.

I don't recommend bad writers write technical books. I also don't recommend people who don't read regularly write technical books. Ultimately writing a good technical book requires a lot of the same things as writing any other kind of book: dedication, perseverance, writing skills, and attention to detail (and let's not forget extensive domain knowledge). It's not doable by most people given their time constraints, IMHO.

The author's assumptions about compensation are off though. You're lucky if you sell 2000 copies in most technical markets, and your royalty rate is above 12%. Forget that if you have a coauthor. Your main compensation is indeed the brand building unfortunately (plus a small advance).
Greasemonkey: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/136261.html
I think you're correct - I knew when I wrote it that it was a little forced on my behalf. Certainly your version sounds more natural, though I have heard people say similar things to my version.
hey gril how 2 share on social
Existing setups are okay, I think - it's only for new email accounts.

In general it seems like a huge change - gmail was a useful email client
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As a frequent pro-gunner, the argument as I see it is more that if you want a gun-free zone that might actually be safer, then you need the whole airport-style rigmarole - metal detectors and armed security at every entrance, everybody entering gets their bodies and bags scanned or searched until you can positively verify that there aren't any guns, carefully designed walls, fences, and doors to make sure that nobody ever gets through anywhere but the official entrances with security, etc.

Putting up a sign saying gun-free zone at a place with no security makes things less safe, since it can only deter people who would never commit a crime anyways.
While he is no doubt a programmer it is his superb game design skills that brought him to success.
How you can be tracked anywhere in the world
I know saying just 'Wow, what a beautiful, useful app' doesn't really add much to the discussion, but it's all I can muster.

Beautiful app. Amazingly designed. Insanely useful with zero configuration. Would love to pay money for this, especially if you can bring this sort of zero click usability to a LAN environment.

Congratulations!
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Doing this generically is a hard thing. I'd say pull apart http://netusage.iau5.com/ and see how that works. I feel like ISP usage APIs are mainly an Australian thing (and some of those will work via screen scraping).

Supporting Telstra, TPG, Internode and iiNet would get you a large number of Australians, but I have no idea how you'd do the same for Comcast or Time Warner Cable.

Contact details are in my profile and I'm happy to be a guinea pig for this kind of thing.

Edit: This looks pretty good, actually - http://netusage.iau5.com/ispjs.html
Rebuilding Iron – An Application Framework in Rust
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This is excellent stuff. I chuckled at the sidebar note: "And no, Smalltalk does not already do this."
Laserlight, the bright idea of a student behind a lifesaver for cyclists
Why is it in there best interest for you to drop off early?

You probably won't fall for it, but there is a still a chance...
The article takes a very biased view of the situation. Look at it from the perspective of the Indians. They don't give a shit about our scientific understanding. To them, this is the equivalent of digging up grandpa and putting him on display in a museum. Their religion says they have been there since the beginning of time, so to them these ancient bones are their ancestors. The very process of conducting this study is odious to them.

This isn't just a hollow gesture. The Indians have certain special rights and privilege by virtue of their history, and the federal government has a legal duty to protect their special interests. The federal government is essentially required to take the Indians' side in a dispute like this one.
> go on, press the down arrow

There you go. Nothing wrong with the comment, but since you asked...

The people mentioning "this is an unpopular opinion", "why the downvotes" or "this will be downvoted to hell" always get the upvotes and indeed, I see the comment doesn't turn gray when I downvote so it means others already upvoted.
Docker looks like a really interesting concept, but to say that with docker you can "write once, run anywhere" is a misrepresentation at best, and an outright lie at worst.

Looking at their docs (https://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/) their idea of "running on windows" is "running in a virtualbox linux vm, on windows".

That really rubs me the wrong way and I'm surprised that the HN community lets it slide.
Wow. Presentation is everything. You nailed it.

Downloaded it just to see if those screenshots were real. Keeping it because its awesome!
Get the flexible panels that stick on - they weigh extremely little and are only a few mm think so aerodynamics are not a huge concern.

It's what I'll be putting on the roof of my Round The World 4x4.
In most places, you apply directly to the team you would be working for, and once they have decided they want you, it is in their interest to push the bureaucracy on your behalf, so things tend to move (at least somewhat) briskly.

But that's not how it works at Google. You apply to a broad category of jobs, and only after Google has decided they want you do they try to figure out what team gets you. During the screening process no one inside the company has a stake in you, so no one is pushing the bureaucracy, which means things move slowly.

If Google wanted to change all of this, they could, but
I suspect not much will be done. Google has a lot of highly qualified applicants and even though their process is frustrating, the output of their hiring pipeline is a very fine set of engineers. So Google doesn't have much incentive to change.
Ask HN: What do I do about Health Insurance after quitting my job?
As the title states, I'm thinking of leaving my job to pursue my personal projects for 3 months, but my biggest uncertainty and apprehension is health insurance.

I'm pretty lost in this: there's a lot of literature but no clear answer, and I'm not sure what the new regulations are under obamacare...

What's a simple, affordable way to make sure I'm covered?

Thanks!
Libertarians can't win for the simple reason they don't understand externalities and coordination problems, i.e. when everyone follows "free market" and what is good for them personally, the whole society fucks itself over very hard, because they can't escape tragedies of commons.

That's one of the reasons I think that those labels are idiotic and a form of secular religions - how about looking at how things actually work (and have worked out; we have plenty of past history to look at), instead of calling oneself a (e.g.) libertarian and saying "yay free market!" hoping that this particular idea is the silver bullet.
Why the hate for consultants who write books? If they dont provide value in the material then sure, that sucks, but if it is worthwhile information why should I care if they use it to help get consulting clients? Shouldnt I be happy that consulting allows people with valuable things to say to publish it for a price I can afford?
i was having a really bad day because my dog died and a VC called me fat but then I found this service and I have to say this is a really great service I think it will solve world hunger eventually but before that it will change the dynamism with which we interact with and share from our daily lives and those of others. my only complaint is that this didn't come out earlier when there was still time to save my third marriage!
I've had great interviews at Intuit and Yahoo (both long ago).
Finally. I thought I was stupid for not being able to help the Windows guys in class with their git guis.
Can we have a [2012] on the title, please?
i think your valuation is a little low and unfounded based upon recent M&A activity among comparable companies!
I'll take false alarms over having no warnings at all.
I didn't see any mention in the article of people thinking they were getting something for nothing. Should I assume you are referring to electric car owners?
> All software related to security should be open source

Why just security-related software? It doesn't get special permissions or anything. All software can do equal damage on most operating systems.

> I personally avoid using closed-source tools for security purposes

I too prefer open source tools for security purposes, but that means that for security purposes I prefer all my software to be open source.
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Have you watched any of the reaction videos on YouTube? I don't think we've seen anything like this with VR before.
> Let's all remember that facebook is not doing this for the users

Let's all remember that for-profit companies rarely do things "for the users." That's not a bad thing. [It's only bad in monopolistic situations where there is little or no incentive to improve the service/product in order to make more money].
If you're feeling silly and want to waste a couple hours, read about the nephilim giant skeletons of north america. It's some top notch crazy X-Files entertainment.

There are thousands of accounts and plenty of photographs of ancient unearthed 9ft tall skeletons in north america. Allegedly the smithsonian has a bunch of them but won't let people look at them.

http://monessasmontage.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/jim-vieira-p...

http://tnephilim.blogspot.com/2012/01/giant-human-nephilim-i...
I have a bit of a fear about off-peak incentives and tiered prices.

You're still not paying the real-time prices of electricity, for which the purpose is to balance supply and demand.

The pricing systems seem to be designed to be easily understood rather than completely practical.

As a result, the price may jump every day at 5PM, and then go back down at 10PM. But I fear we'll eventually see a time where HVAC/dryers/fridges/etc turn on full blast at 4:30PM and stop entirely at 5PM, then turn on again right at 10PM, leading to grid instability due to the sudden change in usage at exactly one point in time.
The author's assumptions about compensation are off though. You're lucky if you sell 2000 copies in most technical markets, and your royalty rate is above 12%.

The author was making the point that the good-case scenario for book sales results in a not-very-impressive royalty. And that implies the average-case will result in a really-not-impressive royalty as you've personally seen.

So we do need to buy more tech books if we would like to have authors compensated fairly... which will hopefully attract more talent and effort towards creating more good tech books.
how come i can't facebook like this more than once??
it is rly hard basically u have to look like zuck YMMV
Isn't that in effect what happens at charging stations? Not a unique plug id, but public access "billed to the owner of the car".
For what it's worth, I'm fairly confident that it's illegal to discriminate on sex when making hiring decisions.
It is knowable whether the page was opened that way, by seeing if the browser environment is still around after the click. The analysis could just ignore that set of data.
In most such environments, stop-the-world is just as problematic.
If Elm really does get an analogue of `IO`[0], it could work just like that but with the special replay sauce described in the paper. The type could have operations that read and write from "cells" and "accumulators", and the command interpreter would replay code as usual.

Elm is already considering things like `Signal (Command a) -> Signal a` to blend imperative programming with FRP; in this case, you'd have functions like `Signal (Glitch a) -> Signal a`

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-discuss/ALLG6GrW...
Buncha butts
Off-topic, but poor spelling and grammar is sometimes done deliberately as an attempt to potentially to weed out clients that may be too intelligent.

I'm unsure of the exact name of this marketing technique, but it's definitely a dark-pattern.
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You could always invest in a nuclear power company. Regardless of Obama's fear of anything his personal friends don't own, we're gonna need to upgrade our electric infrastructure somehow and solar and wind just don't scale like gen IV nuclear does.

In case anyone misses the point: for the past 6 years the ADministration has been dragging it's feet in building new Nuclear power plants that are a lot "greener" than current ones and are obviously way "greener" than coal.
Do you have to take a terrible job just because you went to college?
Buying a book is the way you "say" to the author you like his work...
If it's opt-in, I enable it. If it's opt-out, I disable it.

For me it's a matter of principle. That people politely ask is both an indication of trustworthiness and how I prefer things to be, so I try to help by enabling it.

It also depends on the way they ask. Mozilla Firefox for Android tells me that I should choose what I share, enabling crash reports and disabling telemetry by default. Even though the crash report is technically opt-out, they ask me in clear terms. I like that.
This does seem to have some truth. Why is it downvoted?

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/08/mpg-for-electric...

"From a carbon-dioxide standpoint, you’d be better off burning the fossil fuel directly in your car."
You don't need to align anything: Point a single laser down the hallway and measure the height of the beam above the floor at the ends and at the midpoint. If the hallway is straight, these will fit a line; if the hallway is level, they will not. You can surely measure the heights to an accuracy much better than 4cm, and that's all that matters.
The article seemed to miss the point. EV owners use much more electricity at night. The rest is a series of comparisons and factoids that don't really add up to much info for me.
Yes - it does make a difference. If you experience growth between now and October 14, you should update the traction numbers on your application.
i'm a skinny white guy who only wears hoddies so i think i'm good

i can bleach my teeth if it'll help tho
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=667&t=2

Based on the figure of 9 Kwh to charge the Tesla, this is less than 1 gallon of gas. Pretty efficient.
ya but do u have an accent
I looked into the vSphere APIs recently and they were pretty bad. The samples were written in C# and Java, with the Java samples being fairly well written. The C# samples were terrible.

ManagedObjectReference dcmor = cb.getServiceUtil().GetDecendentMoRef(null,"Datacenter",dcName);

There's a whole lot of ^ that all over the place. They expose very low level objects.

AFAIK there are also lots of Perl examples floating around too, which may be nicer for the traditional admin.
Sending out the initial spams is very automated (and so cheap), but if you respond, they probably have a human handling than (maybe with templates, but still under human control), which isn't nearly as cheap, so they want to avoid wasting time on insufficiently-gullible responders.
Once the courts had ruled, why didn't/doesn't the Corps cooperate with the scientists, e.g., letting them study the actual spear tip? At that point, they have nothing to lose.

In fact, if they simply handed the bones off to the Smithsonian or whoever, they could've washed their hands of the whole thing. The fact that they didn't do so indicates to me that they wanted to hold onto the bones as a bargaining chip with the native tribes.
It's sad to read stuff like this because Airbnb has enabled people like me to travel in a way I never could have previously.

I travelled pre-Airbnb in Europe and was totally screwed over by estate agents and rental professionals who take your thousands of hard-earned dollars while providing tiny photos of places that end up bearing no resemblance to the actual apartment. On Airbnb I always feel like what I see is what I get. The reviews are always honest and descriptive.

I've never damaged common property, come home at ridiculous hours or drunk, or made noise. I'm a pretty tame renter but my friends often aren't so I sympathise with people who say this is a problem.

What I don't understand is why Airbnb doesn't even make efforts to educate renters about this. They could easily add in an optional course for renters to take that educates people on rental etiquette, and awards you a 'Trusted Renter' designation in the same way they have Verified Phone and ID. A lot of people have never lived in an apartment building and simply have no idea what it is like to do so. Even a text message on check in that says try to be respectful of others in the building would go some way to stopping bad actors.

Once Airbnb is regulated it would also be super easy for them to let other people in the building complain. If legitimate complaints from other people in the building went onto profiles that would be the end of bad actors on the system, IMHO.
Despite flat design being categorized as a fad by design news today, I would LOVE a Win2k style desktop with flat design. Could probably just be a texture swap.
Is anyone else bothered by Figure 8, where the researcher assumes that seraches of "Nigeria" would auto-produce "Nigeria Scam"....which is not always the case, due to google personalizing seraches, (eg. if you search nigeria scams for information, you will likely autoproduce that as an auto-complete)
"Figure 8: Google search offering “Nigerian
Scam” as an auto-complete suggestions for the
string “Nigeria”.
" As per caption

Ultimatly the figure isn't a big deal.....idk, maybe i'm wrong..
Buy an extra Tesla battery and swap the batteries in the evening when you get home from work. I know this isn't presently practical, but the idea of swapping electric car batteries is being discussed for the future, to avoid long charging times.

It may not be practical to do at home but Tesla has already demonstrated automatic battery swapping on their Model S. They've timed it at twice as fast as filling up a comparable luxury gas car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
San Francisco Open Exchange (YC S14) Aims to Be the E-Trade of Bitcoin
What is the subject matter?
Sociable pollution? The world is still not cleaner or safer to live in as CO2 is still being produced somewhere. This whole 'out of sight, out of mind' outlook on green issues isn't a solution. Until we move away from burning stuff to make energy, Telsa can create millions of car, it still doesn't help anything.

I would love to see this chart and the projection of how it would be shaped if 50% / 75% / 100% of cars on the road were electric:
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=16511&src=Tot...

What happens when you shift the energy requirements from transportation to residential? What happens when you shift from high yield energy (gasoline) to low yield energy (coal)?
I tried swarm, but the whole global-checkins thing was killed, it's now mayorships between friends only, and I don't care about that. All the useful functions were moved to swarm and neutered, so I just uninstalled them both. Also a nearly 5 year user. I wish them the best, but it's useless to me now.
I don't doubt that some people use Virtualbox who would otherwise purchase VMWare Workstation or Fusion. Those products have got to be a tiny, tiny sliver of where VMware's revenue comes from, though.
There are a lot esports center in China. Unfortunately, tight regulation and culture bias make it so difficult to making money out of esports in China. But the true market potential is stunning, kids and adults, male and females, who are willing to spend money on esports related goods, touraments are huge, even with the absolute terrible business execution in China... When I am talking about terrible business execution, I mean outrageously ridiculous practices...
To VMware Fusion/Workstation, which isn't where they make their money anyway. Nobody talks about VirtualBox on the server where KVM is much better supported.
I find it interesting that there's this continual barrage of articles and thinkers taking swings at capitalism; often they offer some vaguely Marxist-sounding critique (not that I'm up on Marx or his intellectual descendants).

Isn't there any other economic critiques of the current Way Of Things outside of using the anti-capitalist bogeyman?
>Putin can't really fairly blame the West for invading Crimera, either.

blame? Putin can only be grateful to the Ukraine right nationalists (supported by West) who assaulted the foundational freedom of the Russian ethnic minority - the language - the very first thing after they took power in Euromaidan. While not having any real practical meaning, this assault was extremely symbolic and immediately provided popular support that Putin may have been lacking before. Crimea was basically handed over to Putin on the golden plate. It was so great for Putin that i sometimes wonder whether these right nationalists were paid Putin's agents :)
Baidu's Expansion into Brazil: Why it was a great decision
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Can I ask, what are you folks using to generate your API documentation?
This is great. I used to use Market Samurai for this but it was slow as hell and then their SEO competition module broke altogether (presumably because of changes in the Google kw tool).

Are you scraping Google kw planner directly or are you using a separate keyword database?
Dockstash: Docker + Logstash = Love
Directly. And it is a really big challenge :)
Opportunity cost. If you can devote a few hours a day to each of, say, three gullible marks, you have a much greater chance of a payout than devoting a minute to each of 500 random marks.
Because Justin.tv wasn't for cable TV broadcasting. It was for generic streaming. Those who were streaming TV and whatnot were doing so illegally.
We changed the url from http://online.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-buy-video-site-twit... because everyone hates the paywall.

In general, we want the best article out there on a given topic, where "not being behind a paywall" adds points toward "best".
Are you sure that it isn't just that most people are conditioned to consider anything anti-capitalist to be Marxist in nature?
citation needed - seriously, is there a link to stats that show mobile has vastly more users than desktop for facebook?
Well there are a lot of pro-capitalist critiques of the current Way Of Things doing the rounds too.
Electric cars (and buses, etc) is not the solution, but it's part of it. Lots of countries are moving to cleaner electricity production, and electric cars allow transportation to benefit from that pollution-wise.
right, a result of the quick change over to help not kill the servers or their/his wallet.. if you do keep this flow, re-evaluate the verbiage.

I like the design and layout of the site though! maybe add a few more tool tips about what each column means. i know a little PPC terminology but not enough apparently..
No hate for consultants from me. The opposite, actually: http://blog.jayfields.com/2012/05/single-best-thing-for-my-c...

Consultants should write books, but I believe we'd all benefit if non-consultants wrote books as well.