skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About $6.00, uncooked, at a Fresh & Easy in Orange County, California. (I bought it today, and roasted it tonight with carrots, celery. and onions on the side and it was delicious! I don't know why I haven't roasted a chicken for so long.. super easy and delicious -- really, give it a try if you haven't done one for a while)
I am not sure if you are being ironic with your PS or not but you assumed negatively how HN will respond to your comment.
Social network for dogs. Crap. How did you KNOW??

:)

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I am loyal and think taking a few months out to help people transition isn't that big a deal.

But really, it's a trait I have that makes me a good employee, but also opens me up to this sort of exploitation.

Live and learn.
Yes, as in I don't get to choose when I go or exactly where to, can't just drive around, and I don't control the radio, among a multitude of other reasons that using your own car gives you more freedom. I'd rather not revolve my transportation around someone else's timetables.
How to Make Your Own Home Drink Carbonation System
http://codeascraft.com/2010/07/09/batch-processing-millions-... is a writeup of a similar task at Etsy to resize 135 million images.
No different? You do understand that the procedure is invasive and dangerous? That the person who perfected it killed thousands of birds getting it right?
Genius :-) Had a good laugh
It could go badly either way.

However, I find it very hard to believe a competent group would actually fail in this spectacular of a way.

Vendors often know just a little more than the client does, and they do oversell, and "cost effective" gets calculated to a point where the purchase price and services costs are much closer to building something than not.

And some of my career is in selling just that kind of enterprise solution, and that's exactly how it goes a lot of the time. There is value there for sure, and the vendor will need to capture as much of it as it can in revenue, while delivering as little service as possible to keep margin.

Those expensive people, who likely would have built the system, wouldn't be doing nothing. Not at all. Once that system is up and successful, they continue to build lots of things OSS style. Boring, simple, cost effective things and anybody anywhere can pick them up and use them too.

Lots of synergies here for States and municipalities looking to create jobs and manage costs.

Having been on the ugly end of these things, it's worth a look. Perhaps it wasn't the right call for this project, but it really wasn't evaluated. And there are few entities able to answer an RFP to make that evaluation, who don't also sell very expensive software licenses.

Should have been evaluated, and Oregon should have some basic competency in State IT to do that. The savings potential is significant, and Oregon needs to own it's IT anyway.

For a lot of things, vendor supplied software will win out. No question. But for those things where it won't, or cost of ownership over long periods of time do not make sense for the public, having a means to explore that was what the legislation was all about.

Keeps vendors a bit more honest too.
the NEX would have to be in bulb mode, the shutter is in the rangefinder's lens (it's a leaf shutter.) it's a little confusing because the author uses the word "trigger" instead of shutter, or shutter release, but regardless, as the shutter is pressed on the film camera's mechanical linkage the sensor in the NEX is switched to B(ulb) to turn on the sensor, then when the shutter button is released the NEX's sensor is switched off. Keeping it on all the time would cause it to overheat after some time.

The small camera market has gone the way of the Dodo thanks to wonderful smartphone cameras.
Your MVP is always half of what you originally thought.
While I think your statement may be hyperbole, I do agree that bicycles would help. In particular, I'm very hopeful to see more electric bicycles on the streets soon.
I think 20GB is certainly reasonable. I use Thunderbird heavily for three accounts and my profile barely exceeds 3GB.
It's on Amazon Prime;)
I love checklists :

1. On it. I've gotten emails forwarded to my personal account and d no personal projects on work laptops or time. Atleast I've got that going for me.

2. :( Can't pull that off right now.

3. I hadn't thought of this. Or rather, had discounted it because it would lead to a lack of focus. However, too many people have now suggested this for me to ignore. Thanks :)
But that's the point: The one song everyone wants would not have existed without the others. The value of the one song isn't $0.99, it's the value of the package that allowed the one hit to be created.

We value this stuff wrong. Without wanting to get all grumpy old man, the longer we stay on this $0.99 for this one, nothing for the rest path, the worse the "product" will get.
For what it's worth, someone's developed the mouse for your finger already: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mycestro/mycestrotm-the...
Thinking the same thing, make it very clear why im linking my dropbox. The service seems great though :)
Hmm refreshing my memory here, this [1] is the search warrant for SABU (of Anonymous) and the claim is that the FBI didn't need a warrant for Ulbricht (which is where this stuff would have been outlined). At least I can't find such a warrant with basic searching techniques. So I'm guessing had they gotten a warrant (does Iceland need such things?), they would have presumably said all of this in the warrant.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/197510285/a
Clearly not a book for the ordinary reader. For me the transition from Sec.1.1 to Sec.1.2 was akin to starting with a quiet walk in the park, and then suddenly finding oneself clinging to a rock face as a cloud of chalk dust drifts down from the climbers up ahead....
I would actually say that he is making it worse, in some respects. Many, actually. I get that he is very capable. I don't think he is necessarily doing the platform any favors with this attitude or fork.

That is, how is this helping? If he gets a better compiler out, great. Are the odds high that will happen?

Especially with the history that the community has had with a few high profile individuals either constantly making waves and/or basically turning away from the community after some time... To say that the community seems toxic is an understatement.

Granted... this may convince folks that the truely toxic elements have jumped to other pastures. In some ways, this would be better for the typesafe landscape. That seems a stretch, though.
I agree with you on "tried", but this isn't the first State failure with that method, nor the first one with a lot of digits attached to it, though this one is the biggest I know of.

Last time I did this, I hired a subject matter expert, or was that expert. Then the interests are clear, and it's not just a paid service. Oregon really should bring that competency into the State proper so that this kind of thing gets owned, not just sourced and managed.

Do that with whatever software is best indicated too, but own it. Oregon didn't do that, again...
I'm pretty sure Fedex Office does pretty much that, and has for quite some time now.
I think the holy grail may be the combination of working in a very expressive high level language, but knowing and seeing exactly what that generates at the low level. (And in those few cases where it matters, being able to control/influence/change what it generates at the low level).

So this sounds pretty interesting.
Yes. It really was. I don't like to think of myself as naive, but I really didn't think that one through. I have validated the need for the product and, though IANAL, think it's worth the risk (considering email evidence etc).

Thanks for your feedback. And, I mean it when I say this: I appreciate you taking the time to comment and reinforce my "fuck that was stupid" moment. Live and learn I guess.
Not sure why you were downvoted. While I may or may not agree with your opinion I think you expressed it in a completely reasonable fashion and made a number of interesting points.
This resonates so strongly with me, and I'm so glad you posted it. It reinforces the framework I've been using myself for the past few years and perfectly articulates what I've been trying to explain to myself even.

I can add even one more I personally follow. The standard way most tech companies put capital to work is hiring or aqui-hiring tech talent.

My own experience tells me that's too risky since I've worked with far, far more overvalued people than undervalued. Therefore, I reinvest the profits of my tech business into companies that have steady and real return on equity (e.g. Wells Fargo). Imagine that: A tech company that invests all retained earnings in a boring bank! :)
Makes sense. And, thats what I've been telling myself. My SO is very adamant on #2 and has been pushing me to leave. I guess my sense of miss-guided "do the right thing" attitude is fucking me over.

Since I posted the question I took time to evaluate the situation and came to pretty much your conclusions :) So, I've bought a plane ticket for a week long vacation in October and I plan to have quit by then.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
The advantage of focusing through the taking lens is that unlike rangefinders this method works with telephoto lenses. It's very hard to use a rangefinder accurately with anything much more than 135mm (and even that's not easy.) Similarly with macro or close up shots. However, rangefinders have many advantages, the viewing image is never blacked out like a SLR does when you click the shutter, also you can see around the periphery of the area covered by the lens, seeing objects moving into the frame, also the two main advantages are that since there's no mirror the camera can be used at slower shutter speeds without getting moved around by the mirror slapping against its stoppers, and again because there's no mirror needed the back element of the lens can be very close to the focal plane (where the film or sensor is), this means smaller lenses can do the same job as much larger ones on an SLR - they are also sharper because of this, and suffer less distortion.

I use a Leica M6 for many of these reasons, it's a beautiful rangefinder camera. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_M6
What if I told you that "toughen-the-fuck-up" does little to address positively actual depression and burn out?
I kept reading this title as 'When WorldStar' Was King...
Why can't it be both??
Thank you for writing this. People like you inspire me a lot !
I am struggling internally whether I should quit the job and start working on my idea. I still haven't quit.
My background appear to be similar what you described. No HBS/GSB/MIT/YALE/PRINCETON ; no upper middle class family but on positive side I do have engineering degree and one thing I like most is research -->link -->build. I've quite good analytical ability.
I hope I will get chance to create great product.

One question if you don't mind , are you working full time on your startup idea ? Also , you mentioned prior product on which you spent 2 years didn't make. Were you working full time on your idea then ? How did you support yourself ?
That's what I thought, and it's clever.
This comment explains why I saw so many bumper cushions. And it also explains why I never want to drive in a car again.
Serious question: can anyone name a site that has abandoned server-side HTML rendering in favor of client-side? Usually it's a matter of progressive enhancement.

I know you're wanting to avoid doing unnecessary work, but I'd surmise the future you think is coming is far enough away that your site will be rewritten at least once between now and then.
> Why build this?

> Mass electronic surveillance by governments revealed [...]

Then why are they suggesting to use DigitalOcean? I think they have to respect the sames laws than Google, right?
So you don't think money transmission is a commercial activity? this will come as new to banks, Western Union etc.
Let's say I am negative about how the DMV handles my paperwork for whatever I need to dance through with them. I arrive "over prepared", just to be sure.

... and I arrive to find the DMV haplessly in worship of Saint Kafka.

By my negativity [distrusting an organization to do their job and have themselves together enough to tie their own shoes] I made the process better by arriving "over" prepared.
=~ s/Disrupting/Leading/
Agree with this - he has ranted about how he doesn't like Java before:

http://armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates
It is terrifying to me as a European how easy it is to get a driver's license in the US. Everything I hear from friends beggars belief. No wonder speed limits have to be kept annoyingly low everywhere. I recently drove on some mountain roads in Californias[1] where I could safely drive 2x above the posted speed limit most of the time. Driving as slowly as the rules wanted would be no fun at all.

And, naturally, I will never understand why people are allowed to operate 2 tonne death machines before they are allowed to look at tits.

[1] the speed limit was 35mph, in the Alps we'd have the speed limit set at 55mph and the road would be about half the width with cliffs on each side right next to the road (no shoulder, just railings or even just stone pillars every few meters). For example: http://irena.blog.siol.net/files/2009/02/cesta.jpg
does ownCloud still throw webdav errors for self-signed certs?
Poorly worded perhaps, but michelmior's interpretation is correct.
I'm all for considering externalities, your examples are terrible, especially Trayvon. It's arguable whether he did anything wrong, and it's also quite possible he wasn't high at the time[0]. Even if he was high and was aggressive once Zimmerman started following him, there are more important factors in the disturbance than how Trayvon acted.

0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin#Coun...
I don't know what percentage of cars on New York City streets are cabs, or how many deaths are caused by taxis, but could a potential solution be to raise the slow-speed fare to incentivize drivers to slow down?

A cab driver makes $0.50 per 1/5 of a mile if going over 12 mph or $0.50 per minute if going under 12 mph. The average speed of a taxi hovers around 13 mph[1], but I bet most cab drivers think its higher, meaning they think they make more by getting to their destination quickly (e.g., if they think they average 15 mph, they think they're making $37.50/hour instead of $30 using the timed rate). Suppose the slow-fare rate was raised to $1-$2? Would that help reduce cab-involved accidents (at the expense of longer cab rides)?

Further, introducing traffic signal patterns with dedicated turning periods would help a lot. Without fail, I get dirty looks daily from drivers turning onto a street I'm crossing because I'm not scampering out of their way, despite having the right of way (even still, more pedestrians were killed in 2010 when crossing with the signal than against it[2]). I've been fortunate to never been hit, but it is a significant problem.

[1]: http://iquantny.tumblr.com/post/93845043909/quantifying-the-...

[2]: http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-02-05/news/nyc-pedestrian-d...
It's probably also due to near-gridlock at times which "forces" cars/trucks to force turns when they really shouldn't be--but if they really played by the rules they'd be stuck there. The last time I was in NYC I saw at least a couple of occasions of pedestrians almost being hit (with lots of shouting involved afterwards) for this reason.

It's also true that many NYC pedestrians tend to cut across streets whenever they perceive an opening.
Traffic flow in Manhattan is geared around pedestrians and cabs (i.e. sudden stops). You just have to concentrate on what's in front of you and trust the guy behind you is doing the same.
Let's Build a Browser Engine in Haskell
Perhaps it's already too late --with US inequality having risen up to gilded-age levels, as it has, for over a generation now.
Exactly. People is on Ruby because of its semplicity to test ideas and craft things. That's the same reason so many devs started using Rails.

So, one immediate solution that would drive again Ruby to a stellar embracement and adoption could be preserving, in development, this immensely useful hyper-reflective environment which gives us hyper productivity and then have a parallel production environment where all of this is stripped down and code compiled without it.

In the wait for better solutions this could be a possible path, and I am sure a lot of people and software in the Ruby ecosystem would still prefer to adapt to this, rather than having to code in a more performant but ugly language.
Right - but linking their company's abbreviation to the software development concept of I18N, would have been a great introductory paragraph, that picked up on the essential geekiness of Ben and Marc. It's
Common Lisp (any implementation, you may start with ccl, clisp, sbcl, but the other implementations are useful in specific (deployment) situations, like abcl on JVM, ecl to be embedded in C/C++ applications, etc).

http://cliki.net/
http://cliki.net/Getting+Started
Less than that. Maxmind only even claims 90% accuracy for US states. Zipcode would be well below that.
Yeah, stock turnover is much higher than trend duration. Any retailer that knowingly let stock last longer than trends would be burning their margin.

Stock is measured in weeks or months but trends can last for years, and recur, and recur, and there's no value in an affiliate link to an out of stock product.
Careful not to conflate the state with law.
"fiddling" with "miscellaneous" input characters could be confirmed with server logs. i wondering if the defence will pursue this.
also https://github.com/eudoxia0/corvus
I think the most interesting thing is that each bank is left to interpret the 'spec' in it's own way. This leads to situations as you describe, where you can easily get junk from your ODFI/RDFI. I say 'spec' because it's a very large book that's successful in not being very specific.

AFAIK, there's no automatic way of tracing a claim to it's subsequent rejection, outside of doing it yourself. You would have thought that would be basic.

And yes, pre-notes are slightly hilarious.

In europe, we're moving towards SEPA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_20022

(source: I implement financial IT stuff in the US, UK and Europe)
There aren't many, but that's because crawlers hadn't caught up until recently. On the other hand, there are advantages to having a data API available even on content-only sites like Wikipedia, as would be the case with client-side rendering.
I'm relatively young, so perhaps I'm just incapable of fully understanding the impact of the classics throughout the course of a lifetime as you describe it. I like poetry and Shakespeare and whatnot, and they have impacted me in some profound ways (Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep when my grandma passed away) as well as things that taught me how read, write, and interpret things better. I'm also in a technical field, and at times I do find myself a bit envious of those in the humanities. I do supplement with books and poetry and whatnot, and I'm very proud to have a skill set which is valuable and a field which fulfills me, but the humanities have always felt like a hobby. A hobby I love, mind you, but still just a hobby. I don't know how things will play out, but I hope I'll wind up well-rounded, with plenty of soft skills, technical skills, entertainment, and things to ponder.
This is the old version though isn't it?
How is it hosted currently? websrvr's host?
Let Them Eat Code(2013)
Yep. The flaw in the plan is right there in the quote from a NYC resident: “We live right up by 96th and people are getting killed left and right by cars going too fast". Lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 has no effect on people who ignore speed limits and drive too fast.
Scientists Have Sequenced the Coffee Genome
Uh, the private space industry?

Really, you don't see what is happening here?

Who else mounted a private space company able to dock with that of the global governmental effort that is the ISS?
If you want to do something similar yet hands-on, I really like Ars Technica's series: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to...

Also, for those of you with mobiles that have ActiveSync clients, Francisco Biete's fork of the Zarafa ActiveSync (Z-Push) implementation is really stable, it will do calendar and contact syncing with ownCloud, and it supports remote wipe from your own CLI. https://github.com/fmbiete/Z-Push-contrib
Just a reminder, Andreessen is the same person that says Snowden is a traitor.
When road utilization is high enough, if cars get right of way, it is simply not possible to cross the street because cars will just continue flowing through the intersection the whole time.

There are lots of old videos of people trying to cross busy roads in the early-to-mid 1900s and having difficulty doing so safely.
Optimism only works in an environment of increasing energy supply and resources. Optimists in the harsh Viking Greenland colonies who tried to increase their cattle herds died of starvation, because the over grazed pasture would fail. There are records of this; it's not speculation.

For 99.99% of human history optimistically going for a venture lead to death. Not obsessively focusing on risks was a reliably horrible idea.

It's really only been since the dawn of the industrial age that optimism has been a viable strategy.

This applies to social ambition as well. Not being hyper attuned to your rank in society for most of history was a good way to get run through with a sword.