skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have fun making money sharing a mobile app called Paid2Save.

What's Paid2Save? It's an app designed for people to save money at local, national, and online stores.

Check it out.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/stores/apps/details?id=com.paid2save...

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paid2save/id818723109

You will need an access code: 72088

I have heard reports back that some people with huge networks are making $10,000 their first month.

Worth a shot?
sorry 15 X a mix of $100 and 300 plans. so far sold one $100 plan and one $300 plan. so if I can make $3000 a month at least, its not quite my developer salary but its close (Used to make $4000~5000 per month ish.

Seems like I need to up it more but my immediate goal is to get 10 sales this month. If I get more then I would be so happy.
you laid it out well. yeah I think im going to get more freelance/remote based work and then also do sales with this.
The fact that you can't imagine that there is anything else to say proves my point.
You can still use "entrepreneur", which comes from same root as "enterprise" (ultimately from Middle French entreprendre, "to undertake").

entrepreneur
noun, plural entrepreneurs

1. a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business,
usually with considerable initiative and risk.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/entrepreneur
"Right to Parody"

from wikipedia (USA law but fuck it let's go for it):
n Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc[22] the Supreme Court recognized parody as a potential fair use, even when done for profit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_and_parody

Technically, you could probably do it in the states in a location that trader joe's isn't. Although I'd definitely have a very good lawyer on retainer if I was thinking of that :/
That's like comparing a Tesla to a Hot-Wheels car.
A Proof of Capacity Cryptocurrency
that speaks more about the architecture and requirements of ChromeOS than about ARM SoCs. For example, I have Firefox OS running pretty well on an APC Paper with specs so modest that they are trumped by most mid-range smartphones these days. Both systems are very similar in the sense that its a linux kernel and the interaction with the user happens on HTML5 based apps but one is striving to run on single core with 128mb of RAM and the other is running on Chromebook Pixel which is one of the best laptops available in the market today.
There was an informal JPL study that was posted to rec.arts.sf.science a very long time ago, that found that a 100km high exponentially tapering tower could be practically built by using highly pressurized balloon tanks of boron. (Practical meaning, conceivably affordable by a superpower, with a chance in hell of actually happening.)

People have also studied using dynamically supported structures. We could probably build the Lofstrom Loop and it would bring the cost of going into LEO to space elevator levels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

Still, not a chance in hell of it happening in the US. China might be crazy enough to build it.
Pangrams on the web
The Muslim Brotherhood government proved to be unpopular with the citizens of Egypt. That government opened up the tunnels to Gaza allowing for more arms and concrete which in the end, simply made things worse for the citizens of Gaza as Israel had to defend itself against these weapons.
I think the counter argument to the space elevator magic material was always that if you could make something that light and that strong...

use it to make cheaper/lighter rockets.
OK, maybe unique was a strong word. But banks are starting to use speaker ID to log in to mobile apps, so the signature is, let's say, unique enough for practical applications.
I was talking with a start-up with two founders, and they wanted me as their first employee to work for free for 3 months, in exchange for 1% of equity.

I told them that offer had poisoned any further conversation.
`#and_then` is the monadic bind operation `>>=`; applicatives don't have this operation in general.
With PAE pages can be either 4KB or 2MB. You're thinking of PSE-36.
I only went back because of your comment and I'm glad I did.
In the near term, not much. I think Spanner is using GPS synchronized Rubidium clocks, which form an excellent combination. If you want to do much, much better (these new optical clocks are sensitive to the change in gravitational potential of centimeters), you'd need one of these.

The primary utility of these clocks in the near term is improved precision physical tests. In the long run, they may form better standards to replace Cesium.

Another way to see this is that few, if any, industrial users have their own Cesium or Cesium-competitive optical clocks, which are a factor 1000-ish worse than these new clocks.
I'm looking for a full-time position, in/from a top-20 (but not top-5) city, and experience the complete fuckup of software recruiting weekly.

Voodoo and witchcraft. That's the state of the art in software interviewing.
It's got a mass of relatively expensive hardware components that have (almost( never been included in a laptop form factor and certainly not together. Novena can replace quite a few expensive discrete tools and do it in something that can be comfortable carried around and modded. What you're asking is basically why a full shop with a CNC mill installed in a large truck is so much more expensive than a nice pickup when the latter can go much faster and is a lot more comfortable. They share a category and vaguely similar basic shapes, but they're not really the same thing and you don't use them as if they are. Is that a helpful analogy?
I use Webpack with a similar setup (CoffeeScript->JavaScript->Minified) and I didn't notice any issues. Source maps stop working when using Webpack's hot code reloading, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.
yeah i figured that much, but sometimes it seems like this is also just a spoon fed explanation that the phone companies give us so that they can charge us crazy prices like $10/gb of bandwidth a month. I am skeptical that the full truth is being revealed here.

4 cities available in california for google fibre!! That is nuts. I hope they move a lot quicker or someone else should.
This reminds me a lot of the no-ip.com case. Did anyone ever find out how that was resolved? Apparently Microsoft gave back the domains[1], but did they face any payments for damages or censure?

[1] http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/07/10/microsoft-takedown-detai...
People need an emotional connection to a disaster or emergency before they begin to contemplate the effects and either take action or donate time/money/resources to help. Asking for money to help prevent a future disaster is a lot harder connection to make with donors.

A recent NPR Planet Money podcast highlighted the difficulty in raising money to fight Ebola:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/22/349962559/why-rais...

"Donors like being part of a recovery story. In Haiti, buildings and lives were destroyed. The pitch was, let's help them rebuild. In the case of Ebola, it's been harder to make a pitch."
Here's the reassuring part from the linked PDF:

On 8 September 2014, the Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment in Belgium confirmed that samples of mud and water taken from the Rosieres treatment plant, river Lasne and river Dyle, all tested negative for the presence of polio virus.

But... 45L of "concentrated polio virus"? Although it'd probably be classified, I'd love to see the full detailed report on how and why this happened.
I don't think opening stores in Canada would be all that straightforward. The company I work for now is opening stores in Canada now and they needed to create a whole new Canadian business entity for it. The reason being that if they used the same one as the US, then Canada could tax all sales taking place in the US as well. (I'm sure it's more complicated than that, but that is how it was explained to me.)

Also, I've heard that Trader Joe's only expands in groups of three stores at a time. It has to do with their distribution centers or something. So they need the demand in order to make opening up a new distribution center worth it.

I doubt Trader Joe's is "refusing" to operate in that part of Canada, it's just that it's lower on their list of places to open new stores.
We haven't announced the company yet, but I'm hoping it won't be a surprise to anyone who reads my comments on HN.
Teach them, mentor them, introduce them to people, give them exciting, challenging projects (for that person)...
Prototyping for Better Products, Stronger Teams and Happier Clients
Not impressed at this stage. My rule based simple parser works actually better. I've filed some examples I expected to work with such a heavyweight approach as issue in repo:

https://github.com/datamade/us-address-parser/issues/50
Machine Learning is the new Algorithms
Current IRIS owner here. Looks like the IRIS+ still only includes a two-axis Tarot gimbal; while the gimbal _vastly_ improves image quality vs direct-mount, failure to stabilize yaw yields a fair amount of shake - I was hoping the IRIS+ would add 3D stabilization to offer full stabilization and was disappointed to see this wasn't the case. On the bright side, the battery pack is much bigger than on the IRIS (5100 mAh vs 3500mAh, which explains much of the flight time difference) and the long legs are now included by default weighing in at the same 1283g. The included follow-me mode is not very good unless it's been dramatically improved from ~3 months ago. Will be interesting to see how this ends up competing with RTF follow-me solutions from AirDog and Hexo+ next year.
How about a disposable combat drone launcher system built into a standard cargo container? The device could remain inert until needed, but be activated on request from the crew. If the movie Captain Phillips accurately portrayed the piracy threat, then several smaller drones might be able to act as a deterrent. (Particularly if a TrackingPoint like weapon were incorporated.)
So now they provide some support, whereas before they provided no support.

The surveys do provide plenty of evidence that plain packaging changes smoking behaviour. The price of cigarettes in Australia has risen due to taxation . A packet of cigarettes cost $16 in 2013, in 2014 it is now $20.

Edit: I was needlessly aggressive. Sorry.
In this one particular case, yes. But not that they did not receive indirect remuneration (rate concessions) in exchange for unfulfilled broadband promises, possibly far exceeding $2B. I'm not sure why my comment was downvoted, as the article in the Inquirer shows that such promises were indeed made by Bell Atlantic.
I found that the IRIS usually lost power at ~30% battery charge (for an array of official LiPos, fully charged with official charger and quite fresh).
Repugnant? That's pretty severe language coming from someone who is being as...(how to put this politely?)...as economical with the facts as you are

Seriously, why not save the outrage for cases where you can restate the case without having to gloss over the bits that make your outrage seem ridiculous?
Thanks. My email is randydillonnet AT gmail DOT com and my github is https://github.com/NSausage
I'd like to know why anyone even has 45L of concentrated polio virus.
The parent comment didn't say over 180k base, he/she said over 180k.

Google and Facebook (and some other companies) have upped the ante in compensation by offering lots of (liquid) stock.
i thought that was the point of discussions..get more people to help think 'what can go wrong' and 'is there a better solution'..vaguely, like, if there are no violent objections then this will be how we'll do it.. or something like that?
Out of curiosity, have you tried F#?

It's a substantially nicer language than Javascript, and there's a lot of problem domains that are far easier solved in it.

People wouldn't use it because they don't want to learn Javascript. They'd use it because they don't want to use Javascript, on account of knowing better.
How Microsoft Lost the API War (2004)
This is in reference to the link that showed the hardcoded references to Windows 9 (https://searchcode.com/?q=if%28version%2Cstartswith%28%22windows+9%22%29)

There is a wonderful 10-year old post written by Joel Spolsky that describes the virtues of Microsoft in that matter:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

It's pretty long, but you may want to focus on the paragraph "The Two Forces at Microsoft" which talks about the amazing stories like the Sim City story and explains why such hard-coded references were common.
GoFuckingDoIt.com charged a user $1K for failing their ‘no porn’ goal
Glassdoor doesn't have Microsoft paying that much in Bellevue (I chose Bellevue because of other guy in the thread). Here they are sorted high to low:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/software-engineer-microsof...

I suspect so many salary numbers I hear on the street are bullshit, either designed to get me lower my price or raise my price against my best interest.
Wait... most of the energy of going into orbit is in accelerating to orbital speed (lateral), not getting away from earth (vertical).

An elevator's top, in a geosynchronous orbit) rotates much faster than the bottom (describing a larger circle, covered in the same time).

Therefore, a payload moving up the elevator would either need to be accelerated laterally somehow, or it would bend the elevator over. There's no getting away from needing the energy for lateral acceleration - it must be supplied somehow.

Piping fuel up (instead of blasting it up in a rocket) may be more efficient, but consider that its mass too will need lateral acceleration.

\edit

Fuel in the form of electricity plus reaction mass, to be sent at extremely high velocity, would probably have the least mass, and so minimize this effect (I think, high voltage electricity, to reduce the current, because the electron mass itself may have an effect at these scales!).

Another alternative, for the reaction mass, is earth-encompassing rings at different altitudes. You can accelerate it without throwing it away.

Of course, at lower altitudes, you can just use air... maybe there's even enough (for this purpose) at quite high altitudes...

Finally, I think the basic solution has been a counter-weight: as one goes up (needs to speed up to orbital velocity), one comes down (needs to slow down from orbital velocity). If it was just one elevator each, the accelerations would be imparted at different points, twisting the evelator. But I guess a series of elevators - or even a continous elevator (like a conveyer-belt... or escalator...) would smoothen out this effect as much as you like, and only needs electricity to power it... and, any acceleration of the electron mass would also balance out, because they also go up and down in a circuit (or down and up for space solar panels). Sorry, nothing to see here. EDIT I see now a reply mentions this solution, upvoted.
What's baffling me is that no source I've been able to find (in English, anyway) sees fit to mention the cause of this accident beyond blandly citing "human error."

Human Error.

"Well, you know, I was just taking my 12-gallon tank of polio for a walk down by the water treatment plant, and whoops! Butterfingers!"

I just. I don't. How.
Out of court settlement. Microsoft and No-ip both issued press releases/updates to their original blog posts about it.

No details about the settlement were released but No-IP certainly got paid.
What a cool project. The assembly tricks the original programmers did are interesting but this post walks through the entire process of building of these compiled games. Wow!

Thanks for sharing. I will have to read this again carefully after I learn some Go myself.
Be sure you don't dismiss out of hand the possibility that your parents might be right. You are getting old. And would it hurt to go on a date once in a while?
I imagine a list of tuples is used to preserve the order of the street address--I agree it would probably make much more sense to use an OrderedDict instead.
I believe the magic words are:

This device complies with part 15 of FCC Rules.

1) This device may not cause harmful interference.

2) This device must accept any interference received,
including interference that may cause undesired operation.
Presumably they're manufacturing polio vaccine
It is incredibly disappointing to me that this seemingly brand-new library is Python-2-only. Why are new libraries being written for a legacy version of the language?
You want me to fill out a survey about my salary, using my work email, and will then send the results to my work email.

I'm missing something.
Buy a dozen Raspberry Pis with cash, configure accordingly, wander around Marriotts dropping them in inconspicuous locations (keep an eye out for cameras), leave.

Congratulations, first DDOS of a geographical site instead of a virtual one. :P

Note: This is kinda a dick move because you're probably screwing over the customers more than you are the IT douchebags. Maybe a better plan is to find the Marriott headquarters, mockup a visitor badge, and do it there.
Your analysis is flawed: Apple stores aren't selling Apple products to tech savvy individuals.

They're selling Apple products to mall goers, which are a known diminishing supply, and is selling access to same-day accessories and acting as a front point for talking to Apple techs and dealing with warranty claims.

In that sense, Apple stores are actually in the business of selling services, rather than products.
And, of course, the conspiracy theories.

"They're doing this to institute martial law and kill us all! NWO FEMA death camps! Obama's HitlerStalin on a rampage! JEWS!"

The more extreme versions won't gain much traction, but the smaller ones which tie into pre-existing crap like anti-vaccine sentiment will gain enough to make life difficult for the people trying to improve things.
one page http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...

On mobile, I couldn't see the page 1 of 10, too far on the RHS, and wondered at the comments here...
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Please HN, there are a few comments in this thread talking about "taking action" if you happen to be a bystander during an emergency.

Let me implore you. If the area isn't safe, do not even attempt to enter the scene. Fires can instantly flare up and engulf a room in seconds. Rivers can be so cold they cause shock upon entering the water and, in some cases, they cause cardiac arrest. Tiny pieces of broken glass can cause deep, sometimes life-threatening lacerations. An accident on the side of the road can immediately escalate into a multi-vehicle incident if another driver doesn't pay attention.

What we don't want to happen is for you, the hero, to become another patient. Not only are you putting your life in danger, you're also increasing the risk for your rescuers as well.

What you can do is this:

1. Secure the scene. If the accident occurred at the side of the road, park behind the accident and turn your hazards on. Wave at traffic to slow down and be cautious around the accident. If there is a house fire, try to find the gas shut-off valve and turn it off.

2. Assist the location of the scene. It's often difficult for EMS to locate the scene of the emergency. Standing near the front of the building or the entrance to the parking lot and flagging the ambulance/PD/fire down helps a ton. Leading them directly to the scene is just as important.

3. Use your common sense. Don't let the panic take hold of you. Be rational, reasonable. I'm not saying you should never try to help someone, just make sure that YOU are safe FIRST before heading in to assist.

I hold EMT/Paramedic certs and volunteer in my spare time.

Thanks.

Edit: I also want to point out that there is generally very little anyone can do aside from basic management of the ABC's (airway, breathing and circulation) without equipment. Some of that equipment is located onboard a fire truck or an ambulance. Most of that equipment is usually found inside the operating room of your local hospital. The faster the patient is moved safely to the local ED, the better it is.
What if there's constant up/down traffic on two opposite sides of the ribbon? Wouldn't ascending cars try to pull the ribbon "back" (from orbital direction), whereas descending cars would try to push the ribbon "forward"?

I'm pretty tired now and I can't think very well, but my gut feeling tells me the two effects would compensate each other to a pretty large fraction of 100%.
Sure, the average person isn't going to be programming the FPGA themselves, but when they can download someone else's of apps for it at a moment's notice and minimal cost . . . who knows? After all, most people can't write software themselves either.
I remember taking a glance at AngelList about a month ago and having a good laugh at how badly lowballed all of the salaries on it were. Hope they get better in the future.
I support Bitcoins and disagree with most of the arguments that they promote criminality, but I have to admit that collecting a ransom would be much easier by accepting it as Bitcoin (or other alternative cryptocurrencies, some of them much more anonymous than Bitcoin).

Lots of "ransomware" malware out there is already using this tactic, and law enforcement have no money to follow.
The energy per kilogram lifted to orbit is vastly different. It's order(s) of magnitude cheaper (in terms of energy) to lift stuff into orbit.

Making the rocket from lighter materials won't matter, since the rocket is almost entirely fuel anyway.
It is, thanks!
Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? [pdf]
I'll be following this case. I don't understand why this would be filed under seal. I'd enjoy some legal experts comments on the matter.
There was a realllly old OS X program that would automate this so the front-most app was the only one running, to speed up your machine.
What makes Trader Joes Trader Joes is that they carefully curate the entire experience and having a loss of control over how they are presented to the customer is a big deal.

What if, one of the buyers transporting food improperly chills some steaks and 15 people come down with food poisoning. Then, you have the media blaring out "OVER A DOZEN PEOPLE SICKENED BY TAINTED MEAT FROM TRADER JOES"?. It doesn't matter that the media report is inaccurate, all of a sudden, you have people associating Trader Joes with unsafe food handling practices and the PR damage from one incident alone is more than any possible profit they derive from this tiny store.

So, while I understand how the practice is entirely legal, I can also see how it's a nightmare from Trader Joes perspective and how they'd rather it all go away.
What exactly is illicit about it? Except when used in jest, all of these terms explicitly suggest illegal avoidance of tariffs. If that's not the case here, you really shouldn't use them.
Didn't US ban all UAV except use by LE agencies and military ?
So what's the point of purchase ? LE can assume you are threat and kill you , at least in US.
Better to submit the original article, per HN guidelines. There's a lot of useful info in the comments: http://www.thedomains.com/2014/10/02/as-many-as-5k-coms-take...
When I was at Microsoft ~3 years ago, the strategy was to pay at the 70th percentile of market salaries, not pay 70% of the current market salary.
Parody requires that it be a work of art.

Are you implying that his buying their products, transporting them, and reselling them is some kind of performance art which is criticizing Trader Joes in some fashion?

And that this guy is going to stand in front of a judge and claim he's not in the business of selling merchandise, he's a performer?