skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am looking for a hustler that will work with me mainly on growth hacking/content marketing/ guest posting , etc...Do you have a blog or ever written somewhere?

thnx
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NSQ is as much about what it doesn't do as it is what it does. To a certain extent this mirrors, and was inspired by, the language's philosophy (Go) [1].

Also, NSQ was designed to replace an existing home-grown system deployed at scale. This dictated a lot of the initial requirements (and in certain cases excluded off-the-shelf tools).

When we left the experimental phase we realized we had built something that was useful to others, and it turns out that despite not having the features you've identified it can be incredibly effective in lots of use cases that don't need stronger guarantees.

[1] If I'm being honest, NSQ was a vehicle for adoption of Go at bitly as well as the project we used to learn the language. This was a huge risk at the time (almost 3 years ago) but one that has certainly paid off.
Do literary critics feel like they have nothing to do...?

That's the only sane conclusion I seem able to come to from the article.
Same Chrome version here, Windows 8.1. Works fine. Perhaps it's just that the site's a bit loaded.
There really needs to be a writeup of all the Firefox defaults to change to make your browser actually secure. That's one I didn't know about. I think that your local IP is actually going to be very unique for some people, more so than just having this "feature" disabled.
I don't understand why people that say it's not useful or not interesting get downvoted, but the ones that say the opposite, don't. What's the logic in this?
Because bribing and blackmailing are not the same thing. The first one is unfortunately legal as long as its done the right way (through campaign contributions and PACs) and the second one is still a crime.
Given that this was pretty clearly built in rejection of conventional 'usefulness' it's bizarre to see that's the most common criticism ITT
It's only slow because the site's under load. It occasionally goes nice and quick.
This isn't generally true though, at top journals and conferences peer review would trash any paper that uses meaningless jargon.
Maybe it's a good thing to know where the police are. After all, donut shops never get robbed, because thieves aren't totally stupid.

Please note, this is not a dig at cops. In fact, I had a cop friend tell me that many places give cops freebies (free coffee refills, donuts, etc.) because that ensures that there will be a police presence every once in a while, at random, and it makes the area safer.
I don't use them but I've seen them before
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazonsmile-1butto...
In principle, the NSA is bound by US law. The problem is that US law is broken.
Kafka offers persistence, which seems extremely rare in distributable queue. (Is it even available outside of Kafka?)

On that note, what is everyone using these queues for that they can ignore durability?
It is interesting that Hawaii isn't at all mentioned, considering that electricity is 30 to 45 cents per kWh and the electric company limits the number of grid-tied solar installations per neighborhood.

No where in the US is solar more cost effective than here, and the electric company is restricting homes from installing solar. The alternative is to go fully off-grid with battery arrays, but that is more than most people can handle.
Oh, this is the same guy who made everyone take a couple day APL course as part of the job interview process.
What about the vast majority of large, publicly-traded American companies that are honest and do good business?

Pointing out Enron is cherry-picking. I can point out 499 other business on the Fortune 500 that aren't Enron.

The point is, they, maybe Coinbase is just as corrupt and shady and incompetent as Mark Karpeles (i.e. Mt. Gox), but there is just no reason to assume that. Its a leap of faith. It's much more likely that they are not exceptionally shady/incompetent/dishonest/whatever Karpeles is.
Flagkilled comments are probably rare because flagging a comment is not an obvious option and the down vote overlaps the reasons a comment might be flagged.
You mean the ones that result in a ticket being sent to the rental car agency in the driver's name? Never heard of them. =)
A Fast and Accurate Dependency Parser using Neural Networks [pdf]
Ubuntu Phone Glimpse: The Hardware
GeloDB is being rewritten in Erlang. The first Gamma-release was in Go
that's disingenuous - electricity from fossil fuels, along with agriculture and transport are the 3 biggies. it makes more sense to say "yes, but don't forget transport and food". cheap solar and electric transport are pretty closely coupled as well especially if your car(s) can seamlessly act as your battery pack reserve.
Yeah, the whole "getting robbed" thing is probably the biggest reason why I probably won't actually end up doing it.

That, and armed guards are not cheap.
>> critically important for increasing the cost of NSA surveillance.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: the focus should not be on increasing the cost of surveillance, because ultimately it's the taxpayer (us) that foots that bill.
What are the viable alternatives?
How can tech be used to stem the rise in militarization, agro tactics, and disproportionate weaponry?
The simplest e-commerce platform ever (thought for the makers)
Hi there,
we are trying to design the simplest e-commerce platform ever (thought for "the makers" - See Up&Sell.me).

We want to share our "vision" (and ask for a feedback).
At present, in the e-commerce space we see 2 kinds of players: 1) the retailers and 2) the makers.

1) THE RETAILERS. The retailers typically have big product catalogs (x00/x.000 products).
If they are really big they use enterprise e-commerce platforms (e.g. Demandware), if they are medium or small they use e-commerce platforms which are more simple (e.g. Shopify). The e-commerce platforms thought for this target (retailers) are designed on the metaphor of the "shop + catalog + shopping cart".

2) THE MAKERS. The makers typically have smaller product catalogs (x/x0) products, they don't use "classic" e-commerce platforms (even if someone, among the biggest, is using Shopify), but they use tools like Gumroad, Sellfy, Selz & co.
The e-commerce platforms thought for this target (makers) are not designed on the metaphor of the "shop + catalog + shopping cart" but they are designed on the metaphor of "product page + checkout".
The product page + checkout is the core of the platform.

With Up&Sell.me we are trying to disrupt this second market.
In this space, we have competitors which are trying to position themselves as an alternative to Paypal. It is to say that they are trying to position themselves as a sort of "payment institution" for the long tail. On the contrary, we are going in the opposite direction.
We don't want to become a payment institution, but we want to become the "Shopify for the makers".
It is tu say, we want to design the simplest e-commerce platform ever for the makers.

We strongly believe that there is a huge market space for an e-commerce platform designed for the long tail of the makers and we still don't see the "de facto" platform for this target.

What do you think of this vision?
(thanks for the comments)
We need peace. We cannot fight evil for peace, just as we cannot fight a war against terror. Peaceful demonstration movements are destroyed by making them fight. Its really easy to do it. Vietnam war for example, or the fight for the right to protest, or the fight against X Y or Z, or Occupy being sucked into fighting for the right to demonstrate in a public place. I am even talking about being proactive and demonstrating against evil and wrongdoing. Even famous campaigners and activists championing for what is good and against political injustices can not lead us to more peace. The only ideology really that I have come across is nonviolence.

I also like the alien threat as incentive for global unity idea - it makes sense in terms of human group psychology (The Other). And I suspect that group psychology may actually make my first paragraph utterly false, as any movement, any group, any collection of humans may not be able to be peaceful. (individuals however could be...)
Did you wind up having to pay?
>they often didn't really want to kill each other anyway

Can you elaborate on this? What were they doing with swords instead?
They are based on evidence, but that evidence has not been scientifically evaluated.
Facebook’s European Privacy Class Action Hearing Set for April 9
Classic! I always thought that there should be a course (ideally starting from middle school but definitely in college), perhaps called Life Engineering, where kids/young adults are taught tools to help them shape their lives. Alongside this, pg's essay "What You Wish You'd Known" (http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html) and Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" (http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html) would be included in class materials.

This class should would also teach you important little life skills like how to tie your shoes better using the Ian knot (http://lifehacker.com/5451765/ditch-the-granny-knot-to-tie-y...), how to match clothing items so that you don't look like a total clown (unless intentional), how to write legibly with proper handwriting, etc.
I remember telling someone this in approximately 2000. They laughed in my face.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics does a pretty good job of explaining math to non-mathematicians, however, I expect that it was a huge undertaking and benefited from having excellent editors.

Of course, you lose some rigor in doing this, but the central ideas are still intact (as far as I can tell) and it gives better intuition for those new to the field of study in question than a fully rigorous, technical approach would.
Intended for Millennials, Dish's Sling TV Is a Cord Cutter's Dream
Private car transportation is only a small part of transporation.
Estate Agent. They used to add value in 2 ways: 1) a shop window on the high street to display homes for sale, and 2) the ability to produce high quality photographs and printed brochures. Now 1) is a website and 2) is trivial thanks to digital cameras. The industry seems highly vulnerable to disruption, and while there are some promising alternatives out there [1], most homes are still sold through traditional estate agents. Why?

My best guess is that sellers feel uncomfortable showing strangers around their home and negotiating on price, and avoiding this discomfort is worth the agent's fee. But this feels like an unsatisfactory explanation.

[1] e.g: http://www.tepilo.com
Yev with Backblaze here -> I'm a bit late to this party, but I can tell you that advertising with John has worked for Backblaze from a monetary perspective. It's a mutually beneficial sponsorship. John's used us in the past, Marco uses us on occasion, and due to that, the ads are read with a certain knowledge of the product and ring more "true" than a lot of things that I hear on various podcasts and websites. The majority of the ads we've done with John are sponsorships of "The Talk Show", but those have been quite successful.
here in NZ (no subsidies in our electricity market) we are about 70% renewable via hydro and geothermal. we run a parallel 'reserves' market (everyone does, it's there to take up the slack of a plant tripping out). typically a hydro plant will run 'tail depressed' which means it's not as efficient as it could be but can scale up within 7 seconds (there's another 7 minute reserve market). prices adjust, people get paid to conserve fuel (water) but it's availalbe when needed. fast start gas turbines are also common but these tend to be at the 10-15 min mark (which is still blistering!). tl;dr 'green' energy _systems_ spin up and spin down just like the regular kind...
John's model is unique, though, not scalable and heavily gruber-dependent. It's something we can analyze as a particular phenomena, not a way to reinterpret advertising on the Web.
Easily create board games using jsboard.js
Hmm, hadn't thought of that use case so I haven't really looked for it. I feel like you could hack that together relatively easily if you're a hardware/electronics type, since that's basically what electric typewriters are.

I just bought an old Sears electric off Kijiji and it buffers keystrokes as you type - if you keep typing when it hits end of line, it will type them for you on the next line. Also has a "demo" function where you hit a special key combo and it will type out a feature list from memory. Reminds me of a player piano.

It uses a daisywheel, I can't believe how fast that thing rotates. If you could control the input to the daisywheel you'd be in business. No idea how hard it would be to reverse engineer it, not my area of expertise, but it seems doable.

I did see somebody at a maker faire a few years back who made a typewriter that wrote out tweets, you could tweet at the machine and it would print it out. Pretty cool, but I think it was a long labor of love and not necessarily easily replicated. You should be able to find something about it with a few searches, I think they were out of Kitchener-Waterloo?
Nextdoor sounds like it might be cool, but I don't know. It makes you put in a lot of information about yourself, including real name, real address, real email address, before asking for a credit card #, phone #, or to send you a post card and wait 3-5 days to verify your identify and before this is completed, you can't browse the site.
But those same customers have for decades funded the capital expenditure of the power companies without getting to own anything at all. If they take their money elsewhere you can hardly blame them. It is like getting a mortgage instead of renting.
Couldn't you have omitted the last two sentences, which amount to a polite version of "we've already made this and theirs only looks nicer because they spent more time?"
Yev from Backblaze here -> I love advertising with John. He's used us before so he approaches every read with a bit of knowledge. At this point, I just give him a few bullets I want him to hit (often new things in the product) and just let him riff on his own. It works great and allows the read to be more natural, instead of mechanical like some of the various other podcast sponsorships.
Have you ever thought about the logistics that go into planning a layoff of 25% of the workforce? In order to get the list of who stays and who goes there is a lot of work involved. Many of the people involved in that work end up on the list to get laid off. It's terrible for morale. Once you've gone down that road, you aren't turning back just because someone found out 2 weeks ahead of time.
Should invert the number and do Big Macs per bitcoin (versus bitcoins per Big Mac), IMO.
As an example, it could manipulate frequencies of its hardware to broadcast signals (like using monitors to broadcast on FM) and entice people to connect it.

With a network connection, this is straightforward. It could hack servers for computing resources. It could do work (say, as a camgirl) for more money and hire meatspace resources if needed.

A nice thought experiment is assume an intelligence has a 128Kbps Internet connection - what real limitations does that impose?
Some people just want to know about any data their browser is sending server side. In the old days, your browser would not do anything without you making a conscious action. Widespread AJAX use changed that so your browser could be sending information to a server without any oversight. That lack of oversight isn't inherently dangerous, but certainly has potential for exploitation.
Could someone confirm that in this case using local small credit union would give certain protections in similar cases? i.e. credit union with branches in your home state only vs. having branches in most states like Bank of America or Chase does?
If you operate in a system of currency you are agreeing to play by their rules. You don't have to do business in America, you can go anywhere you want. Is it harder? Possibly. Will you be a successful? Maybe not. Learn the system if you are going into business, don't just complain because you "don't like taxes".
Do not use coin base exchange. Running un-authorized credit check.
They are trying to do credit check without explaining the user before doing that. exploiting non-tech savvy users
The feature that's important for me is having immediate physical output. I don't like reading what I just wrote off a small LCD display. And I like having the paper result right away, but it would be nice to have a digital copy if I wanted to edit the document further. But thanks for the lead!
I expect part of the problem is that people who are attracted by clear writing and thinking are turned off by the academic fields that suffer most from overly academic writing.

There are some academics however, who are quite good at conveying their ideas, even in fields that are otherwise noteworthy for their opaqueness to outsiders. The economist Deirdre McCloskey is one example. I've read some systems CS papers that were quite good as well (Google has had several good ones, including this one [1]). Many academic papers are garbage though, and another reason is because they aren't saying anything worth noting. It's a lot easier to hide bullshit via obfuscation than through clarity.

[1]: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
The simplest e-commerce platform ever (thought for the digital makers)
CS2340 replaced it. It is a java project course, working in groups of 4-5 people. In my opinion, and that of many others, it is very useless.
(project author)

I appreciate all the work that Tyler has put into his series of blog posts on messaging systems (and NSQ bug reports!) but I think this particular article is one that misses the mark [1].

While raw performance is important, I think comparing the guarantees and related operational and development semantics are far more interesting and useful.

These systems vary a great deal in the interfaces and functionality they expose to users building on top of them and operators dealing with them when they're deployed in production (and inevitably break!). This is ultimately what matters most.

P.S. single node (localhost) performance is essentially useless. Most of these tools are designed to be deployed as the backbone of large distributed systems (NSQ in particular), so scalability and performance in that context is a better indication of real-world performance.

[1] He's since posted this follow-up that outlines many of the same things http://www.bravenewgeek.com/benchmark-responsibly/
his tax lawyer is probably going with the unkown circustance defense (or whatever it is called in the US) so the less he talks about it the better.
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Yeah, they've made some design decisions I don't agree with but it is pretty nice all the same. I think you can turn off the wireless with a switch but haven't looked into it as I'm more into paper-output typewriters than reading a small display.
No Fingerprint recognition in Nexus 6
They do force a redirect on http://becu.org/, but they can't really force a redirect on https://becu.org/, because you would need to accept the mismatched name before you could get the redirect.

Although, I'm surprised they don't have an alternate name, most of the CA's I've worked with recently automatically add the naked domain as an alternate name when you order a cert with www
The service is going down and they're going to delete my data in a year. But they pitch it to me like it's some great thing.
Am I missing something about this `unless` keyword? From what it looks like, it's just syntactic sugar for `if not`, and it makes much more sense…

(unless (string= a b)
(fail))
;; much more readable than
(when (string/= a b)
(fail))
Yeah, some of the state revenue agencies move very quickly. NY claimed to have sent a notice (prior to their rather good online system they have today) and 14 days later they had taken the money.

Recently I've noticed a lot of very small bills originating from adjustments on years-old returns. These are things that probably should be disputed, but they are coming in at $100-$200, which is far less that I'd pay someone to research for even an hour.

Here's my question: if the revenue department is going to make rounding-error level adjustments, why don't they just send me an advance tax bill, with all of the calculations that I can verify, and I'll just pay it?
AngularJS + Firebase = angularFire
Real-time charts for Bitcoin exchanges
Awesome! Looking forward to the review.

Looking through your youtube channel now. I remember an article/blogpost about someone who used a similar service and the reviewer was a target market/customer of the website but something wasn't intuitive so they 'lost' the sale.
For coughs, check out olive leaf extract. I very rarely recommend things, but it's amazing how suddenly and completely it makes you stop coughing!
I agree somewhat, but context switching has non-zero overhead since it requires that I keep in my short term memory what the previous code was doing as well.

Also, I probably should have been clearer above. Sometimes a short function is the right approach, particularly for something that is going to be done over and over again, but the overall goal is clarity, not short functions.

Anyways, it's not worth getting too hung up on I don't think, it seems my opinion is the minority one.
It would be cool to see a tutorial on configuring Shipit to do Ghost deployments.
Interesting. If you find the article, send me a link please.
Don't trains usually have to accommodate the potential for standing passengers and thus have to have a much smoother acceleration curve than is strictly necessary for car comfort?
I like these! Sure, there are many legal concepts that are too complex to be explained by a diagram - that's why us lawyers still have jobs - but a well designed image can certainly help with some of the simpler sets of rules.
I bet the $ value is insured. Will that be at the price they were when they were stolen or at the price they are when they pay out your claim? I'm betting which ever is the cheapest.

What I mean is if they are stolen today priced at $200, let's say you have 100btc on there,that is $20k. You claim but it is 2 months later any payout is made. Now bitcoin is only worth $100 each so you they give you $10k to rebuy your 100btc or do they give you the $20k it was worth when it was stolen. How about if the price of btc goes up? 100btc might now cost $200k to replace, so now they want to give you the dollar value at the time it was stolen.

I would not want the be the person putting it to the test regardless of the outcome.
Solving Homelessness in San Francisco
He obviously had all of his assets frozen and is unable to pay for Internet access any more.
There have been various efforts to solve this problem for e-mail recently.
Mailpile[1] is a great web-based mail client that you can host. It stores mail encrypted and has a very nice interface that makes handling mail encryption easier for users.
Protonmail[2] is both a mail service and a nice front-end for handling encrypted e-mail. When a user sends encrypted mail through the ProtonMail interface, the e-mail is sent with a link pointing to a webpage that asks for a certain shared password. They have raised more than half million in their crowdfunding campaign.

Both are very user friendly, very promising, and still in early BETA.

1: https://www.mailpile.is/
2: https://protonmail.ch/
Timecode Buddy – Generate. Sync. Share
Ever since I exposed Spiegel for what is probably a self-serving PR move exploiting the Sony hack, I've had at least 4 stalker down voters. It's obvious because they tend to hit at the same time.
Ask HN: Does Localize.js work for internationalization-ed SEO?
It looks like a great platform for webapps internationalization, but I'm wondering if it's also the right solution to boost your website SEO, since Google crawlers now execute JS code.

Does anybody have any measurable results or alternative to show off?