skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there. We can do most of those things at LemonStand, and might be able to work with you on customizations to make the other requirements possible.

The main thing that isn't possible right now is multi-lingual, but perhaps you could handle that by having separate stores with sync'd inventory between them.

Happy to talk with you about your project: sales@lemonstand.com

- Danny
He holds copyright to the container in which he put the scans. He also holds copyright to the pattern of bits he scanned. If the free, and/or competitive versions, are copies of his scans, he is correct. He does not hold copyright to the words which his pattern of bits might conveniently translate to.

http://chart.copyrightdata.com/Colorization.html
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I agree. But why are they so choosy, and why do they complain about a lack of qualified candidates when their rejection rates are so high? I think it's the zero-sum game I mentioned. Firms are trying to outhire each other, like talent is some magic wand that can replace compelling products. There's a lot of snake oil in the industry, like SEO (now called "data science"), meant to substitute for things like vision, leadership, and customer service.
It's not trivial, but it is fairly easy to beat S3 on storage costs alone, let alone the other factors.

I personally wouldn't use Backblaze's storage pod, so my numbers are based on equivalent components (and don't reflect what's possible if you negotiate prices and optimize for your particular needs -- Backblaze's costs are surely lower than this):

11 Supermicro 36 drive 4U server : $4000 each
1 48-port top-of-rack switch : $5000 each
374 4TB drive : $400 each
22 500GB drive : $200 each
2 CDU : $3000 each
Rack + integration : $10000 each

Total rack cost is $220,000 for 1.4PB or 700GB with basic 2-copy redundancy. Power draw is around 8kw, so 1 year of power is around $1100. Figure on a drive failure rate of 5%, memory 2%, PSU 3% and you might spend another $18,000 to stock spares. So besides your core datacenter costs, this solution will cost $239,100 to operate for a year. These costs only improve when you amortize the hardware over a 3 year period, which is standard.

Now how much does S3 cost to store 700GB for a year? $248,530.94.

Finally, consider bandwidth costs. I'll crib from a recent comment of mine [1]:

1 gbit/s in a datacenter: $30,000 / year
500 mbit/s in S3: $142,540 / year

And that in a nutshell is why AWS doesn't make financial sense at any significant scale. S3 makes sense if you aren't really going to use all of that space: you can scale your spending up as your needs scale up. That isn't the kind of problem Backblaze or other storage businesses have, there isn't much chance of that storage going unused for any extended period of time. And if they architect their datacenter and service correctly, the down period between rolling in hardware and getting it utilized sufficiently to begin seeing a return on the investment should be minimal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9139244
I tried to install the JRE from java.com in a clean OSX 10.10.0 VM, and I didn't actually get any ask.com crapware. Has it been disabled, or is it a staged roll-out, or do they do some VM detection shenanigans?

Anyways I hope Apple revokes their code signing certificates and adds the appropriate XProtect signatures.
that was awesome ! thanks for sharing :)
Yeah, I had kinda put languages that are very different from English onto a back-burner, where I'd sort of consider it a thing to tackle once I had a system in place (some sort of mental model, proven practice tactics, etc.) for learning the easier languages, like Spanish, French, and German. Slavic languages like Russian and Polish are high on my list of languages to learn, as places that speak them are high on my list of places to visit, but also seem very challenging. Mandarin, Korean, and Japanese take that to a whole new level of difficulty.

Thanks for the tips. I may make it a tiny part of my daily language practice (I spend about 30-60 minutes a day on Spanish right now, and find that consistency is the most important thing), and maybe in a year or two "starting" Mandarin seriously will seem like starting Spanish or French to me now.
The opposite use case is covered. They do make base stations you can pair with your cell phone as a bluetooth headset.
i use GitGutter and it works similarly but it's also available for ST2
Regarding your edit, if I read it correctly that quote is not from Backblaze.
Backblaze did the math a few years ago and found that Amazon S3 was about 24x more expensive than building their own pods, for an estimated pod lifetime of about 3 years:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-...
I've sat in a few classes during my undergrad and grad years. Big classes you can just hide in the crowd, but for small classes (eg 10 students) the professors are usually pretty ok with it as long as I ask them first. (Sat in some EE, CS, and economics classes).

But it's not the class lectures that matter the most beyond just a superficial understanding, instead it's actually doing the homework exercises, writing papers, and taking exams. Exams themselves are meaningless of course, but the impact of a permanent record on your transcript is what generally motivates you to learn the material. At least for a usual semester's amount of knowledge.

This was the case for me in physics (both undergrad and grad). Sitting in lectures barely scratches the surface of actively learning the material, but poring over mathematical details for hours solving homework problems and exam studying is how it all came together. Just like writing production code vs reading the language reference, or speaking a foreign language vs reading grammar rules and vocabulary lists.

So while this guy sat in many classes, unless he also put in the requisite time for homework and exams which would have allowed passable performance, he's not really getting the full 'Ivy League' education.
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A combination of services. Dropbox & Google Drive for documents and relatively small-sized files, Bitbucket for code, and Amazon Glacier for the rest.
I bought SublimeGit a while ago, and have been reasonably happy with it, but this looks much better (and has many of the features I would have wanted from sublime git).

How stable/well tested is it?
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It is pretty bold to start an RF company with no RF background. It sounds like it was a fun adventure. I wonder why the author didn't stay at Soylent after the pivot.
Yeah, I want stuff like the F12 menu, and a good workflow for uses who whitelist sites for cookies, javascript, and flash.

Now, Firefox might be able to fill the void, but I doubt Chrome ever can. Those kinds of features are an irritant to Google, because they want their pervasive analytics, ads, and various web-apps to work out of the box.
If only the owner of the copyright can claim infringement (as is the case in the US), then the point is moot. Is J. Doe going to sue herself for violating a license by releasing under another license?
One can start by bypassing these stodgy formal methods that have been around for the last 30 years.
It definitely would.

The problem is that those guns don't only work when their owners are are supporting a free rebellion. They can also be used to usher in a tyrannical government. Hell, since the US is a democracy, its probably more likely to usher in a tyranny than defeat one.

The Southern states used their guns to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans to hold up slavery.
Actually I'm pretty sure the feature overlap of this and GitGutter is nil.

GitGutter shows you the diff in the sidebar, whereas this is a general git usage tool (closer to SublimeGit), that has per-line staging (e.g. run git add on only some lines of this file) features that make tools like emacs's magit so powerful.
That's unfortunate. Encrypted SMS/MMS has been my primary use for TextSecure.

For contacts that have intermittent or expensive data connections, especially while roaming, the ability to use SMS was a selling point vs other messaging systems.

Telco's in my country record and store SMS data for a period and knowing this data was encrypted and unreadable by them was another useful feature of TextSecure.
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> This isn't the case with love, to choose a cliché metaphor. If you break up with somebody, it just wasn't meant to be is the catch-phrase used rather than yo you must have been a shit partner to not have forced that relationship to work out.

You'll find they say that a lot, actually. Just mostly to women.
Where is this available? I checked places Austin TX, Rochester NY and Seattle WA.
Facebook and WhatsApp are much bigger players with massive infrastructure that Whisper Systems doesn't have.

I agree it would be a lot better if it didn't require Google Play Services, but I'm not sure how realistic that is. Google has worked hard to make the Play APIs indispensable for anyone trying to work with Android.
Why would anyone work at a place like that? Even if you were somehow special in that they couldn't fire you, the whole thing would be inefficient and depressing.
Just out of curiosity, what's GPL advocates and FSF's attitude toward APIs and implementation? Since vmkernel uses glibc, it has to implement all the Linux system calls right?

Were there any claims for GPLed programs' APIs before?
I hope this distinction is called out effectively in the UI. It would be a real disaster if people thought they were sending secure SMS, when actually they were using plaintext, or got confused between which are SMS messages and which are TextSecure messages.
No, a series separated by commas or semicolons and a conjunction between the penultimate and the final item is equivalent to the same series with that conjunction between each item, so the "or" between B and C means that the sequence is A or B or C, not A and (B or C).
its been kind of nice to have textsecure as an option when internet is not available (which sadly happens a lot especially for travelers...)

I understand the decision is, again, for the greater good, but I can't help to think it's going to leave a hole.
So it's okay for the ex-head of the CIA - someone who knows the laws regarding classified information and signed over a dozen NDAs to that effect - to commit felonies by disclosing national defense information and classified communications intelligence materials to non-authorized people, and to lie to the FBI, because in the past he was a decorated war hero?

What other felonies is Petraeus allowed to do because of his glorious past? Can he start shooting random people? Rob banks? Reveal the names of undercover CIA agents? Where in the law does it say there's a special exception for war heroes?

What's to prevent other decorated war heroes from being copycats, and using their special stay-out-of-jail status to commit felonies in order to get laid? Surely some future Mata Hari knows to target these sorts of people, so they need to be extra careful, and be under higher scrutiny, no?

It's also felony for a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient to sell the medal. What's the logic that says that being a war hero excuses someone for multiple felonies related to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, but not the felony of selling a piece of metal or ribbon with no national security impact?

(BTW, to be technically correct, Snowden did not release the documents to the Internet. He released them to journalists. The journalists were the ones to publish the documents on the Internet.)
Thanks for doing the math. I've repeatedly shown people (I do Infrastructure, sometimes AWS sometimes physical) that AWS is awesome for proof of concept. All opex, no commitments. As soon as you start getting to a certain scale though, time to move onto physical equipment when you've got predictable load patterns.

If Stackoverflow can still do hardware colo'd, so can you.
Just because they were told they can't, that doesn't mean they won't, and they probably still do. In the present.
This is why I stay logged out of facebook and don't allow third party cookies. Trying to move off of gmail also so I am not always logged in there either. Probably not perfect but hopefully it foils a lot of attempts at tracking.
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Great post, Zach. Just wanted to say back in the day when I was getting into web dev good-tuorials.com was probably one of the reasons I got hooked. I got inspiration to create stuff by learning from tutorials posted to good-tutorials and make a site like yours. Great stuff!
You're right. Is not much the sidebar as the linenumbers (I think the sidebar in Sublime is where the project is)
I'm completely guessing here, but I'm wondering if this was spawned from looking at their own internal data on Adwords? I'm sure there are advertisers spending ungodly amounts of money toward auto insurance.. and Google probably thinks "oh we can do that easy and better, and take premium space on search". I think I remember reading an article somewhere that it was one of the most expensive keywords possible (Although this article is dated):

http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2011/07/18/most-expensive-...
What does it matter? Are you going to invest heavily in this car insurance comparison service? Are you worse off now that Google tries this thing out?
Office 2016 for Mac Preview released
If a guy told you that he detected an undertone of anti-male sexism by anyone who brought up the lack of female CEOs, that all discussion of female issues carries an implied "See! Men are fine, let's ignore suicide, homelessness, incarceration, and every other problem", would you consider this a reasonable interpretation?

I certainly wouldn't. I'd assume that he's intentionally misinterpreting people in an attempt to shut down discussions that go against his preferred narrative.
I noticed that the description says, "Inspired by SourceTree" for the line-by-line staging feature, but actually git-cola[1] invented that feature, before even git-gui, and SourceTree just copied us 8^)

Also, if you're going to have that feature you should consider implementing the entire thing ~ it's not enough to have line-by-line (un)staging. You also need line-by-line reverting of modified changes, and support line-by-line (un)staging while amending commits.

I'll definitely be sharing this with my sublime-using coworkers, very cool.

[1] https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola
One can contractually agree to make some else the exclusive source for something while retaining the copyright. In which case, if you then offer it to someone else then that "exclusive" party can sue you for breach of contract. Of course this has nothing to do with any of the open source or CC licenses.
> Given a random person, hell given a random person who is already decent developer in a different domain, my confidence in their ever becoming very good at that domain is much lower.

I don't think anyone was saying a random person but someone wanting to get into the field or is already in the field but perhaps not in the right spot when you pick them up.

I can't imagine anyone would mean a random person here, that wouldn't make sense as development is a skilled position. not everyone can do it and OP was talking about interviewing developers not random people.
Oettinger's rhetoric is ridiculous hyperbole. Taliban? Huh? Its a shame because he is making what I consider to be a reasonable point: there are use-cases where traffic prioritization makes sense.
> I'd like to pay $3/month for my Netflix traffic to not count towards any caps. Is that allowed?

No, because it's discriminating against non-Netflix traffic. But there is certainly nothing wrong with paying the market rate for all your traffic to not count towards any caps (i.e. an uncapped connection).
I used my iPad maybe once a week, so I gave it to my 5-year-old niece. She loves playing princess games on it.
I completely agree. I sometimes take flack for "hating" AWS (and I do hate some aspects of it), but I think it's a great platform for incubating your service or proving a concept. Every company I've been at in the last five years has used AWS to an extent, despite operating their own datacenters. It's great for random analytics jobs or other tasks that aren't steady work tied to your core business.

It quickly starts to not make sense for services that have usage-driven growth patterns. AWS's billing model just doesn't work for this -- even though higher usage is discounted, it isn't enough to overcome the skew of the model. Companies that have deployed on AWS often realize this too late: their business starts to take off, and they get crushed under giant AWS bills that would be disproportionate even at 50% off list. It's much harder to move off once you've hit scale.
> If only the owner of the copyright can claim infringement (as is the case in the US), then the point is moot.

An exclusive license is a transfer of those rights under copyright to which it is exclusive from the licensor to the licensee. So the licensee would be, for the rights in question, the copyright holder, even if they were not the creator and the holder of the remainder of rights under copyright (see 17 USC Sec. 101, 201).
I used to be an ATC (in Australia, 7 years), and there is definitely stress there, but its like being in an insane asylum - you don't recognise that you, and everyone else, is mad.
There is also significant peer pressure to excel at your job. Not just be good, but to competently handle everything that comes. The regulations state that the purpose of ATC is to provide for the "safe, orderly and expeditious operation of aircraft movements." They apply that religiously, and in that exact order. Mistakes in even the simplest procedure,or even phrasing of comms, are not tolerated. Mistakes are seen as evidence of failure to cope with the stress, and result in operators being swapped out ASAP.

I remember it took about 2-3 months, after I resigned, before I felt free of the stress. I consider knowing how to recognise stress growing within me to be the most valuable thing I took from that part of my career.

As an aside, it is possible there is a similiar mindset, or skillset amongst controllers. I remember very clearly the selection process was very focused on 2 things

- maths and logic

- multitasking

The hardest test in the selection process was a combined map course plotting task, where you had to accurately plot out a course of about 15-20 waypoints, but every 60 seconds the examiner would read out a logic problem "if Jane wears blue on Tuesdays and green on weekends, what would she wear on the day before Monday ?" - stuff like that. You had to focus on plotting, correctly, as many map points as possible, AND correctly answer the puzzles being read out. That was the most directly relevant skill to the actual job of being an ATC, awareness of the task in front of you, and the ability to understand and act on the 'buzz' going on around you. They select for people who can perform accurately for multiple inputs, with time and cognition pressure.
JM2CW
Will Keymer Vincent be world chess champion in the future?
That is extremely interesting. If it wasn't a legal authority that placed the device, then maybe the police can get involved and subpoena the sim card provider, ISP of whatever host the device connects to, etc.
It's interesting that you make an effort to not read resumes. Do you explain that to people you interview during the first call? The reason I ask is that, if a hiring manager asked me things that are already written on my resume (e.g. what did you study in college?), I would definitely be annoyed, as my default expectation is that they should read the resume before the interview.

Don't get me wrong, I understand and agree with your reasoning. I'm just curious how transparent it is to the other side.
Oooo Aaaaa. Wow! Oh my god!

Uh people, that's what they're supposed to do. Please move along, save your dramatic headlines for something else.
> if I was interested in gender equality ... I'm actually a feminist so I'm just going to declare victory and move on.

I'm not a feminist, but I wonder if you're really representing the feminist point of view, at least as most feminists would like to be seen.
Yev from Backblaze here -> When we first started producing the pods, we wanted to do two things: 1) provide unlimited backup 2) provide it for $5/month. We did the math at the time and found that for $5/month you'd be able to store about 30GB a year on Amazon S3 (at the time it was about $0.15/gb). So we needed to create our own solution to this problem and designed storage pod 1.0, which provided 67 terabytes for about $7500. We figured the average person would store more than 30GB of data so the Amazon route wouldn't work. Ours did and continues to, based on a variety of factors but the main one being, as Amazon's costs decrease, so do ours (except for the whole Thailand thing...https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ and https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a...). Plus it's kind of nice controlling your own destiny!
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And they don't want anyone else to either.
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I tried it. Why did they have to send me an email containing my quotes, versus just displaying the quotes on a results page? That seems particularly un-Googley. I hope my email address is not shared with any third parties.
you are ignorant if you think the pay gap is a function of male patriarchy.
Well, presuming you're right, since a negative outcome is pretty absolute, I guess the more important question is, is the gain worth the risk?
> In the summer of 2012, I started a company with some other Georgia Tech students called Level RF. We went through Y Combinator and lots of really cool and interesting things happened, which you should ask me about sometime. The company ended up pivoting into Soylent, but this page is to release all the hardware and software I developed while I worked there.

Alright, I'll ask.

How the hell did that happen? The company went from designing RF electronics to manufacturing processed food? What?
That bit about how the rest of the world isn't clamouring for more SMS? It's very true where I came from. The reason WhatsApp got so huge was because it was one of the first apps that allowed you to completely forgo SMS in favour of a 3g-backed messaging service, which was hell of a lot cheaper.

What I'm trying to say is, very few people here care about SMS compatibility.
> Does it really matter?

Yes, it does. You set up a pretty big straw man there, allow me to illustrate:

"Smoking is bad"

"I don't know, I have very good friends who smoke."

There is undoubtedly great software that was shipped under the GPL but they became successful because they are great software, not because of the license they use.
I would start banking some of that gravy and stay where you are for now.

Bored?

Nights and Weekends learn something new.

Rails (Ruby) and/or Laravel (PHP)

http://railscasts.com
http://laracasts.com

Are both great places to learn.

These are mainly to create web applications.

SaaS Apps.

Get inspired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Choose a side project, can be something fun or for profit.

http://startupsfortherestofus.com

google patio11 and ready everything by him.

You're making really good money, no need to throw that away, you can build your skills in your spare time, and if you're interested start building your own product/SaaS empire along the way. Preparing now for things to go bad in the future.

But I would stay on your gravy train as long as you can building new skills along the way.

Enjoy the ride.
HN is not mature enough to hold a discussion related to gender issues.
Really? Might also say, “I have no spine”... There's a tricky line to walk between two different kinds of cringe--the kind that happens when someone sees you let someone walk all over you, and the kind that happens when you freak out and air your grievances.