skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you start to "vet the workers", then you have the problem of "how are the workers vetted"?

Those freelancer sites already have thin margins. If they start restricting their pool of workers and clients, it wouldn't work.

You get what you pay for. If you get a bargain on price, then you get lower quality or have to spend more time checking their work.
When it first loads the youtube video takes up the whole window and I can't scroll with two finger scroll on the youtube video. If I were you I would move the youtube video maybe to the bottom of the page? Not many people are interested in watching a video anyway (imo).

using firefox on linux btw.
Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to build self-driving cars
Oh. So you read it on the internet.
I don't see any of the old posts mentioning consulting.

I got the impression that the consulting work started after those old posts, possibly even because of them.
Looks like the image download is hosted on S3, is it possible to get a direct S3 link to it? Then one could use the "?torrent" query string trick[1] to get a bittorrent download, I'd be happy to seed it for a while.

[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3TorrentRetr...
Patrick is not reporting his full income from AppointmentReminder, he excludes the Enterprise deals.

"Focus" is a very valid reason. Even assuming just one hour per week, that's 52 hours he can spend on something else. Plus having BCC around is a mental burden. Even while you're not working actively on it, you're thinking about it.
I would really like to purchase this book - Haskell is fantastic - but I'm afraid it's too expensive for me. But also, when I study, I want a real book not an ebook. So I will have to skip this one, sadly enough. If it comes in print I might reconsider.
mainly kanye west and little wayne
> Much of the hostility people are seeing in my post history is frustration with the industry

Then stop attacking people and get used to the idea that you might be wrong on certain things pertaining to FP.
Great except for the noncompete contract shoved down your throat be Texas employers. I won't work for any employer who won't waive a noncompete contract. This means California or a couple of other states. More states need to make noncompetes illegal.
Considering our ability to terra-form earth has been consistently anti-successful (we only seem to be able to turn fertile parts of our own planet into that which more closely resembles Mars), perhaps we should focus on saving our own planet from ourselves first?
Luckily we're not all so quick to judge others. Or maybe I am: In my opinion it is posts like yours that turn/have turned Hacker News into Douchebag Central.
You are right. Those vehicles having issues for Honda and toyota are those who are made in America or have major components made there. They share a lot of suppliers. Which is am underlying issue. No amount of kaizen is gonna fix a broken supply chain.
Yes, abelian is not necessary. "P + Q = - R" is not necessary commutative, it is associative.
I like the concept of redo, but is there actually a version that does not depend on a hole runtime environment like python, ideally something written just in plain C? I've come across this[0] but it's a WIP and development seems to go very slow.

[0] https://github.com/Tharre/redo
Terraria is a much better game than Starbound, the platforming is better done, the design is tighter, the bosses way more interesting. But it's still a pale imitation of Minecraft.

Ultimately Minecraft does more by doing less. The art and design are more interesting because they're cute and different. The roughness becomes part of the charm. Notch understood keenly that mechanics are way more important than polish.

Minecraft has a tighter focus, it doesn't waste developer time doing stupid shit for stupid reasons. So much crap that went into Starbound I could really just do without. The procedurally generated worlds, who really cares about the zillions of worlds you can explore, after you've visited five or so, you've seen them all. A lot of design effort went into making a stupid thing look and feel good.

It's like they went and built an MVP by throwing shit against the wall. You're just wasting your potential audience's time by not doing basic research. I see a ton of games like this, crap that might be good in the future, but I don't want to tough it out because the game isn't fun to play now.

Now, Starbound in all likelihood still made a shitload of money, goes to show you how much opportunity is still there in video games, but the free lunch is going to end at some point.
"All the great empires did not have weapons that could render the planet uninhabitable a hundred times over"

Like Ukraine's nuclear weapons protected it from Russia ?

Here is a clue.
As the world situation changed, Ukraine lost its nuclear weapons.
Want to bet that will NEVER happen to the USA or the successor of the USA ?
Whats the best way to get exposure for an on Demand App?
Looking for a helpful advice on how to get users for an on-demand app. It works in the US and other similar products have gone viral.

Incase you need to know what it does, the app lets users Get Local Services with a Quick Text.
Who are "these people"? People documenting a word's meaning that has been in use for over a hundred years? That's their job.
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By all means wait then! The ebook-only is because this is early access, we're looking for people that want to send us feedback and help us with the book without committing to a more laborious review process. It might also be worth waiting in your case because we haven't released the majority of the content yet. The early access should make sense for a wider audience when about ~50% of the book is part of the current release.

We're determined to get a print run but we won't start preparing for print until the book is done in January. For now we've been testing samples from printers and figuring out costs. One problem is that a lot of places charge a lot for shipping internationally so we might need separate printers for US and EU. Another problem is the book's length is going to make things expensive, so it'll have to be a black & white book, with the color syntax highlighting being ebook only. The cost estimates I've been getting for a color print have been $100++ per unit.

We talk about the price a bit in the FAQ at: http://haskellbook.com/faq.html

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Ask HN: How can we fix EAS?
Hey HN the emergency alert system is broken. How can we fix this? I see several problems here-
1) its selectively enforced- Comcast and cable providers have to do it while satellite providers do not.
2) its redundant- if I am awake and watching tv I'm pretty sure I am aware that the weather is bad and don't need my cable box to block my screen and annoy me with the worst sound ever invented.
3) it doesn't provide "real" info - a flash flood warning in the following 3 counties. In Houston that can cover several hundred square miles.
4) it is an annoyance where the only option is to turn off the television.
It should not be this way! Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks for checking it out. That video is normally the background of the page. It's not intended to be watched directly.

It seems to load normally in Firefox on Mac and PC. I'll check it out on Linux and fix it asap.
Matter of taste or what you're accustomed to. I use a mechanical keyboard on my MacMini but genuinely like both the Apple Bluetooth trackpad and mouse--and have gotten beyond the trackballs I used for ages without much in the way of angst.
- Overnight success => Decade of work
= Even what Appears to be an Overnight success (Facebook/Instagram) was developed by people who worked on their craft for years.

- Owner is worth an estimated $100 million
= On Paper which he can not really sell

- Innovative idea => ..Better Marketing
= Great Ideas and Products don't always win out. Just look at VCR

....Lied/cheated/stole
= BUT You Don't Have To
Thailand has had the benefit of never suffering from communism, great natural beauty and really, really friendly people, along with being where loads of American G.I.s went for R&R during Vietnam. China suffered Communism, mostly Mao, may he rot, and has been recovering slowly since. But I'd be really, really surprised if China hasn't overtaken Thailand in per capita, purchasing power parity GDP.

The fundamental reason I believe that is the same Deng Xiaoping did, he looked around Asia and the only place the Chinese weren't getting rich was China.
> we said the same thing about Japan in the 70s/80s, and they really didn't blow past us

"pass" another country in terms of what? Total GDP? Or military might, or environment protection, cars per household? It's a really vague notion. There are literally one thousand and one criteria to compare two countries. "pass" or "not pass" is not a useful measure for a nation's progress, imho. For example, Sweden/Denmark/Belgium/Japan/South Korea/etc. need not to pass (in whatever sense of it) USA or UK or another country for its citizens to enjoy high standard of living and peaceful environment. I think the same will happen to China. The living standard and environment will improve tremendously in the near future, passing usa or not.
This site is useless if you don't have Javascript enabled.

Next!
I would love it if someone would come along and offer an android experience while applying an value framework like the Mozilla manifesto. Not saying this has to be Mozilla, though it would make sense for them to do it.
What's the justification in doing three weeks of full-time work, which, at your average published rates is worth roughly $90k, to sell a site for $57k? Wouldn't it be much more sensible to spend the time contracting, making more money and keep the site, which is passive income?
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Very good. Back to work now.
The animated Favicon doesn't seem to work on Firefox at all.

Also, CPU usage is also high with firefox, and according to the profile, over half of it is spent in GC.
I am talking about the issue of taking the payments from Intel not to use AMD in the first place.
Look at things like PIN tool [0], DynamoRIO [1], and Valgrind [2] to do this at runtime or at any of the LLVM based decompilers like dagger [3], libcpu [4], or fracture [5] to do AoT compilation. I'm not sure if QEMU's IR would be a good fit. DynamoRIO and Valgrind IR may also be able to be AoTed if you work hard enough. Of course, stuff like indirect branches and self-modifying code can really throw a wrench in your JITter's gears.

[0]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pin-a-dynamic-bina...

[1]: http://www.dynamorio.org/

[2]: http://valgrind.org/

[3]: http://dagger.repzret.org/

[4]: https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu

[5]: https://github.com/draperlaboratory/fracture
Then again, some make-based projects work very hard in order to have tidy little .mk include files in just about every directory in the source tree. :)
Does that mean you're going to take down http://www.monohaskell.com ?
They are referring to the SAS verification, which are two words derived from the peer to peer key exchange process. If they match on both ends, you can have a very high degree of confidence that there is no man in the middle.

It's not a password, it's a verification tool that can be used to double check the security of your connection once you are sure you are talking to the right person.
Selling BCC would make a lot of sense if he didn't spend his equivalent of $90k to make $57k. I don't understand how it makes financial sense now, though.
It's definitely not characteristic of gm to build cats that have deadly issus. It ks, however, characteristic of them to build lower quality cars. That's why their resale value is so bad. You did miss the decades of the 90's and 00's. There hasn't really been a decade where in the last 45 years where GM was shined. It merely gets by. Sure, they make some cars that are good. Their average is meh.

It may sound like I hate gm and American cars. Not at all. I've owned (currently own), and have made a living fom them. Cut my racing teeth with American v8s. I drool at corvettes, camaros, mustangs, challengers, etc. Modern and classic versions. Love them. But love won't stop me from comparing and seeing the differences.
Translating code for one architecture into code for host (possibly same) architecture is what Qemu does. But Qemu does not do any significant optimizations in this process as it attempts to do this without extensive knowledge of host architecture (it does not even directly generate separate instructions).

Other thing that comes to mind is HP Dynamo (http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-78.html), which essentially is PA-RISC on PA-RISC optimizing JIT VM (that also does trace-driven optimization).
What's wrong with aesthetics? Certainly aesthetics at the cost of functionality, but good design means that form and function are complementary and aesthetics is certainly part of a fantastic design.
No no, its one of those watch telephones you see on ebay. I bought one in Shenzhen the other week. Still unsure about all the wearable nonsense. Giving a go though.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Roomba leaking pix of your home
I don't appreciate being generalized. How do you know how well we can speak English?
The L1 point is unstable, however. (Saddle point). Though you already have a solar sail...

Better hope your control loop is well and truly stable.
I.E Mars as Noah's Ark.
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This sort of happened to my father-in-law. He's an early baby-boomer that worked as a train engineer for 20-30ish years. Thus all his gifts from family are Beatles and train paraphernalia. Granted he doesn't have an aversion to either of these, he's still a Beatles fan and has some model trains, but I can't help but think he gets a little disappointed when he is handed yet another t-shirt of either.
> And yet this is based on an untested assumption that political union is the only way to avoid this.

Well, yes it is. This is an assumption that is costly to test, as they say. In this region in particular, it war seemed to be happening a lot, so some people really went overboard in trying to prevent it, and with the benefit of hindsight, you wonder if it could have been done at less cost. Maybe, maybe not.
What you're talking about is binary translation. Here are a few pointers:

- DynamoRIO: http://www.dynamorio.org/
- Intel PIN: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool
- Rosetta: https://www.apple.com/asia/rosetta/
- Transmeta Crusoe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
- Binary Translation using Peephole Superoptimization: http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/osdi08.pdf

You might also find program specialization interesting and related:

- SynthesisOS: http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/

I've personally created three binary translators, and worked on DynamoRIO as well as a Linux kernel variant of DynamoRIO. It's hard to do well / right, but at the same time it's fun. If you're interested, it might be worth starting with an existing system to give yourself some good ideas of how to structure the system, and perhaps even how not to do it. It might also give you a sense of a niche worth targeting. Your list is interesting, but tackling all that is non-trivial, or at least, tackling all that in a general way is non-trivial. However, if you restrict yourself to some subset of programs / use cases, then you can make an impact.

Creating faster code is incredibly tricky. That was the original motivation for things like DynamoRIO (and HP's Dynamo before it), and it's mostly not worth it. You can sometimes do it for specific workloads in a way that is similar to feedback-directed optimization. You can also sometimes do with with inlining / outlining (e.g. moving cold code off the critical path of the icache) / specializing (creating specialized versions of code for specific inputs, use sites, etc.).
I'd rather write a MonoHaskell compiler with an LLVM backend using Stephen Diehl's material[1] and make it something real that people can hack on and play with.

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/

The people that held the anti-FTP position (Augustsson, others) reportedly found the site funny at the time. I was prepared to take it down if they'd been upset, but they weren't. I heard good arguments against the proposal (particularly from Cale), but nothing compelling enough to justify increasing the already disconcerting distance between commercial Haskell practices and what beginners are shown in the Prelude.
I'm not a savvy nor a regular traveler. When recently I had to travel, back and forth airport to home in a suburb, I compared the uber and regular taxi prices. I didnt find any difference so I opted for regular taxi's flat rate. A regulated service gives a sort of confidence compared to anything else.
Good points. It used to be customary for European suppliers and manufacturers to borrow from GM. I know Bosch took inspiration from gm to build their efi systems in the 70s and 80s. Systems that were put on cars like the venerable 930.
I think so. Elixir runs on erlang. And according to this SO post, it does run on all cores: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7005759/erlang-on-multico...
It is just one less thing to worry about.

Also, he may not have known it would take 3 full weeks at the onset (eg; if Rackspace had waved a magic wand on the accounts it probably would have saved a week)
I've also experienced occasional panics when entering/exiting standby, but only when a JVM instance or Virtualbox were running at the time. Otherwise standby/suspend seem to work fine (though maybe that's just a coincidence).

I'm having a very good experience so far (14.04, 4.0 mainline kernel). Palm detection was broken, but the fix in [1] seems to have solved that as well.

[1] http://stevenkohlmeyer.com/fixing-palm-detect-ubuntu-14-04/
I'm not disagreeing with you, but note that I was replying to grandparent:

> Someday a few decades from now we'll look back and try to figure out how China surpassed everyone else.

There were real feelings in the 80s that Japan would somehow be much richer than it is today (say, "kuwait" rich without the oil)...this was before its real estate bubble popped and it went through a decade of stagflation and deflation.
> your average published rates is worth roughly $90k

What? Sure, saying "I made $30k/week under one engagement" is cute, but that doesn't mean your rate is $30k/week. When the stars align, you take the nice gigs, but clients aren't standing outside your door begging to pay $750/hr every day of the year.
A single Redofile kind of doesn't work with the hole concept of redo, sadly. However, most .do files will sit in some kind of out/ directory anyway, so I don't think that'd be a real issue in practise.

Speaking of performance, apenwarrs redo implementation suffers mostly from excessive forking of the python runtime. Sake doesn't need to do this, but it needs to do more work at the start, so my guess would be that Sake is faster for any bigger project. That is assuming sequential builds though, because it seems like Sake doesn't support parallel building?

EDIT: I believe you can create a fake "Redofile" even in apenwarr redo by just naming it "default.do" and switching on $1 to see what you are supposed to build. I even used this myself[0], but it's a hack, and should be replaced by something better.

[0] https://github.com/Tharre/redo/blob/master/default.do
I know I'm a little late to the party, and I know this is a little off topic, but I've always wondered why bands didn't function more like companies. I spent a lot of time recording music in highschool and college, for myself and others, and something that constantly struck me was how musicians are essentially companies, but didn't act like it at all.

The goal of musicians and companies is very closely aligned, and I think bands could learn a lot looking at how companies grow. Conversely, I've always wondered why no one ever "invested" in a band, just like people invest in a company.

In my dream world, I'd love to start a Ycombinator for musicians. Essentially, something where a band could "apply" and investors could take a small share of the "band" in return for startup capital. I'd imagine that the 3 or 4 months could be spent organizing the band and recording an album which could be debuted at a "demo day". The same qualities that go into good founders also go into good musicians, in my humble opinion.

Anyway, the whole point of this is to say that I understand why record companies exist, but I think their usefulness in life is diminishing by the day.
Because Da Shan would win it every year :/
> Works as marketing but I doubt marketing was his first thought.

The fact anybody cares about this at all is a testament to Patrick's masterful manipulation of online audiences.

The fact you believe "I doubt marketing was his first thought" is why it works so well. You don't realize you're being manipulated into internalizing the personal brand of someone more clever than you.
Patrick has said that he could have kept these engagements going regularly.
I ran a mesh networking startup about 2 years ago. A few details about it are here: tricorder.org/eric/uplink.html.
From my perspective, there are two main barriers:

1) It's hard to explain to customers who are used to the current ISP internet access paradigm. This barrier can be overcome.

2) Not only do you need to win customers, you need to win a critical mass of customers within a focused geographic area. #2 is very, very hard imo.
But yet its one of the best phone cameras available today. It pains me to see the horrible pictures many of my Android friends post to Facebook. And after the iPhone 5 battery the 6+ battery is serving me more than well. I can go a day and a half without a charge. Would a thicker version that could go a week serve customers better? I don't think so, I rather like its slenderness.
As you have a working laptop running Windows 8 i would install Virtualbox and load a VM with OSx(Hackintosh). Will work fine, albeit maybe a bit slower.
Considering our 7 billion inhabitants, perhaps devoting a mere couple thousand of us to this pursuit isn't something to nitpick at?
I don't believe the "one less thing to worry about" argument. If I had to pay $30k to close a side-project, I'd have let it die.

Same for not knowing how much work it would be, it makes sense to stop when you realize it's going to be more work than it's worth, even if it creeps up on you.
Thailand and China are about at parity right now in GDP per capita, so the comparisons are apt. Thailand also has a lot of political instability to deal with (military coup anyone?), and is a more laid back tropical country (barring the very Chinese Bangkok).
On the other hand, I've had a nearly identical experience with an Uber driver relying on GPS. In fact, it's been my experience that Uber drivers rely on their GPS far more often than taxi drivers, who generally give me the impression that they actually know the city that they drive in.

I wonder how long the average Uber driver has been driving professionally. I would be interested to see some stats on that subject, especially compared to regular taxi services.
Chris (coolsunglasses) has a bad rep from being pretty harsh on in the past, but I want to say that my interactions have been very positive. When I posted my first project[1] on the Haskell reddit, he reached out to me via email and discussed ways to improve the code, which was one of the nicest things anyone's done for me, at least related to software.

I think he's toned things down publicly, though I get where a lot of it comes from. It is frustrating to see people excited about things like async patterns in say node, when Haskell's are so nice but largely ignored.

[1]plug: https://github.com/cgag/selecth
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