skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My results on Chrome 43 running on an i7 Macbook Pro. JSON generated from: http://beta.json-generator.com/NJG1eN49

~34KB json string (1st run):

sync: total time (blocking): 0.412ms
async: blocking time: 1.822ms
async: total time: 3.943ms
➜ str.length
34527

~34KB json string (10th run):

sync: total time (blocking): 0.569ms
async: blocking time: 0.438ms
async: total time: 2.336ms

~112KB json string (1st run):

sync: total time (blocking): 1.217ms
async: blocking time: 1.036ms
async: total time: 4.818ms
➜ str.length
114745

~112KB json string (10th run):

sync: total time (blocking): 1.658ms
async: blocking time: 0.683ms
async: total time: 4.444ms

Could do with some proper benchmarking by someone who knows more about benchmarking this stuff for real-world usage (i.e.. not me). By the way the 2nd - 10th run results were pretty similar, the amount of time that async function was blocking gradually decreased as it was run more often (I ran the ~34KB tests first).
There are significant tax savings, and theoretically limited liability. The significant tax savings will change next tax year with changes in dividend taxes and NIC contributions. No-one is really sure of the actual impact at this point.
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> The "second-order" advertising (e.g. critic recommendations, word of mouth) is much harder to deal with, especially if you believe that some people have good, unbiased, not-unduly-influenced opinions that you will benefit from listening to. My only recommendation is to curate the people whose opinions you listen to very carefully, and think hard about who they might be (possibly unwittingly) influenced by.

But we rely on other people's opinion precisely to avoid thinking hard about everything, which would be overkill at best, and could even kill you at worst.

What you say is idyllic, but in practice we just go with the flow. It's easy and safe, from an evolutionary point of view. Choosing requires energy, time and attention [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice], and it has a big opportunity cost [http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/27/the-psychology-of-se...]. Do I need to thoroughly bet every "expert" that I listen to? In practice, this is infeasible. You definitely should do it for important stuff, but advertising covers many other unimportant things (such as yoghurt brands) for which it's economically optimal to just assume everyone is an expert.

Also, you approach advertising and human bias such as social proof as only bad things, and I think one needs to also consider the good side of it.

Even for things not so trivial as yoghurt, perhaps if I spend 40 hours choosing for the best car I can make an optimal decision; or perhaps choosing the one that is advertised the most is sufficient; I get a suboptimal choice but psychologically it's less demanding; socially is more acceptable (as I have the same car as the rest); heuristically it might even hold some intelligence (advertising power carries some information about financial strength, financial strength about solid business, and solid business about good products). Typically, you will shortlist a couple of cars and try them. It's a matter of being a satisficer and not a maximizer [http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-you-make-decisions-says-a-lo...].
They're just a middle-man who invoices on your behalf and pays you based on that. Using someone like Giant you're ceding a lot of the financial (tax) advantages of contracting though, since you pay tax as a PAYE employee.
Definitely because of costs
A lot of people on HN and Twitter asked us how we're setup at Buffer, here's an in-depth interview that I hope answers some questions, I'm also keen to answer any more from the community here.
My experience (and that of many coworkers I've had) - unless you've really pissed in the pool, there is an unending supply of good contracts in London.
Which is ideal, as men and women are both ideally biologically and psychologically equipped for their respective traditional role. This generation is strongly committed to spitting in the face of biology, evolution, and common sense, but they'll find out these realities are quite stubborn, for better or worse. The only question is how much of the generational consequences they'll live to see.
This is pretty fun :) -- the controls are definitely more challenging than Agar.io, which uses the mouse for movement. I would caution the author to be ready for the possibility of a DMCA letter from Minclip [1], the company that now owns the rights to the game and is aggressively attacking all "clones" of the Agar.io game. Vanar.io seems different enough, but the letter has some strong wording such as "The URL is a deliberate attempt to create a false association with the Agario game, take advantage of the goodwill and reputation in the Agario game and divert users of the Agario game to the URL". Discussion and another example is on reddit [2]. So far the only Agar.io clones sent a letter are ones that directly copied and used the javascript code, so hopefully that's not the case here.

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d028f601f93e201186b4a75b...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Agario/comments/3f7oys/miniclip_sta...
Ask HN: Remote Working
I'm a senior engineer at a small company, and for family reasons I'm going to moving to a remote part of the country soon.

My company have been accommodating and want to keep me on board, but it will be a culture shock working from home full-time.

What is your experience with long-term remote working?

What strategies and technologies do you find helpful for beating the feeling of isolation and staying productive?
One recent real world example of "things [improving] by large numbers of people speaking out" is gay marriage in America.

It took time and victory had some false starts (i.e. Prop 8 in California), but now gay people are equally entitled to ruin their lives with marriage.

In all seriousness, legalizing gay marriage is clearly one that far more than 0.01% of the population cared to oppose the issue, and yet they still eventually lost to an informed and vocal majority.
I've found their webapp to be pretty good, but trying to get actual financial advice was a struggle since you have to go through your account manager rather than talk directly to a real accountant.
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It's also worth noting that (at least in the UK) such notice periods are not legally binding.

You can only be forced to give a notice period up to your payroll pay frequency. So for example, if you get paid monthly then you cannot be sued for failing to give > 1 month's notice!

... But of course, most people will still honour their company's "3 month notice" (or whatever) period out of good faith, as it's generally a good idea not to burn bridges.
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Empty parameters won't affect the url resolution (normally), they'll just be passed as empty to the same url. (Assuming the parameters were in the querystring as they should be...).
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yea there are many different tactics to tackle this issue - still default behaviour is confusing at best - bad design at worst.
How do you buy them for cheaper than $100?
One important thing to note is that your accountant gets a kickback from setting up a bank account. You should instead aim to search for the best bank account you can find with the best deal and the faster payments service; my bank account with Cater Allen still does not support this for example.

I'd also highly highly recommend freeagent which is so good it makes you wonder what your accountant does. It has been right where my accountant has often been wrong!! Here's a referral link:

http://fre.ag/34atijdc
A vote for datadog here too. Just started using it - it's clear that someone there really loves data.
Ethereum doesn't aim to store massive data within the blockchain itself. Instead, we're building an additional component into the network, Swarm, which essentially acts as a DHT/DFS. There are already experimental branches within the main repos, they function, but probably at a POC state.

Furthermore, a 1Gbit DL/200Mbit UL link costs $13.70/month where I live, so I think it it is already very much viable, but maybe the distribution will be skewed towards more internet friendly countries :)
Thanks for sharing your ideas. Actually I want to do that as well.
I'm so tired of Opsworks, failing deploy and of course today issue.

Could you share more about your code-deploy setup and auto-scaling ?
Compared to full-time positions of equivalent scope, what skill level and experience is needed to work as a contractor? How do the working conditions differ?
But you can already do that in Python 2.7.
This was an awesome read. Thank you for this, I'd never thought of it that way before.
Let's hope they are working on it
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Have a look at the discussion at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9945438

I like the look of redo or tup.
Something I've been trying to tackle for myself recently.

I've been browsing some meets on meetup.com and intend on going to a few. Many people have reassured me that whilst I'm the introverted type and events like this make me somewhat anxious... a lot of people are the same. I'd say that in the tech/dev world, more people have some kind of social awkwardness than not. The people that immeditately gel and befriend everyone aren't common. Maybe I'm wrong. shrug

I've been making friends on interpals.net - I originally signed up looking to do a bit of a language exchange, but ended up talking to a bunch of people.

After that, I feel like I'm on a bit of a roll and it's just a case of continuing. It's quite refreshing to know I can make friends, it's almost becoming enjoyable. :)

- What's the worst that could happen?

- Take an interest in other people, ask them what they're working on, etc.

- You won't be the most introverted person at x event.

Good luck. :)
> Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords, even if some people use them as passwords.

This doesn't make sense. You cannot "use a username as a password".

Fingerprints, retina scans, DNA samples, etc are biometric passwords. They are unique identifiers to your identification, and cannot be changed for obvious reasons.
HLL can only estimate cardinality, it can't test for the existence of a key. The idea is the same - sacrifice some precision and gain a huge memory saving. But they don't share anything beyond that in terms of the math.
What shocks me is that people don't see propaganda in left wing publications. Or maybe they do and that's why they vote Republican.

It's telling that in Australia the Republican equivalent is the rather Orwellian named 'Liberal Party of Australia'.

I think it's clear why they are called political parties.
You're probably quite right - I'm just going off my friend's report.
No, not in the querystring. I didn't mean GET parameters.
Agreed... Your deliverables are "boring" (although not useless). Point being that you're able to LEARN a shitload at these companies from various perspectives.

(offt: I don't really have any connection with the SV since I'm not US based and not working for a product company. So I have no clue about current state of Bizdev/M&(t)A there... Care to elaborate?)
Too hard to control the ship using the keyboard, mouse movement like in agar would be loads better.
> User-centric and privacy-respecting business models are impossible if the product is free.

What about non targeted advertisement?
Hm. I'm genuinely curious - does it share passwords (as typed in) or actual PSKs?

That is, if I'd only let guests with Windows 10 to access network using WPS, would Wi-Fi Sense send negotiated secret or not?

(I suppose WPA2-EAP-PSK should also be an option - IIRC Windows supports 802.1x auth and I doubt they share those passwords... although not many SOHO routers know anything about RADIUS)
They are usually negotiable, though.
A shrewd thing to do is read HPMOR's author notes and take reading recommendations from there: http://hpmor.com/notes/

A few that really stand out:

The Ethshar books - to parapharse EY, the author creates the world and the characters, then he throws them together and watches what happens.

Vorkosigan Saga - if EY's Harry has an inspiration, it's Miles Vorkosigan.
I wasn't aware of this. Do you happen to know which law/act/whatever covers it? Would have come in handy a few weeks ago when I was trying to negotiate my way out of a 3 month notice period.
Better is very much in the eye of the beholder. I dislike most build tools, SCons included. I've found them all to be of varying degrees of meh to terrible.

But since Make is in use in so so many projects having good tutorials and material available is valuably to anyone who ends up needing to contribute to such an (open source) project.
Same here.. Is there any reason why it could fail behind proxy?
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Gandi has them for $35/year. Nic.io itself is £60 for the first year, but it goes down after a few years (I'm currently paying £30 plus tax).
Perhaps true but:

- Are any remote? I mean who wants to live in London? ;)

- How do you find them in the first place?
Firstly, the line you quote said "all the" shares, the fact that 13% have been frozen doesn't prove or disprove that statement.

Secondly, Dotcom's main claim was the hostile takeover, his family shares were just a part of that. It could be true that they were frozen but un-true about the rest of his claims.

So yes, it's a denial of his full claims, but maybe (or maybe not) a confirmation of one part of his claims that you pulled out.

That said it's obviously a bunch of PR speak that means nothing. For example this line:

> "More than 75 percent of shareholders have supported recent equity issues, so there has not been any 'hostile takeover',

You could plot a hostile takeover in which the end, winning, result is that you own 75% of the shares, that is the takeover. So having shareholder support when the claim against you is "they took over the company by sneakily getting shareholder control" is irrelevant.

All in all, it's a denial, but not one with any evidence in either direction.
Not all accountants know a lot about tax. Tax lawyers will be better at reducing your tax rate, though they can be expensive (and unnecessary for basic stuff).

The general 'rule' is you tend to only take out as much as you need. It's usually smart to always use the lower rate tax bands and then decide what to do with the excess that is left in the company.

However, since they're increasing the tax rate, now might be good time to take out a higher dividend, since you'll pay more to take it out next year. If (tax now < tax later) -> take it out. :-) Unless you're wealthy enough to never have to declare dividends again, you'll want to take out more this year.

Also, don't forget to expense as much as you legally can. That's all tax deductible BEFORE corporate tax.

What can you do with the rest?

a. Invest it (compound interest: shares/bonds/property/etc)

b. Give yourself a loan from the company. You'll have to pay interest, but it's a relatively low rate (3.25% p/a I believe).

Wealthy people tend to be (relatively) poor in their personal name, but own a lot of stuff through companies - e.g. planes, boats, property.
Freeagent looks interesting. What's their customer support like? My accountant is about 90 GBP per month but I get extremely prompt responses from them on technical issues so I'm inclined to think they're worth it.
My experience is specific to banking, but interms of working conditions they are more or less identical, apart from the odd "contractor furlough" when contractors are forced to take unpaid leave (normally around the Christmas perioid).
This provides some more info: https://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companie...

Dotcom ceased to be a director on 3rd September 2013 (http://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies...) but I can't get a definite answer on shareholdings (https://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companie...) as they may be through layers of shell companies, and highly untraceable.
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Sorry for the confusion... I had smugvault and it didn't occur to me to look to see if it still is available. My bad.
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In addition to the benefits you get as the contractor, agencies also don't want to hire sole traders as it could be argued they are actually employees. This would mean it's the agency's responsibility to withhold taxes, and the contractor would have rights to things like holiday and sick pay.
"Learn a few techie jokes and use them from time to time. They’ll make you look like a part of the team."

Er, no. They won't.
> Brave New World -> You can either spend time creating or you can spend it consuming.

Interesting conclusion. In my interpretation, the lesson is more open ended: "You can be happy if you've found your niche but what if your ambitions don't match your abilities?"

Most of the people in the society of Brave New World are fabricated to fit in and are happy and even for those few that don't fit in, the Controllers send them to small communities were they can be.

Helmholtz is likely to be happy on his island and Mond himself is somewhat envious that Bernard will "meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world".

Bernard himself OTOH doesn't quite share this view. For good reasons as we know he feels superior to most people but actually isn't. And on the island it will be even more glaring.
Not really an answer but the creator of agar.io described succinctly his stack : server in C++ with libuv for the networking.
In London, I'm currently on a 2 month notice, however that has always seemed unusual to agents and people I interviewed with. Also, that's a fixed period for senior and junior position - in other companies I worked for, there was always a special clause like "4 weeks + 1 week/year after the Xth year, capped at Y weeks"

That must be very dependent on your company sector and market. Also, notice is generally reciprocal, so a bigger one is generally considered a benefit - as practically, the company has to pay you when they terminate you, but you can almost always negotiate a much shorter notice when you resign.
Somewhat ironic item at the end of the article?

"""If you read this far you should probably follow me on twitter"""
with a Twitter icon and follower count.

Personal brands are brands, too and I'd count this as advertising as well.
Everyone is ignoring the biggest problem: "apps" everywhere!

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With the exception of "teaching rationality" as an explicit goal, the "Characteristics of rational fiction" are just basic guidelines for writing good fiction (science fiction, if you include the "topics" characteristic).

When an author break's their world's own rules or has a character make an obviously irrational choice to drive the plot, it is annoys the reader and is considered poor writing. This is true of all writing, regardless of whether the author considers it rational or not. Good sci fi and fantasy often involves the characters deconstructing their world's rules and using those character's unique insight into the world to somehow solve the plot. Brandon Sanderson -- who writes epic fantasy that would never be considered "rational fiction" -- is famously good at this.

That being said, I have grown tired of rehashed old tropes and am glad that a new spin these is emerging. Hopefully some fresh work will come from it.
Apologies to Randall Munroe: http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/C...
I always wonder to what extend this happens on Hacker News. I am sure that a lot of up/downvoting is done based on product loyalty. But many people here are employed by one of the companies involved in the 'ecosystem wars'.

After all, if all the parties in a war are pushing you to ‘join their side’ then they are trying very hard to make you forget that there is another side: your side, non-participation in the war, the ability to opt-out and to refuse to become an unpaid foot-soldier for any one party.

I think this is very difficult. E.g. we are all using technology and most of the tech that we can buy or get for 'free' are stakeholders in a war. I try to make my technology choices on technical merits, but often the perceived merits are influenced by what is said on the internet, simply because we can't try before we buy.

Also, I noticed the social pressure set up by such wars. E.g. I used to use MacBooks and iPhones, basically because the iPhone was so far ahead that it wan't even funny. Later, I switched from iPhone to Android, mostly because of the price/spec ratio. I noticed an immediate effect in some of my social circles: Apple users spoke as if I betrayed Apple, Android users shrugged with a comment like 'oh, I thought you were an Apple fanboy'. It's really surprising that it doesn't occur to people that you can switch due to technical or budget reasons.
This is a really interesting challenge, both as a person being bombarded by this, but also as someone trying to sell something.

We had a choice at FastMail a few years ago now, when we were still providing free accounts and trying to use advertising - both to the user of the account and in the signature of outgoing email - to cover the operational costs.

In the end we decided to ditch the free accounts entirely, remove all advertising, and focus on providing the best possible experience we can to our paying customers.

Which is great, but we still need at least the second order advertising so that new people become aware that our product exists. We know we could grow a lot faster by throwing away our morals - instead we're experimenting very cautiously with placing advertisements while we continue to rely on word of mouth from happy customers as our main way to find new subscribers.
Thanks. I asked because I find myself at the cusp of I/E personality - which one dominates depends on the context of where I am and in what mindset I am.

That said, I've noticed something interesting which was re-affirmed by your comment as well - that many an introverted person find easier to "reach out" to strangers and enjoy conversing when it comes to "online talking". And for most of them/us, it's more the initiation of conversation that's the issue and not the continuing of it (assuming it's not just small-talk).

My main issue is that as an entrepreneur, one is expected to be at these events and form networks - which requires initiation of conversation, especially with people like investors who aren't the most respectful at times. This further messes up the already fragile n doubtful self-esteem of an introverted founder.

I suspect several founders out there "suffer" in silence with these issues which exacerbate the mental well-being problems.
Tywin burns crops because he wants the riverlands to starve. He is willing to destroy a large swath of the country in order to stay in power. It's a perfectly rational means to a despicable goal.