jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The total amount raised, according to Crunchbase, was $118,000 (18000 YC + 100000 Angel). This was in 2006, so assuming there has been no other investments made, looks like their revenues must have been pretty decent to be able to support their operations.
Are these jobs where you don't have to work more than two hours a day like OP wants?
Sure there are remote sysadmin jobs but not these kind of jobs where they just want a warm body in a chair.
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I run workshop (a service mentioned already: http://letsworkshop.com that delivers freelance consulting opportunities)

I've seen this question come up a lot and its part of the reason I started workshop. For me emailing companies who specifically said they were looking was great because I was able to control it directly.

Since starting workshop I've helped hundred of freelancers make a lot of money, but some continue to make nothing. It mostly has to do with the emails they send and a few big common mistakes:

-- emails too long
-- blab on about themselves
-- obviously scripted
-- don't propose a next step

It's easy to focus on the wrong things. "What's the Best job board?" "There's not my exact perfect match" "there's not enough opportunities"

But if you focus on emailing one person everyday that needs help, and write an email focused on their problem and not you, you CAN and WILL make a lot of money.

I've seen it with hundreds in your position
the security scene now is all about one's fame and gossip?
> E.S.A. can live in housing that prohibits pets

Does that bother anyone else? If you are petrified of dogs, you will (reasonably) pick housing that prohibits pets. Then someone comes in with an ESA dog?

Why do their rights trump yours?
> rm -rf $VAR/

> /

facepaw.jpg

Without the trailing slash, null or undefined $VAR would cause an error instead of a request to delete all the things.
Apple and Android are in a sack race to the goal line of Billions of dollars in profit. They're both stumbling a lot, but I think it's pretty clear that Apple is winning.
Dell sells a server with 6TB of ram (I believe.) I think the limit is way over 2TB. If you want to be able to query it quickly for analytical workloads, MPPs like Vertica scale up to 150+TB (at Facebook.) I honestly don't know what the scale is where you need Hadoop, but it's gotten to be a large number very quickly.
On the privacy front:
iOS Spotlight still falls back to searching the web without permission, leaking privacy info. And all the Privacy and Spotlight settings are set correctly.

OSX Spotlight is blocked by policy in Hands Off!
Are you suggesting the NSA should be a government funded QA department for large corps and open source?

For commercial software the companies who are not finding these bugs on their own are to blame. For open source, the cheapskates who mooch free software without contributing are too blame.
This sounds more like Linear Systems Theory than Information Theory, to be honest.
That difference isn't as black and white as you're making it out to be, sometimes it's just a design decision whether certain work is done at compile time or runtime. And both kinds of issues, runtime or compile-time, can be caused by the kinds of problems I'm talking about like unspecified dependencies.
By "US Office of Weights and Measures", I take it you are referring to NIST's Weights and Measures division? They do not have the power to require anything, they publish standards documents and make reference measures available to the public if someone needs to calibrate.
There was this, but it's broken since ages https://www.google.com/amp/s/brkirch.wordpress.com/2014/11/0...
Agreed. Though it's fairly simple to opt out now, just delete the Facebook app. The browser still works just fine.
One of those is not like the other. Shall is an actual programming language -- designed purely for configuration.
I wonder if this is like the first someone makes a presentation with powerpoint or makes their first movie with imovie.

Of COURSE they add the fancy scene or slide transitions. (at first)

and then you learn that you should just cut.
It's not real Open Source if the community pays for it?

Studios en-mass deciding to fund a shared, Libre resource that anyone can use so that every studio can all benefit and get better features at a faster pace is basically the dream for most Open Source efforts. There's nothing for anyone to be ashamed about from that model, it's good for Open Source to be funded by the players who are most invested in having a really good industry standard available to everyone.
Suggestion to author:

Consider also being done with not avoiding double negatives. If you don't fail to see what I mean.
Don't forget the moderate/centrist outrage with both the leftists and rightists.
> I think it's not as much as the office setting than the organization structure

Yep. It is the flattest it can ever be. There are also psychological dynamics in the average basement startup:

Things are usually informal, meritocratic, ambitious. Crunching together in such a setting will also usually create very strong camaraderie even among personalities that in a larger organization would just keep away from each other.

> you need to divide up things between people so you don't know what everyone is doing all the time anymore

Even with perfect information/openness - just the fact that there's now an "us" and "them" starts being.. divisive[1]. Apply enough times and you can't keep up with how many "thems" there are to an "us". When you've been there since the company was 4/8 people in a large room, it would be strange not to feel nostalgic.

[1] I self-nominate for platitude of the year 2015. It's early, but I'm ambitious.
"In theory" is a bit of a stretch, it seems. "In fairly wild, currently untestable hypothesis" might have been a better description.
> In many instances, going with "evil" makes the game much easier

I agree. I find that many games present the moral choices in a way that become a "what possible reward do I want" choice.

One of the best ways moral choices were presented were in Skyrim, with the Deadric Princes' quests. You usully had to do some horrible thing (murder, cannibalism, torture, etc.) and you would be rewarded with a cool magical item. The moral choice is glarangly present while not being explicitly stated. You either do the quest or you don't. And that resonated with me because I believe that while there are many motivations for being evil (selfishness, greed, desire of power, sadism), the motivation and reward for being good is itself.
That's not entirely true. I specifically notice that owning a dog structures the day in a specific way. The dog does not force me to go, but one effect of owning a dog is that it needs to go out multiple times a day, so I do. Even on days where I'd ordinarily not feel like, when it's raining, when I'm tired. I go for a longer hike every weekend, things that I'd not do or prioritize lower if I had no dog. And I don't think that respecting and caring for my pets needs by performing acts that I'd ordinarily not do makes me a bad owner.
One day, ad blockers will learn to secure their ad networks so they don't periodically become firehoses of malware.

Until that day, ad blocking is an integral part of every internet users digital security system. Period.
>So exact opposite happened to what you predict.

No, it actually proves me right. The increase in job opportunities, which women definitely took advantage of, and adoption of modern western lifestyle is what made the birth rates plummet.

Since you mentioned former Soviet Union countries, Hungary implemented [1] new measures to give the people the necessary conditions to have kids. All the news articles I can find are from 2019, so it will take a while until we can decide if they had success or not:

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47192612
I wouldn't say that $324,000 is "peanuts." Especially considering that, in most cases, that money is not taxed because it is compensation, not earnings.

The amount the plaintiff won in this case is equal to 8 or 9 years of (pre-tax!) mean or median income for a blind person in the US: https://nfb.org//images/nfb/publications/jbir/jbir15/jbir050...
The G3 did receive multiple Android updates. See here: https://www.gsmarena.com/lg_g3-6294.php - they updated it from 4.4.2 to 6.0. If that did not arrive for your phone it might have been your carrier blocking it.

The G3 can also run Android 10 via LineageOS 17.1, it is an officially supported device, see https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#lg. I don't know whether it will get 18.1/Android 11 though. LineageOS 17.1 worked well with the G3, I did test that recently.
I’m familiar with those guidelines, but effectively, anyone can say anything, and the last sentence shows that you basically have to take their word for it (unless you want to risk getting involved in a costly legal matter). I know you don’t have to take lizards as service animals, but you do basically have to take chihuahuas or Pomeranians or pit bulls or Rottweilers or whatever as service dogs, and maybe miniature horses.

> Staff are not allowed to request any documentation for the dog, require that the dog demonstrate its task, or inquire about the nature of the person's disability.

Miniature horses here:

https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
If Android Java was illegal, it seems likely that GNU, Wine, OpenStack, the Mastodon client API, LibreOffice Calc, ... this ruling is limited enough that some or all of those might still be illegal, but at least the open source clone of `windows.h` that winelib distributes is probably safe.
That presumes a democratic polity always settles on good matters.
If this is a real concern then why not pay attention to
it? I believe Apple has the best track record in security and not embedding Chinese gov spyware.
It was downvoted below, but reposting here because this is something that I think should be seen as it comes up often:

>> "The bottom line is that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a guide dog should be able to go anywhere that a blind person can go."

> Okay, I completely get this, but question -- what about business owners and drivers who are traumatized by dogs? If I were a driver, I'd be much more likely to crash the car if there was a dog in the car of any kind. I've had traumatic experiences with dogs and being near one sends me into panic.

You should take that into consideration before taking on a job that might require you to drive around dogs.
As a country we decided long time ago, that people who require seeing-eye dogs shouldn't be subjected to substandard treatment by society - as was the case before the law protected the visually impaired.

If you want to completely avoid dogs, then don't take a job that involves having to interact with dogs.
You have misunderstood the basic biology. This is not a technology issue. For most blood assays the necessary analytes are simply not present in a single finger prick drop of blood at levels that consistently correlate with venous levels. This is pretty much a law of nature and no amount of engineering or research will alter that reality.
You fell for the marketing. Apple shows all these amazing robots and processes assembling the iPhone. What do you think the competition uses, do they carve their phones out of stones with toothpicks? They have advanced production tools, too.

The N1 is a really nice phone - I prefer it to the iPhone 3G. The phone makers will continue to better each other, from keynote to keynote. Now Apple has the lead again (in some aspects), in a couple of months, there will be a cooler Android device, and so on.

Notice how a lot of the Apple marketing dwells on the production processes, which are completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the phone's body was hand carved by dwarves from middle earth out of Mithril, self-assembled by nano robots or cut out of aluminium in a single piece. What matters is that the end result works and looks nice.
> Apple only needs two things: (one) An open market of multiple competing platforms with shared open standards and protocols so that devices can work together.

Share open standards? They won't even accept any other language for apps other than Objective-C? They have deliberately closed down any possibility for developers to be able to reuse code inside and outside of their platform. If they were really interested in an open market they'd be embracing efforts to port software to and from their OS.
I think in order to make NoScript work you'd also need the ability to block <script> that is inline, not just script that is loaded remotely.
I don't follow because the rebase is done by the person who wrote the code and is proposing the pull request. They rewrite their local history, but that doesn't seem to relevant. They still have to get their code to work with the latest master and remain in control of it. When the PR goes through, it can be a standard merge to maintain history.
I found that last page with the BOS-HNL-LAX-PWM-BOS
circle query really fascinating for a couple of different reasons: 1) the fact that ITA could already do this in 2003, and 12 years later, most flight search engines still can't handle that kind of query, and 2) that a very similar itinerary today is less than half the price[1].

(As a side note, how awesome is it that you can deep-link to a specific fare on Google Flights?)

[1] https://www.google.de/flights/?gl=US#search;iti=BOS_HNL_2015...
Would love to see that :)
>what passes for British royalty these days

It's rather ridiculous that democratic country has royalty at all. They should just be private citizens. This, and no constitution. Come on, guys!
It's not arbitrary touching. When he's asking her about something she's unsure of, he consistently touches her left shoulder. When he talks to her about something sure, he touches her right. Then he uses those same touches when he wants to make her unsure or a color, or feel sure that a color is the wrong one he says it is.

I don't know to what degree that actually works, but it's pretty interesting.
I'm in a similar boat. Any minute I spend preparing coffee is a wasted minute I could have been sleeping. It's hard to motivate myself out of bed in the morning, so a fast coffee prep is paramount.

I've tried plenty of methods, and for me, the easiest way of making 20 ounces is a Yama stove top vacuum pot. Look it up, it takes mere minutes to produce quality coffee.
Not talking about inclusion is effectively accepting the current inclusion status quo. Talking about it isn’t divisive, it’s being frank about existing division. If you really believe that inclusion is so valuable you should be willing to accept the discomfort of recognizing that it’s not where it should be.
That cleared it up. Thanks.
> To announce such a big contribution to Postgres, and be it open sourced when published, is very welcome

But the source code hasn't been published. As I said to you today on pgsq-hackers, that's why it hasn't been taken seriously - that's just how it works.

> But there's still some worry that it would become one, one day

Who are you attributing that concern to, exactly?

You're basically claiming that it will be a great opportunity. But you're also claiming that it might be an existential crisis. Do I have that right?

Have you considered the possibility that it might actually be neither of those two things?
The subculture to whom I'm referring wear the badge proudly, like I do "geek".
It would be cool to see a worker-owned cooperative, 100% owned by its member artists, become established in this space.

It's not as infeasible as you might think; artists' cooperatives, as a business structure, have a long history, and creating a digital space is, in many respects, more cost-effective than a brick-and-mortar location.
Like this (in F#) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/andrewkennedy/archive/2008/08/29/uni...
Well, we do have subcultures/countercultures. You can live a pretty comfortable life consuming non-mainstream media that is just as good and entertaining/informative as the Big stuff.
A bonus of limiting your caffeine intake is the quality of sleep you get.

I get a solid 8 hours since quitting caffeine, and it's really good sleep, too. I'm almost 100% ready to go as soon as I wake up.

And I get a lot less of the "you look tired" comments from my partner.
Thank you very much. Unfortunately for me, you didn't hit fulltiltpoker in time.
> The FBI press release[1] says that they've shut down all the sites' bank accounts too, so you're unlikely to be able to pull your money out.

Sure, but we can at least take a screenshot of our accounts for the purposes of a class-action lawsuit later, either against the site or the government, itself.
Why is every measure of storage always "demystified" with a paper stack analogy? I find it funny that when the paper stack would not provide the right scale, the used a stack of storage devices...
Most of Google's services still seem to be blocked today though, as per http://www.google.com/prc/report.html
I agree that Apple is screwing things up, but I don't think Ars is complaining out of self-interest.
There's an excellent "Buy vs. Rent" comparison tool on NYT's website. Looks like I'll be renting for life!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
hopefully iPod-miles (iPm?) will become a new ISO standard for measuring storage capacity.
80% of the power? You're missing the point.

magit, org, dired, killring, ido, mingus, tramp, (can jedit use pyflakes or similar), shell, term, gnus, vcs-mode, etc etc etc.

the only thing i have to leave emacs for is a decent browser. pretty sure jedit couldn't provide me with the same. and i just do python programming. million more modes for different tasks?
That is pretty obvious...it's baffling that Nissan couldn't have settled this amicably.
In the comments it mentions aiming at a price of $150-200. Which isn't expensive for a good watch, but a pretty big price tag for a leatherman.
I have two suggestions:
1) Add support for tab key so users don't have to type the entire file names
2) On initiation display the available commands or a brief intro text automatically, then let users dive deep into whatever they are interested in (help command works fine but it's a personal website so you would like to give people as much info as possible as fast as you can in the most original way.) It's a quite original idea.
Ah, I see. That seems reasonable, honestly. So in that case, Uber should be able to just assign another driver. But the point about there being a small handful of drivers in an area still stands. However, I don't think Uber should be forced to provide service just because they technically can. If there are no drivers at all in your area, they'll tell you that (Or charge an exorbitant fee for someone to drive in) and you won't be able to take an Uber. It's not a requirement that they give you a ride no matter what.
The difference is that SAP is a software company. Oracle is basically a law firm.
You need to try pagedjs. Which is kinda what this thread is all about.
Spent my weekend analyzing video types (yes, my life is awesome) published by our users on Vidjet.io
Here is what I found out:

Your Facebook Ads videos won’t work on your website.

Each video type should be used at a certain moment of your customer journey.

Something needs to be clear: Video Ads ≠ On-site Videos

Also called ‘media buying’, video ads are designed to bring traffic to your store.

On-site videos work towards creating a relationship of trust with your visitors.

For example, an animation video on a product page doesn’t work as well as an authentic video showing people using the product.

The animation video is watched less than 40% of its duration, while the authentic video reaches 75+%.

Important note: this analysis was performed on a sample of 100 short videos, between 15 and 55 seconds.
Four-tuple is the standard way to refer to a TCP connection. Source IP address, source port, destination IP address, destination port.
What? It sounds like you are implying that you need your employers permission to speak your mind, broadly, on any topic?
> Is Google seriously removing that monetization option unless the rights holder agrees to release ALL their music through Google, and on Google's terms?

Yes, the independent artists have been screaming about YouTube licensing terms for a while now.

> Because that's what Zoe's post is implying, and that would be some serious next level anti-trust bullying kind of nonsense.

But there's competition. You know ... Vimeo, NicoNico, etc.

That fact that they have less than .1% of the market in the US isn't relevant. </sarcasm>
Well, then, the TSA is doing an excellent job.
Sounds like a common theme, this is also mentioned in this Tweetdeck Android developer interview.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/11/14/developer-interview-...

Developing on the N1 was perhaps a mistake. We became used to the speed of it. When I finally started testing on the Droid I had to go back and do a bunch of UI optimizations.
No, the idea is they didn't actually leave a gaping hole - they just pretended they did so they could use it as an excuse, without actually suffering any [additional] loss.
Virtual console on ios and android please
Great introduction!

My favorite book for beginners is Philip Kapleau's Three Pillars of Zen. The author was a Zen teacher for many years and helped steer me in the right direction.
As long as we're talking about things only the lucky get, like fiber in Kansas, some buildings in San Francisco get Webpass - 100 or 200 Mbit symmetric residential service for $50/month.
Update:
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/senator-joe-manchin-bitcoin...

Manchin would have similar complaints about any such anonymous form of online payment. "It's the anonymous, unregulated nature of it," that Manchin finds a problem, the staffer said.
> please feel free to create your own program with this feature disabled.

I could do that very easily, if Atom were FOSS.
That doesn't leave many communication channels open. It was probably not a great strategy to build a brand completely on the backs of third parties you don't control.

I can just imagine him raging around his office or jet unable to get the adulation he clearly needs to function. He's going to age pretty quickly this next year.
I don't see any news source as having blanket credibility. In a wider context, I feel like the cycle of building and then strip mining a brand has been accelerated. As soon as there is credibility and trust, it's exploited. But also, I don't see all the different people who write for an organization as having much if anything in common. My favorite general news source at the moment is Bloomberg, but I remember one or more people who used to bring up a particular article as evidence Bloomberg was not to be trusted.

I choose things to read based on my perception of their average reliability, but I don't assume that something is true because it comes from a good source. If I did, how could I know the source was good in the first place? The causality goes from good articles -> good source, not the other way around.

I just don't think you can give anyone any benefit of the doubt. If you're not forming your opinions bottom-up, you risk getting drawn into a divergent reality like so many people these days.

I'm also reminded of how some people on HN like to mention the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect". You can't expect that smart people automatically know about any random thing, if it doesn't impact their life whether they are right or wrong.
Sorry, what I meant was this: after the child pointed it out, everyone acknowledged the truth.

What these disastrous last 5 years have proven is that people will refuse to acknowledge the obvious truth as long as there's a plausible lie they prefer.