skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not really "your own" property, unless you hold allodial title. Which, in England (and the US, and pretty much anywhere) individuals don't and legally can't.
He has no answer, for he is HEADCRAB ZOMBIE!
not to mention, should you get injured can your family afford the time and money to cater for your disabilities?
If history of tech tough us anything, is that both the price will go down and the res will go up with time.

Given the amount of prints done at our offices (and costs of replacing the toner) this can become cost effective very fast.

I wonder how/if they can add color
Well I can tick that off my 'Random preferences of psuedo internet celebrities, which probably aren't worthy of their own hn post' scavenger hunt.
You should try Webkit's debugger (and not chrome's). It's fast and stable. Chrome's debugger is getting there, but is still missing some basic stuff compared to webkit/firebug.

I rarely find syntax a problem though -- javascript syntax is pretty simple. You could probably write a javascript parser in one day, but it would probably take you a month to write a ruby parser.
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My friend had a job that sent him there for a "tour" of many months, with similar pay. It was boring at times, and he lived in a trailer on a base, but he kept going back for more tours, so he definitely thought it was worth it.
I made a number of "perpetual motion machines" with my dad at that age for science fair projects; all told, the parts and labor would have run to over a hundred dollars if they'd been commissioned jobs.

The fact that this kid made aerogels (which is cool!) doesn't mean that just anyone can make them in quantity easily and cheaply. He produced small pieces with a lot of labor (and, based on the article, some university charity). That's not insulation. It's a 5th-grade science project.
check out the big defense contractors:

ITT
General Dynamics
Dyncorp
KBR/Halliburton
L-3
General Atomics
CACI

Basically, if you want to be doing something decent, make sure you can get at least secret (not a felon, a US citizen), be vaguely professional and competent (certs are a plus, like CISA/CISSP/CCDP), and familiar with the technologies they want (it's a big crappy AD/MS network, but there's also a lot of IP stuff).
There's also the free CamStudio for Windows. The UI is clunky, but it works pretty well.
?this is hacker site?
Italy Seizes Bank of America's Assets Amid Probe
there's a mention higher up this exact comment thread of people doing exactly that. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1098358
when i graduated from university, in England, with a BA in computer science I was offered a starting salary of sub $35k, par for the course in the uk. I'd earned the equivalent of $50k pa as an intern in the US and bay area companies pay twice that. something's not right here.
If that's your primary concern, then let's get some hard information on the security situation. I heard American deaths were way down, which means even less for the techies off the front lines.

There were 149 American deaths in Iraq last year, but I think that might mean just soldiers. So about one out of every thousand soldiers. http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx

Also, there were 676 wounded, or about 4 out of every thousand. So 0.5% of the total force was killed or wounded. You could dig around for more exact numbers, but 1 out of 200 is a good first approximation for the injury/death rate of American forces in Iraq.
Literally the first place my brain went is "Would it make sense to buy Kwedit from a business in return for cash money." For example, if Kwedit is generally ~5% collectible within 60 days, and you're a startup who is not yet ramen profitable who has rent to pay but Kwedit to burn, I might make a very speculative investment and give you US$1,000 for KW$33,000, expecting that to result in future revenues of US$1,500+. Essentially it is factoring for B2C receivables.

(And, ahem, such a stupefyingly bad deal for you that it is probably illegal in some jurisdictions. Proving once again that charging money is an excellent business model...)

You can then imagine a business selling the Kwedit of customers who they believe are not likely to be good for it (subprime Kwedit?) while keeping the Kwedit of customers they believe are likely to actually pay, which would roughly mirror the activities of a collection agency.

This is, of course, all a flight of fancy: I think the idea is likely to be massively unworkable in practice or, in the alternative, regulated out of existence.
Be sure to click on the "Next" buttons, they don't scroll the story down, they scroll each little story sideways!
Since it's targeted at virtual goods and services, on failure to pay, goods either cost nothing to create, or services can be revoked.

As a merchant you should never use such a system that can be transfered between users, converted into other units of value, or for tangible goods. :)
I thought you could only write iPhone apps in Objective-C.
Figure out where/what you'll be doing and what level of interesting work and risk you'll be seeing. I went over in 2004 and it was definitely an exciting time but I wasn't working on a base so YMMV. I liked the local food, I don't know how I would fare on a year of mess hall fare.
I'm really rather keen on having my head attached to my body, so I would have to say no. I bet Ken Bigley thought he was on to a nice little earner, right up until al-Zarqawi's men came through the door.

I'm just a clueless civvie, but it seems to me that the insurgency in Iraq is becoming more indiscriminate and that the risks to all westerners there are largely similar, regardless of what they are there to do. IEDs and mortars don't distinguish between military and civilian targets. The kidnapper actively seek out civilians.

Other posters with far more relevant experience than I seem to think that you won't really have any contact with the locals and spend most of your time doing grunt work, so it doesn't seem to me like there are many intangible benefits beyond being able to say that you've worked in a warzone. If you want a great cultural experience, surely you'd be better off going to places where you don't have to travel in a convoy of armoured cars? Travel is tremendously cheap at the moment and there are plenty of opportunities to work your way around, especially as a young, educated American - half the world is willing to offer you a Working Holiday visa. If you don't fancy teaching English, tending a bar or picking fruit, you could tote a laptop and freelance.

Think about longer-term earning potential. What would you learn in Iraq that would make you attractive to civilian employers? What opportunities would that entry on your CV open up? What would be the value of a year's experience as a junior developer at a bank, for instance?

If you're typical of the average HN reader, you could do far better. I can't begin to estimate the value created by the average startup founder in their first year, but I'm guessing that it's a hell of a lot more than $200k. It's never been cheaper to startup and never easier to reach ramen profitability. There's never been more angel money and never more VCs willing to make small, early-stage investments.

The opportunity you have strikes me as a boring, dangerous dead-end for not very much money. As a recent graduate, I'd be far more concerned about building up long-term equity than about making quick cash. I expect that your student debt must feel like a massive burden, but relative to your career earning potential it's chump change. Think long term, think about what you can build up for yourself.
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Single page version is here:

http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-...
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My first job out of college was at a nursing home. It was really an interesting and fun job. It helped me be more sensitive to the needs of others. I was the activities director, which meant I transported wheel chair bound people through the home all day. I also created activities to keep them busy.
Does the second-hand market reduce sales?

Yes: it undermines income streams. In the second year, purchases fall, and in the third year there are none at all. If the second-hand market could be eliminated, books would last longer than 3 years and could be cheaper. There is a way: to produce electronic books [e-books] and kill them after a year.

That answer bothers me, a lot. Especially when in the beginning he says a textbook should be a lifelong companion.

Frankly a good textbook shouldn't HAVE a substantial secondhand market. As a student I do a lot of research into which textbooks to buy, occasionally I forego the 'required' textbook and get something that is more recognized by the industry or other academics.

I've found that if I ever buy a textbook I intend to keep it.
It's interpreted, so I really doubt it'd outperform MzScheme Arc. Though it uses normal JavaScript objects for the stack frames (modulo some __proto__ hackery to serve as the static link), so I'm curious how well V8 can optimize that.
I'm not saying don't market at all. Just perhaps there's not a need to market in the way that you mentioned in the previous post about portfolio pages, given pg & co can only look after so many startups per batch.

But apparently not, since pg replied saying he was working on a portfolio page and jl is working on blog posts. I concede.
Nokia still has 3 times more smartphones in the market than Apple, apparently.

http://latestgeeknews.blogspot.com/2010/02/nokia-sorry-apple...
How a python vs ruby thread turned in to Haskell vs Lisp argument i will never know. The essence of Haskell is that its a lazy statically typed functional language, the essence of lisp is that it treats code as data. There is NOTHING stopping someone from making a Haskell with lisp syntax, and calling that lisp, in fact i think there is such a thing. Code as data is such a powerful idea, it is independent of the underlying paradigm of the language, you can have an algol with lisp syntax and it would be lisp, you can have smalltalk with lisp syntax and it would be lisp. Code is data is the only lisp feature you can't take away from lisp, because if you add it to your language, you don't have a new language, you have a new lisp.

Thats why lispers are smug sometimes, they know that their language will change dramatically in the future to adapt to the new environment, its the source of lisps immortality, it is destined to be reinvented.
You bring up a great point, possible differences in expenses. I bet you're right, it's not just a normal gig/set-up.

That said, I don't change my main idea or advice: To remove the compensation as a reason to do this.

It's such a unique job (to put it mildly). And the fact that if one is undergoing extreme conditions either way, one can greatly increase their income with other strategies, I still think this should be a non-financial decision, and purely a lifestyle/values/learning/risk one.
This is an idea that's so brilliant it's frightening...

If it stays legal, this idea will be the next thing, whether it works in exactly this form or not.

Of course, the end comes when some external shock causes a mass defection from the service.
Ask HN: Should I focus on getting API customers or direct customers?
I started SnailPad (www.snailpad.com) sort of as a joke about 3 months ago. Now I've got a decent number of direct customers and a few API customers using the service. The volume has helped me justify (and pay for) some pretty badass hardware that I've hacked together to automate most of the process.

I've learned that API customers tend to give me more volume with less margins but require a pretty long sales cycle (it takes time to convince them, have them try the API, receive a few samples, bite the bullet, etc).

I've learned that direct customers are lower volume with (much, much) higher margins and, generally speaking, are pretty quick to get onboarded.

At this point, it's still just me doing the coding, bizdev, mailing, etc (read: everything) and I'm having a hard time trying to figure which of those customer types is "better" way for me to continue organically growing the business.

What would you do?
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Measurement and entanglement isn't quite the same physical phenomenon. Measurement necessarily involves a certain kind of entanglement, but not every entanglement is a measurement (or, if it is, then you've chosen a particularly confusing definition of measurement tantamount to any interaction between systems with substantial uncorrelated degrees of freedom.)
The legality is indeed an open question.

But it survives that hurdle, I think Kwedit will have a bright, bright future - for a while.

Also, just taking Kwedit will become the equivalent of leveraged finance if it gets off the ground. And we know how well that works... for a while.
I'd certainly consider it if I didn't have a wife with her own career here in Australia. If I had a student loan to pay off I'd be even keener.

One suggestion though: get a little bit of training in first (maybe from Suarez International or a similar organisation).

I don't mean high-speed low-drag gunslinging ninja stuff (although their vehicle gunfighting course _does_ look like fun). What I mean is advice on how to keep yourself safe in a foreign, hostile environment. Precautions to take, places to go and not to go ... that sort of thing.
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The Church is not a humanitarian organization - it has billions of dollars worth of gold bullion and art that could have been used to help so many poor people, but it has chosen not to.
Tipjoy was working on this idea at one point, but they switched ideas because they couldn't raise enough money to get certified as a money transfer agent. I still think it's a great idea. The way to make micropayments work is simply not to insist on them always being collectible, and factor predicted payment rates into your prices.
You can make $150 an hour doing software consulting in San Francisco. Thats 240k a year assuming you can bill 40 full weeks a year.
Your comment is uninformed and silly. This post links to an article with information from the UN. This survey has well researched numbers on the number of people who have AIDS in Africa. This number is 25 million. 25 million is not 60% of the population.
A plugin called Flash, which %99.99 of them have.

100 million of them have installed VLC, and the standard DirectShow codec packs probably have at least that too.
The point is that as a Python programmer, even a casual one, I know what decorators and generators are and can look up how they work. I can pretty confidently expect to figure out what they mean in any case I need to.

And yeah, the language has arguably become less Pythonic as it caters to more expert programmers at the expense of less expert ones. From the beginning, there have been people who claimed that primitive, clear, inelegant code is worse than elegant, concise code that depends on extra language features. Usually that claim has been rejected, but as sometimes happens in politics, the people who care enough to influence the process are not always the people for whom the process is supposed to work. I see decorators as something of a Trojan horse through which Python became more of a language for me (a software developer who copes with, and sometimes even likes, C++) and less of a language for my customers (scientists and engineers). Which is tragic because there are plenty of languages for software developers and not enough languages for people who just need something stupidly simple yet powerful enough for all practical purposes.

Still, despite the erosion of its simplicity, Python stands out for its philosophy of simplicity and its adherence to it. There remains a gulf between a language that sounded a clarion call for simplicity and has slipped a little from its principles and a language that chose the red pill and dove down the rabbit hole basically for the sheer beautiful hell of it.
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Seriously.

"Please rearrange the world to suit my business model"
It's unfortunate that this has been legal since 2007. Between 1911 and 2007, a manufacturer could set whatever wholesale price they wanted, but was not allowed to attempt to control what retail prices others could resell it for.

Now Macmillan-style agreements where the manufacturer can demand a contract that lets the manufacturer set the retail price are legal, thanks to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leegin_Creative_Leather_Product....

The old rule seems more reasonable to me. If Macmillan or Murdoch or whoever wants to raise the wholesale prices they charge Amazon, that's perfectly fine; they should charge whatever they think their product is worth. But what price Amazon then chooses to turn around and retail it for seems like none of their business.
I agree with you. I am assuming that he does not have kids yet? So do it for the experience.

I did a similar thing. I quit my job at a big company and right now I am in Norway for a few months.

I am from the Philippines and believe it or not, I just experienced my first snow a few weeks ago.
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Hi everyone. I'm a primary school teacher in the UK with a class of 8-9 year olds. I'm trying to arrange visits to the school by professionals with interesting jobs. We've had some visitors from the local area but I thought I'd widen the scope a little and I'm now trying to arrange video chats with people from all over the world.

If you have a job that you're passionate about and you can spare 30 minutes or so to chat on skype, please get in touch.

Ahmed
In case you cringed at "nytimes.com" and came to the comments hoping for a direct link to the tweet, here it is:

http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8620937722
Read the actual survey: http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2009/JC1700_Epi_Update_200...

It contains some very interesting information:

* AIDS has basically stabilized world wide. The number of new infections is only slightly higher than the number of deaths

* AIDS does not seem related to war or conflict zones in Africa. The warzones have low HIV prevalence and the most proposperous countries have high HIV

* AIDS seems to be a problem in Southern Africa and not over the entire continent

* Divorced people seem the most likely to have HIV

A quote:

Adult HIV prevalence in Côte d’Ivoire (3.7%) is more than twice as high as in Liberia (1.7%) or Guinea (1.6%), even though these West African countries share national borders (UNAIDS, 2008). Within the relatively small nation of Benin, a more than 12-fold variation in HIV prevalence among pregnant women (ranging from 0.4% to 3.8%) has been documented among the country’s depart- ments

* HIV peaked in the mid 1990s. We are now in a decline period. The epidemic is not getting worse - it's getting better

* There is no significant correlation between prevalence
of sexual concurrency and HIV prevalence at the country or community level

* Clinical trials have confirmed the results from observational epidemiology that male circumcision reduces transmission of HIV among men

For sub-Saharan Africa as a whole, median reported HIV prevalence among sex workers is 19%

In a study in Mombasa, Kenya, 43.0% of men who have sex only with other men tested HIV-positive

I'll read the entire article later and write up anything interesting I find. But in general, the facts about AIDS do not really sync with the stereotypes.
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The US market, while high in visibility, is largely irrelevant in the global scope. Nokia has a massive install base.
Gambit is a Scheme-to-C compiler; Objective-C is a superset of C. Hence all the iPhone sees is a regular subset of Objective-C.

http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem...
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really need to be on a separate page?
I concur - I really like the user experience with oAuth.

As a user, you absolutely know that a) the service they're signing up for doesn't get their twitter credentials, b) they get more value out of the original service, c) they don't have to remember / make up / reuse yet another password.

It's a lot like the paypal experience... Paypal handles all the "dangerous" stuff, like billing information; the user knows that it's paypal handling it, because it's on paypal's site; when they're done paying for it, they get redirected back to the merchant. It's a workflow many, many people are very, very comfortable with. It's a far sight easier to wrap your brain around than OpenID, that's for sure.
I don't know if it's fair to say that Qt was developed by Nokia. Nokia acquired Trolltech last year (who were the developers of it).
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Yes, you're right. Adding state to traits is definitely a Perl 6 innovation.
Aesthetics: the color scheme is murdering my eyes. Use a simple palette and use colors that work well together. I prefer to start with http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Logistics: You have _5_ calls to action on your front page. Pick one and drive it home. Focus on _1_ and either remove or tone down the others.

Idea: definitely seems reasonable. Without signing up, I don't really have any concept of how it works.
And now that you've read the oAuth instructions, you should understand oAuth. It took me six hours to implement it for the first time, including reading the documentation. Granted, I was using a third-party library to handle the API interaction because, well, it's already been done - so why re-do it? ;)
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