skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I earned about that much, completely passive, within 2 mos and it's been recurring with no extra work, doing some basic SEO and adsense work, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg, skip to minute 2:40 to see my business model in work
Well, the conclusion, if your point is correct, is not that the op is wrong but that large, prosperous nations tend toward 2nd world status.
Picasso had a saying: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. -Steve Jobs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y
Can you elaborate more on:

" if you intersect the US's population with its per capita income..."
MSFT tries to introduce kids to imperative programming because this is what 99% of programmers use. The "MSFT .NET model" also includes F# (printfn "Hello World!") as well as implementations of every language known to man (Ada, Python, Ruby, Lisp, Pascal and dozens of unique languages).
I hesitate to say it, but maybe a lot of them are 'only' children and it relates (at least in part) to parental ability to afford Harvard? Just like big cities in America tend to have fewer kids because they are expensive to live in, so families move someplace they can afford to raise their kids.
Anything i can write about.

I find jobs on forums, problogger, blogs that accept guest posts...

Nettuts pays $150 if it's good enough
local state, I like to have it... I think this is a nice argument for using oop
Yeah, I'm using it. I was replying specifically to the comments in this thread about the "Submit Current Link" feature making it easier to post links. Sorry for being unclear.
One problem is that if you’re working in an interpreted language such as PHP then your code isn’t compiled

This has always bothered me -- the theory that compiled code is not also code. It is a language that can be interpreted by the OS and anyone else who is familiar with it. This is not a skill most people have, and byte code is not English, but it is code nonetheless. It is not magic, specially sealed, wrapped in a black box. I may not have your source code, but your source code is just your view of the same program. Even your source code could have a pretty printer applied to it so that you edit it differently from other developers on your team -- developers who use different syntax highlighting schemes already do this to aid their mental interpretation of the same code language.

I am annoyed by usage licenses with the warning against using disassemblers, as if someone has the right to tell you what kind of viewer/editor/OS/program you are allowed to use to translate/interpret the byte language. They never say, "You are not allowed to open this in a hex editor or notepad". This is an attempt to sell air and trying to seal it with more air, but it also misses the point of the software; it is a misleading and even invalid view of the software's actual value.

As someone making money off software, I have never assumed that the software itself held the core value. The value comes from my trusted name, my continued support, and other things I do for the environment of the software. It may even come from the software being necessary for something physical to operate (a robot or firmware on a card). From another perspective, the value is in the physical medium I use to distribute the software so that you can feel more confident in your continued access to it.

Keep in mind that while PHP is not compiled, developers at the customer site could alter the PHP code and add value to the application/package that was sold. They also would have to accept the trade-off: Upgrades get pretty complicated when you mix new code with the local changes. They also would have to spend time to learn the code and support it. This tends to be a waste of resources, and thus the advantage remains in the hands of the active producer.

The value is not in the libraries I distribute. The value is in me being able to easily maintain and support the libraries and the constructs built on top of them, that I can construct a software package and environment that people are more willing to invest money in than similar things from my competitors. If I do that quickly and well, and if I establish trust with my customers, then I will not as easily lose my customer base to someone else.
Kanban (on) Scrum - David Anderson
Eh, thats not very good evidence of the claim, and wouldn't over 50% be first born anyway? I dont know the average distribution of child-sizes but I would assume almost half of people in the US are first borns (including only-children).
Ask HN: Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it?
A bit about myself, I'm a 21 year old British Citizen, currently living in The Netherlands. I currently work as a frontend Web Developer. I started building sites when I was 13, doing freelance jobs on the side. My passion keeps on growing and growing, and I've come to a stage where I want to begin my own startup. I have some ideas and am refining them now, but I think I'd prefer to work on them part-time whilst working. As such, I probably initially am looking for work and later will look to pursue the startup

San Francisco would obviously be the ideal place for me to live if I want to begin my startup, and after my visit to San Francisco last year, I know that it's the right kind of place for me. I'd like to find a job over there for a while and work on my prototype on the side. I'm looking forward to hearing some advice on the best way to approach it - both in finding the suitable position as well as anyone who has navigated the visa minefield. Thanks in advance.
The recent thing about average voting score bothers me a bit. It seems to make commenting a risky business, and overall comments seem to not be welcome.

In fact, thinking about it just gave me an idea for a feature request: I might be better off if commenting was disabled for me for good. Overall I am mostly embarrassed that I wrote so many comments, and commenting wastes a lot more time than just voting.

I like to read people's comments on subjects, often there is useful additional information. Not sure what I actually gain from commenting myself, other than the "someone is wrong on the internet" effect.
Interesting. I did not think of this, but yes, I think this would create a rift between 'casual' gamers and 'hardcore' gamers. IE those that abuse the fact, that the randomization is hampered for gameplay purposes and those who don't.

Thinking of it, this is a real problem, because if the shuffle bags size is increased to make tracking the state of the bag harder, the randomness should converge against true randomness again, defeating the point.
In the same vein: ~$500, depending on severity for Google Chrome vulnerabilities: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/01/encouraging-more-chromium-s...

Same for Mozilla/Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html
Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' - Jiggling Atoms
Don't be so sure that they don't have permission. Microsoft has implemented Tetris before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack
local state, you will not like what concurrent threads do to it... For every nice argument there is a counter.
Another great read from him. I'd love to know some insider YC stories about entrepreneurs, like the one's mentioned in this article, that YC may have come across over the years.
Isn't that what mturk is for?
I am always astonished by this, too. Finding housing and finding a job both seem like problems that are really ripe for some sort of optimizing solution. It's an incredible amount of work for the people on both ends of the process &mdash; renters and landlords; employers and would-be employees &mdash; because there is so much information to sort through, in a plethora of non-standard formats. Looking through listings (or piles of applications) is truly the lowest common denominator.

Anyway, if you're not aware, Craigslist has a "Housing Wanted" section: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/hsw/ (for the Bay Area)

Also, although this is not what you asked for, http://www.padmapper.com does make searching through listings a lot less painful.
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Do we know she is vain? I don't know Leah, do you know her?

I always thought when you were writing a blog post on your personal blog you should probably refer to yourself as "I", it would be significantly worse if she referred to herself in the third person.
indiejade,

I have read your snarky comments here on HN. I don't understand where your negativity is coming from.

Are you still peeved that engineers are more valued than business people in the startup world?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1106403
I lived in New York for a year and it was really vibrant, I loved it. The only problem I had was staying...
I couldn't get the visa to stick.
Good luck with it
You walk up just behind someone with an ID, and then you walk in before the door closes.
Just launched: a gay iPhone dating app that's classy
Some friends and I have just launched West Fourth, a new iPhone app for gay men who are looking for lasting connections and relationships. We're starting in NYC & SF and moving to other cities soon. For those of you familiar with the space, our app was born out of the frustration that all the location-based dating apps for gay men are transactional and trashy. We'd love product feedback and especially marketing feedback, since we're right now in the middle of figuring out the best way to target gay men in our demographic. If anyone has marketing ideas for or experience with our demo, please reach out (our email is on our homepage).

Download our app at http://www.westfourthapp.com/

Thanks!
-Eric
How to Greet the Dalai Lama
I disagree. The article offers relevant pointers, reasons, links and first-person impressions (that's the whole point of blogging!). If I were interested in getting started with iPhone development, she provides me with books, tutorials, examples and libraries and their documentation, twitter feeds and her point of view.
That, to me, is valuable. If Ms. Culver is "vain beyond words" or not, is completely irrelevant.
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This reminded me of the If Nerds Can Learn Linux, Why Can't They Learn Not To Interrupt People? story that went around yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1169875)
Check out what I did in a week: http://oneweekapp.com/.

Cocoa is _awesome_ for rapid development.
Here's why traditional marketing is doomed
Will Yammer fail because of the constraints of the enterprise?
At MIT the doors are unlocked. People just walk in and sit in on a class, the speak to the professor before class starts and say "Hey can I sit in on this class" and unless the class is full they can normally sit in.
> I like how you coupled something a lot of people think is bad, with something few people think is bad, and present it as an all-or-nothing choice.

It's not my coupling - it's the new urbanists' coupling.

I don't know what a "hate cars, like lawns" or "like cars, hate lawns" vision would be, but neither is relevant if we're discussing new urbanists.

> > "Note that the folks who disagree with the premise are perfectly willing to let the new urbanists do their thing."

> I disagree. Suburban developers, along with the people who live there, are currently in the process of torpedoing a new mass transit rail system in Seattle

Not so fast - they're refusing to pay for it. That's very different. If it was such a great idea, if there actually were people who placed as much value on these things as they cost, you wouldn't need funding from other people.

> this is something that will take a lot of cars off the road, create new residential and commercial corridors with excellent transit coverage

These are things that you value - they don't.

> Suburbanites fear the accessibility will destroy the exclusivity of their enclaves (which is probably true), and thus are trying to prevent this from being built.

"exclusivity of their enclaves" sounds like projection.

> American cities are littered with stories of urban initiatives torpedoed by people in fear of the destruction of their suburban lifestyles.

Not at all. They're merely refusing to pay for the lifestyle that you'd prefer.
How many pages do you need for an e-book typically?
I think the Wikipedia folks are generally right that voting/polling has a poisonous effect on conversation--people get too wrapped up in voting up/down and score. The most important part is the article content and the substantive conversations that they create.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls_are_evil
Everything said in this post is true of any kind of patent, not just software patents. Gillette does the same thing with razors.

I still see no reason to treat software patents as a subset of patents that should be dealt with independently of the patent system as a whole. If we do away with software patents we should do away with ALL patents.

If we reform all patents, we should also reform software patents.
At present, is there any reasonable behavior for developers other than to just ignore software patents?

I wouldn't even know where to start if I were trying to avoid infringing.

With non-software patents (let's say I'm building a new kind of lawnmower), I could search for patents on lawnmowers, maybe knife blades, or weed whackers. But with software, I think I'd have to search for abstract concepts like "list sorting" but maybe also "representing data in an ordered table" and "appending measurements according to rule."

Is there anyone who doesn't just ignore software patents and then hope for the best?
> So suburban sprawl serves a great many Americans quite poorly, regardless of their opinions of cars or lawns.

True but irrelevant because no one said that suburban living was for everyone and suburbanists are happy to let folks make (and pay for) other choices.

It's the new urbanists who are pushing a "universal" vision.

As I wrote above, if something works only if everyone does the same, it probably doesn't actually work.
IE6 funeral
Hey - as a new SF transplant (from the East Coast), I definitely understand your excitement about getting over there. The visa issue is really tough - one I haven't had to confront with our company luckily.

In terms of work, my honest answer is be good. SF has a ton of developers (front end, back end, and everything in between), but a huge portion of the contract work force is just really, really bad.

If you are already a front end guy, I would think about how you could turn yourself into the ultimate web experience designer with graphic design skills, some background knowledge of user experience design, and the ability to hack it together. There are few people that meet that bill anywhere, imo.

Another way to approach the visa question, depending on what else you have to learn, is looking into a program at one of the university. California College of the Arts is good, as is SF State, etc. Not sure what the financial situation is like, but that might be a way to get your feet settled and build even more skills in the meantime.

Once you get here, just network like crazy. Meeting people is the best way to find great projects. Good luck!
Ask HN: Submitted startup looking for feedback
Hey guys. We've just submitted (as some of you here) the last edition of our YC application form. On quarket.com you'll find a demo video describing our project. Any opinions, advice, questions are welcome.
An easy first guess as to efficiency would be O(n) for insertions and deletions, since that's what you need to maintain a sorted list (which is the lowest level of a skip-list).
Tech Tour: Cambridge Innovation Center
Nothing has changed for a long time, either with HN or your account.
Oh, forgot the most important part. Stay white hat. If you ever venture into the dark side of online ads, you will probably get caught and have a wasted investment.

Offline affiliate marketing is win-win, but in a cheap country it might be hard to pull off.

<adsense>

I know there are some issues with getting accepted for adsense in other countries. If you have problems, email me (profile link) and I'll give you one of the solutions.

1. Find a notepad.
2. Write: "Things I can teach you:"
3. List everything you imagine you can teach a person
(This can range from simple math to programming to drawing to singing like an american idol?)
4. Hard part is over! Relax and decide on your mid-range topics (ones you're not a guru at, but with a little research could obviously teach someone)
5. Create little niche sites (google keyword tool -> show CPC -> Arrange by amount of hits (look in the 10k-20k views range -> google "keyword" (yeah quotes) -> if its less than 40k pages, and wikipedia is a top result, you probably just found a $9 investment (domain cost) that would turn into $20/mo.
6. Once you've spent 2 weeks doing this, you should have a feel for the idea and what grasps people's attention etc. Try some of your more guruish topics. Hell, make an ebook and offer it on one of your adsense sites.

</adsense>

<articles/imgs>There are also tons of sites that pay you to write articles[1] or photoshop!</art/img>

<translations>You said cheap country, but I don't really understand the scope of that... but I'm going to assume you know another language. If so, start a site offering translation services or just scope out people. iPhone apps, etc need translations and shell out serious cash for them.</trans>

my experience(I made money, got cocky, and lost too much):
http://sanguinity.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/money22.png

xutopia's recent story(6k/ebook)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159445

One final bit: when you research (blogs/sites) you will probably stumble upon keywords like 'mesothelioma, structured settlements, annuity payments, criminal lawyers, tax attorneys, asbestos, etc,' being the gold mines. Don't waste your time. $40/clk($5-15 your share) sounds amazing, but its another losing game trying to get ranked in search engines.

[1: http://www.associatedcontent.com ]
how many hours a month are you willing to work for $300-$400 a month.

Or do you want to do x amount of work and expect to get $400 a month for life?
I think that's close to true, but not quite. The difference is that software is far more reusable than physical objects.

For example, a linked lists are currently used in at least hundreds of thousands of applications. A razor blade can be used in what-- 100 different tools? Razor, paper cutter?

(But I do still think reforming the entire patent system, as you suggest, is a great idea.)
Another commenter mentioned that you might be non-technical (hate that term). But for reference, Spencer Fry has a comprehensive and awesome list of the value of business-oriented people at a startup. Yin and Yang.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779378

http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do
> if you intersect the US's population with its per capita income..."

Both the average and median income in the US are fairly high by world standards.

As far as being poor, poor people in the US typically have a car and one or more TVs. (Yes, there are exceptions. However, it's also nearly impossible to get many US homeless to use housing that is provided.)
I don't see the headline as misleading, but maybe I'm too close to it right now.

I changed it on my site.

I left the reference to him being 16 because that's when he got into the ad business. But I said he was 25 when his net worth hit $100 mil.

By the way, including dollar signs in so many of my headlines feels out of touch with my mission. I wish I knew a better way to communicate the size and importance of my guests' achievements in 10 words or less.
Without knowing how Redis works, maybe they were chosen because it's really quite easy to build a highly concurrent (lock-free) skip list?
My bachelor thesis was about extending a threaded execution environment for a multithreaded programming language. The language basically had the semantics of building up a network of concurrent communicating boxes. I had to extend this to have a certain scheduling layer between the boxes and actual threads (which previously was a 1:1 mapping).
Not to mention the lack of diversity in smaller countries, especially European ones. (No, a bunch of Italians in France is not "diversity".)

That is changing with Islamic immigration, and they're seeing the race/class discrepancies that they claim are "uncivilized".
Don't use elance, you have to pay to bid and usually you never get hire for a gig. Instead you might want to try oDesk, I go on there when I have nothing to do and I usually get gigs within hours.
I believe software only bring out the danger of patents into the open, not because it is a poor fit.

Imagine that people are starting to have a printer that can print any objects from any design at will, including the biological kind. They benefit from sharing designs over time, because not only that their machine can print newer design, but their machine also allow them to recycle objects into new and better one. All that is left is the distribution mechanism for raw material, but once you reach a certain amount of material, you can basically transform old objects into new ones at will, barring the need for new raw and rare exotic materials. Perhaps, people who is able to complete a design will be rewarded with especially rare materials for them to experiment with?

Now what happen if the patent system is still in effect? That mean every person with a 3D printer is barred from printing designs from a patent of an inventor. In order to make lot of money, he essentially bar the people with 3D printers from printing so that he can sell his invention at the market for really high fees. If he come up with an innovative design for a self-replicating machine, he can bar the people with 3D printers as well from doing as they like for twenty years. For whatever reason, he rather have the power rather than becoming one of those nobodies in a society where everyone is become wealthier.

He can practically stop whole community of inventors who don't use patent and have a totally different idea toward sharing the design of invention.

Now imagine an innovative software entrepreneur stopping the open source software community and industry!

Patents doesn't need to be frivolous in order to be dangerous to the progress of technology. It can be innovative and life changing.

But an equally self-interested community of inventors who does thing in the open, may also give you inventions that is innovative and life changing as well.(And it may be just one inventor in the whole community who come up with it as well)

Which path do you want to explore?
Has business press lost touch with the tech industry?
It's great that a lot of developers are sounding off on their blogs about this. But what will it take to achieve real progress toward reform? We can complain all we want, but what will it take to get real traction?
Investigating underwater waves
The "average number of own children under 18 per family" for "familes with own children under 18" was 1.86 in 2009 (and has been within 0.1 of that since 1978), which means about 1/1.86=~54% of all children are first-borns...

I don't think we have enough information here to actually verify but I suspect 80% vs 54% is still a statistically significant difference.

But it's pretty obvious that the 80% number is an arbitrary guess, so I'm not sure exactly where I stand here.

source: http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hh-fam/fm3.csv
thanks, that's what I was looking for!
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
I notice that as well. I will start to put "Buzz" in front of the title. Then you decide.