skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? We don't have a consulting page up at all, and we get contacted all the time for people looking to build navigation apps. If you look at similar apps in the app store, it's really easy to contact the developers. And it seems most developers charge between 75 and 250/hour. A wide range, yes, but certainly less than this guy.
I learned to relax many years ago using one of these that a friend had:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000E22DFE

It's a galvanic skin response gadget. There are others (I got one from radio shack too). Search for GSR.

It basically lowers a tone when you relax. It takes almost no time at all to learn to relax with the immediate feedback the device offers.

When you lower the tone very low, you have basically relaxed your whole body and can easily fall asleep.

I have no idea if this is like meditation or not, since I don't know how to meditate. It could be, because you concentrate on the tone the device makes.
There have been a few JavaScript accessibility arguments over the years. The main thrust goes like this:

1a) Screen readers (e.g. JAWS) don't support JavaScript properly
1b) Only very modern screen readers support JavaScript properly (JAWS 10+)
2) Upgrading screen readers is expensive
3) People with disabilities statistically have lower incomes

QED we can't expect disabled users to have JavaScript.

To address the points:

1a was true a long time ago, but modern screen readers do support JavaScript and things like ARIA.

1b is somewhat true but that proves it's a technology rather than an "accessibility" problem, the screen readers weren't implementing JavaScript rather than it being an actually accessibility issue. As such WCAG2 made the decision to treat it as such.

2 and 3 are somewhat true, however many people with disabilities have access to non-profit, state or federal programs that support them with technology. Also free, open source projects like NVDA are increasingly advanced.
If that's what's holding a person up they probably don't have the necessary risk tolerance to be an entrepreneur.
Apple will generally not approve an app that does this if they notice
Self employment in Mexico City is a bit different than the startups you find in San Francisco.

No, it's not a bit different. It's completely different. It's another universe.

The vast majority of self employment in DF is a fruit stand or selling cigarettes at traffic lights (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I spent some time with an Italian entrepreneur a few weeks ago and he told me "we have three VCs in our country. and two are out of money."

The Sobering Reality of Entrepreneurship in the US is that we have it better than everybody else in the world, and even more so if you are an entrepreneur in SF, NY, Boston, Austin, etc.
This looks promising. Unfortunately I can't use any GUI tools because the server doesn't have a GUI installed.
But... he's a household name for some reason, right?

There was some original core non-meta reason he became famous.

I suspect the reason had to do with some combination of the following: women find him attractive, men admire him and/or want to be as cool as him, PLUS arguably he's actually a pretty decent actor given the right role/script.
"Self-employment" doesn't mean what we think of entrepreneurship.

PG has the great metaphor two saplings, one of them is a redwood sapling, it's expecting to grow. On that measure we don't create self-employment with entrepreneurship we create jobs.

HNers want to create a lot of employed people when they are succeeding.
Or perhaps they just got genetically unlucky. Say someone has a chronic condition and would never be able to afford insurance outside of a group plan. Does that mean the world should be deprived of their entrepreneurial efforts?
Your comment reminds me of this: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s... http://pindancing.blogspot.com/2009/09/sudoku-in-coders-at-w...

It's a discussion of two people, Peter Norvig and a TDD enthusiast, both building a Sudoku solver. Norvig takes a no-nonsense AI approach and the TDD enthusiast flails for five blog posts without getting anywhere. To me, the moral of the story isn't to mock TDD, but to point out that different problems require different approaches. TDD can't be naively applied to an algorithmic problem the way it can be applied to a nuts-on-bolts web app, for instance.
Interesting comparison you made too. Because for me, I respect Carmack a hell of a lot more than Mike Lee. And I suspect he's a much better programmer as well. And human being.
I've only read the google books previews of Brads books, but im impressed. As a hardcore punk fan myself i wasn't as surprised as most to the connection the Brad Warner made between punk and zen. Also anybody who puts dirty toilets, and tattooed Buddhas with mohawks on the cover of his zen books gets my respect. People should also check out his blog: http://hardcorezen.blogspot.com/

As for meditation practice, just sitting is enough, every time i have a thought or a disturbance of any kind i just readjust my pose.
Fantastic link, and timely too. Thank you.
For what it's worth, this could be written in one line of Io:

File standardInput readToEnd split select(endsWithSeq("ing")) foreach(println)

(Given that I don't actually use Io a lot, there might be shorter ways to do this.)

Anyway, as usual, code samples prove very little. =)
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Reminds me of an old article from NY Times entitled All Science Is Computer Science: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/weekinreview/the-world-in-...
Crashes are now mostly the domain of Flash, though. JS hangs in an infinite loop sometimes, but that's not a crash. Actual JS-originated crashes are exceedingly rare in my experience, and are usually the mark of an experimental-build browser.

Popups are largely handled by every major browser having popup blocking that works reliably enough.

Malicious code is what the ad-supported internet runs on. The only thing they can hit is your already-public data - the use of that data is the only thing that can be construed as malicious.
I'd date her for an hour, tops. And I bet she'd charge me $1000 for it. (Discounts for repeat customers.) Wait a minute.
i consider myself more right-brain leaning than many in this field, but i still consider this nonsense. wtf does, for example, knocking about on foreign adventures have anything to do with making a great app? ok great, resourcefulness, but show me something relevant if you want $1k an hour

if he has some experience other than coding that makes him so fit, he should mention it, but this is pure bravado, and that doesn't sit well with me
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This guy does know he has a valid tort against this person, right? If he wants to discourage them from driving, he should sue her for damages. She was negligent, he was damaged while he had a reasonable expectation of safety (crossing walk sign gave the OK), and there were many witnesses. If that isn't a preponderance of evidence, I don't know what is.

Instead of taking responsibility for himself in the commonly established method of the tort, he wants to force the state to get involved. As if that would ever fly -- the old have a stranglehold on voting; getting the state to restrict their rights is a fantasy.

The author should stand up for his rights in an effective manner if his audience is to respect him.
Real estate agents are in business for themselves (the companies they work for are really providing a federation-like environment, with shared services). I suspect many of them see themselves as entrepreneurs too.
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180 degree viewing angle on a flat surface--now that's magical!
Yeah, I'm a light sleeper.
I'd second that, but the pricing can be inconvenient sometimes. I remember I was in Spain trying to get to Morocco, and I found a Ryanair flight for .01 (yes, that's 1 cent) with about 40 or 50 bucks worth of taxes and stuff. The trouble was, the flight back was like $400 or something. For me, it wasn't a huge deal since I was just buying 1-way tickets, but I can see how it might not be convenient at times. I ended up not going to Morocco for other reasons, but Ryanair's pretty great if you're cash strapped and don't mind a little discomfort on the road.
Focusing on breathing is great, I was thought that at meditation class, with more details of course. But it's really important to keep your eyes almost closed, not open nor closed, almost closed. You have to be aware of the world, meditating is not about shutting yourself from the world
I used meditation in college as a student-athlete mainly to learn how to relax during 800 and 1500m races. Many people believe that in order to run fast you have tense your muscles and push harder but the opposite is true. When you relax and concentrate on your form and breathing the speed flows right through you.

Haven't used it in quite a while but when I did it brought a nice balance to things. Good focus, a gentle calm, better stress management, etc. Nothing mystical. Just healthy benefits.
Fragmentation: iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch... Each with different capabilities and hardware specs. I've shipped titles to the App Store where I had to tip toe through the minefield of all those permutations, making sure the app worked correctly and/or similarly on all. Sometimes pretty hard to do.

Android more fragmented? Surely.
hire more developers!

[and feed them adderall!!]
That's interesting. But what about after factoring in the cost of transporting yourself from the airport to your destination?

I'd imagine trains mostly go to the city centers while airports are more on the outer limits.
It's so dope when I focus on my breath
'Cos I floss all the time and I chew Big Red!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gCU5uplB4A
Can we say with some certainty that 'Parkinsons is not caused by a virus' ?
5 years ago for .Net was a very long time ago. Back then the only games in town were C++, java or .net. The former was for the hardcore, the other two were written by programmers who had no clue what they were doing. You're just taking a memory of what it used to be like and comparing it to what you know in OSS today.

You're talking before the fairly meteoric rise in the standard of web programming over the past few years. Before blogs. When tables vs divs was an actual argument. When C++ was relevant in anything apart from high performance programming.

You're also talking about .Net 2.0, pre-LINQ, extension methods and MVC.

And reading your post makes it sound more that you have a chip on your shoulder about bad programmers more than anything else:

lazy, non-challenged developers

ASP.NET is a hulking piece of shit, anyone that tells you otherwise is lying and/or too stupid to realize it

other .NET developers you know are unchallenged nitwits without any sense of vision, any sense of craft. A bunch of me too dim wits who collect paychecks by copying and pasting their way to completion

redmond regurgitating drone army

There are lots of jobs in .Net or java. There's sweet fa for a crap programmer in OSS. Once you realise that is the reason you came across so many crap programmers, perhaps you can understand that there's nothing actually wrong with .Net, it was actually a pretty fucking big revolution. On the other hand you will still come across .Net programmers who think datatables are pretty funky, rely heavily on view state and bizarrely believe .Net controls aren't the spawn of the devil.

As for the rest of it, honestly, 'Win2K server admin', um, it's moved on man. Stop beating the straw doll. 'The world is open now', look a little more objectively at the world we actually live in. Did you even notice the iPhone come out a few years back? Or the Kindle? Or all the other closed source proprietary systems that a me too OS movement gleefully copies, badly for the most part. There's plenty of room at the table for both.

Yes MS have turned into a pretty crap company under Ballmer, but their language teams are still pretty damn good.

The reality is you've become a more experienced programmer. And somehow you're magically attributing it to OSS instead of just knowing more than when you were wet behind the ears.
For rapid development, I lean towards "absolutely". For large-scale applications with many users, I lean towards "absolutely not".

If you have to service everybody, the answer is a flat "no". Doing otherwise is irresponsible, however understandable. If you don't, take the 0.1% user hit (assuming some mobile devices here) and require it and save yourself a lot of trouble.
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." and your code mylord does not passes the bill. Also I do agree with OP, python support readability and it make sense to choose it over other languages where clarity matters. Every language have their own use-case, python suits here quite well.
I find it more interesting that you're using a blog post to judge the author's quality as a human being.
There's many dimensions on which we can evaluate programming languages, but the NLTK folk are only really interested in one: readability. Their page implicitly argues that high-level languages with good string processing are the most readable, and that amongst those Python is more readable than the alternatives (for both non-programmers and experts).

NLTK is supposed to be an educational toolkit. It's used by linguists taking their first steps in programming, and by CS students taking their first steps in complexity and mess of human language. They're not looking for the shortest code, the fastest code, or the most <quality attribute X> code, just the most readable, insofar as readability can be supported and encouraged by a language.
One thing we're really wondering is whether the redesign will make the site more democratic and each person's finds more relevant to their friends... and if Digg has managed to do all that in a way that won't piss off/alienate the power users.

Thoughts?
Why have you built that website using Flash?
Maybe from 1950-1999. I do not know of many value investors who returned 10% annual over the last 10 years.
Was that last part necessary? I think it's a bad idea to declare someone not a good human being based on the one blog post you read.

(Especially since he wrote a few others about saving endangered species and homeless people.)
It's not about how much you can or will charge, it's about how much you've actually sold.
A colleague (from South Africa) once was denied entry to the USA, for having outstanding parking tickets in SA...
Thank you. That was a nice, concise answer! (it's been a while since I've had any E/M)
Trade makes us richer if it's motivated by both parties coming out ahead in their judgment. Spending for the sake of spending, or for the sake of "stimulating the economy", doesn't help anything.

People who say "In this economy we need more money being spent" are not capitalists advocating efficient trade, they're Keynesians or something.

If someone thought he would benefit from a purchase, he would do it without encouragement. So what meaning can the encouragement to spend have...?

Conceivably it could mean (but this guy did not mean) that there's lower hanging fruit to be found by looking for more trades that should happen but aren't than by producing more. But it's far from obvious how/why that would be true "in this economy". In economic slowdowns, you need to make more stuff, not divvy up the too-little stuff more perfectly. It's when the economy is booming and production is very high that there might more plausibly be a neglect of the efficiency of trading.
Not to diss your comment, because I don't intend that, but it got me to thinking. I hereby propose we all stop using this "tldr" or "TL;DR" meme that keeps popping up on every other web posting lately because it's an unnecessarily opaque code, and not very readable, in my opinion.

Instead, how about instead we start doing something like this:

summary: <whatever>
Its funny, the first time I had a visual hallucination when I was meditating I thought I was watching one of those trippy music visualizations in my mind.
http://developer.android.com/index.html should get you started. It even has a link to "Target Devices" that shows you what percentage of active devices run each version of the Android OS.
Turkey, Greece and Mexico had the highest self-employment rates as a percentage of total employment.

I bet Mali or Niger have an even higher rate, given most of the working population are subsistence farmers. Further, many countries don't have the laws that, say, the US and UK do to prevent abusing "self employed" workers by treating them as employees without benefits.
I'm a big fan of physical insight, but you simply cannot redefine "current" as "that which does not flow and by implication is stationary".

Better would be to clarify current as charge in the state of motion. Then you can have your semantic cake and eat it too.
I bought an around the world ticket once. The bang for buck is pretty darn good, atleast when I bought it. Last I looked the prices had gone up a bit, but it was still an excellent value if you have the time to utilize it. If you're interested in it and want more details, i'm more than happy to provide you with more info. There's a lot to see so you might as well get started sooner rather than later.

It's a couple of grand for the ticket itself, but if you enjoy being on the road then it's a small cost. Time's much much harder to come by, so if you've got that and the drive and excitement to spend it well you're a rich person :)
In this specific context, I don't think appraising the total money Sergey Brin has given matters. I'm sure he has enough money to fund any/all decent research proposals. The decent proposals must come first though, one can't simply say he should be throwing X total number of dollars at a problem. Throwing more money at things does not always makes things better and sometimes can make things worse.
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Device fragmentation: There's certainly fragmentation between generations of the iPhone, too. Gyroscope, front-facing camera (or any camera at all), different amounts of RAM, different processors, different screen sizes, etc. It's a problem that has to be dealt with on both platforms.

Low-level work: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
The article is really talking about "self employed" people. It would be erroneous to assume that self employed people all need to have a high risk tolerance. There are more self employed low paid and menial workers than there are schmoozy, Valley "entrepreneurs" and I wouldn't expect a self employed cleaner, nanny or au pair to be adopting a high risk profile.
Or all the other closed source proprietary systems that a me too OS movement gleefully copies, badly for the most part.

OSS and proprietary seem on opposite sides of support-systems and customer-facing systems. Proprietary > OSS for users' visual cortex, OSS > proprietary for everything supporting that top layer.

I think part of it is that OSS UI reeks of design-by-committee. Which is something Apple has gotten ridiculously correct. UI needs to be unified and have a flow to it, something which you're more likely to get from a single (highly skilled) person than from a thousand.
Or

ARGF.each {|line|
line.scan(/\b\w+ing\b/).each(&:puts)
}

You know, why are we breaking this by line? :P

ARGF.read.scan(/\b\w+ing\b/).each(&:puts)

Probably requires ActiveSupport for some versions of ruby :) The &:symbol trick isn't in all versions.
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However, please do not expect, or treat his writing, like he will win a nobel prize in economics.

Well, here's a somewhat relevant quote from someone who did win a Nobel Prize in economics:

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another." ~Milton Friedman

Sounds familiar, no? And while you might not be able to find someone who says that economics is a zero sum game, you can't throw a rock in any direction without hitting someone who is pushing an agenda or ideology that acts as if it is.
Apparently, employers are still asking for Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 skills
50x less is kind of crazy though. There are nearly enough android devices out there, but you'll make 50x less money if you're an android developer. So an iPhone developer making $100,000 from Apple would only end up making around $2000 from Google... seems a bit scary to invest effort into a platform that won't return value!
If you know how long you plan to travel and it's enough time to see a lot of stuff, an around the world ticket is worthwhile. Cost has gone up a little since I bought one, but if you've got the time and the drive, it's worth the money.
What makes BBM different from a IM application like Google Talk?
No multiline is a fair point. Message composition auto-fills the recipient when you start typing - I can get to my intended recipient in 1-2 taps, usually. I prefer it that way, though I can see how others might now. You can, though, just tap a contact's email to start a new email to them. It certainly does support copy-paste, though. I'm on 2.2, so that may be part of it, perhaps?
The Market itself is open to lots of countries, but many of these countries don't have support for paid apps yet (only free) which is very frustrating.
And Windows 3.1 also: http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=%22Windows+3.1%22&l=

They may have been copying and pasting the same posting for years.

And these are the ones who glance over resumes to see who is qualified. That's very disturbing and discouraging.
All good points, but in all of your scenarios having fake/stolen accounts would still allow you to game the system. Friend networks can be staged/stolen just as easily as an account.
Well, of course, when you assume that the design criteria of Python are the correct ones you reach the conclusion that Python is the preferred language to use. However, even Python fails here. I would say it's "obvious" that you should use filter rather than the for/if combination. Perhaps to someone else it's "obvious" that you should use a list comprehension.
Ask HN: Confidence, how does one go about getting it?
After reading some articles such as: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1084093.ece it seems that a recurring theme in becoming successful and rich is confidence, among other things. I would like to get my confidence to the level described in the article. How can I do this? How have you guys done it?
The C version has a buffer overflow if more than 1024 consecutive alphanumeric characters are input. And a much less serious point,

isalnum(c)

looks much better than

(c >= '0' && c <= '9') || (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
I agree with you. Bad code isn't the programming languages fault. Bad code is the programmer's fault. Perl itself and the Perl culture has changed enormously since the "1980s".
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I think this guy can have a positive impact on our industry if he reports back in a month or two and tell the world that he actually worked at that rate. The value of IT consultants could be perceive differently.
lua (a better version is welcome):

for line in io.lines() do
for word in line:gfind("[^%s]+") do
if word:find("ing$") then
print( word )
end
end
end
Statistically speaking your child won't become a genius. Get over it.
If find that once you get beyond the "easy" in code there is rarely only "one obvious way" to do it.
How dare you..
Instead of porting the whole CLR environment, I'd prefer just the C# syntax on the JVM, e.g.:

http://code.google.com/p/stab-language/
I found this list of the historical tax rates fascinating: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/151.html

(Why they have to use "Macromedia Flash Paper " to show a list of numbers is beyond me.)
Isn't this supposition a little broad? There is no magic bullet, in anything.