skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you know drupal and or wordpress, you can make some money by setting up themes for customers. Many times they want something as simple as buying a theme off one of the theme sites and setting it up for them. It's real low hanging fruit but it can pay pretty well ($120-$200hr), if you get fast. Just take out some adds on with adwords for things like "wordpress developer" don't just do "wordpress" you will get killed by the cpm. If you have a niche interest try adding that to the search to find people looking to develop something that you are passionate about. They will hear it in your voice when you talk about the project with them. Hang out on niche boards that you are interested in, offer valuable input, put your info in your profile, if they will let you, don't violate there terms of service.

OK now on to the prerequisites:

You have a blog / website right? (I am guilty I don't have one either. Just do as I say not as I do)

You have a linkedIn profile right?

You have a Facebook account right? (neither do I, I am afraid of what might crawl out of the woodwork)

Twitter? and you plan to tweet about your projects that you complete?
Under video "<video> MP4 H.264 playback support, using hardware or software decoding. Support for WebM software is not included in this release."

Does that mean that IE9 is planning to support WebM? All I can find is mentions that IE9 can use codecs installed on the users computer but I can't find any commitment to WebM being bundled.
Check your build.. you'll have to go ERD79 to ERE27 to FRF50 and FRF72. FRF50 and 72 are Froyo but they are also NOT the final Froyo release for N1. These are test releases however they are signed by Google.. totally legit i.e. stock firmware and bootloader will gladly accept these. stay away if you're on an ATT N1 (or Rogers).
Signup form doesn't scroll on an iPhone. I am dying to know what the rest of the form says!
My guess is they're not including Skype for many of the same reasons they don't include Flash. They don't want to be in a position where they are depending on one single company to fix things so they can release new products.
Some tips:

1) Build a presence- Comment here, go to local meetups, blog online about smart things, find every connection you can,etc.

2) Peacock- Build something as a sample that is really interesting + will garner attention. It shouldn't have the intention of being a real startup. It should just be a shiny demo to show you can design + think creatively together.

3) Show them what they're missing- Find people in your area if you're trying to stay local that have absolutely horrible presences online. Give them a taste of what you can do. Example of what 37signals used to do- http://37signals.com/better

4) Can't beat em, join em- There are a lot of small eloquent freelance design shops. They could certainly use a good hand if you're good. They won't pay you a lot probably, but it's a hell of a start. It could also turn into something else.

5) Wordpress Designing- Ask patio11 re: what he did with st patricks day wordpress template. People pay good money for things like that and other Wordpress services.

6) Have a client fund a startup idea- We originally did this with Publictivity. PR firm wanted what we were thinking of making, we collaborated, and they gave us 10k. That let us build the app and got them a license for life. On the flip side: this can turn into a fucking scope creep nightmare.

7) Join haystack- They seem to be really top notch and have a lot of people finding designers off of there.

8) Carve out a niche- Is it android? Is it iphone (has to be more specific)? Is it rails? Define yourself and carve out a niche. Wordpress could also be thrown in here.

9) Being Here Is Already a Win- there are thousands of startups that frequent here monthly. If you do any of the above and seem even remotely good, you will probably get some level of interest. There isn't enough good talent to meet the demand it seems.
Translation: "Kids are important and stuff, but keeping customers happy is what matters."
Gaia hypothesis, or something like that.
Agreed - low blow.

Tumblr is actually kicking Posterous' ass in term of UI and ease of use I think. I definitely prefer Tumblr after trying both for a few weeks. This post isn't helping.
I didn't hear about this case. Summary?
$10?

Adobe Ideas is free: http://blogs.adobe.com/designandweb/2010/04/adobe_ideas.html
Or what's far more likely is that there was a problem that did exist, we just don't know what it was or the context because only got this one memo.
I like your idea better.
Yes.

"We’ve also incorporated into the core platform all the configuration files necessary to build the source code of Android Open-Source Project on its own. You can now build and boot a fully open-source system image out of the box, for the emulator, as well as for Dream (ADP1), Sapphire (ADP2), and Passion (Nexus One)."

I wonder how good it will run on the Dream (ADP1) though. Open Eclair was not much fun.
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
Desperately Seeking Sugar Daddies
Why? The equivalent of FaceTime for text messages exists today, and it's any IM app with push notifications. Meebo and Whatsapp come to mind.
Three thousand years ago, the Omnipotent Disc King started a campaign to ravage Sector 5 of the Moon. He wanted to unlock the power of Redis, a key/value store with unlimited possibilities. Sector 5 was a mining colony, known for its rapid manufacturing advancements and the only source of RAM, the mystical Rhine Amber Malachite that was the most expensive mineral traded throughout the Outer Areas. As the Disc King prepared his attack, the denizens of Sector 5 trained their best fighters, dubbed the AKA SENTAI to face the onslaught. Join our ranks now!

WHAT IS YOUR SECTOR 5 COMMUNICATION ID? * (Your email.)

HOW WOULD YOU TRAIN TO BE AN AKA SENTAI? * (What would you build with our Redis service?)

WHAT BLOCK IN SECTOR 5 WOULD YOU TRAIN IN? * (Which provider would you use?)

# EC2 (Heroku, EY Cloud)
# Rackspace
# App Engine
# Slicehost
# Terremark (vCloud Express)
# Blue Box Group (Blocks)
ePub is a standard. They're breaking it, making ePub books not show as they should.

Mobipocket (what kindle has) is a different standard. Amazon is mobipocket compliant.
In the end, it is irrelevant whether the bureaucrat is right or wrong about the work week and productivity.

The bottom line is that the market dictates whether it's a buyer's market or a seller's market. In the case of the letter in question, it's clearly a -perceived- buyer's market at the time the letter was written.

No point in being outraged by the letter. The quick and easy solution is to quit - why would any sane person want to continue to work in such a toxic environment?
Monuments in the World
Here are some beautiful photos of monuments.
But why is being parochial in an MS world a bad thing? People are upset not because that point was made but how that point was made. I'm a MS developer and although I do know other languages I don't necessarily see it as a big advantage. It's basically a question of breadth vs depth. The truth is that the MS stack is deep enough that a developer can dive in and few will ever hit the bottom of that pool.

If I was looking for a job as a .NET dev, my depth in .NET is what is important, not how well I know N number of other languages. If I'm working in a .NET stack, my experience with Java, while not worthless, is not as useful ass more depth in .NET. An individual has a finite amount of resources to spend learning about other stuff. Yes, it would be awesome if I knew tons of other languages or how things work at ever lower levels of code. I just choose to spend those resources learning things that are more immediately useful to me.

The author just took a very derogatory approach to this point and I think it's understandable that it upset people.
Considering a primary feature is uploading to 37signals' Campfire, not many?
How can they get rid of carriers altogether? They are still the only way to get widespread wireless data service. And as long as that doesn't change, they're gonna do all they can to cling to the old model.
> In the valley, the Computer History Museum, the Stanford Campus (and nearby Palo Alto), Fry's Electronics (especially the flagship store in Sunnyvale), and Weird Stuff (also Sunnyvale) could be worthwhile stops to get the regional vibe.

Intel also has a museum.
Is there an iAd daemon?

Anyway, I'd hope that explicitly disabling all location services would do just that. If headless apps were still powering on the GPS and triangulating cell towers and wifi... well, that'd certainly be misleading. But I doubt that's the case.
Nothing whatsoever like stackoverflow.

I'm hoping to say "dear fashionoverflow, please pick my clothes for me, email me when you are done. thx." If you say "dear stackoverflow, please do my homework for me, thx", you'll just be flamed.

Stackoverflow is programmers helping programmers, what I want is fashionistas helping nerds.
I'll just stick with the free Adobe Ideas for the iPad. It has some sharing functionality (email), and you can pinch to zoom & draw, different brush sizes, different brush colors, different opacities, etc.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-ideas-1-0-for-ipad/id36...

PS: It's _free_
It would be great if Microsoft would start being embarrassed about their current browser offering and develop some ambition to make a great browser.
It looks like they're trying.
Australia's also using them in a lot of places. No problems here to date.

But then, we've been conservative about water for a while with good reason to be.
Incredible, I love it. My first instinct is to say every public official should have this.
83 on Acid3.

That's a pretty nice improvement for a team that says they're not focused on ACID. And Javascript perf actually appears to have improved. This is going to be some browser battle royale.
WattOS — a lightweight, low-power Linux | FOSSwire
One of the biggest problems for sewerage systems in general is people putting things down there that aren't meant to be there.
That last bit reminds me of an old "Practical Guide to UNIX" book that I happened upon in a used bookstore some time back. I started looking through the examples for the various command line functions and most all of them were put in terms of something a secretary might want to do (type up notes, find files using various types of searches, split files up and distribute the parts along various organizational lines, collect together such parts into new files and format those to look better when printed, even the basics for how to script anything they found themselves doing on a regular basis). It got me wondering if secretaries were able to use such books and become command line gurus back in the day? Maybe they weren't and that type of book was a total failure.
Very true.

I've long thought that I'd love to make / have a hiring-tool which just hashes names and hides them (as there's still rare uses) and all racial data to hide this sort of bias. I wonder what it'd do to hiring stats.
Actually the interesting thing is that a good chunk of the ruling is citing multiple existing precedents stating that youtube is not guilty of contributory infringment.

So it seems the precedents are there, but only the big guys like Google can stand up and get them recognized in court.
This one is big: Twitter just let you auto-follow your Facebook friends
<video>
* MP4 H.264 playback support, using hardware or software decoding
* Support for WebM software is not included in this release

<audio>
* MP3 and AAC audio support

Somehow, I'm not surprised that Microsoft once again chooses to be different from everybody else. I can encode in Vorbis and Theora/VP8 for Chrome and Firefox, or MP3 and H.264 for IE9, but there's no set of codecs which works on all three major browsers.
They're btards; of course it's for lulz. But I think they genuinely want Zack to win, just to see what happens :shrug:. They started voting for Zack last week, so well before any cheating.
"I've around 800 titles in iBooks and several hundred in Stanza"

Are these mostly for reference, or are they on your to-read list?
Yeees <3 you Microsoft, now I just need to wait 3-4 years till IE 6,7 & 8 dies and I can start using canvas.
I believe WebM is not bundled. It will play it if the user has installed it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/05/19/another-follow...
Agreed.
And all the people who keep harping on with recommendations of existing fts engines - who about providing some benchmarks regarding real-time search speeds. Thats one area where lucene (and solr using it) comes a bit unstuck - if you have fast changing dataset, its hard to keep up with storing and indexing it and thats where the redis approach with it high speed writes wins hands-down. Of course you could use lucenes RAMDirectorys and then create code to persist them back to disk, but then you're just re-inventing the redis wheel.

And from what I have read of Sphinx it likely has the same issues. Plus it seems to be aimed only at the lamp crowd - not very friendly if you are not using php+mysql already.
This is probably closer to what I'm looking for, though ideally I'd be able to avoid the actual "going shopping with them" part. However, until my ideal service exists, I'll probably hire a personal shopper if I lack a girlfriend.

Also, there is sometimes a principal-agent problem; many personal shoppers work for the stores, and simply buy for you whatever the store is trying to get rid of.
Microsoft, Apple, and Nokia all seem to have the same policy on <video>.
Forbes, via Dan Lyons, also took SCO's side and printed many things that turned out not to be true. I'm not inclined to treat Forbes as a reliable source.

That said, he might well be good at maximizing shareholder value (e.g. squeezing lots of hours out of salaried employees) and he certainly didn't get fired over this.

I definitely wouldn't work for him, though.
I wonder what will happen with the SDK and the cost of licensing. I was hoping to use RedLaser in an upcoming project so it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out.
What does Safari and Opera do?
Hmm. I'm getting this, after allowing the Twitter app to connect:

An error has occurred because Facebook has blocked your ability to allow this application to look up your friends. Twitter has requested that Facebook remove the block.
The fifth set alone was longer than any other tennis match in history...incredible.
Microsoft isn't bundling the codec, but they have promised to make IE9 work well with it. Halfhearted support.
What happens to the cardriges?
They are using a JavaScript "resize" handler though, not pure CSS. And the layout is much less fluid (it seems to toggle between just two fixed widths).
> If you're working at one of the newly acquired studios like Bioware, that's probably true. The older studios like EAC in Burnaby or EARS are so close to the EA corporate that it's hard to say that his friend doesn't "work directly for EA".

But the whole point is that EA is made up of many studios, not all of which share a monolithic culture. If you want to argue EARS and EAC have a similar culture, that's fine, but it still doesn't mean that the majority of us share it.
This program was cancelled some time ago.
I have the Rogers/ATT N1, build number is EPE54B. So first step is to get ERD79, then ERE27, then FRF50 and FRF72?
Why the cartridges, wouldn't it be easier to drain the urine down a pipe? Is processing of the cartridges waterless?
That isn't different from everybody else. That's the same as Apple.
Open Eclair on Dream always had issues, partially because they never finished reverse-engineering all the closed-source drivers. CM5 on Dream has been quite nice for me; it can get a bit laggy sometimes, but beyond that has worked well.

It'll be interesting to see how Froyo's JIT fairs on Dream, for sure.
> The US Army Corp of Engineers took notice and mandated in 2006 that the Army install only waterless urinals from 2010 onward.

That's what an ROI can do for you!

It's important to find the particular customers who can benefit from your product, and have the power to act. Usually, the military is a hard market - but in this case, their control of their own facilities helped.

Changing community attitudes - such as towards water usage - can benefit or harm you. Here, the long-term trend was predictable (and predicted). Skate to where the puck is going to be.

This whole saga was purely adoption (ie marketing). The product was already done.

They didn't give up.
Crashplan - backup your data to a buddy's PC
Viacom uploaded promotional materials to YouTube, then sent YouTube DMCA notices to take them down, then uploaded them again, then sued YouTube for hosting copyrighted content.

If you had to re-read that sentence a few times, don't worry, that's normal.
I'll refine that one step further: stock prices are a bad way to gauge anything reliably ... except stock prices.
10 of the Longest Sporting Encounters
In light of the epic Wimbledon match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, discover ten other epic sporting battles...obviously the first item now needs to change!
Huawei S7. Complete Android Tablet. Forgotten Video. Unbelievable Price
Are you a micro-manager or can you delegate?
If you have unlocked your Nexus One (using "fastboot oem unlock") then you can build Froyo from AOSP and install it yourself (or you can download and install a build by someone else if you trust them).

If you do not want to unlock your phone, then you will need to wait for a signed OTA update from Google.

The AOSP build does not include any of the Google apps or frameworks (GMail, Google Maps/Navigation, Market...). You either need an official Google build for that, or you need to use one of the methods to copy those apps from a image that has them.
Safari uses Quicktime, so it plays Theora fine if you have Theora installed for Quicktime. It will support WebM the same way.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/posterous.com+tumblr.com/

Their growth curves show a different story also (I take compete graphs with a grain of salt, but at these traffic volumes it's probably safe to say the overall trend is correct).
I read of it via Joel Spolsky:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081001/how-hard-could-it-be-si... which cites a Harvard chap's book as a reference, and

and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html which seems based on his experiences at Microsoft.
The FRF50/FRF72 updates were built for the T-Mobile N1; they will not run on the Rogers/AT&T Nexus One
Yes font look really terrible with FF, i can barely read the text, but with IE it's a lot better.
Finally!

Those of us poor suckers in enterprise can start doing quality work.

Now to build the business case for upgrading legacy apps :\
Twitter adds support for following Facebook friends
tl;dr: The match was locked at 59-59 in the final set after 10 hours of play when it was suspended because of bad light.

Resumes for the 3rd day on Thursday. Previous best was 6:35, so this is a lot longer than the previous record.
I think they've gone from worrying about the web being a platform on top of Windows which commoditizes it to being worried instead that Windows won't even be a common commodity underneath unless they get their act together.
I have deep inroads into the design industry and really good freelancers, and the absolute rock bottom price for design I can get is $40. Lower than that, you're playing with fire.
Further: curious if this means that the .NET team in charge of ASP.NET are being introduced to far better ways to build web apps (no single form implementation, no mixing ID and Classes between back and front end, ditching the use of session as a "state" store, quality URI patterns etc)
My main problem with Posterous imports is that they don't preserve the URLs of my previous posts. I have custom domains set up, so redirects are broken. I was hoping that with the latest Tumblr import they had fixed it, but no go.
"relies on the classic scientific method: hypothesis, analysis, peer review, publication"

this is the classic -academic- scientific method that ends with -publication- i applaud his new research method described as --we could be looking lots of places and collecting lots of information - and if we see a pattern that could lead somewhere--

i wonder why google does not use the same strategy they used to invest their money http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385741 - to fight parkinson - hire hundreds of researchers and let them loose without academic constraints
Egrep for Linguists
your last line there was the funniest comment I've read on HN in years. thank you!
What's with all the return receipts? Do people really use return receipts that much?
Interestingly, adding a picture to your application was (still is?) standard in Germany. And you still give your date of birth in your resume. And in former times it was even customary to state the jobs of your parents.
I'm really confused about their product positioning. Ning was a white-labelled social network, what good will a "simple blog" do to its users?

Similarly, Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform -- people are on it because they precisely DO NOT want a full blog. I remember Posterous founders specifically saying they don't want to be compared because Posterous is not that (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680087), why go after these people now?

Wordpress? So far, all they've been doing are incorporating features that Wordpress already has and not really changing the experience all that much either... which then begs the question, what's the big goal and how is it different?

It seems to me that their moves align with getting on AS MANY USERS AS POSSIBLE -- and if that means attacking all peripherally similar services, then so be it. It seems that their only goal is a large exit due to a large user base, not really product vision.

I see a couple of takeaways here for fellow hackers and Posterous:

- Really think about what your product is and what your big vision is. Are you really just creating yet another Wordpress.com?

- Is it the post by email that is the uniquely awesome thing about Posterous? Someone should put together a universal "Post by Email" service and test this theory. Have it connect to Wordpress.com and Tumblr and see if people buy.
Then they'd stop using email. One of the nice things about email is that a lot of the time people don't realize they're on the record.
This is a good practical example of what to do when you're starting off with SEO. There are many posts that overwhelm you with information when you begin. Plus, they're able to show that it works.
this sucks, but if they had to leave something out, that would be the one b/c you already get the same effect with long polling & streaming.
Forgive my ignorance, but I cannot be alone on this one: Just exactly what the heck am I looking at?
The guardian live blog is hilarious and well worth a read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-t...

"7pm: What's going on here? Once, long ago, I think that this was a tennis match. I believe it was part of a wider tennis tournament, somewhere in south-west London, and the winner of this match would then go on to face the winner of another match and, if he won that, the winner of another match. And so on until he reached the final and, fingers crossed, he won the title.

That, at least, is what this spectacle on Court 18 used to be; what it started out as. It's not that anymore and hasn't been for a few hours now. I'm not quite sure what it is, but it is long and it's horrifying and it's very long to boot. Is it death? I think it might be death.

42 games all."
How did Alexander Graham Bell wind up getting rid of the entrenched Western Union in his day? Things change all the time.
Competition is a good thing. People hate the idea of a Mac vs. PC "war", for example, but it was a good thing. In reality neither company really competes in OS's any longer. Neither Windows or Mac OS are really undergoing a lot of development these days. Apple and Microsoft are both content and off doing other things. Phones, tablets, games, databases, etc. Has all the interesting stuff been done with the OS?