skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fork out the money for an SSD and you'll never look back.

In a laptop, they beat HDs twice over: they don't need to be slower than desktop models to save power/heat AND they aren't more expensive compared to desktop models due to size. In fact, SSDs are increasingly only available in 2.5" format.
do you and your team mates dive to get calls? Is that fun?
Ask HN: Products like SuperPreview and/or LitmusApp?
The company I work for has multiple ecommerce stores, most of which require the user to log in before they can be viewed.

Neither SuperPreview or LitmusApp are able to get past authentication when looking at pages. Is there anything out there that can accomplish this?
I go to a Big 10 school and I can honestly say that I need to spend less than 10 hours a week outside of regular class to make 3.0 or better. Maybe I am just a fast learner and granted my major is Information Sciences and Technology (I should have done Computer Science, or even English and learned web development on the side, but I digress) and isn't at all challenging but college, for me at least, feels like a slightly harder version of high school. I shouldn't be able to to work 20 hours a week at an internship, pledge a fraternity, and do freelance work with a fulltime course load, however I did last semester. I am not looking for a pat on the back because I learn far more on my own anyway I just wanted to say how little challenge these new "IT" majors are. If you are about to enter college and want to do "computer stuff" pick computer science, or even a liberal arts degree and teach yourself because you will have to anyway.
To me, Amazon feels like a competitor, onto the iPad.) To me, Amazon feels like the good guys. They make an e-reader, but if I don't ike their product, no problem! They'll help me read their books on a competing device. Awesome. They go(Joe Consumer.) When I buy a book, I get to read it wherever and whenever I want. PC, iPhone, iPad Android, they're on it. They're making money from m by doing what I want, and that's the way it's supposed by doing what I want, and that's the way it's supposed to be

Amazon with Kindle and Valve with Steam have a lot in common concerning their pro-consumer use of DRM.
Article summary: "I like shiny things that move, and classic license plates are the opposite of that!"

This is such a bad idea on so many levels, a few of which have been discussed the last time this story (though not this exact link) was posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1450930
Some people seem to assume that building a profitable app is entirely about luck, and not about having the insight and ability to develop something better than what is in the store currently. Many of these app are developed by beginners and casual hobbyists and, frankly, just aren't very good. Thinking you can work to be in the top 10% of this crowd isn't necessarily unrealistic.
iBooks 1.1: • Take advantage of new ways to bookmark. In addition to highlighting a word or a passage, you can now also add notes or bookmark an entire page with the new page ribbon.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8#
flite is also good (simple). I used it to find the sound card model that would properly work with my laptop:
http://aeminium.org/slug/software/shell/#test-hda-intel-mode...
That's awesome; I'd love to watch the video. The 4 or 5 times I tried yesterday (in two different browsers), I got nothing. Just waiting on host.

I guessed that the post supported the video, but lacking a video, commented on the post instead.
I agree that Derek is in this position where he doesn't have to worry about money. This is the common definition of "retired". What I'm saying is that I find this definition bad.

Derek himself said "I used to think “retired” just meant “only plays golf”, but now I see it means doing anything interesting and/or useful to others, but not having to worry whether it makes money or not."

There's a reason he used to think that "retired" meant "only plays golf". The true, deeper meaning of "retired" is "someone who doesn't matter anymore". The fact that we say "retired" on someone who doesn't get a paycheck anymore is because in recent history, people made important things only in their official job. Since this fact is changing now, and people make important things outside their jobs, the meaning of "retired" should stay closer to its original, deep meaning: Someone who doesn't do important things anymore.

And, as I said, according to this definition Derek is not retired.
It is deliberate cheating. On the other hand f.ex. tactical fouls are common in basketball, and nobody calls it cheating, just a common strategy. It's quite hard to get a technical foul or 5 fouls, so every end of an NBA game is 0:30 on the clock and till the end of the game you have foul after foul on both sides. I loved basket, but this one was really stupid and annoying.

Different sports, different "tactics".
Digging around a bit, without much luck - there's the research blog post of a year ago: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/large-scale-graph... (some comments there point to similar work.)

Snippets:

so far we haven't come across a type of graph or a practical graph computing problem which is not solvable with Pregel. It computes over large graphs much faster than alternatives, and the application programming interface is easy to use. Implementing PageRank, for example, takes only about 15 lines of code.

spoiler: The seven bridges of Königsberg — inspiration for Leonhard Euler's famous theorem that established the basics of graph theory — spanned the Pregel river.
heh, I just had to think of some of my adventures in metaprogramming in python. Eventually, I ended up with variable names like "decoraterSelf", "mySelf" and "decoratedSelf", when I had stateful class decorators. One of the few instances where I was glad to see a myFrobble-Variable in code :)
This is exactly the type of advice I'm looking for. Does anyone have any easy to understand/comprehend resource that lays out step by step what I should be doing? Maybe that just doesn't exist. I am located in the US.
Yeah, it was the one I was thinking of myself. The last time I used it, however, the graphics just looked old. Maybe it was just all the colors :-)
I think things would change, but I don't know how much. Through insurance and bonding the risk can be mitigated, but the cost of owning the stock (the rates you need to pay) are now determined by the companies behavior so it becomes in their best interest to not cut corners. By aligning interests the problem goes away.
I actually agree. I even went a step further, now I just look at my rss reader (Fever) and I instapaper what looks interesting to me.
A lot of those laid-off people who "simply stop receiving" their paychecks are losing their houses. And the whole point of incorporation is that if the company goes bust, the owners are not personally liable.

The risk-reward incentives for being an employee vs. employer are not quite so simple as you make out.
Not true. Lots of people with very little skill have beaten superior players. They can't last against them for long, but they can get lucky. This is a known phenomenon around the poker world, and greatly works to pro's advantage (you would never wager money against a professional in other fields, since there is no way you could win. In poker, though, because bad players win once in a while, they can delude themselves into not realizing how bad they are).
- Keyboard shortcuts or bust.

- Signup link too hidden. Man I hate most web service signups. if I try to log in and you don't have the email in your system, maybe you should just create an account for me and send me a verification w/ whatever password I entered in the verification email - or require that to not have my account deactivated shortly I must click on the activation link sent and set my password.
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And the blog post with more discussion: http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/cloud-storage-challen...
> Half of all developers will earn less than $682 per year. Do you still think this is a good business idea?

I'm one of those developers. And do you know why? Because it's not my business. I wanted to make some apps. I didn't put in a huge effort.

For the numbers to mean anything, you should filter out the 90% (or whatever) of apps that aren't intended to be part of a serious, profitable business.
On my systems I do: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival#can.27t_open_.2...
since Alsa in general works better (no flock) than OSS.
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I had a friend who was "skinny fat" as you call it. He had gone to the doctor and the doctor basically told him that he was essentially bones wrapped in fat, very little muscle.

Those people have always irked me because they would have the same amount of fat as me, but wouldn't get crap for it because it wasn't as visibly obvious. Whereas, for most of my life, I've been what you could call "fit fat(?)". Reasonably strong with above average endurance but obviously carrying a lot of baggage. Unfortunately, I eventually got an office job and went to being just plain fat. But I've decreased my caloric intake to lose weight and started training to increase my strength and endurance.
I thinks this is probably good. TPB always claimed that there is not principal difference between thepiratebay.org and google.com in terms of linking to filesharing content.
Re "sport for pussies", my impression of watching American sports is "sport for lawyers". The rules and play of the game reflect the litigiousness of American society in general, with the rules (I'm thinking football here) being really complicated, having all kinds of weird exceptions, and then challenges that are like little "trials" where you have to review evidence etc. It makes it totally unenjoyable for me.
A video of Rob Pike's Stanford EE Colloquium talk, Another Go At Language Design, is available online at http://ee380.stanford.edu.

Abstract: A while back, it seemed that type-driven object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java had taken over. They still dominate education. Yet the last few years have seen a number of different languages reach prominence, often of very different styles: Python, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, Lua, and many more. Surely there are enough languages. Yet new ones keep appearing. Why? And why now? In this talk I will explain some possible reasons and why they led us to define yet another language, Go.
I think you only need to look at the complete clusterfuck that was the Interstate Commerce Commission to see that you don't want the government defining things, setting prices, forcing standards etc.
It's generally going to be a few hundred bucks if you have someone else do it for you, or minimally > $100 for DIY in most states (NC is $125, plus $200/year renewal fee).

You don't pay "15.3% more taxes". 15.3ish percent from income is taxed for FICA (social security, etc). You pay roughly half of that 7.x% in traditional employment situations, and the employer pays the other half. Someone making $100k is actually costing the employer $107.6k (roughly).

As a sole prop you pay both halves of this tax - that's where the 15.3% comes from. However, you deduct half of it when computing the rest of your income taxes.

Long and short - talk to a tax person about how you this is handled. It's not hard, but taking an hour or so to get your head around it is advisable.

As to scorp/llc/ccorp, etc... Two points. One, for a single person there likely won't be any major diff between scorp or llc except more paperwork as an scorp. You can elect to be taxed as an scorp while retaining LLC status, but I don't know many who do that. Also, the arguable tax advantages of scorps are likely being reduced or eliminated soon via impending legislation in the US, so don't choose that for tax reasons. There may be some other reasons re: shareholders and such, but you can always 'trade up' to a larger corp at some point if you need to.

I do some work with agencies who can get work with me as a sole prop, but if I work under the LLC name, they have to go through a full public bidding process, which a) takes longer, b) increases the chance I might not get the work and c) generally adds more cost to the project all around. So, even though I have an LLC, I still do some work 'outside' of that structure, depending on the situation.
Just assuming he's only off by 100% is silly. There are lots of ways he could be off by a factor of 5 or 10.
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By the metric of Chrome zooming up to about 4% share and then staying there, despite Google's frequently promoting it from the most popular page on the web, promotion no other browser could ever have.

On our web sites Chrome has gained no share in the last six months, while Safari (due to iPhone's increased share) has surpassed FireFox.

This recent report, http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20001546-264.html, actually gives Chrome 6.1%.

I'm just saying given the engineering resources dedicated to it, and the unparalleled promotion resource available, it could do much better.

Personally, I use Chrome, but I object to the product management decision not to offer a dedicated multi search box like FF and IE. I think this was an engineering driven decision because the omnibox is so [fill in your favorite positive adjective].
IANAL/IANAA: I believe an S-Corp is cheaper to set up and should work well for your consulting/contracting business.

You could then incorporate a separate LLC whenever you're ready to work on an actual product and are planning to raise money from investors.
This sounds very much like the way things worked when I was working in the AAA games business as well. >90 percent of all titles are lossleaders, and the few that are hits make up for the lost money developing the others.

My guess is that most branches of entertainment are similar. Movies, TV, music etc. There's no such thing as a steady, guaranteed income when it comes to things like this (in my experience/opinion).

That doesn't mean making apps is not a viable business. Just not for everyone who tries.
Wow, are we just a tad bitter?
Much more science, less story-telling, but extremely compelling research -- many more studies cited, not just weight but the effect of low-carbohydrate diets on things like gout. Graphs. Very much a "here's the science, here's why, make your own mind up" type of book.
Do you have any of the sharpening shaders turned on in MPC? I'm not sure VLC has anything like that yet.
"SkypeKit supports Linux now and in a few weeks Windows and Mac support will come out as well."

wow, never thought this order would ever happen ;)
Zed understands copyright law.
LLCs are easier. You can file a petition to request your LLC to be taxed as an S-corp if needed.
Why would an app take $1500 to develop? I wrote 4. They took less than $1500 total.
I don't see why he can't simply keep using OSX and just not buy an iPod or iPad or iPhone and use Android based devices instead.
> - setting limits on player wages - harsher penalties for cheating or foul play via post-match review - faster review of matches
> These address the same issue without materially affecting the game.

I agree that these are good suggestions, but you want to change the game. Remember US-Slovenia? I don't suppose you think it's good for one side (not) to win because the referee made an error?

> ahem :) see below:

Exactly my point: "we" is not a good argument.

> I already laid out in quite some detail why I feel replays would interrupt game play and generally make the game less fun to watch overall.

The point is that it doesn't interrupt the game, unless there was foul play (and then the game should be interrupted). The current situation is that the game gets interrupted when the referee thinks there is foul play, the situation with replays is that the game gets interrupted when there is foul play. The result is that there will be less foul play because the players know that the probability that they will be caught is much higher than it is now. And there will be less pretending to be hurt, because it's much harder to lie on slow motion capture.

You seem to be arguing against a system where the referee constantly stops the game and asks for replay reviews, which is not what I'm proposing. What I'm proposing is a system where a crew continuously watches replays and gives this information to the referee. It's the same idea as sideline referees, but much more accurate and general.
I only looked at the colors/fonts/seo section, and the quality there is abysmal. Web safe colors shouldn't really be a concern anymore. This was the real winner though: http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/?highlight_columns=true CSS compliance for IE 4 on Mac OS 9 isn't pressing anymore.
You can always add

&& say Done

to the end of long-running commands and it just works.
The reason I finally decided to buy an iPad was that Apple products hold their value pretty well. When the next gen comes out, I think I'll be able to sell this one for a reasonable amount. I'll take the few hundred dollar "loss" as the price for buying early.

I don't think the iPad running iOS 3.X for the next few months is fragmentation because nobody promised that you wouldn't need to support past OS versions. Even when iOS 4 is available for the iPad, developers are still going to need to test for iPads running iOS 3. Apple says that it's magical for the users not the developers ;)
One could argue that the advice is better if he isn't. Otherwise it would be just hindsight bias. Of course it would be interesting to see his status 3 years from now.
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Thanks for your reply. Can't you detect if it's an iPad and use a different stylesheet or is that not possible? (don't know - I'm a mac user, but I'm not sold on the iPad).
looking forward to see this integrated into empathy.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/710

Might be helpful.
1. Create an LLC (not sure in what state you are, but in florida it takes about 10 minutes, it's an online form)

2. With step 1, you can get a Business Checking account (some banks have free, I've used chase)

3. Get an account on freshbooks for your billing (invoicing, bookkeeping, accounting -- it will help when taxes comes around and in general to keep track of the financial health of your company)

I highly recommend you do freelance with your LLC in case you start signing contracts and there is a dispute, they'll go after the LLC, not after your personal assets.

Some things can be logged as business expenses, and some as personal expenses, just use common sense, and do talk to an accountant when you have to file taxes. The LLC itself does not pay taxes, you pay the taxes as income when the money goes from your LLC to you.

About explains it better:

"The tax implications of an LLC differ from those of corporations. LLCs use "pass-through taxation," which means the LLC does not pay taxes. Income from the business is instead passed down to the company's owners, who are called members in LLCs. They claim the profits or losses on their personal tax forms." http://sbinformation.about.com/od/ownership1/a/llctax.htm

IANAL
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I doubt they will obey to the music business overlords after telling the government of the biggest internet-market to go F themselves.
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Your local Small Business Administration, and probably state- and local-level organizations of the same type, has someone sitting by the phone absolutely freaking eager to mail you a pamphlet or two designed to be comprehensible by fifth graders. Make that guy's day.
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You can certainly detect the user agent. Working on something a bit more in-depth than that though :).

I'd say go for it, but it really depends person to person. It's not perfect for everyone.
Ditch the border in the header image, it's killing me.
I really want to try this some day but I don't know if I could be that rude. :(
It looks like the problem is that the redirect to the login page doesn't URL-escape my email address. Since I used one with + in it, they got turned into spaces. (Bonus points for not rejecting +, though.)
The music industry will never let it go so far as to a court case which will set that sort of precedence. They may be dumb, but they aren't that stupid.
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One of the most obnoxious things about basketball is how every close game ends with the losing team deliberately fouling to stop the clock.
The comparison you mentioned is dangerous, because it makes a huge mistake:

> if you choose to copy and paste GPL code into your own program you have to share it

No, no, no and NO. The obligation of licensing your program with the GPL only triggers upon distribution. As long as you keep the program for yourself, you don't have to share anything.

Some people chose the BSD licence because they believe this fallacy. Other people say the GPL isn't really free precisely because they believe this fallacy. It's about the 5th time I scream that all over HN. Please pay attention.
"Soon?" I haven't had a "desktop" box since probably 2003 or so. I switched to the Mac by way of the Titanium PowerBook and within a month or so I found I was using it exclusively. I retired my old, bulky desktop machine and never looked back.
Looks promising; I'll check it out. Thanks.
I cannot use it at all. My minimum font size is set at 24 (weak eyes); you apparently hard-code the font size and the line spacing, and Firefox is overriding only the font size. The result is that I see only the top half of each line.
And the same person will stare at the panel until the button for the current floor appears. I've seen this behavior in humans before. It's not a pleasant experience.
I'd probably do the same. Between trying to keep up at 18cr/semester, minimum wage work-study, and part-time jobs either my health or my grades were suffering at any moment. Part of it was my overly eager major (yes aerospace majors normally take 18credits of mindbreaking classes), and naivete as a freshman.

On the other hand, as a family and career man I find I have even less free time than I did in university.
I can't second this recommendation enough. An SSD in your laptop makes such a colossal difference that it's almost impossible to describe to someone who has never used one. :)