skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's how I got to $45/HR on oDesk. Its admittedly a low rate, but its about double the average.

- Be a good communicator. This means speaking and writing well, giving timely updates, and being clear about the spec.

- Be honest. Buyers are expecting you to blow smoke. If you don't, they'll be shocked. This means sometimes saying, "I don't know how to do that, but I can learn."

- Follow through. I've had one client pay me to learn something just because he knows I will do what I say I will.

I'm sure there's more tips, and I do a lot wrong (like not say "No"). But doing the basics will put you above the crowd, even if your skills aren't top 10%.
I'm....skeptical. I guess this would be something to try.
I sort of thing that if the keyboard was going to disappear completely any time soon (~10 years), it would've disappeared already. We have a lot of different technologies for text input these days, but I don't feel like any of them would be better than a keyboard for working at a desk, even if they worked perfectly.

-Touchscreens can eliminate the need for typing to interact with a computer, but people will always want to communicate with each other in writing. On a touchscreen only device, this means virtual keyboards. Those are a convenient tradeoff for portable devices, but they're not ideal, and when you have space for as much screen as you need and a keyboard, I can't think of a good reason to get rid of physical keys.

-100% accurate voice recognition would be nice for some things, but I think I'd still be too slow, tiring, disruptive, or not private enough for most uses.

-Silent speech recognition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_speech_interface) is a really interesting option, I think. A device good enough at measuring tiny 'subvocal' muscle movements could seem very similar to mind reading, while also being less intimidating and possibly less invasive. NASA did some interesting work on this (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04093_subvocal_s...).

-I think true mind reading devices also have potential in the long term, but I'd be highly surprised if we had anything practical in less than a decade.
http://www.manpacks.com
Forget all this complicated thinking and work hard crap, why has nobody suggested the Ludovico technique?
If you are learning java, I would suggest Dr. Java. It's like the elementary school version of an IDE. It does syntax highlighting, open and close brackets, and the ability to compile and run the app from it itself. And that's about it. It's really useful to actually learning Java the language, and keeps you away from Java the environment, at least for a little while…
Seems like @pvg missed my attentions for posting this link.

You don't have to @me, we aren't on twitter. Also I really don't understand the above sentence.

Others understood the post and that is why it got 82 votes.

82 people can just like the clip. I certainly do and I'm in violent agreement with the notion that connecting a product to a powerful emotion can be a great way to advertise it.
There's also an element of fantasy in this - if you've ever pitched or thought about pitching anything to a potential client, investor or business partner, you wish you could close them like Don Draper, too. At the same time, I think it's a little naive to say 'this is how you pitch, bottle it and take it to the conference room with you'.

but i don't want to get into a debate over it.

Fair enough. But that's why this this is here, with the comment section, and all.
The online dating industry is even larger than the porn industry
Ask HN: What's the best way to sell a domain name?
I recently decided to call it quits on a Web application that I was pretty excited about at the time: I was planning on adding restaurant menus to a database so that users could add their feedback about the menu items themselves, rather than the restaurant as a whole. Each menu item had the same price and description as the physical menu, but also showed which percentage of users liked the item.

The domain that I was using for this project was menuvoice.com

Just looking through the current offerings on GoDaddy's site, I see that MenuAssistant.com is selling for $2700, and other domains that lead off with menu are priced similarly. I'm interested in selling this domain for roughly $2000-$2500 - since both words are easily pronounced and spelled, and the domain is only nine letters long. I also own the Twitter account name for it, which I would be offering as well.

My question to the HN community is: what is the best way to expedite this process? Is this a domain that should theoretically be valuable?
I don't want to have to spend years sitting on this before anyone bites, but I understand that patience here is probably important.

One strategy that I thought about was to contact start-ups with a similar focus, and send them e-mails explaining that I'm looking for a buyer.
I think my choices may also come down to "you can pick one of these 12-ish [actually, I think it's more like 20] funds", but most of the funds are index funds. In general I've found the selection pretty adequate for my needs, since I'd probably be putting it into index funds anyway, and there're only so many indexes out there. My only quibble is that there's not all that much international diversification possible - but my 401k limit isn't anywhere near my total savings, so I can just put outside money towards that.
Europe learned the hard way. Ever hear about the British Empire? The colonization of Africa? French Indochina? Europe was just ahead of its time in killing people for marginal gain continents away.
What motivated that change? It may be more compatible with related work, I suppose.
Schwitter's Ursonata
Freebase is joining Google
I haven't implemented this myself (yet), but perhaps the solution (for an individual) is to store value through scare resources (eg gold and other precious metals, maybe land) rather than through money (ie stored labour).
Coding a game is polar opposite of playing one. You might not even like video games after you're done.
What I thought:

* These dreams are far too cohesive and realistic. Dreams aren't like The Matrix where physics is normal and you do something to it. They're more like weird shit happens and you accept it as normal.

* Dreaming nested 3 levels of recursion deep? Done it, didn't need a sedative.
Try to remember how to individuate
I'm not sure if I agree with this valuation (it seems very high), but Squarespace has a smart founding team.

They used to provide videos where they would re-create popular blogs (Scoble's, for instance) in less than an hour using the Squarespace platform. At the end of the videos, the original blogs and the Squarespace creations would be virtually indistinguishable. I always thought that was one of the most creative ways I've seen a Web publishing company demonstrate the functionality of its product while hard selling it at the same time, and it doesn't surprise me that Accel would be interested in this team.
Keep updating the game.

Edit: What kristofferR said, and prioritize players who aren't self-entitled. Persistence will pay off, either in sales for this game, or lessons learned for the next.
i don't know about the end of Location Based Applications but how will this affect the people when they find out that a business is running something like this?!

I for one, would probably stop going to such an establishment .. too much information out there to be misused .. maybe something along the lines of google capturing wifi details while driving around snapping images of roads ..

counting the number of visitors is still acceptable. running facial recognition without any opt-in and then talking about comparing them to their facebook profiles to identify them, is pretty much Big Brother stuff. This is such a big privacy red flag ..
America's Best Cities for Singles
There will be no video chat on the iPad. But honestly, I don't even do that with my girlfriend. I call her with my iPhone, not the Macbook. Just because it's more convenient to walk around while calling.

And there's an iPad camera connector kit. This was a must-have feature for us, because my grandfather really likes his Sony Cybershot digital camera.

As for the christmas cards, I will certainly not send him a flash card. I wouldn't want or open one myself. There's little to no chance that anyone will send him something blinky or flashy. Maybe a nice picture, though^^ Yeah, that'll work.
If you are going stereotype offensively for shock value, then you damn well better have the statistics to back yourself up.

In 2005 in the US, there were 7 times more black homicide offenders than whites: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/tables/oracetab.cf...

At first glance, that may provide some evidence for your theory.

However, an alternate theory that I prefer could be stated something there is an inverse relationship between income and likelyhood of committing violent crime.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0699.p... shows that Black families are about 3 times as likely as whites to be below the poverty line. An average black household size is 2.7 (http://www.housingbubblebust.com/PopHsgRates/AllStatesHouseH...).

2.7 * 3 = 8.1, which is actually less than the 7 times offending rate cited above. (Yeah, I know there are some pretty big assumptions in that big of math. Still, the point remains that there is a real relationship between poverty and crime rates)
So You've Launched, Now What?
I'm going through this somewhat myself, albeit with a website I released last week. I've started to leave thoughtful comments on blogs that relate (with the website as the author name/url), answering relevant questions on yahoo answers and so on with the website sourced. Marketing feels dirty and unproductive, but it is really something I think I'll just need to get over. At my last job, marketing outnumbered developers 4 to 2. At the time I thought it weird, but I'm beginning to see some reason behind it now. My advice would be to put some serious time into a marketing strategy, and give it a budget even if it's a shoestring.
Zero tolerance for latency
A little taste of Austin for everyone [YouTube]
People don't like popups. Esp. none with just bare text.
bravo. that works.
Cool.

And yes - the shortcuts are something I frown upon. Template languages should not be so expressive as to create an incentive to ASP-style coding, nor too castrated as to prevent you from doing whatever you want. I think ZPT is right in the middle of the sweet spot.
I'm fine with the idea that more lines would have to be built in the case of wind-power. That's not what I was questioning. I was questioning the claim that the US power grid is in a "miserable state" for current applications, which is a notion I see bandied about a lot with nary a citation.

Also would you please describe what about the switching technology in the grid is going to have to get better? Or cite some source that does so?
Just drag the photo from iPhoto to your new mail. Be strong, there's a lot of good magic involved(;

Also, iPhoto stores the pictures pretty conveniently as you might expect: ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library. And of course you can copy the files out of there.

And finally, you might want to get a screen that can fit a new mail and a finder window next to each other. A 13" monitor should do that just fine, btw(;
A user needing to actively check in is a good thing, as it means the user wants others to know he is checking in there. If a user was to check in to every grocery store, gas station, and so on, it would lose meaning. The point of check ins isn't to track where you are, but instead to show off to your friends you are somewhere cool.
SoCal occupancy rates, rents drop again
In theory, GPS fix quality is roughly the same in all mid-latitudes[0]; any difference between Florida and Washington should be lost in other factors.

Probably, either your sky is more covered in Seattle (by trees and hills, for example), or there’s more reflection and interference in the radio signal.

0. http://blogs.agi.com/navigationAccuracy/?cat=4 has some nice illustrations. “DOP” is a sort of ideal fix quality, with smaller numbers meaning more accurate fixes (under various assumptions); Wikipedia will explain the math.

Edit: https://gps.afspc.af.mil/gpsoc/PerformanceReports.aspx is a live-ish map. When I check it, FL and WA are both in the lowest (best) category. However, it’s worst-case DOP for only the 4 best satellites; under a clear sky, a good receiver will usually see several more. I often get DOPs of 1.5 in residential neighborhoods.
So, does the M1 produce 1 MW on average, or peak?
The New Doom
Your first point is excellent. But I'll raise you one. What if a login/logout cycle were made generic and could include several steps. The server says "401. You've got to login. I need a %username% and %password% and then I'm going to ask you one more thing." The browser asks the user for the username/password and then hits up the server with the response. If the authentication of u/p is successful it says "display this HTML doc and send me the result for final validation."

That sort of a model could work for both standard username/password setups and multiple-factor authentication. It's standard, flexible, predictable and you never have to search for it on an unfamiliar website.

As for your second point: there are plenty of websites that are difficult to login to even though they are used by millions. Try Citibank for one particularly bad example.
I too, hate shopping. I selected my daily man-uniform years ago, and know exactly what I like to wear -- I haven't changed my basic outfit in almost 5 years. Yes, I am that manly.

If manpacks added different colors of american apparel man-shirts (I like blue) and basic cargo man-shorts, I'd sign up today. In fact, I still might sign up today, but I'll have to go to K-Mart to get my reasonably priced man-shorts -- a trip I've been avoiding.
Well, a friend of mine died (he was about 20) last week and within few days, somebody set up a memorial facebook group and it seems to work quite well, I don't think that anybody feels any need for anything else. On the other hand, nobody gave this any serious thought, he's still online on IRC, nobody turned off his computer yet, I think… This bother me much more, if I just suddenly died, what would happen with all my online stuff? 1000memories is just a tombstone. I'd rather like to have some kind of dead men switch, a place to put my passwords and keys for survivors. But I guess that we still have some kind of old-fashioned offline services for the last wills :-)
Even more interesting is the fact that Facebook provides a database of 500mm people and their names from around world. While not all profile pictures are going to be valid in facial recognition software, most will.

I decided a while back I'd never put my face on my Facebook profile. Here's extra incentive.
* Don't allow "new" task to create *jure names.

I'm not able to verify this ATM, but does this mean libraries with names ending in -jure are strictly disallowed? Granted there's probably plenty of mylibjure sort of names out there now, but this change would be quite bold.
What license did it use before?

And, about motivations, I will not trust Microsoft. They are constantly threatening Linux users with patent suits and forcing them to license undisclosed technologies, maintaining an atmosphere of legal uncertainty. Why would anyone want to use tools that are vulnerable to such attacks?
How realistic is this?
I don't want stores like that keeping any kind of track me.

I remember ten years ago clerks at some grocery store had been trained to say good bye to me by my name after they read it from my credit card. The effect wasn't loyalty, it was creepiness.

I notice this isn't done anymore.
The first production-ready release will be on GNU Hurd, right? ;-)
I already am fluent in Python. I've used it in real world stuff for 2 years. I also am in the midst of learning Ruby (with _Why's guide).
Shades of McDonald's short-lived "I'd hit it" campaign.

http://www.google.com/search?q=mcdonalds+i%27d+hit+it
but you shouldn't depend on that happening

Relying on any exclusive outlet that doesn't care if you live or die has an implicit risk. It's the same thing with Facebook and Twitter apps. You are more-or-less as their mercy.

As C# is an open language standard, I would be delighted if Apple were to embrace and extend it.
On the enforceability of laws
Who says there will either job in the future?
Having memorized X lines from anything is a 'cool' feat to some people, but it's an entirely orthogonal endeavor from understanding what the text means.

I hold that there's an understanding to be found in Shakespeare in both memorizing and reciting it, and that it impacts you in a far more lasting way than merely studying it.

Would you admit that writing a paper about a passage is more likely to result in your recollection of the meaning of a passage?

What about spending a week after school memorizing that passage? It is also likely to engender that level of recollection and comprehension?

It did, for me. I remember the Queen Mab speech to this day, and that memory seared into my brain serves as the anchor point for many additional recollections I have of studying Shakespeare. I don't have the same level of recollection for any other books I studied in school, from Heart of Darkness to Catcher in the Rye.

Edit: Also, just because someone repeatedly disagrees with you, it does not mean they 'just want to be contrary'.

Given that I'm effectively arguing in favor of my personal experience, and the individual in question has none to draw from and is merely extrapolating from off-the-cuff opinion, I'd say they're just being contrary.
As long as it has the capacity to make you think decades are passing, it doesn't matter that they aren't.
In addition, leiningen has a nice plugin system to allow others to augment it. I found one last week which allows you to build clojure.org-esqe API docs [1]. I don't use ant often though, so it may well have similar capabilities.
In general, I imagine leiningen as a combo(-ish) between Ruby's rake and gem.

[1] http://tomfaulhaber.github.com/autodoc/
Ask HN: Review my 'smart drug'. Free for HN members.
Yeah, but PTX doesn't give texture or sampler values an sRGB mode either. Are you sure the driver doesn't just convert the texture when glTex(Sub)Image* is called?
No they are precisly on-topic.
Nasa is a defense project, it was started to design rockets, it peaked playing "our germans are better than their germans" during the cold war, then it funded aerospace R+D for defense companies.

It's problem now is that 50% of it's budget is useful for subsidizing Boeing's competition with Airbus, but the other 50% is no longer needed to subsidize General Dynamics competition with the USSR.
It still has the same problem: the price of gold goes up as everyone purchases claim checks denominated in it, and then crashes as everyone tries to cash out those claim checks for the goods and services they need to live.

The real solution is to store value in resources that increase the productive capacity tomorrow, so that when everyone tries to cash out their claim checks tomorrow, there will still be enough goods to satisfy them all. In other words, investment. The problem is that an investment is only a good investment when it increases the productive capacity for something that people actually want tomorrow. It does no good for everyone to invest in houses when they really need health care upon cashing out those claim checks.

And there are often technological barriers that prevent dollar investments from being productive. You can pump all the money into biotech research that you want, but you're still not going to get a cure for cancer until someone actually cures cancer. Innovation has a random element that isn't always amenable to throwing money at the problem.

People often wonder why the U.S. economy did so well after WW2, compared to the Depression before and the 1970s malaise afterwards. IMHO, it was because the large amount of pure scientific research undertaken during the war created a large stockpile of fundamental scientific breakthroughs that were ready to be exploited. All the hard, risky parts of innovation were already done, funded by the War Department, and so companies could readily transform surplus cash into innovations that made people's lives better in the future.
> Interestingly, the government can also mandate compulsory euthanasia for the elderly.

I can't see it happening with short-term elections to office.
to continue their theme maybe they need to add beer, cigars and condoms
Producing and getting paid don't go hand in hand in the freelancing world. For every bad freelancer, there's a bad customer.
Not necessarily allocating very large chunks in bulk but umm... Allocating nodes for a million nodes of a graph and subsequently processing them. Java JVM fragments memory heavily.
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Freshbooks helps me a lot. The automatic 30 and 60 day past due reminders get almost everyone to pay up.
II agree with everything you said, and still... I think there's a place for more social networks, if we redefine "social network" a little.

What there are are tons of communities, any of which a given user may or may not be a member of... and as long as people prefer to show a different face when interacting with a given community, or keep their interactions with the members of a given community separate - whether as a convenience, or for privacy reasons, whatever, there will be room for "social networks" around interests, geographic areas, etc.

So, yeah, a "social network" for Doctor Who fans, a "social network" for Mazda RX-8 enthusiasts, etc. This space is mostly filled by "forums" now, which don't necessarily have (or need, and this point is probably key) the same suite of features as a "full fledged social network."

But if there was a way to take advantage of all these discrete communities of interests, yet still give a user convenient access to their entire social-graph at all times, and a void "profile fatigue" and "password fatigue" then one could probably accomplish something.

Whether or not what Diaspora are building, or one of the other varied "decentralized social network" projects, remains to be seen. And how the hell you monetize it if you could build it also remains to be seen. But there point in all this rambling was really just to say that there are needs for "networking" that Facebook isn't filling at least not alone. Now the combination of Facebook, Gallifreybase.com and rx8forum.com may fill the needs of the hypothetical Doctor Who watching, RX-8 driving, social-networker. So would one really want to compete with Facebook or with rx8forum.com and gallifreybase.com?
I thought long and hard about this, but I ended up flagging it as spam. In spite of being very obviously tailored to the HN community, the "longform" sales letter and the account opened specifically for this post made up my mind.
I like the quote "technology seems to be giving us back our rights even as the law fails to protect them."
OpenID Connect? http://openidconnect.com/
Looks heavily inspired by This Is The Only Level. http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/this-is-the-only-...
I found a short thread discussing this change on the IronPython mailing list:

http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.ironpython.com/msg11...

It seems like a public image choice more than anything, even though "Microsoft Public License" was an OSI-approved license it still carries the dreaded M-word. Plus people are more familiar with the Apache license.

Someone in the thread also commented that Apache License 2.0 is designed to be GPLv3-compatible whereas MPL was less clear on GPL compatibility.
> everyday programming in general hasn't been lit aflame

That isn't quite true. A lot of the things that are happening in P6 have been backported to P5 and in general has made everyone excited. It is has also "revitalized" the people working on the core of P5 to think new thoughts as well.

I don't know if I will move to P6 but I am thankful for what it has done to P5.