skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are looking for a rock bottom price, then you post it to a cheapa-coder.com site and have 6000 people promise you things that are unrealistic and then most likely outsource it out the back end to make the project remotely profitable for them. As far as skill set, is that not what you are looking for, someone to make those kind of decisions? Do you really care if it is Ruby or Java or do you care about the finished product.

If the answer is yes to the finished product, then you may just want to take a more personal tact to your search. Read profiles, find someone who sounds like they would click with you and have them help you understand technically, what you are trying to build and explain how they would go about it.

The skill set is about the most irrelevant item of your concern (unless you have existing technology, in which case you should already know what skill set you need). There are good and bad developers in every technology, but in the end whether Ruby, Scala or Java if you have a good developer you are going to get a quality product.

Most developers will put in some legwork up front for free, to help you understand what you are trying to build and what is required to do it. If they are not willing to help you become comfortable, then move on, but don't expect them to start developing. They may do some wireframes and project planning for free but most will not prototype without entering into a financial arrangement.

You will have far more success with taking this approach than the shotgun strategy of blasting your project out to below-average-coder.com. If you read the profiles and select 2 people that you think would mesh well with you, I can all but guarantee that out of the two one will suit you. I can't speak for every person on that site, but the ones that I do know are good developers, it is not your standard crap-shot-coders.com.

If I came off terse, I apologize, I am trying to help you break out of the mental constraint that you have to have a lot of touch points to find what you want. I have found when it comes to quality, it is the exact opposite. Good developers generally avoid the crap shooting client and favor the more personal relationship clients that they can build a long term relationship with. They also will turn down projects that they don't posses the skill-set for and more importantly make the introduction to other developers that do have the skill set. Good developers have no shortage of work, they usually are not hunting around on post-a-project.com, they favor stuff that comes in through their network or from inquiries from entrepreneurs who seem like they have a passion for what they are doing and who don't seem like they will be difficult. If you want a good developer you need to get into that network and that is what I am trying to help you understand.

I am not currently taking any projects, but if you want to shoot me an email (in my profile), I can help you find what you are looking for, I know some developers who are actively seeking new projects.
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Do you have any references to back this up? I'm curious specifically about your claim that caffeine negatively affects adrenal glands.
Elaborate? We have used it in production to move servers from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud Files and it worked flawlessly.
President Nixon mulled over the idea of a guaranteed minimum income for Americans which, IIRC, mutated into the earned income tax credit program. Of course these days no mainstream progressive or liberal would support the idea. Things have changed a lot.
Immersion is not only screen size: it's how the game reacts to your commands, how the screen shakes, what is shown and what is not. This program solves only one aspect, but the game must be built for immersion.

And... I don't play Flash games to immerse. I play to pass time.

For me Flash games are like pen-and-paper puzzles. I don't mind playing sudoku on a small piece of paper.

That being said, it would be interesting for some games, but I'm not going into the trouble of downloading (and installing?) random programs to play an occasional Flash game. Even if I did, I'd be over with the game before remembering I even had this program.

And it removes the chat and comments feature from the original website, and they are valuable.

My opinion is that Flash games fill a very specific role and you are mixing things up, but others are free to disagree.
For the next step, I highly recommend Vimperator plugin for Firefox. It uses Vim keybindings and really gets your fingers used to using the letters for commands instead of ctrl+keys.
Same here. The first couple of days it was out I used it a lot - especially the HN feed. However, I realized I missed the comments and I switched back using HN via the web.

Also, the endless "RT by @blahblah" list of users on the right column for each story is basically useless clutter.

I use Read Later instead of instapaper, same thing, I just like the FF plugin it offers:

http://readitlaterlist.com/

Its funny, when I built LookLater a few years ago the Instapaper/ReadLater use case is I guess really what I had in my mind.
Reading about efforts like this makes me glad we write a half-page spec file and build an RPM for each service we've created. We're finally free of servers whose configuration is a hand-crafted artwork needing this sort of attention. We just "yum install" on a fresh machine (or a xen instance in dev or qa), smoke test, and call it a day.
lol - I loved this comment but I'm clearly in the minority.
This kinda covers it, but it would also mean that BPP = NP. This is because P != NP => BPP = P (which is equivalent to BPP != P => P = NP, which is a fancy way of saying that at least one of {BPP, NP} is P).

Since BPP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPP) essentially encompasses problems that can be solved with very high probability chance in polynomial time (the definition requires probability only higher than 50%, but you can iterate a polynomial amount of time, and reach probability arbitrary close to 1), it is expected that BPP = P. Not to mention that the huge amount of derandomization techniques are more evidence that this is very likely to be true.
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NP-complete, actually. NP-hard problems don't have NP-complete equivalents.
Book Antiqua is a knockoff of Palatino, which in turn is the titling variant of Aldus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_(typeface) . It should read a little more smoothly.
I'm hoping that it has a screen with double the resolution.
Sounds a little like the line in Watson and Crick's first paper about DNA. They said "It has not escaped our notice..." to introduce the idea that the subject of the paper might be the secret to life, the universe, and everything.
Here are a few comparisons:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/nodejs-frameworks
You are right, I confused NP with NP-hard. However, I think it's safe to assume that if a polynomial solution exists for a NP-hard problem, the complexity wouldn't be so incredibly high than it's better to use heuristics.
Everybody uses editors differently, and perhaps for your approach and workflow it doesn't make a significant difference. In my experience using vim has made my work day more enjoyable than other editors did, and while I don't think it directly impacts my code, I sometimes think that the increased happiness probably does have a positive impact on the quality of my work.

And even if it doesn't, the increased happiness is a virtue unto itself. The point is, find the tools that make you happy and use them. They don't have to be the same ones other people are using.
The have-nots of today might as well be kings to those living 1000 years ago. Still, having a strong middle class is good for everyone, regardless of moral imperatives to help others.
Part of my point is that I don't think the rich could win such a struggle of forces if they're a small minority: it would be more likely that the poor wipe them out, or at least confiscate their wealth, than vice versa. The rich currently survive easily basically because the vast majority of Americans support a rule of law that lets them retain their prerogatives; they are not capable of defending their own prerogatives, at least as things are currently set up. If it were angry masses versus rich people hiring private security contractors, I think angry masses win. A big wild card would be which side the government is on. If the government is run by populists interested in redistributing wealth, do you really think a small minority of wealthy could resist the police?
This paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0502072 explores what it means for physical reality. It's really interesting.

There are many possible scenarios, however. This blog post http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/is-pnp-an-ill-posed... describes some of them.
There are many problems that have polynomial algorithm, that is not especially fast for practical problems (matrix multiplication comes to mind for example, for which there isn't even any proof that fastest known algorithm is in fact optimal)
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I'm 'work-vacationing' in Brazil right now, and for some reason this is very much on my mind. Labor is very cheap here. Restaurants are heavily overstaffed by American standards, as are grocery stores and even hair parlors. I can't help but wonder what would happen here if cheap robotics existed. For most of the lower class here "retraining" probably isn't a possibility.
Ask HN: What are you using/reco for an online backup service for servers?
What do you use or reco on backup services for a server?
only one of them which is not a proof has been accepted by the community
Ask HN: JSkit vs disqus - what do you use?
There are three plug-in comment vendors: jskit, disqus, and intense debate.

Which one do you use, and why?
"only certain proof strategies" is technically correct, but its closer to "essentially every proof strategy we can conceive of".

And besides, the question is over the entire proof strategy and not the specific techniques involved. It seems plausible that one could give a relativizing proof using some method of calculation from statistical mechanics, for example.
Wondering if you can briefly explain why you picked Austin? I'm considering a visit.. if that goes well maybe a move..
An interesting and accessible article from Scott Aaronson about what it would mean if P=NP : http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=122
I have in the past for other sites. But now, sites that do decide to BugMe I choose Not to visit them.*

*NYT being the exception.
intensedebate seems to have lost mindshare. I'd go with either jskit echo or disqus.
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I feel its more like saying that the work is not endorsed by HP, without actually saying it.
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Unfortunately, this is far from simple. Laser light is a lossy medium, in that all laser beams diverge.

For example, even just sending a laser to the moon and back is quite sophisticated.

"Laser beams are used because they remain tightly focused for large distances. Nevertheless, there is enough dispersion of the beam that it is about 7 kilometers in diameter when it reaches the Moon and 20 kilometers in diameter when it returns to Earth. Because of this very weak signal, observations are made for several hours at a time. By averaging the signal for this period, the distance to the Moon can be measured to an accuracy of about 3 centimeters (the average distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 385,000 kilometers)."
[source: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/expe...]

Thus, even if you could get a mirror 25 light years away, the light wouldn't hit it or bounce back.
Why all the hate? That's an arrow → not greaterthanorequal
That has the making of a good novel. Some researcher notices this subtle bug, but rather than blow the whistle overtly, works with the NSA and project gatekeeper to allow the bug through, but with some way to track who might try to take advantage of it. Global tech thriller ensues...
NaCL is a verifier and a set of userland syscalls, not an emulator.
Original question: "Ask HN: JSkit vs disqus - what do you use?"

your answer: "intensedebate seems to have lost mindshare. I'd go with either jskit echo or disqus."

..um!
Probably, but at what price? I stopped programming PHP when one of my clients asked me what I offered that somebody from India that he could hire for $3/hr didn't. While I was standing in his office, face-to-face.

There's nothing wrong with hiring $3/hr workers (I now do it myself, though not for programming.) But, as time goes forward and we develop more ways for the rest of the world to get online, we're going to have to realize that many programmers won't make it, either, especially if they expect to be paid San Francisco wages for India work.
the "dodo's game" bit actually make me wonder if he was playing some word game, like not using certain letters or making the numeric values of the letters in all the sentences have a certain sum or something. it struck me less as ordinary bad writing and more as just really weird, something that you'd only come up with under artificial restrictions.
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All of the muscles need to considered and massaged in a systematic way.

I wish I had realized this years ago. I developed RSI symptoms, or at least they became severe enough that I took note of them, about two months ago. I did a lot of research after that and ended up booking my first ever massage.

When the therapist started working on my forearms, she explained that I was very tight, and she wasn't surprised it was causing me pain. Oddly, my left arm ended up being the worse off of the two. After the massage, I felt great and could type relatively normally again without pain.

She also told me that my neck muscles were essentially made of stone, and asked me if I regularly got headaches (I did).

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't underestimate the value of regular massages. It would probably cost around $1k/year to go once a month, but I think it's worth it to keep yourself at the top of your game. Therapeutic massage is often used to manage chronic pain, so I see no reason why it couldn't also be used to prevent it (or cure it if you're in the early stages).
It depends on what you want to use it for.

DISQUS seem to be wanting to cater to the long tail of blogs, JSKit/Echo is looking to super-serve "pro publishers" (they power comments on a lot of news websites, etc)

I like what Echo is doing but if it is just for a small blog you might find it overkill, plus I believe it isn't free.

However, the feature set is interesting.

As it happens, I don't use either on my blog. I don't see much value add in the end.
Thanks. I appreciate the advice. I am not looking for rock bottom prices, because I am looking for top flight quality, I guess I just wish there was a freelance site where one could post an RFP and actually get quality.

I appreciate the offer for help, I will be reaching out to you.

Thanks
P is NOT NP.
Show HN: The real time community search engine
I decided to cut all the other features and just release the startup I have been working on for the last few months.

http://seekier.com

I hate to put it like this, but look at it as a twitter for sharing what you search. Seekier lets you see what others are searching, allows you to share your own searches, and discover more through discussion.

Please let me know what you think of the idea and concept. There may be bugs because I decided to just release it. Thanks!

If you decide to register, be great if you posted your profile.
http://seekier.com
I don't think it matters much—everyone who cares about mobile net access now has a 3G connection somewhere on their person, either directly in their browsing device or tethered to it.
I'm guessing you must be joking?
Libraries and abstractions are good to the extent that you can trust them - there are some libraries that I trust more than my own code, and others I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole.

On topic, Excel was always more solid and reliable than Word or Ppt, and it turns out that was no accident.
Eugenics with a better name. With `modified' humans comes new prejudice. The movie Gattaca has it nailed.
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NP-Complete are NP-Hard, inside NP.
The WSJ also ran an editorial taking the opposite view, which I just submitted - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1586680
Garbage collection, (now) JIT compilation, combined with Dalvik, plus lots of developers know the syntax. Not to mention you can use native code with the NDK.

Java was a good choice in my opinion. I've done enough development for Android to love it, hate it, then love it all over again.
It used to actually be a quite popular position among libertarian-ish economists, strangely enough: Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman were both in favor of a guaranteed minimum income.
Oh - the original question actually had intense debate in the title. It was removed - perhaps because they have lost mindshare? :)
Ask HN: Review my Twitter recommendation engine
Mofollow

http://www.mofollow.com

This is my official public launch, just for you guys on HN. I have been developing this bad boy long before Twitter announced their user recommendation service but I've been hesitant to go public. There's a couple reasons behind my wariness:

1. It's currently only running on two linodes.

2. I wanted to ensure I had my MongoDB session handler working properly for scale out. If you notice any problems regarding sessions, please comment to let me know. I just enabled round-robin DNS and I had to fix a few hiccups along the way.

3. The number of API calls made to Twitter to generate a request is quite high, it's along the lines of ~105 requests if you have over 100 friends. Due to the sheer amount of data and handshakes being transferred, I was wary of both my bandwidth and the server load.

Oh well, here we go. It is quite likely you guys could get my servers to a crawl. If anybody is going to stress test my server, I would prefer if it's my fellow hackers to give appropriate feedback (and snarky comments) before I go entirely public with this thing.

I do plan on some form of integration with the new twitter recommendation API calls as well in the near future, but for now this is my completely custom version.

As a side note: I would appreciate it if you didn't tweet or blog about this as the site hasn't been stress tested and I'm just looking for some preliminary feedback.

I enjoy any and all comments and criticism.
It's effortful, time consuming, boring, and involves changes of behaviour, self image and thought processes, and involves potentially standing out against peers, family, friends, colleagues and industry culture.

If there were literally no down sides, everyone would do it by default.
There are more comment vendors than those three, but I use DISQUS. Some blogger friends use intense debate and comment luv. Both of those comment platforms seem to be gaining steam, but i am partial to DISQUS
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http://seekier.com/michael :D
Massage addresses one piece of the puzzle and to me is primarily a coping mechanism. It does not necessarily addresses the underlying problem.

It depends on the therapist; some are really good and some approaches work much better than others. But this problem is clearly not addressed properly for most people. Many suffer for years with it and a quick trip to a nursing home will confirm that.
Here is a good link. http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/a-proof-that-p-is-n...

The suspence is killing me. As an observer I'm worried that there is some small error in the core of his argument that will cause the whole thing to unravel, as is often the case for proofs of this level. But I am hopeful that at least this may be a breakthrough that points to approaches to finally nail this great beast.
I hope next time Damien will think twice before insulting other databases for having similar issues:

https://twitter.com/damienkatz/status/15444148375
That's not a very good example - square matrix multiplication is O(n^1.5) (where n is the input size) and extremely fast in practice.

(Though, as you say, there could still be an O(n) algorithm - this is not known).

What I said is true even for linear programming (a P-complete problem) - it has polynomial and efficient algorithms - though the latter are actually not polynomial in the worst case. :)
Again, I'm no expert, but relativization and algebrization are properties of proofs that invoke oracles, which this paper doesn't appear to do.
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Then, on a tangential note: are there classes of problems harder than NP, that we could switch to for cryptography et al. if it turned out that P = NP?
Why not just build your Flash game to go full screen on a button click? If you want to see how it can be done well check out Club Penguin in full screen mode - no thick client required.
Well, I wish that were the case, or you are making a joke. I can't tell. Either way it's funny.
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So charge the freeloaders $30 or $40 a month for unfettered wifi access. Everyone wins. I don't get it...

Seriously, I can't imagine it would be a ton of work to set up a RADIUS-type server that would limit a given MAC address to an hour of access per day (I'm sure some products like Meraki's already have this or something similar). If the user wants to squeeze more time out of the wifi, they have to pony up.

I'm totally one of the people described in this article, except that I'm doing it in Seattle. If the cafe I went to every day wanted to charge me for taking up a seat for hours at a time, I'd happily pay them a monthly fee. It's cheaper than getting an office or joining a coworking space, after all.
And that doesn't even scratch the security implications. Cryptography based on complexity theory would become an instant relic. The only cryptography I know of that could stand up to a P vs NP solution is quantum cryptography. Of course, there's the distinct possibility the NSA and other government sponsored institutions are already aware of a solution.
Thanks for the Rush reference in the example (I'm not talking about the name of the framework either).
I just noticed from my access logs that some of you are viewing from a mobile phone. Let me know how that goes, I haven't gotten to the point of creating my mobile subdomain yet.
R.J. Lipton - A proof that P is not equal to NP
Locally, rdiff-backup. Remotely, Duplicity on S3.

Actually "recommend" is too weak a word. If you aren't doing daily backups with duplicity, you deserve whatever comes to you. It's fantastic, set-and-forget, and using S3 is nearly free.
Better start building ARC 2, for all the telephone sanitizers.
Warranted. I just despise hype and sensationalism, particularly those concerning scientific breakthroughs. The title of the submission echoed similar hollow, dramatic claims and triggered my skeptical response.
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I think it's general sentiment against Java, the language. Many I know, including me, have been there and don't want to go back. At the same time the JVM is a pretty interesting space for language runtime.
Good find--I was going to look for it myself.
I prefer baby powder to deodorant. Deodorant clogs your pores while baby (talcum) powder soaks up moisture. Much cheaper too!
You are correct. Why aren't coffee shop owners programming their own servers and setting up firewalls, can't be that different to making a coffee, or serving a cake?

Sure, your idea might work, but the cafe owners aren't aware of that, or don't want to outlay more money. Much easier to go back to the old way of doing things. Hey, maybe this could be a business for someone, go around offering your service to help these guys out.