skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bug has already been listed in trac for quite some time now -- that is how I found out about it. However, it is unclear how you can expect to detect conflicting member infos and still retain separate compilation. Still, I look forward to you proving me wrong.
How did I get downvoted for this? All it would have taken for either of the companies not to fight is for them to show a little bit of humanity or professionalism.

I am NOT saying that it was ethical to attempt to trick them into fighting -- that would be a false dichotomy on the part of the reader. To me it IS unethical to attempt to trick people into fighting.

I am saying that even with attempts to trick, the people still had the power to choose to fight or not. The person who "tricked" them is NOT responsible for the other people's choice to fight. He did not take away their power to choose and he cannot take it away. To me, to give that person power over their choices is also morally unacceptable.
I sympathize. You describe 3 problems (depending on whether I'm reading you right).

1. You quit working on a client project. It's not clear whether you notified anybody, but it sounds like the work was billable until you decided to abandon it - which means your participation had to be replaced or written off, both of which are a bit expensive.

2. You don't know when you'll reach point X with the SEM project, and all you have been promised when you do reach it is an audition to ask for capital investment.

3. You have almost run out of cash because you spent it on stuff like an iPhone 4 when it was flowing, and are probably eating nothing but junk food.

It sounds like you're immersing yourself in dealing with the problems of coding in order to avoid dealing with the less tractable problems of money, personal interaction, and working pattern. You say nothing about attempting to sell your product elsewhere: it seems you don't like selling, and/or the product may be in a legal grey area in that the company in Charleston may have a claim on the IP because they paid you to work on it.

This is an unhealthy situation in multiple ways. I suggest you borrow some money from where you can to pay off your landlord and live for the next month or two on a basic but healthy diet. Then, look for a job. If your relationship with your friend is still good, then ask him to evaluate your progress so far, set short-term milestones for incremental improvements, and limit the amount of time you put into it until your financial emergency is over. If you are isolated, indebted and anxious then your non-provable design theories (UI, architecture) are probably not very good. This says nothing about your skill, it's because you refer to 'a horrible string of rewrites, starts from scratch, and UI redesigns.' That's what happens when you lose perspective and confidence at the same time.

At present you are your own employer, and you are mistreating yourself as an employee by failing to provide yourself with a paycheck or other forms of professional support. Quit your abusive job and see to your basic needs first.
Yes, that makes sense.

In my case, I ended up here by trying to dynamically shift where I'm applying the work load in the search space without pruning off an answer.
This is all so absurd. Why is anyone mad at Google over this Verizon thing?

Is Verizon so evil that just talking to them about the future of networks is enough for Google to be evil by association? (Actually, don't answer that.)

The argument in this article is that Google touches every part of the internet, and you can't live without their services even if you wanted to, because they're so widespread. I can accept that, but wouldn't that also mean that Google has an interest in a free and neutral internet, because their services are so widespread?

The very core of Google's business is derived from indexing all of the content on the internet. Their stated goal is to "index all the world's data". How exactly would cutting back-room deals for special traffic shaping with Verizon help Google?

Verizon, however, has a serious interest in preventing competition. They mostly sell network access at a premium price, which they can only do because they've gone to great lengths to limit the choices available to consumers.

Verizon seeks to limit access to consumers, while Google seeks to broker access between the user and whatever data they're searching for.

The more Verizon can stifle the competition and trap users, the more secure their business is. Google, however, is made more secure by every piece of user-contributed content that gets created. When Google indexes a new website, Google is increasing in value. When a user uploads to Youtube, Google is increasing in value. When someone makes a phone call with Google Voice, Google is increasing in value.

I can imagine Google providing internet access, but could you imagine Verizon providing Google-like data indexing services for public use? Remember that Google killed the phone book. We take it for granted now, but that's hugely significant. Verizon should be terrified of them providing cheap wireless communication, but Google need not be terrified of Verizon competing in the data indexing space.

Verizon needs to be a successful network access provider, and Google wants to be the hub for all data on the network. It makes perfect sense that they should be in talks.
This exact scenario actually happened to me. I thought everything went extremely well, but I was ultimately rejected for fear of me using the position as a stepping stone. I find that logic to be pretty flawed - as someone who was unemployed for a few months, wouldn't my best interest be to hold a steady job for a decent amount of time?
Ugh. Don't forget to put "NO RECRUITERS" in your job ads.
In 2-3 grade, my tiny little school had a single computer. It was a DOS-system (circa 1989) and although it was cool, we were only allowed a few minutes of strictly monitored time on it and even then, it was pretty limited.

The next year, I switched to a much larger school and was enrolled in Gifted class - where they had a Mac with HYPERCARD.

The whole Mac + HyperCard experience was mind blowing. Technology went from something of limited use that I was afraid of, to this amazing thing you create with (back then, even changing the desktop icons was a creative art).

The Gifted teacher let me take the 500-page HyperCard manual home and that's pretty much where I lived for the next few months. A few times a week she would come get me from normal class where I would then, after sludging through her regular assignments, get 10-15 minutes to type out my experiments and ideas.

Til this day, I'm still just that little kid pounding on a keyboard. :D
This is crazy awesome for power users that need a lot of control.

Philosophically, it makes something meant to be easy: html5, and makes it seem like rocket-surgery.

Either way, It’s a great learning tool.
Go find a gig and keep bootstrapping it. Even if you're close but not there yet, get some income coming in from somewhere so that you have the opportunity to ship it. Be smart, be frugal and keep yourself afloat so you product can see the light of day!
I use a P&S, so my options for flash direction are pretty limited :)

Good tip though if I ever find myself in the possession of a more sophisticated camera.
In real life, freelancers rely on referrals to get good work. I know that I have a small rolodex of people I send people to -- including a preferred designer, a preferred JavaScript guy, etc.

What would be cool is if you made it invite only - but also showed the graph of invites & connections. So, for example, I know that if I invited my designer friend, I would be judged based on her work. This velvet rope could help recreate the quality threshold we all experience in the real world.

To keep it being a second-class LinkedIn, you could limit referrals -- say, you only get x every year, or you can only recommend x people per field. Imposing a cost on referrals / connections could keep people using them in the best way -- not like the people on LinkedIn with 1000 connections.
the present proof doesn't seem illuminating

That can come later, if it's even possible. Just get the damn thing proven first.
So, why exactly do these academics infuriate you?

I'm quite clear if you read more than one sentence.

It's the way this guy responded to a comment of a blog about the paper. It just seems like a bad place to post a real unfixable flaw to the paper. Assuming the commenter is right (also possibly a bad assumption) why not put some effort into your response that will be read by every computer science and math person you'll ever work with in the future. For instance how does one respond, follow up, contact this guy? I have to go google him wtf. It's the equivalent to nitpicking. In the end someone else will have to pick up the pieces of what he said and analyze it and rewrite it and repost it. So to me he seems like the guy from QA that no one wants to work with - a bad team player.
Rails 3 - Build a Blog - Part 3: Edit and Destroy CRUD
For a long time, Google ads were entirely contextual: they served up ads based on the content of your page.

Contextual ads work well on a site for which the text is predictive of what ads will make money; for instance, in the case of a car forum, you can figure out what kind of cars are being talked about, if they are fixing up drivers, if they are racing, whatever.

Contextual ads work poorly on sites (like Facebook) that aren't really about any topic in particular -- because the text isn't predictive of anything. Also, in some cases, you can predict accurately what ads are likely to make a profit, but the profit isn't much.

Behavioral ads to the rescue -- the ad network sticks a cookie on your and tracks your interests over the long term. Although contextual ads are (overall) better targeted, a network like Adsense that does both can guess which will perform best for a particular impression, raising earnings for publishers and the networks.

Behavioral ads take many forms, but my favorite form right now are ones that are integrated with the shopping process. For instance, if you spend some time on Zappos, you might find ads for Zappos on other sites that feature the sort of products you were looking at. (Right now I'm thinking about what the next Gamecube RPG I'm going to buy next, so it would be logical for AMZN to try to tempt me to close the deal)

Anyway, Google added behavioral targeting and third party ad networks a few months ago -- publishers don't need to do anything special to benefit... we just get bigger checks!
Hey Terry,

Actually I am working on a start-up called MinuteBox.com (http://www.minutebox.com) and we are doing exactly like this. We are based in London.

We want to create a marketplace for people to buy and sell advice via video chat. Therefore, our users can monetise their expertise in small unit of time. The MinuteBox platform allows users to access expert advice in a cost-effective way. On the other hand experts can sell their time directly to users at their own convenience.

This is our demo video: http://vimeo.com/13758599
You can have an idea how we approach this.

We are preparing for the launch and it would be great to get more feedback from you.

Cheers

Josh
No. I think that "any job" is not better than no job. I've done both, and the "any jobs" were not worth it other than learning that the "any job" was not what I wanted to do. "No job" offers a lot of non-monetary benefits like free time, flexibility, friends and community. I stopped feeling desperate that I needed to have a job, and I let go of major things in my life that cost money: rented sleep space, and most store-bought food. "No job" is probably not for everyone, or maybe "no job" looks totally different for you. In maintaining my "no job" lifestyle, I found that well-being, maintaining health, became important.

I am employed at a job now, but not just "any job" because I actually love what I am doing.
What this infographic fails to mention is that almost all the bottled water starting its life as municipal water has been filtered via reverse osmosis, and processed via UV and ozone during the bottling.

What does this gain you? The main advantage is that you remove the fluoride. America is insane for fluoridating her water supply. Intentionally adding poison to the water, using dental care as the excuse. Sorry, but medicating the entire population is just stupid. There is no way to monitor dosage.
"Printing cost" is probably too loosy-goosey a term. Perhaps the better sentence would have been: "I would guess—but do not know—that he will not make much of a profit off the sales of the book itself."

What surprised me with my book was just how much distribution and storage costs add up. Without getting into exact numbers, the printing costs themselves can be less than those costs, not even factoring in amortized costs. The comments that look at the per-page printing cost (2,400 / 400 = $0.16 / page) leave that out.

What would make more sense to me in this case would be the potential intellectual property (patents) that could come about from doing the research for such a book. Regardless, from my conversation from him, it's clear he loves the topic (as do I) and looks at it as a way to contribute to the world. In his case, it just happens to be a business expense as well.

Fwiw, authors really don't make that much money on books, excluding the very few at the top of the bestseller list. Nathan put it best: "How to make a small fortune writing a book: First, you start with a large fortune, then..." Having been through the process myself, I'd have to agree with the sentiment.
The no cell data while in a call is a CDMA issue, not a phone issue. An ATT or Tmobile Android phone can use voice and 3G data at the same time the same as an iPhone.

Also, I'm not sure how the no cloud push in 2.1 can be a reason for switching from Android to iPhone. Does the iPhone have a cloud push feature equivalent to the one Android 2.2 cloud push feature? I'm assuming that's the "no cloud push" feature he's talking about, since many Android apps have push messaging for email, IM's, etc. (I've had push Exchange mail since at least Android 2.1, IM's have always been push-instant, etc.)
Agreed. Unfortunately there's a group of lobbyists that have successfully prevented efforts to eliminate the penny (these groups primarily being "Save the Greenback" and the cotton industry).

Sometimes I think we'd be better off eliminating congress...
Yep. I've been there, and still paying back the loans I borrowed which finish end of next year. Third times a charm though. I now have 16% equity in a performance management biz which is doing well. I believe most successful business men go bankrupt or got themselves into serious debt. Believe me, you're not alone in your desperate situation and I hope your situation improves quickly!
If you read the comment carefully you'll see the secret is hidden in plain sight. Unfortunately my procedure for deriving the "encyclopedia of the situation" is a closely guarded secret; in 15 years or so it will be 200 feet tall and eating your city...
I feel your pain, man. I have no prescription for you except to just keep on trying different stuff, but IMHO you have every right to vent.
It is not your responsibility. The unemployed person receiving unemployment paid into the system with deductions from his/her payroll.

Had that person not been employed last year (2009), and began working in 2010, and was subsequently laid off, that person would not be eligible for unemployment.
Moreover, I've yet to understand most of the arguments against their policy proposal, beyond disappointment that they excluded wireless internet from regulation. (Which I think is a good thing for now).
Also, try Trada.com.

Here's how it works: You set the PPC price you are willing to pay, and PPC experts on their platform compete to get PPC rates below that price. Their payment is the spread between the price you are willing to pay and the price they get.

I talked with one of their sales reps, who informed me that your monthly PPC budget has to be around $1500 (if I recall correctly) for you to join their platform.
When I was 8 or so I found a book in my school's library about making computer games with BASIC. I tried some of what I learned from the book on our home computer, and after running into some problems, I asked my brother for help, and soon discovered that all of my brothers and my father had done the same thing, and they were all anxious to teach me what they knew. We emigrated and bought a new computer, and my new school didn't have any books on programming and our new computer didn't come with BASIC, and so for my birthday I got a set of C/C++ compilers and some books. Now it's my career!
Unless Ruby's your first programming language, I don't see how you can be that astonished by the fact that there are multiple implementations of the same programming language.
I've found that an e-book whether in the form of an ipad or Kindle like device is great for reading for pleasure. Novels and News articles fly by for me.

However, when I try to read any technical book on my Sony reader, I feel frustrated. I love jotting notes down when I'm learning, and I constantly flip back and forth between pages. Nothing beats a real book imo, and as much as people want to push technology in classrooms, I still don't think it's conducive to learning.
Stop working on it for a while, go get a job to sustain yourself, save up some money, working on it weeknights/weekends and once it's it at point where it reaches some sort of critical mass, quit the job and live off of what you saved up. It's like when you're playing starcraft, you don't have an adequate supply of minerals, and you keep unsuccessfully trying to harass the enemy. It's not going to do anything. You have to focus on getting some dough, ramping up your production and then punk the enemy.
The best way to get a raise is to get a new job.
A møøse bit my sister once.
Maybe it's a MotoBlur specific or Droid X specific problem? If I recall correctly, my Nexus One rebooted when it got the 2.1 update1 and when it got the 2.2 update. Other than that, I think the only times it's ever rebooted is, like you, when I've forgotten to charge it and let the battery die. :-)
Google "Ryan Deiss".
Sounds more like your colleagues have lost faith in the project and you want to continue on with it. If that's the case then it may be time to find a J.O.B. and put this on the sideburner. If you have faith in it, have collected plenty of positive feedback, and have interested parties lined up to use it, then there's nothing wrong with going to earn a paycheck to take care of your basic needs first. It may take longer but it may also refocus you on the tasks at hand.

That... or go get some angel funding. There are more incubators/angels than just PG. How about family? Friends?

Though it really sounds like your cohorts have lost interest (since they don't seem to be out hustling for more funding and have told you you need to work without even ramen money).
Exactly. The Ruby community likes to experiment and it's a bit hyperactive. Personally I quite like it because of that.

That said the article was a bit of a stretch both in the example it used, and in particular the fact that the Ruby world is currently undergoing a big shift. I would imagine one year from now a lot of those choices will be gone (e.g. Ruby 1.9.1 or even 1.8.x, Rails 2.x and maybe some of the less popular Ruby implementations).

But the general principle is correct: the Ruby community likes to try, change, play with new frameworks and ideas. If you hate the principle, then maybe Ruby is not for you. Or maybe in true Open source philosophy, you can make a simpler installer, or get someone else to do it. Then you'd have made the Ruby world a better place, and we'd all thank you for it. :)
Our hackday project: Readshout.com
I had an HTC Magic for a year and found the web browsing to be great. Never used an iPhone to compare though. I loved that I could open multiple Windows, which I pretty much did every browsing session. I have an HTC desire now and its awesome. Really, really awesome.
here is the deal, it is extremely difficult to prove P ?= NP.
However it is comparatively easier to have a wrong proof.

The only thing that you can say is that this approach was one of the trickier ones to do it in a wrong way.

Yet it does not "necessarily" means that this approach is actually a starting point.

Just it seems to be more complex than the other approaches.
> This looks a lot like monocle (Python) and async.js (JavaScript), which do the same thing.

Actually Diesel used to be more like monocle using yields. But the point of the article was that they re-wrote Diesel to use greenlet in Diesel 2. It is a rather different approach. Yes, underneeth they all have a select/poll/epoll event loop but greenlet is a lot cleaner approach for some use cases.

I use eventlet (http://eventlet.net/) which sits on top of greenlet. So far, I am very satisfied with it. I moved to it from Twisted. It felt like moving from Java back to Python.
Charleston is a beautiful city. I came very close to moving there twice in the past few years.

Get a J-O-B there for a while and stabilize your money situation. Enjoy Isle of Palms and the rest of the city. Go up to Hilton Head, down to River Street in Savannah. Heck, go down to St. Augustine for a longer trip.

Clear your head, get some money. Then, if you're game for the entrepreneur game, go for it once again, being careful to not get into the situation you're in now. You won't be the first who's gone that route.
Surely if they like unavailable men they should prefer Palm Pre: I heard there's like a couple in the whole world. ;P

(it's just a joke: pity for the Pre. I kind of liked the innovative feeling they brought with them)
part owner Mark Sperry says he has been looking for $13-an-hour machinists since early last year

Apparently, either they aren't needed all that badly, or else they're finding some. Otherwise, he surely would have raised the wage offered.
If this Net Neutrality thing angers people enough to reconsider their relationship with Google, good.

Been trying to avoid Google for years now just because it is not wise to entrust everything to a company. Currently DDG for searches, e-mail handled on my own server. Never Google Docs. AdBlock, NoScript and cookie management help too.

Still have a gmail account for reading some Google Groups, which I really do not do anymore, and a GTalk id because one person on my list has nothing else...probably time to change these too.
Why would it be?

Employment is like dating - you're more desirable if you've already got a job. The number of companies willing to speak with you dramatically increases - and why wouldn't you trade up if given the opportunity, especially if this current job is "below" your standards to begin with?
"no soul and no will for the enhancement of human knowledge"

Yeah, that's why I wrote "legal" :-)
Working on a similar analog to the .htaccess for nginx. Anyone with input/interest please fork and update as appropriate. Obviously we can't get 100% functional parity, but we can get close! http://gist.github.com/518000
Love the idea. Similar to http://readness.com except not automated.
Our coverage: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/17/readness-a-last-fm-for...
It really is time to cut your losses as much as you can. First things first!

Github released a service today for IT job postings, sounds like you might want to check them out, as well as any other short term way to plug the hole so you won't slide (further) in to debt.

Then, when you've stabilized your situation you can start to figure out what to do next.
I'm intrigued by this spike of picture taking at 4AM. Apparently it is second only to noon in number of pictures. ?