skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how the idea started — people wanted to save money on invitations and ended up doing it themselves, resulting generally in a really poor product. I wanted to do something that allowed for budget consumers to do-it-themselves, but give them a better ability to make it typographically beautiful.
I am quite surprised at your willingness to take a 40k hit to work at home

In terms of $/hour, $80k/year for an 8 hour work day isn't much worse than $120k/year for an 8 hour work day plus a 1 hour commute in each direction. And I think best when there aren't other people around.
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Julies algarve property can be found within a haven of unpolluted,near tropical tranquility combined with perfect weather create an opportunity for a better quality of life.
I wouldn't give up any salary if the job is in the city where I live. I would rather be in the office to connect with people and to have structure.

If I had to live elsewhere, it would depend on the cost of living. In SE Asia for example, I would give up 60% or more. In Europe, I would give up only 20-40%.
who cares about the 3 native english speakers?
Unfortunately many (most?) 'non-standard' theories are absolute crap, and it's hard for non-experts to separate signal from noise.

For proof, see the perpetual energy source products that pop up every few months.

(not talking about this article in particular)
Ah yes, when factoring in commute that makes sense.
Why did they use Bezier curves for their transition intermediate value functions? Most of the text I've read on how humans interpret "smoothness" is that logarithmic (or exponential) are the norm [1].

[1]: e.g., "...in many areas, our responses to stimuli are logarithmic, not linear in nature." http://everything2.com/title/exponential
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I'll sum it up in a much simpler way:

The feeling you get when you read about something computer-science or software-engineering related in mass media ("oh my god those idiot journalists can't get anything right") is probably very similar to what a physicist feels when she reads discussion by non-physitics.
We had similarly high aspirations when launching our wedding business, http://trulyweddingfavors.com. Your post brings me back to the enthusiasm we had for disrupting the wedding industry. As a web application developer myself, I was looking for an industry that I felt we'd have an edge in, and wedding products/services seemed to be dominated by the technical and design challenged.

We have been successful in a general sense, generating about $350k in revenue at the end of our first year. After reaching this point, we realized the marketing game was where the real successes and failures were determined. In the wedding business, your customers won't look for you until that very moment they need your product, during the planning stages of a wedding. If your ad or search listing isn't in the top X, all the creativity in the world won't matter.

We continue operating http://trulyweddingfavors.com at a healthy margin, but are focused on innovating in other markets with more viral potential.

If there's one tip I could offer: read "the e-myth" ;)

http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abou...
When you go to an interview, think about the guys on the other side, the interviewers. Imagine they are also under stress, that they are having a hard time finding a decent candidate, they are scared they won't be able to do their job properly, or that their lack of knowledge on the subject will show through, even though they're the ones asking the questions. Try to see the interviewers as human beings, find some natural point of empathy with them (children? a bad cough? traffic difficulties ?) unrelated to the interview. If there is more than one, concentrate on whoever you feel most affinity with.

Even if your technical knowledge is limited, concentrate on your strengths: practical experience, a positive attitude, fluent communication, a good fit with the company ethos, a positive contribution to the working environment, etc. That's two thirds of it right there; it's not all technical. Investigate the company and make sure you understand what distinguishes it from the competition in terms of company culture. Try to understand the company's vision statement and what it entails.

Also think that you have a broad choice of jobs on the market, that these guys have to convince you to work for them: they have to show they are offering a good working environment, decent career prospects, a competitive salary package. Be the opposite of desperate: you're in a strong position, you have all the choices, they have to entice you.

Even if I can't answer all their questions. I generally behave as if I were a very valuable potential asset for the company, which they will have to work hard to acquire. I certainly don't think they are doing me any kind of a favour by offering a job: how would their company function without decent workers?? If I have any doubts about the company, its training policy, its promotions, its financial viability, I ask them, I put the interviewers on the defensive, so they try to convince me that it is worth my while to work for them.

When you get to the financial part, don't sell yourself short, and don't look greedy either. I find that a 10% raise on my previous package usually strikes the right balance. Sometimes you can ask for 15%, and then let the guys negotiate it down to 10%, so they have the impression they got a bargain.

Usually this approach catches interviewers on the wrong foot and reverses the roles. I get a lot of offers, even though I don't have a degree in IT, and I'm an average programmer (I studied philosophy).

To sum up:
- be empathic with the interviewer
- be positive about your market prospects
- have a deep understanding of this particular company's vision, why you want to work for them, what positive contribution you can make
- be upfront if you have any qualms about the company or the role
- be clear about your strengths and know that you are not being judged exclusively on your technical abilities
- make the interviewers work to convince you to sign a contract
Decide on how much you want out of it, start off at twice that much and allow yourself to be negotiated down reluctantly.

Be prepared to walk away if you don't get what you want out of it.

Make sure you are indemnified, that the sale is final and that there is no obligation on your part that survives the contract.

Make very sure that you have all the IP that you sell sewn up tight.

Make sure you keep all correspondence, prefer email and such above conversations about pre-contractual stuff.

Put a person that is not emotionally involved in the deal between yourself and the other party during the actual negotiations, unless you are very good at distancing yourself from this.

Never agree on the spot to any deal, always think it over for a night.

Agree that both parties will carry their own costs up to the point of sale.

Get a professional that you can afford in on the deal, someone that is only beholden to you.

Find a person near you that has gone through this process that you can trust and get their feedback on the process as it goes forward.

Do not transfer any assets prior to the actual sale date, even if it looks like everything is 100% a-ok (I know that sounds like an open door, but that sort of mistake is actually fairly common).

Talk to grellas here.
Re: "I simply do not see why your goals 1-4 require a) the same language on the server as the client"

Have you ever done 1-4?

Re: "marshalling to JSON is trivially achieveable in almost all programming languages"

Code sharing and JSON serialization/deserialization are not the same thing.

Re: "To suggest that developers should - to achieve this microscopic payoff - choose to build servers using a language with a crippled concurrency model (i.e none) is laughable."

Ships will sail around the Earth but the Flat Earth Society will continue to flourish.
Apple refreshes Mac line-up
Ironically, that includes Twitter :)
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Ask HN: New website launched, what blogs and sites should I target?
I am a long term HN reader but never posted. I have recently launched a new site and am trying to gain some traction for it. Apart from the obvious - Techcrunch, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb - has any one got any sites that I can submit my startup to?

The start up is a search engine and am keen to get it seen by people and receive some feedback from those in the know.

Any help you can give would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Good thing in ksplice is that not all kernel updates will require a restart. I see the Ubuntu folks got very bold in pushing new kernels down the update pipe in the last couple releases.

Availablity is also somewhat overrated. Like I said, it's not the downtime that kills you, but the forced, unpredicted downtime.
Are the American people obsolete?
I think free movement between governing systems would do a lot to weed out some bad ones and make them all more competitive. Your big problem is of course geography - you couldn't, for example, allow tens of millions of badly governed people to migrate into a small country, as they would destroy what made it desirable. But if you could vote to put your physical area under the control of a more desirable government, that would be a great leveller. Imagine you lived in Darfur and you could vote for the Swedish government instead of your own. It'd be a bit of a pain for the succesful government to adjust to ruling a culturely, geographically, and economically different area, but in the longer run, well managed governments would probably benifit from the increased territory, population and diversity.
You could try searchengineland.com..
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> Because twice in my experience I have started on one of these bases and managed to blow out their complexity budget as a single programmer working on a project for less than a year.

Could you please share a little more about this? I'm interested to know what it is you were building solo and the tools you were using, and what made it so difficult to maintain.
Simply tell the interviewer that you suck at interviews, but that you're willing to work for a week for free to show them what you can do in a realistic setting.

Almost risk free for them, and a win for you if you can deliver.

Also, it wouldn't hurt to have a previous employer on call that can vouch for your abilities. If the 'process' doesn't work well for you try to bend it to your liking.

This approach will not work with large companies by the way, they do things 'by the book' for fear of liability, but a sympathetic interviewer at a smaller company would be a good place to try this strategy.

If I were the interviewer and you'd approach me with such candour I would almost certainly give you the chance (the 'almost' is a caveat against some unknown quantity that would trigger my red flags).
This is going to sound like a cop-out, but the answer really is 'whatever works for you'. Don't measure yourself by how other people get through their day and how they make a go of it, this race is not with others, it's with yourself.

Set your goals, lay your plans and go about execution at a pace that you are comfortable with and that you feel that you can keep up for a long long time. As DanielBMarkham wrote in some other thread, this is a marathon, not a sprint so pace yourself accordingly.
Going by history the third version doesn't work out too well either.
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If we generalize, we discover that lots of other fields (e.g., medicine, law)
have sexism, but they also have 50% women

Firstly: in neither medicine, nor in law, are 50% of the graduate students women. Secondly: even when the number of students in the field is 50/50, that doesn't mean there is no discrimination. Here's a nice study about discrimination among students of medicine[1], the consequences of which you can guess.

Remember, we are asking what makes CS special.

No, that's what you are asking, because you assert that gender discrimination does not influence gender ratios in other studies and occupations, which is simply not true. Solely based on experimental observation of cognitive biases, it is extremely unlikely to be true. Women are always, everywhere, underrepresented in the top echelons. Even in nursing, there are more males in leadership roles than you would expect from the number of male nurses.

[..] and you'll see the same conclusion applies to workers.

Wait, what? The women have to perform better to be even considered and only if they are then rejected, then they are being discriminated against? It's the fact that they have to perform better in the first place that is the problem. You are already discriminating against green cars. That's the point.

[1] http://pdfs.journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/2002/12000/Gen...

(BTW, I did an experiment here: I upvoted your comment some time ago. I have a feeling that in a discussion of 'score 1' comments, bumping one of them to '2' precipitates upvoting of the '2' and downvoting of the others)
Am I the only one to notice the irony of an Intel CPU coupled to an AMD GPU?

edit: the downvotes show I am
I'm not using LuaSocket but my own homegrown code based off epoll() (it was a learning experience in embedding Lua). It could probably be adapted to libev if I had the interest in doing so.
Here's Google's cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2fmfGIe...
http://us.php.net/spl

i think most of them are here, but there are few missing(but it depends on language you are working with)
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As a contractor / freelancer, you shouldn't be willing to lower your rates based on where you live. As an employee, you should only be willing to do this as some sort of negotiation in place of losing your job. Company: To keep your job you need to take a pay cut. You: I will take a pay cut if you allow me to work remotely and live wherever I like.
When one day you will find that your class="green" is displayed in red, you might now the part of the answer.
I know it sounds like hippy-dippy feel good bullshit, but yeah. you need to learn that you deserve to value yourself even if you aren't 'good enough' to meet one (or any) of your goals.

now, expecting others to value you when you repeatedly and consistently fail them is irrational, but you really do need to feel that you have a right to value yourself, no matter what. Self-hatred is simply not an effective way to motivate oneself; I've tried.
The dry tablets are so much a combination of ineffective and popular that their deposits in water treatment plants is often a problem. Pretty crazy, right?

http://healthnow.blogspot.com/2005/01/tons-of-vitamins-remov...
This mirrors my macbook setup [which I enjoy pretty much] with the external monitor: [mouse][keyobard][macbook trackpad] :-)
"I need a software that allows me 2 post short messages 2 the web n allows people 2 follow certain people to keep up with it."

Haha, nice one.
I'm sure you would agree with this but in case others are reading, simply blacklisting these sites wouldn't be the best thing to do. Many are simply expired or parked pages.
This caught my eye in the source:
setTimeout('location.reload(true)',1200000);

The simplest way is to disable javascript.
http://www.webisee.com/2008/10/17/best-ways-to-just-hum-a-tu...
...like Opera since 2002 (I know probably nobody cares who did it first, but it's a shame that Opera's innovations get noticed only when bigger players copy/reinvent them).
The video demo is very great! Can't imagine such poor web browsers can do such things for just a blink of eyes. The technology of web apps is growing quite faster compared to desktop ones.

I really love developing web apps and will be looking forward to seeing and learning those new techniques in the future of web apps

Great presentation as well as the demo!
Thanks
No, it's a clip-path.
Thanks, but I understand their point, I just disagree with it. I agree with you about the feelings, but I think that trying to restrict their speech is the wrong way to go about it. That's my position, unpopular as it may be.
The origins of the "printer on fire" error message are actually quite interesting -- IIRC the error is generated if the printer status lines indicate an impossible state that a normal printer would never produce.
at least on the social front, I disagree strongly. Having lived both outside and inside the "silicon valley" area, god damn, It's a /whole lot/ easier for a nerd who best relates to other nerds to have a fulfilling social life here than other places. Hell, even compared to the east bay, I've lived in El Cerrito, near Berkeley, and silicon valley is dramatically better.
Why? This project has no dependencies on Rails.
Yes, exactly. So now the question can be brought back to whether "do not reflect the current on-ground realities" is jargon or technical language, or not. I can easily imagine it is, for higher-level military commanders. Just like 'synergy' is a word that means something to professional managers in bigger organizations and consultancy. I know it's a word that is often derided by technical people for being meaningless management mumbo jumbo, but that's just a brash generalization coming from ignorance of the field of management.

Anyway my objection against the original comment was precisely this; the OP made a statement on the intent of who said those words based on (from what I read between the lines of the post) prejudices and his/her own ignorance.
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When I first read that title I thought that the post was making fun of that wording, and that there would be poorly-thought out examples from non-technical people.
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Stackoverflow only works in utopia
Or use their RSS/ATOM feed.
Not tried POE myself but it does seem to produce a wide love/hate divide among its users. AnyEvent (http://search.cpan.org/dist/AnyEvent/) seems to be the more pragmatic choice.
Regarding creativity; It'd be interesting to see what happens when one mixes Provigil (+focus, -creativity) with something that boosts creativity. Marijuana for instance (-focus, +creativity)?
I'm pretty sure What Women Want was an ad. People just paid to see it.

Not that this detracts from W + K's success record.
Google visits domains all the time so they should be aware quite quickly when things move from spam/parked to non-spam/non-parked. Therefore, I don't see why they shouldn't all be out of the index until they have useful content on them.
Of course they do report some news. I think the main point is the way they report them and how they have become very political. Also, I think another worry is how they all report the same thing.

And the biggest worry is how sometimes they do not report what is really important and should be reported. I do not see how after the Iraq siaga anyone at all can trust the press.

Journalism seems no longer to have become about reporting, but forming opinions, or calling it for what it really is, propaganda one way or another. This is very different from being given the hard facts and allowed to judge for yourself. That is why wikileaks is disruptive, has a lot of public support, and people want to kiss the hand of Julian.
Making a hit ad can't be easy. Not if you want to outdo everyone else screaming for eyeballs.

Google just did an SVG on a bunch of matrices to find the websites you'd most likely end up on if you randomly walked over the entire internet. It's deceptively simple, but only in retrospect.
If you're using Firefox, there is an option under "Tools->Options->Advanced Tab->Accessibility" - Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload web pages

You could use that I think. I've not tried it (and I don't want to visit TC)
Well the guy who leaked the Iraq video to wikileaks is in prison now. I think that is quite a high price. Not many journalists if any are prosecuted from their own state for reporting what the power that be does not want to hear. Though that said, Dr. Kelly in Britain paid a high price too.
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Could be interesting, however I think only software engineers reason this way. Normal people want solutions to their problems, and usually don't realize software could be this solution.
Mark Pilgrim kindly requests that you get your own word: http://twitter.com/diveintomark/statuses/19715440495

This one is taken: http://addictionis.org/
Interesting project! There seems to be a typo in your graphic, 'R' for Thursday ?
I don't know about that, nethack is habit-forming in its own ways.
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How about revealing what the site is, that would at least get you some visitors trying it out... Keeping it a secret is not going to get you much play!

There are worse places than HN to write about your new stuff, plenty of tech savvy reporters lurk here.
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I know that all too well. But it gives you geek-cred.
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I've tried several "i-doses" out of curiosity and I haven't felt anything. Ok, I listened to those binaural beat tracks while doing stuff at the computer, not laying on the bed in a dark room with my eyes closed, but I think that if it had any effectivity I would have felt something even in a illuminated room sitting in front of my computer.
The dishes needed rearranged in order to fit more in there. The original arrangement was never intended to be more than a prototype. I swear.
Yes but as an Indian user my immediate worry is whether they will send the cheque by Government post. If they do, it is likely that many cheques will be delivered late or never.

This adds a massive layer of unreliability for us in India.
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I believe Baidu is on the right here. There was no easy way they could've prevented social engineering on tech support that isn't theirs.