skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How much should I ask for?
I'm posting this under a throwaway account in order to give details. From this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1591225 - it seems people like discussing money here so I wanted to ask for input.

I've been contacted by a place I've worked for before about hiring me on a contract. This would be the fourth time I have done work for them. The first two times I was working as an employee - I quit to go do something not software related, came back and then got laid off. The third time I was hired on contract.

As an employee, the first two times, I earned $23/hr (there would have been benefits on top of that but I never made it past the probation period).

For the contract, I asked for $36/hr and it was accepted.

Since then, I have been working on a contract at another place and earning $45/hr. This contract will end soon (or be reduced to just a few hours per week).

This company does client work which they bill at approximately $100/hr so I know there is a limit to what financially makes sense to them no matter how good my work is.

I was thinking of asking for $55/hr this time around but that seems like a huge jump from their point of view when I was earning $36/hr at my last contract with them - just six months ago.

I should note that not getting the contract wouldn't be a bad thing. I would be interested in having the free time for a while to work on my own projects.

I would be interested in hearing other people's viewpoints.
> Now imagine that they put the search in some difficult place so you are forced to see "their portal" you don't care about every time you want to search anything.

A "difficult place" like http://search.yahoo.com/? That's existed for a good 5 years. And it's a completely lie that the first 2 pages of search results was paid results.
How do you define what a skilled software developer is?
"Yes it would be illegal in Germany, but here in the US we do have freedom of speech. From flag burning, to KKK rallys and in this case Nazi insignia are all examples of free speech, and protected by the Constitution."

The 1st amendment is about Congress, not about what retailers allow into their stores for sale.
Startups: Why Customers Won't Switch to Your Product
Hi akkartik,

You make a good point, however Twitter's ToS was quite different back then. Their current TOS was updated: September 18, 2009 (this date can be found at the bottom of today's TOS)

That's around the same time my bot was suspended and Twitter's spam rates started to drop from ~10% to 1%
I know tor publishes lists of exit nodes, but does it need to publish ips of exit enclaves? It clearly does not publish lists of ips running hidden services, and an exit enclave seems closer to that than an exit node.
"The owners of flattr also own thepiratebay. I remember hearing a speech a few months ago talking about how everything should be free, just like when we were children (we need to learn to share). They have no regard for the rights of developers and have no problems giving a clear and direct roadmap to a free copy of your commercial application."

[Citation Needed]

"why does Flattr charge a 10% surcharge on top of every transaction"

Bandwidth isn't free.

"I might use them if they didn't make a profit"

How do you know they are profitable?
I added innovator:

1. Douchebag without technical knowledge.
2. (Rare) In IP, a non-douchebag with techical knowledge.
Awesome comment on trigraphs in C:

These let you use the "WTF operator":

(foo() != ERROR)??!??! cerr << "Error occurred" << endl;
Startup installs temporary art galleries in offices
Congrats again, Gabriel! I don't use Tor myself (atm, at least), but I admire your efforts to help address this concern for people. DDG is impressing me more and more every day. It's been the default in my search bar for a couple weeks now, working great. Here's to the future of DDG!
"Java: Write once, run anywhere, be sued by Oracle"
It's difficult to find hard numbers for Dalvik, but the KVM[1] (Sun's JVM for mobile devices) was designed for memory efficiency and can operate in roughly 128kb of working RAM.

[1]http://discolab.rutgers.edu/classes/cs672-fall00/j2me/Append...
yahoo finance already does this for free, as do many brokerages. what's your competitive advantage?
What if it's only in response to people asking for book suggestions? Like this one: http://twitter.com/GEOFFUSELESS/status/21014481706
Non Myths About Programming
Admittedly, the organization is quite arbitrary. I wanted to have what I thought would be the most popular tabs up on page load, to reduce the number of AJAX requests and secondly because that's mostly what people want to read. For the tech page I thought more people would be interested in reading Digg, rather than PC World or CNET so I moved Digg to occupy a first position in a different box.
Additionally, the Kindle doesn't shoot beams of light at your eyes.
Well, part of the point is (or will be) that most people on the Internet creates content. Like you just did when you wrote your comment. I guess this will be clearer when the API stuff gets going.
BBC Internet Blog: HTML5, open standards, and the BBC
Yep, sometimes I think the people complaining about eyestrain are still thinking about 60Hz CRTs. I think I'd slightly prefer e-ink for lots of reading (though a backlight is important to me), but I never have any feeling of pain or strain while reading on my iPad. (Perhaps others' experience is different, of course.) If anything, I just want it to be sharper like a high-res phone display.
Our use of ' was inspired by lisp's.

Immutability such is an important part of Spin's messaging model that we wanted a consistent way to declare an immutable construction.

# An immutable string (or symbol)
'foo

# An immutable list
'[ 1, 'foo, '[] ]

# An immutable map
'{ foo: 1, y: 'two, z: '[ 'three ] }

Slightly more advanced...

# Also an immutable string
"foo with spaces"

# An immutable pair
"bar" -> 2

# Syntactic sugar for that same pair
bar: 2

# Syntactic sugar for "baz" -> baz
~baz
I possibly won't be back for a while..." Crime doesn't pay.
I've heard it said that modern American English is closer to that common ancestor than modern British English.
New Hackers for Charity forum - match your skills to a charity that can use them
I don't know many Overture people still left in the Search Marketing division. Over time most of the historical Overture teams were sidelined and all the important work moved to the main offices in and around Sunnyvale.

(I worked for Overture for 1.5 years before the acquisition, and then Yahoo for another 5 years. I left about 2 years ago.)
I for one have no reservations whatsoever sharing ANY medical data gathered concerning any illnesses I have. If it helps save just one life, it is worth sacrificing whatever illusions I have left of privacy as a patient.
You are reading it wrong.
It means that the end customer (student) will get it at 50% subsidy, which will be 17.5$
Hmm, so they made their ToS looser around the time they booted you? That doesn't make sense..

I'm not sure there's any disagreement here. I'm just saying: I think what you did would require human judgement to kick no matter how they write their ToS.
> What’s Google’s decision whether to sell crap like this got to do with freedom of speech?

Everything.

I, personally, find it disturbing. But if it does not breach the ToS of the Android market, Google has no right to remove the materials. More than that: by removing it from the market, Google would be dictating the terms for censorship in the marketplace, making it difficult for neonazis to find material that appeals to them.

And this is a delicate issue: if you segregate against those with unpopular points of view (the neonazis, religious nuts (aren't them all), proto-terrorists, extreme right-wingers) you drive them underground. If their ideas can no longer be debated in the open, they will be debated - and reinforced - in communities with like-minded people.

I don't care about neonazis and other miscellaneous idiots, but I care about a functioning society I am part of. There is not that much difference between segregating on beliefs and segregating on skin color.
Hi nerfhammer,

They started out like "@{{user}} You should read {{book title}} {{shortened book url}}" but many people would take offense if the recommendation wasn't a very good one or the book touched on a sensitive subject (like weight.)

I had much better results with "@{{user}} Have you read {{book title}}? {{shorted book url}}"
I run the Cool Calvin and Hobbes Collection - http://calvinandhobbes.me - and as one of the very early fan sites have seen many C&H fan sites come and go.

For most of the past 15 years, the most popular C&H site was Martijn Reemst's site which was truly comprehensive. Sadly that was taken down a few years ago because it featured a search engine. The same thing happened to S. Anand's fan site once they offered a search engine as well.

From what I have observed, in the late 90's Universal Press Syndicate was quite aggressive in pursuing C&H fan sites and getting them shutdown. However from 2000 onwards, they have taken a much more relaxed (enlightened?) approach with few C&H fan sites being pursued for copyright infringement. In fact, the only sites that I know that have been shutdown are those that have run search engines.

I've long been tempted to add such a search engine to my site as I've already got it all coded up and indexed already, but I'm quite fond of my site since it was the first website I ever created (and what started me on my IT career) and so don't want it shutdown.
Well, other people are using ePub plus DRM. Which makes it simple to support ePub without DRM. And it's not like Amazon can "support" ePub and have iBooks work on it due to the DRM.
Not really - the search engine is to search the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. The strips never make any mention of Bill Watterson, so the fact you got zero results is completely accurate.
justin.tv, check their traffic/interface lately? scribd.com, though maybe that doesn't qualify on interface. shopify.com,
basecamp.com
Which would basically destroy Android performance; OpenJDK is too bloated to run on phones.
Check out ravelry.com and read http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/9/22/how-ravelry-scales...
Posted from a throwaway account.

I make about 400 EUR every month from Amazon referals without actively doing anything.

I own a comunity fueld site (hosting pictures) that receives about 70k visits (20k unique) per month. Its just a little hobby project that runs itself and has been unchanged for 2 or 3 years now. It's hard to find advertisers due to the sometimes offensive content, let alone making money from banner ads.

So I did the next logical thing: putting an invisible iframe on the site that loads Amazon with my referal id. Anyone who visits my site and decides to go shoppind on Amazon in the next few days, still has this referal id stored in a cookie. Note that I don't actually link to Amazon anywhere. Conversion is soley based on chance.

My conversion rate is about 0.5% and I've been doing this for about 18 month now.
Ask them to pay you what they think you are worth.
According to studies cited by Sonjy Lyubomirsky (http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/ ) in her Book "The how of happiness" (a happiness book from a scientific view), the genetic predisposition is about 50%. 10% is your environment, and the rest is what you do with your life.

So, there is room for improvement for most people, although not as much as some happiness-gurus may like them to think.
Holy crap thanks for the link! I completely missed the release amongst all the other news.

I can't even begin to calculate how many hours of college I wasted playing RtCW
Technical details of Social Bicycles
"How can you tell if a CEO is lying?"
Easy. If words are coming out, he's lying.
It bounces them, though. Sometimes from the sun!
Good question brosephius.

I was not/am not aware that yahoo finance and other brokerages do it for free. Didn't find it immediately with a quick Google search either, so I'd appreciate the link (though I found another site that is new to me and seems to provide similar service)

At the time I wrote it, I couldn't find other instances of this service online.

I could constantly poll stock prices on my phone to see if my price points had been reached, but what I wanted was to not have to pay attention and be notified when an event occurred.
Just because its open source doesn't mean that IP terms still can't be brought against you. Here's a simple example. Lets say that someone contributes someone else's patented algorithm into gcc. Now you ship gcc, not knowing about the patent infringement. All of a sudden you have a patent lawsuit on your hands.

This is probably the biggest reason why companies, like Microsoft, even when they do open source, don't accept contributions. Just because someone contributes specific code, doesn't mean they have the legal right to do so.

Sun showed that Java could be a timebomb. And in the hands of Larry Ellison, I think Google is just the first victim. Oracle will be going through uses of Java with a fine-tooth comb. Get your duck in order now.
> Where are you from?

Brazil.

Officially, we have free speech, as stated in the constitution, but the same constitution forbids anonymity (I use to joke I have free speech as long as I have a better lawyer that the folks offended by my free speech). Also, there are laws explicitly forbidding racist and other kinds of hate-speech.

I find this foolish - unpopular ideas will be nurtured, if not in the open, where they can be attacked, far more dangerously, in closed self-reinforcing communities.

But, foolish or not, it's the law here.
Ask for $55, then agree to meet in the middle at your current $45 if they balk.

Unless you're set on getting $55 out of them :)
DHS Caught and Released 481 ‘Fugitive’ Illegals from State Sponsors of TERRORISM
While we're talking about syntax, "\n" is an alternative to ",".

This helps multi-line expressions read more naturally.

'{
foo: 1
baz: 'bar
chunky: 'bacon
}
Hmm, they got synergy in there as well:
Unsucked: Working together.

An addendum would be: Leech-y, take advantage of a said synergy situation, etc.
And the service itself: http://socialbicycles.com/
What region/location are you in?

All those rates sound very low, especially when you look at what you actually net after taxes and all that.

$75/hr would seem the be the floor, IMO, unless you're in a very low-tech area like the middle of Utah or something.
I'm excited to see it up close, but I think the controlls will ultimately leave me unfulfilled. :/
Since they came after you, tell them to make you an offer and you'll consider it.
> The 1st amendment is about Congress,

Which only means Google cannot be forced by law to remove the offensive material.
I didn't "raise my views." You're either misinterpreting the original essay, or misinterpreting the comment above.
Are you thinking of Yehuda Katz who works at EngineYard?

http://yehudakatz.com/
How much bandwidth will you allocate to tor?
It's not just that they changed their TOS. They also started to take a stronger stance against spam. In addition to publicly announcing "we WILL actively suspend the accounts of spammers" they followed through and probably beefed up their anti-spam staff.
This would be awesome if the website hosting the strips was actually up. Poor little sad broken image icons...
Bill Watterson objected to derivative works - ie C&H baseball caps, cartoons, fridge magnets, bumper stickers, colouring in books etc.

A search engine isn't a derivative work (at least in the way that Watterson dislikes). The objections to the search engines come from the publisher under the guise of copyright infringement. I would assume that whilst they can turn a blind eye to a fan site with the occasional infringing comic strips, they can't turn a blind eye to a search engine which contains the entire script of C&H.
Hah, nice try :-)
That's the beauty of quid pro quo: it's plausibly deniable and you can poke fun at those who suspect it.
I have just added some stopword filtering until my corpus becomes more fully developed. Hopefully this will improve the results of the recommendations!
No, he's not. Ezra first wrote Merb. Yehuda has been the lead developer for a long time.
http://osdir.com/ml/lang.ruby.mongrel.general/2006-10/msg001...
I have actually been looking for something similar and have considered building it in the past. My biggest concern was how to monetize it. Not sure I would pay a monthly fee for it.

My biggest need was for it to sync names + phone numbers to my phone so I don't run the risk of loosing them when something inevitably happened to my phone.
Ask HN: How can startups based in India get a US merchant account?
Indian banking laws don't allow for recurring billing of credit cards. This can become a hassle for our customers. We would like to use a US merchant account and gateway to work around this. What are our options?
"turns up skins which are disgustingly, hatefully pro-Nazism and pro-Hitler. That's a problem, no matter how you look at this."

"hard look at what censorship really means, and what kind of role it can (and clearly should) play in the new frontier of app marketplaces"

That's a seriously fucked up view on censorship right there. I hope it's just a troll and author really doesn't believe that censorship is ok, and censoring what they don't like is fine and dandy.

Also maybe the reason author thinks "Jewish" and "Hitler" are unrelated search terms is because the only history they have read had all the "hate filled" parts censored.
I already bought my ticket so I obviously don't qualify but I'll tell you how I turned from someone that couldn't afford it into a paying future attendee.

I decided that I'd have sponsors for a project that would get me there. I actually had a couple of people confirm sponsorship if I decided to go this route -- I won't mention who they were specifically but they were very helpful in thinking it through.

The concept was: a video project of behind-the-scenes footage of BoS and sideline interviews of many of the speakers. I'd put up a site and ask in places like answers.onstartups.com for people to suggest questions for me to ask the speakers and I would mention their startup while video recording the short interviews ("So and so from X startup asks...").

I'm a bootstrapper with a day job and a relatively young product; so while I'm cashflow positive, I'm carefully watching expenses and reinvesting it back into the business. This is why I was making plans for this project. Ultimately, after much back and forth (and discussing it with my wife), I decided that if it was that important for me to go I should just take some of my profit and reinvest it in myself by going (which is an investment in my business). If I took on the project, what I'd gain in money I'd lose in valuable time that I could spend working on my product.

So, basically my thought here is that people that win free tickets should earn them in some way that gives back value to the entrepreneurs that can't afford to make it.
Is the backlight actually all that much of a differentiator? It seems like it should be, but apart from the greater uniformity of a backlight, what are the practical differences? This question of emissive versus reflective light is itself a fuzzy distinction because, with an LCD, you're seeing light bounced through the diffuser behind the liquid crystal, not directly from the CCFL or LED.

There is, however, a surprisingly major difference (at least to me) which is highlighted by this microscope comparison: Dot pitch. The iPad's IPS panel has a pretty average dot pitch, but I was surprised to see that the Kindle's e-ink display has essentially none. Even though the eye compensates for dot pitch, I have to wonder if that still might make a difference.
There is another problem. I was having an awesome conversation with a computer linguist#, and I got disconnected in the middle. It failed to send the message, and I couldn't reconnect with him after that. Imagine if that happened when someone was in distress.

On the other hand, there might be a way out of your troll problem. You could make a community of the listeners. Although, it would be quite complicated. (how can you create accountability if the sessions are private? What about abuse of the said accountability?) It should be worth it.

By the way have you ever thought of contacting existing crisis intervention hotlines and pitching this? TREVOR would certainly be interested.

# If you ever do read this contact me on yesthisisananonymousid [at] gmail. Thank you.
Which brings me back round to my initial assertion:

>> You can like lambdas without wanting to go fully functional
Did they avoid paying taxes on the original principal? Seems like they paid taxes and then decided to move that capital to another country to put to use. I don't see the problem.

The United States is no longer aiding in increasing the value of that chunk of money, protecting it, or using it, so why should they have a claim to gains generated from it?
Now I am not advocating that MS should be given a free hand. But what does being a convicted monopoly abuser have to do with patent traps?
hoop saw similar things with his affiliate links; a lot of the sales didn't come from the books he recommended, but once people were on amazon they'd end up buying something.
Would any Python and/or security people care to comment on the quality of this information?
Sure. What is your background?
Zeus Botnet TCP/IP Packet Capture in Netwitness Investigator
By the way, attach a numerical session id to people so that someone can search them out after getting disconnected.
Tonido workspace (http://www.tonido.com/app_workspace_home.html) fits Fred's requirements exactly.
There's no reason your comment should be voted down either. I upvoted it at least.
Using bit.ly with Twitter’s Tweet Button
This is called cookie stuffing and it's not only against TOS but also fraudulent and very illegal. You're stealing money from Amazon. The owners of Digitalpoint just got charged with wire fraud for this practice. If ethics don't concern you, you should stop simply because of the low relative reward and high risk.
I like eInk, but I read books and papers with color, with pictures some mostly so, and I'd rather not wait and get epileptic seizure every time I turn the page.

Clearly eInk has advantages and equally clearly it has faults. Neither better nor worse, just different.
Synnk.com - Collaboratively plan informal events with friends
Free but Shackled - The Java Trap
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Nvidia CEO: We have a CPU strategy
I use a wiki for my family.
I think the state department does, or did at one point
[Language pedant: although it's legal C, the use of cerr and endl and << is more likely to occur in C++!]
Oracle are not suing Google because they've made a profit from Java. They are suing Google for making a competing VM which allegedly infringes some of Oracle's patents.
Managers rely on judgement 'rather than data' to make decisions
No. The reason why you might be unhappy although successful is because success has nothing to do with happiness.

I'm happy you worked your issues out, but you might have been just as happy doing the therapy first. In fact, maybe you would not have chosen a "tons of money" job.
2010 Open Source Awards
Agree with you 100%. I'll add video, photos and interviews to http://austintechgeeks.com if I have a chance to go to this event. Thanks for sharing!
The cofounder of elgg is apparently:
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/the-family-crm-service.html#...