skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either go your own way through free lancing websites, craigslist etc or you can team up with an existing ad agency to pickup their overflow work. Quote prices that make you feel good about doing the work versus how many hours it might take you because the variety varies so much you'll be giving estimates for something you may have never done before. Before long you'll have more work than you can handle and you're price and confidence can increase to manage your work load and time better.

I like working with other agencies better than seeking clients for direct sales better personally. Seek out overflow work from local companies so you can have face to face meetings from time to time.

This works great for me but I don't do it full time, it's just to keep the development spice in my life.
> You lack some perspective and tact, you silly goose. It's not very surprising you and your friends think your native language is easier and that you prefer your own writing system. Way to navel-gaze, hello?

Learn to read first before worrying about tact and perspective. Boyter said, "The Chinese realize their language is a pain in the butt to learn and that the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system." As a Chinese speaker living among many Chinese speakers and having some proficiency in certain alphabet system, I think I have a say on such thing. Perhaps my sampling size is insignificant, it's still better than a complete baseless lie.

> [Personal anecdotal narrative elided.]

Talking about the lack of perspective, why don't you tell us what is your native language? It won't be news to us if a speaker of a Indo-European language finds another Indo-European language easier to learn than a Sino-Tibetan language.

There has been too much hot air, lets introduce some substance and data: how hard is it to attain literacy in a language?

Take a look at India, a country of similar size, population and economic status to China. According to UN Developement Programme Report 2009(pg. 172-173)[1], India's literacy rate is estimated to be at 66%, while China is at 93.3%.

If GDP percapita is any indication to access to education, Brazil and Mexico have significantly higher GDP/capita than China, but China's literacy is actually slightly better.

You may attribute it to cultural difference or whatever, still, it'd be less of a complete lie to say Chinese is not harder to learn than these other languages than otherwise.

[1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_EN_Complete.pdf

To the rest: sorry for the language and this offtopic debate, but I would not stand by idly seeing people slandering the language I love. I said what I have to say and I will stop now.
Give back. Try teaching what you know.
Complete with pixelated images in the news ticker
You don't have to suspect that. It's true.

It may be frustrating as a customer, but there's no solution to the "human customer service not scaling" issue when you reach certain number of customers or too high of a growth rate.
Love the reply by one "PierreDeFermat"
You've been working on this for over a year and still don't have anything to show? What Fred is asking for is a week long project for a couple people.
3D Express Coach Will Combat Beijing's Traffic and Pollution
I think at the worst, this shows one member of the Dragon's to be unscrupulous. Duncan Bannatyne has posted a copy of his contract on his personal website, which shows a normal equity stake.

James Caan on the other hand has spent his time and resources trying to get the book banned (at least according to Tweets by his fellow Dragons).
Thanks! Same here, would be awesome to have around since it's so portable. Appreciate the help.
A clever way to use a ‘worthless’ currency
App Infatuation
At least it's not another Foursquare/Techcrunch article!
Included in that handwave about probability distributions was a caveat about not being handed pathological instances of problems. Encryption harnesses pathological instances and wouldn't be covered by such a handwave.

(Is there ever any other reason to generate multi-hundred digit numbers and try to factor them? Honest question, if anybody's got a fun answer, though I am asking about something actually useful that you know about, not something hypothetical.)
Definitely not just you-- that's the point of the article.

Most people aren't aware of the dangers, though. Are you?
That's actually kind of brilliant. I'm looking at this reply that reads "Hello, Easy job for me,please send me a PM ." and thinking, "you stay away from me." This one is also golden, "Read your requirement and everything has been understood. We have already delivered a couple of similar projects and given our strong capabilities. I am confident we can deliver a powerful end-result to you as well."
Like me, Mr Carr is aging, unlike me Mr Carr seems to be blaming changes in the operation of his mind on the Internet. I understand this, it's a way of avoiding talking about death and deterioration.

Ouch. I stopped reading here. At the least it was a cheap shot. At most it was a crude ad hominem. You're better than this, John.

But I'm sure the tech crowd will love it. Looks a good bit like pandering.
Ian and the websockets split
Microsofts patent portfolio probably is so wide that it could launch a lawsuit against Java implementations if it wishes so. So it's more of a question who you'd trust more, and who is more predictable, Oracle or Microsoft.
Exactly. How does this Neunomadic lifestyle last beyond a single generation?
Louisiana has free in-state tuition, so I'm graduating with an engineering degree debt free. Sure, my institution isn't as highly rated as the others I got into, but they just weren't worth the premium — especially for a degree like engineering which is essentially standard across universities. (Graduating from a top 10 school could easily set you back $200k.) Which is great, because instead of working to pay off the debt in school or worrying about taking a job right out of school, I can take my time and crank away on my startup. Win-win.
JavaScript in general is very dangerous for programmers who are clueless...
you could use an actual password as a kind of salt.
I skimmed [2] and it seems very interesting.

Still, regardless of whether P!=NP, it is known that P is contained in NP which is contained in PSPACE. These classes are defined for certain computational models. If you change the computational model then those definitions might not make sense.
What Exactly Is a Social Entrepreneur?
That's not necessarily true. I agree with the other guy that you are really just scraping content and trying to profit off it. If people really wanted to save their content, they could have done that. Most of what you have is probably abandoned.
Google: Sometimes the Torch Laden Villagers are Right
I very much doubt that. My guess is that Google goes the HTML+JS way with ChromeOS, blurring the line of the OS and browser even more.
Word are only "loaded" when we try to use a clearly defined word as a label for some movement or political soundbite. Freedom has a very simple meaning that has been appropriated by different groups as a not-so-accurate label for their activities.
I thought about this too, so I let my imagination wander:

Solution 1: Perhaps there's a ship pulling a cable attached to a reel, and it periodically drops the cable in the ocean with an anchor weight. The first few times they did this, the engineers miscalculated the length of the cable. As the ship sailed on, the reel got ripped from the ship's hull, the boat sank and the captain didn't have a connection to send an SOS. Ironically, the connection was at the bottom of the ocean, still attached to the reel.

Solution 2: Organize dolphins to pull cables across the Atlantic. Unfortunately, the spinner dolphin species was chosen, resulting in many miles of twisted fiber-optic cable. As you know, having kinks in fiber-optic cables is a bad thing.

Solution 3: Use the Blues Brothers' car (with a cop engine, cop suspension and cop brakes), roll up the windows and drive across the sea floor, laying the cable down. I think this is how they actually did it
I just tried this on my nexus one and it works pretty well. Surprised at how accurate the GPS is. The mobile version is very nice too. I like how it is just a map with controls overlayed, very clean. I think this could be very useful for meeting up with friends. Eliminates the "where are you" conversation. I am going to try this out with a friend later when I am actually moving.
It is compared to the bookshelves, CD stacks, filing cabinets, and shoeboxes full of photographs that it replaces.

And that's not to mention the number of single-purpose devices each of these replaces: the smartphone is an alarm clock, watch, point-and-shoot camera, GPS, and MP3 player. The reading devices replace a printer (if you have access to a Kinkos when you really need a hard copy). The laptop replaces a TV, DVD player, and desktop computer.
Not to be a total downer but you have a lot of competition in this space. If you plan on building this out so it is widely adoptable you'll need to differentiate yourselves.
zaph0d - Is this the same team that launched the google calendar - twitter integration a year ago ( http://imnotspacy.com/ ) ? What happened to that idea ?
Try one with added lemon aroma, they should be relatively easy to get hold of. Concentrated fish oil capsules give me a more nasty aftertaste than the real liquid oil.
I think it is unfair to look at this in the context of the P=NP problem. I think there is a lot of good that can come from "outsiders" looking at problems from their view. If you leave P=NP for what it is (a REALLY hard mathematical proof) and take a look at some of the other unsolved mysteries, this outside-the-box thinking could be a huge asset.
I definitely agree with this and think it's fascinating. I feel the same attachment to my digital possessions as I do my few physical ones. The difference, however, is how much physical space each option consumes.

I should also point out that I needed the iPad for my job, as I develop apps from time to time.
He'll need a bigger backpack.
Sass Language Design: Philosophy & Approach
Right now I think a relevant question is what's the difference between the revenue you'd get from free flash games and that you'd get from similar games on Android/iOS.
The iPad touches down in Brazil
Good points actually. Charge business users more than 19.99$/m. If they're gonna pull out the cc, 34.99 or even more is really the same as 19.99
I presumed no such thing. The people they left behind are doing service work remember: they're accountants, lawyers, bankers, and so on. But how many corporate workers drinking does it take to make a vineyard a viable business? Or vacationing, a boutique B&B?

Because if you have two B&B owners who simply swap to go on holiday, or two vineyards who simply drink each other's wine, then you've invented a perpetual motion machine.
The Java bridge had issues because of the dynamic nature of Objective-C.
What is the next bubble?
Please don't use sequential IDs for this.

I went to the "Track Me" link and got a tracking id of 54. I was then able to look through plenty of other peoples locations for IDs less than 54. I'd suggest switching to something that's much harder to guess.

With that harshness out of the way (sorry :)), it does seem like a pretty cool little app. I could see myself using it for a long road-trip or something so that others could track my progress.
Lycos is a perfect example of an internet company that failed because it was run by sales people and not engineers.

I was a software developer there in the late 90's, and we did some of the first eye-tracking studies on how people used the search engine. What we learned was shocking - no one looked at the flashy ads. The more we tried to make them stand out, the more they looked at the boring text in the middle of the page.

Clearly, the solution was non-flashy ads. Except, that's not what advertisers wanted, and Lycos did whatever advertisers wanted.

I'm sure Google did those same studies when they were working on their ads and saw the same thing. Since they were run by engineers, they made their ads text.

The rest is history.
1)
The pink and green combo doesn't strike my fancy.

2)
Your screenshots above the fold are well placed but the scaling on the left most image makes it difficult to read.

3)
I don't know what your product is within the first 2 seconds of hitting the page. Clearly explaining in 1 or 2 sentences above the fold what your product is and why it will benefit _me_ will significantly decrease your bounce rates.

4)
I like the simple layout of your video demos. They're well conceived with an easy to follow demo. The voiceover is monotone and doesn't engage me. Paying for a voiceover might not be a bad idea. These demos are very powerful and will significantly increase signups.

5)
What is the benefit of your product? Without mentioning the competition, what will compel me to spend $10 - $25 with you rather than your competition?

6)
I like your "wizard" / step-by-step process of creating a test. Nice stuff. Easy to understand.

7)
There is no privacy policy or note about why you're collecting my e-mail address. Also, have you considered integrating open authentication systems from Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, etc? I'd think that integrating the Facebook auth system and asking people if they'd like to post links to their tests there would go a long way.

8)
Many managers and HR folks may not immediately see the benefit from your list of 4 "uses". I would work on this language and try very hard to integrate some tangible facts. Being able to say, "We surveyed 100 HR departments who have used our tests. Employees of these companies now retain 98% of the guidelines that they were tested on."
He's saying he's been working on it part-time. Maybe he's also providing much more than what Fred was asking for.
Something to be wary about as an entrepreneur: the angel investors who are now raising larger funds will have to invest in more companies, which will result in them being able to spend less time and less energy with each startup.

The traditional VC model is to have a large fund spread out across a number of partners who can each invest in around 3-10 companies each per fund. As an entrepreneur, you have the benefit of more attention from your VC partner, as well as the resources of the partnership as a whole.

These super angel funds will likely start hiring associates and bringing in other partners to share the load, and at that point they become no different to, and competitors to, the traditional VC firms.

Every investor has limited deal bandwidth, regardless of if they are an angel, a super angel, or a VC.
UncorkedVentures SEO: Followup Success
This works, but the immediate danger I see is that the user can be interacting and triggering other events while you are still acting on the original request. Results will vary from "that's better for them" to "insanity!" depending on what you are doing.
Surprised not to see "Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operation System" mentioned yet (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operatin...).

McKusick's 'Kernel Internals' class is based on this, and is well worth your time (though it's a bit pricey to purchase the videos on your own: https://www.mckusick.com/courses/advorderform.html)
A couple of thoughts:

* I suspect there is a good market for this type of product, particularly if you focus on the liability and reporting benefits.

* The watermelon colors need to be changed. Ideally you pick something fairly neutral so that your customers can add their own branding. Not that you should copy their design, but I would use articulate.com as a source of inspiration.

* Bump up the pricing (assuming that is a total price, not per person) and add a higher range, maybe +100

* Make sure your app can easily produce reports

* The first page of the practice test should be a lot more scannable. Right now it's a big block of text that I don't want to read because it's not relevant to me.

* Add your logo and main navigation to the top of each page.
yea. password managers suck though. and remembering numerous passwords is really hard.
Let me guess. Your native language is phonetic based and is alphabet based, just like English.
Was falling in love with those particular tools optimal for the photographer, musician, gearhead? Could they have made more money, created more if they had broadened their horizons?

It all depends on if the goal is to make as much money as fast as possible or to have fun and satisfy yourself intellectually.

There's nothing wrong with loving programming language X, but I wouldn't make career or project decisions based on enjoying the syntax of one vs the other.

imho the difficult part is figuring out the logic of the program, determining which libraries to commit to, writing any novel algorithms and engineering the system so it runs efficiently and doesn't fall over.
For the first time I'm thinking damn, I don't want to live in Googleworld anymore.
lol much respect
What you want is fish oil capsules with "enteric" coating. That gets rid of the fish burps.

Agreed, I tried downing some fish oil by spoon (which was lemon flavored as well) and could do it longer than 5 days.
Thanks for the feedback!

We've seen a few competitors out there that are really big. Glympse (http://glympse.com/) I think is the biggest one and we tested out their app and weren't impressed with their mobile to mobile experience. If one person is on a computer the other on their phone their app is amazing but if you don't have flash all they do is show a picture of a blurry map to show the other person's location.

Do you know of other competitors out there?
Apple's Ad Service Off to Bumpy Start
just a small side note, doesn't work for me if I put www. in the address
What Is More Important to Google – Principles or Money?
Google has been losing track of its ideals in the past few years, and has forgotten what made it so popular in the first place: the "Don't be evil" mantra.
Dubai is the Pets.Com of the real estate bubble without the awesome puppet.

FTFY
Good point, we'll switch this soon. The current code base is more for proof of concept purposes. We were also concerned with having easy ids to send others. We'll get on this!
I've been hearing this one quite a bit as well. It could just come out in the form of a non-monetary settlement, a cross-licensing deal for $0.
Whoa! That's pretty extreme! Can you share your experiences of people you met who live there?
> I agree with the other guy that you are really just scraping content and trying to profit off it.

You can agree with him as much as you want, it just isn't true.

> If people really wanted to save their content, they could have done that.

Part of the problem here was that yahoo did a pretty bad job at communicating their intention to the people that had their sites there. Essentially Yahoo tried to convert the 'holdouts' from the free portion of the site to paid hosting accounts 'or else'. When they pulled the plug it left 10's of millions of accounts up in the air.

There were several attempts at rescuing as much of geocities as could be done, the fact that you don't know any of this isn't really your fault, after all your account is all of 40 minutes old, but when it happened it was fairly widely publicised both here on HN and in the regular media.

> Most of what you have is probably abandoned.

You'd be surprised.
My first thought was "Woah, Lycos was still around?".
I have a question, as a CS student.

Why is finding a set for which the algorithm does not work (edit:) WELL so hard? I have admittedly not read anything about -- or indeed, heard of -- KNAPSACK, but my impression was that we could estimate running time based on various measures of complexity of the problem. Is this incorrect, or is measuring the complexity of NP problems simply incredibly difficult?
I finished half my #noprocrast time limit reading it :)
The difference for me is that it's very easy to make a difference in this case: just don't go there. Don't spend money there, don't fuel the corruption and slavery and artificial prosperity of a crumbling city.

I don't argue against free trade with 3rd/2nd world nations -- in fact I think that our economic presence in China is a net beneficial thing over the years. However, that also means that I get to make a moral choice of where I spend my money. I don't believe that spending money in Dubai enriches anyone but the exploiters.
All I know is this: I'm making $50 / day from adsense. That pays my rent in San Francisco.

I'm currently in the process of acquiring direct advertiers, but I'd have to disagree with the author about using adsense as direct income.
Only if this article represented the conventional wisdom, rather than a pseudo-contrarian view in itself.

Actually it's a difficult time for contrarian investors, since I'm not sure there is a conventional wisdom. But if I had spare money I'd be sticking it all into "socially irresponsible" companies: alcohol, gambling and oil.
Treating a mathematics book as linear pretty much guarantees that your attempt to read it will fail. Reading a maths book is like playing a video game. "Oh shit! I don't know what the author is on about?" = getting killed. Going back to the start of the paragraph = restarting the level.

The game play is where you get out your pad of paper and try to construct a example, draw a diagram,... Having notes from yesterday, when it made sense = save point. If you cannot draw a diagram, understand your notes, whatever, you are killed again and go back another level.

The initial author's emphasis on books being linear suggests a rather limited range of reading.
Is Obama Killing the American Dream?
The new law for the H-1B Visa is no good for the American entrepreneur, and neither for US's economy.
I don't know, let's have some examples ;)
That's no different than something like DirectTV, almost all radio stations and many cable TV stations. Also, who says Hulu can't start financing made for web shows?
Looking into this! I can't believe the little things you miss when you're just trying to get something out early for people to see :)
KeePassX + Dropbox = no more need to remember passwords.

Although KeePass is annoyingly fussy about concurrent access to the database. I should investigate if there are other options that also will work across Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, and Windows.
Clever and funny but it doesn't really belong on HN...
I found this article to be completely unintelligible. It was about as reasonable as a horoscope.
TALKING CLOUDS What is the chat up there in the sky?
No. Now can we take the politics to some other, more appropriate site?
H1B application rates are being raised so they can hire more people to evaluate the applications. One of the big current complaints you currently hear is the amount of time it takes to process applications. Raising rates on applications to pay for quicker processing makes budgetary sense if hiring more works to get quicker processing is the goal.

When you consider current processing time is normally 3-6 months ( http://faq.visapro.com/H1B-Visa-FAQ6.asp ), maybe you can understand why you might want to speed that up.
Muscat could have been Dubai if they had developed their port.

It took me several reads to figure out that that sentence had nothing to do with wine.
Ah, Lycos, Infoseek, AltaVista. I miss searching you all in separate Internet Explorer 4 windows on my Pentium MMX.

Here in the distant future I can just speak to my handheld supercomputer and it shows me exactly what I want.
Fedora, for example, already does this with UUIDs and the smolt project. A UUID is generated on installation and used for the 'ping'. The user opts-in at first boot, and the software runs periodically:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolt_(Linux)

The data is aggregated for reporting:

http://www.smolts.org/