skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being able to do fixed bid work basically says
"I'm bad at estimating and don't know how to control
scope creep".

Exactly. Better to get that out up front, unless you really are good at estimating and know how to control scope creep.

Many consultants are not, and are better off not getting a job than getting a job that will end up monopolizing their time for grossly insufficient money.

If you are good at these things then fixed bids can be golden. You know what you're going to make, you know the time allotted, and surprises are few. But you better be sure about this.
4 things from "VCs vs. Super Angels"
> Why is the fact that it's a well known Bay Area address of any significance at all?

Which do you think seems more fraudulent? This address:

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy,
Mountain View, CA 94043

Or this one?

Hospital Road,
P.M.B. 2155
Kaduna, Nigeria

Which address do you think is more likely to be used for fraud?

> Paypal demands that shipped items only go to the address on record for the account. That seems pretty logical and of obvious value.

An obvious negative value, sure. I've shipped to at least 9 different addresses on Amazon. Sometimes I'm not buying things for myself. Sometimes I'm not at home and want it to get shipped to me at a hotel. Oddly, Amazon has no problem with this (maybe because they're indemnified against fraud losses by the CC company, as I noted elsewhere). But try to ship something anywhere but your recorded home address with Paypal and you have to jump through a ridiculous number of hoops. It's not logical at all.
Congrats!

Worst part of the article:

"Aboukhadijeh announced the launch of YouTube Instant on Y Combinator’s Hacker News feed, a news aggregation site similar to Digg and Reddit."
Barça does this for most sections.
link: https://entrades.fcbarcelona.cat/web/en/entrades.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1297820...
Convert it to an elevation model for which there are many tools.
I think this is a dangerous assertion, and I say this as someone who didn’t finish college and did pretty well financially in the end (alas no successful exits, only market-rate Bay Area startup wages). Only the super motivated, talented, brass-balled or well connected can manage the upstream push against the pervasive social perception - outside of tech centers - you’re second rate if you didn’t finish college.

I think the American education system is broken for a sizeable percentage of kids, from low-quality grade schools all the way through to the outrageous cost of college. For most poor or middle class kids who aren’t in tech, currently they need the exposure to college and they need some additional skills training if they’re to have any hope of getting a decent job after high school. Unfortunately, the esoteric, academic, over-priced world of universities have been turned into the required stepping stone for employment when it is only minimally relevant in many employment sectors. It would be more productive to reinvigorate market-based apprentice programs, revamp junior colleges and redirect some state/federal post secondary education funding to the employee job training credit to truly incentivize employers to take on more entry level employees. Less kids with less debt is a good thing, but they still need skills to be employable. I think it is easy for those of us who are self-directed learners to forget about our peers who really do need training and coaching to succeed.

Like many on this board, learning to code was my meal ticket for years and it is the work world safe haven for those who drop out of/never go to college. I got grilled a lot more about why I didn’t finish college once I moved into code-free jobs. There are millions of university graduates who are unemployed right now. It takes a certain degree of arrogance to pitch your degree-free self as a better candidate than your degreed competitors. I’d never be so smug and delusional about the specificity of my degree-free success to pitch foregoing college in the present economic environment to someone just out of high school. Even when it worked for me.
> ADDED IN EDIT: Wow - a down-vote. Wonder what I said that made someone feel that this comment is of negative value. Interesting.

It's really not worth making an issue of a single action of an random person on the internet.
Another bit: "This nip/tuck business in the code? Rather than a reference to the drama series on plastic surgery, these are names of Forth stack manipulation words."
While I generally agree that the OpenSSL library is somewhat horrendous, this specific use-case addresses a very tiny subset of what the library does internally to do some real magic.

I used to work for a very large public facing certificate authority and there was a period in which one of the public CA systems used OpenSSL, so we had to be able to call several of the signing functions via a JNI extension. Why? Because OpenSSL has fairly remarkable support fir internal context objects that allow you to designate PKCS#11-interfaced hardware security modules for private key operations.

Yes, the levels of indirection are painful to read through and when you get down to the levels where you can actually do a signing operation you have multi-level points (something) of strange types, but it works almost magically when you need it to.

It's also the combined with the intersection of handling/reading certificates. The IO interface has to correctly handle PEM and DER information. Even if you can parse those structures all you're left with is ASN.1 annotated structures and ASN.1 is an exercise in pain.

So a library that can read a broad format of single-bit sensitive data, correctly decode and preserve the structure of ASN.1 entries, perform crypto operations, and then somehow make sense of it all across how many years is mostly likely going to be complicated as hell. Or at the very least, given my proficiency with C I think I would have a hard time coming up with a library that worked on as many platforms as transparently for as many years.
Apple Gets Paranoid About Android
You should definitely read his other articles. He is a talented writer who knows his subject matter as well. I will never forget this paragraph,

"Me. I’m a professional programmer. By which I mean to say, I shovel through piles of virtual shit for a living. And to shovel quickly and happily, I need a big shovel. Python is one of my shovels. Core dumps are one of my piles of shit. Python, meet the core dumps. Core dumps, meet the Python."

"A person who was exposed to machines and doesn’t hate them is either an idiot or is completely devoid of soul! Step back, the child of Satan!"

From: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/python-teaching-kids-and-biting-b...

[I sometimes refer myself as Janitor because I really do clean virtual shit. I wish I had registered http://janitorprogrammer.com/ ]
And you can almost count on the competition playing it safe and wanting to bill by the hour. So you are almost sure to get the job.
Yeah I read your entire post. Nevertheless it is misleading. If you look at American manufacturing as percentage of American consumption of manufactured goods it is going down. The fact is that while manufacturing does get more efficient, the demand for manufactured goods increases, so that usually there is enough demand for the products of a factory even if its efficiency increases.

The fact that Flynt and Detroit and Philladelphia are empty shells of their former selves is not because the goods they made are still being made in America but more efficiently, but because the goods they made are being made somewhere else.
There is a circle of hell waiting for them. It's 23 inches wide...
What's the legal basis for this? Under what circumstances can a contract I never even saw apply to me?

(Why not just sell the disks and serial numbers, then? You can't use the software, wink wink nudge nudge, but the disk does have the software and the serial number will activate it.)

Also, that Amazon EULA is quite strange. You aren't allowed to "synchronize" the music file you bought? You can't have the music on your computer and on your mp3 player.

There's a rule that 0 of their customers follow...
Poor taste. I think this is the definition of "counting your chickens before they hatch."
Yeah I think what I am looking for is a one-stop shop. We already use Google Apps and Dropbox, but they definitely are not the best they could be. I like Dropbox for what it is, but I think we need something more web-based.
Find the phrases Google Instant is Suggesting to users as they type a key phrase
[Album] Maroon 5 - Hands All Over (Deluxe Edition) (2010)
Sharepoint was the least likely for me to go with...but for the sake of comparison I included it. Acrobat.com seems pretty good, but it's hard to figure out all these nuances from the platforms without actually thoroughly testing them. But thanks for sharing your experience, that's mainly what I'm looking for.
FWIW, a year or so back I switched from bloglines to the NewsFox plug-in in Firefox. It does everything I need.
Stay away from charge.com / secure pay / pipeline data (all the same company, they might have additional names.) If I hadn't closed my bank account, they'd still be direct-withdraw billing me months after I've canceled my service with them.
"Most people who lived in the year 1800 were scarcely richer than people who lived in the year 100,000 B.C."

From the perspective of a well-paid NYT journalist, maybe. But I doubt the average 18th century farmer would have traded his iron tools, draft animals and brick-built house for the flint axes and caves of his ancestors.
Now there is somebody with short hair playing guitar coming up everytime exact video search is "undefined" because he has a song called "undefined"....

Glitch with "exact search"? It used to return different results last night like best match, but now seems to be literally searching "undefined"

edit: whatever the change was, this guy is going to get a lot more hits now and the site isn't quite as funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNR6aEdwRNI

edit2: nvm it appears to be fixed now.
Shouldn't there be a debate about the technical merits of the idea? I want my libraries and tools to make unwise things hard to do, and the wise easy and obvious. It's a framing issue, one that I think Marco's right about. But I'd like to hear what OpenSSL has to say about this and other, other, other things.
cool, seems to be working now, though I get a click hiccup on first page load, no video or text, but the search box

pretty cool app.
Getting Started Is Overrated
What I'm saying is that my impression is that the transaction is not reversed but that a subsequent insurance claim is made.

IMO if the money is available for you to spend then it has "cleared". Money that has cleared may be recouped, eg when you sell something fraudulently and get nabbed.
Where was the Microsoft funeral for the Kin?
I think the word that best describes it is "delusional"
http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/ suggests http://wiki.greasespot.net/ which has a Tutorials section: http://wiki.greasespot.net/Tutorials

Browsing http://userscripts.org/ and finding something similar may also be useful.
Why We React Strongly When Web Sites Change
How One Mistake Along Natural Gas Network Destroyed an Entire Neighborhood
There's a school of API design that believes you can guide users to reflect on what they are doing by deliberately excluding certain things, without explaining why they are absent.

This springs from a prescriptive viewpoint that presumes the reader will inevitably arrive at the same conclusions as the author about the right way to do things.

Since no one is always right, and API's are too often designed without considering what actual application usage would be like, this can be extremely frustrating.

The best API's that somehow hit the sweet spot of minimal, efficient, and obvious are always extremely impressive.
You're only seeing the very first steps, but not noticing where the intent is.

Building an entirely new replacement implementation will fight the battle of adoption. By wrapping initially an abstraction around the existing code, you can then go back and replace the original while at the same time, keeping everything relying on the original working. If you see Marco's initial work as a "shim" to enable replacement, it makes a lot more sense.
Awesome job guys! A couple notes, from somebody who's done the interactive seating maps stuff before...

First off, this is essentially a direct clone of Fansnap.com's UI; I'd be surprised if SeatGeek didn't get heat over it. And since Fansnap has taken something like 10 times the funding Seatgeak has, it's not a move I would have personally made. But it sure is ballsy!

Secondly, I created interactive seating maps for TicketStumbler in one day using image maps and JS instead of any fancy (read: quality) canvas/SVG stuff. Turns out that was good enough to get StubHub to ban us from their API without so much as a notice. The ticketing affiliate industry is as shady and predatory as they come; if your product is similar to or better than a "partner" site's, don't think blackmail is beyond them or even outside the norm. All of which is to say, in this industry it pays to spend as little time as possible on features that you may be forced to disable or dumb down. Today, TS' maps are either disabled entirely or reduced in utility, literally to avoid being as good as StubHub's.

Although, with StubHub quickly making themselves irrelevant in the affiliate space by reducing commissions to near-zero, maybe it won't be such a huge deal this time around. Their affiliate manager would contact us the same day we released something StubHub didn't like; no other site has been quite that bad.

All that being said, I really hope Seatgeek does well. It would be amazing to have one honest, successful startup in this space that isn't run by a suit factory.
Authorize.Net has something similar: http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchan...
They going to keep the hearse around?
Thanks for the feedback. I have another set of visualizations coming soon I think will address your suggestion regarding comparables over time. Your suggestion is spot on.

As to stealthmodewatch.com, I thought the creator (you?) did a great job of getting launch coverage in TechCrunch. A very, very good job. I got a link in TechCrunch the second day my site went up (for breaking the Dave McClure 500 startups launch) but stealthmodewatch.com got a whole article. Well played!

Edit:

I thought about your suggestion more. Does the most recent listing of filings help? http://www.formds.com/filings

Regarding drill down, is 'by industry' informative?

http://www.formds.com/filings?grouping=industry&industry...

(Fitbit funding at top of that list)
Personally, I found it educational that a vital piece of security infrastructure like OpenSSL is a tangled piece of sh... paghetti. When my coworkers and I write something security-critical in our code (not that I've ever touched anything as important as OpenSSL; I suspect OpenSSL is more critical to our security than any of the code we've written ourselves) we make it as dumb and simple and clear as possible and document it very well. With OpenSSL I would have assumed (did assume) the whole project was implemented that way, bending over backwards for clarity to minimize the chances for a vulnerability, either in the code or due to misuse of the code. It's shocking and interesting to find out that it isn't.
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679548

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553659
You don't really pay a premium for macs either. They don't bother to cater to the bottom end of the market, you don't get as many hardware configurations and options, and a machine that seems competitive at introduction will seem dated and expensive 11 months later to those who don't understand how to play the product cycles. But in the markets they bother to enter, Apple will generally produce a couple of quirky but competitive options, often surprisingly so at introduction but remaining at that level as the competition moves higher in spec and lower in price. So all in all very much like the iPhone.
Why no Android or Symbian? Are they giving up on those?
So, did he accept ?
How is it better than Authorize.Net? Thanks.
A close family friend of mine is an older gentleman with three kids, none of whom are his biological offspring. It is sad how many askance looks he gets from passerby when he is out shopping with his adopted children.
So what are the solutions that have arisen? Dependencies are still a bitch on any platform. Usually the way to handle dependencies is 'write your code with the latest version of the libraries at that time, then deploy with a private copy' or 'check application every few weeks, hope no libraries were upgraded, if they were upgrade your code'. How many applications do you know that you can take in the version they were 5 years ago and run them on a modern distro? I've used Linux for over 10 years and I wouldn't bet 5 cents on being able to find any software from 5 years ago that would run unmodified on a modern installation.

How does Ruby or Python keep track of old versions of libraries? How does it ensure that, when you start a program, the exact library is used that the application was written and tested against?
>The real value in college, like just about any other pursuit, is network building.

I was with you for the first para. I thought you were going to say the building of a base on which to expand the realm of human understanding, further the development of the human race, expand minds and horizons ...
I know Feross Aboukhadijeh personally. He graduated from my high school a year before me. For those who are talking about the "lengthy hiring processes", he just completed an internship at Google this summer.
He also founded http://www.freetheflash.com/ and http://www.studynotes.com/.

Check out his impressive resume at http://www.feross.org/Resume_Feross_Aboukhadijeh.pdf

He's definitely more than capable of producing at his new YouTube gig (assuming he will take it).
I created http://www.hackerblogs.com to fill my need for news about programming. Since then I rarely use google reader.

I like the river of news approach better than the categorized feeds. I don't care if I miss a couple of days of news, they don't pile up anymore and I don't feel like I have to read them all to catch up.
The MBAs get to lay off the engineers. The engineers' kids figure this out.
It's not being ignorant. Yeah I know it's illegal, thanks. But it's what happens, there are those that are bias both against the old and young.

But honestly IF your a individual whom might be a flight risk because they were a founder, who would you work about leaving at 20 year old or a 40 year old?

These aren't my opinion, I am just speaking about what I have often seen or heard about in the industry.
To be fair he did write something in response to his rant:

http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Agglomerated_SSL
Unless you're doing the Hyperion/Satyr contrast thing, putting Borges and Houellebecq in the same context is always a problem, but:

1. A cento is a poetical work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors; only disposed in a new form or order.

2. The above statement is an example of plagiarism on my part, although I cannot determine exactly who I'm plagiarizing. It appears in a few places. Wikipedia stitches the sentence together with a list of examples that it takes from another source, but it doesn't give any attribution for the actual definition.

3. One of Flamarrion's points (cited in the French slate) was precisely that you cannot identify the author responsible for much of the text in Wiki.

4. Citiing wikipedia as the source of something is like citing Dasani as the source of your drinking water (which of course doesn't mean you shouldn't do it).

5. If you want another neat example look up French Wikipedia's discussion of the Hoellebecq affair, which repeats in brief, without scrupulous attribution, the basic argument of M. Glad's article, citing the latter only as the source of the last sentence of its paragraph.

6. I meant to just make the point about the Cento, but got a bit carried away, so:

tl;dr: writers do this all the time and plagiarizing Wiki is like cheating on Tiger Woods.
Why Great Ideas Can Fail
Where you will run into problems is food. B/c you only want to spend 1 hour a day on involuntary tasks, you'll have to buy food. Regardless of how efficiently you buy, your 10k wont last very long that way.

If you are a little skilled and live in the right area, you can get food from hunting/trapping but you're still looking at significantly more than 1 hour a day. Farming is right out.

To live that life you really have to be willing to work a little harder or spend a little more. No Minority Report ending, sorry.
All-rounder!
Without homework, how does one develop good study habits? As someone who went to an independent school which didn't assign homework, I believe I was disadvantaged by NOT having to acquire those skills and had to expend disproportionately more effort than my contemporaries to learn them later.
I didn't have any problems getting a Droid/Milestone from Future Shop. Runs on the Telus network.
oops, I messed up. he worked at Facebook this summer as a software intern.
> I bet quite a bit of that data doesn't exist anywhere else.

You'd really put money on that?
Interesting. I'm aware of visual distortion when squinting, but never thought about lens flare under typical eyeball conditions. Perhaps it's a phenomenon that the mind filters out, or is so obvious I never think about it. (Now I'll have to pay attention.)

Do you think the traditional cinema lens flare mimics what the naked eye sees? I'd think not.

A problem with pure CG movies is that they feel sterile. Producers add in visual distortions to make it feel real, but what they're adding is merely what's familiar (that is, the results of traditional lens and film that has become accepted as a stand-in for real), not what a naked eye might normally experience. But it's enough to make people feel more comfortable with what they're seeing.
What's wrong with leaving a default in there being your current IP? I think you're wrong in your assumption that people want to use something as transient as this for a server. If you have a server, you probably have a domain.

This is a great service for assigning a name to your home or office router and then using that for NATting in.
Nobody in HN pays attention when you say that Apple doesn't really matter that much, but I'll try it anyway: Apple's share in the smartphone market is too small and decreasing. Source http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20015799-94.html

The real contenders are Android and Symbian. Blackberry is small but seems stable. Windows 7 might become a surprise. Apple will not lead the pack.
What are all these exchanges of hundred-million dollar capital funds? Is that normal?
Like so many others I was an avid bloglines user for years. I didn't even like Google Reader during it's early years. The user experience on bloglines just seemed to get worse and worse, and eventually I had to switch.
This is the perfect time of year to make your own. All you need is big box of seconds from the farm stand, a big pot, and a food mill. Cook it slow for several hours on one day, then run it through the mill. Next day, cook it down. Spices to taste, a little sugar. A screen over the pot will reduce the amount of cleanup you have to do.
I'm not going to subscribe to read that article.
The giving lost money to charity for not staying on track thing is basically http://www.stickk.com . The way they've set it up, you can pick the charity you DON'T want to support, so you're still "punished." (You can choose to give the money to "Friend or Foe, Charity, or Anti-Charity," as their FAQ explains.)
Reading "light sweet Louisiana crude" actually made me hungry. Sounds like a Cajun dish . . .
The Art of Momentum: Why Your Ideas Need Speed
Can you think yourself out of isolation?