skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I having been working with a contractor for a while who does website development for me. He is based in India. On one of our discussions he said he makes around Rs. 18 - 20 lakhs per year. That would equate to about $40,000 per year. It took him around 2 - 3 years to reach that position and he was a school teacher before that. I am sure, his intelligence, hardwork and professionalism played a good part in his growth. Now, almost all his revenues come from Odesk and Elance from customers outside India, though he started off on small projects in India.

I am assuming you have completed your undergrad in CS or a related field. You should be able to grow faster if you give it a serious try. It can also allow you to add practical skills while getting paid and when you are waiting for your big idea to come up.

Good luck.
Part of the predicate for forks being so disruptive was the idea that there is One True Version — a creation, like a piece of software, a written work, or anything else, that can only be accurately represented by a single ideal expression.

Besides differing ideologies, I think part of the reason that forking was socially stigmatized was that splitting the community often meant that a project went from critical mass to two projects that were both sub-critical. It forced developers to choose one or the other.

Git is also very strong with the other half of the forking process: the merge. Forked projects like Firefox rarely merged back. I feel like this is an important point that was missed by the article.
I suggest that you think over opting in for a dentistry/vision/emergency plan. Old man in a shack is definitely going to need it. Probably this should constitute the largest part of your suggested spending whatever your motivation is.
Do CAD software makers?
I should clarify. It's more that the old newspaper/publication opt-ed mindset where a columnist writes a piece that goes out to readers in a one-way form of communicating that doesn’t facilitate responses easily, has given way to a more open exchange of thoughts between reader and/or author. It’s his blog and his rules of course, but I don't see the value in discouraging a full-on discussion that may arise out of something compelling which someone wrote. I’d like to think that’s one of the great things about blogging, in that it democratizes the development and sharing of ideas.
Not when they bought Performics.
Ha, yes, that's me. "Morten Jorck" began as a stage name for my music project (which is the "Presteign" credited with the soundtrack on the 10/GUI video). I guess it was just a particular self-consciousness that impelled me to use that name in the credits, as well as for my HN username.
Why? Do you really think we are much different than Digg or Reddit?

The main difference is that we value slightly longer comments. (But so does Slashdot, and they have a lot more users.)
that's sad. the voting system is broken. i recommend only allowing admins to bring any comment below 1 point.
"... holding down a fulltime job while doing a side project AND going through fairly rigorous recruiting processes as anywhere near lazy ..."

I'd agree but @mortenjorck probably means "focused". One of the things I noticed reading the description was it sounded similar to how Linux started - Linus stayed on task with the OS but released early and often (with the help of GNU). I bet the "hiring plebs" at SoftCo. would have been going overtime if the idea was distributed and used by increasing numbers of users.
> 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.

Huh? You can identify the author for Wikipedia text in greater and finer detail than for pretty much any other text ever created, down to the character and second. The name of the author may not be familiar to you, but it is a name regardless; the name on the cover of a book isn't trustworthy either, and Wikipedia is actually superior in that there is no 'Anonymous' (every contribution is linked to a pseudonym or an IP address, the latter of which can convey remarkable amounts of information).

I feel as if someone had come up to me and asked me, 'What if Shakespeare's plays were not written by William Shakespeare but by another man of the same name?'

Also, when Tiger Woods deletes 10k articles just to be sure that the content is clean from a copyright perspective (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_not...), then you may peddle your specious analogies.
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No, but the MPAA damned sure does.
Thanks, yeah we've had FBConnect for a while but temporarily deactivated it last week because it started to act up. Should be back live soon.
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I need a co-founder for my startup
Am a software developer from Africa working on a Saas app.

I want to be able to handle recurring payments but everything looked complex with companies like authorize.net working only in the US.

I need somebody to assist me with the business side of the startup.
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I'd put everything I own on it (for reasonable interpretations of 'quite a bit'). I know from personal experience that web pages and blogs die like flies, and that the Internet Archive - the only live possibility for pages in general - often simply doesn't have copies or the copies are unavailable. (Lost a number of _Mainichi Shimbun_ articles, IIRC, to a robots.txt that went up years after the articles did; the IA respects it anyway. Sometimes the domain changes hands and the new owners put up a restrictive robots.txt; I hate that too.)

11TB of HTML & images goes a very long way. To put that in perspective, that's in the same area as a full copy of all Wikimedia projects, including the English Wikipedia and Commons.
I've heard that if you run afowl of the bank secrecy act the bank is not even allowed to tell you that they are reporting your suspicious activity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act#Suspicious_Act...

Is this what you are talking about?
As Zuckerberg is a basically a sociopath, I don't consider this particularly meaningful. It's probably intended to be manipulative in some way.
Google Reader allows OPML exports; I do so every few months.
> "In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end."

-- Mark Pilgrim, "Freedom 0", http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/14/freedom-0
I learned long ago that effort should be expended on expanding one's ability to produce and create, rather than on trying to reduce one's burn rate down to nothing.

But its a great idea to have a very simple place you can spend some time at when you desire. I want one too.

Consider http://tinyhouseblog.com. It has some great information.
He also, most importantly, runs the ACM LAN parties at Stanford. ;)
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Considering ASmallOrange was bought by Hostgator, I find your story about the switch ... surprising.
Aha, that's the catch. Thanks for the info.
Read about Tom Neale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale

"spent much of his life in the Cook Islands and 16 years in three sessions living alone on the island of Anchorage in the Suwarrow atoll, which was the basis of his popular autobiography."

Very long but totally worth it to read the whole thing:
http://www.janesoceania.com/suvarov_tom_neale/

Makes me want to go to Cook Islands at the least.
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> in England you'd study whatever your father studied. If he was a blacksmith, you were a blacksmith

The idea that England had (and has) no social mobility is quite wrong. People have been climbing the social ladder since long before the Industrial Revolution.

It may help you in some ways to think of the new America as opposed to everything Britain stood for, but I think that is mostly incorrect. The philosophies and values of the Age of Enlightenment came from a long history of European thought. America was far closer to a young son continuing and realising the father's long held hopes and ideas with fresh blood and the chance to start on its own feet.
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What other scientifically significant results did they find that we will never hear about because it doesn't align with the interests of the funding?

I agree we shouldn't throw out good science because of the funding, but we should at least be aware of the source of funding.
You can run some easy calculations that show that candles are vastly more inefficient than electric light. Not surprisingly, they are more expensive too.
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Is your comment about "toys" exclusive to those that require consumables?

What about, for example, good knives and other various man-made tools?

I've thought about doing this sort of thing, but I'd really miss quality tools if I had to give them up. That, and buzzing around on a motorcycle! But I imagine even if I had a good supply of money for fuel and tires, the high risk of injury when you're alone in the wilderness is unacceptable.
Only because they figured out who, er...nm.
> Internet access, say 100 hours lifetime total, accessable at some definite rate, say at least once a month for an hour at a time max (Richard Stallman style is ok)

So, what- you've got less than 10 years left? If you want to restrict yourself to 100 hours of internet, that's more like 2 hours per year for the rest of your life, or 10 minutes a month.

> Upper limit for time spent on daily involuntary tasks (say 1hr/day) with definite certainty on ability to maintain existence. Assuming no outstanding terrestrial occurences, there should never be any stress from fluctuation of shelter or resource availability

You fundamentally misunderstand what being a self-sufficient old man in a shack means, don't you.
Symbian is a dead broken horse with an outdated kernel. They should instead buy RIM or license Android.
That sounds like the bogus kind of worry that the article is talking about. Do you know how often that kind of thing actually happens? My Google-fu is failing me but my guess is it's gotta be in the 1 in a million range.
Ask HN: PayPal Alternatives for Subscriptions*
Are there any easy to use PayPal alternatives out there that can handle monthly subscriptions, and don't require a merchant account?
It depends where that happened. In a few US states (Alabama?) I believe, it is still illegal to sell sex toys! A local raid by CPS (Child Protective Services) that finds sex toys and porn can turn nasty if the local judge, police and other officials feel they can go on a morality campaign, and perhaps choose to find or invent a reason to take the kids away.

They might lose in court but a lot of the damage is already done by then.

I personally feel that a lot parents have been over-protective and irrational lately not because they have started loving or caring for their children more, but because they are afraid of looking like a "bad parent" while this whole media "child threat" frenzy is going on. I am not a parent so this is totally speculative, I have read not studies or haven't done any research on this.
What's also interesting is that someone forked his article:

http://www.sippey.com/2010/09/forked-forking-is-a-feature.ht...
In almost all circumstances, the recipient of a Paypal payment gets the 30¢ + %n cut taken out, even if the money came directly from a bank account.

Paypal is also set up to avoid making credit card transactions at all costs — you need one to sign up (as effectively overdraft protection), but payments always debit from the bank account first. If you have a pro account and embed/link it to customers, they can have the option to pay directly with a credit card, but only if they don't have a paypal.com cookie.

There is only one way to reliably avoid the fees — you have to explicitly make the payment as an 'eCheck' which only takes out the 30¢, but Paypal will take at least a week to clear the funds.
Just go live in a shack and don't deal with other people unless you really need to. No need for $10k.
Ask HN: Do I need a mentor or a business partner?
A little background:
I co-founded a company with a friend that became successful without the aid of any investors. We are trying to branch out and try new ideas.

The problem:
Unfortunately, we haven't had the pleasure of having any kind of guidance such as the guidance I hear so much about when people are funded by Y Combinator. My co-founder and I are both technical people that have worked for large corporations and haven't really had to think about the business aspects of the industry much, until recently . With some of our new ideas, we are now utterly at a loss on how to handle issues such as preventing launches from being emulated, attaining copyrighted content, whether to raise money through investors, etc.

So should I be looking for a mentor or a business partner who knows "business"? Where would I find such a person?
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No, brown rice isn't a complete protein, you need to add beans or tofu and maybe some micronutrients from greens that grow pretty easily. Consider reading a book on nutrition for vegetarians--malnutrition can creep up on you and cause some bad long term health problems.
When Google was considering the timing of its IPO back in 2003/2004, I remember reading about an SEC regulation that requires private companies to make regular public disclosures (10K filings) if they hit certain shareholder and asset thresholds. There was some speculation that this regulation may have played some part in forcing Google to go public sooner rather than later.

I don't know where/how it figures into Facebook's thinking, but it may be that the same issue may arise in which a private Facebook might face some of the public scrutiny a public corporation might and decide that if they must disclose, they may as well reap some of the benefits of going public.

For what it's worth, here's the specific reporting obligation I'm referring to as noted in a Wikipedia article (since I can't find it on the SEC website):

"Companies with more than $10 million in assets whose securities are held by more than 500 owners must file annual and other periodic reports, regardless of whether the securities are publicly or privately traded."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_10-K
hm. especially if i don't announce it but spring it unexpectedly, this would be a cheap way to test the theory.
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You can decry paypal's customer service, no doubt, but recognize that the root cause of these problems are all of the very real scammers who have abused the system and never make the news.

If you discover that you have processed a fraudulent transaction, undoing it is quite understandable, but keeping the money for yourself (as per the link) is a pretty shady solution.
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No... that's the short answer.

Taking people's money on the internet is a HUGE pain. The only other potentially "easy to use" alternative would be Amazon I believe https://payments.amazon.com

Most everything else is going to require a merchant account.
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FYI, in the UK and Australia a 'nonce' is a sex offender, more specifically a child molester. If it's your plugin, this might be a marketing problem. i don't know whow popular Wordpress is in those countries.
People laugh when I tell them that my dream job is to tend a lighthouse (which are all largely automated now), but it's for reasons very similar to what you've outlined here: lots of free time for me to read and study what I'm interested in. So another possible solution is to identify a job that's based predominantly on the criteria of having a human present. A fire lookout comes to mind. The one hour of work/day would probably need relaxed to two to three hours per day, but you'd also be supplied room & board. The Internet access might be possible via cell technology.

Please let us know how this works out for you.
Ask HN: Are there are any good alternatives for MS Project?
Are there any good alternatives for MS Project?

I have used MS Project in the past on my job and love its functionality.

Now I need project management tools to use in my own company and I find MS Project to be quite expensive considering that I want both my test/req lead and programming to be able to break down their assignments into sub-projects and give visibility to the rest of the team.

Are there any stable and cheaper alternatives to MS Project?

I have tried Open Project, found it has quite a lot of bugs and wouldn't want them (or myself) to waste time trying to overcome those bugs.

I have also tried an online service 6 months ago (it mostly did gantt charts), it was horrendously slow and impractical for that reason.
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My advice would be YES! Look for someone who has experience is the industry you need help with, who's done things you would like to do (ie, raise money from investors) and is a person you find easy to talk to. You find this person by meeting and having intelligent conversations with A LOT OF PEOPLE... it will take time to find the right mentor, so don't give up too quickly. Go to as many startup "networking" type events that you can, meet as many people as you can, and follow up with people that you find interesting. People inherently like getting asked for advice / their opinion, so don't be afraid to ask that of the interesting people you meet.
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It's an interesting topic, but I found it a confusing article. I read quickly, but really didn't get a sense of how many of the deaths were due to what, what this implied, and what could be done about it. And I'm sure the required password certainly didn't help people read it. Post again when you find a clearer article that's out in the open!
Wow, is the typesetting royally screwed for anyone else?

See http://i.imgur.com/Doy2r.png. Seems to happen whenever he switches to something like a code fragment or italics inline.
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Meh. I got my vanity domain back with FreeYourID. first.last.name. :)
Actually, word problems were the only thing that I liked about math class, but then again I am an engineer...
Never underestimate the power of savant-level intelligence combined with a complete lack of taste.
Of course not. Then they'd be more open for scrutiny.
have you tried xoom.com or paypal?

I know some people in India who successfully use these to get regular payments from customers in the US.

But whichever way you choose, its likely going to be complex in the start. If you keep at it, it will start getting easier sooner or later.

Good luck.
I'm using [Amazon FPS][1], and I'm pleased with the results. It allows you to perform a checkout without ever knowing the person's credit card details, get a token for recurring payment, or just one time payment.

Pricing:
2.9% + $0.30 for credit card for transactions above $10 and 5%+$0.05 for credit card for transactions below $10.

[1]: http://aws.amazon.com/fps/
The reason may be as simple as Bob Parsons not wanting to run the business anymore...
Fenwick and West has long since convinced the SEC to waive this requirement for Facebook's benefit. Why such a waiver is in the public's interest, I don't know.
Are you saying that forks are rude? But they're the point of both Free Software and Open Source!
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The $1 authorization thing isn't permitted by Visa or MasterCard anymore. Authorizenet supports the new $0 authorizations they require you do when only verifying a card, as long as the backend network your bank uses supports it, which most do now.
If you can avoid touching credit card numbers yourself, do so. It's worth it. If you want to store these numbers until you're ready to charge them, the PCIDSS requirements to do so are very onerous, and the penalties for failing to follow them very serious (we're talking $500,000 per incident plus other damages).

To start with, you can never store credit card data on a server which is connected to the open internet. Just to get started you need a separate server, on a separate network, and a whole series of logging and access control procedures.
From Mark Zuckerburg's text: "Since we compensate people at Facebook with stock and we took investment, I view it as my responsibility to eventually make that stock liquid for people, but that doesn’t have to happen in the short term".

That's hardly a wholesale dismissal of the possibility of going IPO, either.
This is a good domain name, better than facebook. But the real goal of the service is not clear.

Why metering activity on about.me ? Is this something people want ? How many ? How much do they want it ? What for ?

What is the added value of your site compared to all other similar services we have today on the web ? It should be (made) obvious, otherwise people won't spend the time to check.
Can Feross get a job in YouTube had he gone through the usual recruitment process? I'd say a big no.
Thanks for the info. Just goes to show the value of a good lawyer!
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Bad news for you buddy:

There is no escaping the system. :)

A relative escape may be possible, but definitely not an absolute and complete escape from 'all' systems.

You go live in a jungle, you have to adapt yourself to the 'system' there.

You may be able to escape the laws of a more civilized country by living with some tribes in Papua New Gunea or the Amazon, but you would have to start living by their laws (formal or informal).
I was with the author until "every platform will have its own app store."

I bloody well hope not.
Lalbaugcha Raja 2010 Photos, Ganpati Festival Mumbai Wallpapers, Pictures
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Some reactions:

- works well on iPad

- should have a by-date visualization

- by-industry should show counts and also allow date filtering.

- good name

- is there historical data?

Feel free to drop a line for further feedback.
I think it is quite interesting. You have a dashboard to monitor/control your online presence. I've done this for a while with my own website, but they are bringing it to the general public.

I'd be curious to know what their business model would be though. I can see that they will be aggregating more user data as they can associate all your online profiles with your one persona now.
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Nonsense.

The UK had plenty of social mobility from the late 18th century onwards -- it's just that if you made it good, you did your damndest to copy the social manners and graces of your peers and make it look as if your family had always been well-off. And part of that process entailed hiding your humble roots. Hence the illusion of class immobility.
No, they didn't charge for the service, they only showed ads on the start page.
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