skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author has a point, but she has it exactly backwards.

While yes, I would like more goodies, (wouldn't we all?) the real problem is that all the laws are made with the assumption that folks are working a 9-5 job. Stuff like deductible health insurance, unemployment insurance, or whatever the latest definition of rich or poor is. All these laws and policies are made with the assumption that folks fit inside these little boxes called "workers". In a highly-fluid economy, for a large segment of the population just doesn't work like that. The abstraction is so leaky tens of millions of folks are falling out.

For years and years I've heard politicians of all parties talk about doing this, that, or the other with jobs, but nobody seems to have figured out that their definitions from the 1930s just don't apply to the world we live in any more. So from where I sit, if you could simply fix the regulatory nightmare that freelancing and small self-employed folks face, it would be great. Fix the bugs. No new features needed.
Oh, and the reason I think that shopping on Facebook makes sense? Because of course if you let people do their shopping in the time that they have available whilst they wait for that shared social event. Then yeah, they'll rather do that than leave Facebook and do it elsewhere.

The rule for success on Facebook given all of this: Allow whatever you provide as a service (shopping, gambling, games, etc) to be interruptible.

Your service isn't why people are there, but they'll do it whilst they're waiting. But if that shared social event emerges in the midst of grocery shopping or game play, then your service must allow them to instantly stop things.
Write a darn book already. Your version of Gödel - Escher -Bach. Or start living life as an adventure: what about building an espionage network dedicated to a good cause (world hunger, environmentalism). If the Steve Jobs route is not for you, pull a Bill Gates.
strange data on the pie chart for september, unless I'm misreading it or toxie is magic... the percentages add up to 150%, don't they?
I think you have to remember that the future is already here but not evenly distributed. What you perceive as boring other people may view upon as almost magic. There are so many markets left to disrupt and improve with technology. There are so many problems yet to be solved, so many people yet to be helped.

Maybe if you apply your knowledge of computers to new domains the spark will once again be there.
It's always the details that matter.

Shipping the browser wasn't the problem. The problem was that they stopped system vendors installing Netscape and/or making it the default browser.

Doing that is fine if you are in a competitive market, but if you are a monopoly then it's anti-competitive and abuse of market power.
Well, computers and the web are just tools, like a hammer. Due to its fascination and novelty when we were young it's easy to forget that while we're here discussing the intricacies of building a better hammer, others are out there erecting cathedrals with it. Maybe take a look around and see what you can actually do with it, learn something not related to IT and see if you can push it forward by improving the IT side of it.
Yes, but get one you can trust. If you're just starting out, try to find someone local that you can work with. Look at what they've done before and try them out on something small. Most local designers will quite happily do a small project a month for you, which will ease your burn rate.

For web sites for a startup, Themeforest is the way to go. A small amount of cash gets you a theme that you can use for your MVP, redesign once you're profitable and know how much you can spend.
Then do that across a few hundred (or few thousand) systems, making sure nothing breaks, including installed plugins and other applications needing that package.
It matters when there's a security bug which needs patching in an underlying library.

With shared libraries, only one library needs updating. With each package proving it's entire ecosystem, every package on your system needs such updates.
The first thing I want to see when I hear about a new programming language is an example. The best examples of Omega that I've found so far are part of the test suite for the interpreter:

http://code.google.com/p/omega/source/browse/#svn/trunk/test...
No worries, hope you get it sorted. If not just respond and I'll if I can help.
You raise reasonable objections, and in a rational discourse it your objections are extreemly prudent.

But if we are to solve the few real problems that freelancers face (not getting paid, getting sticked by the government on health care, etc) it helps to have a few things that you are willing to give up in order to reach a compromise.
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Have a look at the "Epic Citadel" tech demo on an iPhone 3GS or 4. We're almost there already , of course subjectively (lower resolution on the mobile displays). The future is now, it really is pretty amazing.
Athenahealth uses mainly Perl, but I got the impression they're mostly hiring new graduates and training them up. When I interviewed, they didn't advertise using Perl at all, maybe to not scare people off.
I thought the likes of iPad will reboot computing. A lot of things we imagined in the past has suddenly become possible. Why not see what's there?
Sounds fascinating; links? research? Applicability to lost languages like Linear A?
That, and the picture says everything a lot more succinctly than words: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chainspix.htm
Something is a bit fishy over at Digg..

At this moment none of the stories in top news have more than 100 diggs - except for one: The ad shown to me has 233 diggs..

Digg users sure must love those ads...
Ask HN: How to benefit from big corporate policies?
Since five years, we created an increasingly complex IT system for internal use in the start-up I work for. A very big corporation entered in the game recently, and at the same time one of our clients required us to get certifications. So we got this big corp's kind help and received a huge set of policies we should comply with.

The problem is that all these policies imply a traditional IT set-up, with a local network having servers serving files, database, accounts, group policies, etc., all behind a expensive hardware firewall, and with a DMZ for the web-apps (if any). Our architecture is the exact opposite: we have nothing, no sensitive data of any sort locally, everything is in a web-app, in the cloud. We have no real "local servers", just a few single tasked Linux boxes for router, NVR, etc.

The single concept of a DMZ don't apply for us, but still they tell us we should "move the database machine outside the DMZ, into the local network, for increased security". Our PostgreSQL rack is far away in the cloud, behind it's own firewall and hardened config like any other other of our web-app machines.

These big corp security policies not only tell us which format is to be used for our visitor badges, they also require us to use some MS stuff we really would prefer to avoid, both because we expect MS blobs to spread virally due to their closed formats and protocols, and also just for obvious security reasons I don't even have to mention.

Not everything is negative though, we have a lot to learn from a more formal security process in many respects, and anyway we have to get this fabulous certification, but we fear if we are not careful enough we could lose a great part of our agility, which helped us building something better and faster than our competitors, with a much smaller team.

Did anyone here got into the fabulous process of the integration in a big corp, or security certification, and have some advice on how to keep the daily job enjoyable for both tech team and tool's users?

By the way, do someone have guidelines on how to install MS servers in a Linux environment in a sane way?
"The Open Source revolution seems to be over"

http://github.com
Instead of being motivated only by technology have you considered trying to create a product or starting a company? (this is HN after all).

Lots of people using (and maybe even liking) something you built can be pretty compelling.
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How is that a startup? Is my lolcat site a startup too?
I wrote this a few years ago to archive my Gmail emails to text files (and the attachments to whatever they are).

I haven't ran it in awhile but when I did it worked and was able to download my emails from the very beginning without crashing. Anyway, you might find it useful...

http://github.com/Jaymon/Popbak
Free service? This wasn't a free sevice. I was a paying customer
If you had to re-create social media for non-social people, what would it be? I'm a big believer that social media is still in its infancy, with huge innovations yet to happen. let's take an anti-social topic, say, coding. if i were to create social media for this, I would probably create a site where programmers learn from each other. can you assign points to a person based on "likes" and "tags" and promote them to an expert of a specific topics? can you count how many facebook questions they've answered? just a thought, but if you don't like something, maybe it's an opportunity to mold it to your own vision!
Off topic, but the text-shadow 1px #fff really strained my eyes while reading on a iPhone 3G.
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Former member. I'm one of those who left for Python.
Buy a round-the-world airfare and take a holiday.
Is this an apology?
"you feel".... " we thought"

You are not really taking responsibility here. You are good guys. Just say "I am sorry" and ask how you can make him feel better.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1528-the-bullshit-of-outage-l...
I have a very similar background. Scary similar. I'm older though. I've had similar feelings at various times. Is this it? Really? Lame...

I used to get excited about new technology and it did seem that something cool and amazing would come out all the time. Just an endless stream of wow. I just can't get hyped up about some mash up, retread, or social widget. I don't think I've changed I think the industry has.

That isn't really a bad thing though. It is an opportunity. I used to wait in anticipation for someone to come to market with a product or solution I foresaw. That rarely happens now with market driven development. That is the opportunity. Don't languish that the amazement isn't there. Make it. You have the skills. I'm sure you see the deficiencies. The industry is now so stagnant in true innovation, this gives us, the technical entrepreneurs the opportunity to innovate.

How to rekindle the flame? I don't know if this will work for you. This is what I do. I buy a new toy and hack on it. A computer or phone. I find a new programming language or something like pfsense (router) and play with it. Find some software that sucks and build one that doesn't. Scratch an itch.

What itch would I scratch right now if I wasn't busy. I'd build a soft bios driver that would emulate a CD/DVD drive. This would load an emulated CD/DVD driver into a PC bios just like a SAS card loads its driver into the bios. This would allow you to select multiple iso images from a usb drive and then boot to that emulated CD/DVD. Right now you can't really do that.
Is there an actual reason why you guys don't think it's an April fools prank? I'm reading thru the comments but couldn't find one :-z
I have been using Zimbra Desktop as an email client, http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html, in my Mac in several GMail accounts with no problem. There are versions for Window and Linux.
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Woah. Leo looks like he was having a really bad day or something. Why didn't he just say "I know, I know, it's a review unit, I'm sending it back in 7 days and going out to buy my own, because I like it so much"? However you respond to "did you pay for the device you're about to tell us about?", anything including "fuck you" was not an appropriate answer. It surprises me that people with such a low boiling point can maintain the "personal brand" Leo has.
If you give an SLA for your service, you had better have SLA all the way back down the chain. So yeah, it does mean that you shouldn't charge money for services built on Twilio (until they have an SLA) if you intend to provide reliable service yourself.
1. Taking e to a complex power (using θi) walks you through the complex plane at a given angle θ. (That is, f(x) "draws" a continuous curve, where the "pen" has a constant rotational torque of θi.)

2. When θ = pi, f(x) is periodic (the angle is such that f(x) intersects itself or "loops.")

3. The set of complex numbers is isomorphic to a 2D Euclidean plane. Therefore, a walk at angle i*pi through the set of complex numbers is isomorphic to a circle.
No offence, but aren't you six years late on this?

This looks like one of the hundreds of startups launched in 2004 with the idea of "Put pins on a Google Map and save it in a database". Lots of those startups got funding for it, and they've all run their course.

Since the functionality you're planning to build is now actually built into Google Maps itself, what's your purpose with this thing?

From an implementation standpoint, I'd ditch the "name your map" and "log into google" steps. Start off with a randomly generated unique URL and let the user immediately start sticking pins into a map. If they decide to "save" at some point, you can hit them up for account details. That's the standard way of doing things like this these days.
The beam path on the LHC is kept under high vacuum. At no point does it intersect air at atmospheric pressure. There's no way for anything to accidentally intersect the beams, which is good, since one of them is made of antimatter.

EDIT: Nope! Wrong! Mistook the LHC for the LEP. The LHC does not accelerate antimatter at any point.

Additionally, while the individual protons in the LHC may only be a hundred times more energetic, there are quite a few more total particles in the beams. I can't find any technical details of the U-70 synchrotron, but it came online in 1957, so there's that.
> Can't fathom a practical use

Update anything that the client doesn't need to wait for. Visitor stats, page view stats, notifications about sent messages if you use some distributed queues, any deferred post-processing...
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I never understood the fanaticism about not using a mouse in Vim. I use MacVim and GVim and often using the mouse is much, much faster than using keyboard commands. Especially if the text needs to end up in another tab.

There are times I just the keys, but only when it makes sense.
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If you want the upstream software as-is, nothing is stopping you from going to upstream and getting it for yourself.
There's "All Consuming": http://www.allconsuming.net . Here is an example of one user's "consumption" (not me!): http://www.allconsuming.net/person/sipes23/

The service is somewhat primitive, but has two features I like. You can download your consumption content (but not your actual commentary). And you can add your "recently consumed" list to a website with a little javascript.

The site is a spin-off from Amazon. They use a lot of Amazon content. You can also add stuff which is not on Amazon, for example here's the "grapes" page: http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93636
Last year:

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool
The thing I don't like about this option is that it's not easily searchable, unless you don't have a lot of content.
The real power of MATLAB comes from the toolboxes, not the language itself.

Writing performance critical sections in C code (mex files in MATLAB) has improved speed dramatically in the cases I have tried (by an order of magnitude.)

I have found that line by line porting of MATLAB code to Python is trivial if you don't use toolboxes, the most annoying part in the porting is 1 indexing.

The biggest advatnage besides toolboxes is the IDE support of MATLAB. Ipython + emacs + matplotlib can emulate that, but still for most people, it is too much of a hassle.
I think I know how the OP feels. I have a similar history with computers and I get bored maybe once a year.

But in my case, some new and interesting problem always appears before long, benefiting from the use of new and interesting technology. This year it has been mostly NoSQL. Next year it might be something completely different.

Technology by itself is only fascinating for a short while. Finding interesting problems and real-world projects where to use it is the cool part. I consider my own job a great one because the environment and people often make this possible.
I wrote a review of Chaitin's Algorithmic Information Theory a couple of years ago. I talk briefly about his approach in using Lisp. http://blog.fogus.me/2008/12/19/bookpr0n-0-gregory-chaitins-...
Similar background 15K miles down south of you, though
the same thing happen to me earlier this year and I had it coming. Too much work on things I didn't like.
I took some time off to figure it out and it worked.
If you can, don't rush it and try to focus on what you really enjoy, no matter how hard or crazy may seam at first, and you'll find it.
The shallow scenery is an opportunity to us, oldies. Lets show we still have a few tricks and cooler than ever.
There is a really nice prototype language by Gunther Blaschek also called Omega, and it predates this by at least 15 years.

It was Self with mathematical rigor and some MOP elements, IIRC.
CentOS 5 (even latest 5.5). You can install python25 or even python26, but 2.4 always stays as a default.

As long as you know about it, you can fix scripts, but any downloaded program needs a change in shbang line, or at least running explicitly via python-2.X.

But yes, "most Linux distros" part is completely untrue. Most have at least 2.5 - or higher.
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So, the defensive reactions by both Dave and Ron indicates
that there is probably substantial and threatening truth
behind Michael Arrington's post.

False rumors, false accusations, slander, etc. can be pretty threatening things that need to be defended against, because they can ruin you. People do not seem to consider that option at all and the only evidence that is given is that the reaction is 'defensive'. I wouldn't like to be a defendant in their court. If you keep silent, you are guilty, because you are hoping it will blow over. If you deny the accusations, you're just doing what you were expected to do and the force of the accusation doesn't wane. When you defend yourself, you're being defensive, which is an admission of guilt, because it acknowledges there was a threat. A sad state of affairs, reminiscent of the witch hunts.
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> PayPal doesn't need to freeze your account, they can
> just as easily prevent you from withdrawing money to
> your bank account, which sucks but it probably won't
> kill your business. At least your customers can still
> pay you.

I can't believe I'm writing in PayPal's defense but facts are facts.

They did this to me last week. They sent a message Friday night that they would need some extra documentation. I acted upon that on the spot. They then proceeded to restrict my account next Monday because they didn't bother to process my response to their request from Friday. That sucked, but they only locked withdrawals. My customers didn't see a thing, and they finally suspended restrictions Thursday. Took a few phone calls to make sure they hurry (to a number that is not free and not on the front page, but definitely not "10 pages deep": from your account > contact (footer) > call us).

Like anticipated, I feel dirty for speaking to their defense.
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Congrats on launching something. Ignore the haters. I have to agree with iampims, people will give this 10 seconds before moving on, and it's just not clear what it is for. I would recommend fixing your tagline as a first priority so people know exactly what the service does. Goood luck!
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I wouldn't worry about it too much. Accept that you need a change for now and re-look at it every so often. I've been coding since '84. I've found myself very jaded by computers a number of times in the past and I'm definitely not chasing every technology thread I could be. But hey, sometimes it comes back and you see the same stuff in a new light, or you discover areas that really do interest you, or you combine what you know with a new domain.

Don't force it. Let it go until you enjoy it again.
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So given the amount of research that Google pump into getting the best components for the job, are we to take it that all their testing has concluded Hitachi hard disks are better than the alternatives?

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html
Talk about being stuffy. I own the site showing the hoaxed body scanner images http://www.tatumba.com/blog/archives/1369 and because of that article an advertiser kicked me off their network. They told me remove the article or cover up the nudity.

The nudity is part of the story so I told them to stick their ads up their covered up asses!

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