skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. If he wants to do some for free, do it for free. There's nothing damaging to your reputation about doing pro-bono work. I suggested my wife redesign some libertarian party websites for free as she was making the transition from print to web as a way to get experience and build a portfolio. This worked out well and actually led to some paying work through the contacts.

She adamantly refuses to work for less than pay for less than what she thinks is a long-term viable rate on the grounds that once you quote someone a price, you can never go back to them and say "oh, yeah, $60/hr was because I was desperate, now I'm charging $90". If you need to cut the price, charge the going hourly rate and throw in freebie hours.
You should back down from the government? I smell a debate forming.

Elaborate on this theory of yours, I'd be delighted to hear.

I postulate that backing down from the government can only possibly make things worse. It might be tough to stand up now, but it'll be tougher later if you don't...
Proof ?
If there ever was a smoking gun to convince people that corporate power goes unchecked, this is it.
What they're doing is both simultaneously petty and upstanding. The idea that they shouldn't do it because a vendor might not make payroll, because a sysadmin can't handle a DDoS attack on a major credit card system is absurd. Armored cars are armored for a reason. Major money networks should be armored as well, and if they're not, its the money networks responsibility if it happens, same as its the armored car companies responsibility if the car gets robbed.

Also, don't confuse fault with responsibility -- they are not the same thing.

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So let me get this right: if you're not with us you're against us, if you're not supporting them you're attacking them, "collaborators" the bunch of them.

Where have we heard all of these before?

Empty, vacuous rhetoric, that's all this situation has come down to. I'm tired of hearing about WikiLeaks because it's polarized and made everyone rhetoric-spewing, logic-hating extremists. Everyone involved, and sadly to say, particularly the pro-WikiLeaks crowd, has been making grandiose, pompous speeches as if it's their last day on Earth and they're the President from the movie Independence Day.

Stop. Just stop. Julian Assange is not the messiah and you are not delivering the the gospel truth of life, the universe, and everything. There is zero need for the amount of hyperbole, rhetoric, self-aggrandization, and more weasel words than I can shake a stick at.

Is this an important issue? No doubt, but polarizing speeches like yours aren't helping anyone. When you start using loaded words like "attack" and "collaborator" you've lost any semblance of credibility with moderates, and just come off as an extremist instead.
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Be careful. I can't find the link but one survey found out that the #1 reason why a deal didn't go through was because salesperson was too aggressive.
I find it a really shameful comment. It seems like unbelievably wishful thinking to claim that high-tech startups are the most important thing everyone should be doing when the going rate for saving lives from tuberculosis or malaria is in the hundreds of dollars per (e.g. http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities). I'd like to hear why that is not real value. No doubt most First World businesses produce technology and efficiency advancements that are genuinely useful, but I doubt that very many are that useful.

I can't imagine how you could hold the original poster's view as stated unless you literally don't value human life very much, or you have done some convincing math about how much good Tesla Motors is likely to do the world. I condemn it without reservation.
In Order:
Logo: HOLY SHIT I'M 8 AND I CAN MAKE THE COMPUTER DO SHIT!
QBasic: Easy to get started and allowed me to write text games for myself

AGT: DOUBLE HOLY SHIT I CAN WRITE MY OWN TEXT ADVENTURES?!
ZZTOOP: You gave the gamers a language to write their own levels. Freaking Schweet.

VB 4: Having controls is kinda nice!

Delphi: I don't remember much. I think I liked... That I was better then anyone else in my highschool class.

Java: Lots of libraries and lots of people in the ecosystem. Plus, I got good at typing.

Motorola Assembler: Hackity Hack! Whoo, LEDS! Made me appreciate higher level constructs, and also gave me a greater understanding of CPUs and how I am really standing on the shoulders of giants.

C: Very powerful access to the OS.

Haskell: Functional Programming hurt my brain but gave me an appreciation for the elegant.

Prolog: I just love the "Define Solution: Get Implementation" nature of Prolog.

Groovy: Having live scripting makes it much easier to do work with JMeter, which is otherwise annoying difficult.

Ruby: Makes things easy, unverbose.

C#: Lots of libraries, more cool language features in every version, the best IDE I've ever used. Not as verbose as Java but just as accepted.

Scala: Woah. SO much fun. I'm really liking how enjoyable and simple it makes solving problems. My new favourite toy.
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I don't like estate taxes. Governments are typically terrible financial stewards and bad examples of financial responsibility. Give the government one billion and it will find a way to spend two.

But I also don't like the idea of a permanent aristocratic class where generation after generation are born into opulence because your great grandfather created a great company.

The movement towards philanthropy is a great alternative as long there are clearly defined and applied metrics of success. Gates Foundation does a good job at this. If you claim you're going to change the world, but you can't prove it, you won't get funding again.
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> I expect Assange to be freed of all charges.

If that's the common expectation then why this all out effort to bring him to justice ? I've looked at the interpol site, it's not exactly crawling with Swedish requests to bring sex offenders to justice, the only other guy on there is a Swedish national that has some other ominous wording next to his 'sex offenses' relating to children.
Have you checked out women 2.0?
Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980909
(started out chronological, then became stream of consciousness)

QBasic. Got me started, simple and easy to learn.

Java. While verbose, your libraries are second to none. You taught me event driven programming and were the vessel for many of my future endeavors

C. Fast, clean, powerful. I enjoy working with you when I can.

C#. A clone of Java! Your libraries are a bit different from Java, but when I got to know you, I found out you're not so bad after all :)

MIPS. There's something empowering about thinking at as low a level as you

Lisp(CLisp,emacslisp). Elegant, clean, brief. You have great power. Some day I need to dust off my parenthesis and try self-modifying code in you.

netlogo. Erm ... well, it was really easy to create complex systems using you!

Prolog. You are the most unique language I've ever worked with, period.

verilog. It was neat working ~that~ low a level!
python. Working with you is like sex. Everything I want to do with you happens so intuitively, I love it.

Google's Go. Your type system is beautiful. I hope to work
with you more in the future.

HTML. you're intuitive and straightforward.
IMVU in Palo Alto, CA is looking for a sysadmin or two. (http://www.imvu.com/jobs/)

... that description is full of shit. I'll have to talk to my manager about that.

Basically, we need three things from a sysadmin candidate:

We're a Debian/Ubuntu shop, with huge deployments of MySQL. Some of the job is day-to-day management of servers. You should know how to manage databases and handle replication.

We also require solid networking knowledge. You should know about the difference between TCP and UDP, and be able to explain Spanning Tree or ARP. (It actually shocks me how many sysadmins don't have this knowledge.)

The third part is programming ability. Most of what ops does is in Perl, but we also have to interact with other systems, so any knowledge of Python, PHP, etc. will enhance your appeal.

We're doing pretty awesome things, and only getting bigger and better. Come work with me! :-)

(E-Mail to treed@imvu.com if you have any questions or whatever.)
Sometimes it takes the government (or someone funded by them) to come up with novel solutions for the maladies that have plagued humanity. Norman Borlaug for famine, Jonas Salk for Polio, the research into Avian influenza and H1N1 pandemics, space exploration, etc. have all been either spearheaded, guided or financially encouraged by government agencies.

These are areas which charities (and corporations, for that matter) have sometimes fallen short due to either lack of funding or the mission-critical nature of the moment. Either way, we must agree that it's tough to conclude that governments are completely incompetent and charities aren't, however apt the perception may be.
Basic: easy enough for me to write silly scripts on the old Apple at the back of the classroom

Pascal: you kept me from falling in love with programming before I declared Physics

Mathematica: your ability to solve symbolic equations is astounding

IDL: you made it easy for me to produce ugly graphics and served as my union card with astronomers

Perl: you helped me get to python so much faster

C: getting good at you encouraged me to learn more about development best practices. basic debugging and version control make me a coding mastermind relative to my peers.

S-Lang: you convinced me of the horrible dangers of Not Invented Here

C++: you've kindly stayed out of code I've needed to do serious work with

Python: you've got so many packages, half of my work is already done. Plus you painlessly taught me some OOP!
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Someone once said, "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." If you ask me, this just might do it for Zuck. Congrats Man! I hope you find yourself surprised by how many other young entrepreneurs follow suit. But seriously, do yourself a favor, quit renting your little college house and buy yourself a little home while interest rates are still low.
> I find it a really shameful comment.

You can still debate the merits civilly - and that makes it more likely to actually change someone's opinion than just expressing outrage.

> It seems like unbelievably wishful thinking to claim that high-tech startups are the most important thing everyone should be doing when the going rate for saving lives from tuberculosis or malaria is in the hundreds of dollars per

There's no conflict here. New technology saves lives, often by use in unexpected ways. Eradicating disease saves lives. They're both good.

> I can't imagine how you could hold the original poster's view as stated unless you literally don't value human life very much, or you have done some convincing math about how much good Tesla Motors is likely to do the world. I condemn it without reservation.

You don't see how electric cars could save lives? Coupled with better batteries and advanced nuclear power, it goes a long way towards obsoleting fossil fuels and driving down the costs of transportation. That's huge - lower pollution and lower costs on everything - medicine, food, housing - lower transport costs makes everything more affordable.

As for the condemnation? Why not just, y'know, state your point of view without the moral condemnation? I don't think it adds much to the discussion. By the way, I'm more in agreement with you than the OP, though I think it's a bit more nuanced than you make it out to be.
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Yep, just tried to pay a contractor....no dice.
Seems to me you care quite a lot!
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rm only has the real component before you issue it and the imaginary one afterwards ;)
I agree, there is a clear need for a service like this.

Neither of the problems mentioned are fatal for an early company, you can get better at customer acquisition and raise prices (or better introduce some new tiers and grandfather your existing clients in).

"Despite the fact that the team thought our product was "clearly" better than Google Alerts, they thought our product had too high of customer acquisition costs and too low of a price point to leave us with big enough margins."
Because if you don't, you'll be dead within the next day: http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.ht...

Your point still stands though.
This is a public pledge on his part that he'll give away the majority of his wealth over time, not right this moment. At the moment, I'm not sure the guy owns much of anything besides Facebook stock. Last I read, he rents a little house and drives a paid-off Nissan coupe.
The business model is very fixable.
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So saving several million lives produced no real value?
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So it is OK to harm anyone with no more reasons than a) you don't like him b) you can?
And that makes you proud?
Mastercard, Visa, Twitter and Facebook are our oppressors? Seriously?
Government you elected should be afraid of you? Not accountable, but afraid?
Just because one prosecutor sees this as her big break doesn't mean the entire justice system is flawed.
This articles says that Google is "selling Android..." - does this imply there's direct profit for Google from each one of these activations?
What have you done for free speech lately?

Free speech for me is that I can say what I think, not someone thinking they can make my correspondence public.
It would be like dropping a turd directly on does-it-blend. It isn't 2012 the 4chanapocalypse doesn't start yet.
If you can't access that post, I TidyPub'd it here: http://tidypub.org/lzYkh
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Its not using a DHT, its a gossip based network. Its simpler and more resilient to random faults but uses more space and bandwidth. As far as I know there hasn't been much research into their resilience against systematic or malicious faults.
This is the "dirty little secret" about the sudden rise in African fortunes in the last decade or so (it is the fastest ascension of the middle class for Africa in... well, ever).

And, I know correlation != causation, but it's interesting nonetheless to note that this has happened under unprecedented investment by China in the continent, while investment rates actually shrank in the West (particularly in Europe, which probably is attributable to the financial crisis). This ascension is a marked improvement compared to, say, the efforts of Colonialism (the so-called "scramble for Africa"), Apartheid, and guilt-ridden charity.
Or just in time for Christmas!

Come on, we all know iPad 2 won't be coming til next year....right, right? (crosses fingers for EARLY 2011...)
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I think that if you just want to use the same setup as Tribler you can just directly use their code. What I'm interested in is separating and generalizing the various protocols involved rather than having them all knotted together.
Sorry, when you said "I've been involved in startups for the last 9 years (the last 4 as a technical founder)", I took "the last 4" to mean the last 4 startups, not years - from which I gathered there had to be at least 1 more, hence 5 startups. Ok, 3 in 9 years, that's a different story. Sorry, I was kind of grouchy when I wrote my comment... it just seemed like you were playing off any and all problems though as "eh.. it's the weekend".
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Simple living high thinking. I bet many people in his position would have already mortgaged a mansion and ultra-luxury car.
It wouldn't have to be the US or even the UK. Assange has angered a lot of different governments, not to mention private citizens.

People die in London police custody at about the rate of one every month, if I remember correctly. It's not really such an unusual occurrence. Without knowing much about the UK, I doubt that the police officers who kill those captives usually get indicted for murder.
What is the significance of this acquisition? Which companies/competitors (Google, Amazon etc) does it affect?
I'm not sure that's the common one. It's just mine.

And I do agree with you that this case is anything but usual, numerous things about it strikes me as odd and weirdly coincidental.
Ask HN: What tool do you use for managing non-technical projects?
I have been looking for a decent non-technical group project management tool for years but still been unsatisfied. What do you use?

I am most interested in how to manage projects like launching a new product, server migration, designing a new marketing strategy, or hiring a design department. There are many great tools like Trac and Redmine for managing programming projects but afaik the same does not exist for non-technical projects.

Here is what I am looking for in project management software. Feel free to add your own requirements.

1. Tasks to be done, with deadlines

2. Important events during the lifetime of the project

3. Visualizations like Gantt charts to track the progress of the project, but aren't critical.

4. Tracking staff resources assigned to the project

5. Managing documents related to the project, like meeting notes, contracts, Service Level Agreements, etc.

6. Easy for truly non-technically inclined staff to use

At my past organization, a tiny non-profit, we used redmine for managing non-technical projects. It was functional but far from ideal. I now work for a giant multinational and there is still a tremendous need for a good, easy-to-use project management app.
LOL, I'm reading this while watching the news here in the Netherlands with a clip on searches by the police at a Dutch hosting company that was hosting a website that called for the DDoS on MasterCard. The legal system is already catching up.

The question is not how to control, within hours, an attack like the one that happened on MasterCard. The matter is that when it happens again, and there is enough momentum for it, everybody participating will be logged (I mean it's generally not that hard to distinguish between a regular visitor and someone running LOIC) and prosecuted. After a while it will become known that doing things like this has consequences, and the amount of people willing to participate will fall rapidly, until there is only a core left (this core is usually hard to control, but small enough to not matter much).

Take another analogy: rioters. What is the strategy when you have a group of rioting protesters? You contains the damage (police squads to keep the mob from strategic points) and you arrest a few of the core people and prosecute them. That doesn't stop rioters, but it does impose a barrier on participation; so the size of the group of people willing to riot is small enough to be restricted to some extremists (which, despite popular opinion, is quite small).
People dying whilst in custody is something considerably different than people being murdered in custody.
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Shutting down the Visa and Mastercard probably didn't change too much, but this for sure will. Think of how much eBay is dependent on PayPal for purchases. This should be an interesting outcome! Even if people don't feel it's morally right, I'm still very impressed by the current "cyber wars" going on. Either way, I don't lose anything. I guess I'm just one of those people that likes to watch the world burn...
So, wait. Only the lawyers will end up profiting, as usual? (no offense, grellas :-)
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Yup, works here too!
I went to a talk by a part time science writer for the Economist. She is a Scientist and this shows because the science pieces in the Economist are as good as the fluffy stuff in the front of Nature.

I think the anonymity allows people, who are experts in their field, to be candid but protect their reputation.
As for the condemnation? Why not just, y'know, state your point of view without the moral condemnation? I don't think it adds much to the discussion. By the way, I'm more in agreement with you than the OP, though I think it's a bit more nuanced than you make it out to be.

Well, mostly because my comments read more dramatically when I take the opportunity to cast a good antagonist for them.

Having electric cars that are more efficient and cleaner than existing cars would be great, and it would save a lot of energy and labor, but the amount of money and effort spent on attaining that goal is far greater than what (e.g.) Tesla is spending individually; it's the net total of many years of research and many years yet to come of implementation and manufacturing. (That is, it's not like Elon Musk is singlehandedly bringing us to an era of ubiquitous electric vehicles.) It strains my credibility to imagine that the same money and man-hours, if they were allocated with equal passion toward education, disease, or the elimination of poverty, would not turn a much greater ROI over a few decades than more efficient cars.

Our current situation is such that thanks to culture, incentives, and human nature, ninety-nine percent of educated, able people with the ability and drive to work very hard, decide to work at some personally profitable business or industry. I am not inclined to take the remaining one percent and criticize them for plucking what seems like extremely low-hanging fruit from the other tree.

The choir is my favorite place for preaching so I'm glad you agree!
If I had billions I would certainly pay great attention to where I would put that money to work in order to create most goodness and wealth out of it. I would be wary of many charities as groups can get as confused from big money as individuals do.
https://www.paypal.com/ still works, all they're doing is hammering the front page, any transactions over SSL should still work fine.
Ask HN: Is there a website that rates and vets tutors?
Trying to think of this site where people can see a list of tutors in their area by zip code and see how much they cost and their ranking and reviews from other students who used them.

i've seen a site like this but I would like to be reminded of it again.
I agree. In fact, I know many broke people who have already mortgaged a mansion and ultra-luxury car.
number can't be right -- otherwise there'd be more phones activated than phones manufactured.
The Economist has a cautiously optimistic view on California's future: http://www.economist.com/node/17631115.

Also, a net outflow of residents should dampen the high cost of housing.
DNS issues?. No 301 Redirect from the server.

Just type https://www.paypal.com to go straight to the web page.
I wonder if you can buy real groceries using facebook stock, yet.
Yes, absolutely.

As someone who has contributed a fair amount of content to SO, I would wholeheartedly support modifying the CC license on the content I've contributed. I much prefer the idea of that to the idea of allowing my answers to help build dens 'o spam like eFreedom.

Now that I think of it, my answers going straight-to-spam is a nontrivial detriment to my contributing content to SO.
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I'd argue one of the points of estate taxes (which are heavily favored by Buffet, Gates, et. al) is to encourage you to will your fortunes to philanthropy - so it doesn't end up in the hands of the government.
Well it's really a matter of taste.

Some small teams (including some I work with) find it more clear to have 001,002 etc, and just have the convention to get in touch before any schema change, which is overall often a good idea anyway.