skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd approach it like this...

Value your time at some number, say $50/hr (USD). Figure 50 hour work weeks, so you should "earn" $2500/wk.

Accumulate your time until the product ships for revenue. At that time I'm going to presume your time involvement drops significantly and the company starts paying you.

You take 75% of the revenues (divided amongst all developers on this plan) until you are "paid off" (or perhaps until you hit 80% payoff). At that time you get 7-10% revenue as "royalties" ongoing.

Any additional development work beyond a couple of token hours/week at first for minor fixes should be paid as worked if the revenues support it.

You may have to mess about with the numbers a bit, but this approach would give you the greatest potential to get paid appropriately, and still participate in the ongoing sales/success of the product.
This is fantastic news. I'm really happy to see Self get picked up again. It was a breeding ground for a lot of great performance improvements we enjoy today. It will also be good to do some proper exploration of proper prototype based development.
Defecting by default is actually a pretty stupid and inconsiderate move. There are many variations of the Prisoner's Dilemma, but commonly the options are weighted such that the least punishment (or greatest reward) is gained _overall_ when people cooperate. Defection has a certain chance of bringing a locally maximized outcome to one individual, but that chance is relatively small considering the risk, and even if the gamble succeeds the global rewards from cooperation would have been higher. I believe this basic scenario also applies to many if not most real-world settings. Defecting is a stupid and risky, a gambler's choice in pursuit of a questionable (and often time elusive) outcome.
Perhaps, but if this nut job is behaving this way purely to get more hate reviews he's played it well enough to work in Hollywood.
I was reminded of the terminals in Sun's Starfire (1992).

http://www.asktog.com/starfire/
Ask for opinions of 10 HNers and get 10! answers ...

Personal opinion only ...

Learn Python first. Work on problems from Project Euler. Learn to program Python in OO mode. Learn C. Learn C++. Learn to program Python in functional mode. Read about the algorithms mentioned in the article. Understand P vs NP. Understand why this is funny: http://xkcd.com/287/
Why not? The New York Times and many other newspapers published the same data, and surely there's no problem hosting the NYT, so why is Wikileaks special in this regard?
Um, didn't I do that already when I said:

From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

Perhaps you meant something else ...
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That certainly strikes me as a good idea, although one difficulty is that there needs to be filesystem support first, which as far as I can tell there is not at the moment.
Comparing my usual hourly rates against the price of all 5 albums on the iTunes store, I actually won money by purchasing them there,

He didn't win (earn) any money. Unless he cancelled a billable hour with a customer, he didn't save any money either. He saved time.
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Yes and the integration with Tote would make it easier for existing Amazon customers (pretty much most people) to use Marketplace rather than ebay.
Local events

This is my "Dream Project" - i.e. the one I'll build when I have endless free time that I'd like to devote to working.

I'd love to know why you think it's of dubious utility. (Aside from movie times, I've never discovered an event through an "event site" - but I feel like I could...)
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Yes. Here's the little script that wraps up Mirage kernels into EC2 AMIs.

https://github.com/avsm/mirage/blob/master/scripts/ec2.sh

Unfortunately, I can't figure out the AWS magic to build EBS images directly, which means that you can't use the free m1.micro instances with this script. Help from anyone who knows welcome...
Good point. The cables only provide evidence that the US government captured and tortured this one particular innocent guy in Europe using their network of black sites, European prisons, and secret prisoner transportation networks. There's a ton of circumstantial evidence that they in fact used this infrastructure to kidnap and torture a whole bunch of other innocent people, but the current batch of cables doesn't prove that by itself.

I highly recommend Jane Mayer's book The Dark Side for putting together all the public information we have on the black sites and the prisoner transport network though: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Inside-Terror-American/dp/03...
Wired said some random guy did it, not a government: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/wikileaks-attack/

Note to other members: It's not OK to downmod someone for an opinion, especially not below zero.
Gripping. However I can't help but hear Tom Hanks voice as I read it.
It's not expanding into anything (so far as we know), just expanding. A curved spacetime doesn't need to be, and so far as we know isn't, embedded inside a higher-dimensional not-curved thing in the way that a balloon is embedded in (more or less) flat three-dimensional space. (That sort of embedded picture is useful for the intuition, though.)

So, you might be asking, whatever does it mean to say that space, or spacetime, is curved? It means, e.g., that if you measure the radius and circumference of a small circle very very very accurately, the relationship isn't C = 2 pi r. If the circumference is "too small" then space is positively curved there, like a balloon. If it's "too large" then space is negatively curved there, like a saddle. The curvature might actually be different depending on the orientation of the circle, but if space is the kind of thing we think it is then you basically only need six numbers to tell the whole story at each point of space. (In two dimensions -- the surface of that balloon -- there's only one possible orientation for the circle, so you only need one number to describe the curvature at each point.) Note that you can measure this thing without needing to go "outside" space: the radius and circumference are measured within the space. Distances along the surface of the balloon.

Yup, the universe could be curved and topologically nontrivial in all kinds of interesting ways: it doesn't have to be like the surface of a balloon. (There's some intriguing but inconclusive evidence suggesting that the large-scale geometry of the universe is a "Poincare dodecahedral space": take a dodecahedron, and apply some magic to its faces so that when you try to leave it by one face you come back in by the opposite face.) And yes, light travels along the shortest paths it can within the universe, and doesn't take out-of-the-universe short cuts even if there are any.
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In roundabout language he's talking about saving the opportunity cost of doing it manually.
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Ask HN: Would you prefer webapps once the Mac App Store is out?
I believe a lot of existing webapps would get a Mac App version with the launch of the App Store. Would you still stick to webapps?
SAR is indeed a great use for this kind of platform, but the equipment needed to do really high-quality work might be too bulky for this platform. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission equipment (http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/images/photos/srtm_22_lo.jpg) certainly wouldn't have fitted, given the description of the available space.
Yes. Check out the Google AJAX API.

http://code.google.com/apis/loader/index.html
anyone else have a what.cd account?

this is what I see when I search for an album: http://d.pr/OFXu

you get pretty much any format/bitrate of any song/album you can imagine, most are almost always well seeded.
Doesn't hosting with Amazon create a money trail? If the US were to prosecute them, they could subpoena Amazon, and find more members of the organization.

Assange is knowingly putting himself in the line of fire, but isn't there a goal to make sure other members of wikileaks stay anonymous?
Keep the room tidy. Think of it as business-only when you walk through the door. If it's within your means, use an entirely different computer to read HN, news sites etc (or LeechBlock). Hang a couple motivational quotes.
Like any sport, you should have a good coach - informatics is no different. I used to participate in such competitions in high school and I can tell you that reading books is not enough. There has to be someone to teach you the basics so you can build on that. I started very early with Logo, moved to Pascal and finally graduated to C++. In the end, most of the problems can be solved with a standard algorithm - e.g. graph theory (DFS, flow, etc), dynamic programming (Knapsack), geometry (finding intersections or area of polygons). Some problems require heuristic solutions, but that is very rare.
You need a lot of experience and that is gained by solving problems. You can find a lot of online judges that have problem sets from very easy to difficult - e.g. http://acm.zju.edu.cn/onlinejudge/showProblemsets.do or
http://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&...
Hit me up on this, Ben@Site5.com, I'd like to hear what you are up too.
Yep coming very soon, been working on converting that over, sorry!
Instead of padding their 404 with a smarmy comment, they could have padded it with, you know, actually useful navigating tools for visitors.
I agree, it was my first time on the website and I genuinely liked the idea of "design for hackers", but when I read things like see "How 6 of my last 9 blog posts made it to the front page of Hacker News", I got irritated. Was this book and newsletter supposed to be about design? Maybe a refocus is in order here.
I can't live without Tab Mix Plus in Firefox. I want anything I click on to open in a new tab. Chrome hasn't been able to provide that to me yet although I guess I could just try to learn middle click or whatever.
Maybe can reuse an existing spreadsheet? https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?key=tixDMXKPtbNapfqYx16...

Already has a column "Remote/Onsite/Freelance/Other"
Pretty moot argument. If technical people spent a significant part of their time on how to bring a message instead of the content of the message, they would hardly be technical people. You need smart minds to be doing what they are good at.

It's pretty obvious why different people have different tasks, you wouldn't let a person from PR do a technical design, and you wouldn't let someone from technical design do the PR. Both would probably have ackward results...
I have to disagree. I participated in few algorithm competition (however much easier than IOI) and I think that:
- OOP
- C
- functional python
are redundant. Creating more advanced objects than graph vertex/edge is usually unnecessary in algorithm tasks. Functional programming - well, that would be useful sometimes, but as IOI and most similiar type competirions support C/C++/Pascal, you won't be able to use it anyway. Problems from project euler seems to be a good start, however. Learning mentioned in article algorithms too.
You've confused me. The article isn't about people defecting by default because they've chosen to defect by default. It's about people not really realising that there is a choice to be made, doing something, and that something is defection, even though they never realised it and never thought about it.

Your comment reads as if you haven't read the article at all, which I'm sure can't be true. Perhaps you could explain the apparent discrepency.

Thanks.
I wonder how well their Cloudfront CDN holds up for delivering static content in the face of a DDoS vs just using heavy static cachine with ngnix or apache on EC2.
In Europe (according to these stats at least) Firefox has just caught up with IE at 39% each (though personally I feel including the 3% still on IE6 is cheating in their favour).

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200912-201011

And IE fell below 50% globally a few months ago.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-200912-201011

Generally I feel the not-IE percentage is a much more important figure than how the rest breaks down and it would appear from this stat source that Chrome is stealing more from IE than from Firefox, so it's all good.
Language isn't important. You start by solving some problems in whatever language you know.

http://acm.timus.ru/Default.aspx?locale=en -- not a bad place to start

Good books include monographies about algorithms. In Russia, the most popular books on the subject are:

* Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen)
* Algorithms and Data Structures (Wirth)
* Algorithms [in C++] (Sedgewick)

Don Knuth also has remarkable works but they're somewhat more into proofs and math.
RequireJS does this and includes a module system for managing dependencies. It is also available as a JQuery plugin.
Everything that embiggens this story is good news for Wikileaks. And Amazon taking a stance would be something big.
What was that? I couldn't hear you over the coughing. Once I've sloughed off this layer of mucus, it should quieten down.
Doesn't look like there was a business to destroy in the first place. Just a scam that was, apparently, recognised as such by all the reviewers.
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Science is rarely as interesting as it appears in the media.
Would Perl's Unicode::Normalize module fit your bill? I believe Unicode::Collate uses it so that a single codepoint accented 'e', for example, sorts the same as 'e' with a combining accent.
I thought that was the original commenter's point - that opportunity cost is a theoretical maximum that is rarely worth anywhere near as much...
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OTOH if the building is made to last, it will retain its value over time in a way that a prefab construction with a 20 year lifespan will not.
I work on another operating system, good luck with your endeavours.
Sounds like a riff on the SoyLatte project http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/ Although, it does appear to come with a nice OSX installer... The real leap forward will need all Apple's soon-to-be-opened-sourced bindings.
point missed
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Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (December 2010 Edition)
Following thedigitalengel idea,

For students, apprentices, mentors, or just hackers that want to put their hands on something new or out of their comfort zone.

Please mention also if you're willing to hire a remote intern.
I went to a school that was very supportive and often send multiple people to those and similar competitions. (I was quite active in the mathematics olympiades, and helped out with organizing them after I finished school.)

That approach is probably not suitable for you. Like lini said, having a mentor or coach or just a mate is a good idea. You can ask on HN or on irc, I guess you will find people to help you.
Except Project Gutenberg has already put its books in MOBI format, which is supported by the Kindle.

Also, did you read the article:

"They took the text version, stripped off the headers and footer containing the license, re-wrapped the sentences, and made the chapter titles bold,"

That does not exactly sound like strenuous editing and curation.
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If I want to play Rachmaninov's second piano concerto, I don't start by trying to play it straight away. I start with simple pieces, with scales and arpeggios, and with speed exercises. I build my basics, initially leaving out things that I'm not ready for.

I think learning Python first, and then the concepts behind both OOP and FP, better prepare someone for solving problems in languages like C++ than trying to start with C++ first.

As I said, personal opinion.

ADDED IN EDIT:

Fascinating. Rather than refuting the point I'm trying to make, someone has simply down-voted it without comment. That's a shame, as it doesn't provide me the opportunity to learn. Perhaps I simply haven't been clear, or perhaps they simply disagree without caring to articulate their point.

To try to be more specific, I think that learning Python, then learning Python in an OO style, then learning C++, makes a better programmer faster than trying to learn C++ directly. I have no evidence, only anecdotes, and they're not worth much. I think it's like trying to make a 6 inch reflector telescope. It's faster to make a 4 inch, then a 6 inch, than it is to try to make a 6 inch first. Again, there have been no controlled, double-blind experiments, but it is the conventional wisdom.

So there it is. If you think that expressing such a thought is detracting from the value of HN then feel free to downvote this comment further. If you disagree, but think it's an interesting point that deserves to be refuted, I'd love to hear your reasons.
I would think this is interesting enough as a scale/anti-DDOS exercise to merit support from Amazon and other folks regardless of your political stance on wikileaks.

EC2 and Cloudfront are powerful technologies, here's hoping they're transparent and publish their solutions/tools.
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I think is a very good question, I have been looking to learn about UX/UI and hardware/administration/vps but without experience is not easy to find something.

I just opened another thread "Ask HN: Who is hiring interns?"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957603

Hope we can find something interesting.
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I think that might be some deliberate (if softened up) defection right here :-)
And I wouldn't let someone be a manager or technical people unless they also had some technical skills, and technical people without the ability to work well with other people usually don't get very far. There are honorable exceptions, but I've learned never to rely on being one of the exceptional cases.

By all means, concentrate on your technical skills and your technical skills alone, but understand the decision you're making. I've found that a small amount of time understanding business, negotiation, psychology and personal interaction has been enormously beneficial. If you choose not to learn from my experience, that's your choice.
For an example of this sort of thing, see Premium Bonds, available since 1956:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond

The stuff about ERNIE is interesting, too.
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The guy is right. If you can send stuff to Mars, sending stuff to Saturn isn't much harder. In fact, we already do send probes around the solar system.

The problem is moving people in space. Space is the ultimate desert. People need all kinds of supplies to stay alive and healthy (air, water, food, gravity, etc). They also need to be shielded from cosmic rays and solar events.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I doubt large numbers of biological humans will ever participate in interplanetary travel. I bet brain-in-vat or uploading technology will show up before payload costs get low enough for average people to buy tickets to Mars. A brain in a vat doesn't need gravity or exercise or space to roam around in. It needs less food and water than a full human body, and it can be shielded easily.
IE9 appears to have missed the game entirely.
Yeah I was searching for Haskell or ML.
I would argue that remote internships are a bit of a challenge, from both sides. As an intern, the value of the internship is in the hands-on learning and the "real-world experience". To learn at maximal rate, you need to be taught, and the experience will count less in future interviews if you're in another country.

On the other hand, as the hiring startup, having the intern there means you can better coach them and squeeze better results out of them. The starting productivity of an untrained intern is negative (they take time away from you), and how quickly you get to productive depends on how well you can teach them.

Get local internships, imho.
Away team, "aweigh" is a term used to indicate that a ship is in transit (as in "anchors aweigh") :)
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Poor societies can't afford the luxury of throwaway architecture. With the cheap prefab construction today, you're lucky if your commercial building lasts until the mortgage is paid off. By then you'll want to rip it down and reconfigure it to the new retail hotness anyway - witness the number of '80s-era strip-malls currently getting rebuilt into big-box plazas.
>anyone else have a what.cd account?

Try as I might, I can't work out how to get a new account .. got any clues for me? Does it involve IRC?
I switched my strategy as soon as I got out of high school.

I used to defect all the time. Then I shut my mouth. I was initially surprised at how much information I could get if I didn't say anything, forcing the hand of others. over 10 years later and I've gotten pretty good at social and professional politics.

The trick is this (Socrates thought of it first). Ask questions. Still havent won? Ask some more. Only answer when you absolutely have to. Information is critical. Don't let it slip.
Why are all the reviews posted yesterday?
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I was at ITS2010 where this was recently presented.
The demo was very nice and works pretty well. I'd like to see a version with a comfortably angled upper area and a shorter horizontal area to reduce reaching, but overall it still worked well.
Worth noting there is a hidden RSS feed!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/24WaysToStart

Looking forward to this series of articles. It's starting pretty well!
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seems interesting, do you have any invite ?
Note that this is more accurately a computer science competition, not a mathematics competition. The use of "mathletes" in the Wired title was inappropriate.