skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this 'wrong person to execute' nonsense? You're only limited by your imagination and ability work hard towards your goal. I'll take passion over expertise any day.
Very cool. I could see myself using this. Really hope an android-native version is on its way
Understanding Practical API Design, Static Typing, and Functional Programming
I guess that in the early stages of your idea your in a way going to have to be selling the inventories anyway, not going to be easy to build both sides of the market without some legwork on your part. One of the advantages to being small I guess is you can actually go above and beyond to broker deals rather than only having time to really be doing it passively through a webapp.
Can you write code and actually get things done? Do you have examples of your work that look good? If so, get some freelance work. Charge $50 - 75 / hr and find work by responding to people posting Craigslist computer gigs.

If not, then find some way to survive for a couple months and build some simple projects. Like, really simple. Hell, just setup some wordpress sites with good-looking themes from Woothemes or Themeforest. Having 2 or 3 of those will satisfy 95% of people looking for really simple code-monkey work on CL. You won't get rich, but you can build up your list of clients in 6 months. Then you can either keep freelancing or roll that into a fulltime job ("I've been doing contract work for the last year...here are some example projects and client references.")
To be fair, $100k+ SDE positions and burger-flipping positions are in completely separate markets.

If you were working on a startup, then you were "self-employed", not "unemployed". Market yourself as such. And as others have already mentioned -- if you can't point at jobs held, then point at code/projects that you wrote. Some startups would rather look at your GitHub profile than a CV.
Hmm,

You could go on facebook and target women 25-35 who are engaged and live in miami. If Facebook's booster can't find a different glittering hypothetical, they are going to be in trouble... What about "barbers in St. Louis"? Uh wait, barbers in St. Louis actually need almost exactly what barbers in Houston need. The virtue of online business isn't "targeting" but finding something lots of people need.

Engaged? I think I remember friends talking what it's like having your Facebook profile say "engaged". Boy, that's one status that every retailer thinks they can exploit.

It's difficult for me to believe that "nobody cares about Facebook ads and no one clicks on them" because Facebook Ads (and Google Adwords/Adsense) operate as markets, with a bidding system on price.

If your reasoning was correct, nothing sold at an auction would ever be a bad deal.

But given that Facebook is seen as the next platform, every minute one has to presume that a new-customer appears to try and take advantage of this great platform. But frequency of these customers appearing doesn't prove that they are getting a deal that works for them.
Ditto what mindcrime said about posting examples of your work/abilities if you can.

I'm starting a company 4/2 after my last day of full-time work on 4/1, and while I wasn't planning on hiring anyone right away, I do have a fair bit more work that needs doing than I can personally do, so I will be hiring contractors for some of it and if you're a fit, would consider hiring you remotely, assuming your skills matched up and you could handle working remotely (not everyone can).

I suspect you'll find a better offer on HN anyway, but if not, reach out to me with some details mid-month,
Take screenshots from time to time, and then make a timelapse video when you finish.
It's a really hard problem. I worked at a company that tried to create vertical ad networks that would allow advertisers to tap a large pool of related content. A lot of pieces have to come together for it all to work - finance, technical, and high-touch things like having a direct sales team and managing publishers (recruiting them, getting your tags up, etc).
I actually like the idea a bit. Chicken and egg problem for ad networks is difficult, but not insurmountable. I can tell you that there are many big newsletters out there that are under-monetized. It' not about spamming, either, it's about providing a quality offer that makes sense for the audience. Feel free to reach out to me if you pursue this (you can find me through my profile).
So nobody is using Monotone?
So in 10 years, when everyone has speedy tablets (and PCs?), won't the same thing happen?
I found the argument and the conclusion to the premise to be somewhat vague and underwhelming. If Dixon thinks X, then it shall be.

That being said, studies do prove that content drives traffic and linkage and that the more linkage you have, the higher your search rankings. Whether you like that or not.
What was the startup? You should be able to make an interesting pitch to other companies in the same field. You can present the idea, and what you accomplished-- it may be that a company in the same space would hire you and even buy your code.
You've mis-parsed my sentence. The part "in imperial terms" was meant to refer to the imperial measurements. The SI measurements were in parentheses for people who, like me, live outside of Liberia, Myanmar and the USA.
I'm convinced you're unemployed. Now convince me you're a programmer. You have a CS degree, but that doesn't make you a programmer. What makes you a programmer?
Hi, It is on the credits page.
Here is it anyway, ycpages at gmail dot com.

Many thanks, any feedback would be highly appreciated.
I think ignorance relies on black-and-white whilst intelligence thrives on grey. I've seen little problem to discussions of grey areas here on HN where we prize intelligence over conformity.

Ignorance needs ignorance to survive, it's like a pathogen. The more ignorant people there are, the easier it is to survive as an ignoramus.

I've found it easy to discuss grey regions with people, so long as they're moderately intelligent - at least from my point-of-view.
Adding few more.

- No cut-paste.

- No tabs in Finder.

- The missing delete key. (Backspace is renamed as delete)

- The not-so-modern Terminal. (hence the wide usage of iTerm)
I'm not sure, but I think in this way Apple also bypass the carries' control over the upgrades (see Android and WP7).
Congratulations, this is a great idea, and nicely executed too.

A couple of thoughts:
I get PHP errors if I use a search string with spaces in (something%20else).

Yahoo will probably have a problem with the name/branding if this gets popular. Changing the name would solve this, and give you room to branch out in future by pulling in images from multiple sources.

Good luck!
Voyager I[1] has left the solar system. Though, that photo was taken from much closer.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
The fact that this came through FoxNews kills all credibility for me
This is a completely philosophical discussion, but I do not think blueprints can be the code, since blueprints in every other industry still leave a degree of freedom for the final implementation and in the software industry code IS the final implementation.
I've been hit by your first point as well (not often, but often enough since I switch between resolutions frequently), and if you press the maximize button it will often (not always though) "raise" the lower portion up above the dock enough so you can resize. Not the most intuitive, but it works. I agree with #2 as well - that's one thing Windows does just right, and I'm glad to see that could be coming in Lion.
Change of venue, maybe? Perhaps widen your net? I think San Francisco is your problem here.

A four-year degree is a solid leg in for a lot of backwards HR departments (isn't it? everybody telling me to finish mine seems to think so), so I'm surprised you're having difficulty. A bachelor's should at least get you into support somewhere, and you can start there. This makes me think that everybody who can operate a command line has descended upon San Francisco for the startup culture, and there's a saturation there. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

Last time I was there it was to visit my sister and do nothing computer-related, so I might be wrong.
Where's your github profile? Personal site with demos? Projects you contributed to? Anything counts, man! Even toy projects you built in a weekend just for fun, if they show your ability to reason about a problem.
I agree that SEO shouldn't be the viable marketing strategy for your start-up. If that's your path to gaining traction in any market that can make you a real amount of money through organic, it's largely already been harvested and/or millions of dollars have been thrown at establishing ranking positions - such as on keywords like "cheap flights" or "car insurance".

However, in subsidiary markets where the volume isn't as large, it's a valid marketing channel for ancillary revenue streams. Much like retargeting or PPC or having a Facebook fan page, in these markets, SEO won't be your thing. It will simply be a thing, because the volume is significantly lower and often times, in the "startup" environment, what you're offering isn't necessarily something that people know how to search for.

If your aim is for the long term, throw out the bait and continue building for some long-term keyword like "cheap flights" - but in the seed-investment environment where traction must occur quicker and something positive must be seen somewhere - trying to achieve such a keyword would be a suicide mission, and as such, would almost make this post an accurate take.
I believe WePay provides something that Paypal doesn't (or atleast not easily ) i.e. ability to split payments between multiple users/collectors using multiple accounts. Paypal X/adaptive can possibly provide some of this functionality but WePay does it better and signup is much easier is my guess.

In time WePay may evolve to be revolutionary. Remember once upon a time all paypal was a peer-2-peer money transfer service.
I was updating with dev builds since 3.x without erase/resync. Are you sure that you were updating (Alt + Check for Update), not restoring (Alt + Restore) your iOS device with new firmware?
Weirdly, everyone I've met in SF is hiring. They're also all complaining that they can't find anyone who fits the job. Maybe it's just high standards?
We run a niche, high-value newsletter and so from experience, I think there is a market for this.

To validate, I'd find a newsletter(s) you think you can sell an ad(s) in and talk to the newsletter creator and say "If I can get you a sponsored ad for $x, would you (1) want it and (2) give me a Y% cut?"

If you get positive response from them, then try like mad to sell the ads you promised.

I'm not sure the size of the market but given how much Bob Pittman, Lerer Media and the guy at HARO like email newsletters, there is prob something here. We think so.

Also, IMO, I don't think startups is a great demographic from a monetization perspective unless you can slice it more finely, i.e., venture-backed startups or startups who are hiring.
I had a 9 foot wide 1080p setup in my last place (as a home theater). I could do casual work on it (light excel, web surfing for star wars boy or other idiotic YouTube videos, some email), but it wasn't at all suitable for coding or substantial lengths of time reading text. It also required the lights to be out or very dim, which made working with a printed reference very difficult.

Looked at another way, the tech is available and certainly cheap enough (and somewhat "obvious"); if it were advantageous, you'd hear about loads of people doing it. The tech has been out for years, and even in the early days they were well under $5000 (way, way under that now). Another thing to note, the bulb projectors dim over time, and the bulb replacement costs are not insignificant if you replace them at the point the picture quality starts to suffer (as opposed to when they completely burn out).

Walk into any company conference room and try it out. I predict you'll hate it.
I plan on deploying this over the next few days to a fresh server for the 'lulz' factor.

As mentioned already, I really did expect something a little more simplified for an open-source application. That guide is most likely going to take a couple of hours to work through.

Sure, it'll be worth it, but should it be that complicated. Someone should try and script this using Fabric! :P
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Out of the box, window management with Mac OS X is a pain in the ass. Once I installed and configured BetterTouchTool, however, most of my complaints went away. Binding keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures to window management form a great balance between a floating and tiling window manager. Even if it doesn't solve all of the problems with the operating system, it is a large improvement.
Yes. Once you reach a certain level of income the increase in happiness levels off. (Around 60k in the US apparently.)
It also makes it unlikely that Google can wipe them out. They have a war chest and can come up with failing product after failing product for centuries and still not be in trouble. And every once in a while, if you throw shit at the wall, it sticks.

(See: XBox.)
You should tweet each line of code.
There is a reason Python is paired with Mercurial.

Hg is written in Python. As for why Mercurial was chosen over Bazaar, it came down to popularity. As the core developer survey shows, hg was preferred over bzr.
You may want to checkout http://www.heyamigo.net and http://www.barenakedapp.com/category/amigo/

HeyAmigo sounds like exactly what you are talking about. It was built by Carsonified a few years ago and sold (I think). The Bare Naked App blog was a chronicle of them building it.
haha, I'd spend more time on twitter than coding
Yes,

Complaints about non-profit groups "free-loading" on GPL projects are ... "impressive"... What part of "free" don't they understand?
I was a homemaker for about 2 decades. And sick as hell while job hunting. It took a while but I eventually got a job. It started at about half the wage that GIS jobs I was applying for started at. It has nothing to do with anything I want to do or any of my background education.

A) If you haven't already, pick up "What color is your parachute?".

B) Work on your resume. It shouldn't say 'unemployed for 6 years'. Mine did not say "unemployed for about 2 decades". Mine listed my education and I told employers that I was a "homemaker and homeschooling mom going through a divorce".

C) Whatever your buggaboo, stop harping on it. Mine was my health. I talked incessantly about my health crisis because I felt I needed to be "up front" and because it was uppermost in my mind...yadda yadda. The very first interview where I did not mention my health issue was the job I got.

I applied to a large company and got a phone call "According to your resume, you qualify for the following three jobs: blah blah morning shift, blah blah evening shift, blah blah evening shift." I knew I was too sick to work morning shift. I replied 'Put me down for the two evening shift jobs.'. I went in for additional testing. Afterwards, I was told "You still qualify for both jobs. Which would you like?" I said "I have no clue what either of these jobs really entails. I've been a homemaker forever..." and we chatted a bit about it. I think a contributing factor to the decision was one of them started two weeks earlier than the other, and that was what I went with.

I still have that job. I feel underemployed and so forth. But it has allowed me to keep a roof over my head, work on my health issues, get through my divorce and start my life over. In the aggregate: It's all good.

Good luck with this.
misplaced ctrl, default keybindings are inconsistent, forces developers to use the fn key to reach the function keys

All of this can be adjusted to your liking in the Keyboard preference pane.
I will second this in the social sciences, I went to a top rated public liberal arts school and I studied at most an average of probably 1 - 2 hours per class per week. So that's 5 hours per week for a typical semester.
I was hoping that he would also lay out the strategies that he DOES consider viable. It's hard to compare SEO and the allegedly superior alternatives without even knowing them.

Because, if there were no superior alternatives to SEO (just for argument's sake, I don't believe that), then SEO would still be a viable marketing strategy, despite its flaws.
I agree with all your points except the first (I'm especially bitter about Spaces, in fact). But as for that one:

> "have global menus (who really wants that with todays screen resolutions and two monitors?)"

Because there are a lot of operations you can do that are not specific to a particular document/window, or in some cases don't apply to any windows at all. And, even more importantly, sometimes you want to close all the windows for an application without closing the whole application!

I've run into this problem in a variety of applications, including DrRacket and Logisim as well as more widespread ones like Word: I want to go through several documents sequentially. Naturally I want to close one before I open the next, so that I don't have a whole pile of old windows open. But if I close the only open window I quit the whole application, so I have to leave one of the docs open as I sequence through the rest. The behaviour of several "close" operations (e.g. clicking the window's close button) varies according to whether there are other windows (close window) or not (quit app). Some apps get around this by opening a dummy "new document" window if you close the last open window, but that's still a little jarring and counts more as a workaround hack than anything else. I don't have these problems when I'm working on a Mac.

Oh, and I almost forgot: Fitts's Law. The global menu bar is a mile high, and it's way way WAY easier to acquire than a menu bar inside a window.
The article mentions that he has successfully taught echolocation to someone that lost sight at 14 years old, so you seem to be underestimating the powers of the human brain.
* Easy to use from directly from my code. Either with something simple like hitting a particular URL and posting some identifiers, or ideally language-specific libraries.

* Free/low cost to start using the service
The reason they won't is that so far Google hasn't overtly manipulated results(not in a highly publicized way atleast) and that's why there is a lot of trust on them. Once it's proved that they're doing this, it's legitimacy will go down big time. Bing can trumpet that Google doesn't show any results for THE social networking site etc.
In 2000 I was unemployed for a bit in the Bay Area and wanted to take a short break from techie stuff. Looking for interesting work I browsed the craigslist job boards, specifically the "ETC" and "part time" sections. You never know what you'll find there - I ended up working as an "extra" in the Matrix sequels. beaubonneaucasting needed people to drive in the background on a fake freeway in Alameda while cars were crashing/exploding/chasing each other. Paid about a hundred dollars a day, gave me some great stories and experiences to talk about at parties or in interviews, got me some random followup jobs...and now my Bacon Number is 2 and I have a good start on an entirely separate "performer" resume in addition to my techie one.

Having something recent - anything - on your resume is a big improvement on having nothing; having something "cool" that you enjoy talking about is better still. So I'd try that - think about your hobby interests and cast a really wide net to find things you wouldn't otherwise have considered. And use Craigslist.
If you havin' concurrency problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems and side effects ain't one.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.
TWENTY-FIVE steps is not "simple". =)
One of the big disadvantages to using web frameworks like Rails or Django for open web applications is that the deployment is very tedious, at least compared with something like PHP. Something that requires having root access to a *nix server and takes 25 steps to install is never going to be mainstream - you need something that a 13-year-old could put up on a shared hosting account (i.e. phpBB) to really get traction.
- Command-C / Command-V for cut and paste in OS X (if that's what you're looking for)
- TotalFinder is a nice Finder replacement: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/ - includes tabs and some other nifty features.

Hope that helps a bit...
Force of habit from writing too much TeX?
And would you really be surprised to see a sign like that in Pepsi's cafeteria?
have global menus (who really wants that with todays screen resolutions and two monitors?

I never had a problem with that. With a 13" device it's possible to have 2 to 4 windows open at the same time, since the windows themselves use space efficiently. So at best this argument is subjective to the user.

needs the worlds best trackpads because their laptop keyboards have misplaced ctrl and their default keybindings are so inconsistent that users would be lost without a good pointing device

Not being accustomed to the keyboard layout is rather an excuse than an argument. Also my impression of the key bindings is that they are well done and consistent. Do you have examples to prove your case?

forces developers to use the fn key to reach the function keys, but even then, maps some of the F-keys to operating system functions.

As an developer you should be able to tackle more difficult tasks than finding out that the custom fn keys can be disabled in the system preferences->keyboard pane(if it is important enough for you to write about publicly).

doesn't get multiple desktops? Don't ask me why they ship them, because their window management is so broken that multiple desktops just doesn't work, at least not for me

Window management is a problem for me too. Tools like Shiftit make it easier, but it does't feel like THE solution. I'm curious though if that problem is considered solved on any other platform. The last times I used Windows (XP to 7) it did not do any better.

Try have someone who doesn't know iTunes burn a cd

At some point it was easier to do that(e.g. dedicated button), but given that disc-drives are on the leave in PCs, burning is of less importance to users (at least I can't remember someone burning cd's recently). As one of the most used peaces of software iTunes has a pretty good help documentation, which describes how to burn a cd nicely. The procedure is also quite reasonable, introducing few concepts apart from standard procedures(creating a playlist).
Many people sign up for email newsletters -- in fact lots of people spend their whole day in Outlook or on their Blackberry, so it's far more convenient than configuring an RSS reader. More people send/receive email in a given day than run a Google search or check Facebook.

Ads in an email newsletter that you intentionally signed up for is no more "spam" than ads on a website you routinely visit is "spam."
Email me please if you'd be interested in Box.

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It sounds like it will get simpler. From the site:

"We deploy and run Diaspora with a deployment tool called sod, which currently only supports CentOS. We use Rackspace Cloud, but you can point sod at any CentOS machine. Sod is unfinished and probably has hardcoded configuration for our servers. It is not ready for use."

I imagine that once it has been around for a while, you'll find Diaspora packaged in all the major distro repositories.

What surprises me is the number of different servers that need to be run, tho I figure that's more my lack of experience with commercial grade social networking software.
At least the instructions are thorough. Someone with a small amount of system admin knowledge could probably get it up and running. They could have just gave a short explanation that only anyone who does develops web apps or system admins all the time would understand.