skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me how once a customer came to me and needed his elance-made-in-russia-iphone-app fixed because it "mysteriously" crashed since apple "broke it" with the new iOS version. (ASAP!)

I took a look at the code and ... you know what happens in japan with that nuclear plant right now? Yeah, the app was the fukushima of code. It only hold together because of luck. Luck didn't last till iOS 4 where Apple seemingly changed something about how cocoa touch retains objects internally and the app exploded. Objects were randomly released and the programmers didn't care about any conventions. They returned objects with retain counts of 1 from a static lib and then released them somewhere later in another static lib. Not a single autorelease was used.

At least there was extensive doxygen generated documentation ... in russian (no joke).

You get what you pay for. And yes you can't compete with the people offering their services on odesk/elance. And you don't want to work for cheap asses that post "need augmented reality app for max $200" jobs.
An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4
Breakdown of typing in .NET and the evolution toward dynamic types and their interplay with static types.
pachube.com is cool, but this is open source.
Is there a good site you guys prefer when looking for freelance work? I've never done side projects for cash but it sounds fun and I could use the cash.
Angel Office Hours Winners 2.1 (http://www.hackersandfounders.com/)
Rhizome announces 7on7 2011: Chris Poole, Mr. Doob & More
Definitely stay away from those sites unless you plan on doing volume/mass work to compensate for the low wages (or unless you have a big reputation). Like I mentioned in another post, at least 85% of my freelance gigs come from my existing network and their word-of-mouth referrals. I've found clients are much willing to pay more when they trust the consultant and a verbal referral from a friend can go a long way in providing that trust.

Some tips for this:

* Make sure your friends know what you do - update your Facebook profile, hand out business cards, start a blog, etc.

* Make sure your friends think/know that you are the best developer that they know and that you are the first person they think of when someone says "I'm going to need a website"

* Use LinkedIn - surprisingly enough, I've had old contacts connect with me via LinkedIn, view my profile and hire me for a project

* Exploit whatever niche you're a part of - if you are active in your church, approach them or another local church to see if they need a site. Apply same strategy for a youth group, social club, etc.
Yes, and Facebook was built by a few nerds in a house in San Francisco.

And yet they've now spent hundreds of millions. Proving a concept is cheap, but taking into account all the threads that are involved in building out a large scale application is expensive.

My guess is that the $40m quoted for just the paywall is also inaccurate. They probably looked at this as an opportunity to update their platform to be more flexible to take advantage of further business needs for the next decade.

Whether it's a good investment is debatable. But as someone who works in the technology and media sector, I appreciate them taking the plunge.
Smart Cover for ipad 1 - DYI hack
I Hope This Bubble Kills The App
Interesting... playing around with similar tags and some offsets, I got those results as well as some irrelevant images (aurora borealis for "friend"). Definitely a concern when you need the placeholders to be at least somewhat relevant.
Personally, I have no problem with using http://placehold.it/
Go to conferences and wear a big badge that says you're a developer.
As far as I'm aware 4chan has not needed $40M to provide a more useful and socially relevant service than Color or whatever Path is. Don't people just use Twitpic anyway? Or Instagram if their photos are too boring without being colored brown.
If I ever murder anybody, I'm going to leave a lot of "encrypted notes" around. It will turn out that one is a review of a restaurant and the other is just random noise.
I haven't found any, but I guess that's the problem: they're private.
yeah i thought of writing a chapter about monad transformers, but it didn't really fit in. if i do a second round of chapters monad transformers will definitely be there. otherwise, just come on into #haskell and ask about stuff and you'll quickly be elucidated!
Hi jws,

You can use the "share current view" button if you want to share the exact view of this :-)

Jeffrey
How not to protect against SQL injection (view source)
Most useful software will need to be built in 6 to 8 weeks. - The first iteration. 10k+ should therefore get the maximum votes. More informational poll would have included 8-12 12-16 16-20 k.
Richard Feynman totally would have cracked that one!
Clickable: http://crumbsapp.com/

I think it is a cool idea but that its success will come down to how non-geeks adopt it. If you can get that large pool of non-geeks, whose interaction with the web is dictated by Facebook & Google, to feel incentivized to place notes to their friends then I think it could be a hit. There are also potentially interesting opportunities for local business owners to get 'spontaneous business' via notes placed around their business.

How would you describe your differences from a service like http://geoloqi.com/ ?
actually 2x a bit of an exaggeration, more like 1.5x
But doesn't finishing college at all prove the discipline thing? How about an Eagle Scout award, does that mean anything to you?
i just liked writing it and i put it online for people to red. it never really occurred to me that people might buy it until no starch approached me
DISCLAIMER: for the record, this is a rant I wrote at 3 am so please don't take it too seriously. I'm mostly sharing it so you can have a good laugh, because apparently a few people thought it was funny and said I should share it.
Threats of violence are not appropriate. Adding "Just kidding" does not help.
You mean duct taped languages? Sorry for being pedantic.

Yes, I did hear many good things about Java as a programming language, right from my grad days. C++ is not a pure oops, java is a pure oops, and some other cool stuff.

As I understand, going to Java will be "grammatically" approach but Django and RoR will be a quick and dirty way. Am I right?
I have a nephew who has Asperger's Syndrome - severe. One of the things he loves to do is invent languages and list thousands of words as a dictionary and even write short stories with them. The image seems to have just a touch of the same feel. Significant repetition (NCBE) and limited variation of the letters (E is overrepresented). The story hints that the victim wasn't competent mentally. It mentions he could read and write; why mention that unless people would think he couldn't for some other reason?

Anyway, just a thought, probably doesn't mean anything.
Really intriguing. The first page has 'p1' up in the corner, which makes me think the sequence of the pages might matter...

The whole thing reminds me of pages in my notebook where I kept all of my Windows and Adobe license codes.
I'm in Utah too -- $125/hour is more than decent considering our cost of living.
haha, thanks for reading. sometimes it's really cool to have something spark your interest and then it just snowballs from there
I guess most of us started with too low prices. Me too, and I was cursing that shitty job. Until some time later I realized that it was worth it - I learned a lot from my first job. Not only about pricing too low but also about handling difficult clients.

I'm glad my first job(s) were shitty so I could grow a thick skin early in my career.
According to the terms, Amazon's only allowing DRM free music. Also, Dropbox has got https://droptun.es/login

Although I think the real comparison is between Amazon and bigger players like iTunes and Google Drive.
> What's "sniffy" about it?

It just felt condescending to me, somehow. "Those people are not entrepreneurs or founders" just doesn't sit quite right for me, even though I think his distinction is basically correct. Maybe I read it wrong or maybe he dashed it off quickly or something - I generally like his essays a lot.
I can't wait for Seven on Seven this year. I was lucky enough to get a ticket to last years event and the quality of all the presentations was amazing. I especially enjoyed Hilary Mason's presentation that added an API to everyday umbrellas and Matt Mullenweg & Evan Roth's WordPress hacks. I'm pretty sure the videos from last year are somewhere on Vimeo. Happy to see that Rhizome has a stellar lineup for this year.
I don't need to argue that standard of living has nothing to do with energy consumption, it is self evident. Leave your air conditioning or heating on for 24 hours for no reason, or keep your engine running while in a tail back. Wonder at how your standard of living has not improved one iota. I propose improving standards of living by people being more efficient. QED this is not spinning a make believe story. Your figures for energy consumption also back my point up, unless european standards of living are lower than the US because of power consumption. It is the reckless waste I am lobbying against. We are not just getting by.

I never stated that there were painless or negative side effect free power sources, you are the one who stated it was the most painless way forward. The additional power sources you are advocating are nuclear. I said nothing about eating animals. The whole universe isn't trying to do anything. When the power sources you speak of are consumed by your ideal life form, is it going to consume itself? Have you ever heard that energy is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes form? Contributing to as animals do, against directly causing like you advocate your ideal form doing, are different notions.
My pictures aren't boring. I use the Gotham filter. Also, nobody needs $41M to provide anything more useful or socially relevant if one is to believe that investors were taking a stake in the future potential of the Color team vs. its current offering.

The fact remains that Mr. Poole has been unable to monetize his current user base on the seven-year old 4chan, build a medium-term scalable solution, attract talent or serious investment nor can he be arsed to explain just what exactly canv.as is and why we should take him seriously. Moot aside, I think I'll adopt the position stated in his AMA/recruitment pitch:

"Yes, instead of treating him like the creator of 4chan, let's treat him like the developer of a new website in closed beta that none of us have used. That will be fascinating."
Slightly OT: Can someone point to a good, comprehensive tutorial on how to call C code from Haskell?

Background: libguestfs Haskell bindings need a lot of love, and the FFI deeply confuses me.
And the links for download:

http://brandbook.nokia.com/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/...

http://brandbook.nokia.com/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/...

As posted here:

http://craig.dubculture.co.nz/blog/2011/03/26/putting-nokias...
I kind of wonder if this is an alternative to the old "You've won a free trip, come to this location to collect your prize" used to catch criminals on the lamb.

It seems like this might be a ploy to tempt the ego of the murderer into providing the decryption of his own note. In other words, solving this puzzle may land you directly on the suspect list.
Looks like you should use logarithmic buckets and make them go higher.
This is great! I'd really like to see RIM step up and do the same considering half their talent comes from Waterloo.
CS is better, since you get the flexibility to adjust your school to support your life, startups, or whatever you're doing. Engineering is too rigid to do something like take a term off to focus on a personal project or do some research.
It would be very surprising to me if PaulG or anybody else at YC approved Dropbox's application without receiving what they believed to be a satisfactory answer to a question along the lines of "What happens when Amazon becomes your competition?"
My on-set experience with the One, as a student, was remarkably similar. I do not, however, assume that the camera hasn't been improved greatly in the last few years. There is some credence to the complaint of the design's orientation, however. The inability to look through the lens is something that really bothered me, as the operator. It's just one reason I appreciate the careful design of film cameras.
what would you recommend instead?
She may like J (http://www.jsoftware.com/), too.
There is some "academic" stuff you need to know to be a really good coder: algorithmic complexity, information theory, lambda calculus, and a good grounding in discrete and continuous mathematics.

You need to be able to eye-ball an algorithm and go: hmm, that's O(n^2) ... not gonna work for this use-case... etc.

You can book learn this stuff. Just make sure you do.

Some of the best coders I know never darkened the door of a university.
SoundTracking Is A Hit Reaches 100k Downloades in Two Weeks
The version 2 of dropbox he refers to already exists, it's called JungleDisk. It works on bring your own storage (S3 and now few others), and you get to keep your own crypto key. It added sync while back.

Been using it for few years, since I was not that comfortable put all my files in the cloud.
I've been writing some ffi myself code lately. The real world haskell chapter on ffi has been helpful. They use a bit of hsc2hs on top of plain ffi. I've also been using c2hs which does a lot of the work for you (a bit higher level) and have found Edward Z Yang's guide helpful for that.
I don't understand the criticism leveled at organizations like IEEE although maybe I'm missing something. These are professional organizations and consequently non-profits. So even though they charge a lot to access the articles, it implies that nobody is actually getting rich off this.

Edit: I know that there are some for profit publishing houses, but there are also many journals published by non-profits (IEEE being one of them).
I disagree. I have plenty of great ideas all the time that would be perfect for somebody who is not me. Somebody who has the assets in place to truly execute on it.

If you find a truly great idea that you genuinely want to work on, work quietly to put all the assets in place that allows you to seriously pursue it.
Ask HN:  Do "Copy Cats" ever get funding?
I don't think I'm actually interested in doing this, but I'm just curious to see if funding would be possible if I did.

Basically my company sells Egnyte - http://www.egnyte.com to a lof of our clients and we've recently stopped selling it because Egnyte doesn't live up to the expectations of our clients. I'd really like to build something like Egnyte, but build it so that it actually works.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not just trying slam Egnyte and I actually gave it a chance, but it just doesn't cut it.
I like the idea, but what is the relevance of the location? Notes have a time component, are the notes time independent?If so what is the situation where I would use them? I think the friend aspect might be too limiting, but could be an addon.

I might be more interested if they were just notes from anyone like "look up and notice xyz", especially if I was someplace new. Kind of how there are guest books in a bed and breakfast.

Possibly a new kind of location based virtual graffiti even for places where I live, with poetry, call XYZ for a good time etc.
Great overview of the technology choices and how they interact. I really appreciate when important companies reveal some of the inner workings of their sites. It gives something for the rest of us to go on. It can help inform our judgement when we make similar choices. This happens all too rarely. Many thanks!
Dropbox's prices are cheap, but only when you consider how many free plans you are subsidizing.
Can you elaborate on how you think bitcoin, a digital currency backed by nothing, could replace a solution that can be directly monetized? I don't see bitcoin coming into use outside of a narrow audience, namely very tech savvy individuals/small businesses.

Besides companies not buying into the baseless payment scheme, Bitcoin, for lack of better words at the moment, just doesn't offer the sexiness or appeal of Minno. There is obviously a stark contrast btwn Bitcoin's interface, visual appeal, and ease of use and integration (sort of) and that of Minno.
Near the end I mention that taking VC absolutely counts under "accepting money for a service."
If you're using a browser that supports @font-face, you're looking at Nokia Pure. From http://brandbook.nokia.com/generated_files/pub_module/css/c3...:

@font-face {
font-family: 'Nokia Pure Text';
src: url('/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/Fonts/puretext/nokiapuretext-webfont.eot');
src: url('/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/Fonts/puretext/nokiapuretext-webfont.eot?iefix') format('eot'),
url('/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/Fonts/puretext/nokiapuretext-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/Fonts/puretext/nokiapuretext-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('/other_files/Brand_Book_v2.2_2011/Fonts/puretext/nokiapuretext-webfont.svg#webfont4UxFerZx') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

Chrome supports @font-face, so kwantam is looking at Nokia Pure. I think that CSS feature goes a long way in dealing with the problems you listed - at least for webpages.
I won't link here, as it's commercial

What's wrong with linking a commercial product or course?

This is a discussion about making money on a website with a strong slant towards making money by starting and running businesses.
I hit someone with my car in 1999. It was like turrets syndrome. The shrinks employ actors to fuck with me. I used to feel bad, but when you go messing with someone's reality, all bets are off. How would you react to UFO's, terminator robots or secret agents? It's anybody's guess, but kinda funny justice if it was a shrink actor--always pushing buttons.

God says...
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word accused believes mysteries items base frailness unless
hallowing deception forsaketh revolved people words ABOUT
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That's great. I wish you much success.
Microsoft isn't like Google or Facebook or Amazon because their most important customer base is business - and business values predictability not the latest feature. If Windows Live gets a new interface overnight, the boss says "shit" not "cool" because six of his ten employees are spending time navigating the change rather than being productive - and ten of ten are bitching about it. Try to find Google's roadmap for the next year - never mind the next three. Imagine trying to organize a large business based on Facebook's terms of use, how long would that last? Sure I'll grant that Amazon's cloud service is likely to be stable, but that's the exception - Amazon isn't rolling out lots of beta's like Google or rewriting its TOS every week like Facebook. No, Amazon is dull and boring and focused on providing stability, just like Microsoft.
"hybrid open access"

Bullshit

What you mean is "not open access." Don't lie to us.
Correction: it doesn't matter for some workloads.

This old classic applies to business models as well as software:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html
A few comments:

I found that page-loads were a bit slow. And if I hadn't come from HN, I doubt that I would have clicked on "learn more", so you may want to move your copy directly to the landing page. Also, you might improve the typography.

The copy itself seems pretty good. I think you mixed in the right amount of subtlety. If I had to reword:

---

Want to pay $34/month on a six month contract? We have a match for you. But not us.

Want to answer 400 pointless questions? We can find you harmony. But not us.

Want something all about free and all about flakes? We have a spot for you to fish. But not us.

AKChances is different. And different is good.

---

I have little expertise in building/market landing pages, so take my advice with a grain of salt ;-)
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When I saw the font, I got the feeling it hadn't changed much. Then I compared it to the old one, and I realized it's completely different, but it just gave the same feeling. In other words: very good job.
Color founder on This Week in Startups
Shot in the head, more like it. IDC has this prediction wrong.

The Nokia deal will kill Microsoft relationships with every other manufacturer. Won't Apple outsell Nokia in smartphones?
I have had great success with Elance.com. At first I had to bid the projects on the lower end to get some ratings. After I had a few happy clients and a few 5 star ratings I started receiving 3-4 proposal requests a week. I also tried oDesk, but did not see the same results.
If you do it better then yeah. There's always room for improvement.

For the copycat thing... Think groupon and living social; both have funding.
Ask HN: Backup services that charge based on how easily you can access the data?
I was talking to a video editor who complained that he's running out of trustworthy storage for his raw video. He's using RAID on prosumer home hardware, but it's getting to the point where 5TB is cramped.

Not trusting optical disks or even a closet full of old drives for archiving that information (wisely, I think), I thought about S3 at first, but realized that even a single TB is ~$1500/year for storage. That comes with a lot of features he doesn't need, though, and I was wondering if there was any kind of data backup service that offered low prices and near-guaranteed indefinite data integrity, but without instant accessibility.

That is, the customer knows their 5TB will never be corrupted or lost due to, say, a meteor hitting a single data center, but in return, they won't have instant access to the data (just file listings) and have to request data deliveries in advance.

Does anything like that exist at the sub-Fortune 500 level?
I know that it isn't practical for the FBI to publicize the approaches that they've attempted in deciphering this, but I'm very discouraged by the prospect of spending time on what might be simply redoing a small corner of a failed effort by someone much more qualified.
My freelance gigs tend to be as a subcontractor building out Film marketing websites and games. It generally involves a significant amount of interactivity either in Flash or HTML5/JS/CSS3, and since I know that Film marketing budgets are usually relatively robust, I feel no qualms starting my bids at about $8000 for 3 weeks worth of part-time work (nights and weekends). Usually the projects are more like 6 weeks, so I often charge around $12-14k, and my clients rarely counter.

Additionally, this is usually 80%-90% coding. The firm that hires me is usually responsible for all the design comps and photoshop files.
Fab | daily design for everyone
He could charge extra for fast turnaround. If someone needs a job done quick they can pay a fixed or variable surcharge. That way your dad doesn't have to feel bad about charging more for the work itself.
absolutely. I've done a lot of work with automation of fabrication and testing instruments (fiberoptics) and the money's definitely good.

its also an amazing learning opportunity (and play. but never take close up photos of your phone. you'll become OCD about clean pretty fast)
Higher/Lower - an interesting game to analyse or simulate.
Not really, the victim made the language himself and did this for quite some while.
Thats not a penetration test
Anyone know why they're trying to handle https requests on port 80?

server {
listen 80;
server_name bedom.com;
rewrite ^(.*)$ $scheme://www.bedom.com$1;
}