skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Ladder.html
Ask HN: How to find remote development jobs?
I'm about to begin a Master's program in Statistics. Unfortunately, the school is not in an area where there are many tech jobs. I'm looking for a full-time, remote development job with a flexible schedule to work around classes. What are some good places to start looking?

Thanks!
Do people actually hold that assumption to begin with? There are already plenty of examples of successful dropouts, Bill Gates being one of the more famous. They're talked about in mainstream media relatively frequently, and most Americans know about them. The skepticism is over what the odds are if an average person tries it without connections & assistance, not whether it's possible, especially if it's relatively few kids who are explicitly given money/connections/assistance. I don't see this initiative as doing much to address that particular piece of skepticism.

I don't even oppose Thiel's initiative, I just don't think it has particularly broad implications. If the non-college-attending kids in his program do well, a reasonable conclusion to draw is: if you have someone willing to give you $100k and introduce you to good business connections, in lieu of attending university, then that is quite possibly a good opportunity to take.

If you don't have such an offer, on the other hand...
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/04/01.html
more links inside

older version
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
At that point, you ask the team. Tell them, you've found someone perfect, but they're asking for 110, and you can't afford it for everyone. They should have been on the interviews, so they'll know if it's worth it.
Thanks -- I've toyed with the idea in the past, and I think it might be time to just dive in.

So if anyone has resources for a web developer in Portland looking to break into contracting, I'd love to hear from you.
If anyone ever used my soldering iron to do wood burning, spot retouching of hot-glue opening clamshell packages or anything along those lines, they may find that soon enough I will have used my soldering iron to add some new scars to their skin ...

I believe it should be a sin punishable by death to abuse a soldering iron like that.
I didn't realize the HDHR now had two tuners at $149. Good deal. Also looked up an internal OTA tuner card. Only $59... see http://store.hauppauge.com/hardware2.asp?product=hvr1150
The Moral Of The Story Is Never Sell Half Your Company For $1,000
CSS: Our best practices are killing us
Anthro builds great stuff.

I had something similar to the Adjusta Unit in the second link. It was very sturdy and high quality. The adjustable mechanism worked flawlessly. The only problem was the that the unit I purchased was designed to fit in a corner and was HUGE. It would take up far too much space in my current office.
Not sure what flux is that. I use pure rosin (colophony, Greek pitch - it's just solid pine sap) exclusively, never used anything else, and it's not nearly as bad. It's no different from incense in any way. One reason to stick to colophony is that I kind of like the smell. Incense-smelling clothes and hair were a staple of my teen years. :)

With proper technique, rosin is highly effective as flux.

Once I did a trial with aspirin instead, out of curiosity, but that stuff is devil's brainchild. It's very effective, it allows you to solder stuff on oxidized surfaces without problems, but the fumes will burn your nose, throat and windpipe - and maybe lungs too if you breathe deeply, which is pretty hard because you start coughing immediately. It's acid smoke, very corrosive. I tried it, then refused to use it again.
No worries and I am good friends with the Heroku guys and I fully give them props for lots of the pioneering ideas in this space.

This project means to take it further though and be one everyone's cloud operating system, the Linux of cloud OS's if you will. It will live or die based on the open source can build around it. I fully intend to try to build this community and nurture it so this project flourishes. The personal PaaS angle is what I'm most excited about. Whatch for my technical blog posts tomorrow after I get some rest for more info...
I doubt the server would need to implement all of 1.1 to support WebSockets. Many proxies support a subset of 1.1 while reporting as a 1.0 server (Squid was one for years, and probably still is, even though it supports a wide variety of 1.1 capabilities). I talked about this in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2439406
For another game that is a pretty similar to this one, check out [Auditorium](http://www.playauditorium.com/).
I don't agree with this article.
Level 7 on the INES scale indicates "health and environmental effects."
The scariest part of this event was the potential extent of the disaster. But reality got in the way again, and thankfully the worst case scenario hasn't come to be.

I got an e-mail from someone right after the tsunami. He summed up the whole situation in one word: "Terrible."
Certainly practice approches perfect.
The interesting part here is to quantify the practice to perfection radio in the context of the well known 10,000hr rule. Golf works well for this since it's fairly objective at the individual level.

I'm not interested in golf, but I found it interesting to read through the article and see I thought his use of golf as a skill had some merit, but also where I think he's a bit off. Regardless of the outcome, I hope he follows through and documents well.

That said, I definitely pick up what you're putting down on the 'cerebral' aspect.
Harvard affiliates?
There are no Harvard affiliates but there are higher education affiliates, which are called as universities. Harvard itself is one such affiliate in some sense.

Universities are a result of Theory of The Firm, since a university is generally restricted to small geographic region, it can decrease the transaction costs between the various components of higher education. However if you franchise a university across multiple locations, the net transaction costs go up.

E.g. University of California system can be considered as an affiliate system. However you would still find one UC e.g. Berkeley more reputed than other e.g. Santa Barbara.

Peter Thiel incorrectly assumes, that a University system can share a lot of resources between distant geographic locations. However most of the resources such as faculty, labs cannot be shared. Thus you are better off increase capacity of students rather than branching out.
"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules." -A. Huffington

Also see:
http://mattbors.com/archives/726.html
Apple iTunes sells episodes of many TV shoes the very next day, without commercials.

There is no way I will ever spend $70/month for cable, but I would happily spend $70/month for Netflix + Hulu + iTunes because timeshifting is that important to me.
It is on our todo list for Webmin and Virtualmin.
I got advice from some guys on sci.crypto about how to potentially handle this. Some smart guys on that list. So I'll probably incorporate HMAC as an option for those who wish to use it.
Great point. In contrast look at what we generate in this country - http://www.zerohedge.com/article/matt-taibbi-asks-why-fed-ga...
Rather than the general ads as described here, if Amazon (Google Books) can insert context sensitive ads, that may be a total killer: Reading the Old Man and the Sea? Insert ad for fishing trips, boats, or flights to Cuba, etc.
Does any bill or article of the constitution talk about undermining the govt., and what it means?
Yeah, but you're just drawing the line between "result of effort" and "inner nature" in a different place.

What if you decided to test the hypothesis that it was inner nature which allowed you to deal with tournament stakes? What if that was learnable after all? Maybe the top performers just had a different set of experiences, one that allows them to be more detached.
Comcast is in an odd position in that they own the pipe to many homes, plus are the cable provider, and own NBC and a bunch of cable channels. Seems unlikely they can be snuck up on. I think the only for it to happen is for the government to hold one arm behind their back.

OR some independent web-based channels just take off in a huge way. Tough though since I think most of the best writers, directors, and actors are beholden to the networks and major studios. No one wants to give up their livelihood so that you can watch free TV.
Amazon's App Store Turned Me Into an iOS dev
Sounds reasonable, but what about the fact that there are a great many more pursuits in life that one might enjoy, but simply hasn't had enough time to investigate, or simply has not yet been exposed to sufficiently to recognise the enjoyment that comes from pursuing it?
From Google's perspective?
Interesting that all of the examples provided, google, amazon, facebook, MSFT all apparently provide units of stock with a predictable initial value; with stock options, all you can do is guess whether the company will grow and by how much, but if the company didn't grow at all they would be worthless. In fact, are we sure facebook doesn't grant options? Seems like they are still in the growth phase to the point where they could offer options instead, whereas MSFT would have a hard time keeping a straight face offering options at this point.
How are startup salaries compared to the big companies?
Here's a trick I once heard to share salary with your coworkers without the uncomfortableness of finding out you are over or under-paid.

Over beers with several of your coworkers, each write down your salary on a piece of paper and then mix them up. Randomly draw them out of a hat and then read them to each other.

If you're all roughly peers, then you get all the benefit of knowing the salary range of the group, with none of the downside of feeling embarrassed about making much more or less than your peers.
If you read Dan's blog, you'll see that he has a physical therapist coaching him. His team of advisors have a good plan and it seems to me that avoiding injury is a big part of that plan. For example, Dan currently is not using any big clubs - the largest a chipping wedge. If his spends most of his practice time near the green how is going to injure his shoulders, lower back or knees?

In a recent blog post Dan mentions that his physical therapist will prescribe a certain weight lifting program to strengthen his muscles enough to achieve the driver head speed that his golf coach plans that he should achieve.

I suppose that today's golf pros, those actually on the tour, have each put in those thousands and thousands of hours of practice, regardless of whatever athletic gifts they received at birth. So are injuries the reason most near-pros never make the tour? That would be the case if your point is true. I think that they don't make the tour because it is simply too much effort and dedication to put in all those hours of practice.

And that's the wonderful thing about Dan's challenge. If valid, it means that any of us may achieve outstanding results if we put in the hours required to gain the expertise. Golf, in this regard, is a model for any skill we need to satisfy our aspirations.
Replies to the top level comment are still surfaced regardless of their value. So there is no visual queue available to me to filter out replies and secondary comments by estimated value.
The problem is that when you're hiding salaries you can't really evaluate the market. Really by hiding that information you're giving the salary giver most of the power and those shopping around for a higher salary need to do a lot more work to evaluate how much they're worth on the market.

I mean if Joe is doing half the work I'm doing, shouldn't he get paid significantly less? You're kind of attacking this from an "ignorance is bliss" standpoint, but that seems to support the market acting kind of erratically.
It's just another data point. A lot of kids about to graduate will look at these salaries, go "holy crap! I'm headed to the Bay!" and completely overlook other parts of the country where they could make comparable or even better salaries, relatively speaking.

And yes, I did read the part where Google adjusts for region in their other offices. I just don't think other companies always do the same.
Online Identity Isn’t a Transaction — It’s a Feeling
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A Dead Dog (Progress Teaching Students FP At CMU)
Agreed 100%. Algorithms and data structures provide a better guarantee of correctness than any design pattern ever will.

But that's not only what SE about. It's also about taking all the various algos, data structures and design patterns in a system, and pulling them together on time, on spec and on budget. SE is a discipline of process, not of theory or algorithmic correctness.

But you're right in that most SE 'best practices', as they teach them in school, are sorely lacking.
Good point on Apple. I was more thinking of specific channel content and making it available a la carte. So, say, $7/month for an ESPN stream.
I would start by looking at http://jobs.github.com/ , http://jobs.37signals.com/ , http://www.authenticjobs.com/ and filter out those that say "remote|anywhere" in the location field.
Ah, but for Dan it's not just a golf thing, it's a dedicated practice thing as well. Whereas before he had tried things as experiments and (at least in the field of commercial photography) become competent, this time the measures of success include not just acquired skill but also the duration of focused practice.

As his family and advisors reported in the article, this isn't just different from what he's done before, it's different from what most (all?) people have done before.
Thanks guys ;)Glad the configs and blog posts helPed you.
I can recommend reading "The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

I upvoted your comment to agree with your recommendation of the definitive book on the subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbo...

To answer the question you pose above about other domains, I have not seen language learning reported in the expert performance literature, but I was a language learner (native speaker of English who was studying Chinese) who perhaps arguably did reach expert level in my acquired language (I passed testing to be a contract Chinese-English interpreter for the United States federal government). It took perhaps 10,000 learning contact hours (many of those hours during a three-year stay overseas after completing my undergraduate degree in Chinese) to reach that level of language proficiency, which was confirmed by other tests. I also had excellent instruction in Chinese with some of the best materials then avaiable, and a lot of supportive help from linguistics that I studied at the time. Some of my advice on language learning

http://learninfreedom.org/languagebooks.html

would probably help other learners get the most benefit per hour in their language learning situations that they can.

What I find most interesting about K. Anders Ericsson's research on expert performance is the suggestion that some domains have few or no experts, when experts are defined as persons with statistically reliably superior performance in the domain. The example I recall from one of his research papers is choosing common stocks in which to invest for sustained high returns. Some people beat the market for a while, but most stick-pickers do very little better than simply investing in a diverse basket of stocks chosen without conscious thought.
Let's say I'm hiring people into an exciting tech company. How is a guy who is going to work for Goldman over 10% "a quality guy"? Maybe he's talented, but do I really want to hire a guy who values small differences in pay over the difference between a great opportunity and a crappy banking job? No. I'd rather let that guy work at Goldman, so he can see how much it sucks first-hand and then possibly come back looking for something more rewarding (or not).
If we set aside for a moment the worthy and edifying nature of education and focus on today's cost Thiel has a legitimate point. In a world in which employment opportunities are shrinking taking on a huge amount of debt for a qualification which apparently doesn't afford job prospects and a salary which are in line with such debt is a widespread and unsustainable problem. And this is a problem which is becoming acute. Education costs continue to rise even as economic prospects become more precarious. Those of us who live in the US cannot count on continued economic global dominance to underwrite domestic full employment. This is a huge change we are barely starting to get our heads around.
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HuffPo sued by bloggers upset over not getting any part of exit money
Also a good point on Comcast. But just because they own both pipes doesn't mean a revolution couldn't be kindled in one of them (the net pipe).
Bear in mind they're not hiring just any old graduate. Google loves to claim they are only interested in candidates from the Top Schools.
Right on both counts! Consider the upvote my atonement for being overly and not entirely correctly nit-picky.
I'm sure that with Peter Thiel's money and connections even mediocre students would out perform their peers. Having one or both of these is a significant part of the game.

I personally view this as a publicity stunt. I imagine it cannot be replicated in fields such as mathematics or biochemistry.

It may be fun to watch...
It is how we teach traditional martial arts too.

You do a lot of kata repetitions when you learn Karate.
One thing that struck me about this debate is college athletics. In particular basketball and football as athletes in those sports tend to make money from day 1 in college (although the money is made for the college/NCAA). Despite the fact that there are minor league versions for both of these sports, they aren't well regarded.

It would seem like minor league basketball is what Thiel is advocating, yet no one is interested in going to it, nor recruiting from it. The best players are recruited from college, and that seems to be the way everyone likes it.

There are always the occassional superstars at a young age -- Gates/Zuckerberg...James/Bryant, but they are clearly rare and imitating them is almost certainly folly. No one would suggest recruiting directly from high school is a good idea on a scale of more than a couple of athletes per year (at most). Just thoughts.
Second time's the charm! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program
The Real Lesson of Cisco's Billion-Dollar Flip Debacle
I was initially skeptical, but I found myself sucked in - I've completed the quiz for the ipad. Furthermore, I now know a lot more about your product, because I had to look up the answers.

I think a major challenge will be, how do you keep people returning to the site? Once they apply for a few promotions and don't win any, what's stopping them giving up? Perhaps you could feature short (believable) interviews with the people who won, or for a short time after a prize was won you could have a banner on the site saying, "Mr Smith Won an iPad!". Something that will make people feel close to the winner, and make them think, "It could have been me".

I noticed that you must be over 18 to win the prize, but you also seem to be planning to spread primarily through social media. These two factors are opposed to some degree: the target audience that would be most excited about this site, and the most willing to share on facebook, are the younger teenagers. Personally, I didn't share on facebook because it wasn't something I wanted to be associated with. Would it be possible to say, you can enter but you can only receive a prize with your parent's permission?

Also, when I submitted the quiz, chrome brought up the red 'malicious webpage' screen, because content was coming from heroku not triviatise.com.
Yeah, real estate in the area is what stuck out in my mind the most. I have no idea what rents are like, but then again a new, single grad doesn't mind shacking up with a few other people and keeping costs down.

An experienced engineer with a family and kids looking for a house might not fare as well.
P2P lawyer: more settlements since former-lobbyist judge's ruling
Given our current technology, is it possible for someone to become Batman?
It would be extremely interesting to see whether or not having these data publicly available (especially in such a context-free fashion as in this article) is truly helpful or not. It reminds me of another HN story which saw the front page today: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3930466/...

Full transparency could lead to a more equitable distribution of salary, or it could mean that companies are less able to pay top dollar for great talent because they know that there will then be a hundred wannabes who are demanding the same salary.
I believe in being paid for writing, but if they volunteered to write for free, how can they turn around and ask for money now?
Internet birthplace to be preserved for future generations
That misses the point - the comment score helps you decide which comments to read given time constraints.
>people have time to accept that there's just that one incompetent guy making 20% more than he should and within a few hours they forget about it.

Really? I'm not sure about that.

>My contention is that people discover a lot of this information anyway and get more angry in a private-salary system.

I've never personally heard of a person getting upset upon discovering someone else's private salary.

I know lots of people who are dissatisfied because they're obviously far more valuable than a peer at the same level, and lots of people who are resented because of their parasitism at a higher-level job. (This is in the government system, where salaries are pretty transparent.)

All in all, transparent salaries don't really work that well for the government. What makes you think the corporate sector could do better?