skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably, its not taxable income now, since the Bitcoins (just like shares or even casino chips) don't have any value until they're cashed in. If and when the FSF cashes in its Bitcoins, it'll have to declare them as income.
New in this version: improved installation and uninstallation scripts, better error pages when things go wrong, support for default virtual hosts, and support for Rack application reloading with tmp/always_restart.txt. See the full changelog here: http://pow.cx/manual#section_6

This version is also compatible with Showoff (http://showoff.io/): http://pow.cx/manual#section_4

Install or upgrade: curl get.pow.cx | sh

And let's just go ahead and get this out of the way now... Pow 0.3.0 is fully tinfoil-hat compliant. If you are averse to installing things the easy way using curl, feel free to build Node yourself and install Pow with npm: https://github.com/37signals/pow/wiki/Installation#installin...
Bitcoin Surges Past $5 Mark
What are the Google IO must watch sessions?
They'll pay more for contract work because you'll end up picking up the taxes and paying for your own benefits out of that. I assume they'll take you on as a 1099 contractor, which means you will have to pay all your own taxes at the end of the year. Make sure to budget for that, it's easy to forget you'll have to cough up 15% or so in taxes the next year.
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Ask HN: Is the speech to text Google I/O human monitored?
I am really impressed. It can tell who is talking, and it even picks up laughter and removes things like uh and um. Wow. I am wondering if any people are there editing it before it goes out there.
I don't get the insistence that AI would be content staying Earthbound. If it needs atoms, why not leave Earth?

Machines don't need food & water, they need fuel. The universe has lots of that.
Google App Engine 1.5.0 released
I think what georgie is saying is that employers don't care about your skill set and knowledge, per se. They only care about what your skill set and knowledge can do for them.

Also, I second georgie's recommendation of How to Win Friends and Influence People. You can see a relevant section of the book here: http://books.google.com/books?id=yxfJDVXClucC&lpg=PP1...

Click through to the next page too...
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The Year Ahead for Google App Engine
In fairness, I learned the same way, then learned to do it right. Back when AOL started providing Web access, one of the first things I noticed was the "view source" command. I learned how to make Web pages just by looking at existing ones and mauling them until they broke to see how the code worked. Later I got actual books and learned to do it properly.
http://quirky.com/ is tackling that same space.
Very neat webscraper
Slightly OT: You may want to remove hyper-linking to them in the article. You do not intent to promote them, right?
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If they focus on market share coverage, I think they will maintain Skype for Linux the same way there is skype for other OSs (including mobile). At the end of the day, revenues are made through the paid subscriptions. The software is more a mean to get the service.
Some modern compressors such as YUI Compressor use real JS engine to parse your script and therefore can detect syntax error during minification, I can't see any reason why not using it.
DOSBox (the open source DOS emulator) was recently ported to NaCl, allowing in browser use of old software. Not super useful for productivity, but an ambitious demo to say the least.

http://www.naclbox.com/
Great idea Tommy. Way to leverage social media and go through the process of "eating your own dog food." Glad you guys are OK.
Epic Q&A submitted screenshot
Jira submission from a Quality and Assurance department :

JPEG screenshot inside Internet Explorer showing a screenshot of MSPaint editing a screenshot
of Firefox browser runnng the application.
The real details are whether Google is going to start selling music (they've been selling ebooks for a while on Google Books) and whether they negotiated something with the RIAA for this.

Apple has been holding off launching their digital locker service because of the industry licenses, and Amazon said screw it and launched anyway but seemed to indicate they were going to work with the RIAA to get licenses after the fact.
Why do devs shout "comment your code" but academic papers have no explanation next to the equations?

That's exactly the opposite of my impression. Most papers are full of text, and symbols are not the main feature. For instance:

http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~yury/papers/kuratowski.pdf Graph theory, the symbolism is next to nonexistent.

http://math.berkeley.edu/~aboocher/math/tietze.pdf Topology, still symbolism does not take much space.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1989708 Classical and very highly technical, yet the ratio of text to symbolism is still in favour.
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oh ok. so the overhead is 15% taxes wise. interesting. good data point.
Google announces cloud music service
> Math is the manipulation of abstract symbols according to abstract rules.

That's the definition of a calculus, not the entirety of math.

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

>More generally, calculus (plural calculi) refers to any method or system of calculation guided by the symbolic manipulation of expressions. Some examples of other well-known calculi are propositional calculus, variational calculus, lambda calculus, pi calculus, and join calculus.
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Stability Improvements in the Hypertable 0.9.5.0 pre-release
Someone Ported GameBoy Color to Firefox 4 And Its Doing Super Mario Bros
This would be compelling with an iOS client. Until then...
How do you pitch someone while seeking a job/project in 5-6 lines of email? Especially when you are going in as a team rather than sending individual resumes!
What of the claims that information control is extremely loose internally - i.e., an employee can easily gain access to users' private data without sufficient gating, and that accesses such as these are not easily auditable?
Is this the syncing we saw demoed at I/O last year? That got me excited, but I haven't heard anything more about it.

If hope this is good enough that I can re-retire my ipod. I brought it back out after I discovered listening to music on my android was too much of a bother.
>I certainly weep every time I look for jobs and there are ten times more jobs for PHP/MySQL than anything else.

Think carefully about why this is so.

A "job-creating" technology is a dysfunctional technology.
Hondas are pretty safe, when I totaled my Acura I didn't even feel the impact, when I got out I was pissed thinking I now had a dent in my front bumper...only to find out that the whole front end was destroyed
The criteria for this are pretty terrible in terms of defining mental stress. I'd be far more interested in a study that looked at actual stress as evidenced by medical conditions and tied it back to careers, rather than a set of arbitrary categories that are chosen base on a perceived link to stress.
I don't buy the skill set -- It is way too broad. Some of those skills must be stronger than others. I have no way of knowing if you are a CSS wizard who also does some C#, or if you spend 90% of your time doing GIS apps for iOS. And I therefore would not even bother to call you because the resume says nothing to me other than, "I think I can code."
Bitcoin cost over $5/BTC now
The TV-series The Wire nailed this pretty well. In each season, members Baltimore's police department, school system, government are looking for ways to "juke the stats". Highly recommended as an analogy for process heavy software companies.
Math is a language. The problem is that this language is archaic, difficult to teach, and is generally taught very poorly.

I remember learning calculus in college. The professor went up to the board, scribbled down symbols, and took us through various procedures. I was absolutely, utterly lost until my father (an engineer) told me that "a derivative is a rate of change."

At that instant, I understood everything. My professor never said this.

This taught me to approach math concepts-first, and that helped, but I've always had a problem with math. To make a long story short: I hate math for the same reason that I hate Perl. My mind recoils in horror from messy, crufty languages.

At the very least, all math lessons should begin by teaching the language and the concepts that the various symbols, arrangements, etc. refer to. Only once the language is thoroughly grasped should they proceed to methods, procedures, and problems. Right now it's like teaching Chinese literature before teaching Chinese...
Just to provide a point of reference, one Bitcoin was worth less than $4 only twelve hours ago. Although this is great for everyone who owns Bitcoins (disclaimer: self included), you have to wonder how damaging this sort of sudden deflation is to the overall ecosystem. Any merchants currently accepting Bitcoins might have to post prices in terms the relative value of Bitcoins in USD (or whatever other currency), based on minute-by-minute changes in the exchange. Which, obviously, is a huge pain point, and might cause them to rethink using Bitcoins at all.
I wish software came in beautiful ponies instead of ugly source code, so that I can just get right on it and ride where the sun rises.

Sadly, ponies are not the best (or even appropriate) way to represent software, just as Python code is not useful in describing math.
People often ask me for writing advice. The number-one tip is always brevity. Cut, cut, cut!
Subtle biases.

As we all know, the ultimate expression of love is marriage.
I searched for a long time to heres my list:
(I only watched half of the Washington ones)

Washington Universaty: http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2827/CSEP-501-Compiler-C...

MIT: (not all lectures) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

Edinburgh: Advanced Compiler stuff http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/vision/VIDEO/2007/CO/index.html

Berkley: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=...
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

Has Android and iOS clients, and is also accessible via the web. It's not as clean and polished as I'd like, but it works reliably enough for my tastes and is fully open sourced.
I've had some success with sending email that has a short and long version (or if you include the subject itself, 3 levels). Ask your main question in the first sentence or two, enough to provide context, detail, and what you want.

At the end say "[more detail below if needed]". Draw a line in the email ===== and include more detail below that they can dip into if necessary.
Announce a price cut for Google TV and it'll suddenly become a viable option.
If you happen to know the sequence is a list then might as well (apply #'min '(1 2 3 4 5)) instead of (reduce #'min '(1 2 3 4 5)).

I'm sure the author is aware of that, but a reader might get the impression that #'min can only take two arguments.
Any system which needs to be told from outside what to desire does not yet qualify as intelligent.
Microsoft Explains Skype Deal
Taxes are a big thing to keep in mind and I can't tell how important it is to speak with a good accountant and lawyer. They will be able to help in how you set your company up, even if you are just one person you'll want to look at all your options like LLC, S-corp, etc. Having the right structure will be able to help save you on the taxes, and make sure you are protected.
Cloud9 an online IDE for JS, Python, PHP and Ruby development
Too bad really. Looks like a very good service.
Do you just port forward with SSH via -D? Or do you use some sort of VPN solution?
I wonder if Netflix Instant is really sustainable or if it was a one time thing, fueled by repurposing an old contract between the studios and Starz, a contract that studios would never have agreed to if they knew a loophole in it would allow their content on a third-party service like Netflix.
Facebook applications leaking access to third parties
If three seats in the back aren't an absolute must, try a MINI JCW. Love mine. Exhaust pops violently on overrun shifts in sport mode. :)

Just don't drift with the ebrake on gravel like this guy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztrcAgRxP8

Otherwise the STI and EVOs are both great cars. I personally prefer the Subaru interior though. As for coupes, the hyundai genesis definitely meets your mark for power. If you're going to tune/mod it yourself I might actually suggest the 4cyl turbo so you can easily replace the turbo & manifold/etc for easy power (vs a more involved setup of putting a turbo on the N/A I6)

The Audi A3 also has a pretty vibrant tuning community. A used Audi S4 definitely meets your power + seats criteria too.
thanks frommers.

as it turns out, i just found this as part of a position from a staffing agency. does that simplify things a bit?
If Rands [in Repose] ever comes across this article, he could spontaneously self-destruct.
Ongoing discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2533135
So what all is Ice Cream Sandwich about? It's simply bringing Honeycomb to the phone? It seems like a long time to move working code to a smaller form factor (and with QHD, similar resolutions).
If you're interested... here's a bunch of threads going on about this on Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc's social media pages. The problem now is I have about 10,000 opinions. Now what do I do?

This is a pretty interesting experiment in how social media can be used. We just posted a note on the FB pages of the manufacturers and our FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/carwoo/posts/164850626908575
http://www.facebook.com/carwoo/posts/10150255637960049
http://www.facebook.com/Nissan/posts/10150574147450375
Been using this for a bunch of Rails 2 apps and its ease of use is fantastic.

The always_reload feature is even better ... it means I can lose the sinatra_reloader gem. thats huge.

Awesome job guys!
I've noticed the same thing; the timeout value seems to have changed sometime in the past week or so. I now routinely get the "expired link" message after only a little bit of HN browsing. :-(
I think this should apply for any kind of email, not just for busy people. Actually, this applies to most kinds of writing too.

It'll come off much better if it's well-worded but simple and to-the-point. The more fluffy sentences you add to your email, blog post, internet comment or product copy, the less professional it starts to sound.
Google App Engine - New Pricing and Features - Advance preview
I remember trying for hours to understand Adaboost before it all clicked (it's an ingenious algorithm, by the way). The paper could certainly do with some more explanation, rather than just "this is the weight updating function, this is the evaluation step, done".
"To start, we're jointly announcing that new devices from participating partners..." (Verizon, HTC, Samsung, Sprint, Sony Ericsson, LG, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Motorola and AT&T) "...will receive the latest Android platform upgrades for 18 months after the device is first released, as long as the hardware allows."

That to me is the most significant of all the announcements listed.
also, another question i have is..

is contract work a good avenue towards my own entrepreneurial path?

im working a startup company now, and i kind of feel that i'm not getting the kind of hands on customer experience that is required to really build a startup that focuses on problem solving for customers.
Thanks, all! Excellent suggestions.
This is an easy problem to solve.

Include paths to the original JS files (un-minified) at the top of the minified JS file as comments.
interesting that many people say telecommuting. If you guys really feel that way, apply for telecommute jobs!
It's not about not wanting to spend the time. How, for example, would I know about linear algebra intuitively if nobody ever put it in these terms?
If You Thought Your Day Job Was Cool, Meet a Girl Who Researches Mini Bunnies
>If you can fit the entire question into the header, just do it and include #eom at the end, which means 'end of message'. Yes, it feels weird. Do it anyways.

This I cannot agree with, however. I receive a fair amount of email, and I just cannot stand when people do this. It annoys me to no end and will most likely earn an instant-delete to the email.
Feeding The Community Fuels Advances at Red Hat and JBoss
On Continuity of Consciousness: Problems of Body, Mind, and Soul
haha +1

As long as it does not report to some API you are using and terms it comes with ;-)
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http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20284
I have seen this domain spammed to various link aggregators many times. I too am surprised to see content that exceeds a link to an off-site design tutorial. Thank you for the original content Mr Carson. I hope we see more posts like this in the future.
To quote the Bard: Brevity is the soul of wit.

Therefore, be brief when you can, but always..be polite.
The Art of Estimation
Unfortunately, you are not representative of the average Facebook user. The average Facebook user is much less privacy savvy.
Not everyone uses Google (most do), and Gmail surprisingly isn't the most popular internet mail.

Facebook may not know as much about you, but they often know much more detailed information (ie, where you were last night).

Most of Facebook's users don't consider their "wall" to be public despite the fact that Facebook defaults it to be so (and has repeatedly reset privacy settings in the past to be "more public"). Complicate this with the fact that others can "implicate" you with their messages written on your wall. Despite you hiding them, they are there, in Facebook's servers just like your Google searches... except you didn't write them.
If you're looking to do remote work because you're sick of your current 9-5, you shouldn't look to remote work to fix anything.

I worked anywhere from 30%-50% a week remote at my last gig and it still requires maintaining somewhat regular hours (you still have colleagues) and a routine. I now work remotely save for trips to the Head Office every once in awhile. You still need a routine because you have other colleagues you need to interface with, at least sometimes in real-time.

If you want to set your own hours and do your own thing, start freelancing or start your own business. My ability to work remotely was an asset when I started at my new job, but if I phrased it like you did ("I don't wanna wear nice closes and drive") it would make me sound more like a sloth than a good remote worker.

And if you work remote, you best be getting out and dressed up at least a day a week anyway. Interaction is REALLY important and you'll go crazy if you don't get out and see people.

Have you ever worked remotely?
Why the downvote? This is a legitimate limitation of the App Engine platform, and for Go specifically it eliminates many of the common usecases.
I don't believe it's a straw man, and you haven't refuted the posters view other than to say you don't believe the historical preservation is necessary without elaboration.

I'd also point out that some relational luminaries advocate a similar perspective, such as Pat Helland.
Agree. For how hard we got hit in the accident, it was amazing how little anyone was hurt. Honda FTW.
Depends on how you embed it in text.
Three tier:

Off-site (everything): Backblaze

Off-site (small dataset immediate): Dropbox

On-site (everything): TimeMachine

I'm always kind of surprised at the number of people who have issues with TimeMachine. I've been using it since it came out, and have used it through two machine migrations and one failed hard drive. It's worked flawlessly every time.

Backblaze is configured to back up the same data as TimeMachine. I move important projects (current work) in to a Dropbox folder so that items sync there as well. Having this small, focused dataset means that I don't have to wait on a more general dataset backup to finish before my current work gets synced somewhere off-site.
Electric Racer to Charge Through Dakar
"We have added a few restrictions to the Mail API to improve the reliability and reputation of the service for all applications. First, emails must be sent from email accounts managed by Google (either Gmail, or a domain signed up for Google Apps). Second, we’ve reduced the number of free recipients per day from 2000 to 100 for newly created applications."

Probably good news for SendGrid.
Business-Oriented Founders' Dilemma on acquiring talents
Hello HN,

First off, while reading YC's Library I came across an article written by PG on the business-oriented founders' failure to hire good programmers which can ultimately leads to the steep slope of a startup. He also described that business founders' can't recognize good programmers because of the lack of knowledge on coding or the technical expertise required to speak same language. Then, the point stopped right there, without a probable solution on what business founder can do if they're in a situation described.

I'm that business founder, and it's proven hard to find the best programmers as I've learned it the hard way. Although, I refuse to believe that's what killed or is going to kill brilliant ideas that may someday grew to be the next google. I certainly don't want to ditch my idea simply because failure to hire good programmers.

So in my view, business founders can;

1. Go take classes and learn programming, and DIY on the product - This can take a while depending on how fast the business guy learns something completely out of his norm. The time spent on learning something completely new should be spent on building a better business model, think about how the product can respond to user’s needs, and find ways to cut into the market to gain market share, etc.

2. Find a mediocre programmer and start working on the half-baked product and hopes that later down the path the best programmers can see the potential of the product and jump on board – The sugar-coated-topped-with-a-cherry thinking is that the product would probably suck, but at least the product can start gaining exposure. Users like what they see and are willing to wait for the fully developed product to arrive. On the other hand, users may very well see the “suck-ness” of the half-baked product and bail within 3 seconds.

3. Find a technical co-founder that excels at programming but is looking for a business counterpart so he/she can concentrate on programming while the other can focus on the business – Intriguing, but hard to find. Available talent pools are swarmed with programmers that do mediocre coding (or dumb) and just want an easy way out. Rarely do we see a passionate programmer geek that is ambitious enough to embark on a journey with a few obstacle and fails to see the potential of a great business model.

4. Ditch the internet startup and start a business without the need of technical expertise – I certainly refuse to take this route, and I don’t think a determined and successful entrepreneur would ever ditch the business they’ve worked their butts off just because of this one dilemma. But what can we do?

I want to ask the successful business oriented startups that got through this phase.

What’s your take?

Which route do you guys see more viable?
Are there any other suggestions other than the ones listed above? If business founders are stuck in this problem, what can they do? Where and how can we effectively tap in to acquire needed technical counterpart?

Thanks HN,
GuruDL
Using Economics to Help the World’s Poor
A First Look At Google Music Beta
Is it ok for a startup to use pirated software?
Where are the real numbers? going from 1 malware app to 5 is a 400% increase