skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually help people with this kind of thing for a living, as a personal tutor - drop me a line if you're interested.
If the experience is awesome, and if you already have savings, and you're an American citizen, then you have nothing to lose. Chances are you can leverage the experience to get a better job if you get laid off. Make sure you save as much money as possible to tide you over in case the worst case scenario occurs (the economy double-dips and you get laid off with no job prospects).

If you are H1B, then don't do it.
You still can't rollback without either having the package in your cache, or going to the source repo and grabbing the old PKGBUILD
wow that quote has been around forever and still proving itself to be relevant :/
Check into Heroku. It's not traditional shared hosting but works similarly. Very much a no-admin setup. And free until you need to ramp it up to handle real traffic.
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Indeed.

If you want a kid to learn to ride a bike, remove the fear of failure. Do it on a gently sloping grassy hill that levels out, for example.

When I first learned to ice skate I learned that falling on ice fucking hurts. I didn't learn to ice skate. I learned to not fall over. Then my friend dressed me up in his team's goalie's pads - I pretty much bounced back up again if I fell over. By the end of an hour I could do the sprint exercises with the team and keep up (over short distances anyway!).
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Windows' biggest asset is their software library, and it's turning out to be a giant anchor preventing them from innovating like they need to. If they could find an elegant solution that leveraged their legacy software library into a useful touch-based experience, they'd have a great shot at succeeding. It appears they took too long to move (iOS and Android both have large software libraries already), and aren't able to leverage their legacy software in a meaningful way. They've just strapped "legacy" support on top of Metro, and are only providing it for some hardware. It was possible to "do everything for everyone" in the PC world, when that just meant hiring more people to provide driver support. It's not possible now.
I don't mind having both worlds, in fact I like it, I just don't want them so intermingled.

When coding, doing a research paper, or going through my finances, I want classic desktop mode. I'm probably at my laptop, and mostly typing, searching files, etc... I don't want to see Metro.

But I'd love to be able to take that laptop and sit on the couch or in bed and either convert it to a tablet or treat it as one (with a touchscreen) and go into Metro mode.

The thing I like about the two worlds is that I like the ability to get disrupted while on my tablet, due to some work email, and be able to quickly address it on the same machine. I like the fact that I could get a link to a Flash site, and drop out of Metro and check it out. I like being in classic desktop and get hankering to play a game and drop into the Metro app store to get some .99 cent game to kill an hour.

But most of the time I don't want the two worlds to collide. And when they do I want to explicitly choose to do so.

And it seems like everyone has this feedback. I can't help but believe MS is going this direction.
Try download status bar, been using it for years.
dhimes was talking about a situation wherein there are two related, yet separate, contracts at play.

You are contractually obligated to both Apple and AT&T, so even if you use this loophole to get out of your contract with Apple when they change the contract, your obligation to AT&T continues. IANAL, but my assumption would be that a change in the Apple contract in no way legally changes your AT&T contract, so you are still liable to either honour your obligation to AT&T or pay their (typically exorbitant) cancellation fee.
It's related to the topic that is important to website creators, how to get viewers on our websites.
i use wunderlist which can be found in the mac app store
I really appreciated how candid this article was, but I don't find it very applicable to me.

> I'm not going to let my fear of failure drive my decisions next time around. If we fail, we fail. A startup failure won't affect how my family sees me, how my friends see me, or how my girlfriend sees me. And I'm never again going to let the possibility of failure affect how I see myself.

I feel like this is a lot easier to say after having a success, especially if that success put some money in the bank. Having a healthy fear of business failure is a good thing, as it allows you to see the potential negative outcomes. It's the fear of failure in life that negatively affects decision-making, and it seems unreasonable to expect someone with no history of success and no comfortable safety net to avoid succumbing to that.
>Carol Bartz was a disaster, she did the worst thing any CEO could ever do, which is to wreck the culture that pervaded Yahoo!.

Sorry, but what culture do you believe Bartz destroyed? I was at Yahoo before Bartz, and left only about a month before she was fired. I don't believe that Bartz destroyed anything. Yahoo has never had a great culture. They've always had an identity crisis. You can go read PG's older essays and see that.

Bartz was fired because she couldn't work a miracle. Yahoo needs some truly amazing changes in order to avoid Sun's fate, and I'm not sure anyone out there can/will deliver what's needed quickly enough. You mentioned Apple as a turnaround example. Exactly where do you think Yahoo is going to get a Steve Jobs?
For those that wrote negative comments about this article, imagine for a minute you weren't such a hotshot and couldn't negotiate a $10,000 increase in salary at your minimum wage job as a ticket taker at the movie theater. Imagine you were one of those mechanical turk workers that you use in your shiny web application being paid next to nothing for your time. Then shut the hell up. This article isn't for you.
twisted.web.template is a great example: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/twisted...
> Another downside is promoting an adversarial role between law enforcement and its citizenry. This is an intangible, but I think its costs are real.

This is caused by law enforcement/state prosecutors taking an adversarial role against citizens, not citizens responding in kind.

It's like the classical prisoner's dilemma. Yes, it would be better for all involved if everyone chose to co-operate. But when one side persistently takes the adversarial approach, it would be stupid for the other side not to do the same.

> As a side note, attorneys are very familiar with the system and feel confident about fighting it head on, and many attorneys are willing to lead a high stress, confrontational life style.

This is, in fact, why you should always talk to an attorney when it comes to dealing with law enforcement.
Looks legit. Good thing you added a female btw
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Any reviews for this yet? I've been thinking about gifting it to a fellow hacker.
OK - I see. This is a PaaS play in a way, but one that offers a bit more of flexibilty/componentization than the "traditional" PaaS's

I was thinking more along the lines of something truly generic.
I never used Arch but I have used Gentoo for really long. Everything what I read about Arch sounded a bit primitive to me.

Are there any advantages of Arch over Gentoo?

Or are there good comparisons?
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From the context, I thought this was going to be some sort of live event, maybe conducted by webcam, maybe happening right now. You should explain how your roundtable works.
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> To begin with, you are not qualified to know whether you are innocent of wrongdoing under federal criminal law.

In other news, barbers believe that everyone needs a haircut immediately.

(Both are the FUD sale. Lawyers employ it regularly, so get used to it.)
I would love to know the approach you are going to take for expanding to include consulting and the specific things you plan on targeting to consult on...I am also a web developer and have considered expanding to do the same but am not sure where to begin :)!
I started a few months ago but at the time there was no way to change the width so it didn't end up being useful. I've been meaning to check if this has changed since then or not.
A nice safe retirement costs about 20$ a day if you start at 18. (20$/day * ~6% ROI ~= 1.8million) but many people are dealing with credit card debt all there lives which blows those numbers out of the water. So, yea if your scraping buy try and make more money, but don't think you need to make all that much more money.

PS: When it comes to CC debt spending 1$ more than you make each day will crush most people in around 20 years. (Run the number @20% interest.)
A good test might be, "if every single person obeyed this law strictly as it is written, would society still operate the way we intend?" (c.f. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Work-to-rule )
The police isn't the same as a federal agent, although it's best to avoid talking to them too.
I suggest new-js-frameworks/second as a new speed unit.
i clicked on the "only free tools", but this is an interesting idea. how are you planning to implement it? a tool that scans our git, hg, svn and cvs repos and tells us what we have would be quite interesting (although there's the obvious hurdle of trusting third party code enough to ever run it).

i work for a small consultancy that builds bespoke solutions using open source code - we have loads of projects, some ancient (cvs!), and i am sure no-one has a clue what versions of what we used when (sure, it's documented for the client, but we don't have our own central list). now perhaps we should be better organised, but i suspect many other companies are in a similar position.

but if we were going to pay for this, how would it help us make money? is the idea that we can approach ex-clients and scare them with lists of security holes? or are they the target clients - perhaps they should be running this code to audit their systems? and that sounds so useful i am surprised that nothing like this already exists...?
I've seen that same ~80M figure over here as well: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/jul/21/post-p... (from July '11) as the first bullet in the "PC Sales" section, which quotes Gartner and IDC sources.
I haven't brought any new clothing in a long time. The key is to walk into secondhand stores and look around - they usually have some pretty good clothing and the prices are always super low.

But go out and buy them new, damm that cost a fortune.
Indeed, Wikipedia's particular style won't work for science.

The shame of modern science is that what might work is so simple to build, because it is already built. Research papers already form a web: They all have references to prior research papers, which in turn have references of their own. Moreover, the community of researchers and their students would quickly and happily turn all those links into clickable ones -- if only paywalls didn't prevent them. [1]

It's no coincidence that even the simplest of web pages is already perfectly suited for scientific research: Tim Berners-Lee built HTML and HTTP for that purpose. But now science lags behind, say, LOLcats or the Twilight books when it comes to online discussion, and I assert that it's not merely because science is esoteric [2]: It's because scientific publishing is suffocated by rent-seekers.

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[1] Actually, my understanding is that cross-journal hyperlinks are slowly evolving within academia: Once you're inside the university library's firewall you can make actual working hyperlinks that are only, say, 65% less efficient than the average Wikipedia link. This is great for those who are currently inside the ivory tower. Not so great for me and the other 99.9% of humanity.

[2] What I wonder is the extent to which science remains esoteric because it has always required so much training and money to read the literature that the literature has never needed to evolve actual readability. Why bother learning to explain your work to a popular audience when your writing will only ever appear in journals that are only visible to your colleagues?

Historically, we've relied on great science journalism to make up the difference. (Gods bless you, Isaac Asimov.) But great science journalism, like all journalism, is rare and getting rarer.
Sigh. You're right. It's amazing how many linked lists I've implemented, and how often I still can screw it up. A singly-linked list with a head and tail pointer allows O(1) tail insertion, but still has O(n) tail deletion.
The assumption you're making is that if Intel designed a new chip from scratch it would "meet it's general performance promises". I don't think this is as easy it sounds.
A metacomment related to question 6: Ubuntu tells us exactly how many packages need to be updated, and the update is as simple as executing a single command. The problem is ensuring that functionality is not broken by things like API or subtle behavior changes. This means that updates end up happening infrequently since they need to be regression tested on a development server before being pushed to production.

If a product could solve that problem (classifying updates and performing code analysis to determine if something could break) it would definitely be worth paying for.

Note also that you're asking the wrong people, and it's going to be hard to ask the right people with an Internet post. The best candidates for this tool are busy founders/CTOs/sysadmins/engineers who don't have time to manage their updates, much less take surveys on Hacker News.
Devil's advocate here. Given that one (among others) of the motivations to hack Sony is to harm them in the press and financially, is it possible that forbidding gamers from class-action suing - and therefore eliminating the possibility Sony would be fucked over by a large settlement - could REDUCE the incentive for hackers to break Sony?
I'm not complaining about Chrome's release cycle. I'm pointing out the double standard.

Don't assume things!
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Paul Carr - nice bitch move with this post.

An amazingly, phenomenally unprofessional, douche-baggy way to leave a job.

TechCrunch was his employer and paid his bills and does of the colleagues he supposedly cares about.

What a self-important fuckhead.
It is not dangerous if you install the update. Why is the headline hyping it as if it's an unpatched zero day?
When did you join?

I believe Yahoo! definitely had 'culture' in the early days, they were pretty much synonymous with end-user content on the net and the Y! employees and their users were the ones that showed us cool offices, a different kind of company and neat things to do with the web. I think they went downhill since the .com crash and never managed to recover. The final remnants of that were buried in the last two years, now Yahoo! reminds me of an oiltanker with the captain and the rest of the crew below decks. Time will tell if they can turn it around or not but with giants this size even dying will take a long long time.
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That document says that all homosexual conduct is misconduct, and therefore not appropriate to "Salvation Army soldiership."

That is the definition of discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The Salvation Army even refuses money from the City of San Francisco, because the city requires "any business that holds city contracts and provides spousal health insurance to married couples must do the same for the gay or unmarried partners of its employees." http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/s-army.htm

The way I read it, it's more important for them to discriminate against gay people then it is to provide "warmth, compassion, food and clothing."
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This post is 11 days old and the ship has already sailed. There's no need to 'hasten the end's arrival' anymore. Arrington is gone, Carr is gone, and we now know just how editorial is going to run over there. Sadly (IMHO).
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Why is everything surrounding what Arrington is or does such an ego fest between parties?

And why are we all so interested in it? Like - I mean... I want to think about this in a critical way, I don't just mean to dump on the community for gas bagging about this over and over. I am just genuinely confused as to why Arrington's latest ego brawl is always front page... everyone always has an opinion. No consensus over the rightness of Arrington's ego orientation is ever achieved.

It's clearly fruitless effort... so then what psychological need are we all satisfying here? Sincere question.

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edit:

Just to add a possible theory in answer. Back in the day small groups would be organised leader type folks who probably bested the rest in combat or whatever. Meanwhile there would be various individuals in the group seeking to rise in the pecking order and would be busy acquiring alliances and whatnot. The public dispositions of these leader type folks would be the fodder of much speculation in the group - and it would be important for people to signal their allegiance or lack of it to either help maintain the leadership position as it is currently occupied, or undermine it - depending on what alliances you had entered into (or wanted to break).

This is exactly what's going on at techcrunch... and happens in organisations ALL the time - everywhere. But what's new is that the internet allows these brawls to be publicly broadcast. People jump in for and against the various players on forums like HN because that's the evolutionary legacy we were equipped with.

But what's interesting is that for most of us - this is now wasted energy. Before there was potential for profit if you played the game well enough - insofar as you secured your position in the group or improved it. Now - we expend these energies outwardly toward groups to which we have no access - nor reciprocation.

It would be interesting to know how people who have these urges to engage in these types of discussions online are negatively impacting their own social success within the groups to which they do have genuine access...
There's so much crap at that link, what exactly is the hilarity?
Frugality helps me survive on what I make.

$40k salary a year actually comes out to ~$154/day. Assuming 2080 hours/year of workable time, this is 40k / 260 "work days".

I get less than this at the moment.

If you can afford to invest 10% of your income for 2 years, then drop to 5% for the rest, in a mutual fund that averages 15%/year (they do exist) you'd have ~$813k after 30 years (at $250 the first two, then $125 the remaining years). At no further investment you'd have $323k after thirty years from the first $6k invested.

This ain't no drop in the bucket, but we post-modernist consumptive Americans aren't interested in self-sacrifice.
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No need for squid. You have TrafficServer. Well since it's an Apache top level project so does the world :-)
You'd have to proxy Facebook which is a TOS violation (I believe). Some German site recently got busted for doing something like this.
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"totally devoid of hap". it is worth reading to page 3 just for that.

and having finished: i find tc dramatics to be entertaining fluff, normally, but that was pretty awesome and heartfelt. good luck pc.
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I learned the hard way that there are two types of people - those who like to talk and those who like to pay. The two groups pretty much do not overlap.

So if you start off with a free product, you get some mixture of both groups, and when you start charging later you will only ever hear from the cheapskate brigade.

For me that means making paid apps with a price of $2.99 or above. I'm not sure what that means for writers...
Taken within the context of HN audience, this is generally poor advice. I'm not sure why it is being upvoted other than for the discussion itself. Don't scrounge those $9 Netflix dollars, and don't skip your coffee. Don't even spend countless hours lurking on SlickDeals to save twenty bucks here and there. Your time would much, much better spent if you work on increasing your income stream. Work harder and ship your darn iPhone/Android/web/whatever app.
This probably

http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/10294229930/paul-carr-t...

But it's not funny, more like shitty behavior.
This is called DLL Hijacking and it's a class of flaws that gained prominence on Windows earlier this year. Although I would say that Mandiant discussed the issue first, it was only after HDM practically described the WebDAV and other remote exploit vectors that people started taking it seriously.

https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2010/08/...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_leblanc/archive/2008/02/20/dll...

http://www.n00bz.net/blog/2010/9/15/dll-hijacking-with-metas...
On the contrary - their tech was extremely complex. There was serious technology risk in FlightCaster. Jason's co-founder Evan is one of those guys who exudes technical brilliance: he gives off geek-pheromones that would make an art history major want to talk algorithms with him for three hours. They needed all of those chops to do what they did.

Clarification: they weren't just aggregating and presenting data: they were processing large piles of numbers to predict the friggin' future. And they didn't just curve-fit to do it.
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The article in interesting but I think this could have been more generalized, as I've seen this done to and by both men and women.
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Even apart from iCloud I've been wishing for a way to merge all my Apple IDs. I currently have four between all the changes and the iOS development work. It starts to be a game of 'is this the ID I used?' Being able to link all the different email IDs to the same account would make it a non-issue.