skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine was out for 4.5 hours yesterday.
They seem to be down playing the outage, the paper this morning mentioned that it was out for only an hour or so.

When I spoke to a support guy yesterday he said that 30% of their network was out and this was 4 hours into the outage.
The numbers are interesting, but I'm not as sure about the conclusion that this is specifically about Marx. If it were, why were views so different in the 1990s? In any case, it'd be interesting to see numbers from places that are neither the U.S. nor former Soviet-bloc countries, like South America or Japan (or, heck, Canada or Spain), to get more data points for the legacy-of-communism hypothesis.
Chrome Extension: Squeeze nasty pages to fit in window
We've been using Trello for a week now (coming from Basecamp) and it's pretty great.

We really like the following features:

- It's free

- It's Realtime, every action (drag-drop edit etc) get's pushed to the other users.

- Great UX because it's made by the guys (or some of them) that did Stack overflow.

- Responsive design so we can use it on our webkit enabled phones.
Great article, I have exactly the same feelings towards CSS and HTML. I mean why is it so damm difficult to layout a simple page.
Can you be more specific on what kind of retailers you mean? What are you trying to do?
Commander X Press Conference
You can acquire as many top talents as you want, but if you don't look at your customers and their real needs you go as far as with a group of bottom talented engineers.

The real problem big corporation face is that they don't even think there is a problem. If they can't see the holes in such things as, let's say, SAP, how can you even think to apply a better solution? And even when you manage to convince them to see IT as a strategic part of the business, even there, you don't neew top talents. The situation in corporations is so bad that almost any decent programmer whose brain has not been killed by corporate software 'values' can bring something to the table.
Are You Ruining Your Kids?
True, I have often eaten the cheapest food I could find and once or twice went without eating for a day.

But, I always had a safety net: while I may have been low on money and even without money on occasion, I could always have borrowed money from family knowing that they would give it to me if I asked. But, I was saving that for if I ever really really needed it.
Or take another page from the music industry's book :
1) write a polite, but stern DMCA letter to google, takedown within 2 weeks
2) file a complaints against unknown parties, demanding (at least) double your app's price * number of downloads of the offending app + $5000 in legal fees (do this for all versions of the app). Get discovery going.
3) Send discovery letter to google, with the question of revealing the full identity and payment details of the offending parties, including a list of all payments they ever executed to this party
4) go back to court, amend your complaint to at least double the amount they got in sales and ad revenue, should it be higher, drag anyone inside America before the judge, you're sure to get a conviction
5) read on hacker news how it's "SO unfair" that a big corporation has sued and won against a copy app uploader
6) go to a collection agency, sell your conviction to them for 40% of the listed value

You'll have done Google, Android developers and yourself a big favor. You can probably live off this, and make more money than your app would have brought in, for a year or 2.

And, frankly, they deserve it.

PS. This does not constitute legal advice, laws vary per state and country, blah blah blah
I'm talking about those situations where you are already poor and decide to have kids anyway.
They could shut down your ad-sense account and withhold funds. They could shut down your youtube account, ban some of your videos, or fudge the metrics on them.
They could reveal all your Google searches to the public. They could lockup their apis' connections to your app. They could have #1 result on your name lead to a libelous page, either fake or real. They could modify or delete your emails. They could stop delivering emails or YT messages if they wanted to break a relationship. They could sell your personal data. They could use an auto-update of Chrome to send browsing or videocam and microphone data back to HQ - an update only sent to you. They could place a keylogger in only your Chrome and get your bank login, or have it navigate to a site without you knowing in a hidden window. They could find out when you're using Google finance, and insert fake numbers about your watchlist or portofolio. They could make all your websites in Webmaster Tools have PR of 0 or stop crawling it. They could return skewed search results.

These aren't the only ways: think blackmail, identity theft, misinformation, impersonation.

If they ruin your life, they will also be ruining or affecting other people's as well - the people connected to you.
OccupyWallStreet suspended on Twitter
USA, Colorado, Denver metro area.
Would be cool for HN to publish a graph or table.
"Business users were particularly badly affected, with many reporting considerable lost revenue as a result."

It's a shame that these businesses that have so much hinging on their Internet connections don't have any kind of backup line arranged.
It maybe just normal depression. It reads a little to me like you have lost the feeling of control and feel like everything slipping away... and that maybe manifesting as a coping mechanism as a form of depression.

To quote the intro from wikipedia, see if this is familiar:

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Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well-being. Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, or restless. They may lose interest in activities that once were pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, or problems concentrating, remembering details or making decisions; and may contemplate or attempt suicide. Insomnia, excessive sleeping, fatigue, loss of energy, or aches, pains or digestive problems that are resistant to treatment may be present.

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And most importantly also from wikipedia "Depressed mood is a normal reaction to certain life events" i.e. things have happened which have caused the fun to disappear. Remember if it depression, it happens to everyone and huge percentage of people reading this would have the same reaction to your situation.

I'm no expert on depression and its probably unwise for me to give any more advise but as far as I'm aware talking is always a start, and anecdotally its worked wonders for me in the past. Even just the process of explaining it someone else can bring perspective to things that seem out of control, the blog post may have already helped with this.

It might be a time for a catch up with a friend or your parents or something.

Or take up a completely different activity. I had a friend that studied psychology and one thing he said that stuck with me was "your mind gets stuck in loops, when you are in a mood you will only have thoughts related to that mood".

So an easy way to break the mental cycle can be do something else that takes your mind off it. I found squash good for this, its so fast, frantic, and full of surprises that for 30 minutes you are in a completely other world, and during that time your mind can relax, or process its outstanding stress.
Hairstyles 2011
Michael Wolfe answered this perfectly on Quora:

Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do:

There would be a folder.
You'd put your stuff in it.
It would sync.

They built that.

Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea.

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...
Just my .2c. The music industry is (mostly) suing people for uploading music, not downloading it.

The fact that using bittorrent to download a track obviously constitutes uploading of music and lots of people do this does not change the facts.
I'm just starting to learn Backbone - this new mobile part in Spine could make me switch already.

Does anyone know how Spine in general compares to Backbone?
Using 3G as my local exchange is actually out, sad that so many businesses did not have a backup if they are dependent on a single point of failure for revenue.
this is awesome ... but can we get a TLDR?
Server Support, a crucial factor for business continuity.
Why would anyone want to make such a compromise, build a brand, make money, and then risk a lawsuit that will lead to a massive settlement. alternatives: "Scrollings", "Scrollables" etc...
Can you sell your app on the AppStore if it's a webapp?
kids: if you can't afford them, use a condom

Agreed.

The game background implies the player had a good job, could afford kids, but fell on hard times after cranking out some pups.
Games are always rigged. Usually in favor of the player, this one is against. I think it supposed to illustrate this one month when problems cluster.

I know a poor person who has 3 kids and car that falls apart. Some of the decisions she makes are strange.
This game allowed me to take a peek at crazy world she's living.
Yes[1]

[1]http://www.phonegap.com/
Time for an anti-American rant.
You buy premium healthcare but still need to pay the doctor ?
You don't have unemployment aids ?
You can get fired for talking to a union guy ? (if that happens to you in France, that is your way to wealth through court action)
Also, don't forget that threads don't scale beyond one machine; so when you want expand beyond one machine you need to take care of two levels of scaling, threads and processes. This can be avoided when using multiple processes that communicate or share state some other way in the first place.

Even with one CPU, with many cores the internal synchronization that happens to "simulate" a shared memory space can be expensive, if you're not careful your cores get clogged ping-ponging memory pages between each other.

It might sound more convenient to use threads instead of processes, but in the end I'm not sure that all the work to remove the GIL (and introduce shitloads of finer-grained synchronization primitives) is worth it.
Trying to get pregnant
I have used Pivotal Tracker for years (including a current freelance project), and it is pretty awesome. It does however have a pretty specific view of how process should be visualised (current. backlog, icebox) and has a foot pretty firmly in the Scrum school of thought. In a more kanban-flavoured process you visualise your workflow as cards that move through different states (from simple flows like todo, wip, done to more complex ones like plan, analysis, develop, qa, release) at any point in time you can visualise exactly what the state of your work is.

So ... to eventually get to the point, StoryWall is much lighter weight and not really designed to complete with a fully-fledged agile project management tool. But in that light weight comes great flexibility for visualising workflow. Individuals, small/micro teams, lean environments, where just enough process is enough ...
Well, yes, crowdsourcing can make a dent in unemployment, but the dent is in the wrong direction: crowdsourcing clearly increases unemployment.
Why dont you can have some activation code mechanisam for using your app , which users gets only from you ? . That way you can activate only paid apps ?
Introducción a los hechizos para enamorar a un hombre
Contrariamente a la creencia popular, los hechizos para enamorar a un hombre o a una mujer no son sólo para los hechiceros profesionales
Guy expands 6502 to 16M address space by intercepting the databus and re-mapping unused opcodes and clever use of the spurious signals generated by the cpu when executing other undefined opcodes, adds a few registers to make the whole thing transparent from an assembler programmers point of view. In other words, there is no difference to the programmer between native and newly minted instructions.

On top of that he boosts the speed of his forth interpreter by concentrating on a frequently used construct called 'NEXT' in a way that should make anybody that has tried to optimize the inner loop of some VM or language proud. After all, what better way to optimize in such a situation than to be able to mold the instruction set to your desire.

He then uses this home-brew Frankenstein contraption as his benchtop computer for multiple years to do real work (instead of just shooting some pretty pictures and calling it a day).

hth
Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
The most significant part (I think, probably wrong) is on page 5[0] where he details the invalid instructions that do more than a NOP and why they're useful.

[0] : http://www.laughtonelectronics.com/arcana/BrideOfSonPg5.html
Yeah, I was told by a support guy that between 25-30% of BT users were affected.

We managed with iPad 3G with MiWi tethered to iMac via WiFi and then sharing connection from iMac via Ethernet!
The public repo thing is a bit odd anyway. Many public projects don't have a license attached to them. So they're not really open source, they're not public domain, they're just publicly viewable but you have no license to use it.
good one..so we cannot trust even twitter now, but just saw an alternative http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3070376
If you had the education and forthought to read and comprehend a legal contract, you probably wouldn't be a low income worker. Don't look down on those who have difficulty in life, it's a roll of the dice with a little skill sprinkled on. I'd argue success is more due to your upbringing and factors outside your control than we give credit for.
It's not a complex problem. Investment follows demand. If 500 people are clamoring for a new daycare in a certain area, someone will invest and create one. If there's no demand for a new daycare, it doesn't matter whether money is available; no new daycare will be created (and if one is created, it will fail).

The solutions to creating new jobs do NOT revolve around creating more investment money. There is a TREMENDOUS excess of investment money available in the world today. The solutions all revolve around creating more demand for the things that investment money can buy, which typically involve getting more money into the hands of poor people.
How the Hell does one "Surrender"? 8 No B/S steps
My boss' boss and her boss took me into their office and informed me that my department of three people was to be dissolved immediately, I would no longer be a manager and instead my position was "re-structured" to a mere function of training for basic applications. If my salary was to be cut off or not was to be determined at a later time. WHAT!? I was sweating, scared and broken on the spot!

The top boss, an excentric English "piece-of-work" who rode a Roles Royce in an island he owned was late for his first-class plane ride to London that Friday, so, to cut it all short, he suggested I go home and drink a glass of whiskey.

I am not making it up. Whiskey? What about my salary? What about having to wait a whole weekend? WTF? - click link to continue reading
Sounds like BetterPlace[1].
I think they are planning to build fast battery switching stations where you just get a new battery and you don't have to wait for recharging.
They're supposed to setup some stations here in Denmark but it's been awhile since I've heard of them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place
Cool, but apparently I have a kid and a family pet. At what point did I make those decisions?
I like Scala, though I just dabble in it. But I have a few thoughts on why it will be difficult for it to be mainstream.

One of its greatest features require a meaningful rethink of the JEE stack. Actors passing messages seems to not really work in a one thread to one request world where you should fork new threads.

There are too many ways to do the same thing in it. Manipulating maps or list can be done with various features of the collection library. This becomes the Java version of Perl. Some developers will use $_, some prefer variables and they each prefer their own ways. It can make it hard for one developer to pick up where the other left off.

Finally, the documentation seems to be more complicated than necessary. The Scala version of JavaDoc available on their site is almost a difficult to navigate as MSDN. From here we go to the books about Scala. These take careful reading to glean even the most basic structures (took me a while to figure out that the primary constructor is all of the lines between the {} of a class that isn't encapsulated by a method declaration).
Is this perhaps old, from last year's results?
I agree with your main points, but did your closing sentence need to get racist?
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar."
Drew Carey
I personally know a number of people who are on social welfare and planning having a second or even third child. I find this is extremely irresponsible. They can barely afford the children they already have and want to get the state to pay for more? I'd much rather my taxes went to schools and hospitals and better public transport than for paying for these peoples stupid decisions. What kind of life will that child have?

If you cannot afford it, do not have children. I can totally understand if you had the children before you, eg, lost your job or whatever. Things happen, situations change. The problem is the people who don't already have children. Also, if you cannot afford it, you need to be extra careful not to have an "accidental" pregnancy.
Student Loans
in case it's not obvious the red blobs in the background are from alma. the awesome looking part is from hubble.
"Hello, I have a problem with Nokia Photoshop not loading on my Fujitsu-Siemens Macbook Pro after installing the latest upgrade of 'Google Snow Leopard Windows'".
Too bad it only looks good/works decent in iOS.
Tried it on an iPhone 4: beautiful.
Tried it on an HTC Desire running Android 2.2: Menus overlap, text falls off-screen, buttons don't react.
You might be burning out, but this is the "good" case of burnout in that there's an obvious cause, and if that cause is attacked head-on, your passion for your work will probably return. It's obvious that your clients are treating you badly. Not paying for work completed is never acceptable. It doesn't matter if "we didn't use the code". You did the work and should be paid.

Get an attorney immediately. I'm not saying you should sue previous clients. If the amounts of money are small, it's not worth it. But in the future, he will save you a lot more money than he costs. Every serious freelancer has one, for exactly the reason you've discovered. Get firm contracts written with unambiguous terms regarding project scope and payment, or you will be dealing with this for a long time.
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YMMV but have you tried using this approach:

http://www.fontspring.com/blog/further-hardening-of-the-bull...

We use the above with good results (supports IE6-9, FF, Safari, Android, iOS, Chrome and Opera).

www.airbus.com (a large site) also uses this technique (or at least they did when I last looked).
The only argument for getting paid in this article is that sweat deserves a return.

That was Marx's labor theory of value. Marx was wrong.

You deserve a return only when you efficiently meet someone else's needs. The secret to economic success is not sweat, but creative sloth.

We measure value against the cost of substitutes, and other people already entertain me for free (without piracy).

Maybe entertainment just isn't a hard problem. Maybe the bottom 99% of entertainers are basically tagging cat pictures. Maybe we shouldn't encourage them.

I guess if you're an app dev, and want to learn one thing from the music industry, I'd find a way to connect with fans and give them a reason to buy: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12695

Then look for ways to be creatively lazy, and make sure your app can't be replaced by going for a walk on a spring day.
Trello looks pretty good, will have to have a deeper look.

Realtime updates are deceptively complicated to get right. I bumped that whole branch of development so I could get something out (really try to work some of the ideas of Lean and the Minimal Viable Product).
How are you finding your clients?

In my experience, the best clients seem to come from relationships and networking. Clients don't screw people they got from valuable friends and partners. They do, however, screw people who are little more than an email address they got from a Craigslist ad.

Look for more leverage with clients by using networking - also, take the advice others gave and stand up to them with stricter contracts and hourly pricing.
(I liked your article btw. Sorry I didn't say that up front before)

Not that weird, my wife and I keep some things in separate accounts and other things in joint.

My point was that without knowing the ratios, knowing your numbers doesn't really answer the original question except in the most literal sense of "what does it cost you to live there?"

If your share of the living expenses are, say 1500eur and your wife's are, say 1000eur, then why not just say "2500"? In my opinion, when $friend asks me "How much does it cost to live in New York?" What they are really asking is either "How much would it cost $friend to live there" or "What are the comparative costs against some baseline, e.g. {$friend}'s home area"
RVM and rbenv
Elemites: Realtime Strategy Game for the iPhone
You can sue for whatever you want. If you are a rich bully, you'll almost always win one way or another. The law is barely relevant.
Sometimes birth control fails! Like it did with me and my girlfriend a few months ago. My poor ass is now job hunting!
threading doesn't come "for free", in that you need to pay a performance cost in terms of locking in your interpreter and/or a code complexity cost in terms of access to your shared data structures

vs

there are out-of-process cacheing technologies (memcached, redis etc)

If you subject "out-of-process cacheing technologies" to the same measurements (performance cost, code complexity), as threading solutions, what do you find?
> you probably wouldn't be a low income worker.

I was one of those once, and I remember the time very well.

The bigger problem underlying all this is that people are lured in to making very bad choices the downsides of which only become apparent once they're hooked.

People that I employed were unable to do basic bookkeeping, balance their checkbooks, work out how much their various loans (for stuff they didn't strictly speaking need) were costing them etc.

This is first and foremost an education problem, low wage people are created, they are not born that way.

If you fail to educate a large portion of your populace to the point where they can do any of the above in their sleep then you will end up with people that are structurally in trouble in a country where wealth is potentially abundant.

If you outsource all your labor to even lower wage countries then you end up creating an even larger problem for those lower on the totem pole and you make the rich much richer still.

Problems like these don't just fall out of the sky, they systemic and single individuals have limited ability to influence the total picture, but they typically have a lot more control over their own life than they usually want to admit.

I know some people that are currently downright poor, they both smoke like chimneys, and have health issues to boot because of that, which further cuts in to their ability to spend their money where it should be going.

Beats me.