skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How am I supposed to read this? This makes no sense. Figure out the point you want to make with the graph, and make sure it conveys that quickly and easily.
I didn't mention paid vs. unpaid, either. I was speaking about 'free' as in 'free software' vs. proprietary. My point was that you can have a proprietary system that is open.

For reference, this was the argument I was replying to:

> … if there's even one proprietary bit of executable code, you can't guarantee your system isn't spying (or capable of spying) on you.
The factor of 1000 assumes a 4 hr, 5 day week.

50 * 5 * 4 * 120 = 120,000.00

That's what the clients will be giving you. Out of that comes insurance and self-employment tax and additional social security (in the USA, as an example).

If you are working backwards from a fixed salary you have to also add in the dollar value of additional taxes and insurance, plus whatever other benefits you might be getting.

$120K salary at a regular job > $120K in paid invoices from clients.

If you're a consultant or contractor or whatever, even if you work 8 hours a day they are not all billable hours. There's the tedious business work to look after (record keeping, business development, etc.)
They should have a section for G+ results which are equivalent of 'paid links' i.e. if their rank has been boosted then mark them as such. Otherwise they risk losing credibility on search results as the first page is not best match but unmarked advertising. While not evil per se, a little naughty.
Or, most text files are small.
Actually, it's from 2003 but the entirety of the interview is from 1999. I had that issue of Linux Magazine and I remember reading the interview back then. Sad that it took me over 10 years to really dig into vim after reading about the history of vi.
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"What held twitter through (besides tons of investment money) is a core user group that loved the service as it is today. Foursquare has that."

Bitcoin too?
I interpreted that as blog-speak for "That's my next blog post".
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Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on the books listed in the presentation?
I don't think the "I don't give a fuck as long as I save $1" mindset is limited to just the domain business. In America, look at the proliferation of Walmart and Winco (just to name a couple). Their service is crap and everything they sell is of low quality. However, they are still in business because _many_ only care about saving a few bucks.
You need a very low false positive rate for something to be useful in screening for unlikely events. We can't compute the false-positive rate here, though, because we don't know how many people the dogs "scanned"—only how many positives they gave.

Take an example: assume you have a detection technology that has a 1% false positive rate. That is, if you scan 100 people (without bombs) you get 1 positive (which is false, of course). Ignore for a moment any false negatives (people with bombs that are missed); assume the false-negative rate is 0.

Now, what is the chance of a random person you're screening having a bomb? It's very low. Consider that there are nearly a billion air passengers per year in the US, and almost no bombers. Let's say one in 200 million passengers has a bomb.

So, you screen 1 billion passengers, you get 5 true positives. You also get 1% false positives—that is, 10 million.

So, you unjustly searched (as you put it) 10 million people to catch 5 (not 5 million, just 5). And also, its not cheap anymore; you're spending a lot of time (thus money) on those 10 million useless searches.
Google isn't the internet and if it fails , it's google's problem not ours( or internet's ?). There is other alternatives to google's services, if one finds the others better than google, he is free to use them. Seriously, just don't use it if you hate it, that's the best response that you can give.

I don't use G+ because of the "Real Name Policy". It's my choice to give my real name or not and Google don't respect my choices. I have FB, e-mail (yay!), blog, skype etc... I have everything to communicate with my friends or with the world ! I don't need some Nazi to give me an advice like "If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It"....
G+ is an abomination. I'm glad no one is using it except non-influential geeks.
I'm torn on this issue. Before Google+ things were all over the place. Google had lots of great services, but they were poorly integrated, appeared and disappeared frequently, didn't work with apps users or vice versa. Now Google clearly is moving in a direction that promises better unification and clean-up of annoying edge cases.

The problem is that Google is losing track of its mission statement. It's seeing everything through the lens of social, which is not really in its DNA to begin with. I understand they don't want to dismiss a threat and get their lunch eaten, but they are throwing away a lot of what made them great. There's gotta be a happy medium between completely ignoring up-and-coming threats and throwing yourself so fiercely behind every trend that you end up sabotaging your own strengths that are the very weak points of your feared competitors.
Google search results are beginning to bore the life out of me, and part of it has to do with inane google-plus entries in the search results.

WTF goog search? It seems like ever since Bing showed up and did that little left-hand column of filters, you started running around doing all sorts of "innovation" and it seems messy and quality control is just starting to suck wind. It's obvious you're tinkering with search results to promote your own services -- did you not think anyone would notice?

Goog search, I don't even know you anymore.
to be fair to sequoia, that's how I read it too (within the context of the article).
Suppose you make $100k as a salaried developer, which works out to about $50/hr. What would be an appropriate, approximately equivalent rate to charge as a consultant?

Edit: For an American at least. I guess what I am more curious about is, what is the overhead for things like taxes, decent health care coverage, and insurance against dry spells?
A section of the article says this:
Raf describes two requirements for serendipity to occur:
1. Active searching: The designer should not simply wait for inspiration to strike, but should immerse himself in ideas and look for harmonies between them...

It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Picasso:

“That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.”
― Pablo Picasso
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If I where in your situation, I would immediately add that text to all of my auctions with a justification as to why you will not accept pay-pal for your particular transactions. I would then use a third party escrow service for anything that pay-pal could consider a counterfeit. This sounds to me like Pay-Pal is doing the bidding of trademark holders. When that is not it's role in society. It's not the counterfeit police and it should not be in the business of destroying counterfeit merchandise. They should require it be returned and if they feel like being good Samaritans, notify the trademark holder of the infringement. Let the holder police their own crap.
It is simply false to assume that everyone who consumes a work of intellectual property (music, movies, television, etc.) has purchased a copy of the work. That has never been true historically. The difference today is that technology has made possible new ways for people to consume IP without direct purchase and some publishers have yet to adapt.
The point is that they're doing this, and it's annoying, not surprising.
This is not actually a Google+ problem. It's a social networking problem. Facebook.com, linkedin.com, and google.com are all preferred over anyone's personal site.

My name is a good case study because it is, as far as I know, unique. Google is currently doing the "right thing" but previously it had been returning my Facebook page above my personal website. That's broken, but it has nothing to do with G+, and everything to do with the way all search engines rank people. (Bing does the "wrong thing" with respect to my name, and shows LinkedIn first. DDG also throws in two random things from years ago in before getting to my modern website.)

Search is a hard problem, and the result is subjective.
It looks like you're right. I wasn't aware of that.
Well, I love developing web applications and that's what I intend to do anyway, but my question is how to integrate all my skills into something. Some idea for that'd be super helpful.
This reminds me of a relative's experience with Montessori (it was a happy one). Children prepare their individual objectives for the week, and work on them independently, using the school's resources.
The US Copyright Law comes to the rescue; it defines public performance thusly:

> To perform or display a work “publicly” means (...) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered

See http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf, middle of page 5.

"Any place open to the public" includes your home if anyone can come in and watch your movie in exchange for a hug. So I would argue that the difference between "private" and "public" is well established, by copyright law itself.

Now for my opinion: if any and all public performances end up on the Internet, it's a good thing. (It's a good thing for "information" in general, and it's also a good thing for the economy. The economy benefits from goods being cheaper.)

You may want to argue that posting the video on Youtube deprives you of many hugs, and that you should be compensated for that fact; or maybe you'll ask for Youtube to be simply taken down, to avoid such problems in the future.

But society doesn't owe you the ability to get hugs in exchange for the screening of movies. (What if you decided to provide services for the blind. Then, after an initial success, you come to the conclusion that the only way to grow your business further is if there are more blind people. Should the US Government help you poke the eyes of your neighbors?)
That sure makes sense.
I choked on my coffee when I saw the headline. Not the Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall. Though that would be an inspired choice as well, and just as likely to save Yahoo.
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Have you implemented the author markup as Google suggest?
Thanks (from the not-much-younger but non-US crowd).
The idea is that once you've recorded the sound, you want to be able to mix it with other sounds in an arbitrary virtual 3D space, so you need the ultrasound. I think.
Yes, CPU cycles is the most expensive. Great discussion here on Stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-perf...
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Not really. Man-Van-Suprise penetrated my mind with other "connotations"...
With all of the evidence to the contrary it still surprises me how many companies still choose to adopt "crunch time" or "death march" mentalities to motivate product development pace. I mean half the time these teams are not even taking the time to know if they are building the right features and designs, to say nothing of quality issues.
I lost you in the second para and didn't quite get what you wanted to say.
Yeah, you may be right that the full generality of the pattern is not appreciated.

For what it's worth, I think most commonly used languages can implement some form of the context function in my example.
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Many of these "weekend" projects turn into long-term projects. The thing that gets launched initially helps the developer guage interest before he spends too much time on the project.
Everyone's a hypocrite. If you are not a hypocrite then you aren't saying anything interesting.

His point may be a tired one, but it's valid. We rely on Google for a lot and would do well to keep their allegiances in mind; all the more so because Google has traditionally been something of a benefactor to the web user (although the cracks are starting to show since they lose money on most of their free services). The reason his hypocrisy is irrelevant is because we don't have any illusions about ReadWriteWeb's allegiances, and even if we did we don't rely on them for shit.
Maybe this is obvious to everyone, but this is clearly Google's reactionary response to the assertion that social is the future of search. At some time in the past, there were a slew of articles espousing the belief that users would change from searching Google for their quandaries to a more personal exchange of information: asking someone you know.

I don't know what the underlying causes are, but I know three kinds of internet users:

A) Those who are capable of finding information using a search engine

B) Those who aren't capable of finding information using a search engine

C) Those who never even try; they just ask someone

It's easy to jump to the conclusion that the type A individuals are simply more "savvy", but my father, who hardly uses a computer, astounded me the other day by deftly searching out a fantastic manual for the carburetor on his Suzuki Samurai. My father is the type that would much rather be out de-gunking his carb than sitting at a computer. How is he so effective at search? I would have expected him to fall under the type C user category.

Google knows this scenario all too well. They're watching it play out in real time on the web. They have to get in front of it and provide solutions for all three types of users. For better or worse, giving Google+ pages "website" status in their results is their way of getting ahead of sites like Facebook and Quora.
This is pretty much why I can't believe that any serious musician would buy a musical instrument for over a few hundred dollars, sight unseen. There are simply too many variables to make that kind of purchase worthwhile. If the buyer isn't serious about it, a cheaper instrument will probably be exactly what they need for years. For serious musicians, an instrument that they're comfortable with is more important than anything else, and they should be trying out every one before they buy it.
If there was a way to mark functions and their inverses consistently in language, then functions with inverses could be used in (semanticaly) pure functional code, even if they were destructive.

For (stupid) example:

def reverse(x) as inversible with(reverse): #special case - reverse is itself inverse function
x = x.reversed() #I'm too lazy to code this by hand

def lastFive(x) as pure: #let's say language checks if pure function only uses pure and inversable functions
return x[:5] under reverse

Here lastFive is pure function even thought reverse is destructive.

This assumes everybody sticks to one definition of reversing something, in this case functions f and g are inverse of each other, when after invoking f(x), doing only pure or reversable things to x, and invoking g(x), x is unchanged.

And I don't know if this will be useful for anything - the only point seems to be avoiding making copies and still making pure functions. But resulting code, while semanticaly pure, is not threadsafe. So I don't know if it's worth anything.
Hmm i recall Trillion Credit Squadron back in the 80s where the use of computers was almost required to play and being at the bleeding edge of Ai research would be useful
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Agreed. Not an effective visualization. A bar graph would be much better.
True, but if you both are friends on Wuala you can do it easily.

Provided that no man in the middle attacks take place during the "friendship" operation :)
Right which is what seems so illogical to me about this policy. I having little experience with coins could probably come up with that one pretty quickly. As well with the subject of this post a violin. I could easily go get a kids First Start violin for under $100 and smash it, take a photo and send it in. This to me seems like the most ill conceived business process ever dreamed up. Hell 20 minutes in Photoshop and I could destroy anything.
Great! It sounds like we're just using the terminology differently (and perhaps the same is true for ajjuliani and myself).

When young students improve as writers, they broaden their executive function in which, in large part, they learn distance themselves from the writing. They learn to assess it independently from themselves as the writer. As a teacher of writing, one of your goals is to develop these functions, to teach the student how to assess their own writing. Usually this comes in the form of pointing out when they have done in naturally, or showing them how you do it by writing in real time in front of them (or using other students as examples).

I think it's the same in other subjects. Giving students time and freedom is just the start, and we agree about the importance of providing some sort of assessment/evaluation/feedback about the work that's outside the realm of grades and external consequences. But formal assessments done well in such a program are one of the most important things you are teaching.

To relate this specifically to the article, to just give students time and rely (essentially) on public shaming to hold them accountable isn't enough. In addition to giving the student ownership of the project topic and ownership of time management, we can give the student ownership over his/her (formal and informal) assessment, too, and of course use it.
The problem is that there aren't many technical ones in my vicinity.
I think Microsoft need to get convince the manufacturers that not providing any physical recovery medium is not acceptable.

IMHO, a recovery disc or USB drive should be supplied as standard, as part of the Windows licence.
Doesn't have 29th on there? That was the official move date
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I'm sorry, but for a large amount of people who only use Google for search, Google is the Internet. That's why I switched to DuckDuckGo a long time ago, but people like me are a tiny minority.

Now speaking as a web publishing, if people started to copy-and-paste my articles into Google+ and these entries got higher rankings on Google search than my original content, I'd be pretty upset too. It isn't a question of what search engine I use in this instance, but what the majority of everyone else is using.
Ask HN: Semi-Technical Job Positions?
Hey HN,

I'm a student in a computer science program. I've been absolutely obsessed with technology for as long as I can remember. I never really did much coding, and this year, I've been getting the feeling that it's not really for me.

I love the idea of coding, but it seems like I just don't have the attitude that many hackers talk about in respect to coding: I don't particularly like problem solving, I don't really get that "rush" when I solve something, etc.

So, basically, I need ideas. I'm thinking about dropping out of my Computer Science program and switching to Economics or something non-technical, but I'd eventually love to get a semi-technical job, where I'm dealing with technology but without my primary function being as a coder.

What's out there? Does anyone have a clearer idea then me of what I'm looking for?

Thanks,

kipsfi.

EDIT: In a perfect world, I guess I'd love a job where my primary function is something else, but if we needed some extra hands on code, I'd be able to get in there and get that done too.
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There's a problem though: to guarantee that the redemption code is valid, seller must meet with the buyer and activate on site. This is how people were selling unused tickets last year. It doesn't look very efficient because both seller and buyer should end up in the same country and city well before the conference for exchange. Plus, the ticket is quite expensive from the beginning. All of this makes the whole deal not very interesting for scalpers.
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In reply to your earlier comment, it's a configuration management precisely because it has root - not irrelevant!

That's a distraction though - gizzlon is right that it is extremely bad practice to recommend people keep unprotected keys to root accounts on a personal computer.

Using passphrases and ssh-agent is a good and widely accepted solution to this problem (along with gizzlon's advice of having someone peer-review the code, again very standard and obvious).
I tried working from an RV via satellite link years ago. Very frustrating -- life is too short to deal with the latency. Nowadays with git and puppet this might actually work -- make changes and edits locally and deploy over the low-bandwidth, high-latency link.
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Honestly, I immediately noticed that sentence too, and it really detracts from your article.

As for your attack on G+, the only real problem I see is if they promote G+ posts over the original. But that could also just happen because maybe many of your "friends" liked or shared the G+ post (that wouldn't be surprising), and you being logged in to google, the algorithm interpreted those social cues of high importance for you. The best solution, though, would be if those "social love" was transferred to the linked article.
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Studios are hopeless, for the reasons you detail. They're just big companies in the end, and they move slowly if at all.

But there's another layer of Hollywood, the indie production companies, that has been a world of what are essentially startups, and that's existed for decades. The ability to innovate isn't just available, it's almost essential to those folks.

So Hollywood can innovate, and can do so quite well, actually. Independent producers are as good at what they do as anyone in silicon valley. One of them, or a group of them, will stumble on a model that is wildly successful and then the herds will follow. It'll happen.
That's really not what's happening here. I have a fairly unique name, and the basic problem is that when you search for a person's name, their personal website has a lower rank than any social network, so LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and G+ will often show up above someone's personal site. It's not a conspiracy, it's just how the ranking algorithm works.
It's much bigger than a $2500 case any lawyer worth his salt is going to argue that the seller has suffered irreversible damage to his brand as a seller.
I wanted to know if "doesn't run on the target" means a bootstrap dependency only. After the target has been setup for configuration I don't see a reason why Python, Ruby or anything can't be installed in a sand-boxed environment.
I live across the street from this, and I've always wondered what these guys did. Great to read their story, and I've got to say it definitely takes guts to put yourself out there day in and day out (especially right now when it's 14 degrees outside!).
I like this point, but i wonder: how would people feel if, for instance, this HN conversation page ranked higher in Google search results than the actual RWW article?
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