skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many people are able to spend 5 years without income ?

Should we commend Mr. and Mrs. Watterson Sr.? Without them, Calvin & Hobbes might have never been created; but how healthy is it to subsidize your children for so many years, hoping that they'll eventually find their own way ?

As a (not particularly wealthy) parent, this is the sort of question I keep asking myself, and my experience tells me to do the exact opposite of what the Wattersons did.
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The tricky part is convincing the TV Licence goons that you either don't have any receiver, or that you don't use it. It used to be that you could have the RF unit specially mangled as proof you don't watch broadcasts, but now with set-top boxes and TV tuner cards and iPlayer and whatnot, it's a lot harder to demonstrate conclusively that you don't use any BBC services.

So they just keep sending you threatening letters.
Have him tell each employee to change their password. The work is distributed among the 36+, takes him less than 5 minutes to send the email to all employees.

Also avoids the obvious security implications that somewhere there is a file that contains all employees passwords.
Here's a link to such a person's experiences. http://lesswrong.com/user/lindagert/comments/
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Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because "that's where the money is."

If you need to meet people, the first thing to do is make sure you can be where they are. Likewise, if you need clients/customers, you have to find them before doing anything else. All the other stuff surrounding getting a product done is meaningless if you can't find someone to sell it to.

I think his point is that you have to find out what's important and do that before anything else. If you want to date supermodels, figure out where to go to meet them before you worry about getting in shape/buying new clothes/any other peripheral activity.

Honestly, you'd be amazed how often simply being in the right place is all you need (at least here in the US).
It certainly seems like apress doesn't have their act together, but the fact remains it's a bit silly to refuse to sign a contract and then expect to be paid an advance whose amount is apparently fixed in the contract! In this case, the author could have saved a lot of trouble by asking for an acceptable contract instead of just not signing anything.

Again, i'm happy to accept that apress is unprofessional and a pain, but when someone sends you a contract that says 'completion by X' and that's not ok, ask for a change! If apress paid advances to authors who refused to sign contracts with them, they could get into a lot of trouble.
My vote: Dual boot Windows 7 on a Macbook?
All of these work best when connected to an online account of some sorts. Without it, lot of functionality (statistics, data export, map view) tends to be unavailable.

There are some local-only apps out there (mostly from the opensource-leaning devs), but they are either buggy, lack important features, or have atrocious interface.

What I need is an app combining slick UI and stability of let's say Runkeeper and offline data storage, since I am a luddite and do not care about social networks or 3rd parties having access to my workout data.

One can dream, eh? :P
I know that's true - probably not in Italy, but certainly it works better than building a great product and then trying to sell it.

> if you need clients/customers, you have to find them before doing anything else. All the other stuff surrounding getting a product done is meaningless if you can't find someone to sell it to.

I can't see a society where this is true going somewhere - just my point of view.
LoseThos is for recreational programming, like the C64. Of course you want all opcodes.

My reality has to change--it's like I'm in jail. In the 60's there was a TV show called "the prisoner".

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

n answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which
is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O
king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition
three times a day.

6:14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased
with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he
laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

6:15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king,
Know, O king, that the law

--------

Is my computer a main frame or is it a C64?

I think of it as a C64 with networking.

You think of it as a main frame.
DuckDuckGo is hiring (albeit slowly): http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216387

We have an office in Paoli, PA though remote is OK depending on the relationship. We have people now across the world. We also welcome Philly-area interns. H1B is also OK.
A slightly tangential point from that article but...

I'm in the UK - Derby, specifically, though I've known other areas well too - and I've never seen people working for more than a short period (say, 30 mins max) out of cafés. Never.

I can see it may well be good networking advice. I can see it'd be more sociable than my current spare-bedroom-office setup. But I've never seen it done to have any indication it's viable in the local café culture.

Serious question. Any UK'ers, midlands in particular, actually do this? Where do you find is actually good for this?
Less privacy, more not wanting to annoy your neighbours sitting a meter away either side. (No music playing, which amplifies the negative effects of one-sided phone nattering.)
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Company: http://duckduckgo.com/

Projects: iOS, Android, Firefox extension, Chrome extension.
Biochemistry degree, followed by 15 years as a magazine journalist/editor, then a couple of years as a web developer. Now running a little software development company. First product: www.tiki-toki.com - shortly to launch our second product.
The experience is not limited to Apress.

I was at a garage sale. Tons of Wrox books were in a pile for two bits each. When I went to pay I noticed that the spiky haired blond guy on the cover of one of the books was the same spiky haired blond guy I was handing quarters to.

Paying attention can earn you a very interesting story! Short version: In this case the author did have a contract, but they kept upping the schedule as they were selling the company (and didn't tell the author). He was paid, but it took a very very long time and he said that was the last book he is ever going to write.

I asked him if he was sure he wanted to sell it. (It was his last and only copy.) "I guess I should keep it. I wrote the book after all."
I find that the limited free time (wife, kids, etc.) I have available for side projects forces me to prioritize. If I gold-plate everything, nothing will ever get done, so I simply don't write code that's not absolutely necessary.

I will code very thin "frameworks" if it becomes obvious that it will save time over the long haul, but there is no "this might be useful someday" code. If it doesn't move the project forward, it doesn't get done.

If your most precious resource -- time -- is limited, it forces ruthless prioritization.
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I'll throw out another option that worked well for me (and also, I think, for my cofounder): Academic CS research.

I tried this the summer of my sophomore year and it was an excellent way to develop my (already ok) scripting/hacking skills.

Methodologically, it was a bit of a mix between internship and self-study. You would likely have a large amount of time in which to indulge/engage your particular interests, but you would also have some semblance of direction (i.e. the research project).

I ended the summer having learned lisp, built a number of frameworks (not all of which related to the research), bettered my scripting skills, and written a paper (which we published). I didn't make a lot of money, but otherwise it was a pretty good deal.
"You can't develop a company culture without putting people together, physically."

I couldn't disagree more.

I've worked at several companies now, and my current company is my first distributed gig. It is by far the best and strongest culture I've been a part of. If you have good people who take the time to skype and chat, being around each other makes little difference.
What is the difference these days? Very soon even "PC" x86 machines will use UEFI like Macs. This poll conflates hardware architectures with operating systems. As a "paraphrase" on HHGTTG, "Mostly useless".
Toronto, ON. Full time

Wave Accounting is an online accounting application for small business. We save business owners countless hours by automating a lot of their accounting needs. We're also doing payroll (which is my area).

* Front end developer - Our meaning in life is to present a beautiful, easy to use interface, this person will be working on both the accounting and payroll applications to do the necessary front end improvements.

* Python/Django developer - This is for the accounting application. Working on a larger team, you'll be implementing new features and integrations.

* Ruby/Rails developer - This is for the payroll application. Working on a smaller team, we're turning payroll into something that small businesses don't hate.

http://waveaccounting.com/about-us/jobs/
Durham, NC - fulltime (H1B)

Duke University, Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research

We're a group of public health researchers looking for a junior software developer to work on the software that runs our research. This is a great opportunity for a developer with an interest in public health, including an interest in possibly traveling to international study sites.
More information (and contact info) at http://bit.ly/chpir-software-developer-job, or contact me directly from my profile.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA; Remote OK

We're currently hiring freelancers to do some low-skilled work. This isn't really programming related, so it's better suited for a person who is computer savvy but not formally trained. It involves watching a lot of TV, basic competency with Paint or Skitch, and data entry. Perfect for a college student looking to pick up some spare cash.

Company: http://curvio.com

Contact: wes@curvio.com

Our pay works out to ~$10/hour, on a per-job basis. Happy to speak with anyone via phone or Skype.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that kind of technology (including physical infrastructure) can be developed and implemented by collections of individuals, not at Internet scale. The only groups that could create a technology that the world's people could use independent from corporate or government control are corporations and governments, and where's their motivation these days? Corporations want to corral us like whales in a krill feeding frenzy, and governments want to control us, not free us.

Even the internet that we have, developed by the US government and universities, only became the internet that we have by serendipity. I Can Haz Cheezburger was not anticipated by DARPA, BBN et al.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Technologies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#History
I see, thanks for your answer!
Those companies are "permanently hiring". They're not trying to fill specific positions, but rather trying to skim interesting candidates.
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I require a technical writer / developer who can quickly grok an application that has been written and then produce documentation showing what has been done.

- you must have excellent English

- all documentation must be Word compatible. All diagrams must be Visio compatible

- you should be available for Skype / Webex for dicussion, review etc

- app will be provided via a Vmware 8 image

- experience with manufacturing useful

Please send e-mail to address in my profile with hourly rate, website / cv, timezone, availability and as a bonus, any examples of docs you have written
On 2011: The Year of System Failure
This is astoundingly incorrect. At least where I live (int he US) copyright protects the game binary code, the game assets, the game's manual, etc. but doesn't protect the overall game concept or the game's general look and feel. Those things are in the realm of patent protections.

The OP is confusing a moral right (rather, a moral wrong, i.e. he clearly was making a Battlezone clone) with a legal wrong. The game breaks no copyright laws.

I was involved in a very similar situation, where a publisher made a copyright claim against a game of mine in the app store. But you can't copyright a game idea, or the way the tanks generally look. You can only copyright the actual game, or game assets. We pushed back and Apple accepted our arguments and the game went back into the store.

This is abuse of copyright for the sole purpose of eliminating a competitor in the app store, and it's got to be fought, or we're all going to be spending huge portions of our lives as developers fighting incorrect and spurious copyright claims.
While you were partying last night...
Were you an journalist/editor for a magazine related to biochemistry?

BTW, nice looking product. How is the traction? The text in #818181 was a bit hard for me to read, have you done any A/B testing on the main page?
Austin, TX
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JSMentors Mailing list is good. I also found the discussion of how the language works in Section 2 of the TDDJS book really good. ( http://www.tddjs.com/ ). The TDDJS discussion of the language design is really good because it uses testing to show all the ways to create objects and has you test quirky behaviors and oddities each method to really get you to understand the finer points of the language. Think of it as Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts, Applied".
Showing up is a necessary but non-sufficient condition. I've known plenty of people who were very good at "showing up", but nobody wanted them there. You'll need some personality and, yes, perhaps a little bit of hard-earned talent (those six pack abs) to complete the picture.
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950 [the Turing Test]

http://orium.homelinux.org/paper/turingai.pdf
The comments on that story make me sad for humanity.

Even with Kim Jong Il out of the picture, I doubt that life in N. Korea will reach a real semblance of sanity any time soon. This type of retouching is probably just ingrained in the way they deal with the media. Doing things any other way just may not occur to them as a viable option.
Englewood, CO (Denver metro)

This or That Media is hiring experienced software engineers: http://thisorthat.com/pt/jobs
10 tips to help avoid developer burn out
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He is not saying that the skills required to build the product are not necessary, he is just saying they are not sufficient.

You need to be able to build the product, AND have people to sell it to.

Having people to sell it to first helps you build the right product in the first place.

In the supermodel example, you might still need to go to the gym and buy a flashier car, but you won't know that until you actually start meeting supermodels and talking to them.
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Don't forget to mention that our ceo personally thanks you for each and every feature or enhancement you make to the platform. Everybody in our it group is a hacker at heart. Oh and when I was asked to come in for an interview you said "wear whatever, just don't come in dressed like Kiss with face make-up and shit."

It's the best Damned job I've ever had and I think all of us look forward to coming to work every day.
There's no reason you can't pay the author after the copyright has expired. People have shown multiple times they're willing to pay more than they legally have to.
> We all played with building blocks, no? Frank Lloyd Wright credited Froebel Gifts, a type of building block, as being instrumental in his early development

We've all played with building blocks, but few of us are Frank Lloyd Wright. Of course, the difference here is that he played with them for several years whereas I'm told I played with them but can form no crisp memories of such an event. (I don't have many crisp memories from that age and I'm cautious of vague memories without additional witnesses just being made-up.) I don't imagine I would have enjoyed being forced to play with them up through 6th grade, nor have been more Frankish, so I'm finding it hard to believe him that it was the blocks themselves that made Frank different. (Though after a little reflection, I do remember extensions to building blocks through maybe 6th grade, such as the rubber band pegs, various polygon plastic 'biscuits'[1], plastic-log-cabin-building cylinders, and connectible cubes. As well as 2D jigsaw puzzles at home and we had a couple neat 3D puzzles in 6th grade. I never liked Lego but I like Minecraft.)

Thanks for the study, though. You should emphasize the last sentence like the PDF does, the "2-sigma" effect is one of the reasons why I and many others think one-to-one tutoring is the best we can do and ways to cheat that are definitely worth pursuing. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem ) Other writings on their site are also interesting (and screenshots show their age) http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/buildingblocks/projectWritings.ht...

[1]Actually, apparently these things are the 2D "building blocks" referenced in the study whereas Frank seems to be talking about the 3D "building blocks" that are actually big and blocky.
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They're all 'PCs'. Possibly you mean: 'Mac, Windows, Linux'.

In which case, you're missing out the *BSDs. (And, if you want to go even further, Haiku & Amiga.)
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first action: inform me of new files in public folders.
I also wonder how much lawyering you want or need for a $1000 and a $2000 contract?
Dec 2011, A Pretty Amazing Month for Tubalr… Whats Next 2012?
I can only speak for the company I work for, but we are growing so fast that the company has doubled in size in the last year or so.

We've got real revenues and growth in traffic to our main site and our partner sites. Also, we now power Yahoo! Autos, which will give us another big boost in traffic and revenue.
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Web developer. Wordpress, Django, jQuery, PHP, Python, etc.

FYI: I am in the Philippines.
Github has a good jobs board now: http://jobs.github.com
I took a look, excited about this software, but giving a third party access to my entire Dropbox to an organization that doesn't state it's security policies, and says that the only way to delete my account is to drop the founder an email seems like I'd be exposing myself to more risk than I would like.
What if middle-class jobs disappear?
Facebook distributing White Hat Debit Card to Bug Bounty Winners
But that might get shortened to "Don't start work". Contracts are notoriously difficult to finalize. If you don't take the risk, someone else probably will. Best is to establish trust with counterparty.
"Document-based" is more accurate. One thing that's nice about MongoDB is that you get a little bit more than Map/Reduce as far as querying.

The idea is that when a type is embedded or linked (using the terms from the Schema Design link you gave) there is a record of that.

And the data types for the fields also need to be recorded. It would be nice if attributes for which there exists a type (collection) were correctly specified as attributes of that type rather some other more general type (otherwise you may need to correctly associate those fields later for analysis).

I plan to record my schema something like this (although probably will want to include some other information like field descriptions):

[HTML]
version: 1
default: text

[Hash]
version: 1
default: text

[Post]
version: 1
(id_: ObjectID)
postid: text
title: text
author: {linked} User
authorname: {embedded} User.screenname
comments: {embedded} Comments

[User]
version: 1
(id_: ObjectID)
screenname: text
shash: hash

[Comments]
(id_: ObjectID)
version: 1
text: text
created: date
name: text

[Comments]
(id_: ObjectID)
version: 2
text: html
created: date
name: text
approved: boolean

Also, each record (here I am referring to the actual data collections, not the schema collection) will contain the id and version number of the type (referring to the schema collection). This is for generating screens. As fields are added, changed, or removed, new type versions are recorded.

I am still hopeful that I can avoid having to dump the data into regular relational tables for most ad hoc reporting purposes by generating stuff like this http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Querying and http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Aggregation+Framework from a GUI tool to support filters, arrangement of fields, and grouping/aggregation.
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"Perfect is the enemy of good enough; good enough is the enemy of all." [1]

There's no shame in code that's 'good enough' but I think there's a danger in this article of missing an important point: you can't classify your output if you don't know its context and goals. If you're coding something that definitely won't be used again then make it 'good enough' for this use case, if you need it to be extended by others over the next few months then make it 'good enough' for that use case, if you have a contractual obligation to get it out to the client 'now' then stop thinking and start doing!

But paralysis is costly. If you lack the required knowledge to take a sensible decision, then take a gamble: never hold up making a low-risk choice because you don't know enough. The opportune time to learn what the right choice was is once you've made it and can evaluate the outcome with data.

The other thing to note is that complexity on its own isn't bad, complicatedness is [2]. The knowledge you've gained shouldn't be making your code more complicated. You should spend your time on creating an arsenal of simple solutions to complex problems. That is perfection (and you will never reach it.)

Optimize your time by evaluating after instead of planning before; over time create simple solutions to complex problems and use these as shortcuts to act decisively.

[1] http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/perfect-is-enemy-of...

[2] http://usabilityworks.org/2006/12/13/simplicity-complexity-a...