skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay I'll play. My name is Martin and I currently live in Denmark while working on (and make a living off of) my own projects. I recently got invited to stay with a friend in Hong Kong and I've absolutely fallen in love with the city. At this point I'm willing to let other people take care of my current projects and instead get a job so I can move to Hong Kong.

Background: Standard hacker-type story, no degree, some education but dropped out. Very motivated in general. My core skill is heavy back-end PHP development with a focus on speed optimization of both PHP, SQL and servers. As an example; recently I've been working on real time cache invalidation techniques so I can do caching without having stale data.

I participate heavily in the Nginx community and am one of the core supporters in #nginx on freenode when I'm not travelling. I blog from time to time about Nginx and PHP on http://blog.martinfjordvald.com/. My English is excellent but my Chinese non existent.

So if you have a PHP opening (or don't mind me having to (re)learn another language) in HK and can sponsor a visa then I'm your guy.

email: martin@evilgeniusmedia.org
I thought this as well, but you may be comparing against a Forbes richest people list. The majority of the people I talk to (even devs) think $100,000 is a very large sum of money. Also, just by having a decent salary in the US/Canada, income-wise you're easily the top 1% of the world: http://www.globalrichlist.com/
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> We would have paid good money to watch Sherlock Holmes or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. But it simply was not an option. So we went with a TV show that was free and then went to bed.

Free? Surely Fred has paid for his cable subscription. And paid dearly if he has any HD channels. And then there are the loud, terrible, annoying commercials.

It costs at least $50/month to get anything half decent on cable TV here in BC. More if you want HD stuff. Many folks I know spend about $100/month on cable.
Right now, neither of them are. With that much runway, the goal is likely to drive traffic, get a large user base, then find a path to monetization. Maybe Pinterest will succeed, maybe it won't. It's growing and a rapid growth, and they may become a very successful company. or not. That's why they call it "Venture Capital".

The Swamweir site is mildly shameful, but at the same time, all they've done is copy the functionaly and look and feel. If they're always imitating, Pinterest should be able to out-maneuver them, grow faster, and learn how to monetize quickly.
Stanford MCS grad, Python/Java/C++ hacker, experienced with Django, Android. Willing to learn X. Recently completed work on a preinstall app for a major provider which may be run on millions of handsets.

Message me for linkedin info.
> I'm thinking Rudy's done pretty well on a meagre one percent.

Has he? If he has, then great. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that other shoe tech inventors (especially those preceding him) got even less than he did and that someone accused him of being a greedhead or unreasonable when he negotiated for that measly one percent.

It also sounds as though Under Armour locked Hann into a royalty range and then, when the time came to settle on a number, went down to almost the lower end of that range. Hann wouldn't have been completely insane if he picked the out-of-range numbers to try to pull UA towards the upper end of the proposed range.
Excellent idea. This is one of the areas I was hoping to learn more about with this.
This is a bit misleading. They incorrectly haphazardly swap "income" and "wealth":

The subtitle says "Explore the occupations and industries of the nation’s wealthiest households." Yet the chart note is "The chart counts the number of individual workers living in households with an overall income in the top 1 percent nationwide."

This implies that a retired multimillionaire with a 300K passive income isn't in the wealthiest one percent, and a couple with a negative net worth (e.g. bought a $2 million dollar house that's now only worth a million; and no savings), with two $190K jobs is in the wealthiest one percent. Of course this is nonsense.
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I'd pay top-dollar to rent a movie while it's still in theaters (especially in lieu of a low-quality, pirated option). If the rental price decreases as the film leaves theaters, they could still maintain a strong sense of the value of their product. It looks like it's working perfectly well in an ecosystem like Steam, where a new release sells a truckload at $60, then again at $30, then again at during a firesale at $5.
Richard Cotton had talking points and stuck to them.
Step 1 on the path to motivation: Ingest coffee/red bull...
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Interesting to note, the three largest boxes Physician, Lawyer and Teacher are all legally protected professions.
Top 1% in america = 380k
Personally I'd just wrap SoapClient to provide the more succinct interface and provide that to your users. You could probably programmatically generate a draft of this interface, and then manually improve and simplify it if you want. Maybe this is how you are going to implement your REST interface?
There's only one way to stop the studios and labels from making bills that restrict the Internet, and that is to convince them to adopt a modern digital strategy and embrace the qualities of the Internet, rather than keep fighting them.

I would also like to see more articles that debunk their claims of hundreds of billions of dollars lost every year due to piracy, because too many politicians believe them - even those that are against SOPA/PIPA. If politicians find out the real truth, and MPAA/RIAA lose credibility on piracy losses, they might actually have to start thinking about modernizing their digital strategy.
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2012: A Cloudy Year for Big Data - Cloud Computing - News & Reviews
Conveniently, I started wearing the Vibrams just for walking around in (because they're really comfortable), and did that for 6-ish months before I started running. This has resulted in a distinct lack of any health problems.

I can see how it would be really easy for someone who was actively running when they got the shoes to just go do their normal routine the first day they wore them and utterly destroy something.
See http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-t... for a history of the SQL Server guts. It is now a complete rewrite of the Sybase code.
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I've never heard teachers described as "working poor." Just middle income.
Vinny A, currently looking for Java/Javascript/CSS/PHP/Python work. I'm located in Naperville IL (western suburb of Chicago) but I would also be interested in remote work.

My GitHub profile is at https://github.com/teamaqua . If you need to get in touch with me, you can send a PM using the GitHub private message system.
I agree with your points. Polling is not the right approach IMO. A much simpler approach would be to use the following script as a bookmark, and hit the bookmark when you want to see the changes:

javascript:(function(){var%20s,i,x;x=document.getElementsByTagName('link');for(i=0;i<x.length;i++){x[i].href=x[i].href+'?'+new%20Date().getTime();}})();
I'm not really looking for work, but something sufficiently cool could convince me to leave academia. My experience is mostly numerical/parallel computation and Monte Carlo, lots of C++ and decent Python experience, with some electronics stuff for fun in my spare time. I'd be particularly interested in projects involving both hardware and software, since my original degree was in applied physics and think astrophysics is a bit too abstract. I'd really like to work on building something (physical). For location, CA would be nice...
If they are a freelancer, this thread may be more appropriate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3412901
"Free" is the perception though. Nobody is arguing the merits of a cable subscription. The content is already piped into his house per a contract he signed, so it's there and it's "free".

There is, however, no sum of money - no matter how large - that he can give to the film industry to watch an already released movie in the comfort of his own home.
I wear mine around all the time. (Well, not at the moment, because I want something warmer for winter.) I get comments about them, mostly from people who're wondering what they are, but I've never seen anything negative.
I recently started working through Learn C the Hard Way, and after doing a few chapters I wrote down what I liked about it in a notebook. Digging it up, here it is:

"Why I like Learn C the Hard Way:

- Opinionated. I think opinionated textbooks are great because they limit their scope and focus on something. Rather than being an authoritative reference (who uses text references anymore?), it's a framework for learning.

- Emphasizes reading and editing which contributes to overall understanding

- It's lean. Goes with opinionated, but it's nice that it doesn't repeat what's been done, but sends you there directly, i.e. don't waste time writing about "strcmp", send me to "man 3 strcmp" since I need to get familiar with it anyway."

Disclaimer: I'm a bit new to low-level coding, so feel free to point out why these reasons for liking the text might be naiive.
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Andrew, I work for Sapient based out of Arlington. I know that we were recently looking for a web developer with python experience. The position may have been filled, but I would be happy to put your resume in. The tech recruiter is a good buddy of mine. jakelear @ gmail.
"If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind," she said. "If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind."

Pretty close to my motto: "What Would You Do If You Were Not Afraid?".

Taken from "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Dr. Spencer Johnsson.
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Can One Phone Save Nokia and Microsoft?
I am not suggesting exactly that, no. But it is possible to make large amounts of money without being paid by the people using your service, if there is a ridiculously large amount of those people. Google is the best example, that part is true.

To be more concrete, there are at least two possible ways for something like Dropbox to make money without users paying Dropbox directly:

* Data mine the files hosted for users. Even anonymized data like this can be very valuable for third parties. Edit: or for other separate services inside your own company.

* Ads that become an integral part of the Dropbox service, preferably targeted using data mining from the previous point.

Are these good ideas? I don't know.
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SOPA/PIPA Copyright Bills Also Target American Sites
It's nice to see a self-hostable alternative to Disqus. It's not likely to make me stop using Disqus, because I like the convenience of not having to deal with the hosting myself, but it makes me feel more comfortable knowing that if Disqus ever became evil I could move away.
I set up postfix + dovecot (with Squirrel Mail front end) on my own VPS just to see if I could do it, and it worked fine. It was a huge PITA to set up, but I knew that going in. The only problems I ever had was with Craigslist bouncing my email, and I fixed that. BUT this is just a personal email.
Hi,

Looking for remote or on-site London/SE-England, freelance or permanent.

Experienced in embedded, server, web and desktop code design development; mainly in C/C#/Javscript, although always willing to learn more...

Enjoy working on anything interesting and technically challenging! See github for a couple of examples: https://github.com/chrisdunelm

Contact via profile
The visualization was confusing for me at first. It's important to realize that if <1% of a group is in the 1% there is a fair chance that they are not the ones bringing in the wealth. Instead they have married into wealth. The darkness of the squares is much more informative then the size of the squares.

In some ways I feel the graphic is misleading since I'm not horribly interested in what groups happen into the 1%, and much more interested in what groups create the 1%.
I disagree. The main reasons I develop in .NET (as opposed to Mono) are tooling and performance. SQL Server is helpful in the cases where I need a RDBMS, but connecting to one's database of choice is generally painless.
The Samwers hit it big with MyCityDeal ($350m-ish) and seem to be trying to replicate its success. Wimdu, their Airbnb -clone is doing well and offers a very decent alternative to Airbnb. (There are differences: Wimdu pays affiliates 10% of bookings, Airbnb doesn't).

But there's a difference between a Groupon clone and Wimdu and Pinspire - Groupon is a local business. It doesn't matter if Groupon has the whole world dominated, if you can dominate your own country then Groupon are fucked. People aren't looking for deals all around the world, they are looking in their own backyard. So MyCityDeal got people on the ground and dominated the UK/German markets. Brand outside these areas was unimportant. It was cheaper for Groupon to buy them than build their own teams.

Wimdu - Slightly similar, but not really. Properties can be (and are) listed on both sites. It's a global business - people from any country in the world travelling to any other country. Brand and global coverage is essential here - US travellers won't use Wimdu to travel to Europe. Likewise, Europeans will find poor coverage of the US on Wimdu.

Pinspire - No advantage whatsoever. The European sites similar to Facebook have taken a good beating (even, and especially those that were there first). I can't really see Pinterest buying Pinspire.

Sites that I think would be ripe for them to clone though: Etsy, Tutorspree, possibly Twilio.
I agree. But how many companies do you see really focusing on their image and consumer experience? I used to be a fan of Nokia mobile phones and their ease of use, but as I upgraded to a Nokia 5800 I was disappointed, and lost my faith in that brand.
Reading the comments so far, this question seems to necessarily raise another:

What is the best team size?

Let's say it's 3. (1 has too much risk and 10 has too much overhead.) Once your productivity needs exceed what 3 average developers can accomplish, if you place importance on team size, it makes sense to pay more for higher performance in order to avoid increasing the team size.

It's like paying to upgrade hardware on the network nodes you have (which exist to mitigate risk), rather than distributing work across more and more network nodes.
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Perspective shift: You're being paid to be yelled at.

Document everything, so that he can't take it beyond yelling. And consider yourself an actor, or an actor-in-training. You sit there and take it until "they yell cut", and let it roll off you without soaking in.

And... if he's going to find something to yell about, regardless, then indeed, spend the weekend (and evenings, etc.) with your family. Fuck him.

P.S. Have some networking in place and prospects cooking, for if and when one of you has had enough.

P.P.S. The more you stand up to a bully, the more -- often -- they actually end up respecting you (and acting in a more reasonable manner). It's not guaranteed, but it's worth exploring.
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'Augmented-reality' windshields and the future of driving
Now you mention it, I vaguely remember seeing that. The overriding is the default though, right?
I'm looking for PHP/JavaScript/Any thing web related in Jo'burg, South Africa. Will work remote :-) I have a masters in Comp Sci and 5+ years experience.

Contact me on jrgns.net
Hi, I'm Jordan Stephens. Front-end and Ruby developer, and soon-to-be (May) CS grad. Looking particularly in NY or SF. http://jordanstephens.net
Wordpress, Elgg, MediaWiki are all integrating in Etherpad Lite
So we have been working on Etherpad Lite now for just over a year and we're big fans of HackerNews.

We are really proud of integrating into other CMS', ultimately our end goal is to make collaborative editing the standard on the web. We are still a really small Foundation with just 2 FTE but we have goals to grow so over the next few months we will be employing.

A lot of folks at HackerNews have supported us by either helping promote the word of by being actively involved and we wanted to take this opportunity to say thanks and if you want to join us for a hackathon in February jump on the website for details :)

http://etherpad.org
Hey I'm Corey Alexander. I am a Sophmore, Computer Science, Software Engineering and Mathematics triple major at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.

I am looking for a summer internship in a programming field. I have experience working with web technologies as well and Android development but can learn quick and am open to trying anything. I would be willing to work and live in basically any city in the US but some of my favorites would be the Bay Area, New York, Boston or Chicago!

email me at coreyja at gmail.com if you want to talk to me. Thanks everybody!
"This legislation specifically says there can be no secondary liability [to US-based sites]." - Richard Cotton. Then he contradicts himself 15 seconds later.

Is Richard Cotton a liar or just ignorant?
My name is Alex Zylman and I'm a senior studying Computer Engineering. I'm finishing up my last year in school and I'm looking for some remote contract work to wile away my free time. I interned for Google last summer and I've got significant web development experience in a variety of languages in both front end (CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Google Web Toolkit) and back end (PHP, SQL, Java, Python, Google App Engine).

You can see my LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/azylman, my Github profile at https://github.com/azylman, and reach me at [azylman AT u.northwestern.edu]
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Ashutosh 24 Bangalore.I can work anywhere.Python /Javascript /Java developer.
Vaguely related, ALSA comes with a lisp interpreter.
That was a Google Summer of Code Project. The code is now part of the NetBSD kernel and being maintained in the official repository. A NetBSD developer gave a talk on this recently at a conference: http://people.freebsd.org/~pgj/bsd_day(2011)/materials/04_mb...
contact joel@bufferapp.com. His startup just received funding and they are presently in HongKong.

Let Joel know I gave you his email.
FTC May Investigate Google for Favoring Google+ in Search Plus Your World
I live in Prague, have Bc. from IT at Economic school http://kit.vse.cz, so I have solid economic background. I started to study Masters(Cognitive Informatics, changed to Knowledge technology). I have variety of experiences from Java freelancing (play! framework), installing/customization of applications for customers based on their demands, data triplification(RDF), xml and general IT stuff... Now I want to focus on developing web and mobile applications. Looking for some remote freelancing or fulltime anywhere in the world :).
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I've tried about 5 different positions there but keep getting rejected. Not sure why they don't like my profile :(
Perl, remote, Asperger's. Give me your hardest data / db / sysadmin / web problem or project. If I accept it, I will give you correct, beautiful code that anyone can maintain.

If you can't explain the problem in a sentence or two, it's not ready to be solved. If you need a conference call to sort it out, solve that problem first. Please be just one person, not a hierarchical collective. Allow enough time and budget for a correct solution. If you need to ask my hourly rate, you can't afford it :)
Why would you incentivise comments over self documenting code that clearly expresses the intent? Comments get out of date and aren't subject to static analysis.

There are plenty of techniques that let you write code that reads like an English specification rather than details of how it is implemented.

If you find yourself needing to write a comment, it's always good to think how you could re-write the code to say the same thing as the comment.
"Think before you speak" is always good advice. The "confidence of the mind" referred above does not mean that you should shit out everything that pops in your head.
Female freshman wants to be engineer; asks how much they earn.
I completely agree. I was told the same and was seen as mature by elders for being pensive and quiet. It's difficult to reverse it to favor our true nature, which is what we excel at.

The biggest tribute you can make to someone's life, like hers, is to take a moment to reflect, heed their advice, and incorporate it into your own. That's the stuff they would most like to see.
I still consider myself a novice Objective-C programmer, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Having said that, I found a lot of casual iOS developers I talked to weren't taking full advantage of blocks. Hence, I thought it was worth putting this post out there.
It confused me a lot because I used to have an old username/password account with them and when I tried to sign in and got a very generic SSL error from Firefox.

That said, once I registered with a new account, the client certificate worked great.
I've worn my Vibrams exclusively (even to 2 weddings) for the past 4 years, and it's been great for my social life. It's probably the best ice breaker ever invented. Strangers regularly approach and start conversations.
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