skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is to me the most surprising aspect of this whole story, that Jones (and King?) at the height of a historic moment was thinking about... copyright. I can't believe that there was a commercial motivation behind this at the time, yet Jones really gives that impression in the interview.
Regarding security, my advice is to always have two bags. The main bag has all your clothes, toiletries, etc. All the stuff you would be sad but not devastated to lose. In the other, smaller bag goes the Macbook, camera, and everything else that would be terrible to lose. Also, consider thin dry bags (I think mine are Sea to Summit) to keep out moisture and sand, two things which are inevitable on any adventure. :-)

Having toted an SLR everywhere, I'll admit that unless you're an avid photographer, you will probably be happier and less anxious with a quality point-and-shoot. I gave an awful lot of impromptu classes on photography to people with SLRs that had kit lenses (not much better than a good P&S) and wildly inappropriate settings (much worse than a P&S).
4 Friends, 1 iPad, No Rules
Turn your iPad into a 4 player, interactive music studio with Rockmate.
The stock market is an expectations game, it doesn't matter how you do what matters is if you beat expectations. If Groupon manages to lose half as much money as predicted then it will be hailed as a major success despite losing money.

If a company consistently outperform expectations then people will also get upset at them. (AAPL) The company can get in big trouble with the market if they make people who usually make money lose money like how the Porsche family short squeezed a number of prominent hedge funds. Note that when hedge funds short the fuck out of a stock with borrowed money on borrowed stock it's not market manipulation, but if a family were not to trade their stock because they have no need to create liquidity for market participants then it's market manipulation.

The rule in the finance industry is that if the banks aren't able to profit from your stock price movements then your company is probably doing something illegal according to the securities industry.

Unless you are exercising a trading strategy (expectations game) you should generally not give a crap about stock price movements, instead you should look to things like moats, book values, and other things and then check whether the stock price is a reasonably accurate reflection of the value of the company. In this case Yahoo is probably a decent investment which is why many companies are looking to buy the asset.
Couldn't the same argument be applied to JQuery UI then?
I took a quick look at your ebook - $50 seems pretty steep, particularly when I can't view more than the first page, and I don't know how many pages there are. A table of contents would definitely help know what the book's about.

Also, it's confusing how you've laid out the "You're doing it Wrong" parts. I'd merge them, call it "You're doing it wrong if..." (the if... is important) and make it all bullet points or else separate the points a bit to make them stand out more (I'm not 100% sure you can do that last bit in Kindle though).

There are other things, but those are the two that I immediately noticed.
Actually in the last two years I've made a circle around the northern hemisphere. Freelance development is ideal for telecommuting.
You can also homeschool.
It also depends on how much you pay for two residences. if you keep your rent/mortgage @ home that's another major monthly expense. If you find a sublet/AirBnB or something this still applies.

One of the best times to travel is between leases, if you can stand to 'move' twice. Once to storage, go travel, once from storage to a new place.
"some technology business interests are resorting to stunts that punish their users..."

I wonder if the MPAA has heard of DRM. Of course, said 'interests' have evaluated the cost of annoying their customers against the social and economic cost of SOPA and make their own decision.

"... or turn them into their corporate pawns"

Because, in the eyes of the MPAA, information is bad and/or people are stupid.

"It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today."

Using their market freedom to protect their market freedom? How dare they!

Etc.

"...designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals."

Yes, the poor and weak American elected official must be protected from the wrath of the informed populous.

Le Sigh.
"Misinformation simply can't be allowed to replace honest debate, and derail the critically important fight..."

Passing SOPA is critical compared to what?

Repairing our economy? Bringing home the troops? Let me say it again: piracy has not had a material affect on the entertainment industry; on the contrary, they're having record years of gross profit.

This is honest debate?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111114/23145216770/house-...

So, Senator, who is guilty of "misinformation"?
I experienced similar behavior when I moved from a smaller city in US to Bay area. The small city at a macro level was far more homogenous when compared to Bay area. However, I made friends with folks from a diverse group. I found them to be open to meeting new people.

But, when I moved to Bay area, I realized that people are already part of some clusters (based on their home country, state or school) and are less inclined to create new friendships; particularly with someone not fitting into their cluster criteria.
It really depends on the kind of project you're working on. Some modern Agile authorities (see Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed) will tell you that you should tailor the process to your specific requirements. They would never recommend that you use XP for the development of life-critical software that has hundreds of engineers working on it.

Agile is born from rapid prototyping and makes a lot of sense for that environment. If you're doing work where one day you might be developing one thing, and the next day you might be working on a completely different product altogether, then reducing the cost of change is the only thing that makes sense. If you're not, then don't use pure agile, it doesn't make that much sense.

There's obviously an issue with one size fits all approaches to agile, and as agile matures people realize that more and more, instead of forcing you to do everything by the book. The point is, as you get more and more experience with driving software projects, you need to be smart enough to understand what will make sense and what won't.
Yes, no attempt to hide that
No way. I spent six months in Japan last year, on two three-month tourist visas. Within the first three months, I had learned immense, immense amounts about Japan, myself, and the rest of the world (via housemates and acquaintances). That trip taught me more than any other similar period in my life.

It's not making you any smarter or better, which is what a lot of people try to claim.

The best quote on travel I've read is, "travel doesn't make you interesting, it makes you interested." The few people I've met who thought it made 'better' were the same sorts of desperate saps that name-drop their college all the time. But these schmucks say nothing about going to college, just as the other schmucks say nothing about the validity of travel. You can't judge the world on the basis insecure people.
I suspect Google's PAC is underfunded because it mostly employs the kind of people who hate the whole concept of a PAC and find it morally loathsome.
This is typically why you separate authentication and authorization. In your case many authenticated users can be authorized to access a single identity.
Right now it is the world's worst website because it's not loading at all... which is the single largest contributor to being a bad website. :)
I think you're missing the strategic issues here. SOPA is really about the 2012 election.

On the content providers' side they see a close election for both the Presidency and the Senate (the House is likely to stay GOP no matter what). This means two very important things...

1. Control of the entire federal government is up for grabs

2. All Senate races will be under the microscope. Even those that don't usually get attention. Meaning Senators who aren't used to raising large sums of money are going to need large sums of money.

Both these factors mean the content providers' money is worth even more and they know it. So now is the time to push.

But the politician's are scared by protests. A close election means even a (relatively) small group of Internet activists could turn it. That makes politicians scared of laws that get people riled up.

So the content providers need to both pay off policitians AND find a strategy that gives them political cover. The best way to do that in a bad economy is to frame it as a "jobs bill". Especially since it's the exact strategy that worked in Spain just a few months ago.

That's why you're hearing about jobs and foreign thieves.
hehe. interesting points.

but remember that he would be probably giving out nothing if it wasn't already lost to taxes already.

so, the sum have to account for the things that would have been done with the tax money (and remember, for every $2 of tax, $1 get's lost or pay for overhead. in multimillion non profits, it's almost $9 out of $10)

Also, he need to win the money in the first place. For every student that want's to buy a linux laptop, they pocket at least $100. so also account that for every textbook he donates, two were taken away from a student previously.

ok, those are a couple starting points... you can go on from here.
A lot of the MPAA members also own a majority of the news stations and newspapers. They sway voters a lot more than Apple ever could.
> Instead of insulting them, we might try to educate them on our perspective and see if they might be persuaded to release it under the GPL or something similar. If Sony has it, they may be unwilling to change, but maybe the family?

Ahahaha. No, you would have better luck persuading Sony than the family. The family is very clear: MLK is a goldmine they will exploit as much as possible. This is the same family that has so far made somewhere around a million dollars in licensing and consulting fees from the DC memorial (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Memori...).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Memori...
No serious agilist suggests that you never plan, or that all projects can deliver a useful release in a week. Indeed, Agile teams see planning as something so important that you do it frequently. What they're opposed to is blindly following an old plan in the face of new circumstances.

If you are lucky enough to work in a domain where you can reliably plan years or decades ahead, then you can still happily use Agile methods. Incremental delivery still lets you get more for your money by putting the most valuable parts of the system in production first.

But if, like most people, you have competitors, or if you learn new things when you put your product in the hands of users, then the ability to respond to change is absolutely vital. In that case, holistic reasoning is an ongoing process, not something that happened once, years ago.
> No job-related health insurance.

> As a contractor, I pay almost twice as much employment taxes as full-time employees in the US.

As a small business owner in the UK I have free healthcare and pay slightly less tax than I would as an employee. I pay minimal NI contributions (about 40 GBP per month, I think), 20% corporate tax on earnings (after subtracting expenses and a token 7.5k salary) and zero tax on up to 35k of dividends per year.
This has been done better elsewhere:

http://qntm.org/destroy
I would think that companies routinely end contracts with other businesses due to the actions of one or some of their employees. This is not group punishment, this is ending contracts with entities that misbehaves in serious ways in your name.

Of course Google should continue to use Indians at their discresion. Anything else would be group punishment.

Google doesn't stand to gain anything from sabotaging Open Streets Maps, but that does not mean that they are not responsible for sabotage in their name. That is not a contradiction.
There is no post-hoc twisting involved. The bill is consciously and deliberately deceptively-worded to make you think it only applies to private sector research. That is false.
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Does anyone have experience with cost of living in the bay area vs Austin, TX? According to the cost of living calculator on CNN Money, $120,000 in San Francisco is equivalent to $70,000 in Austin.

Has anyone here moved from Austin to Silicon Valley or vice versa? How accurate are the online cost of living calculators to what you experienced in person?
Show HN: HackPad is the best wiki ever
Science and Cinema Series growing at Coolidge Corner
Ask HN: Increasingly Forgetful?
I seem to be increasingly forgetful. I remember clearly in my younger years (high school and younger) that I could just glance at some reading material or tv show and have perfect and fast recall of events. Now my memory seems more patchy and takes more time to recall events both old and recent. While this could be just a natural process in aging, I seem to be increasingly more forgetful than some of my other friends and I'm wondering if this is something I should be concerned about. And if it's a concern, who I should go to.
I agree with your general direction, but I have a quibble.

Agile methods were born from in-house enterprise software projects. The ur-project for Extreme Programming was a payroll system, and SCRUM's was something similarly dull. The original SCRUM paper says, "Scrum is concerned with the management, enhancement and maintenance of an existing product[...]. Scrum is not concerned with new or re-engineered systems development efforts."

If I'm doing rapid prototyping, that's when I'm least interested in Agile techniques like pair programming, test-driven development, and refactoring. Those only really pay off in the long haul.
I thought this was great. I've watched and pondered these things for a while. At some point I want an app to collect GPS data from my phone so that I can try various routes and map out avg speed between home and the office for different strategies.

One thing I've noticed on freeways is that off ramps generate 'waves' because people move from the far left (HOV) lanes to exit, and the right lane gets less dense. Then the following on-ramp has people braking as folks merge on, and as they try to move over to the HOV lane.

It would be awesome if there was some way to have a third dimension, lift up and then exit.
When you're paid hundreds of thousands (millions?) by a lobbyist, you don't give up that easily.
"I'll bite" == "I'll take the bait".

I agree that OpenBSD has written some nice code, but it's hardly "miles ahead" of FreeBSD considering that FreeBSD includes pf and carp in the base system and openbgpd in the ports tree. The great thing about the BSD license is that when one project does some great work, everybody else catches up quickly. :-)

And I don't take it as a "personal insult" -- I'm just amused by your comment given that FreeBSD's network stack has vastly superior performance and support for far more 10GbE interfaces.
Damn Synchronicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

I am seriously considering getting a fixie or single speed and this article pops up on Hacker News.

I remember about 5 years ago getting a fixie was more of an enthusiast cyclist endeavor than a hipster one. I don't care, it's better for training and feels less inhibited.
Have you ever had your passport stolen in a country where you don't speak the language? Been stuck on a bus for 10 hours in the middle of nowhere where the only food looks like it can walk? Had to get from your hotel to the airport at 2am without having a taxi service to call? Everytime I go through something like this it empowers me and that will to survive goes straight into my business. Sales down this month? Whatever, we'll figure it out. Critical service down? Eh, I'll do an all nighter and write personal apologies to customers with salutations in their language. Before I travelled I was a youthful know-it-all. Years later I'm a much more youthful, stable, interested-in-all-perspectives adult who has the confidence to take on almost anything because business just isn't that hard compared to living on $1 a day with fresh water 10 kilometers away.
None of the IntelliJ IDEs work properly with OpenJDK.
Using Modern Portfolio Theory To Win Your Fantasy Sports League
This is extremely common in my experience (and the corrollary effect - we cannot refactor that code, it will be too expensive to retest. Dont touch that code path, add a new one with cut and paste)

Anyway, it is possible to bring Agile to a large organisation, but it generally needs first to solve tooling and build problems - I would not start a single sprint until there was source control, complete automated build, and enough tests to be reasonable. Amazing how much pain can be endured by teams. That much pain can teach you not to care.
When Gandhi was asked what he thought of western civilization, he replied: "I think it would be a good idea." I feel the same way about the widespread adoption of Agile methods.

What most people are doing under the name "Agile" bears little resemblance to what many of the early adopters used the name to mean. Not that anybody thought it would be the One True Process. As one of the XP originators says, "Extreme Programming isn't where you'll end up. But it's where you should start."
"Senator" Chris Dodd is no longer a Senator. Use of the honorific highlights what is most wrong with the U.S. political system: the revolving door between the legislature and corporations seeking to influence the legislature. In this instance, his rhetoric is so inflammatory, I believe he should be henceforth referred to as Lobbyist Chris Dodd.
His job was to do what was best for shareholders, not his employees and definitely not himself. Tough to argue that turning down $33 for the current $15.50 was best for shareholders.
I couldn't agree more. To add to it, I think there is something to be said about the natural slow evolution of yourself and your business. There are many who are looking for quick paths that involve raising a boatload of cash, hiring a bunch of people and trying to storm the market. In actuality this is rarely how most real businesses are formed - even in tech. Most businesses are formed through a slow and very unsexy evolution over a number of years by doing relatively difficult things that others don't want to do.
Rather than doing one around the world trip, setup one "home base" and focus on seeing that region. For example, I live in the Philippines and I can get tickets to anywhere in SE Asia are very cheap. I can work hard for a period to bust out some projects and then take time off to travel to another area in the region for a week or longer. Then go back to "home base" and repeat the process.

The author seemed to be working on his own projects during his trip. Doing contract work on the road is far more difficult, so the "home base" strategy also works better if you have to continue contract work while abroad.
Israeli hackers bring down Saudi, UAE stock exchange websites
JQuery Rewritten, Ground-Up, for Mobile HTML5 on iOS and Android devices
Asked on Quora a month ago, "Why doesn't Amazon offer a cloud-based search service?"

http://www.quora.com/Amazon-Web-Services/Why-doesnt-Amazon-o...
I did the work/travel thing for 14 months and found it ok. I wouldn't want to commit to more than 15-20 hours work per week whilst travelling though.

My plan for the next trip is to travel in between contracts and then settle down for a few months at a time whilst working. Hopefully that will allow more focus.

Edit: Actually I like gexla' idea above - pick a comfortable home base to work in and travel to nearby areas/countries in between contracts.
I think that was said from a shareholder/owner perspective. Microsoft's offer was for more than double Yahoo's current price per share, and that was 4 years ago.
Its unfortunate but you'll typically win the adjusted salary comparison by comparing any other place in the US (of course except NY and possibly LA). The sense that Ive gotten is the average salaries float around 85-95 in Austin TX
I simply don't think you understand what people are willing to do. I know many people who would play Wikipedia Jenga - you edit Wikipedia with bigger and more ridiculous edits and the person who gets the article reverted is the "loser". It's not ridiculous to assume that they could be playing a similar game with OSM, especially if they viewed it as "competitor".

I don't believe Google is stupid enough to advocate vandalizing an opponent's products.
> Vandalizing wikipedia for teh lawlz is one thing

This actually pertains to a discussion I had with a friend, who recently informed me that he found out that doctors not only look things up on the Internet like the rest of us, they sometimes even use Wikipedia. So you could cause some serious damage there as well. Granted, if the doctors would STOP DOING THAT it wouldn't be an issue.
Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click
That's only relevant if all you do is search. If you're using a commodity search engine, as so many people are, an AWS offering lets you shrink the number of areas which you have to think about so you can focus on your big ideas.
Maybe you should add how old you are.
There seems to continue to be this idea in management that process will take the place of skilled programmers.

This is true, but it's not what Agile originators meant. The early Agile stuff was exactly the opposite. E.g. the initial SCRUM paper starts out talking about "Small teams of competent individuals, working within a constrained space that they own and control." Extreme Programming specifically removed from management the power to arbitrarily mandate a schedule:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/extreme-programming-bill...
> If you don't speak up, you can't complain when no one listens.

I do spend quite a bit of time engaging with politicians. Certainly if I am taking my time out to discuss this with not only my peers online, but in person. I written my congress people, and will be taking this into consideration when I go to the polls next. Yes yes, this is how politics work here.

That said, I don't think that you are fully understanding the amount of time and money that corporate interests put into politics. Or maybe I am not understanding it correctly. I'm more aware of the amount of money in politics than the number of people paid to influence politicians, but that should probably be reported somewhere I hope.

> Hopefully I don't come off that harsh.

No problem, I'm used to dealing with your type. Sometimes I can even be that way given circumstances.

Now back to C-SPAN.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss Explains How Everything Comes From Nothing [video]
Are you saying, that in Chicago, you were riding Fixies before they were cool?
The MPAA is made up of companies / corporate interests more than it's "made up of people". They're not SAG or AFTRA, as much as they like to pretend they speak for the "little guy" in Hollywood.

From their web site:

MPAA’s members are the six major U.S. motion picture studios

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Universal City Studios LLC

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Has Apple actually clarified their position on SOPA?
Death spiral? Please don't get your financial information from techcrunch. I'd suggest checking public market data which suggests that in the last few years has massively increased its profitability

Net income for YHOO
2010 1,231.66 m
2009 597.99 m
2008 418.92 m
2007 639.15 m
I love how the 'online assistant' popup will hide away from you on Chrome under OS X. Brilliant!
how about microsoft's azure? Any stats on that?