skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You basically should invest some time in building up a portfolio of your own projects.

Otherwise you basically have to either undercut everybody in your bids to make yourself attractive on a cost basis, or when you bid on a project, show the customer a "proof of concept" or something that shows you already have something solid to show them before they choose a freelancer, which may or may not be feasible for the type of projects you're interested in doing.
I like the concept. Not sure how well it will work for people with pets that feel they have a rightful place on the bed though :)
There is no opportunity cost for putting a digital book on the "shelf".

Alternately, you must build a rack a mile long to offer the same breadth of selection.
I'm curious how the poster even found that page?? I'm sure it isn't a link from a main source. Not to say that it should exist at all. It's horrendous. Or... is Apple just so far ahead in design that this controversial use of color will soon be considered the epitome of modern technology design?
Nokia Lumia 710 Mobile Phone Black, White, Cyan, Fuchsia, Yellow available
What do you mean by transition?
> If you've had ten years being a manager at BigCorp, maybe you'd better sharpen up your coding skills

This runs into the "overqualified" problem, though. If you haven't been a programmer for a while, you probably can't be hired as a particularly senior programmer just based on programming skills, but companies also aren't willing to hire you as a junior programmer if you have 10 years of managerial experience, because you're too senior for that. Even if you really genuinely are fine with an entry-level position, most companies won't be willing to hire you into one.

Basically it's really hard to fake being a 25-year-old, even if you are 100% as qualified as a 25-year-old for a job (or even more qualified) and aren't asking for any more money than they are, because companies view the 25-year-old and the 55-year-old as fundamentally different when evaluating hires.
As an Italian coffee addict that moved to the States.. I can only warn you that measuring "productivity" in Italy can be a 'daunting' task. That being said, I'd be one more reader interested in the topic.
Sure. You could have QR code point to a URL on your server that started the oauth login process and had the one time hash value passed as a parameter. That hash value would be put in the callback URL for the oauth process. Once you complete your normal oauth login your server takes the one time hash value and does the same update the db trick done here.

Aside: God, imagine if browser vendors had put a tiny bit of effort into password management or even just the UI around http auth back at the beginning. All sites could use http auth or whatever superceded it instead of their own login forms and this problem would seem just as stupid as it actually is.
Interesting. The Yuri Milner thread suggests that the Walmart in China will be 100% online. Based on this article's market values of $88 billion for Amazon versus $719 million for Barnes and Noble, I'd say he's right.
Grey hairs don't correlate with wisdom. Most people don't actually grow and change all that much, they just get older.
I think this is the single greatest problem with Canadian politics. So many voters now don't even know who they are voting for. They simply walk into the polling station and check the name beside the party they want to represent them.

The concept of a MP is almost pointless because they are usually not representing their constituents. For controversial issues like C-11, ACTA, etc all party members are usually forced to vote a certain way when these issues are the ones were disent is actually the best possible thing for a truly democratic society.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if you didn't identify the party the candidate was associated with on the ballet and no one at the polling station was allowed to provide this information. Would people vote less? Would they actually learn about the candidates more?
Another thread today references Barnes and Noble versus Amazon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/business/barnes-noble-taki...

If Amazon really has 100+ times the market cap as Barnes and Noble, perhaps it's another reason to think Yuri is right!
because as long as you take them you don't evolve.

Homeostasis of the human body does make any intervention hard to keep long-lasting. I take it you mean "develop" (the word you used in the preceding sentence) for where you wrote "evolve," because of course individuals don't evolve (in the biological sense of the word) but rather populations do by changes in gene frequencies. The story of obesity seems to be that change is hard for human beings, period, whether the intervention is medical or a lifestyle intervention. If a person has a personal tendency that is truly a disorder for adaptation in current society, maybe nothing should be taken off the table for the person seeking help. But, yes, I agree with you that willpower-developed kinds of personal behavior changes are surely helpful for ADD and for other problems too, perhaps more possible if they are backed up by external helps of one kind or another.
I agree with you that continual learning is a requirement for managing a career or calling. I am now 60 and I still get a more than enough work offers but I find that I am spending a larger fraction of my time in learning activities than I used to. Twenty years ago I probably averaged 5 or 6 hours a week doing technical reading and coding experiments; now I easily spend 10 to 15 hours a week in learning activities. Part of this re-emphasis is because I enjoy learning new things and part is because this effort is required to keep getting interesting work that I enjoy. Also, as I get older, I have no interest at all in management or team leadership. I just want to design and write code.

Another thing that is almost as important as continual learning is what I would call "ego management." Most of us with decades of experience have had some spectacular successes in our careers but these are simply not relevant now. Live in the moment. I think that it is important to appreciate how much young people bring to the game in terms of entrepreneurship, creativity and job skills. I have no problems reducing my rates (inflation adjusted) as I get older to be in alignment with my current market value. I have an old friend who is not willing to do this, keeps his rates at very high levels, and gets no work. I have stopped talking to him about how much fun I have working.
Paper production is the most effective man-made carbon sequestration method we have. We're growing forests, which pulls massive amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere, then storing it in paper and lumber that isn't likely to be burned and put back into the atmosphere any time soon.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said "In the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fibre or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit".

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-cha...
bobbyi:
It seems that your comments are autodead for no good reason. From what I understand you can mail with info@ycombinator.com to correct this situation.
There is a well-known principle called the pigeon-hole principle - you cannot put more pigeons than you have holes in holes without putting at least 2 in one.

The larger the number of bits you have, the larger the number of possible messages. Therefore if the size of the message exceeds the size of the hash, there are more possible messages than there are possible hashes they can be sent to. Therefore by the pigeonhole principle, some hash value represents more than one message, so there must be collisions.

That part is simple. The hard part is finding them. The simplest way is to just try lots of random messages, until 2 give the same hash value. This is called brute force. But there are enough possible hash values that this is not feasible.

To date we have not found an SHA-1 collision. However we know of algorithms that should be able to find one faster than brute force. But we have not actually found one yet.

However attacks only get better, and computers only get faster. It is widely accepted that an actual hash collision in SHA-1 is just a matter of time now.
Samsung removes SGS3 i9300 from global download centre
I don't use them often but if I'm walking around and someone wants me to open a url on my phone for any reason (billboard, ad, store, restaurant, anything in print) then it better be really short or have the QR code right there for me to even think of bothering.

Still that means I probably use one maybe twice a month, but I would use them more if they were more widespread.

I expect most people are the same, no one types long URLs into their phones while reading them off a newspaper or billboard or store window do they?
Stumbled into it on twitter by @noah_halter, not sure where he found it.

And... my bet says a bright orange to dark green gradient will never be in style.
From my experience, my first jobs were from people I was connected with. Usually it was a small job building a quick website for a friend, or their boss, or a friend of a friend...you get the idea.

Even though those seemingly unimportant jobs were all I had, I was grateful because I knew they would lead to more spectacular and promising prospects.

As expected, almost a year later, I was landing great jobs thanks to my quick, small jobs at the start. People starting seeing that the jobs were finished, people were happy etc.. Although my work is now in another realm, those qualities hold true anywhere.

Try to find some jobs in your own network, see if anyone knows someone that needs a website built or even just a simple button designed. That's how I would start again if I had to.
This happened to my Dad. At 61, he has a long resume of experience, but it is experience in a lot of old technologies. He finally solved the problem though, by moving out of state.

Last month, my Dad, a native a Los Angeles who has lived there his entire life, moved to Iowa. He basically had to find a company that was still running on old technology that actually respected experience.
If the end result is failure, the company goes bankrupt and the hiring manager no longer has the ability to hire. Moreover, the guy who picked the job picked the wrong company, so he failed as well.

Hard work is a necessary but not sufficient component of success. Too many older folks equate passion or hard work with "death march" and foment a negative, lazy, can't do attitude. That is particularly poisonous at a startup where persistence in the face of rapid change and uncertain requirements is key.
The Real Problem with Facebook's Timeline
I look at it this way. How many years of REAL experience does a highly qualified 22 year old have? If they spent their college years EXTREMELY productively, then maybe 4 or 5.

OK, you're 33. The upper limit of re-tooling time required, to be just as up-to-date on the latest technologies is 4-5 years. And all you need to do is be as productive as that 22 year old was during his college years!

In reality. you could do it in 6 months of focused, unemployed time. Or a year of evening work, while you remain employed.
"Instead of these guys going to town hall meetings, why don't they brush up on their development skills and learn something new?"

If those specific unemployed people all went home and learned Android development, most of them still wouldn't be hired, anywhere, not in tech (because they're old and unemployed) and not in "survival" jobs (because they're old, and they'll leave when they find something better). They're garbage as far as the economy is concerned. That the practice of refusing to consider unemployed people for hiring is common enough to warrant discussion partially supports that.
I would imagine this is far from the finished product, considering it's a summer movies page and it is currently January..
If the number of possible messages is greater than the number of possible hashes, collisions are trivially guaranteed to occur. Since hashes are typically used with messages longer than 192 bits, SHA-1 collisions are certainly a possibility. Constructing one is orders of magnitude harder than for MD5, though.
Attackers Using DNS Poisoning to Hijack Domains, Divert Traffic
Actually, you may be interested to know the OED is a historical dictionary and in fact does not necessarily list common usage first.

The OED is a historical dictionary, with a structure that is very different from
that of a dictionary of current English such as ODO... For each word in the OED,
on the other hand, the senses are dealt with in chronological order
according to the quotation evidence. This way the senses with the earliest
quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear
further down the entry – like a ‘family tree’ for each word.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oxford-english-dicti...

Not to mention, those familiar enough with the word to understand what Apocrypha are should hopefully be able to infer why someone may be referring to apocrypha without a capital A. It's not a long cognitive leap.

If you're suggesting that a number of people may not actually understand how to interpret or use the word, then I agree (as in this thread, I suspect). But that is the case for many descriptive and useful words in the English language and has rarely been a good argument for dumbing down the level of communication.
Woah. That looks mature and robust. Thank you. I will say, however, that the visual icing on this project is nicer, but it looks like the other could be adapted for it.
It's even more fascinating when viewed in Firefox.
I checked out a few of the titles, and from the sampling I took, they were all 2011 releases.
You may be right, but I'm guessing it's actually just outdated - those are all last summer's movies.
Wish they showed something more statistical. As in, by how much did people's memory skills really improve?

That whole article doesn't really even explain how it works either, just some dabbling around "ethics" (really?). Just seems quite vague and unfocussed.

Really exciting prospect if it works though!
I think the migration of the entire technology manufacturing sector to asia, supported by what's essentially slave labor, is a failure of the system. The workers in this article are described as the types that would be running factory floors, so obviously they are no longer relevant.
>If the end result is failure, the company goes bankrupt

In my experience, that rarely holds true in the non-startup world.
My god this is amazing. I try to make all my sites responsive so this is fantastic.
Did people directly tell you it is because you don't have a portfolio? And was that the real reason? I would be careful about making assumptions.

Most people that get into the freelance game have little experience selling themselves (I know I sure did), I would suggest sales skills will help you much more than a portfolio.

A person will hire you if they believe you can get the job done at a price they like. A portfolio is just a small part of saying I'm the right person for the job.

No-one ever asked me for for a portfolio when I was doing websites, because they aren't interested in what I did in the past, they are interested in what I can do for them. Obviously the more complicated the job, the more proof someone will be likely to ask for. Wasn't sure if your talking about making websites or more complicated development.

Can you post specifically what you have done to try and get a freelance gig. I feel we can help you much better then, rather than give generic advice about yeah portfolios are helpful(which you already know).
I agree that children are incredibly complicated, and raising them properly requires knowledge, but I fail to see how the educational system and government regulation have any responsibility or authority in this domain.
You can't, yet.
I was kind of hoping this would be about accessing an external hard disk from my brain. I can't count the number of times I wished I could've saved a few seconds by not having to look everything up on the internet.
Propositally gaudy. Maybe.
I'm a full time freelancer, and I've never shown anyone a portfolio. My jobs are all earned by my reputation, which I get by my networking efforts. Even back when I had a fulltime job, I've been attending conferences and meetups, talking to people, and generally impressing them with what I know. That's how I got the ball rolling in the first place -- I've been doing this for 4 years now.

If you are a developer, and you seem relatively smart, there are hundreds of people waiting in line to hire you. Everyone needs a web developer. Everyone.
The videos are far from indicative of the performance of the device that'll be shipped because it's totally different hardware. The tablet in the video is an x86 Atom based device and the one they'll ship will be an ARM tablet. I really hope that'll be better cause the tablet shown actually has 1GB RAM.
Some of the printers are very nice quality (we got a couple of POD in the mail recently), and yes, a majority of the early ones were horrible. Layout is a function of format, but it looks like a couple of the companies have the binding / paper / print quality worked out.
It's listed on google too, https://www.google.com/search?ix=hca&sourceid=chrome&...
"if you're reaching 50 in technology, you need to find an exit scenario. government, management, teaching."

Everyone's goal should be financial independence by 35, or as soon thereafter as you are able to accomplish.
It showcases movies released in 2011.
I didn't personally experience all of those side effects, they just seem to be the most common based on dozens of other users of those medications I spoke with after beginning them myself. There are some other very common side effects I didn't mention as well, such as headaches/bouts of anger/crashing when the medication is wearing off each day, dehydration/drymouth, and heart palpitations or racing heartbeat.

The side effect that most annoyed me was actually loss of appetite, which is basically accepted as 'normal' when taking stimulants. Anxiety was probably a bigger issue with Adderall, though. I don't recall ever talking to someone who felt zero side effects from any these medications.
Speaking from experience, they don't pay as well in Iowa as the coasts, but it is possible to find a job if you'll move to where they are. To generalize about the midwest, you have a lot of people who still spend their life at one company, and do respect the simpler work histories.
That site uses the same colour scheme as many movie and game posters: http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-poster...
The placebo effect can be a wonderful thing.
Really? If we waited until nuclear explosions were proven to consider ethical implications we might be in a very different place. Ethical considerations don't need to stop scientific advancement, but they always must be an ongoing part of the process.

That said, I'm interested in a maker kit.
What do you mean by financial independence?
ah, very nice, it is easy. The chaining is still fairly clunky though, although maybe comparing it to haskell's do notation syntactic sugar is unfair.

(isn't the opposite direction the feature of doing things this way? That you can't call monadic code from pure code is a good thing)
Do contract work remotely. Never mention age. Have a killer website or github, and charge a lower fee, or a flat rate. Plenty of people do this.
Maybe they're A/B testing :)
The fallacy here is "no one understands what the technology is". The research folks think they understand it enough to ask the question about the downsides.

I continue to scan research in this area because I know that at some point there will be a recreational drug equivalent that runs off batteries. That is going to destroy a lot of wealth in the underground drug business. That will cause some violent changes in society.

As for TDCS I expect it to move along to the point where this may be like a calculator, not "required" but an accelerator for people with ones.
I find the juxtaposition of "non-kooky" and "limiting EMF exposure"/"filtering chemicals" to be really odd. A lot of these may well be interesting, but those two in particular just scream pure kook at me.
There's actually a lot of "AirBnB for Activities." Our company used to be Skyara (http://www.skyara.com). We ended up pivoting to RAVN (http://ravn.com), which is more of a "Amazon for Activities," per se. I think we were definitely one of the first ones to try to enter the "AirBnB for Activities" space but had a very hard time.

While in theory it sounds like a great concept, the key to realize is that no "AirBnB for Activites" can ever be an "AirBnB for Activities." What I mean by that is: the part of the "AirBnB for X" business model that makes it work is the part where you have a very low marginal cost to renting out an existing resource that, presumably, is getting very low utilization. I.e. a car sitting in a garage, an empty couch. The marginal cost of renting those out... is basically zero. However, with Activities, the resource at play is actually time! A person needs to take two hours out of their day to offer a walking tour, cooking class, etc.

Arguably, time is the most scarce resource we have. People value their time highly, which means the marginal cost (in this case the opportunity cost) of them offering an activity is very high. Add to that the fact that individuals do not benefit from any sort of economy of scale, and that most likely means that they cannot compete with businesses on price (which is arguably where AirBnB is winning in its biggest market, NYC).

So of course, I'm not saying an "AirBnB for Activities" is not possible, but some fundamental problems make it significantly more difficult than one might initially expect. Personally I think Vayable is doing a great job, but time will tell...

Oh also, AirBnB took something that already was happening (sublets on Craigslist) and just rebranded/made it better. Not much "Activities" activity going on on Craigslist. It's mostly for services, like painting, plumbing, car mechanics, etc. So you sometimes question if the demand actually even exists?

Anyway, I could write a loooong post-mortem on Skyara but you get my point.
Yes, these "science" ideas (actually, traditional engineering) really are that hard to fund.

One thing software people always forget is how expensive it is to perform R&D on real, physical things. Software is practically free to produce in comparison - your big campus of 1000 engineers, with free lunch and masseuses, is practically free in comparison to say, the cost of developing a new drug, or introducing a revolutionary new jet engine.

I don't think it's necessarily true that VCs only care about iPhone/Android apps, but they honestly cannot afford to invest in "real" engineering. The risks are just as great, and the stakes are far, far higher, beyond the deep pockets of many angels and VCs.
Why do you need a whole iphone for that? You can hack up something like this with an arduino and motion sensors for ~$30
<meta name="TrackingDescription" content="Trailers - Fall 2010">
Now that steve jobs is dead...
I think it will take a few years before I can use my first name and not be associated with Mr. Schettino's image..
Given the collection of 2011 movies, the site probably used to look good in 2011. Maybe some CSS or templated HTML changed out from under it?
Very good point.

I think this is very poorly executed, though: http://f.cl.ly/items/0J460z2l423e0N180d2l/Screen%20shot%2020...