skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are sites where you can bid for projects. I can't recall them because I never used them but they might be a good way to find some new project for you.

Things such as these:
http://www.scriptlance.com/
http://www.getacoder.com/

Hope this helps.
But funding comes from performance -- it's a feedback loop. The teams that perform the best get greater funding. That is a meritocracy.

In any case, my point would still stand. The Toyota F1 team was understood to be one of the top-funded teams, but was unable to compete at a level commensurate with their budget.
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I was under the impression that once you begin the security screening process, if you attempt to leave before the screening is complete, you can be arrested.
I was thinking "Hasn't it always been?", and then remembered Redhat.

Debian shows that actually solving real problems well is a valid way to approach open source software over the long term.

I first got into Linux years ago, before Ubuntu really existed. At the time, Debian was really awesome. It solved the biggest problem at the time: installing, updating, and removing software on *nix systems.

By contrast, Redhat had rpms, but they sucked. I still, to this day, have a difficult time figuring out how to do /anything/ with packages on anything derived from redhat. What is up2date? what is yum? where does the rpm command it? why aren't all of these documented well?

I think ultimately the rise of Debian illustrates the conflict of interests that comes from certifications. Making your software easier to use makes certifications less valuable, after all.
What everyone is missing about the entertainment industry
> What about remaking games from companies that don't exist anymore?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware#Enforcement_of_copy...
"Focus on our services (instead)."
My personal experience reflects this as well. Secret service obtained a search warrant looking for evidence of credit card fraud for my apartment based on some old consumer electronics packaging in our trash and recycling bins, bins shared with 2 other apartments nonetheless.
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Oh my god, an 8 year old looking at porn. Guys, I think this internet thing has gone too far...
As another sample, I'll say I'm far from feeling swindled. I was a bit disappointed that the publicly available ML class and its Stanford equivalent only differed in one optional discussion a week - but I certainly don't feel the time taken developing the class took away from the in person experience, and I do think Andrew Ng and the staff were more available for Stanford students than they were for those taking the class online (which I view as the justification for the Stanford tuition costs).

The cryptography class I'm taking this quarter is more to my liking in that aspect, as in addition to the video lectures (which I assume will make up the bulk of the public offering), there is another 2 hours of lecture and a discussion that cover additional material. In this kind of a set up, the added benefit for the Stanford students from an educational standpoint certainly seems more tangible.
RIM's new CEO is already spouting nonsense
"It's an attack on their identity."

Which is pathetic. They need a better identity, because they one they've got is hollow.
> How is this head-in-the-sand thing working for you?

And so you resort to ad-hominem and downvoting instead of argument.
> Without this, if you are in the UK an 8 year old can quite simply just buy a pay as you go mobile phone with cash from a supermarket, top it up using cash and use it to browse porn etc.

I don't see a problem with that.
I have built something to keep track of all these courses http://www.class-central.com. Currently tracking just Coursera(Stanford's online learning initiative) courses, but would be adding UDACITY and MITx courses(when they are announced) soon.
That doesn't support your position.
This is a victory, sure. But sadly, getting a warrant is a five minute affair nowadays. Judges sign those like water. In fact there are judges that just sign warrants exclusively. That's all they do.
I think there has always been a good argument for infrastructural socialism. Infrastructure requires the tricky navigation of public and private property rights. America in it's infinite wisdom decided to go with protected monopolies for providing public utilities (aside from water and roads) and we're constantly exposing the problems inherent in that system.
by Who? TSA guards do not have arrest powers..only police do and air marshals
Doing can be lonely if it's not inherently satisfying for you...
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I wouldn't bother. Why?

It takes a certain mindset to write code. Not everyone has it or is interested in it. My children couldn't care less about it and that's up to them. They'd rather be digging holes in the garden and covering things in paint. I'm not here to indoctrinate them with my own interests but to nurture their interests.

Education is fundamentally flawed on the basis that it mandates knowledge on political whim and percieved societal need rather than nurturing and developing interest. Consequentially society is filled with people doing what they are bad at and hate.
The Road we didn't go down (what's wrong with RPC)
So he "hacked" the system? No? ... Oh, he was the first to do this then? No? ... Hmm, Oh wait, his dad is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination? So it's an advertisement.

Why is this on the front page?
Obviously an al-Qaeda recruit. TSA just like a Borg with an empty brain.
Right, their superiority comes from flagging just about anything as dangerous. Their whole approach to security seems to me like they're putting lipstick on a pig. You can't go two seconds without Windows or IE throwing up some security warning dialog box. Dialog boxes aren't security. Throw enough of them at a user frequently enough and sooner or later the user just gets frustrated and disregards them. Then you have users just clicking through every time and eventually you actually do end up with a virus.

Instead of throwing up more dialog boxes or making them look prettier or more noticeable or just different they actually need to address the security of their products. It seems like they're just being stubborn and instead of rewriting what needs rewriting they wrap every security hole with new, ever more annoying dialog boxes with every major release.
I believe desktops and more traditional notebooks will still have their place in this world come 5+ years from now, I don't see them going away any time soon.
Often these results are irrelevant for users, such as when Google links to Mark Zuckerberg's empty Google+ profile on a search for "facebook".

For the record, Mark Zuckerberg can make his profile not visible to search engines if he so wanted: http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Google, Facebook and Apple don't need a warrant because you voluntarily sign up to give them all your information. If you emailed the police every time you drove somewhere, I don't think they would need a warrant to read those emails.
Piracy is part of the digital ecosystem
Sony Music Catalog Leaked
Note that this article uses Intel 64 for what most people call AMD64, as opposed to using it for IA-64, which is Itanium.
I like to think that there's something special about Paris that inspires these underground art movements. Back in '04 the group called themselves LMDP in a Guardian interview, and they didn't mention restoration. Maybe there are multiple underground hacker-artist societies. [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/11/film.france ]
You could say that about every blog post on the internet.
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"All starting from the unwarranted assumption that telephone access was necessary to farmers and food prices would have risen dramatically."

Yeah, that initial assumption really is weird.

How much could a phone line like that possibly cost for a company who does phone lines? I have no idea, maybe 10 million for all I know.

But that's a one-time cost that will be spread out over all the crops that farm produces for the next however many years that telephone line lasts. With some (admittedly ~10 years out of date) idea of some of the other costs involved in farming, I have a hard time seeing the bump to food prices being anything to get your undies in a twist about.
I don't like being called an entrepreneur.

Whenever someone calls me one I cringe and think of the most demeaning way to identify their own profession.

To do a good job in IT requires dealing with people and helping them, the "entrepreneurial spirit" that I read about on the internet appears to be an attempt to maximize profits off of half-assed IT services with stupid names.
"I need to be a pirate if I want that content."

Or you could find better to do with your time rather than wasting it watching TV shows and movies and trying to figure out how to get them.
How to be a dictator
They have created Screen, and they have a lot of Cloud tools they've created based on Openstack. They also have some better default service configurations. [citation needed].
Everyone's talking about Summify - Can it tame the Twitter fire hose?
It scrolls really slowly and clicking the titles doesn't do anything.
Even though the high cost to setup the lines have been collected, it's still expensive to maintain these lines so some version of this needs to be in place.

My solution would be to figure out what it costs annually to maintain this and limit the fees imposed on other companies to this fee. At the end of the year you calculate the percentage of calls your company terminated to the area and pay that percentage of the fixed fee.
" And that scares them"

Oh please.

I suspect Hollywood has problems with internet-distributed small time indie productions when their distribution costs are being subsidized by their file host, via ad revenue generated by providing downloads of pirated Hollywood movies.

If small-time indie productions can't afford to pay for their own bandwidth, maybe they need to fix their own business model.
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Thanks. I don't think that part of the article had been posted when I read it.
I've read reports that messing with the body's circadian rhythm is bad for the health of the aging brain. Presumably this is to do with the secretion of the hormone melatonin, which I understand is affected by light.

Whether natural light exposure can be simulated adequately by the computer monitor during waking hours and a blindfold during sleeping hours, or whether getting up at dawn is required, I would like to know -- anyone?
What sort of twisty-turvy world have we found ourselves in?

The same one we've lived in since Marbury v Madison. Judaical review and all that jazz.

The legislature and executive are always trying to grant themselves more power, regardless of party.
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I understand what you mean however the problem is more fundamental than that. It has become the case in the US and abroad that the higher courts are just enforcing existing laws in face of clear violations. With the blank card that is terrorism, domestic or foreign, branches of the government simply do whatever they want until they are called out on the illegality of it.
YouTube launches OneHourPerSecond to visualize volume of uploads each second
By non-commercial file sharing I mean file sharing without making a monetary profit from it. This definition covers people using megaupload, but does not cover megaupload itself - who quite obviously made profit from distributing copyrighted works. There is a different discussion on whether closing it this way was the right thing, but I'm not interested in it right now.

What I want to point is that the guy downloading and sharing the movie for home-viewing is definitely non commercial. And this is very much included in the common definition of piracy (along with commercial distribution like bootleg cds).

Now, about how it's not ok to break the laws: I disagree. I view laws as a convenience for having a civilized society, not as sacred rules. I have enormous respect for them and I am perfectly aware that respecting just the laws you feel like when you feel like is a recipe for chaos. But I am also aware that not all laws are just. More to the point, I am aware that historically a huge number of laws were completely absurd, and from a modern point of view they were (also literally) medieval. I have absolutely no reason to believe we are now above having such absurd laws and I think drug and copyright laws are such modern examples, having no basis in fact and rationality. Therefore not only I have no respect for them, but also no compunction about breaking them (other then getting caught).

Prostitution is a different matter btw - in principle I am for legalizing it, but in practice there are ways it could backfire. Human trafficking is real, and while I suspect having prostitution illegal only helps it I don't have the same degree of conviction.

With copyright on the other hand there is no doubt in my mind that it's an absurd law - therefore I am morally free (and somehow obligated) to ignore it.

Your main objection is that breaking the law doesn't help change it - this I do not think is true. Having millions, really having a majority of the population pirating movies and smoking pot - with no catastrophic consequences on either - only helps drive the point that the laws are absurd. If everybody respected the law just because it's the law we'd just have a world of sheep. It's enough we often get the circular reasoning that "all drugs are bad because they're illegal". I have no desire to see it applied to copyright.
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Well you can activate your 8 year old's phone and explain that to the social worker after a few weeks...
By my reading of SOPA (and I think PIPA is very similar), youtube could not be construed as a foreign site and therefore would not be (directly) affected by SOPA. Of course google, being a DNS service provider, a search engine, and an ad service, would definitely have been affected by SOPA.
i'm a supporter of tor, but i'm not sure why they're making this out to be so alarming. t-mobile clearly presents its filtering as a family-safe content filter, and tor is software that makes it easy to bypass content filtering. this is only setup by default on pre-paid accounts because anyone can purchase a pre-paid SIM without being over 18. i would expect the same kind of filtering at a library or school, and any other internet service that one can purchase like cable or dsl service typically requires that someone over 18 be present during installation. i can just imagine the silly backlash over a parent complaining to the media because their child was able to look at porn by putting a pre-paid SIM in their android phone.

i recently purchased a pre-paid SIM from t-mobile US and was kind of surprised they didn't ask for any identification when purchasing (more so because i would have thought the government would have mandated some kind of tracking of phone numbers for going after drug dealers or something). once i logged into t-mobile's website, the form to disable this content filtering was easy to find and required giving proof of being over 18 (which they say is not stored or associated with the account after verification).
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I actually started it June 2011 to learn iOS, launched it in September, and have been steadily adding features and making improvements.

It's something I use every day and I hope other people find it useful. Enjoy!
The discussion is about the statement: "But he's asking ALL software developers to stop making software for money"

That is blatantly false. Who gives a shit if they are selling software, or selling "support" for software? Either way people are making money with GPL software.

There seems to be a phenomenon on HN of absurd pedants deliberately derailing conversations.
My guess is that he is using Piwik (wikipedia has an entry), as that is the best OSS package that I know of. It's LAMP-based, so YMMV.
I prefer this. In my current operation I treat my email address as a help desk. I try to stay away from doing this or doing that and instead find out what problems people have[with their computer] and if the fix can be explained via email I do it for free. When they come back for more I suggest that they allow me to take a more active role in their IT support.
I haven't used RedHat-based distros for years now but I remember that back when I switched to Debian-based distros I was equally confused about Debian's package management system. I didn't think, and still don't think, that dpkg and apt are documented that well. To answer your question: yum is to rpm as apt is to dpkg. But I've always found it weird that there's a difference between apt-get and apt-cache; in contrast, "yum install" and "yum search" use the same executable. The documentation concerning building Debian packages is often out of date and scattered all over the Internet with no clear central place. And finally there's this "aptitude" thing; I still don't understand why it exists and how it's different from regular apt.
TL;DR version: "The custom NoSQL store (that lacks one of DynamoDB's major selling points) I wrote for my unusual use case works better for my unusual use case than DynamoDB."
Congratulations hodspot. Hopefully this will inspire others.
I have a two bedroom condo and use one of the rooms as an office/storage. After reading this article I am seriously considering moving my desk to my bedroom and getting rid of some other stuff to make a spare bedroom.

I'm sure there will be some hassle dealing with guests, but it seems pretty close to "free money" in my opinion.
While the current court might be right-leaning, it's issued a series of strong civil liberties decisions in the last few years that fit into their "original intent of the framers" model. This case (4th), the video game case (1st), and even Citizen United (1st). They can all be understood in terms of the inquiry: would the Framers have considered this unconstitutional?
Can't enroll with Chrome or Firefox. Their site is all kinds of broken right now.
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I like the way @alex_gaynor put it:

When the Supreme Court rules 9-0 against you,
there's a good chance your argument was fucking stupid.

https://twitter.com/#!/alex_gaynor/status/161481523160297472
Focus on the... profits of our respective companies perhaps? If users want this 'feature' they'll switch to a search engine that supports it. In that case these companies are wasting time whining when they could be scooping up these users. Clearly they don't actually believe users care, so they're whining about it instead.
While not a footnote, the headnote of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad "indicated that corporations enjoyed the same rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1868, as did natural persons" and has been very influential.
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Most people, myself included, who rent in the city have all of that laid out in the lease agreement. Most landlords probably wouldn't know either way unless they are coming by the apartment often. In either case, it's not a huge issue in the city.
IPhone 4 Doodle Pad Hard Shell
When the iPhone 4S arrived last year instead of the fabulous iPhone 5, many Apple fans were a little miffed that Apple hadn’t updated the phone’s looks as well as its internals.
>> ...sometimes we innovate too much while we are building a product.

Hahahaha. That's funny.
Yep. Or as I put it, DynamoDB is a great hammer, but sometimes you need a screwdriver.
I've been using the snapshot. It's got much better typeface support. Some things are odd, eg the. Buffer list appears to be reversed so I had to swap my buffer forward/backward macros. And it sometimes fails to load ido.
I think it is more the irony that Rand has been an outspoken critic of the practice, than it does that his dad is running for president. Rand has probably been more outspoken on the TSA than his father.

Why is this on the front page?

I think that is the more important question, it's politics and politics does not make for health discussion in an environment like HN that want's to promote health discussion.
Such as accessing the phone carrier's records on where a cell phone has been via its internal GPS?
It's an important procedural protection. Just having a coordinate branch of the government somewhere in the process gives you a safeguard against egregious abuse.
I feel like a lot of people use the term "startup" as a cover for "unbootstrappable". If your idea requires big-league success (think twitter), or is otherwise a failure, surrounding yourself with buzzwords will not escape you from reality.

My personal opinion is to make an MVP that has a revenue model from day one, and by releasing early and often grow your product while being paid to do so. If no one buys it, stop. It's not as sexy as a social media home run, but it just might make you some money without VC intervention.
To understand the relevance of this event in the context of "security" in the US, look no further than Param's comment below:

> I was under the impression that once you begin the security screening process, if you attempt to leave before the screening is complete, you can be arrested.

Why is this Param's impression? Probably because of all the horror stories of people who refused to be screened and were treated to an unhealthy dose of interrogation by the Staatssicherheit... I mean Ministry for State Security... I mean Department of Homeland Security.
I'm under the impression that the TSA will call the police in such an event. Probably reporting you for "making a disturbance" or some nonsense, who knows.
> $44 per month. That's 14.6% of Tarsnap's gross revenues;

Hi Cpervia,

Please, please, please, charge more for Tarsnap.

Unbeknownst to you, I used you as an example in a blog post a year ago:

> If cpervia tripled the cost of tarsnap tomorrow I would not bat an eyelash.
You know why you hear of companies that just blew past xxx,000 users in no time? Because that is not what usually happens.

If you do not know what you want to work on, then test & drop as quickly as possible.

If you know what you want to work on, then my advice is to shift you thinking to 'I am in this for the next 3 years (absolute minimum)'. Commitment changes your decisions from tactical to strategic.

Building a company requires 1 ounce of skills + 4 parts of persistence + 5 parts of patience. Get married to the problem, but be willing to change the proposed solution.
Splitting user stories: the hamburger method
What SaaS Product Category will see the most Growth in 2012?
All the advice and benefits listed basically boil down to the fact that starting work a few hours after you wake up is a good thing, it removes morning stress and the bad habits that follow that, and it allows you to be productive at a time when few other people are about.

But you can achieve that by simply moving your workday later instead of moving your sleep schedule back. That also has the added benefit of making you avoid rush hour if you commute to work.
This is a desirable trait in a server. You keep behind everything by a version or two and you are essentially guaranteed more stability. Considering how Ubuntu 11.10 has run on my desktop, I would not want to build my business off it.

Mot vendors offer a PPA for easy integration with apt on debian. MongoDB, Maria/MySQL/Percona etc. This way your core system stays solid and well tested, but you can build your app layer using whatever version you want. It's definitely a win-win.