skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like you are trying to say something, but it's not clear exactly what it is. Are you speaking from personal experience? Or guessing at the mindset of others?

It seems pretty obvious that if people are not willing to pay, then there is some sort of problem. Either your business plan isn't quite right, or perhaps the market you thought exists doesn't, or maybe your salesmanship is just very poor.

Part of doing a startup is figuring out which of these is the case. Try asking people for that "some reason". Try changing the price. Try changing your sales pitch. Get feedback and advice from others. Focus on getting answers.
Ask HN: Review my job posting for a developer
I'm planning to hire a developer, it's a difficult task for a non-technical person thus would like to ask the Hacker News community to review my job posting below.

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Hiring a Ruby on Rails Developer to Complete Version 1.0 of a Website

We are hiring a Ruby on Rails developer to create only the beginning of a web application. If this milestone is completed well, there will be more work immediately. The requirements are as follows:

- This version will be limited to three essential features; user should be able to (1) create an account, (2) post a listing and (3) purchase a service. Additional details will be provided privately.

- I will have a detailed design of all the pages provided via photoshop. I won't expect it to be pretty at this stage, but I will expect it to be functional.

- Write beginner friendly, clean, modular, robust code to implement the desired requirements with little or no supervision. I ask for "beginner friendly" because I am attempting to learn RoR without any previous programming experience (good luck, I know). Comments should be used to give background information or annotate difficult code.

The Ideal Candidate:
- Required Programming Languages: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

- Do you have any open source projects? Please provide links.

- Do you contribute to the Rails community? Personal blog? Participate in Q&A? Please provide links.

- References - What other startups have you worked with?

VERY IMPORTANT: To separate you from the spammers, please write I AM REAL as the first line of your bid. We will delete all bids that do not start with this phrase, since most bidders never read the requirements. Thank you for being one who does.
I had problems installing it on older versions of OSX (Leopard), mainly because I was VERY new at managing the command line and understanding the relationships between ruby, rails, gems, etc and all of the various versions. I later got a new MBP and installing from a new install was very straight forward, but having to upgrade everything first and then installing it wasn't fun for a n00b like me. I would be interested in seeing this project as I think it would be easier for new kids on the rails block.
I find the install even easier now thanks to RVM, which is just a copy and paste into the terminal. Same with POW, which is good for the server part of development.

But then again, all this seems easy to me, can't speak for people entirely new to development.
Full Show 3/27/12: Progressive Caucus Releases their Budget
well, now there's less doubt about it for one thing.
Right. By calling them both "fire" you're drawing an equivalence between a bot posting sexist jokes and a bot posting feminist quotes. Or more simply, an equivalence between sexist and non-sexist behavior. See the problem?
I don't understand why this needs $25,000 in funding. He doesn't seem to mention where the money is all going to (I'm assuming just as 'salary' to work on it?)
Yes, the "empty quarter" or "outback" of Oregon is mentioned, especially the amazing challenges of census workers in the region.

If you like geography, this book is a good read. It's a bit dated, having been written in the early 1990s, but this, in my opinion, turns out to be a good thing. It gives us some great glimpses of how isolated these communities were and I'm sure the Internet has since changed this considerably.
People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be
What's the duty cycle on those cost numbers? A 250 GB monthly data cap would be 0.8 mbps at 100% duty cycle, which suggests that the interconnect bandwidth costs are a very small fraction of the price of a 20 mbps plan.
As a graphic designer with many designer colleagues & friends, I can tell you that we complain bitterly about Adobe software.

Since they purchased Macromedia, their tools have stagnated in features and yet somehow managed to get slower. That, plus their high price is reason enough to hope for a viable competitor.
We didn't used to drive. We used to fall onto our horses drunk and trust the well trained beast to carry us back home.

Yet somehow, we built our way to modern society from those humble beginnings.

Self-driving cars are a step backwards to a benefit we previously attained gratis from animals. For instance, in remote parts of the world where mules are still used for transportation, farmers on the mountain top load their mule with the days goods then let it navigate home (e.g. 'in take') all by itself.

Mules don't get lost, run away from danger, and feed themselves on their way to the destination. They navigate treacherous terrain and need no looking after on their way. If we had a truck with the basic intelligence of a mule, it'd be a godsend to industry.

A car with the intelligence of a palfrey---enough to not run into things, and maintain a smooth ride regardless of terrain/environment----would be an amazing luxury vehicle.
3 step process:

Step 1: Download the "Command line tools for Xcode" here

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action

Step 2: Install homebrew with this command

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contribu...

Step 3: gem install rails
This sounds an awful lot like political talking points without any substantiating evidence. Most tech startups on this site don't overlap with any of the big regulated areas you've listed. It's also the case that you do not see new startups in most of those areas in the US either.
On the contrary, I've found the discussion on this thread to be extremely insightful.
I'm in for 10k.
Gmail Users Get Help to Stay Masked Before SEC
He's taking time off of work to do this:

https://twitter.com/#!/wycats/status/185113407429677056
Sure send me an email lona.alia@gmail.com. Got lots of links and info on this space.
yeah, it's why I work for myself now :-)
As a fairly recent OSX and a fairly recent Rails user, I had no trouble learning either.

That is, except for Lion and XCode 4.2/4.3, which caused me about three lost days. 'rvm get head' and 'rvm install 1.9.3-head' fixed that, though.
ironic... or, just coincidental?

i‧ro‧ny -
Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

co‧in‧ci‧dence -
A sequence of events that, although accidental, seems to have been planned or arranged.
I have written a bit of Go. It strikes me as sort of the Unix of programming languages. It's very opinionated, takes some overarching concepts, mostly channels and interfaces, then proceeds to thoroughly not care what you think about it: refuses to have generics, lambdas and tail-call recursion like a pro. The polar opposite of design by committee. It even enforces a True Brace Style to keep the parser simple!

Technically, it looks good to me. The toolchain is excellent. It looks ready for production. Programming in it is fun. It fixes most issues of compiled languages. Go has mostly replaced Haskell, for me.
Free the Network
"The Unity Web Player is not currently compatible with the operating system that you appear to be using."

Linux (Mint 12 / Ubuntu 11.10)
Red Hat: The first billion dollar Linux company has arrived
It think it's just being used in contrast to physical property. But it is a little weird.
This link from the comments on that site just has to be shared here:

"Hackers Successfully Install Linux on a Potato"
http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html
Marissa Mayer: "I don't believe in burnout"
all the quotes are out of context in that article.

i doubt they said anything to that effect.

My bet, if I could see the talk somewhere, is that he referred to the attacker as something generic (not "china") and then on another point talked about China's trouble with intellectual property as when they sell counterfeited cisco gear or use code from one US company manufacturing there on a huwaei product, etc.

and the journalist just cut, mixed, and published the bomb about china being the attackers.

of course the article may only have the worst quote choices and that's exactly what he said.
QR's benefit is that it is so low tech, so it will have usecases even after something else comes around (print media for example). Btw, I have been under impression that the NFC technology is coming as the next step, haven't heard about low-power BT.
I find that wasting my time is a larger annoyance than monetary compensation. As I get older I have less tolerance for meaningless meetings and the requirement to work specific hours or be in a physical office for a client just because it makes a manager feel better.
There's something intangibly nice about the main golang.org website. It feels more like a consistent self-contained unit than a lot of such sites do.

Well done to whoever does the design and content.
Honestly, no.

They're both, in and of themselves, wrong. I therefore look down on both parties almost equally. I'm not saying that what she did is any more wrong than the actions that prompted it, however, it certainly isn't right, and that's why I don't consider it appropriate.

Regardless of equating it to 'fire', which I certainly didn't intend for anyone to take literally as it is an idiom, I'd think my synopsis at least appropriately defined the situation.

She knowingly tried to out-annoy her co-workers to get them to resolve the issue, and expects that to somehow smooth things over?

Perhaps it's a stupid thing to be arguing about, but you'll have to forgive me if I save my applause for someone not seeking the most annoying way toward peaceful resolution.
I would say that that three lost days getting set up is a large, large problem for Rails, though.
What makes you think it was intended to be, or is, annoying?
What happened to the ebnf package?
Question about WordPress
Is it something worth knowing if i want to be a web designer/developer?

Is there something better out there?
I feel like this is overkill. I have been using RailsReady (https://github.com/joshfng/railsready) to setup several Mac and Ubuntu boxes and it has never been more than one click.
Having been a Rails developer I don't have much trouble getting Rails up and going on a system. However I do have several friends who seem to have no end of trouble getting theirs setup working reliably. Given they are not full time developers, but they complain about how hard it is to get everything configured so I can see how useful something like this can be for many people looking to try out Rails.
This appears to be an animated form of line integral convolution. Cabral and Leedom paper's from SIGGRAPH '93, Imaging Vector Fields Using Line Integral Convolution (PDF):

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.115...
I've done it recently and it wasn't too bad, with the help of rvm. Getting the entire ecosystem (git, heroku, postgres, etc...) running is a bit more work, but pretty straightforward.

Perhaps part of the confusion is that there are a number of old blog posts that you'll dig up via google, and if you make the mistake of following an older one, you'll run into problems. I made this mistake trying to get rails set up on Ubuntu before I knew about rvm, and it was pretty painful.
Well I guess I should have just asked him :) At least he didn't agree to your other assumptions as to how the money will be used.
Absolutely! I can't see your email on your profile (not enough karma I guess) but mine starts with joao@ and the rest you can guess from the service.
The problem is that one has to have research-grade equipment in order to make use of them. Whereas first-hand accounts eyewitnesses who saw the Saturn V rockets go up are available to those who want to do the legwork.
Go does have lambdas: foo := func() { ... }
Microtype is partially supported (read: half of what it mainly does), i.e. protrusion sort of works, but expansion does not. Protrusion is already something, though I agree that this is one of the biggest things holding me back from switching completely.
Is a 5 mile an hour difference important?
> "gem update --system; gem install rails"

That'll throw a permissions error on a default OS X install-- and your Rails newbie will definitely not know that that means "you should really use rvm".

With that said-- a shell script that installs homebrew, git, rvm, the latest ruby, the latest rails, and a handful of useful gems, then drops you right into a shell of you brand spankin' new Rails (and Heroku!) project seems... pretty straightforward. Dealing with the common edge error cases and making it look nice and user friendly might take a couple hours. I'm curious to see where the time gets spent on this project.
That's wrapping it up in process, and calling it "good enough".

"Good enough" is certainly better than "not good enough". And it doesn't have anything to do with morale. The team's morale might be sky-high and they can still make mistakes because person A didn't know what person B was doing in a timely fashion. People have a tendency to overestimate their skills in general, and communication is no exception. Standups are just a form of insurance and cost almost nothing. Even if your team communicates like they're telepathic, 15 minutes a day in standup isn't going to hurt them.

If isn't happening continuously, throwing a standup at it ain't gonna fix it.

If I'm managing 5 job sites, I'm not there continuously. It might not be perfect, but once a day sure beats nothing. Most of the time when someone is doing something wrong, they don't know they're doing something wrong. No one is going to call me up and say, "Hey, I'm about to do something stupid and wanted to run it by you."
> If you call that "not looking very far back in time" (and I agree with that), no approach was ever as brutal as nuking entire cities. But that's besides the point.

This is a ridiculous point. You do realize that the allies (not just the US) were fighting the 'Empire of Japan' that was running rampant throughout China and SE Asia, raping and pillaging along the way?

To use no other term, Japan was lucky to be nuked because they weren't going to stop. They were going to fight to the last, and let me tell you (as the husband of someone who's grandfather fought on Leyte and Okinawa), the Japanese were brutal and vicious. Millions of Japanese civilians would've been killed trying to land and take the Japanese mainland. The Japanese were so adamant about fighting that it took a second bomb to change their minds.

If you said the fire bombing of Tokyo or Dresden, then I wouldn't have responded. Those were retaliatory in nature - a punishment that affected civilians more than soldiers (specifically Dresden).
AIDE comes with a hello world program as the first thing it prompts you to try. So, iirc, one just has to hit "run", "install", and "open" to have it going. As for "getting it", that worry is very real. No, I don't think java and the android environment is nice enough that I would want to hand it off to a kid to play with without instruction. There is lots of cruft and more abstractions in play than needed right off the bat, and nothing to say which the kid should be paying attention to.

There looks to be a BASIC interpreter in the Play Store for free, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.free.basic. It doesn't have an integrated editor though, so the kid would have to understand typing things up in one program and running them in another.

Grabbing and trying it... some helpful examples to load would be nice, it doesn't have any. But it does have an "Enter Live" mode, in which one can type up a program and run it. So all that "don't miss a keystroke" charm of the old days is there. This I might very well hand to a kid.
Red Hat hits $1 billion in revenue, a milestone for open source
The audacity of the Apollo program and the amazing engineering successes were so incredible that I am not surprised there are still skeptics lurking about. They are incorrect in their belief, but their doubt is reasonably based. Landing on the moon and returning safely only 66 years after the first powered flight and only a few years into the age of transistors and computers was to put it simply, a completely unbelievable accomplishment and without precedent in human history.
I'd accept that from a womanist who feels white women's feminism has failed her, or a lesbian or trans woman fed up of being ostracised, or a poor woman annoyed at middle-class feminism's priorities.

But most groups who say "I'm not anti woman, just anti feminism" are flat out patriarchal, whether the flavour is religious or "men's rights", it's the same garbage.

And I won't accept it from a man at all.
An interview with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
"I've looked at clouds from both sides now..." I've been an app developer and an app buyer. As a developer, of course I want to get more money from my installed base. They're easy to find; marketing costs are essentially zero. As a buyer, I've always looked at "upgrades" as a scam to suck more money out of my pocket for a product I've already paid for. I hate it more when I'm paying to get bugs fixed - bugs as a money-making opportunity! - and even more if I'm blackmailed into upgrading by the threat of dropping support for my existing product, which, of course, will stop working about 10 seconds later. I have some software that seems to be "upgraded" for a "discounted price" every two or three months!

How about you stop treating software like fresh fruit delivered with a worm in it and start treating it like, say, new cars? Sell it with a warranty. Allow me to extend the warranty, up to a point, for a reasonable price that covers maintenance only. If I have a reason to buy a shiny, new 2013 BozoWare, and the reason isn't that the 2012 model is already broken, I just may. Some people buy new cars every year; everybody buys a new one sometime.
It might be the keywords you are bidding on.
The flex IDE is based on Eclipse and it's awful to use
I thought the proper brogrammer nomenclature uses "ninja" for JavaScript/JQuery and "rockstar" for Rails/Ruby…
Presumably they can consider the $10k sponsorship option if they want something like that.
california always one step ahead on the recreational stuff.
Not too bad. A good starting point. Are you posting on oDesk or somewhere like that?

Regarding purchase a service, you might mention what Payment Gateway you are using.
You don't mention any thing about deploying the code, hosting or source control.
You don't mention anything about communication, time zone, language skill (if you care about any of those)

Also you don't mention if it per hour or a fixed price job.

It might be harder to evaluate the answers than to write the advert, as a non-technical person. You might consider hiring someone for an hour to parse the result and screen the applicants.

I've managed workers and been hired via oDesk (5stars ish), some thought about it

The expectations of clients for the money/time can be very unrealistic.
The quality of some of the coders is awful .

You can ping me at (hacker @ rubystars.biz) if you have some questions.
Interactive interview with Sharyl Sandberg
Interactive video with Sharyl Sandberg and Jesse Draper.
I'll take that as a given, but that isn't the whole story anymore. A PS/3 has better performance than Flash, but it is harder to program for, harder to distribute on, and has a much smaller market share. Flash has been losing market share for a while, and now the cost of distribution is going to be an issue. The likely successor is HTML5 (at least for browser market share). It is not as performant and the tools are not as good, but its what we got unless someone does something interesting and radical.
Essential question: what makes it fun?
Apache Thrift now officially supports D
[citation needed]

But seriously, B.F. Skinner is hardly considered mainstream psychology anymore. The part about drawing conclusions about people that half pay attention while they are playing video games seems to strain too hard to arrive at the desired explanation.

Maybe there is something to this, I don't know. There aren't many human examples. I think you could probably make a lot of money telling people this is true though. Maybe that's the point? :)
>The interesting bit for me is that the cost of 'getting things done' has not been going up in pace with the 'money people have' so wealth in the private sector is enabling individuals to do what used to take governments.

Wealth has been concentrating as well. If the rich continually get richer, it makes sense that at some point their capabilities become comparable to nation states.
That's basically what happened in Sealand (discussed in the article). HavenCo moved there to be supposedly free of government intervention, but instead what they found was that they were subject to the whims of a very small, very eccentric government. In 2003, following a dispute between HavenCo and Prince Regent Michael (the acting Sealand head of state and head of government, standing in for his father), HavenCo was "effectively nationalized"; Sealand's government took operational control of its servers, and everyone else associated with the company had their visas revoked.
Yeah, Paul Vixie is kind of a badass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie
I installed rvm + some gems for the first time 4-5 months ago and ran into all kinds of problems. IIRC the problems stemmed from poor documentation, not poor tools. The existing tools work just fine. The problem was that the docs and intro guides are not written for someone who knows absolutely nothing about Ruby development.
Jeff Bezos finds Apollo 11 booster rockets on ocean floor
Shorten, share and protect your email with Bouncr
I think stereotypes imply the characteristic to be common. In your example, I think the stereotype is that Catholics have large families (which I believe was true at one point), and the dozens is exaggeration for effect.
Depends on what you define as a distro. LFS and Gentoo run pretty fast on anything that will run OpenBSD. OpenBSD runs on underpowered stuff because it runs nothing by default. NetBSD is probably more portable though.
Vertical scrolling option? (or at least scroll wheel support?)
Which feature you’re going to remove next?
Hey, thanks for that weather dataset link. I had tried to find something similar a couple of months ago and completely failed — somehow, I missed this site entirely.
It has a link to Yehuda's profile in the sidebar, where it shows that he's funded two KickStarter projects. One of them is this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sferik/hubcap-a-github-c...

Why shouldn't this turn out the same way? The person who started the HubCap project is a prolific open source contributor. I'm glad he didn't drop everything else to work on HubCap, as he made many great contributions to API client development last year.

I hope Yehuda changes his mind about this sooner rather than later. I really like seeing what Yehuda comes up with and this doesn't interest me at all. I use the command line, and I recommend homebrew to anyone on OS X who's serious about learning ruby, and so far it hasn't failed me. I've seen the Google App Engine launcher and I think it's pretty good but I still prefer the command-line tools.
yeah. can't wait to have pipes outlawed. Will have an excuse to drive to California when i need a new sink in the house.
this actually will make it harder for him, as he just defined motive and means to the prosecution