skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't really want it for RMS-inspired freedom, as a hardware hacker/tinkerer I think it would be interesting to own a machine where I could change the way the BIOS worked, where I can get full access to the datasheets.

Some of RMS's policies and ideas and thoughts seem completely foreign to me... for example, I absolutely love my iPhone and enjoy working on OS X as my day to day machine, but every so often I really just want to tinker and that is when I enjoy hardware/electronics (such as the MSP430, Atmel AVR, and others)...
I thought this was an interesting product and found it while browsing Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/NanoNote-copyleft-hardware-pocket-comp.... I don't mean to have a referrer on the url if there is one, so strip if out if you know how.
Thanks for this, this whole frictionless sharing/social reader stuff is the worst!
> it's one thing to say the structure of the process itself is so byzantine and brittle that schools suck, but it's quite another to say we should remove measurable goals as well.

What good is it to have measurable goals if you are measuring the wrong thing, or your measurements are corrupt, or there is no effective means of correction if goals are not met?

> To continue the programming analogy, as a customer you guys are delivering crap all the time. I pay ten times as much and the crap just gets worse. Now we can sit around and dicker all day long about the process you have for making crap, but one thing we are not going to do is remove the testing at the end that makes it obvious to everybody just how shitty the whole thing is.

Keep it in then. Your programming team can learn to game the system, and your management team can quietly lobby to change the metrics so the numbers look better, and you can even bring in a pair of Bobs for a development cycle to shake things up, but none of that actually gets you to working software.
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The "survey" was apparently paid for by a company that does corporate identity management. Is it any surprise they got the results that would motivate people to buy their product?
raw (can be) interpreted from any stream of binary data, you can open EXEs in photoshop as RAW, save it as a PNG, transfer it, then resave it as a raw and it will run.
People will tell you to take a break or find a hobby - but you may be like me and have to build stuff all the time

I too build stuff all the time, but a new hobby is very good for breaking burn out, a lot of developers naturally crave learning, and burnout many times sets in when a developer starts to peak and realizes that learning new things in development take little effort. When you can pick up a new language in a week because you have picked so many up, the learning experience and reward mechanics are dampened to an extent.

For me when I notice the tell tale signs of burn out I set out to learn something completely new. piano, guitar, mechanics, making circuit boards, sewing, welding anything some of them I learn to a moderate level others I go pretty far in, some I drop after the burn out passes others I find that I am extremely interested in. The trigger for me and burn out is lack of challenge in learning so learning something completely new helps. For others it may be different but for me learning something new can snap burn out in as little as 30 days.

As well I am surprised that no one mentioned it but take vitamin D. As a profession that works inside many of us do not get a lot of vitamin D and it plays such a crucial role in depression which burn out is a moderate form of.
The biggest thing for me is the processor speed, and the ram. When I am linking our proprietary code base it can use up to 2.5 Gb of ram ...
Thanks, I wrote the backend in Django - but most of the heavy lifting is javascript. Django more or less is just populated by a cronjob and then caches the results of the Netflix odata API.
As far as I can tell, dropouts either never apply or they apply but don't list the education at all. Or more likely they apply and list it, lying and claiming to have completed the education -- I realize (although it disappoints me) that not 100% of everything put on resumes is the truth.
Kudos. I didn't even realize that this button existed (whether for Jekyll or not.)
I will implement your idea for 1$
Hi,

At the moment I live in UK and I am student here and I am looking for a part-time/full-time job where I could work remotely from home. I am PHP (3y. exp) / MySQL / jQuery developer, but I am very eager to learn new technologies when needed.

Latest projects of mine (there you will find my contacts and I'll send you my CV):
http://stylebootstrap.info,
http://planningmybudget.com (CakePHP),
http://phpispoetry.com (CodeIgniter).

And now, the most interesting part. While I am on holidays and while I am searching for a job, I will implement one idea of one HN member for 1$.
Conditions are that you should be pretty old HN member with high karma (let's say at least 500) and this idea should take no more than 50 hours to implement.

Thanks for your time.
Weird, I nominated XSLT as my "most hated language" in the "What's your most hated language" poll a few days ago and got a few down votes. Now, this rant against XSLT is on the front page... Go figure!
But Dell isn't claiming the computer is a macbook. Boundless is not claiming that their textbooks are the same as book <x>. Rather they say that they are sufficient substitutes. That seems pretty fair to me. If I can't afford an iPhone, I can certainly go get a samsung look-alike (notwithstanding the design battle with samsung and apple before...).
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I think it would result in a free advertising win for Apple, actually.
I don't like winters too, so I just moved to Florida.
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Thanks. So from the sound of this, rather than being paid with a fixed amount of bitcoins (treating it as a currency), you were paid with a fixed amount of Euros (treating it as a currency) and it was transferred using bitcoins (treating it as a financial instrument).

This satisfies my curiosity: I have seen uses of bitcoins as a financial instrument (although this is the first time I've heard of it being used for salary payments), but I have yet to see it used as a currency (except for speculators).
The average salary for a good web developer should be around $1500 - $2000. By good I mean someone with a CS degree from a good local university (U. of Chile, U. Catolica or UTFSM). If you pick a about-to-graduate or a recent grad you could get someone by a bit less, but that's about the right salary for a good developer. For less, you would get someone that knows how to write some php or something else. Not someone that will help you create something. Hopefully you will bring someone in your team with good tech skills (if your startup requires that).
تداوم صدرنشینی سپاهان با برد ملوان/ تساوی صبا و پیروزی شاهین بی سرمربی
I totally agree, there are a number of copy cats out now. Flickr for android copied instagrams product offering, therefore these copy cats should cannabilise some sales. Instagram is very trendy right now so on brand awareness it has a huge edge, the issue is can they sustain this edge two years down the line when the dust settles?
5k is just enough per team member, but not per team. I write this based on our recent experience; Our team of three arrived about two weeks ago to participate in the Startup Chile program. My suggestion is that your Startup Chile team needs to have 2 months of up-front expenses covered as it takes time to get the reimbursement process started. Between travel insurance, flights, apartment rental ( guarantee, deposit, two-months payment ), dining out and getting to know Santiago, bureaucratic payments ( such as the $470 USD immigration payment at the airport of US citizens upon arrival ), Visa application payments etc. You will be reimbursed for all of these expenses but combined together all within two months they are considerable.

We are enjoying very much participating in the program so far. It truly is the deal of a lifetime. The atmosphere is great and the impact it is having on Chile is becoming visible. Santiago is a great city with a higher quality of life than many cities in North America or Europe today. We are honored to participate in Startup Chile and I can already suggest it without reservation to any serious entrepreneur.
On he other hand, I didn't really need the C/objects piece of technical evidence to support the "Lisp makes metaprogramming trivial in ways that other languages don't" argument. That one kind of stands on it's own, so I could move on to the rest of the article.

The article wasn't about Lisp as much as it was about Not Invented Here syndrome. As others have said, the social and organizational issues become the major obstacle when your working with the greybeards and technical wizards that make the actual CS + CE questions a breeze
Can't you give access to the UI, let people build out an infrastructure, and then if they want to actually launch it, ask for IAM credentials then?
this is well written and quite interesting... unfortunately the initial pink dialog box distracted from the content.
The BBC approach has definitely influenced our work on these principles and there's a lot of great thinking captured in them.

Ben Terrett (GOV.UK/GDS Head of Design) talked about that a bit in one of the blog posts introducing our design principles: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/04/03/design-princi...
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That DRM would eventually lead to unusable computer systems. That a completely free software OS was possible. That software patents were bad things. That chasing profit in the LISP machine market would destroy the MIT hacker community. That "look and feel" lawsuits would hurt free software. That a copyleft license would not hurt software adoption by commercial vendors.

You want me to go on? He was on all this stuff (some of it critically important, some of it less so) before, in many cases years before the rest of us caught up.

Let me turn it around then: find something he was verifiably wrong about. There aren't that many cases, and what there are are mostly tactical things (e.g. picking the fight about GNU/Linux was, I believe, counterproductive), not factual ones.
You, me, and everyone else on HN would be a millionaire.
That's about right. For less you wouldn't get someone that could help you, unless you just need to setup a simple web page (html + css?)
My legitimate criticism of Thiel is that he's a sexist creep.
Well there goes the ~$100 premium I was able to fetch on Craigslist for my last generation iPhones. Good news for AT&T consumers, though.

I wonder if this means they'll also unlock iPads since they were never under contract?
Sleeping problems, difficulties to handle stress, tired a lot.
I don't mean paying more, as I have no reason to say that it will make them more effective. But using money on teachers can be anything from education to the environment the teachers have to teach in.
When I commuted (which thankfully isn't very often at all anymore,) I read.

I find that whenever I get myself wrapped up in a project, it's hard for me to take time away from it to do anything else. Thankfully, my body has checks built in (hunger pangs, sleepiness, etc.) to make sure that I'm keeping up with the basics, but I have to set time aside for exercise and stretching or I won't do it.

For me at least, I can't work on the DC metro. It's too crowded, too noisy, but I can read on my Kindle. It's great because it lets me occupy the otherwise wasted time on something that I likely wouldn't get to do without the metro.

If I'm between books, or have a short commute, I'll do crossword puzzles on my phone[1] or play Words with Friends.

If I'm not commuting, I'm lucky to get a half hour a day to read when I go to bed.

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.totsp.cros... (Not affiliated, but I really like this crossword puzzle app.)
If anyone else has this issue please install fail2ban. It basically does a 'tail -f' on your logs and blocks addresses based on your rules. For example, if there are 6 failed login attempts in a 24/hour window, block them.
This really makes searching so much better than what netflix offers. My only suggestion would be to keep the search options open since there are not that many and modifying the search requires opening and closing to verify settings.
Show HN: SoundOwl uses Bootstrap liberally... and I don't care.
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Isn't Chromium = Chrome minus Google?
TFA is about what the textbook companies are claiming... and they are claiming "photographic paraphrasing".

For the Dell analogy to be correct they'd have to be making these:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/fake-airbook-is-the-best-mac...

http://www.macstories.net/mac/hey-my-fake-macbook-pro-runs-o...
There's definitely been a lot of good thinking and guidance around the government for a long time.

The real difference here is that the Government Digital Service is empowered to actually build some of this in-house and so the principles are emerging from actual practice. We're also able to get involved in some procurement processes very early on and work with the appointed suppliers. We're also hoping that other people putting them into practice will come back with feedback we can incorporate to make them better and illustrate them more fully.

Getting these principles thoroughly embedded is going to be a long journey, but they're a far cry from being just another good practice document that'll be ignored.
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I like the concept, but the site needs some work. The carrousel is confusing, there's no call to action, and no social proof (fb like button!). Too much space wasted at the top of the screen.

Compare to the typical web 2.0 site - https://www.mint.com - in one glance, what they can do for me and what others are saying. And a big signup button you can't miss.
yeah seems like it will give algorithm a hard deal but just my opinion
Maybe fire was just a cover-up for government corruption/plunder of these laptops?
Grub.pxe, ARP-after-boot, DMA, and trouble (another boot-time memory overwrite)
"can't be associated with a current active term commitment"

That part is not clear to me. At first sight, it seems to mean that the phone to be unlocked can't be currently associated with a working AT&T account. Meaning, if I use it right now, they won't unlock it even after my two-year contract is up.

If that's what it means, it sucks for people who want to unlock to use it abroad.
Valuation is (Dollars I pay)/(Fraction of the company I buy). In this case, they are selling 10% of the company for $50 million.

It's not exactly the same thing as saying that these investors would be willing to buy all of Instagram for $500 million because both parties' utility functions are seldom linear. It's the closest thing we have, though.
> In a world where teams of talented academics were needed to write Haskell, one man, Dr. Tarver wrote Qi all by his lonesome.

I think you're right about how the author is making an invalid comparison, but I think his point still stands.

In order to make a good comparison, he would say the same things about Tarver and Qi, but he would have to say something along the lines of "Lisp has been extended in functional Haskell-y directions (Qi) and in object-y Smalltalk directions (CLOS). It would be very difficult to extend Haskell in as many dimensions as easily as it is to extend Lisp"

Not that you necessarily want functional languages to have Smalltalk flavors, but I think it was wrong to compare Tarver with the academics like you say. The plus for Lisp is that it makes implementation of language features easier, you still have to come up with them just like everybody else.
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Actually, Double Fine has the record for over 3.3 million raised.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure
I've tried 4 times, with no success. I know my gmail account is pretty accessible, so I doubt it's an issue there.
True or false: Citrix is more compatible with AWS
Are there many limits on what you can have reimbursed? I'm especially curious about hardware (would buy a Macbook Pro, monitor, Android phone+tablet, DSLR - all business related) and lawyers fees (for incorporation in the USA, privacy policies, etc).

Also, is it easy to find a nice place near the coworking spaces? Ideally, I'd love just a short walk between home and the "office".
Yes, and the older publishers don't have to win, they just have to eat up the capital of their perceived enemy. A common legal tactic.

I'm not familiar with the "look and feel" of books being found to be copyrightable in existing case law. There are a lot of books that are pretty similar to each other out there.
Occasionally I feel minor versions of burnout symptoms described in this article, but it's never that serious.

Perhaps the trick is that I exercise daily (usually 30 minutes running) - no exception.
I'm supposed to not call XSLT functional because some dude just called me a bastard for being an XSLT fan? Yea, screw you to buddy, I hope you eye keeps twitching.
right, some free advertising. Now what if the tool let you get something shipped to you free, doesn't cost a penny, that's as near to the macbook as the tool can get it.

(as per the present example).

the free advertising doesn't sound so good now does it? I mean, in this gratis example, are you going to send enough more people to paying $1200+ by having this tool acknowledge that macs are a great gold standard, than the macs will lose to their free competition?

(To get closer to numbers /a bit more formal analysis: Macs, like textbooks, are EXPENSIVE. And it's hardly an inelastic demand curve, like it would be if you could try to find the cheapest and best witch-doctor, non-FDA approved herbal "remedy" that matches a real drug that actually cures the illness but is patented. Yeah, in this case everyone who's right in the head and has enough money will go use the real drug. But as for a $1200 computer vs 'dell' generic 'free'... as for a $120 textbook vs 'open document sources' generic 'free'...)

because that would be the analogy. free advertising for the $120+ textbook (actually how is it really advertising if the user has to put it in themselves, as per the story and per my 'enter a model number' example) - while offering a gratis alternative as close as the tool can get it.

legally I bet it's fine, but great advertising proposition for the entity under fire does not seem to me a solid argument in the present case...
How long until one of these huge kickstarter funds doesn't deliver.

I've already seen it on some of the smaller stuff...
The Pentium architecture pops up from time to time (after the Netburst architecture Intel rolled back closer to the original Pentium architecture, and now Larrabee/MIC uses the same Pentium cores). At that time it was efficient because the memory clock was not very different from the CPU clock (6x-10x ratio) - the memory access did not cost a lot of CPU cycles, so the CPU had a decent performance without a big on-die cache. At higher clocks (more than 1GHz, ratio >10x) the Pentium architecture (Pentium III at that time) showed its age and had to be replaced (with the not-so-good Netburst).

Right now the CPU/memory ratio is higher (20x and more), so the CPUs require big caches to compensate. The CPU cache has a huge transistor count, being SRAM (Static RAM, very low latency). Every SRAM bit is implemented with 6 transistors, so for 1MB of cache you need ~50 million transistors.
This is great. I wrote an article[1] on this exact topic after I felt that it was not getting the attention it deserved.

[1] http://www.saewitz.com/recently-read-articles-on-facebook
Your're right; Though that's why most of the record-breaking Kickstarter projects come from companies that are inherently trustworthy based on some previous track record: Leisure Suit Larry, Shadowrun, that previous Lucas Arts guy. They all proved time and time again that they are capable of creating fantastic games. Even more, the gamers know what to expect.
I reckon it's much much harder to gain Kickstarter records like this when you're virtually unknown and your idea isn't a mere extension / sequel of something well known.

That doesn't mean it's bad, though. It's like a protection shield against the scenario that you outlined.
"Top" projects are better defined by the number of users than the number of commits. By this standard, Bootstrap is a very successful project.

If you define success by the number of people who have actually checked out and built the code, Bootstrap is vastly more successful than Mozilla & WebKit.
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it was 5 years ago, first startup, first launch...first fail :)
What we did :
We basicly made a press release with a pr agency and sent it to a bunch of various journalists.
and we wrote manualy to about 20 influential bloggers. contacted them by email to discuss about our project and eventualy make them write an article about us.
What happened :
We got cited in 2 national TV shows and in the #1 blog in france (I'm french ...)
What we got :
For each citation (tv or blog) we got around 5K visits but only one or two conversions...
What i learned :
-our subscription process was too complex (3 pages)
-we were not clear about our proposition
-we used some flash (long to load)
-our design was not good enough (too much amateur, didn't confort the visitor about the quality of our product)
and most importantly, don't rely only on press/blogs coverage
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You got to see the introductory video.. its quite funny and shows why so many video game developers are choosing the kickstarter route..
I cannot really judge without seeing the books themselves, since the original book is not publicly available without payment (who would have guessed), the start up is still in beta and the publishers will surely overstate things.

From the description, it just seems like the boundless version is inspired by the "paper" textbooks - but inspiration and copying ideas is the source of culture. But really, I would need to see both the books themselves and the boundless version to judge.
That's a good point, and one I've struggled with a bit. I'd envisioned it being mobile friendly (android only so far) which places serious constraints on available screen real estate. On my tablet, the existing search filters run up against the limits. I'm not sure how far a one size fits all approach goes, and forking the display for desktop might be one way to solve that - but it has it's own set of issues.
If you don't mind me asking why not MIT?
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"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey" - Christopher Hitchens
> a lot of open source isn't Free in RMS's terms, but he does promote the whole open source movement as a whole

You are wrong.

"I do not advocate open source [...]" - Richard Stallman

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/15/rms_why_open_source_...
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How so? It sounds like this is a case where the police had a demonstrable need to find out who he had communicated with, and presumably they also had access to his cell phone records. I don't see how names are any more worthy of protection than phone numbers. Especially since the name is really metadata associated with a Facebook ID, which is exactly like a phone number.