skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are going to have to support "Filter Layers" (Photoshop's Adjustment Layers) before they get __any__ traction in the serious photo editing community. Non-destructive editing with masked adjustment layers is a basic best practice for photographers since the early 2000s.
So if the ip is not longer a personal date, then could it be used to track down "pirates".
But the conclusion must also be interpreted in the offer direction. So is the ownership of an ip, and the trackdown of the person behind, not enough for the proof of guiltieness in the act of "piracy".
I think that the second part would not be in sight of a particular company.
http://youtu.be/EC0TDci9hqg — as mocked by Mitchell & Webb (That Mitchell & Webb Look series 2)
Yours is the top voted comment at the moment, so dumb or not, it seems a common question.

Looking just at the two examples on the main page, it's an implementation of the SMTP protocol so you can either send mail directly to recipients' servers, or run a mail server.

Sending mail directly is often useful when you need to deliver a message to a lot of recipients. IIRC, this doesn't always work, because many servers reject messages unless they can reverse resolve the ip to the sender's domain.

A server for receiving messages is basic infrastructure. The reason for using a simple solution with clear source code, instead of established daemons, like postfix, is that you can tune it to implement filters or notifications.

As an example: some time ago I had the idea of putting a bayesian spam filter directly in the server code, eliminating the problem of false positives: the mail is either accepted or rejected, in which case the sender gets to know that the message has not arrived its recipient, instead of silently trashing it as spam.
> I'll keep sticking with Gimp for a while longer... it can only get better, right?

That's exactly the reason you want to stick with GIMP for a while longer. If you're willing to go the extra mile, start following GIMP development and community a little closer. Join an IRC channel or a mailing list, for example. That way, you can have a part in making it better.
John Langford's comments on the subject: http://hunch.net/?p=2341
Ask HN: Online Payment for SaaS Startup
Hello Community,
we are four guys building a SaaS-Plattform that makes customer feedback for small companies (hotels, gastronomy, catering, etc.) really easy. Its somewhat similiar to talkbin and Skweal.
My question is: which online payment solution would you recommend for a startup that is selling an SaaS solution?

A lot of startups could benefit from a discussion on this top. I read some articles and found some nice links, for example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2556/whats-the-best-online-payment-processing-solution. But I guess in the end it comes down to low monthly costs, easy to integrate and easy process for our customers.
It would be really nice if someone could give me some insights oder point to a good blogpost about it.

Here are some additional information:
As of now every potential customer (a hotel manager for example) has to talk to us, and if he es interested we send him his account and a bill. But we obviously like to implement an online payment process, so that customers can pay for our product on our website.
Our product is kinda high volume, low value, so we dont expect payments above 1.000 Euros per transaction. (As of now it is more like low volume, low value...)
This is our current website (in german): www.honestly.de but we are working on a relaunch right now.
Early Google was an experience. It gave you a few links in a very minimal layout, and that was it. Yahoo and Altavista gave you incredibly big portals with lots of features that didn't really go to bed together. They lost, because theirs were a shitty experience.

The iPod is an experience. Most early MP3s had the same or more features, but the iPod killed them, because it provided an interesting experience of listening to music.

Amazon is just another Walmart, too. But with a buyer experience that's much better than anyone else's. Same thing with Facebook vs. MySpace. Or Steam vs. Origin vs. your local videogame shop.
The "Reddit" comments stem from the fact that this was first posted to Reddit...and then downvoted to hell.

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/svh6z/running_a_st...
Passive income is a myth. It's the HN equivalent of an infomercial.

Cue stories of the masses who had wealth rained down on them by doing very little work:
They want to see a useful message from their browser, like:

This page does not exist. Did you mean '...'?

Which most modern browsers give them provided their ISP does not hijack the NX response to present their ads.
Actually, a Linux-centric view. :) I thought Apple removed the caps lock key a long time ago...
It is a similar situation in Portugal with one extra month paid in the summer and one at Christmas. It seems an eminently practical idea so that lower paid people would have ready cash for holidays and Christmas. However given the furore over the apparently profligate peoples of the Mediterranean the government is currently in the process of phasing it out completely.
Programmers do get paid...sometimes. Look at programmers in the finance industry. It is somewhat unfair, but it seems that your pay depends more on the industry you work for, than your actual skills. It's a market. It's all about where you are.
Ah, sorry, I didn't know they weren't one in the same. I thought Twitch.tv was Justin.tv rebranded.

Justin.tv was who I meant.
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> There are currently 22% more open job positions in this area compared to last year

If there is an overall shortage of qualified developers, paying more to hire great developers does not fix it. All it does is raise the salaries of the existing qualified developers. That is fine and great for them, but it doesn't solve the shortage.
Aye, managing the events/places is the trickiest part at the moment. One of my main goals is to have people submitting their own events/places or submitting those they know of near them; I can't index everything by myself, unfortunately! I'm working on an admin panel which will allow me to moderate submissions to help keep it clean and helpful.

In theory a lot of the places (and events too if they have past versions of the same event) will show photos from Flickr. It matches on the Flickr place ID and pulls in photos mentioning the name in that area. However it does mean that a number of places have no photos, which I'd love to improve upon. Allowing people to add their own photos might be a good improvement.

I'm trying to think of a way of including things like walks; data that is neither a place nor an event, but something to do at a place/in an area. I'm currently listing activities (although they don't match up to every record yet) as general terms, but I'd like to find a way to list more specific activities!

Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated :)
Make it easy to sign up, post on reddit, whore it out on facebook, drop it on pinterest.

If what you have is good, bam, 10k users.

If what you have is not appealing, you still get 500 users and plenty of good feedback.
I don't see passive income like that. I see passive income as something you can gain by spending some of your free time to get recurring money.
I guess you're employed and you're looking for some extra money. I have a boring question I'm afraid: what about taxes? How does it work in Austria?
That would likely be a case where a corporation would not protect you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
In the UK if you get caught speeding/running a red light by a camera, the ticket gets sent to the registered owner of the car.

You can either take the ticket, or tell them who was driving. You cannot say 'it wasn't me, but I won't tell you who it was'.

It is also a serious criminal offence to take speeding points on someone else's behalf (as it was suggested that government minister Chris Huhne asked his wife to)
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It should add random hipster lingo as filler.
Hey, co-author here.
this is indeed supposed to be an advertisement (we're not the first to do that, Sacha Greif and others have done it before) but we're also looking for feedback.
we chose hipchat instead of campfire because of the desktop app and the easier pricing.
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I tried both of them, and the reason I like HipChat over Campfire is that it makes easier to manage private chats as well other group chats, both public and private.

Edit: I have nothing to do with this ebook :)
In South Italy professionist graduated, certificated, with ten yeas of experience as Java programmer, earn net 1500 euros. I’m graduated and work from 2 years and earn net 1200 euros. I prefer be waiter, i’m moving away from Italy to start as waiter, it’s better!
The only thing I saw happening at that time was that even though a lot of companies disappeared, all the good developers found new or kept their jobs, but all the crap developers lost their jobs.
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I was thinking exactly this!

The problem with doing something like this is that the site owner will probably take it down within 24 hours.

However... if the site owner cannot see it. Well well well.. could be up for days.

Typically the first person to view the page will be the owner. They want to check everything looks alright. Would be interesting to see the results of something like this.
Thanks for the feedback!

The geocoding can be a little odd at times and I'm keeping track of things like this to help me improve it. The first thing I'll do is ensure that all the city/area links on the homepage point to more or less the center of that city/area; some seem to be in very odd places. Any reports like this are really useful :D
Sorry, I was just trying to dig up the startup-related insights from the study :)

What I guess the article meant to say in another way is that your startup needs to focus on its value proposition, “How will buying/using this ... make my life better?”.

In the case of both Google and DDG, what they deliver to the user. It's no accident Google has Instant, previews, etc (and DDG has DuckDuckHack)... it's all about making the search experience better.
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Why don't more developers contribute to open source?
What if the business's purpose is to provide an open suburban hotspot?
Exactly. This is our evolutionary leg up on a world that would otherwise eat us alive.
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Wasn't this ruled several times already in other trials? How many times does this have to be proven in Court before the other judges start throwing away such cases?
I think the biggest issue I have with this data is that 79 percent of top advertisers don't have a mobile- optimized website, http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/20/businesses-need-m.... I certainly rarely ever make a purchase on my iphone. I simply look for deals and then purchase them on a PC. It seems that either people are not really making as many purchases as the data suggests or that all of the big corporations got it wrong.
EA not canceling Rockband after all
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The one thing I would add is you don't need to be in a profit center of the company, though it helps. Even administrative roles have a lot of ways to contribute to the bottom line (the $3MM example I gave was in a reporting department!)
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This would put us in a situation where we would have lawyers comparing programming languages and assessing their novelty w.r.t. intellectual property violations. We do _not_ want to get into this situation. It might end up in a situation where two languages are similar on the inside but there's a minor change to make it incompatible but non-infringing. Not ideal.

Many programming languages are very similar to each other and it's very hard to differentiate. Python, Perl, Lua and Ruby are very similar on the inside, despite their syntactic differences. If one of them was patented or copyrighted, it could hinder the others.
Here in New Jersey, they've arrived at a compromise. The person in whose name the car is registered is responsible for the fine. But it's only a fine, with no points on your record.
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As a programmer, I love the fact that the demand is outpacing supply. But, I also have this weird feeling that we are back in 1999. Back then, even crappy programmers commanded 6 figure salaries. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
Or there is a shortage of developers in your area.

My previous company was offering competitive salaries, good environment, challenging work, and we had trouble filling position with decent developers...
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To be clearer, I'm not saying or implying that HN is becoming Reddit. Rather that this particular content looks like it belongs on Reddit given the lack of substance and allegedly amusing animated gifs.
Note IE10 results.
Back in 2006 some guy ripped off my entire front-end for his ticket selling site in Europe and made the same mistake. I found out when going though my analytics. I blogged about it and actually made it to the front page of Digg (a big deal at the time):

"How NOT To Steal A Design": http://digg.com/news/story/How_NOT_To_Steal_A_Design

Ah memories :)
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The first is a paper by a psychologist and motivational speaker. Is that really what you want to lead with?

The second paper I can't really figure out, but it's dealing with individuals in a closed environment - not with matching supply to demand in an open economy.

Anyway, I'm plenty open to questioning my assumptions. That doesn't mean I'm willing to invest in lengthy discussions with random strangers in off-topic threads.
Agreed. I think it's better to say it takes time up front. But the upfront work may take a while.

I spent six months last year writing explanations for a standardized test. It was extraordinarily boring. But now I get $1000-$1500 per month in licensing fees.

I think there are lots of passive income opportunities for developers to make passive income in non-technical niches.

For instance, I've only been learning programming for a few months, but I have a Wordpress blog. I'm probably going to buy that plugin. Always wanted to track that, but didn't know how.
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This would be great if it didn't strip comments and took your redundant css and replaced it with a mixin.

Oh and if it declared variables for repeated values, I'd use it for sure.

edit: Just noticed it doesn't format prefixed properties neatly, lists properties in a weird order, and for whatever reason, the order of elements gets rearranged. That's a major issue... for some reason, my .container ended up at the very bottom.
Raise salaries and attract developers from outside your area.

The problem was that you weren't actually offering "competitive" salaries, you were merely offering what may have been standard for your area but no longer was sufficient, by your own report.
No language hate - but are there similar projects that don't require a ruby installation?

I'm currently playing with a very, very small environment. I might want to check out a (powerful) css preprocessor project, but it feels wasteful to add a dependency on an otherwise unnecessary (for my work/projects) language. Alternatives? Suggestions?
"Advertising [...] the amount you get [...] isn’t big and only pays off with high traffic"

Realy? Glad you think that.

And: no, it does not suck but can provide a positive user experience if done correctly.
And: no, I am not talking about hit-the-monkey ads.
And: no, it's not as easy as copy-pasting some random ad code into your HTML.
Honestly I more cringe when I realize my coworkers in Texas only make 10k less than me and the cost of living is 2 times less.
The site seems to be down for now, but i suppose it's a lot like the css2sass tool:

http://css2sass.heroku.com/

I've used that and it's quite a nice start, but you shouldn't really expect it to be as good as hand-written LESS or SASS. Lots of the wins of using a preprocessor is in defining good re-usable mixins and hierarchies, and a conversion tool simply can't give you all of that.

IMHO if you want to use SASS/LESS, write all of it from scratch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...

San Francisco has more homicides with its population of ~800k than all of Austria combined with a population of 8,5 million.
You made me curious, so I tried it. I could only get the option in Firefox, of which I'm running Aurora. IE, Safari, and Opera wouldn't load WebGL, I'm just running whatever the current mainstream version happens to be. Chrome, again current mainstream version, loads the WebGL but no save image option.
Sometimes, though, the "cute little puzzles" are useful in order to filter out the clowns who interview well but can't write FizzBuzz.

It's a bit of a tall (impossible?) order for a programmer - regardless of skill or experience - to expect to interview without going through some serious technical conversations and writing some code to solve problems.
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I've used both - for basic stuff, mind you. But I remember how hard it was to pick up Photoshop. My conclusion from my limited experience is therefore that it is simply what you are used to. Neither Gimp or PS are necessarily better, they are just different. If you are used to Gimp, you will swear if you have to use PS, and vice versa.

One problem for more advanced work could be that there are more tutorials for PS than for Gimp.

(I only use Gimp because I don't want to pay for PS and I tend to be on Linux at times).
This is how the judicial system works in the USA.

It's a hierarchy, from the district courts to the circuit courts on up to the Supreme Court. Basically, decisions made at one level may be binding on that court and its "descendents", but that's as far as it goes. If you want a decision to reach nation-wide, it's got to be handed down by the Supreme Court.
Are you saying you're able to watch the Udacity videos in VLC? How does that work?
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I see plenty of French nationals move to Montreal for this same reason. They get a slightly higher salary but it goes a heck of a lot farther here.
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To OP, I wouldn't feel so bad writing about this: "I decided to give passive income a shot and I’m going to write about my experiences (yep, like almost everybody these days)".

My request is to be open and stay on top of the writing, even if things don't go well. If you're marketing the articles, market the "I lost" articles as much as the "I won" articles. If passive income is myth, as was commented on previously, part of the myth comes from only seeing positive results. There is a lot to be learned from failures.

That said, I hope you hit your targets and goals, but if not, I want to hear about it!
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On top of that, this is a decision by a magistrate, which is one step below a District Court judge, so it can be appealed to the District Court, then to an Appeals Court, then the Supreme Court. A magistrate's opinion, unfortunately, has no binding effect at all (on anything other than this case).
Technical interview is OK, ask the guy about his job. Give him a coding problem in his language of expertise. Check his knowledge of tools, techniques and best practices in his area of expertise. Do all the tech routine.

But please don't go on and on with Math problems endlessly over weeks and months. Asking arcane and rare facts about stuff and then deciding his worth over his perceived inability to solve problems in math which don't have any connection with programming in the real world.
Maybe they can use this to give us better text formatting inside the evernote app.
You're trying to convince a human judge, not a computer program.
"If the same person sits down and starts creating his own software, he will probably earn much more one year later by himself already."

I think people really underestimate what a small portion of a successful business the ability to code well is. I am not saying it isn't helpful, but I would put my money on someone that is an average coder with great business, marketing, customer service skills over a great coder that lacks those any day.

This isn't to downplay a developers role in business, I am a developer myself, it's just that a great developer can't turn that into money without working for someone else, or having the other business skills that are required.
While I understand that today there are potential problems, it seems to me that a person ought to be responsible with what's done with his property. If he lets someone use his gun, he's got some degree of responsibility, and if he lets someone use his communication facilities, he's assuming some as well.

Today this is difficult, since the average person doesn't have a clue how to set up a secure network. But this is a usability problem more than anything, and if our laws demanded that this be do-able even by somebody's mom, then I think manufacturers would address that usability problem.
I don't know if OMGPOP integrated with Open Graph, but there story is certainly similar.

A mobile app powered largely by Facebook interactions takes off like a rocket ship. In less than month is adds so many millions of users that it gets bought for $180 million dollars.

A company that was in the red is suddenly worth a ton of cash. Cut to a few weeks later, and Draw Something is shedding users like water off a duck's back.

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/05/02/draw-something-decline-om...
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You shouldn't get paid based on your cost of living. You should get paid on value added.

TBH, I don't see why living in the midwest should drop the salary a company owes you that much. If you are a good developer, you should command a salary comparable to the value you add plus a profit margin for the business.

The only two explanations I can see is that, collectively, software engineers in the midwest are simply not negotiating for the salaries they deserve because given the cost of living they don't feel like they have to negotiate for better or that they are on average of much lower quality in the midwest that there is no room in the salary range there for being an outlier commanding a salary outside that range (i.e. no room for a unicorn in a stable full of horses).

If I worked remotely from Timbuktu, I would laugh at any employer that offered me less based on the cost of living in Timbuktu. It should be no different working in the midwest. Our world is flat.
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Smells like burned rubber from all the backpedaling