skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't hugely new (though the idea of giving players a choice is) - Eve does this every year for their "birthday", usually a unique design shuttle.

From my memory of the Eve economy, it seems like the (in game) value of some of these gifts heavily outweighs the others (though all are really only of "value" to new players, as they are purchasable by a more experienced player with an hour of NPC combat, if not less).
Coding: Is there a name for everything?
I would suggest finding someone who's trusted in working with local small businesses - probably themselves a small local shop with a few accountants - ask your hardware store owner, coffee shop owner, etc. If you are within a taxing municipality it can be helpful to have someone who knows the local ins and outs.

Generally speaking, the tax implications of being a freelancer are less complicated than small scale retail (e.g. no inventory).
Are there not perhaps thousands of people who would be using your product under the umbrella of the Department of Defense?
Best I can tell, your best bets are something like Ecobee or Nest for automated your HVAC. I'd keep an eye on the Nest however, their earlier models are built with Zigbee support, though they don't use it. My guess is they'll be using the initial Nest as more of a platform in which you can buy individual automation/monitoring modules that you plug and play to their system on some form of a payment plan (monthly hosting or upfront).
FYI Google instant (which is integrated, at least in AOSP) or smth does the same, by default. That is it uploads your pictures instantly to Google picture thingy.
You can turn it off thanksfully.
The physics and physicist behind the hit game Angry Birds
Meet Erin Catto. He lives in Irvine. He’s a father of two, a video game fan and a Cornell graduate who holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is also responsible for the physics of Angry Birds: he created a program applying Newtonian Laws to gameplay called Box 2D.
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While I generally agree with and recommend getting an accountant, I've found a personal satisfaction over the past 8 years of doing my own taxes (10 years of freelance development). It can be tedious and confusing, but it forces me to stay in tune with the laws as well as my own income / expenses.

It doesn't hurt that it costs far less than an accountant, although that time can be considered lost considering the billable time lost gathering information, adding it all up and entering it properly (Mint.com has shaven days off of this process for me).

Every year I tell myself I'll go back to having an accountant, but then I feel I'll miss that couple days of better understanding where my money came from and where it's gone. I also appreciate understanding the details behind the chunk I send to Uncle Sam.
As a current Jira user and customer, I find this announcement and the idea that they've been working on this really annoying. There are already way too many products in the Atlassian ecosystem, and the Jira product offering is like a cautionary tale for all aspiring enterprise software systems out there - slow, big, ugly, very customisable, but really tedious. I wish they would just focus on Jira, cede this idea of source control software to Github (which already has a firewall product, most people don't know this) and make everything work together really well.

My two cents.
I'd love to check out that 24-inch cocktail table! anyone heard more details of it?
At that the point the challenge is how to keep the 99% of players entertained. :)
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I started a company that names new startups and products - http://www.nomvilla.com. It's going okay so far, but I'm working on a name-logo-business card package.
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Like working with data? Forming it into useful visualizations or making it searchable?
We're hiring on the front end and the back end. Have experience with Solr? Hadoop? Jquery? IOS? Want to work on interesting problems, leverage open source, launch features and have ownership?
We are a great size, not so big you'll go unnoticed, not so small you wonder about the business model.

http://www.trulia.com/about/careers/Engineering
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This is a picture of two kids using our unreleased learning game:
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We took this photo in a classroom last week where we were beta-testing our educational game. We want to hire engineers who are excited by helping kids learn, and creating similar reactions to the one above on a scale of millions of kids. We're building web and mobile software that makes a significant difference in the lives of its users.

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In that position a medical staff that is going to do that is as likely to stop treatment anyway at that point, so it is still just a choice between dead and donated or just dead - so it isn't really something that should affect your choice. Heck, a doctor that will ignore reason in that situation might even take organs from non-donors, so not being a registered donor is not going to save you from anything really.
Bahaha, whoops. I should have mentioned that my computer goes up to 11.
Not knowing anything about what they do, the hack-ish way you could do it is to use Google CSE (custom search engines) to add a list of negative domains. Where to get the list of top 1 million domains? Probably from Quantcast here: http://www.quantcast.com/top-sites-1
This seems to me to be a great example of hour DDG can gain an edge on Google. I don't think you'll ever see Google offering something like this; they're too big. A smaller option like DDG has more room to grow, and can take advantage of the crowd like this in ways that Google can't.
The webcast is something of a flashtastrophe:

* Chrome is not officially supported
* Need to allow pop-ups
* Chat widget does not do copy & paste
* Chat widget takes 10 seconds to scroll
* Shockwave Flash process using 350% of CPU
* Webcast crashed and had to be restarted from the broadcasting-side
* Chrome repeatedly asking if I want to kill unresponsive webcast tabs

That said, they have a decently slick UI for handling screen sharing, slides & chat. It's just that the implementation is a nightmare.

O'Reilly & on24 need to rethink this.

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New York City. SUMMER INTERNSHIPS in software (including Unity 3D), hardware, and game design at Project Grasshopper.

Project Grasshopper: game lounges for grown-ups. Starting in New York City and involving interactive tabletops and innovative physical and digital media in actual locations, with the goal of using games to foster meaningful face-to-face social interaction and in-person community. Founded by former Google PM director.

Participants in test events have basically said: we love it, we want it more, and we don't know where else to get it.

If this piques your interest, email info@projectgrasshopper.com and I can send you a concept test video that gives a brief overview of the project and includes footage from a recent test event.
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Simple, you are expendable. Give your user's a reason to say. Give them a product they're willing to pay for and can't live without.
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It's a nit, but this wasn't a "data loss" event. It was a bug that prevented the storing of the data in the first place. Backup strategies (either cloud-managed or "hanging on to your local hard drive" as lukeschlather posits) would not have helped.
Why cede the self-hosted source control market to Github if, as you say, most people don't know Github has a presence there? If that's the case, this sounds like a great time for them to enter this market.
The title says "earned". I believe the confusion would stem from the title.
I wasn't, mainly because anyone proven to be one is presumably in jail and thus has a much harder time finding a transplant.
Agreed. I'm not sure what this gets me that http://pinboard.in/popular/ doesn't already provide.
San Francisco, CA, or REMOTE, full-time or intern

Samasource is a distributed work system similar to Mechanical Turk, but aimed at eradicating global poverty by providing work to the people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. See the TEDx talk our founder gave: http://vimeo.com/9305118.

We're looking for a senior engineer (Ruby knowledge preferred but optional), Operations Engineer, PM, and other positions.
http://samasource.org/careers/

Feel free to email me at rhc2104(at)columbia(dot)edu if you have any questions.
Which is exactly how Facebook works... i.e. you select some files and then you mess around with the album properties, like date/place take, album notes and whatever else there is. Granted you need to explicitly choose the photo's in the first place, but that's the green button you speak of.
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I would be more productive if I worked nights and weekends, but since nobody would pay the bill rate premium that inconvenience merits, it benefits nobody for me to do that.

Sometimes programmers actually want to interleave multiple projects. Maybe you have two totally different codebases to work on; perhaps one is backend async code, and the other is Javascript UI. Both are a week's worth of work, but you'd burn out if you did either straight through.

Fine: interleave the projects. But that decision is orthogonal to your billing increment. Bill full days exclusively.

You will find as your business matures that every single client you want to keep won't blink if you round that 5-hour project they need up to a full day. Call it your minimum billable increment. Offer, if you want, to chunk a bunch of small projects into a day; this is one way to prospect for more hours at a long-term client.
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This is begging to be renamed "HackHackGo." Has such a nice ring to it!
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Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the world’s innovation. The faster science moves, the faster the world moves.

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Academia.edu has over 1.2 million registered users, and over 3.5 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 4,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,500 academics join each day.

We just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

We need talented engineers to come and help us with the mission. We have a strong engineering culture. We're an 11 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is in Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring.

The kinds of things you would be working on include:

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What we're looking for are:

☀ 2+ years of web development experience

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All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture.

There is more information here http://academia.edu/hiring.
H1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu
(Disclaimer: I am a professional Ruby developer)

The problem is that the various packaged versions of Ruby are a shambles. RVM has a number of significant problems and difficulties (rbenv is both better and worse).

Right now getting a good, modern Ruby version on a standard modern computer is a big pain in the ass.

As long as that stays true, we will be dinged for not supporting old (but common) versions.

Years from now, when everybody has good 1.9 compatibility, things may be better. At least, if 2.0 doesn't have the same problems...
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Some people are like you. I suspect more people are like me. If you're not sure whether you're going to enjoy / be good at doing your own taxes, screwing them up is not a good way to find out. I managed to get myself into quite an annoying hole by not delegating this particular business problem.
I'm a little bit confused about the target audience. The target audience is supposedly "casual MMO players," but the idea of investing money for advancement in a game seems to me like a more hardcore-ish thing to do. I would expect the groups "casual" and "willing to spend more money on the game" to be largely disjoint.

It's possible my intuition is completely off. I know there is a market of aging, settled gamers in the "time is more valuable than money" category, but I thought it was a small population. Have you done research on the size of the potential market?
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But note that the tax implications of being a freelancer are way more complicated than those of being a W2 worker.
Accountants are like mechanics. You are only going to find a good one by word of mouth... and even then you have check to make sure that he fits your business. You should approach an accountant like a job candidate; ask questions about his business practices and those that pertain to your business.

I found my accountant through a network of co-workers that all have the same type of freelancing business (single founder; very few clients). I know he makes a lot of money doing my taxes, but he ends up saving me more money than what he's charging me and keeps me worry-free with regard to the CRA (IRS; US-equivalent).

If you are in the Vancouver area, I can recommend a good accountant that works with small/micro businesses. Hit me up on Twitter.
Which in turn was a reference to Goodfellas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydqjqZ_3oc
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tbh I would guess he made something like 10-20k, as in the text he clarifies that 65k was revenue not profit or earnings. Good learning experience though.

A full-time summer job would net you... 5k? Multiplied by number of summers. Probably not as fun...
there should be 2 values at each corner to make it more complete.
TT.FM developer here. What in particular do you find onerous about the updated TOS? We collect very little in the way of personally identifiable information and don't share it with anyone except on an opt-in basis (for contests, events etc.). I happen to think our TOS is a lot better than most sites', which state that they'll share your information with anyone they want without your permission.
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Link bait, when will you learn major tech media is clueless..

come one be a better chooser of the tech info you take in..

May I suggest MondayNote co-authored by a former Apple CEO who has more mobile tech knowledge than major tech media
Hi daeken,
I'm a games researcher and perhaps too heavy of a game player.

While I largely agree with the people who have mentioned "why don't they just buy gold?", and I somewhat agree with your stance that there are people that won't do this, I can't help but wonder who you are serving and how you intend to do it.

* World of Warcraft currently runs 500+ servers. You'll need characters in very specific level ranges. A level 80 that needs to run with a level 20, even if completely unequipped, will still cakewalk the encounter. Assuming you need to be within say, 20 levels of any character, that means you need at least 4 characters per server, which means 2000 characters on tap, if you want full coverage.

* Even if you had those 2000 characters, they need to be available now. I would posit that most players who buy gold do so out of ego depletion (ie. people lose willpower over time banging their head against a certain quest, and eventually they just tip over the edge). If you're not there to provide the service straight away, either the ego will come back, they've already abandoned what they're doing, or they've found someone else to help.

* But probably the biggest issue, which tehayj notes, is that guilds already fill this purpose. Good guilds will often have people who will come and help if you just ask, and they're already people that are friends. And they're usually available in 15 minutes or less. They provide a better service than you can.

If guilds are providing a better service, it makes more sense to pivot and provide some sort of guild matching web site, although there's one of those already in-game in WoW.
What briarpatch does differently is you don't have to use a javascript bookmarklet. With the briarpatch chrome extension, you can just bookmark sites the way you normally do and it works behind the scenes without you having to think about it.
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thanks for the upvote! I'm guessing it's because i'm promoting my own project
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Haha, you'll notice hackhackgo.com redirects to the same place :). We had a large internal debate about the name and it came down to these two, with hacksear.ch in third.
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Hourly billing gives a freelancer a lot more flexibility on their day. What if the number of hours you work for a client on any given day (or week) is highly variable? For example, you work off hours when you can. Or you are splitting time between clients. Or the amount of work a client has on-site wanes and spikes unpredictably. Or you feel like leaving at noon every Thursday and Friday. I am still newish to freelancing, but I do not feel comfortable billing an full 8 hour day for just showing up in any of the above scenarios. And I certainly would not want to give me time away for free if I did not hit some minimum.
Haha, "Improve Everywhere". I don't disagree. :)
Permalink to this post: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/04/where-modules-go-to...

(The current article link goes to the front page of the author's blog.)
Doc continues to be a challenge, but there's a lot of good stuff at http://docs.scala-lang.org/ including an in-depth guide to collections that the author might find helpful.
One good point to make is that solo founders (myself included) often have the same problem. If you're a person that "great" ideas come to very easily, it's easy to stop working on (i.e. abandon) the older idea and jump full-force into the shiny new one.

As Chuck's comment points out, eventually you have to narrow down your choices and your focus to actually ship a product instead of just being a perpetual idea mill.

Thanks for a great post Carl.
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Sorry, I meant as a "way to discover high quality content on the web".

For bookmarking: I get that briarpatch is hooking into the browser, and I see how that's interesting but I'm way into pinboard and it's ability to automatically collect and full-text index every link I put on the web (e.g. twitter, google reader, reddit, browsing, hn)
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We're hiring a Front End Developer and a Product Designer:
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Yes, pretty much this is how I've been doing JSON API's for a couple years now. Making things all about convenience and ease of use for the API consumer, that's really what an API should be about. Afterall, API's are UI for developers.
This is why I play Geometry Wars on a Sony Trinitron CRT TV.

> "you will usually see a color change starting at some point on the screen (vsync disabled) two 240 hz frames after the button goes down"

That's less than 1/100th of a second from the button press to the screen.
In a lot of APIs I've dealt with, you can create resources with ids that match your own resources, hence wanting to use PUT for creation, e.g. if you have users in your application and you want to extend them to this web service, instead of having to store an additional "foreign key" per user, you can just PUT users in the web service with ids from your own service.

I'm doing this for the API I'm building, as modeled on FatSecret's API.
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