skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha ha nice one. Justice served :)
This reflects my experience (UK) - I get recruiters asking me on a regular basis why they can't find any PHP developers, when I look at the job ad it's because the offers are things like 'experienced mid-level developer, 20-24k'.
Programming languages 'do not enjoy copyright protection,' EU court says
This is also the way that you can get paid what you are worth by a small non-technical company that knows nothing about software development and thinks of programmers as other employees that should be a paid a middling salary.

Granted the sword cuts both ways. A lot of companies really don't have the kind of business where a skilled software engineer can save enough money to justify a 6-figure contract, but on the other hand, a lot of them do and just don't know it.
Served this guy right!
Think of the children.

Seriously. When I was younger I made a little social network thing for me and my schoolfriends. I didn't figure out how to properly deal with uploaded images (too much hassle), so I allowed you to simply hotlink a profile image. I hotlinked some funny picture at home, and...

At school it was pornography from the site owner intended to stop people hotlinking. I very quickly changed the image.
Who is DeBeers in this analogy?
For non-EU peeps, it's a bit harder.

First, there's always the love visa -- find yourself a swedish girl and move here (you don't need to marry). On a more serious note, the easiest thing is to get a job at a Swedish company with a US presence (or vice versa) and get them to help you move. For example I know Spotify is recruiting aggressively and they have offices in Stockholm, SF and NYC. Most medium to big software companies here already has international people on staff and a lot of them has experience with the (comparatively little) bureaucracy required.

If you're any good and really serious about it, feel free to send me a mail (on my profile) and I'll see if I can help you out in any way :)
Can't do anything about the text. That's in the HTML which is on their server. I just have the JS file that controls the image loading.
I'm not sure if I'm in the minority here, but I just cannot have music pumping into my ears when I'm trying to focus. I do a lot of self-talking when I'm trying to learn or work out a problem; so if I just can't hear my 'head voice', I can't get a single thing done.
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I guess the original password is stored as a hash in the DB normally, then when someone logs it it hashes what they entered, what they entered with the first char lowercased, and what they entered with all cases inverted, and see if any of the hashes match.
Yes I would agree with that, though it's non-obvious. I mean the best solution could be a CRUD app that would be the very epitome of boring to many seasoned programmers, and yet I think there will always be some smart programmers who will find it interesting if for no other reason then that they personally haven't done that type of thing before.
Hard drives sit in their own Faraday Cage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage. So they are a lot more protected than you might think. Induction in long power cables is a problem, but things have to get ridiculous before surge protectors become useless.
Interesting! This is nearly a 180 degree opposite in the Netherlands. Companies can't find the talent they need inside (because they pay them too little, but ok), so they try to attract foreigners. Foreign "knowledge workers" also get tax benefits for the first many years, and many employers (particularly consultancies and larger OEMs) have people specialized in getting foreigners a worker's visa.
If you live in the US, Hulu has added a crap ton of programs from Gala/Uni-vision and most of them seem to have spanish closed captioning. I don't know whats good but there's a lot to choose from.
But why aren't you using your G+ account?

Let's be honest. Google+ is almost identical to Facebook. It has equivalent functionality in every respect, and in most respects it improves on that functionality. The only reason you're not using it is because nobody is there. How do you fix that? Force people to use it. As soon as a handful of people realise that it's actually better and more well designed than Facebook, people will flock there.
The green background is too dark to have black text on it, not enough contrast. Either make the background lighter or darker with white text.
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But you can do stuff with the text! You can manipulate the DOM, yes? And your script displays it in the first place.
$40k entry level is competitive? That's a whole factor of three away from the $120k people volley around here for entry level jobs in the valley. It's really that much of a difference?
It's not live yet.
Aurora is like fire; taming it would serve us yes, but it is easy to predict when they will occur, and that seems a problem with continuity of electricity supply.
True, just wanted to hammer home the point.
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thanks for the upvotes guys, but I'd even more appreciate some valuable feedback, tips, and would love to hear about your experiences in this field :)
I've always wondered what would happen if a rogue MS employee slipped carefully-hidden malware into Windows Update. They could cause havoc.
Great article. Both REST articles Rei wrote made me finally understand what is a REST architecture and how to use it. Keep up the good work. Can't wait for the next article.
the Batch filter is what we are using a lot for web site image processing.
>>if you really see it as a lottery then you're devaluing the impact that individual decision-making plays, and you will never be an A-player with that attitude.

I am not downplaying the efforts of so many individuals that make it big in start up's. And I know very well how hard people work, and that is precisely my point. All I'm saying sometimes you don't succeed despite best efforts, sometimes other things which have nothing to do with your performance go wrong.

There are many things that you can't control. That is OK. And despite all this, I will still keep trying, anyway.

My problem is that we are not paid in proportion to our work. And that most of the times becomes the biggest source of frustration and pain in our industry.
The biggest improvement the web interface offers seems to be the outline on the right. For long man pages (man bash, I'm looking at you), that could be very useful. Anyway to do that in regular man?
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Did anyone take a screenshot of it?
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Well, I've been thinking about moving from Vienna to somewhere more competetive for some time (though its not about the money, I'm paid really well here - just about competition, which I happen to enjoy a lot), but the reasons for not doing it are some of the features you get when living in a more "socialist" (though I wouldn't call Austria socialist) country.

Security, low crime rate, very few homeless people, drug addicts etc.. I can basically go to a party, get drunk there and take a walk after that in any part of the city during night without being afraid that some homeless person will attack me. If you ask me, thats a big pro for staying here. Sure, I would probably earn more if I did the same job in San Francisco, but then I would have to deal with a much worse social situation, and I would have to be more cautious.
I've done a few passive income projects, and by far the most lucrative have been:

a) Self-serve subscription services (SaaS/hosting platforms have a high buy-in, but are very low maintenance once they're revved)

b) Ad-supported projects targeted at loyal niche markets. (Building enough audience for any ad-supported project is hard enough already; if you can build a tool that hooks into an existing community, go for it!)
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Some pretty good passive suggestions! My personal favorite is iOS app sales, which seem to bring in a couple of extra bucks per day if you have something people use.
You have access to jquery AND your script loads in the head. I think $(document).ready(function () { $('[id*="details_"] .body').html('El propietario del sitio es robar el contenido literal de mi sitio: http://socketstudios.com. Si usted hace negocios con esta persona, usted va a tener un mal momento.'); })
And it's gone. That cheered my day up hugely though, thanks.
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I've tried Bloc, well I've tried everything! (Code School, Codecademy, Treehouse and many more)

None of them address the frustrations of WHY other programs don't stick.

After an in-browser coding course - the pupil isn't left with anything. (except a false sense of achievement)

There's no project to put in your portfolio. Nothing live on a website, no repository in GitHub.

It's also pretty much impossible to show others what you have learned outside of the website.

After a course, comes the question, "if I want to start my own project or replicate what I just learned outside if the learning environment, how do I go about it?"

That makes you feel like you're back at square one.

Learners don't get a sense of achievement from "Hooray, you built your first app" they get it from building something they can either use or at least show to others that it works.

To actually teach people to program, you can't do it in an online environment that is far removed from actually building real projects.

I look forward to seeing something that combines the support that Bloc offers with the working projects of Udacity - helping to set people up with their own development environment that they can use for their own ideas.
Sorry, your operating system is not supported just yet. The Chrome Web Store is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Why don't you send yourself a reminder to try it out later?

Silly me for using Chrome on ICS.
"It's your responsibility to understand the request, not ask more questions"
Indeed. You can basically change the site to whatever you want.

Changing the text in those boxes should be as simple as adding this to your javascript file.

$('#details .body').html("This guy ripped off my site!")
I'm pretty sure GP was talking about being productive as a designer, which means being able to do things really, really fast, with next to no effort, while retaining as much flexibility as possible. I think it's great that GIMP exists and is free and open source, but for people who actually have deadlines the GIMP workflow just doesn't cut it a lot of the time.
Wow, MSR got some really good people out of this. Yahoo! have had a great research lab, but with the recent layoffs and now this it looks like it's on the way out. MS has shown they commercialise products out of MSR (e.g. the Kinect) so this could have a big impact in a few years.
So true. I get calls from startup recruiters all the time. They don't seem to realize there's this thing called rent. They want to pay with equity. Might as well pay me with lottery tickets.

Here's the minimum I need to even bother talking to a recruiter. That means that for me to accept the offer, it probably needs more than this.

Six figures, 30 vacation days, full benefits, infinite sick days, convince me that you won't be out of business in any short span of time and you won't bounce a check. Also, under no circumstances do I work more than 40 hours a week.

The other thing that gets me is how companies expect you to really want to work for them. The fact is you need me more than I need you. I'm not going to spend my time solving your cute little puzzles and what not. My experience speaks for itself. If you want to hire me, you should be the one jumping through hoops to convince me I should quit my job and work for you. Only the past naive college version of myself thought otherwise.

TL;DR: if you want to hire me, pretend that I am a doctor and you are a pharmaceutical company.
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What crap, just go to a company which does pay well.
I'm a coder myself and my startup Fashiolista pays competitively. (Amsterdam though)
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404 for me on Debian Wheezy.
Yes, Curebit got caught stealing/hotlinking assets from 37Signals.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/curebit-apologizes-for-copy...
When is it the right time to protect your IP?
While perhaps not so extreme, I have found similar behaviour in C++. I worked on a code base where there was a really nice way of writing an algorithm which would 'throw' around 100,000 times/sec, and we had to change to something like this (keep checking return values of functions, and return if they are true), to get reasonable performance.
We are appreciate you help on working on Epycs - reverse engineer skype project.

Feel free to study current implementation stage here - https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs
Tangent: these kind of sites (the site that was stolen from), I'll call them "concept" sites, make me want to throatpunch a baby.

If you are seeking to demonstrate your jQuery/HTML5/CSS3 skillz then do it in a way that has some applicable context. Don't break so far from established usage conventions that users have to invest their the majority of their focus figuring out the site at the expense of examining the content.

After looking at several panels my understanding of what you do is still a guess. But I think you're a designer of some kind. If you are, the problem is that your site told me you care more about cool/flashy/pretty more than ease-of-use/user experience. As someone who engages designers on a weekly basis, that is not a positive differentiator.
Not so difficult if you keep one pinkie nail 3 inches long and razor-sharp (as do I).
All I see is an "Index of /" page with a link to a folder called videoflow (now changed to 3333). Did the owners take it down?

Does anybody have a screenshot they can share?
This is a very old argument. However, there are only so many hours in a day. I use Gimp occasionally but I bought Photoshop because there are more tutorials, blogs, and resources in general. I'm a developer and weekend warrior with graphics. If the apps are too different, I only have time to learn one.

For Gimp to really hit the main stream, it should make it trivial to switch between it and Photoshop.
Programmer salaries are decided most of the times by people, who don't know a jack about programming.

I know a lot of people make money just by being the manager's 'best man', Just polish the managers boot and he will give you the title of 'best team player' around.

On the other most good programmers tend to concentrate on their work, poor social skills and merely delivering stuff that doesn't get highlighted. You can do a lot of fire fighting at work, no body above your immediate manager will even know about it. There are a lot of people around you who are known to level above you manager just because they can make more noise and blow their trumpet louder than anybody else.

Perceptions drive a lot of things in this world.
I like that a lot...and I've always heard: 'Money doesn't make you happy, but it can make you less unhappy.'
This is first stage of 'clean room' reversing process - writing specification.
I have bought a kindle, upon which are stored many books.
I have also bought many physical books.

Have I purchased any kindle books? Well, only if they aren't available in physical form.

I am confused by people who believe that things on the internet are any sort of permanent - or private, but that's another matter entirely.
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All I see on the site now is Index of/ page with a folder named 3333. What did I miss? :(
I think he/she finally figured out what's going on!
I have a Toshiba Equium R630 and it works well. It's small and lightweight, although not quite ultrabook standard, and it feels very well put together. I think this model is EOL now, but you can find newer ones. Everything just works.
The latest revision is a completely different test. As klodolph explains in another comment, the presumably common case of no exception is generally how try/catch is optimized. So it stands to reason that the exception case would be slower and that there is potential for the non-exceptional case to be faster.
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Right enough. Too late now though.
Project to build a 1-2 ton rideable 6 legged robot, for fun
Still no installer available for Windows. :(
I definitely hear from startups who are hiring and will pay O.K. but it seems to me that for every startup that pays, there are 3-5 that won't.

I get myself fired up on this issue because I hear from enough companies that I need to quickly qualify opportunities. I'm a curious and generous person, so I'm inclined to listen to these people, but I don't have the time.
And what happens when you steal images from cracked - http://www.cracked.com/blog/this-is-why-you-dont-steal-from-...
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I toyed with the idea of making it responsive when I first built the layout but opted for a fixed design to save on time. It's a feature I'd really like to get into the site soon as I've already felt the pain of navigating it on my own phone.

Thanks for the great feedback :)
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Thanks for the response!
I've mentioned in another comment that the green seems to vary wildly on different displays, so I'm looking into improvements I can make there.
Science research may be freed from journals’ ‘unhealthy’ paywalls
Every web/app company seems to be a billion dollar company with a couple of year's work these days. It would be nicer if we'd see as many billion dollar solar panel companies or something.
Deezer Releases APIs To Court Developers In Latest Bid To Catch Up To Spotify
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Best bit:

“The development board plugged the chip into had a fault: there was no current being sent down the power supply lines at all. The processor was actually running on leakage from the logic circuits. So the low-power big thing that the ARM is most valued for today, the reason that it's on all your mobile phones, was a complete accident."
Ah, the "30% ruling". For those that haven't heard of this wonderful piece of legislation if means you only pay tax on 70% of your salary if you qualify as a knowledge migrant. Yes, you get 30% of your salary tax free. There are also other benefits, e.g. you don't pay income tax on dividends from your home country.

It's not just consultancies and OEMs that will help apply for this - I work at a startup and I am classified as a knowledge migrant.

Any Django/Python devs who are interested in living in a beautiful city and only paying tax on 70% of your salary, please get in touch - we're hiring!
Oddly enough, #1(buy experiences, not goods) and #2 (help others) are precisely the first topics tackled by "59 Seconds", by Richard Wiseman, which is a formidable book.
The #1 advice on this paper (experiences, not things) is very relevant for the HN community.

A corollary is "Your startup needs to sell experiences, not features":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662671

Previous discussions ("Money = Happiness, but when it buys experiences"):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482036

"Spend money on experiences, not possessions"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1825525
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I've got a Thinkpad T410 (integrated graphics) that's fully supported by OpenBSD 5.1; if it's fully supported by OpenBSD I'm very confident that it will be supported by Ubuntu. The Thinkpad X-series are very similar to the T-series and are much smaller and lighter.
If you can express your style in a way a code-formatting tool can apply, then you can use checkout and commit hooks in your vcs to apply the formatting. Code in the repo gets a team-standard formatting, and code in your working copy gets your personal formatting. You just have to make sure the whole team uses the commit hook, at least. (Or in most systems you can apply that hook on your central/official repo.)

The only problem with this approach is the diffs between the repo and your working copy.
I was personally impressed by the all javascript full screen mode.
If the health site has no traffic/audience, why keep focusing on it? It doesn't seem to have any specific angle that sets it apart from 1000s of other health sites.
Yes. There used to be a page with a picture of a dog.
Thanks for that.

It was a 'concept' site largely for my own amusement (and to teach myself a little bit of js). I do have a private portfolio site that shows more of my work and has no javascript in it at all.
Ask HN: How to get first 1,000 users?
We recently build a small platform for coupons and deals, so that every user can create a coupon or a deal and can share it on their or someone else’s website.

We are now in a process of getting users, so we want to know:

What was your strategy for getting first 1,000 users?

BTW you can find our platform at www.smart-ad.com
You should have introduced just a few frames of porn like they do in Fight Club :-)
Anyway you made my day. Did Cnet pay the bill?
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Most of the battery packs for tools are proprietary shells around completely standard cells inside. If you can open the plastic shell without destroying it, you can just replace the cells, usually for less than the manufacturer wants for the whole thing. And maybe 3-d printing would allow case replacement.
Worst bit:

Showing a photo of Wilson pre-transition. It added nothing to the story, being just a mug shot. I doubt she's happy about that...
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Your posting style is MORE obnoxious. Get a hold of yourself.
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That’s fair. Still, I don’t think the occasional low-quality link means HN is transmogrifying into Reddit, or otherwise declining.
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Fashion in the 21st century has surely soared to a whole new level with more and more types of clothing options available for people to wear as well as stylish apparels to flaunt at several occasions and social events.
"we're having trouble finding people" is a familiar refrain from people looking to hire developers.

if you're having trouble finding people you are, by definition, not paying enough.
"Advertisers don't know more about you."

Only sort of. Let's say I'm doing general advertising but want to know the age and gender of people who click on my ads. So I place ads for "men age 18-20", "men age 21-24", "men age 25-35", ..., "women age 18-20", ... . I give each a different landing url. Then I as the advertiser learn more about my incoming users than I would without targeting. I can't pull all the demographic information the ad network knows because if the buckets are too small things like CTR estimation work poorly, but if I'm high volume I can get good resolution.
Just wanted to say that I'm more than happy to answer questions on synaesthesia if any of you are curious.