skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a portfolio site, but was successfully freelancing on the basis of referral for four years or so. I wouldn't take a random client on, because bad clients cost money. Reach out to anybody who trusts you to "get the job done" and get them to reach out. Networking and trust are essential.

Another idea getting your foot in the door as a freelancer at an agency. About 1/4 of my work (and best paid work) came that way. Gives you a client base to build from (though not your clients, it will give you demonstrable experience)
1) Isn't Linux is a successful mass market product designed for developers?

2) Where the best designers go, so follow consumers. Apple proved that, no?
You can easily disable those emails by changing around your Facebook settings.
Is it good or bad elevator pitch? (pitchme password)
Another title change?? This one, again, seems totally inappropriate - shouldn't "Show HN" posts be exempt from mods changing the title since one would imagine that the creator of what is being shown has a better idea of an appropriate title than a mod? Seems to me like its one step away from editing the very content being linked!
Church (arguably) contributed as much or more to computer science, but is not idolised in the same way as Turing.
Darpa spends $21.4M for Android mobile device security development
NASA hosts first ever multi center social media event for Mars Landing
I haven't dealt with Windows malware in a decade. Have you?
For the company he keeps. Comment on that blog enough and pretty soon a regular will threaten to come to your house and beat you up. This has happened to me twice and I've seen it happen to others; multiple perps, regulars and seemingly friends of ESR.

Basically, the crowd he attracts is smart in some ways but uncivilized. It's a waste and a disappointment.
I should add: it wasn't an original comment, and it is a bit true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M
Facebook also requires real names: http://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
Does this work with hosted jekyll sites or just those that live within github? The documentation only mentions github, but after a quick look at the source code I can't see any reason this wouldn't work (at least with some minor modifications) on any hosted jekyll blog.
Agencies definitely worked for me. If you are good, it can be steady work without much of the risks.
FWIW, I had my real email addresses showing before this weekend and when I checked this morning, the only email address that was being shown was the @facebook.com one. My other 2 email addresses (one visible to each of my friends and one only to a close few) were hidden from my timeline. Shady!!
I really like the approach of bringing up a second set of systems during an upgrade, so rollback is easy: makes the most of virtual machines. I'll have to add that to PlatformLayer!

Asgard looks to be very heavily tied to AWS though, which I guess explains why NetFlix are always pleading with everyone else to stick with the AWS APIs. With the cloud wars getting really interesting (Google's cloud this week, we hope!), locking yourself in to the obscure features of Amazon's cloud seems like a mis-step I wouldn't want to emulate.
No need to apologise. If something is missed the first time, people see it the second time and it gets voted up to the front page then people want to see it. With the voting system if it truly is a "dupe" it wont get voted up...
Look closer. Your previously public non-facebook address is now set as hidden. People attempting to email you will be forced through Facebook. "Hide from Timeline" option will be chosen.
The gap is 1-thou (30um), this isn't challenging machining - you could make the gap 30nm ! (it's a bit more annoying with copper)

Actually some machining marks would probably be good, small surface irregularities will break the boundary layer - like sharks skin and make the air flow mix better.
Jeff Bezos: Bat-shit crazy? Or, just crazy like a really evil, rotten fox?
" Well, first of all my little pedantic nit-pick is that air is a fluid. "

I think for the purposes of Aerodynamics/Thermodynamics, we treat air as an ideal gas.
Coal plants pump out TONS of radiation into the air, far more than living near a nuke plant causes not to mention megatons of CO2 (coal is the range of a ton of CO2 per megawatt, if not a little north of that)

They put out regulations in March that basically made fossil fuel plants require a redesign before constructing more of them (Gas currently has a small enough CO2 footprint)
I highly recommend oruxmaps. it is free and you can use both tiles and vector data as offline sources.
> But the reason that Malthus' doom-mongering hasn't come to pass is because he failed to consider that there was sufficient incentive for people to find alternatives, such that they could skirt the constraints.

No, his doom-mongering was wrong because the alternative to collapse he laid out as improbable - 'moral restraint' - turned out to actually happen, leading to the very strange phenomenon known as the 'demographic transition'. Which we still don't understand why it happened, how long it will last, or where it will break down and how, so I don't blame Malthus.

I do blame Internet commenters facilely writing off Malthus as falsified by technology. Go actually read his essays! No, some geometric improvements in irrigation and fertilizers do not disprove him. Agriculture is not expanding exponentially: what happened was the population stopped growing as fast as it could. That is all.
Begging your pardon, but what are you smoking?

SO2 and NOX filtration are great, and significantly reduce emissions (~80% seems to be a common figure cited by FGD and SCR manufacturers), but mercury and radionuclide emissions, especially in fly ash, are still a real thing. It also doesn't address the lifecycle problem: we don't really know whether sequestration will work, and you still have to extract and transport the coal itself.

As far as I know the investments in coal-process carbon capture have yet to be seriously implemented, which is probably why coal-fired power plants are still responsible for 20% of US CO2 emissions. :-/
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I feel your pain, but apparently the exact form of your response was considered rude. Rephrase and repost? (hint: replace "bullshit" with "nonsense" - people are less offended by that, and it means pretty much the same thing; etc)

Picture oneself readings ones' comment aloud on the BBC :-)

"The author apparently seems to have missed the likelihood that current resources may be nearing a depletion curve in the near future, and is rather dismissive of the environmental damage attributed to these sources. One must wonder if he is perhaps seriously short sighted."

Something like that (feel free to add just a bit of acid, for flavor, at the very end)
I think this design works well only in the context of computer casing or similar. The warm air coming from Sandia doesn't seem to get very far away? So it would eventually disrupt the cooling process if it's not blown away by the regular fans of the computer housing.

Isn't there a problem in fluid cooling that you can't really get the fluid as cool as the air where heat ends up eventually? My professor told that cars usually use fluid cooling because it makes engine temperatures more predictable, and therefore slight loss in efficiency is acceptable.
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I can't stand timeline. I find it really difficult to read them for some reason - probably something to do with having more than one column - and poor alignment - it's cognitively difficult.
The Beginner's Guide to PR
NASA develops new way to grip space-rocks - video
What is missing in the original article and what some "I'll just leave it here (bar of consumption vs. bar of green production)" comments omit is the grid.

The electricity is not some component part which you order in China, stock it up in thousands in your warehouse and wait until you need it.

The total electricity production and consumption must be absolutely equal in ANY. GIVEN. MOMENT. If you are not generating enough, the generators would be overloaded, start slowing down and bad things would happen (frequency would lower, your own generators and/or power lines between countries will go out of phase and bang, you have a nice large several-country-wide blackout). Similar things happen when you generate too much.

Therefore, mentioning the current AVERAGE green production per day and consumption per day is totally out of reality, as the "base" energy is still provided by the dreaded nuclear, peak oil and very dirty coal power plants. In order to cover the consumption with the "holy" green energy, the capacity of such power plants would have to be several times the current consumption in order to generate the energy for times when there is no wind, no sunlight (night!), etc. AND many storage plants (e.g. pumped storage) have to be built. And one pumped storage plant alone (without the power plants providing the electricity into the storage!) cost the same as adding the same net power capacity in nuclear, which goes by the projections until the next scheduled shut down, no wind onsets, etc.

Also, please do not be fooled with the "Austrian model" - ban nuclear energy in the constitution and import (nuclear!) energy from surrounding countries. Or with the "German model" - promise to stop nuclear power plants and: a) use "green" government subsidies to start COAL power plants instead (yes, environmental funds are being used to build new power plants of the most dirty kind!), b) overload surrounding grids (Polish, Czech) to dissolve peak effects of current, very unstable, "green" sources, c) start inventing crazy things like using home water heaters running on fossil fuels (!) controlled by computers to generate electricity into the grid when the green sources are not enough...

Whenever anybody is speaking about noes to nuclear power or green sources, these issues should be foremost addressed. Otherwise it is the same beating around the bush, as when biofuels are governmentally subsided and made mandatory by law to be mixed into ordinary fossil fuels, but it is kept secret that the agricultural vehicles running on the fossil fuels, spreading pesticides and fertilizers made from fossil fuels, use more energy than is finally made in the "biofuel". However, this happens in some other country across the globe, so it is none of our business and it is very "green" in our "bio"fueled country...

Source: electrical engineer controlling the power grid of a European country.
Robot completes world’s first automated liver transplant
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!. Decent Portfolio site, decent means not just the first page either, if you use bb or gh yous should have a collection of portfolio class projects that have bare minimum project website for each project, demos of screencaps and or videos.see my site in profile for an example.

2. Value proposition has to be stellar, write about it daily and refine your prose.

3. A Step into potential client shoes, find ways to reduce their risk while still getting what you need.
The Start of Something Small
I agree with you about the reaching a "threshold" of users. Creating a large base of returning users is difficult.
I am interning for an indirect Craigslist competitor. (zealousgood.com) We help nonprofits get/receive in-kind donations. Instead, of putting up a free item on CL, one can pick a nonprofit to donate it to.

Many people view CL as a the simplest solution. It has the least resistance. Regardless of its cons, people continue to use the system.
The author is in a tough spot. Nobody is really really sure a free market system can actually build black swan proof things. If your competition can be slightly less safe and therefore charge less money that solution will find its way into production. You know, perhaps more than anyone else in the thread, that we can increase reliability a bunch of ways, but they're all expensive.

It's easier, from a libertarian point of view, to sidestep the issue. So, the author says this problem is irrelevant in the real world, cause nukes aren't feasible.
Unless I'm trying to run a business, I almost always prefer this kind of error to the opposite.
These are great! Have you any plans to provide a package including everything for a single price? I'd definitely be interested...
Will PadLister provide a free API for everyone to use?
Seems to vary pretty widely place to place. Kijiji is the site of choice in Calgary, where I live. Brandon MB has a standalone website, eBrandon.
I already have a clearance. I guess this means I've probably been talking to the wrong people.

For the contractors I've been talking to, when I tell them that I write python when I can, PHP when I'm patching stuff I wrote a few years ago, and javascript when it needs to run client-side, and that I spend my days maintaining systems running Ubuntu server I get a response something like "yeah... that's not really what we're looking for.

And maybe I've been too quick to dismiss working in a Windows/ASP/VB shop. Those folks have challenging problems to solve too, and reasons for using the tools they use. Thanks for reminding me of that.
Erlang values are not mutable. You can't have a 4, lose the execution pointer to another process, and when it comes back you suddenly have a 5 in that variable. (Barring arbitrary C, of course.) That's the aspect of "immutable" that matters from a multithreading point of view. For most of what Erlang does, it would be fine to have mutable variables but immutable values, as if everything were as immutable as a Python string but you could freely reuse variable labels just as you can set a = "A", then a = "B" in Python. I think that's basically what Go does, though I haven't quite studied it enough to be sure.
Can you qualify your statement: "Sharepoint may be an atrocity against good software"?

The product has actually improved a lot since the earlier versions that people usually associate their negative opinion of it with; and i've actually been seeing a lot more success stories than horror stories as of late with SharePoint 2010 deployments.
I'm willing to bet most news agencies/blogs sat on it until today to reach a more people.
I actually strongly disagree with you, and I think that your comment itself is a very nice example of the problem. And I think that you might be able to see how very easily.

It is the very fact that we don't "blame" Fox News for choosing something that is evil, even when it works, that makes it work. It is up to those who have principles and who believe in right and wrong to draw real lines in the sand, and stop giving people a pass for choosing the expedient, if wrong, option. It's one thing to show compassion for people's foibles, it's another to completely abandon the duty of honest application of principles, if you have them.

Basically, we need to STOP saying, "You can't blame Fox for being liars because, after all, it works." That perpetuates the problem.

So, yes, the blame is on the consumer, but for every consumer that wholeheartedly believes in Fox, there are 10 more that know Fox is a liar but tolerates it because it "works". By pointing this out I hope to make a real difference in how behavior is perceived, and shape the world's institutions into the kind that I want: ones that value integrity above all.
Congratulations on launching. The UI looks good, but I do have some comments:

1) The time counter, it flashes. Very distracting. I see you're using a plugin for it. Just have the background stays the same and change opacity of the text instead.

2) Facebook and Twitter links next to the signup/signin button can be confusing as social authentication. Perhaps you could move it down to the footer or above the Facebook friends/like box.

Congrats again and good luck.
For completeness, it should use WTFPL license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
From backend to frontend - the mental transition
You always had that option by setting it to hidden. The issue is that if you wanted to expose your email to, say, your friends so that they could contact you in some non-Facebook way if they needed to, now you have to revert the changes that Facebook did.
They're ethically obligated to hide infomation users don't want released, but are they really expected to publish everything their users ask to make public? It's annoying, but it doesn't spur anything like the moral outrage I would feel if they publicized your hidden addresses. At worst its a minor inconvenience.
For users of facebook, it's been one breach of trust after another.
In the context of Google, your use of the terms "forcing" and "commensurate reward" are decidedly oxymoronic. I'd make the case that in the US and most other Western countries, your use of those terms doesn't really make sense.

Do you live in some non-free society where you aren't allowed to quit a job and find another more suitable to your liking? Maybe you live somewhere where you aren't allowed to start your own business and take part in deciding your own compensation? I'd guess North Korea, but your English is extremely good and I didn't think they were allowed to access the Internet.
This morning my mother was complaining that many of the email addresses in her Droid Razr contacts had been replaced with Facebook ones. It would seem the Facebook app had been populating her address book with emails and contact photos, and decided to migrate all her Facebook-using contacts over to this convenient new system. That seems like a much greater controversy to me than Facebook hiding people's email addresses.
My professor told that cars usually use fluid cooling because...

Fluid cooling is more stable, because you have the added thermal mass of a couple gallons of fluid. It is easier to regulate temperature, through the use of the thermostat. It also reduces problems with hotspots, and multi-cylinder engines can be made much more compact.

Really, the question of efficiency is practically not even a concern- in modern times it is typically not until you have a racing engine, that you begin to have cooling problems. The real concerns are reliability and added complexity of the cooling system. The biggest advantages are improved longevity and performance of your engine.

It is true that an old car going uphill on a roasty day with the A/C on may overheat, but even then it is often a problem with poor maintenance or the wrong mix of coolant. (When your coolant boils, your cooling system cannot cool the engine effectively. Vapor has far, far inferior heat conduction properties. This is one of the reasons why the system is typically pressurized)
An acquisition is a massive legal and financial undertaking.

If it's not in the contract, it's not a promise. Anyone who believes otherwise is a fool.
What has Google "forced upon users" with Google+? Especially given that you can still remove G+ from your large Google profile (for now at least)
>>any more than Perl excels at OO

Check Moose and related on CPAN, modern Perl has probably the best OO among the usual scripting languages (Python, PHP, Ruby, etc).
In 2009, N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard economist, advisor in the GWBush administration) passed along for consideration an demurrage-like stimulus idea from one of his students. Namely, that the Fed could declare that one year forward, some percentage of existing currency, randomly chosen by serial number, would expire worthless:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/business/economy/19view.ht...

I've also seen the idea that a stimulus tax rebate could be offered in the form of expiring debit cards to have a similar macroeconomic effect.
Exactly, this one link provoked me to try a few things myself and I learned a few new things without even expecting it today.

I took this same app to other sounds (chainsaw, smoke detector) and it was all technically interesting. The modem tone was still the most interesting to me.

Take modem negotiation to a frequency display and zoom in, and you can actually see what the dual-tone in DTMF stands for. Heck, it looks like a piano roll if you want to take it in that direction for inspiration. Translate the row and column into a set of musical intervals and you'll be able to figure out how to play basic songs on your touch-tone phone.

Just tell me this isn't cool: http://imgur.com/sbtyY

I just found the first modem sound I could find off Google. By looking at the frequencies in the image, it is dialing 1-415-489-3565, which is still an active Earthlink dial-up number.

Small posts like this drag me in directions like this all the time. It leads me to questions I wouldn't have bothered with asking before today. This is absolutely within the guidelines and I thank the submitter for the enlightenment I received today.
Eric Raymond eats at the "Alan Turing" buffet
If you include the difficult to remove "rogue antispyware" type programs as malware then yes, frequently. I haven't seen a real virus or trojan in the wild in years. I still see the "hijack your computer and extort money from you" kind all the time.
Try right clicking (or menu key), copy the url, open new tab (CTRL+T), go to location bar (CTRL + L), and paste (CTRL + V). It's the Javascript I think that hijacks the click.
> MS tried to produce a Java with native extensions:

Not exactly. MS replaced Java's existing native extension functionality (JNI) with Windows-only native hooks called JDirect. Interestingly, it did so with these @com (EDIT: sorry, I meant @dll -- @com was related to COM hooks, which stuck around well into the .NET era as attribute hooks) method macros that, in a way, prefigured attributes in both Java and C#.

EDIT: If by 'native extentions', you meant the WFC classes, then yes these were additions, not a replacement of JNI. But these were not part of the lawsuit per se. The suit focused on the removal of JNI and the corruption of the JVM spec with the JDirect functionality.

> plus most of the features that Java programmers were begging for that Sun was sniffing at

'most of the features' is pushing it a bit. The only feature that J++ had over Java 1.1 at the time was method pointers (delegate). The lawsuit focused on those corruptions of Java: removing JNI as well adding JDirect and the 'delegate' keyword. This, according to the court, violated the terms of the license agreement signed by MS.

Microsoft lost the lawsuit, and that was the reason they ditched J++ and began work on C#/.NET, which built upon many of the lessons learned in J++. I think otherwise MS's plan was to continue building an ecosystem around the MSVM not unlike what they eventually built around the CLR.

It would be interesting to compare the MS/Sun ruling with the recent Google/Oracle ruling, as the terms of the two suits were rather similar.

It would seem to me that the biggest difference there is that MS did in fact sign a license agreement with Sun that constrained the nature of their use of Java. Google did not sign any agreement, and I wonder if this was a calculated move on Google's part, in light of the MS/Sun J++ ruling.

Considering the recent ruling by Judge Alsup regarding Android's similar adoption/modification of the Java spec, does this mean Microsoft would have stood a better chance by simply implementing J++ with no agreement from Sun at all? On my naive, IANAL reading of it, that would seem to be the case.
The benefits from immutability are well-known outside the functional world. Josh Bloch harped on that (and rightly so) quite a lot in "Effective Java".

Immutability in Java is great, and doesn't have a functional corequisite.
How hard is it to add APIs for other languages? (In my case I'm thinking JVM, since I'm getting into Clojure.)