skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm less interested in version syncing since I don't use a large variety of devices. I just want something I can set up at home, as a user, and be able to access via a Net connection. But I also want every bit of security that he as a technical person desires. I want all this to reside on hardware in my home, not somewhere else where the government can examine it without having to notify me first. And it must be dead simple. Put software on PC (or a Mac), point to directories, put client on remote device (tablet or phone), and BAM! done. And I want to be able to download locally, even video -- not stream. Now I will sit and wait for Godot.
Check your DNS for the DNS Changer Malware.
Unions in Hollywood have made it so that an actor can get non-leading roles semi-regularly and still be able to make an OK living. The adjunct and post-doc system in academia is exploiting the hopes that an ever-shrinking pool of tenure track positions are still in your future so you should keep working away for less than you're worth to stay in the running.

Hollywood is still largely an exploitative, winner-take-all system but there are some built-in protections in the system to make it more sustainable. Academia seems to be on the verge of coming undone if they don't do something to keep the exploited class from revolting or just quitting en-masse.
My use cases are very similar (I basically use awesome to manage a bunch of urxvts). When I run across regular GUI apps I typically just run them in a new workspace so they can either be fullscreen or not have to fight with xterms for space. It works well for me, but I don't run a lot of other things besides xterms in awesome (I mostly use it in a VM anyway)
"People are holding hunger strikes to stand up against the corruption. When was the last time that happened in the US?"

The last major one was July 1st, 2011 in the California prison system.
Yeah it totally would! Thanks for pointing this out.
Btw, I am planning to use another library that has better detection rates - https://github.com/wackou/guessit
Microsoft to launch Bing Fund angel investment incubator
BMW i8 Production Version
BMW i8 production model will include 393hp, which is 44hp more than the concept we saw earlier. The electric motor will likely be producing about 170hp
You know, you don't have to give up the "safety and security" of a full-time gig to have the freedom and control-your-own-schedule benefits of a freelancer. The "Results-Only Work Environment" (http://www.gorowe.com) is trying to merge the stability and benefits of a full-time job and the flexibility and freedom of freelancing.

If more gigs embraced ROWE, perhaps folks wouldn't have to choose the lesser of two evils.

Not saying that freelancing or consulting is bad, just that I think there's a viable alternative. I don't know what the future looks like, but I certainly hope the "40 hr salary work-week" goes away.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215330
How to find startup co-founders online and in the real wolrd
Make your own luck. Life is too short to work on something boring.
Even Scientists Can't Find Jobs In America Today
I'm guessing that most HNers will reject the merits of bundling and it's because they have a limited grasp of human behavior, consumer preferences and economics. Simply: bundling tv channels is much better for everyone.

Here's another example: 100 channels for $1 each. The average customer chooses 30. Bundling all 100 for $40 would benefit everyone.
Why try to unlock the secrets of the universe?
Indians can indeed be very proud. We're always looking to blame the corrupt politicians, the system, but we forget that the people themselves form the system. But if an outsider points this out, we quickly get defensive and use and every counter-argument that we can. You will hear the success and achievements of Indians around the globe as proof that we're not that far behind. I've seen it far too many times. Startups claiming to be 'global', yet emphasizing their 'Indianness', a Indian actor getting 5 minutes of screen time on a Hollywood movie, or even Sunita Williams, who was born and raised in the United States. We are quick to take credit, yet get up-in-arms when someone points out our flaws.

Worse, when we do talk about those flaws, we don't necessarily do anything to fix them.
Wise decision of Martin. I hope development will continue even stronger than before!
Glad to hear that you liked it! It works for everything that IMDB supports!
Right now, it tries to show the IMDB info for each episode separately. Maybe, later I will add an option to consider the series as a whole.
But really no one places zero value on anything which is why your argument breaks down.
Have you considered a chance that the Transparency International may be corrupt?
I remember reading about combining genetic algorithms and fpgas in the 90's. The end circuits were over-tuned and could stop working if the temperature changed by even a few degrees. Or it would work only on FPGAs from a single output batch. Thanks a bunch for the names, I wouldn't have remembered the people doing the research otherwise.
> He missed the "jugaad" all around him - people, in their struggle for survival, do all sorts of things.

What a colossal waste of human resources.

Imagine if all those poor people were instead lifted up to the middle class so that they wouldn't have to focus on surviving each day, and could put that "jugaad" to something actually useful - research, science, arts, creating things and doing work that benefits others as well.
Health insurance costs vary dramatically. My wife and I have bought our own insurance in CO, CA, and OR. We usually pay around $150-250 / month (for us both, not each) for a decent plan with a deductible of $2k-5k. I always use esurance.com.

That said, he's in the worst insurance market in the US: NYC. To get the equivalent of the $168 / month plan we have now, esurance was at least $800-1200. Sickening. Best bet I found is Freelancers Union. Health insurance is horribly broken in NYC.
> Is it, in your opinion, possible to have decent software development skills without years of experience under your belt? Do you meet many such people?

This is going to sound mean, but have you considered doing entry-level programming jobs that aren't so great to get that experience? Digital agencies that don't know any better are always looking for people to build CRUD websites, and it's where a lot of other experienced developers I know cut their teeth.

I don't know about the average programmer on HN, but most of my ability to deliver value to clients comes from the battle-scars and horror stories of working at not-so-great jobs, along with learning from the few exceptionally bright people I happened to be working alongside. You can't pick that up at university, via online tutorials or even dare I say it, by reading HN.
Claims like "design decisions need to be moral" often forget that there are an annoyingly large number of moral systems that can and do collide with each other.
How about the companies that have too many "managers" and not enough managers. I've experienced that as well.
This example might work if they implement a rich grammar, since a generation of people who are now in their 20-30s were used to text adventures. If you knew text adventures I think you'd understand the scope of this.

But yes, if you're new to programming you'll probably be quite frustrated by the limited grammar.
Writing good libraries seems to take a reasonable amount of experience. Of course if you have been doing a significant amount of software as a student, you'll have a head start. My skills improved a great deal when I transitioned from one-off projects to research-driven projects (where the project lasts longer and requests for new capability appear as research progresses) and open source development.

What sort of math background do you have? Any experience with numerical methods for PDEs, discrete optimization, uncertainty quantification, graph analysis? If you pick up an issue of SIAM J. Scientific Computing, J. Computational Physics, or Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, can you make some sense of the articles? Academic faculty and many senior industry research positions want to see PhD, but there are plenty of places just looking for a software person that "speaks the language".

What sort of places have you tried applying?

After years of going to research conferences and getting several offers at each one (despite not "looking"), knowing colleagues with unfilled positions, etc, I'm certain the demand exists.
Functional fizzbuzz in clojure
The 99% occupiers are a form of cargo cult. Sans a clearly defined specific goal it resembles pantomime. Soak the rich is not sufficient.
Here's the website of his organisation for anyone interested - http://www.rationalistinternational.net/
You're 19, you have so much ahead of your life ahead of you rather than behind. Go look in the mirror and smile...You can start from scratch today, and in a decade still be ahead of 99.999% of your age group, and even people twice that age as well.
I think simple and automatic local caching is the hard part. Having access to your distant files isn't particularly hard. Take sshfs, samba, nfs, openvpn (or whatever equivalent you happen to know), mix them in a big bowl, put a server under your bed, and you're good to go.

But: 1/ Support on dumb mobile devices is generally quite bad 2/ Caching support is generally quite bad. No connection pretty much means game's over.
There sure is no "learn Clojure in a week".. : Clojure
It's a shame xorg doesn't support IOKit any more. If it did, you'd be able to run an X server (not rootless) on OS X without having to boot a different kernel.

XQuartz is nice, but you're still subject to the OS X mouse acceleration etc.
I think Godot is Joey Hess: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistan...
Only thing you're missing out on is the ability to work on and towards your own projects.

Not sure about the average freelancer, but most technical freelancers I know see it as a stepping stone towards getting their own little SaaS or iPhone app business off the ground.

If you're working full-time for a company, IME contracts tend to own all intellectual output at your time there, at home or otherwise. This doesn't matter much if all you do is put out MIT licensed experimental programming language parsers, but I wouldn't put many companies above executing on those terms should a product you build in your off-time achieve success.
This information is public. You put it on the internet. They are not taking pictures of you without your consent, you already uploaded photos of yourself for the world to see. In my eyes, this is not a privacy issue.
Fast food restaurants where? Do they know you because you are a frequent customer or are they doing something else?
A low value relative to the others doesn't really affect the analysis. I'm sure there are tons of channels people don't go to each month.

Imagine being an English only speaker and getting a Spanish channel - what would you pay for it?
"We’re essentially trying to recreate the feeling of recognition you get in a favourite restaurant when you’re welcomed there, but in our case it will be delivered by thousands of staff to millions of customers."

When I'm welcomed at my favorite restaurant, I know that the people there actually remember me and it gives me a warm feeling. If someone I've never met before has some information about me that I haven't given them, that's obviously fake and a bit creepy.

Also, if you happen to have a name that's shared by thousands of people on the internet, like "David Smith", or a name that's shared by a famous person, like "Jack Kennedy", what's the probability that a Google search will find information that's actually about you?
Server side encryption needs you to trust the server, 'though.
This is great. I always wanted to create something like this!

But shouldn't there be a button that lets you open the video you're viewing? Clicking and double-clicking don't do anything...
How do you interface with IMDB? There are two ways I can think of but neither would work well in this scenario. Option one is to download their offline dataset[0] which is huge and which you aren't allowed to distribute with your program so each user would have to redownload it. Option two is to scrape their site, which they don't allow but is possible. There is no API to my knowledge, I tried to write a similar app once before, and they refused to give permission to scrape their site.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/interfaces/
What’s behind the price signaling between Verizon and AT&T?
> if you've been in VC-istan for 2 decades and haven't made fuck-you money, you haven't won

Dave has only been a VC for a few years, in a game that takes a few rounds to go either way. In terms of "late bloomer" my guess is he's talking about life, not VC.
Case in further point: FISAAA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillan...
Another argument is the negative feeling you get from adding each additional channel. Saying let's pay another $1 for channel X 30 times has a higher negative perception than saying - oh $30 for 30 channels.
FYI, Lockhart has a new book coming[1] out with the kinds of things we should be doing, which is something I (and probably everyone who read & liked his Lament) have been pining for. I'm waiting like everyone else, so I can't explicitly recommend it. But I certainly anticipate a mental treat.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Measurement-Paul-Lockhart/dp/067405755...
I explained that in the second paragraph.
Current programming languages already use English words. I believe we already have experiences that demonstrate that it helps. If the syntax of the language also match English, my intuition tells me it will probably work.

Care to experiment?
Relevant points to the question "Why would anyone post a parody in a root blog"

"The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture...
I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. "
I don't know why this got down-voted to hell. You raise a very valid point. That democracy has to be representative is one of its basic tenets, and you cannot have that if you shut out a large fraction of your citizens. It is very patronizing to assume that the uneducated do not know what is good for them and the educated class knows what is better for them.
Any technology/math/science can be used to do good or evil. For example, people can use calculus to build bridges, grow more food, or optimize an industrial-scale chemical reaction. Or people can use calculus to figure out how to optimally flow people through a concentration camp (not sure if this actually happened, but you get the idea).

In situations concerning the lives of others, it's wrong to use statistics to decide their lives for them.

The right thing to do? Show them the statistics. Help them understand, if they ask. Leave them be to make their own choices: if they don't know enough to decide, they do know enough to choose for themselves whom they will seek advice from.

Do that and there's no ethical problem whatever.

(Note: our society has been going further and further way from this ethical standard over the past century, with disastrous consequences.)
Besides working with engineers to define the technical direction of our products, my job as an software development manager includes things like: sourcing/hiring, long range planning (including owning P&L for my team), customer engagement, and helping to grow the careers of my engineers (among a million other things). I'm not really clear on how agile or outsourcing make any of these things irrelevant. If the point of the article is that "non technical engineering management is dying" then I think I mostly agree, but the title is misleading.
I agree. I claim that he knows that it works under the circumstance that he has tested, and can be more confident that it will work in circumstances similar to what he has tested.
Perhaps this: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/6-best-mac-os-... can be of some use to you.
The author didn't claim that the system is alone sufficient "for any real world Haskell program", so your refutation appears rather spurious.
> If someone has an idea let them branch the code and implement it.

Branch the code and implement it? What if idea #1 is to add CRM and idea #2 is add interactive business scenario projection?

Many ideas are too big to implement just for the hell of it. And voting for it is no good, because most of the voters have no idea what the hell they are voting for. Somebody has to take responsibility for doing the deep analysis and making the decision. That's called management.
Pretty much any nation with a modicum of pride in their populace will have people getting defensive if a foreigner criticises their nation. I can't think of many first-world nations where I haven't seen symptoms of this.
The Zebra Puzzle
http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcs.pdf
This is an excellent place to start.
Without knowing what his income goals are, it's hard to know how well this would work for others. Most people can't easily charge more than $100 per hour for consulting, unless you have niche, in-demand skills, or are notably above-average in skills and you can back that up somehow (like you wrote a major FS/OSS tool that people know about).
Why would I not value a channel I will absolutely not watch at all at $0?
There are plenty of other text editors on the Mac App Store - what about Vico makes it incompatible with the sandboxing?
Earlier this year in the Harvard Business Review, Jody and Matt Miller wrote about a phenomenon that is similar in spirit to that of freelancing hackers, which they dubbed supertemping:

"Supertemps are top managers and professionals—from lawyers to CFOs to consultants—who’ve been trained at top schools and companies and choose to pursue project-based careers independent of any major firm."

It is pretty interesting to see freelancing become a "first-class citizen" in the high-skilled employment world, whereas previously it wasn't widely accepted beyond a few select occupations.

URL: http://hbr.org/2012/05/the-rise-of-the-supertemp/ar/1
All good design is moral design, and only moral design can ever be good.

Nonsense. Good design is effective; its quality is independent from its aims. There's been no shortage of good design used for vile aims, and there's tons of good causes with poor design.
What about ARM for UK?
Ask HN:Is there a better alternative to QR Codes?
As we all know, QR codes haven't take off to the heights that some of us, myself included had imagined. Is there something that would reduce the friction to the users? I thought that the NewsSync demo that MIT put out here[1] looked pretty cool. Any thoughts?

[1]:http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/mit-media-lab-newsflash-hands-on/
Meanwhile in Japan: Anonymous Protests
What are the best sources to get freelance jobs?
Can modulation be used to bypass Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions?
I'm not sure about that, you can get small FPGA kits for less than $100 now, and the software is free and multiplatform (but not open). The DE0-nano dev kit is an example, it's about $80. I imagine the availability of things like the Raspberri Pi will bring prices down even further.

Aside from similar to some programming language, HDL is pretty interesting to learn in its own right. (Although I disagree that it's like C. It's more like a declarative language for circuits, though it's true that you can stick imperative-like code in there. But treating it like C is a recipe for problems.)
Yeah! That is a high-priority item in my todos! :)
How Colleges Are Becoming Entrepreneurial
Largest cruise liner gets outfitted with fiber like Internet
Well, I guess I'm just old enough and ugly enough to call things like I see them. Haskell is a neat language, but it is frustrating to listen to these sorts of brag-posts about the language because they're filled with dangerous hubris. The type system is amazing for certain kinds of problems. Hey, if you're writing a compiler then Haskell is probably the best language out there. Or in memory data structures. Hm. Or parsers. . . . It's a great language for CS research.

The term "real world" is not meant to slur, it's meant to be accurate. I've shipped code written in Haskell and I deeply understand the huge pain in the arse it is to use in production for applications that are not toys.
Google Open Sources Collaborative IDE
Oh, I know. :(

It sucks because I don't have any good ways of securely communicating with voice and/or video to people on mobile in the US. PGP, OTR, SSL, etc work well, but there aren't any good PGP or OTR clients for iPhone AFAIK.

I mostly just censor myself until I can speak to people in person, or communicate only unimportant things.
I explained that he _did_ test the program because he was writing a type. The type system by definition checks types.
Code everlasting – how customers can sell their downloads
Umm... well, there is this site http://imdbapi.com; which does the scraping (or maybe they have the offline datasets!), and then you can get json replies from them.
It's tough to measure, because you can't really know for sure how much traffic a site is getting unless you are the owner of that site. However, services like Alexa attempt to estimate the most trafficked sites by tracking segments of users (in Alexa's case they track users of their toolbar). Their top-site estimates can be split by country:

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries
Looks like the app is using http://www.imdbapi.com/. Check out "api_url" in config.py and the get_imdb_data() function in DBbuilder.py.
I think it might be useful if your objective is only to write interactive fiction.
http://inform7.com/
Thank you so much for doing this. There's been a recurring theme with text editors on OS X and I'm glad you've avoided it.

A new editor comes out, it's a great editor, but it's closed-source and costs money. People are fine with paying money, so it thrives. Eventually, the developer(s) slow down or lose interest. Maybe they're working on a rewrite. Meanwhile, bug fixes don't happen. Promised features never show up. You end up with a community of developers using a piece of abandonware as their main editor. If they had the source code, they could improve their editor. But they don't so they can't.

I doubt he'll do it, but it'd be nice if Allan Odgaard took a hint from you and released the source for TextMate 1.5.
Reminds me of Inform 7: http://inform7.com/
You aren't paranoid. I packed up and left, leaving family, friends, job, and girlfriend all behind four years ago for this very reason.

It sucks. A lot. (And I still visit, even.)
"hurting religious feelings" is an arrestable offense. Ouch. I think the western nations often underestimate their own freedoms.
I use nwm [1] daily now (for the past week) at work.

I've used awesome before but I found nwm to be a nice fit, and its cool that it's made in Javascript.
You could probably make your own features like that very easy, its not very big yet. It looks a lot like dwm feature wise, since the creator originally used that.

[1] https://github.com/mixu/nwm
Why Our Aversion to Technological Advances is Set to Change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People playing out. The play was adapted into a movie by Satyajit Ray (not one of his best, but it was after his debilitating stroke). In the movie the situation is the same except its hindu holy water. I hope it works out better in reality than in the movie.
Curiosity Seven Minutes of Terror
Hmmm.... I wonder how this fits in under the European data protection laws.

From my reading of the UK DPA it would be illegal for BA to search and store information about me without me giving them permission to use the information about me for that purpose. Since they mention the act in the article I'm guessing that it's opt-in and not a problem.