skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hardly a new problem, and I am fairly certain that it is nowhere near as bad as this person claims.
A rebuttal:
http://www.downloadtheuniverse.com/dtu/2012/06/the-demise-of...
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The pictures are nice, however I could take or leave the op-ed here. It doesn't contain anything particularly novel, and ranges from glossed over to downright naive ("hot coal tattoo removal").

Having lived in Japan for a number of years, I can attest to the fact that the remarkably low incident of street crime is often attributed to the Yakuza presence. It's a notion the gangs themselves actively promote and does contribute to the public's continued tolerance of their presence.
"this claim"

what claim? can you be specific?

the original comment referred to a market for "people like [me]" being "not large". my response was that i have not seen any evidence to support that sort of claim. but i'm not even sure i know what he meant by "people like [me]". i had to assume i knew. the problem with assumptions is they can be wrong.

and i'm not sure understand the reference to "techy people". i never mentioned such a group. i mentioned "people like the [commenter's] mom". presumably (another assumption), she's not a "techy person", whatever that is. but maybe i'm not a "techy person" either. what is the definition of "techy person" anyway? would the definition differ based on the person defining it? maybe i see no distinction between "techy" and "not techy". maybe i only see differences in how much a given person understands about what computers can do, and how to make computers do those things.
Ask HN: Tips On Launching a Market Place?
How would you go about launching a marketplace that competes with eBay...My main problem is I dont have any sellers...My pages rank good on Google its just I need the first sellers to join my site and get things rolling...where do I find these sellers...and how do i convince them to join my site?
My largest Golang deployment is a blender service. That's where I used the Goroutines and protocol buffers I mentioned earlier.

Its speed is acceptable. My take on it is that this is a new language. Of course it doesn't have fully mature, fully optimized internals. And certainly part of the problem is that I haven't developed a full mastery of the language (Mastery is not a word i use lightly) so that will improve, too.

But if your experience is that you've built multi-threaded apps in Go that perform comparable to a c++ implementation then I'd love to know if you have any specific tips and also I suppose that means that we're not going to see any broad improvements in runtime performance?
That was their goal? Really?
If it's your own server, the best they can do is send you a DMCA claim.
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I don't care any more about NVidia blobs. My old NVidia based laptop have died due to the nvidia chip. My new one is intel based with open source drivers and i'am very happy.
My desktop PC still have an NVidia Graphics card, and i'am looking for a replacement. But I cant find any Intel based graphic card on the market.
Maybe http://www.tapin.tv/ could have filled in when the official stream went down. Crowdsource the stream?
I think it's a fair statement for one big reason: this isn't an isolated case. You can find hundreds if not thousands of examples on YouTube of legitimate fair use being censored because it's more financially prohibitive to piss of lawyers who want to sue for everything than customers who want to use your service.

Could they have used a different streamer? Sure. Would this have still happened? Probably not but who knows. Does this represent a trend in copyright enforcement? Yep.
There generally isn't one thing, but more a gestalt. But relatively easy to fake, the nonchalant - oh it works too - just tagged on at end, coming from just a guy on youtube. It also shows nothing specific. (others noted that iOS doesn't even require the connect to iTunes anymore) We see a lot of these fakes before every Apple event.
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It's not that it "can't". It's just that would be bad for Linux even more. Do you want the sick situation with mobile drivers to spread to desktop as well? No, thanks.

Also, Android is rather narrow in its capabilities comparing to normative Linux. No need to cripple the desktop like that.

It's going to be other way around - normative Linux will start competing with Android in the mobile sphere.
I know plenty of guys who are very happy working all week, playing games in the evenings, maybe having a football party on the weekened or going to a hackathon in my case, occasionally hitting clubs to get laid. Life can be pretty damn good without meaningful relationships...
I thought this was going to be about a javascript library.

The part about peoples debt being transferred to the Yakuza was terrifying though. There's a movie plot in there somewhere.
I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned
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Regardless of it being fake (the bootup likely is), the rest of it will almost certainly be present. There's also no notification light, you're seeing a reflection.

What's it matter if the front camera is hidden while not being used? Though I imagine it's less likely to be hidden when in the center than when on the bottom left (if used in landscape).
I'd write a personal email to some writers at web design blogs. SmashingMagazine might be interested.
Plugging a tire is simpler than fixing a bike tire in most cases. I can plug a tire without taking it off the vehicle. It costs $5 and less than ten minutes. It took me less than five minutes to teach my son when he was six.

It is a sad state because tires are not a black box. This is not an anachronistic tool or bit of knowledge. Flat tires are common. If one finds it necessary to buy a replacement tire (which most people will) for $100 instead of plugging (or even patching) the old one - this is a sad state. It is wasteful of one's time and money.
I don't know of any law which would require Ustream to actively monitor broadcasts for copyright violation. Do you?
Yet the median lifetime revenue for an app now is < $1000.
I'm glad to see this spreading. A lot of people here are too young to know. Just a few years back, the zeitgeist in the CS/Engineering community was not about startups, which was a real shame. I bitched/ranted about schools not doing more to promote technical people to start companies. pg stated that over time it would invade from the ground up, which seems to be happening: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37850

[EDIT: Grammar, wording]
I don't disagree - but here in the desert where my tires only last four or five years due to heat and sun, my plugs survive for the life of the tire; by increasing the factor of safety with a patch I gain little but confidence.
I created http://outgrow.me - the first marktplace exclusively for successfully crowdfunded projects.

I work on Outgrow.me full time, and I'm a full time student in the evenings. I outsource here and there. I wake up each morning and punch the day in the face.
That is about the most shoddy photoshop job by a $10B corporation ever.

Anyone have any ideas what was in that corner they might want to hide?
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just check their release time policy: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
I imagine this unit is fake, but it's not out of the question for a development prototype to have different requirements. Hooking into iTunes for authorization is something that makes some sense, especially after the one that got left in a bar.
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I'll give you just one friend as an example:

He was very thin in his youth and he still is thin today. But his diet was terrible -- sugar, fast food, never a home cooked meal unless it was microwaved, energy drinks (mountain dew, red bull). Because he wasn't fat he didn't look out of shape, in fact if you met him you'd say "he looks healthy". But that wasn't the case: He had a heart attack and developed diabetes. Also h left the startup life when he hit age 35 and hit these issues in his 40s -- so it's the bad habits of a lifetime.

And the sad thing is that he works in tech, not in startups -- but his colleagues are all getting heart attacks. So I think it's a nerd thing rather than a startup thing. I also think that there is something unhealthy about sitting all day. And I now find myself trying to break that habit by going to a gym.

If you're a twentysomething do yourself a favor: While you are still young try and get into good habits! Make the gym or some regular physical activity your friend. Make your own food at home, it's always going to be better than take out. And don't be afraid to get sleep. I'm trying to fix this stuff in my 40s and it's super hard.
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There is an argument that it's the flip side of a modern lifestyle that's killing us: Sitting all day, not walking but taking a car, eating too much bad food.
Networking. Once you get a few projects under your belt, your hopefully happy clients will start referring you to their contacts. Connecting with the local business community is the single most effective way of getting new leads and establishing yourself as an expert and trusted service provider.
You scanned an article and made a judgement?

I've worked on a variety of projects, small and huge. Lead the redesign of a major website among other things.

I never criticised people's grammar, purely where they come from.
> That NVIDIA is now able to implement Optimus support in its proprietary driver is primarily down to...the PRIME infrastructure in the Linux kernel and X Server...

This is simply false, since adequate open-source support compatible with the current Ubuntu kernel has been available in the form of Bumblebee for over a year.

I have had an Optimus laptop for a while now, and since I got it I have been running Linux Mint, with the Bumblebee PPA [1]. With Bumblebee, applications use the Intel GPU if you run them normally:

$ wine

If you want that application to use the nVidia GPU instead, you can pass it as an argument to Bumblebee's "optirun" command:

$ optirun wine

I will grant that Bumblebee's approach is very hacky, and the DMA-based approach used by the new proprietary driver is likely to lead to higher performance and/or less CPU usage.

But I have found Bumblebee to be very stable, and more importantly, it's been available since I got the laptop, unlike the proprietary Optimus support -- which is still vaporware.

[1] http://bumblebee-project.org/
Forget design -- take an art history course! that's the foundation...
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networking and word of mouth - both take longer, but will have longer term results. I made a couple connections in 2006/2007 that I can directly attribute $200k in income to, because of their word of mouth referrals. That came just from local meetups and such.

There's plenty of people I've met which haven't directly contributed to my bottom line, but to try to look at everyone as a potential $ is a wrong approach. I enjoy trying to find referrals for other people I meet, and I think that's come back to me a few times (unexpectedly, but not that surprising, perhaps).

Couple other random thoughts:

"Selling the Invisible" (beckwith?) - useful to read. Not specifically tech-oriented, but will get you in the right frame of mind.

"Million Dollar Consulting" (weiss?) - may give you a different perspective on freelance consulting.

Contact local design shops to see if they need an extra pair of hands on call.

Put up a portfolio website with a phone number. Then answer the phone if someone calls.

gentle yet shameless plug: http://indieconf.com is being held again this year to cover precisely these sorts of topics - how to get clients, how to not get ripped off, etc - we'll have 18-21 sessions total - I'm confirming them with speakers this week, so the site doesn't yet reflect the full schedule.
Let me be the first to say these "popularity problems" are BS. Do we say Maybach has a popularity problem? Or that troop transportation vehicles, ion engines or other exotic solutions for very specific problems have "popularity problems"?

Desktop Linux is a niche product. It appeals to two crowds: software developers (specially software that runs on Unix-like servers) and their parents (because said software developers don't like to disinfect Windows computers during their visits).
I can see that it could be fake but why would someone go through the effort of building a fake prototype three weeks before the official release? It would cost him a good amount of time and money and with no ads on his video, he gains would be even less. Couldn't it be he actually received one of the Apple designer's rejected prototype?
As I see the author reads these comments, I'd just like to add that this makes me very excited. C# is my favourite language by far, combining some of the most powerful (mainstream) language features with some of the most powerful dev tools out there.

Having the ability to run the same code in the browser and on the server, in C#, is really a big thing for me.

I think the debugging problem stated in many comments here is overrated: If you're writing an app the size that seriously benefits from the modularity, the tool support and the type checking of a language like C#, you will have a relatively small amount of code directly touching the DOM. All of that other code can be simply unit tested in C#-o-world, straight from the dev environment. If you're writing C#, don't test and debug like it's JS!

Surely such an approach won't catch all bugs and the occasional leaky abstraction (or compiler bug), but it should get one pretty far. Some in-browser unit testing lib together with the fact that the generated JS is quite readable indeed, should help me get the rest of the way.

Can't wait to dive in!
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I keep thinking, why the "original" companies don't sue the clones ? Remember when Zynga sued Vostu ?
DMCA only (?) applies to user submitted content, ie where you don't review everything first. And I think you can ignore DMCA takedowns if you're willing to give up safe harbour protection (which you wouldnt need in this case).

Or host your stream in a non-USA country, where you may be able to ignore the DMCA
What makes you think that? A Windows CE based Android would be nearly indistinguishable to end users from the Linux version save for an extra logo in the About screen somewhere. With the branding stripped off, the average person would never know Windows Mobile and Windows Phone (7) are both CE-based.
USPTO grants Google umbrella patent for network/cloud Operating System
You should apt-add glances-stable instead of glances-dev (the latter doesn't seem to work) on debian/ubuntu.

i.e.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arnaud-hartmann/glances-stable && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install glances
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Does anyone ever game the system by posting with 2 accounts: one with a really high bid and a lower one, to help the customer 'pick you'? I'm not freelancing nor have ever used these sites, but I'm curious how above-board they are.
We should not accept, that a company that can kill us all just with a little mistake, lies to us notoriously.
Seems cool but I could not get this to install on Ubuntu 8 (old I know) ... even trying to do a wget gave me this error

"ERROR: Certificate verification error for github.com: unable to get local issuer certificate"
No law explicit, no. But there is loads of laws they may break and loads of ways many rich companies could sue them if they didn't use bots like this.
Any streamer becomes incompetent once takedown notices start arriving. Competent streamer becomes economically infeasible.

Every time you hear a song on the radio you should remember: this was brought to you by people who also happily destroy everything good in this world, everything worthy.
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." Perhaps the coin had two sides all along?
As a designer, Dribbble (http://dribbble.com/ahwng) has become a great way to get consistent leads. Once every 2 or 3 days, another startup will contact me about a freelance opportunity, saying they found me through Dribbble.

Aside from that, just network as much as you can. All of my other leads come from friends and acquaintances.
Give away some kind of free software that is useful and production-quality. That something should also be related to a larger, growing trend. You'll generally get higher quality clients, a non-low rate, and a more fun project (since it's centered on using a tool that you built). And you also don't have to make cold calls--the software should stand on its own and send the leads to you.

I've learned this from my own experience writing/maintaining various open source libraries centered on using Parse with Ruby. The rapid growth of Parse has caused at least a handful of their thousands of developers to want to use it with Ruby (either for a Rails app, or a native iOS app with RubyMotion). Of those people, at least a handful have contacted me looking for a freelancer. Of those people, some have become paying clients.
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it still ignores the point that not everyone has a good natural tone. some people may be never be good verbal presenters, and they'll need to develop a good written tone in the absence of good speaking skills.
I started reading patio11's blog from the start, and as far as I remember, he started blogging before the product was released. Right from the start!
Maybe they made that area blatantly obviously shopped in order to direct attention from more important, well shopped areas of the photo.
It was originally titled "Black Mesa: Source," but Valve contacted the team and asked them to drop "Source" so that it wouldn't be confused with an official Valve project. To my knowledge, that's the only world they've given, which sounds like an implicit "blessing" to me.
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It would be nice if every browser installation came with a unique fingerprint, like a public ssh key that you could give to sites as a form of two-factor authentication.
They are trying to get some momentum and solve chicken-and-egg. Consider this a marketing effort.
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This is so fascinating. I had to go look for the guy's book, and luckily it still seems to be in stock: http://www.antonkusters.com/the-2nd-edition-of-yakuza-i-heed...
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> "The only thing that is everlasting (at least until your consciousness expires) is how you feel about what you’re doing. Make sure you feel good about what you take on. That’s a responsibility that you have to yourself, the only thing you can’t really outsource in a four-hour workweek, alas."

Gold!
Don't think that'll help much or is the right kind of strategy. Firstly you have a better chance trying to showcase your portfolio. If you don't have that yet, then it doesn't warrant the higher rate and you might anyways get rejected on the lower end. If you have a large enough folio to split into two, then why not put them into one compelling bid.

IMHO one's better off spending time building a few simple apps and communicating your worth to the client than go blackhat from the start.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried 'hacking' their eyesight?
I was wondering if anyone who is longsighted or shortsighted has tried any methods to improve their eyesight such as spending more time outside, trying to rely less on glasses/contacts, any kind of eye excercises or any other methods? Has anyone had any success? What have the results been?
It's easier to have your parents use a mac.
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University of Michigan already has a course that does something similar. Also, they introduced a 'Master in Entrepreneurship' focusing on all the aspects of Entrepreneurship. They are getting into it in a big way. I bet all the big universities already have courses, clubs or incubators serving similar purpose.
> Instead of grieving about the fact that I won’t be able to work at one of these companies, I decided to try and build my own.

If you want to do your own thing that's great, but if you really want to work at one of those companies, let them tell you whether you're good enough -- there's no reason to make the decision for them.
This effort of Nvidia is brand reconciliation for Linux users. After the talk where Linus mentioned Nvidia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
I was surfing on StumbleUpon the other day and I ended up on FreelanceSwitch. They posted an article that might be of interest to you. "The Secret to Landing Clients Nearly 100% of the Time" and its really good. You should give it a try. I personalize the method to fit me and it worked great so far. Didn't work 100% of the time but pretty close. Its where the "Nearly in the title comes in" it depend on your selling skill but I am sure you will be fine ;-)

Here the link to it: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/95nDR8/:IPAD5_eU:aOVZRh4+/free...

Hope it helps
this has 0 relation to anything here, period.
nice, how much have you made on the ebook
Because suing someone who operates--and serves customers who are--entirely outside of your legal jurisdiction is extremely difficult, expensive, and still has a low probability of success even if you're in the right. This was basically the reasoning behind SOPA's "let's just take their domain away if we can't sue them" provision.

Imagine for a second if Samsung only sold phones in Korea--do you think Apple would have bothered with a suit?
Do people really code on their tablet/phone? I can't imagine how hard it would be for me to code on one. Usually (since I'm still relatively new to the platform) I'll be switching to StackOverflow/Google a fair amount while coding. Also ergonomics and speed of typing on a tablet if you're used to using a keyboard become an issue.
I started an implementation of soulver in html and js if you are interested. The fundations are there, need to finish the grammar and implement all the rules :)

https://github.com/vjeux/soulver.js