skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe because you spread the risk? Many small will allow you to do a lot of small projects ; when a client leaves it doesn't matter, while if you have a bigger client (who will have bigger wishes), you are usually suddenly stuck for month in a project and if that client leaves you are done?

That was my reasoning at least when I was a freelancer; that's why I didn't continue doing that and started hiring people quite soon; the risk of losing a big client is too stressful. YOU depend on it; you feel it immediately. Funded startups; I would never do that anymore as freelancer. I had a few; cases in point here. Working on a project for 3-4 months only to see the funding had run out and the company was broke => no money. Funded startups are horrible to work with/for if you cannot peek into their reserves and financial situation. They will play nice weather until the very last moment (they have to of course) when you receive an official letter that they are gone and you can call some lawyer to get in line for your money (which you will never get).

If you don't want to 'work from home', I would say corporates (at least in north EU) are your very best bet at stability. I know guys who have held stable freelance jobs for decades at huge corporations. It's like having a job though, so I don't really see the point.
While its possible that its for some yet unreleased Steam based console, the controller Valve patented is much more likely to be for their recently previewed Steam big picture mode that can turn any computer into a "steam box" that you can plug in your television. It's quite likely this same big picture mode would be used on their console, assuming one ever exists.
First, let me explain what I mean by catamorphism. I mean a function that operates on the data within a node of a tree and the values returned by performing the catamorphism on its child nodes.

To find the median, you need the data sorted. You can express something like mergesort as a catamorphism. You take the lists of the child nodes and the singleton list of the value at the node and merge them together. However you have to do a linear amount of work at each node and store a linear amount of data, so it's not really within the spirit of mapreduce because it doesn't scale well, although it is possible.

Catamorphisms are operations on trees, so the first problem with neural networks is that you'd have to embed your neural network in a tree. In the worst possible case, a fully connected network, to find the next value of each neuron, you'll have to find the current value of every other neuron. The problem is that you don't have access to "cousin nodes'" data, so it isn't possible.
Of course they compete. People aren't born with a gene that puts them into exactly one of the camps you describe. These ideas compete and so do the languages, provided they can be used for largely the same tasks, which seems to be the case.
Dynamic charting in HTML with Chartwell font-face
Concept art from the Shuttle Program's early days
Put your helmets on, kiss your wives goodbye, it’s going to be a long struggle
Music Master: command line tools to record, mix, master and deliver tracks
That's my main gripe, if you have multiple email addresses that feed into one account, and like to email out from a variety of addresses its ugly. Really really ugly. Mainly because iCloud hates you sending a message that doesn't appear as an apple address.
If IOS 6 is better than 5 in regard to initial Apple ID I couldnt really judge as most my settings carried over from my ios5 install, thankfully, but iTunes Match lost its setup, and home sharing too and the remote app is now broken for me on iPhone.
However if setting up a new device has been improved/fixed. THANK YOU.
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my new free-time project is online. What do you think about it?

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Tanja
Paul Otlet is an interesting character, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet
Please consider yourself lucky you experienced this through a film. Last week I got to experience it in front of my eyes and afterwards again when telling my 6 y/old little girl her grandmother died. Your own grief is hard, your kid's grief is unbearable.
This looks great! Congrats on the release, I hope this does well.

Some comments:

- In the Dutch Appstore description you mention that this is good for children in "groep 3, 4, 5, 6". In the US appstore you say "grades 3, 4, 5, 6". They are not equivalent. In the Netherlands six year olds are in "groep 3", so it's equivalent to US grade 1.

- The handwriting recognition worked well, but it's not perfect (of course) and I do have to write a bit differently than usual. I suspect it will be easy for me to get used to. I am glad there is no penalty for errors, that makes it less frustrating. Will test it out on my child later.

- There need to be user profiles. That's essential for a game that you market to both school children and parents. There also should be highscore lists in the game itself, not just in Game Center. Also: in Game Center I only see highscores for the Advanced modes, which is a pity.

- I would absolutely love it if there were an option to choose which time tables to test. That would be perfect for school children who have to train them. I have a few apps for that, but none that measure your progress so nicely and that purely focus on speed. I understand that that's not your focus with this app, but still, I thought I'd put the idea out there

All in all, I am very impressed (though the lack of user profiles would normally be a deal breaker for me in an app like this).
This kills it for me as well. Also it's incredibly slow and glitchy even on Chrome.

Considering Office costs me less than 10GBP a month over 3 years, and works entirely offline, Google docs doesn't cut it.
I'd like LibreOffice if it wasn't so clunky. It's entirely lacking polish and quality control. It has potential, but it's not there yet.
Megaupload spying case brings New Zealand apology
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> This trial was the story [...]

It probably is. Also, aren't you legally prohibited to talk about the trial while it is on?
IOS 6 Shakes Up The Ranks But No Significant Changes In The Ranking Algorithm
It's never enough for some people. If the DRM was gone there would be complaints about closed source.
This is directly contradicted in the first chapter of his book:

The Lambda Architecture, which we will be introducing later in this chapter, provides a general purpose approach to implementing an arbitrary function on an
arbitrary dataset and having the function return its results with low latency.
Like all those closed incredibly hidden evil standards that they publish here for interoperability?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105(v=office.12...
In my experience, developers have too many ideas and not enough time. The good developers do at least.
Tragedy is tragic, indeed. It's an important lesson we all learn and this is a great expression of it.

Why a family decided to take their tragedy to a courtroom to force it upon others makes me upset though. And what this has to do with technology or startups is definitely beyond me. This should be on the fron page of Reddit, but HN? Why?
I just like small projects because I get bored quickly. Three months is about ideal. Projects for larger clients also have a tendency to go nowhere, that is they never make it into production. It is easier to get good rates from larger clients, though.
Sounds like the brilliant jerk was the one who wrote the article.
Une cargaison d’iPhone 5 dérobée près de Marseille
It's, unfortunately, a common mistake.
This is actually pretty impressive. I might try and have a play with it in one of my ideas I plan on executing this weekend which involves search, would be a good test.
Googling is about the worst way to set up an nginx server configuration! The only tutorials and helpful snippets out there are riddled with bad practices.

Here's a list of "pitfalls" that are commonly used and really shouldn't: http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

I notice that you're using a lot of "if" statements. I hope you've read this http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil. I understand that in this case it might be harder to find alternatives for the if-statement, haven't looked into what you need really deeply.
Whew, heartbreaking.

But like that great Indian liberator once quipped: "Life is dhukka". Let us liberate ourselves from the clinginess of existence.

I am not one to advocate open and public emotional outpourings, although I contradict this view when I write poems which I then send to my closest friends ... I'm ok with this contradiction, I'm not neurotic. ;-) However, one can see why it is totally legitimate for Anthony Griffith to do so. He is in his own words a clown. And his entire point was that a clown can sometimes ... should sometimes ... make you cry.

I tip my hat to this brave man. I would have a beer with this man any time!
In the movie "Bigger Stronger Faster" they have a section on supplements, and this comes as no surprise

"Supplements" are a very broad term, and a lot of things are sold under this banner:

- "True" Nutritional supplements, offering a dietary value, like carbohydrates, proteins

- Supplements of a specific nature like mineral supplements,
creatine, other amminoacids or peptides.

- Stimulants, some mild, some very heavy and with controversial substances

- "Pre-hormones" which are usually actually more damaging than most of the common steroids

- Other things, usually useless

I guess 80%/90% of all the products are BS, real products usually go straight to the point in their advertisement, and don't try to pass for a miracle or for something they are not.
Absolutely.

I have no idea why they haven't replaced whatever they're doing with: <search> site:play.google.com

Then they would just need to resolve apps the way the Play Store already does when presented with a URL and tack on any appropriate filtering (country-level, carrier-level. etc.). This has been a problem for a long time (my standard suggestion used to include "site:market.android.com"). And Google has done a lot with the Play Store app in the interim, so there must be some constraint I'm missing. I just can't see what it is.
> Five weeks ago, I was selected for jury
> duty in a medical malpractice trial.

> I heard plenty of people get selected and
> make up some bogus story about how they couldn't
> possibly be fair and impartial to get out of
> this five week obligation.

The trial is over.
I'd like to see a (sheeva/guru/tonido) plug with an easy to use interface for setting up a private website with selfhosted webapps (like WordPress and private cloud apps etc). This all can already be done with existing plugs, but you have to be quite technical to install the stuff you want (or just be satisfied with the software it shipped with).
It is likely the family had little choice in the matter. Death is expensive in the United States (and other countries, I'm sure), so sometimes the only way to avoid having your loss compounded with complete bankruptcy is to go to court and find someone to blame.
Yes, except for power usage. The blob is much, much better at keeping my laptop's battery alive.
I wonder if this tendency to characterise people as 'haters' was brought about by the increasing divisiveness of American politics. It is a little disturbing that any kind of opposition or criticism toward a product can be summed up as 'hating on it'. Rather than be a hater, why not be an adversary, an opponent, a critic, a skeptic, a detractor, a gadfly, an enemy, or an antagonist? Instead of 'hating' why not dislike, distrust, oppose, criticise, be skeptical of, or consider flawed? Or if you want to be extreme why not slander, defame, denigrate, or calumniate?

So if I take a balanced view and consider that there are good things about the new Apple Maps but on the whole think there was a laughable lack of quality control -- that makes me a 'hater'.

Words are the functions of speech -- the API of natural language. Differentiation of meaning matters. Using crudely simplified language is like using a crudely simplified API in your programme; it restricts the scope of your expression and what you can create.

If we insist on 'beautiful' APIs with our software, why not go further and reach for the right word when it comes to criticising software?
Take a journey through Google's Data Centers
hi - I myself have made a wrapper for gogle, with google int he URL. I am concerned by your statement - can you elaborate please?

Thank you
> Why a family decided to take their tragedy to a courtroom to force it upon others makes me upset though.

maybe sth to do with this http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4558309
A Collection of Creative Homepages
Startups and small businesses face an uphill struggle when they’re trying to compete. Because they’re not well known, when they get a visitor to their site, they need to do all they can to get them to stick around and check out their product or service. Larger businesses can easily afford a higher bounce rate, but for startups – first impressions count.
How to build a windmill
More gamut -> less cross-processing of the image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management
(see section on rendering intents)
It is really getting quite silly at this point. People keep building Bitcoin infrastructure in regular data centres as if that's perfectly sufficient.

Check out this article about security at a Visa data centre: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-25/visa-data...

It even has a moat!

Here's an article that illustrates the kind of scrutiny faced by banks when it comes to their data protection practices: http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22595

It's incredibly stringent stuff and banks get fined hard when they fuck it up.

By contrast, one of the recent Bitcoin heists was made possible because the hackers requested a password reset for the exchange's Rackspace account. Seriously.
I think we are all just surprised there are so many design decisions we can't agree with, precisely with the first major update for iOS comes since Jobs died. Up until the iPhone 4, I don't think I've had any criticism towards the design of Apple products... since Jobs came back to Apple.

I don't think these are coincidences. Jobs may have been more than a good businessman. He was a source of inspiration.
I also use iPhone 4, but I'm glad the changes are here.

First - it's been years since the "new releases" view benefitted the developers. Currently, with the amount of new apps for iPhone, the devs get quickly buried on that list, and the launch benefit is minimal.

As for the single card view... It's not perfect, because you need to do more scrolling, but on the other hand - you no longer have to decide which app to pick based solely on the icon & name. Say you're looking for a weight tracker app. You can now quickly preview a couple of apps, and pick the one you like the most. In the past you'd have to tap every single one of them - nobody did that.

The new App Store, if anything, gives more opportunities to the small guy. There are now new ways to get discovered, and there is more emphasis on search. That's great.

Rules changed, and people complain. Some people just don't like changes imho.
Selling supplements online. The secret of the Tim Ferris "4 hour work week". ;)
Optimizing your code - making the right decisions
Couldn't agree more, part of the fun of Freelance work for me is getting to work on a range of projects with a range of differing technologies. Might just be my attention span but more than three - five months full time on a project which isn't my own and start getting itchy feet.
Cranking up saturation in software is likely to introduce artifacts due to the precision of the data being sent to the panel. For example, most framebuffers are still at most represented with 24 (color) bits per pixel, and the signals being sent from the GPU to the display may not have much more precision than that either (how much precision they have can depend on a variety of factors). The immediate consequences of this:

User-mode software is unlikely to be able to increase saturation without hardware assistance, because it ultimately has to send 24bpp pixel data to the GPU. The dynamic range possible in 24bpp is pretty limited when you factor in what happens to it after it goes through the rest of the pipeline.

Kernel-mode code, drivers, and firmware on a GPU can potentially adjust saturation more accurately by sending higher-precision color values out to the display, if it supports it. Not many displays today support higher than 24bpp precision, but such displays do exist. Unfortunately, the inputs from user-mode software were 24bpp, so some accuracy has already been lost and any lost accuracy will be compounded by saturation changes produced at this level.

Finally, the display itself may actually be reducing the quality of input signals - many panels have less than 8 bits per channel (24bpp = 3 channels) of precision and represent higher accuracy signals with dithering and other techniques. This can make the result of adjusting saturation in software even worse.

So, in practice, adjusting saturation in software will produce visible artifacts for images that need high dynamic range or high precision.
Putting words into description won't make an app show up.

But aside from that - yeah, it sucks that some devs don't show for queries matching their exact names.
I have tried to track down information about the statement "prescription drug overdoses now kill more people now than car crashes." What I found was "In 2007, approximately 27,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States" from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6101a3.htm .

I then found "According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) early projections, the number of traffic fatalities fell three percent between 2009 and 2010, from 33,808 to 32,788." http://www.nhtsa.gov/PR/NHTSA-05-11 .

Which means about 20% more people die from car crashes than from overdoses. The most common overdose was painkillers. "Overdoses of prescription painkillers have more than tripled in the past 20 years, leading to 14,800 deaths in the United States in 2008" says http://www.cdc.gov/injury/about/focus-rx.html. Which means 1/2 of the prescription drug overdoses is from pain killers.

Moreover, "Almost one-third of prescription painkiller overdose deaths involve methadone. Six times as many people died of methadone overdoses in 2009 than a decade before." from http://www.cdc.gov/Features/VitalSigns/MethadoneOverdoses/in... . The problem, of course, is that there are benefits to methadone, so it's not as simple as banning methadone.

BTW, acetaminophen is a relatively dangerous drug. It causes "450 deaths and 56,000 emergency-room visits a year" says http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020357730457427... . While reading http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v102/n11/full/ajg2007481a.... the estimate is about 650.

Anyway, you say "The constant onslaught of anti-supplement bills almost reminds me of the RIAAs continuous lobbying onslaught of draconian copyright bills" and I say the defense of supplements almost reminds me of the tobacco industry's defense of selling and promoting tobacco.
I bumped up my life cover yesterday by a factor of 4. That's the lesson for startups here.

Year 1-3 means that you are losing everything. If you die during that time, you better leave your loved ones with something to take home for your obsession with windmills.
"In Processing... There are no strong metaphors that allow the programmer to translate her experiences as a person into programming knowledge. The programmer cannot solve a programming problem by performing it in the real world."

We all learn to read at a very early stage in our lives. What is a real world metaphor for a letter? For a syllable? Or, taking an example from the article, what's the metaphor for a timeline? Or for time itself for that matter. I'm sceptical that having a metaphor matters that much.

Also, I yet have to see any evidence that kids who start with Smalltalk learn programming faster than those who start with basic, or pascal, or anything else. There is frustratingly almost no case studies in this area.
> > This would effectively outlaw the sale dietary supplements

> Why would this be a bad thing?

Because people who wish to consume dietary supplements would only be able to obtain them via black markets which would likely expose them to more, not less, potential danger.
I think 20 years ago would've been a good time to really hardcore market those environments. As a new student with a profitable software company, I would've been interested in this. However I never heard about these technologies until much later; C(++) & Pascal (Modula) and 'rapid' friends Clipper (for business applications) and such were things popular then. Not sure how it was in the US then, but in the EU I didn't see much promotion going on for Smalltalk/Lisp and I didn't know anyone outside uni using those languages. So I think Chris is right there; most programmers will never have seen anything like this in their lives nor do they know it exists, even if they were around in the 80s/90s or earlier when they could've known.
these are precisely the problems we are thinking of. Harp came about from what we learned developing and using PhoneGap. Nothing in the architecture makes Harp a mobile specific platform but these are the use cases that drive the platform.
I was looking for an 'official MS technology' replacing it. I know monogame. I wouldn't think anyone NEW to game dev would start with it; it's for XNA devs wanting a life after, right?
Snapjoy seems pretty cool, and the team seems like a bunch of awesome+smart people who I'd love to meet (e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/michaeldwan) but this article is terrible.

Going by Snapjoy's blog (http://blog.snapjoy.com/2012/copy/) this new copy feature seems to be "include friend albums on my timeline" which doesn't seem revolutionary or anything. If you were to pick a recent feature I think the fact they added SSL 10 days ago is just as noteworthy, and the ability to "liberate your data" and control your photos a week before that is even more interesting.

So given this there is something really odd about TechCrunch raving so unabashedly about Snapjoy. For instance, the article raves about the Copy feature, the Shuffle feature (browse your photos in random order), and then makes the claim that Snapjoy "nailed the timeline concept way before other big companies" (despite the fact they were still in private beta when Facebook launched Timeline).

The article even turns the lack of pricing plans, which seems like a point that invites legitimate criticism for a photo storage company, into a reassuring endorsement: "the future pricing plans aren’t available yet. Once they are, I think that you’ll be very impressed.".

And this all from the author (Drew Olanoff) who 2 days ago tore the new MySpace demo concepts to shreds (http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/the-mere-existence-of-a-new...) because "pretty things don't win" (despite lauding Snapjoy as being a "work of art") and then threw an ad hominem at Harrison Weber from The Next Web (Drew's former employer) in for good measure.

From what I can tell Drew doesn't have any conflicting interests (he just really likes Snapjoy and sings its praises through many articles and tweets) but this really doesn't feel like professional media.
I love the concept of a Chromebook; however the Chromebook is based on an assumption: that we are always connected. 24/7/365, and unfortunately I haven't found that to be the case.

Once that is the case: that I can get an internet connection from dawn until dusk, no matter where in the country I travel, or heck even what country I travel to then I would absolutely get a Chromebook. But we aren't there yet.