skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably not in their target market anyways. The people who will willingly submit these forms are less technically inclined and have big headaches that they will spend money on to solve. I hate this approach as much as the next guy but I've come to respect that they still work very well. For products that don't work well as self-service (and there are many), you almost have to talk to a customer before you can close them.
I'm not sure how it's misleading. You can sign up and have one snitch for free. It would be misleading if I said sign up for free and then didn't allow you to create ANY snitches without paying.
Hey, could you email me? hi@adamawolf.com

Us little guys need to stick together ;).
3d printing is theft. You wouldn't shoplift a toy, so why would you print it?
SpaceX launches reusable rocket for 6 feet
Thanks! I'll think on some of this stuff and probably incorporate some of it.
I don't think that is irony.
Showing the kid who the bigger man is by forgiving him has a diffusing effect on the situation. It shows compassion and empathy for him, (something the kid initially did not have for the OP). If the kid could produce so much hate out of thin air imagine how angry and hateful he could be if he blamed OP for incarcerating him. (as ass backward that logic is)
The problem is that this doesn't address what I have found to be the most dangerous problem with periodic tasks.

That is when your cron job runs but there is some error in part of the script (for example maybe it writes/reads a file in a folder but the permissions on that folder were changed since the script was written). This causes an error which might cause a cascade of errors meaning that some other parts of your job either fail to run or run incorrectly.

Now what happens here, do you get notified of the error or does it just get silently eaten? It's also very possible that your system will eat the error and then proceed to the next step (calling this API) and everything will appear fine.

One thing I figure out what the expected output from the job should be, I then pipe the output from the cronjob into a file. I have a second cronjob that checks the contents of this file periodically and generates an alert if it does not match what is expected.

You should also try and find some way to test any generated data. For example if you are doing a DB backup, add another table with a field that contains data that is in some way based on the date. You can then have a task which will try and restore old backups into another DB, it can then check this field against the expected value for the date of the backup.

Of course none of these techniques are silver bullets and there are plenty of things that can go wrong, it is certainly prudent to check things manually every once in a while.

Perhaps this API could be modified to take as an input the output from scheduled tasks and check them?
A rough rule of thumb is to charge 2X of what you would be paid as an employee.

That's a common rule of thumb, but I suggest that it's not a good mindset if you're interested in making what you're really worth as a freelancer.

One of the most fundamental differences when you're negotiating with a client as another business rather than as a prospective employee is that your arrangement will be a business to business one. Like any other such arrangement, it pays to price based on what your contribution is worth to the client, which will ideally be much more than what it costs you to provide it.
Yeah, I think I would be hard pressed to not report this kid to the cops if only so that I never had to regret not making the police aware of him.
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It makes sense to compare US prices with western/northern Europe, as they are similarly rich/developed.

But to compare prices in the USA with those in eastern Europe doesn't seem right. In nominal terms, the GDP per capita of the USA is 6 times that of Romania, and 4 times by purchasing power parity.
just seen this reply; thanks. i encourage you to think again, though. one reason is that you would be more likely to influence the future evolution of python itself if you worked more within the system...
addresses are strange. humans think of addresses in little-endian

No, this is culture-specific. In Russia, postal addresses are written exactly the opposite ("big endian") way.
I feel this is kind of what happens with php, it isn't the best language, but for someone new in server-side webdev there is plenty of info around the web to solve most problems
This will be AWESOME for monitoring daily backups on the large number of sites/databases that should be getting backed up automatically every night. They work reliably for a while and then I forget about checking them. Would be nice to know when one of those starts to choke.
My favorite accidental discovery:

"It was initially studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris. The first clinical trials were conducted in Morriston Hospital in Swansea. Phase I clinical trials under the direction of Ian Osterloh suggested that the drug had little effect on angina, but that it could induce marked penile erections."

Had someone not been paying close attention, Viagra would have died at phase I.
Yup that's us. We power TV search for a bunch of other folks too-- The Soup on E!, The US Senate.

Here's an answer I posted a while ago to Quora on the subject: http://www.quora.com/The-Daily-Show/How-does-the-The-Daily-S...
Feist v. Rural (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural) seems to indicate the the arrangement of the facts is copyrightable, (if there is even a minimal degree of creativity) even though the facts themselves are not. The court held the alphabetic arrangement of names is not sufficient to warrant copyright protection, and it seems logical that mere temporal arrangement of classifieds would not merit protection either. However, it seems as though 3Taps would need to find a way to rearrange the facts presented within the advertizement, because that certainly is a creative process.

The seller has the freedom to write text a description and include pictures. Photographs have a long history of copyright protection, as does written work. Simply copying the specification sheet for a particular model of TV into the ad, for example, might not be copyrightable, but how does 3Taps sort those from the rest?

I just stole this from a random Craigslist ad:

"Black futon in good condition. The mattress is a lot thicker than most futons. It is pretty easy to assemble. You must be able to pick it up though because I do not have a truck. I am moving in a week so I need to get rid of it, asking for 100 or better offer. Please use the link above to email me. "

That the object is a futon, that said futon is black, thicker than average, easy to assemble and in good condition are all facts. The seller could have presented those facts in any number of ways, but he or she chose this way (proper spelling, for example, and mostly written in complete sentences) because he or she thought that would generate a better response. The only way I can see 3Taps on solid ground is if they can take the ad text, use it to generate a set of facts, and rewrite the ad from that (analogous to the way the PC BIOS was reverse-engineered, but done mechanically (I can't imagine it would scale well to have humans rewrite the ads))
Well, it's a good thing no one said that then.
i like the way elasticsearch use json to express query (query-DSL)
The second sentence is admittedly a cheap-shot and a bit overgeneral. I thought about editing it out, but people had already responded to it and I hate when people ninja-edit the part of a post that I'm responding to.
Hmm... interesting. Do you have a write-up on your tech stack?
Pains me to see this kinda stuff go on...

Troll doesn't quite cover it in my eye, its pure criminalized harassment.
I can't imagine that, as part of the deal, updates proving that counseling is happening aren't a part of the story. I agree with you that I wouldn't let it go without having some knowledge that he is getting the help he obviously needs.

I wouldn't want to ruin a 17-year-old's life, either, but I wouldn't hesitate for a moment if I felt my family was in any danger. We don't know the relationship between the OP and his friend that might mitigate the "any danger" part.

On the other hand, kids' lives are ruined in the US (and possibly other countries; I don't have enough experience to know) on a regular basis because we want to have "justice" at all costs. Justice is important, but so is mercy. Mercy (NOT rolling over!) is, ultimately, what will progress society.
Well, I'm going home. That's pretty easily the coolest thing I've heard of today.
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Was mainly concerned about the scalability. For a large number of users, your server would have to handle a large number of concurrent connections while they uploaded their data. If you used spiders, you could push the URLs to a queue and process them at your convenience.

How do you deal with 2 users looking at the same URL but seeing different things? example.com/me would be different for user1 and user2.

Some pages would be very dynamic, eg. Facebook. And not everyone browses facebook/twitter behind https (which you do not index). Do you not index social networks?

I like the fact that the extension requires no user input and works silently in the background. Has some trade-offs, but worth it. Cannot comment on the search quality yet because Chrome is only my secondary browser; not enough history to search for anything meaningful.
The 'You wouldn't download a car' campaign will have to add another dimension.
This. Please repeat your story - from the media it would sound like Verizon FiOS and Google Fiber are the only players - when obviously there are lots of companies making fiber plays right now.

Then fewer people would believe these articles about "why you will never get fiber" - arguably that's false, since it is only necessary to move to a city that has it.

If the '49ers moved to California for gold, it's not so far-fetched to have a mass migration away from these backwards, oppressive places that still only have high prices for slow speeds.
It is an amazing experience to learn that there is somebody who is more important to you than you, isn't it? Whatever combination of biology, psychology and sociology that brings that about, it is something to experience!
Yeah, it would be futile for CL to go after Padmapper, so they are going after 3Taps. Why would they be more worried about 3Taps? Because anyone can do what 3Taps is doing. Anyone can pull CL data from a search engine cache like 3Taps does. There's no need to go to CL.

But one thing we know, if you look at the precedent, is that you can't sue Google and win. You either let them copy your site or opt out and lose the traffic. So what can you do?

Sue Google users! As far as I'm concerned, that's all 3Taps is. They are just aggregating what they pull from the cache.
The Volt has an EV-only range of 40 miles.
Can you provide a single example of such a country?

Regardless, free-market capitalism is not predicated on freedom from government intervention; in fact, a government is necessary in order to protect the freedoms of the individual. That should be the purpose of the government: protecting the freedom of its citizens. Creating an environment that allows voluntary trade of goods and services to exist. Not picking winners or losers. Not imposing regulations that create monopolies. Not encouraging bad behavior by banks. Not rewarding bad decisions by auto manufacturers. Not being in bed with unions and corporations alike.

Here's how I think about it: What can one corporation do to a person? Not much. What can one government do to a person? Take away his freedom, imprison him, and / or kill him. Would I rather have flawed, power abusing individuals the power to impose their will over an entire country, or just their company? Would I rather centralize power in a way that is not accountable to anyone, or would I rather have power be decentralized and much more accountable to me?

No one is arguing for no government. But we are looking at the present state of affairs and the reasons we got here, and then looking at the past and seeing what happened then and why... and we're realizing that, for the most part, more government is bad.
3Taps doesn't access Craigstlist so the TOS has no effect.
I loved that too. There's a good sense of humour there which was lacking from the last "My______" redesign/rebrand.
Use this a filter! If you want a happy career, you should not be wasting your precious time in places suspicious of a gap in employment.
He might be... But just because you're one of the thousands of engineers at google, that doesn't make you automatically qualified.
A little over a decade ago I was working for a company that needed map data for Beijing to produce some wall maps. We quickly found out that, at least with the dozen or so geospatial data providers we contacted at the time, the data we wanted was simply not available in the West (if it even existed at all)! The rumor in the industry was that the Chinese government didn't want accurate map data to leave the country for fear that it would be used for military planning purposes by invading powers.

All was almost a disaster until a co-worker returned from a year in Beijing and brought a small stack of locally produced paper maps of the city back with him, with careful notes where they were "not accurate". We kept 4 or 5 interns busy for a summer converting the various paper maps into digital vector data we were able to use with our GIS systems.

So the fact that less than a generation later, people are complaining that the iOS maps lack sufficient detail of the countryside or whatever is almost mindboggling to me.

On a similar note, recent travels in Seoul have also reminded me how bad our GPS systems are no matter the provider. The average GPS most people use to get around with has astonishing levels of detail[1] by anyone's standards. Would that google maps had that level of detail even in just big cities I'd be amazed.

[1] - Some sample screenshots http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/tag/inavi and yes, they do really look that good.

edit this is pretty good http://map.baidu.com/
It's difficult to read this and not think that a psychopath was let off the hook because he was young. Outing and labeling these kinds of people is important to curbing the amount of future damage they can do.

There is bullying, there is harassment, and then there is what the OP experienced. No reasonable, rational individual who is just "acting out" in adolescence takes it to these levels. As much as I feel for the OP he should have taken legal action and had the youth examined by a credible mental health professional if only as a favor to others.
The number of things that protect the contractor in a standard consulting agreement are small relative to the number of things that protect the client; for instance, the "contractor status" clauses in the contract don't do much for the consultant, but they protect the client from frivolous claims that the consultant was actually an employee entitled to overtime and tax payments.

It is very important that clients use a carefully reviewed consulting contract for reasons like this.

It is pretty important that consultants get client paper reviewed before they sign it; we've seen some scary things in client MSAs.

It is probably not all that important that consultants optimize their starting-point MSAs, at least in the US.
Let's wait and see. Keep in mind, the video is pretty frenetically cut. The video is designed to provoke awe, but I suspect the interface is less "out there" in practice.
Not sure of the outcome, ( Marenem vs Jump was behind paywalls) but a company seemed to have sued.

http://www.macon.com/2012/06/12/2056692/north-carolina-compa...
OK, but we generally can't get foreign speeds at any price. It seems that other countries are getting something for what they pay, whether retail or by tax.
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http://ux.stackexchange.com/a/4948
Sure, but you don't live in the middle of the Northwest Territories, and neither do the vast majority of Canadians complaining about telecom prices. The population density figure is a bit of a red herring.
Teenage Engineering Make CAD Files Available to 3D Print Replacement Parts
Adobe is following this "open core" approach on several of its newer offerings. For Instance adobe
Excellent points, especially regarding photographs. I was thinking of that case already, and hadn't considered the arrangement of facts within a post; what came to mind first was the collection of posts as their own arrangement of facts.
New SARS-like virus found, man critically ill in UK
History has some examples of legacy brands being revived. Mini, Hush Puppies, Pabst Blue Ribbon are some of the known examples. Forever and never is a really long time.

Being on the edge but akin to old school is actually valued in music subculture. So while Facebook becomes a tired commodity, MySpace does have a shot in getting back as a 'true skool' brand for a music social network. Think of hip crowd looking back at the 80s and 90s for inspiration.
I don't know, it is more of a general perception, but if I have to excerpt some typical sentences I could find these:

- "Valuable people deserve a bespoke hiring experience"

- "Hiring good people is one of the most critical activities we do as a company"

etc.

Maybe it is not exactly raw PR speak, maybe it is just empty sentences ballooned with good will and "think positive" attitude, written there in the hope that potential candidate will read them and apply. What worries me is that it looks like genuine and sincere, but it is not.

It's like artificial marple syrup stuffed in a natural marple syrup bottle. And if I have the choice I prefer natural syrup in natural syrup bottle and artificial syrup in artificial syrup bottle over what we have here.
> it's called Craigslist Commando

Issues over content ownership aside, calling it that is a pretty clear trademark violation.
Elon has five children. Getting Elon + 5 children into a Tesla is a key goal, and presumably his smallest child is going to outgrow the optional rear facing seats in the Model S at some point...
Off topic, but just a note: as a decidedly-not-teenage (by over 2x ;) person, thanks for Curse. It was a godsend during my WoW days.
One of the big downsides I see in owning a Tesla is the need to also own a house with a garage. The Model S has the range to handle my daily commuting needs, but I have no place to charge it.
Bam! - took a second to realize its not some 90s throwback site - maybe tone down the colors?

quick no reading look-through see some jumping stick figure a text box, bullet points and some talking head reviews. Is this a get rich quick? The text kinda reads like that lots of promises little detail...

Grade C-

Suggestions:

Tone down colors - loose the highlighter line at the bottom. The logo guy is kinda OK but the font is not energetic enough.

How about having the testimonials pics with the people Exercising or in gym gear near exercise equipment? Would add a more active dynamic to it.

"get a 75% discount by signing up now..." sounds expensive. Should elude to the rates like "for less than a gym membership," (or whatever the comparison) "you will/can..." (bullet points) As a customer I would be comforted in knowing what will I be putting into it and what value will i get out of it...

You have one serif line and then everything else is sans serif... doesn't seem to balance well. you reiterate the same thing twice at the top two lines. maybe if the second line has silhouettes or stick figures doing the steps.

Just noticed it's a mobile application - put handheld devices in stick figure's hand.... Maybe in testimonial pics too.
Once Chrome gains enough users, they can choose to include Dartium (their Dart VM) in Chrome and choose to support that.

As a language Dart is not exciting. It doesn't tout fancy monads or functional data structures and so on, but it looks basic, simple and average. Kind of like what Java would be if it was made for the web.

So there is at least on contender out there to replace JS.

Mozilla is working on Rust. A very exciting language that actually has many fancy features, some borrowed from Erlang. Not sure if that will ever make into an in-browser language, but who knows.
The same goes for every navigation apps in China, the 3G speed and coverage is just not there yet.
As 3D printing becomes truly mass-market, people who want to print copies of objects will start attacking physical product patents as strongly as they attack software patents and digital media copyright today (strong, coordinated opposition to these grew only with distribution channels).
Wow. I think back to when I first tried to go out as a contractor. A headhunter got me an interview with a local telecom. During the interview, the manager asked me if I was one of the people named in a recent ComputerWorld article about families with multiple generations in IT. I said I was. He said the whole staff of the telecom IT were curious as to why everyone in the article had given their salary, but I had not. I told him it was because I had merely filled out a questionnaire before I found out the reporter was going to write a nationwide article, and that I subsequently declined to reveal my salary to the world. The manager asked how that went down. I told him not very well--the reporter dunned me to find out my salary, sent me a disposable camera with instructions to send him a photo of myself for the article (I also declined that honor). I told the manager I was a private person and had not consented for my image and my salary to be plastered in a magazine. Then I tried to steer it back to IT, and mentioned that I had recently started using Linux (this was 1998, when that was a daring thing for a mainframer to have done). He said, "Oh, you're one of those Unix guys? We hate that sht!" So, no fab whiskey, no dogs, no hotel, not pool and air hockey--just a quiz about an article I had tried not to be in, and a curse for liking Linux. sigh
I think the 4chan crowd would have considered what they did to Jessi Slaughter "trolling for lulz", yet I don't think you could reasonably say it wasn't harassment, too.
Why not coffeescript then? It seems to be have good momentum behind it.
I tentatively disagree. If the service isn't leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, I think this could be a huge flop. However, if they can actually deliver, I can imagine this generating a huge amount of interest. "The return of MySpace" is a fairly compelling story, after all - if they pull it off.
Agreed entirely. This sort of thing can turn into a vicious cycle in an instant; by forgiving him, the OP has almost certainly stopped that in its tracks.

However, I can't help but have concerns about the kid's future -- this sort of behavior over a long period screams mental illness -- and sincerely hope that counseling helps.
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No. We have it planned but not written yet. Follow http://blog.circleci.com or http://twitter.com/circleci if you're interested, or if we're very lucky you might find it on HN too :)
It would of been fresh to my eyes, but I previewed Windows 8 first. Myspace looks like they took Windows 8 metro design principles into play.
Thanks for buying this book (it's mine). I was happy to see someone posted it to hacker news.