skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 - Nobody has ever asked if I have a GitHub or StackOverflow account. This might be different for high-priced jobs, but for everything I've done it's never come up. Normally a quick email exchange or phone call has been enough.

2 - I found my first client on oDesk, and they referred me to just about everyone else. I haven't used it since, and it's thoroughly depressing to look at how low pay the jobs are. Posting in the HN freelancer topic, and posting an ad on /r/forhire is another good way to get clients.

3 - Whatever you want - there are tonnes of people that need software building (and plenty that don't even realise it). Just remember that a few hours of time can quickly get eaten by emails, phone calls, "can you just check this", bathroom breaks, leg stretching, quick drinks etc. It takes a while to get in a good rhythm.
I deployed this code on this page :

http://flasharabia.com

however the code doesn't seem to work ..
Hi, I'm Ali! My story is similar, only I used to be quite a strong fundamentalist muslim. I believed in the Ummah (i.e. the manifest destiny of the united Islamic empire to eventually take over the world) and all the fun stuff in the appendices of the Quran and Hadith that 'moderate' muslims conveniently hand-wave away as something we're not supposed to take literally.

My question for you is, is the method you're describing for making fundamentalists accept a more scientific world-view really effective? Did you leave religion because people shot down your beliefs or because you happened to read or listen to more scientific content on your own?

For me, I was lucky enough to have some fantastically good teachers at school. Religious Education (which taught me about common arguments and problems with the god hypothesis) and Science was a double-whammy of input that more or less disabled any religious beliefs I had from the inside out. None of those teachers attacked my beliefs directly, they just gave me the intellectual tools to do it on my own.

I'm not saying this approach will scale to the masses, but I will however suggest that there could be a more effective route to more rational/scientific thinking in general than just shouting out the answers to the hard questions at the top of our lungs.
Hardcover/Paperback/ePub available now in UK; not available in the US until January 8th (3 1/2 months).

It's a shame; I would have bought 2 copies as Christmas gifts. He's going to lose a lot of US sales to piracy.
Nah, he doesn't strike me as pretentious enough.

;-)
That would seem to be the case, yes.
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Well, it depends on which slaves you're talking about. Not being a slave is always better than being one, but sometimes "slave" basically meant being in a lot of debt...
Spoken like a true CEO. Everyone reading into this "it must be Apple's fault because Google said they're innocent", congratulations, you've been trolled by corporate politics.

Of course Google thinks it would have been better if Apple kept their maps, they lost license revenue and a bunch of all-important user metrics with the change.

The above statement is in no way absolution of Google's involvement in the decision. It's just a tactful response to a situation where fanboys on both sides of the fence are going to go apoplectic over anything more specific.

The second sentence after that quote could just have easily been "It's their call, all we were doing is asking for 10x licensing fees and a blanket agreement to stop suing Android handset makers for patent infringement, which I think is perfectly reasonable. They got all mad at us and said they'd do their own maps instead. They're totally at fault here."
Gorilla glass is far from perfect material for smartphone displays, because it shatters so easily. There are pretty good plastic materials too, especially those used in eyeglasses. Apparently, glass still offers the best scratch-resistance, but I would rather have a non-shattering display.
Yes -- in a sense, what people also term "generalizing specialist". Someone who may not necessarily be an expert in technology Y, but they can be very effective in it. If I don't know it: I learn it, and fast...and while I'm studying it, and reading every god-awful book / resource I can find on it, I don't charge the client.

This is necessary b/c unless you have a dedicated team of people -- each who is good at a respective thing, you -- as a consultant, will just be expected to get it done...quickly, and with high quality.

You can do consulting in your own comfort niche. I choose not to do that.
Flip it around tho', they were asking firefighters to quite literally risk their lives for them, when they weren't even community-spirited enough to contribute towards the common good. Unless you have the plague, a doctor doesn't take nearly the same personal risk as a firefighter.
Since when Android needs antivirus?
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Recruit acquires Indeed
>Many people are not looking for a "better C++", in the land of C++ it seems "better" means "more features", and some of us are not interested in more features, but in a better selection of fewer useful features.

This is a knee jerk cliche reaction.

D is much better designed than C++.
I'm not judging CleanIT at all, I'm merely pointing out that their connection to the EU or its legislative agenda is practically nonexistent at the moment. The article headline is clearly FUD.
Connectivity isn't the problem. You are.
I can add another data-point.

Back in the States, I paid $50/month for T-Mobile's unlimited-everything monthly/no-contract plan. There was an additional $10 fee for international calling, if I wanted it. This plan was later grandfathered out, leaving the only similar plan being one where you get on a contract and buy a new, SIM-locked device. Before it was grandfathered out, Consumer Reports ran an article on the under-appreciation of no-contract SIMs in America.

Where I am now (Northern Israel), the government passed a law against lock-in contracts last year. As a result, there has been a "cellular revolution". My new SIM, which might arrive in the mail today, costs 99 shekels per month (roughly $25 USD, but the shekel has been tending to rise against the dollar faster than the Central Bank can buy American bonds to keep it down). It includes unlimited calls, text and data, including international (to my American family) for no additional cost.

The internet service I have here, coupled to minimal public-access television service, is 10 Mb/sec download speed for 65 shekels ($16.25 USD) per month. The providers of physical internet infrastructure (cable and DSL) are also separated here from ISPs. A competitor to my DSL company offers 100 Mb/sec for 20 shekels ($5 USD) per month, but isn't available everywhere. This DSL company will upgrade you to 20 Mb/sec if you catch them offering a sale.

By contrast, a minimal cable package of public-access channels and broadband internet back in the USA cost about $45/month, before you've paid any other bills, and it gave you about 3-5 Mb/sec.

(Admittedly, these prices reflect household incomes being lower here, since the average worker's salary is something like $28k/year and most households have two working parents. But the way America has been going, those kinds of numbers are now typical there too, but without prices having gone down.)

So yeah. America gets gypped because its government consistently refuses to do anything about telecom infrastructure. It's pretty sad, considering how little you actually have to do to get decent results.
I have read about slavery of course, and I'm aware of what the word means. I obviously didn't meant "slave" in the traditional, historical sense.

Actually, the OED defines "slave" as "One who is the property of, and entirely subject to, another person, whether by capture, purchase, or birth". That's quite a broad definition, isn't it?

Yes, I know I am really fortunate by comparison with most of the world's population, but that's not enough for me, I am sorry.
I tend not to look to whatever I have as "blessings", I guess I'm one of the "half-empty" guys.
A Startup To Help Build Startups
I don't think many kids are going to be using their raspberry pi to redesign the CPU or rewrite the firmware drivers.

The idea should be to make programming simple and accessible, perhaps being able to create some games or connect it to an arduino and make some fun toys.

I actually think that shipping it without a box is great idea, it demystifies computers a lot if you can see that it all just boils down to a bunch of wires and chips on a PCB. Making a custom case could also be a great Design/Technology class project.

Is it a perfect open platform? No. Is it a lot more open and inherently tinker able than a locked down Windows 8 PC or an iPad? Hell yes.
You should see how STEM fetishization plays out on a nation scale.

The assumption that STEM = logic is erroneous. I've seen enough mental athletes and Frankenstein monsters to know.
I'd never heard of it but Alexa 256 (73 US) would indicate they are doing something very, very right.
The point isn't that "Google hiked their prices," the point is that there are more than a few possibilities for legitimate Google-driven business reasons for the maps change instead of just assuming Apple hates their users and wants them to have crappy maps.
I have a six year old son with this same fascination. Sometimes I'll walk into my home office and find some mailer with a QR code sitting there waiting for me. His inquisitive mind just has to know what the phone will do with the code.
Indian app developers CANNot sell paid apps in the Play app store
In that case, a respectful and, more importantly, substantial comment would have been in order.
A few of these points are interesting, because things don't have to be that way (e.g. various government-granted monopolies).

But most of these points are uninteresting, in the sense that I cannot easily imagine alternatives. Public goods are a simple example - there's an economic reason it is not possible to let people opt-out of public goods: you can't not protect some people, so it is in their interest to opt-out and receive protection anyway. So everyone will opt-out.

I have a lot of respect for jacquesmattheij, and I love posts that make us reconsider basic assumptions of our society and decide whether they're good or not. Even as a philsophical exercise and without a practical angle, it's interesting. But most of the complaints here don't come with an alternative, so what are we supposed to do with them?
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Try doing that in the midwest. Finding jobs gets hard and apartments are rare and low quality, so it's not uncommon to have to settle on a 20 minute (or much more) commute by car on the freeway. There are also no bike lanes. Commuting long distances isn't great, but moving more people into the city isn't always the best option either. We learned that in the 1900's
SmartPower - a Windows application that saves energy (and money)
The worst part is: if you're a US citizen you're still "opted in" to paying taxes even after you don't live there and no longer use any of the services. In some cases, even if you've never lived there at all or even speak the language (hint: you can get american citizenship from being born on the soil or having a single biological parent who was).
> fleeting Facebook user

> Opera user

You're clearly not the target demographic though, right?
Sixth-grader's barking-dog app wins AT&T $20,000 prize
Twitter cofounder Dorsey visits MIT to recruit for Square
> For small compiles, the Go compiler was blazingly fast; on a large synthetic codebase (700 files), it was three times slower than clang compiling C.

This really stood out for me and seems to make a mockery of Go compile times for larger programs and perhaps more real-world situations.
How do you know Google did anything?
IRC pings don't use ICMP, but that could work if IRC clients would repeat data received without escaping first. Or if unaware users saw it come over the channel and tried to type it themselves.
The only people I see acting like children here are Apple fanboys, Google fanboys, and tech blog writers. Not Apple themselves, nor Google, except where one of the three groups above starts putting words in their mouth.

Full disclosure: I am one of those three types of people above but that doesn't mean I agree with the actions of others in that group.
Ha, I had forgotten about the Wint-O-Green Lifesavers trick, and never had it explained.
> And if a substantial number of them would opt-out that would be a much clearer sign than any elections ever could give that that society was on the wrong track.

I think this is a pretty interesting comment. It sparked the idea of a 'tax-free' zone in each country in my head. Like a area of each country with no government infrastructure or intervention. The proportion of population living in these zones would really give a good indicator of how the countries are treating it's citizens. People would be free to cross this fence whenever they wanted.

But in reality I don't think any country would want to give up land for such means.
The if/else is no more explicit than the ternary operator.

On the contrary, the ternary operator makes the specific operation (setting ONE variable) more explicit, and ensures you only set one var. Consider:

if a == 1:
foo = "PASS"
else:
foo = "FAIL"

and

foo = (A == 1) ? "PASS" : "FAIL"

Why repeat the foo (and risk an error by mistyping it the second time, especially in a dynamic language or with type inference)?

And they add the same amount of cyclomatic complexity (not that you implied otherwise, just sayin').
> The US spends more on its military than the next ten countries combined, so there's a good chance it's possible to have effective national defense for an order of magnitude less than we currently pay

But national defense (or really, defense of any kind) is about more than just the ability to successfully repeal an attack; at certain scale, it's about ensuring that nobody even tries to lift a finger against you. And then there's the 'implied offensive' angle where others fear what you might do.

The security and strength provided by that military is a significant factor in the ability of the USA to create and retain its wealth. Limiting the size of military to purely defensive levels would also limit that ability, so in many ways it's as much an investment as roads and fire departments. It's hard to measure the ROI but the stakes are clearly very high.

Hope this doesn't feel cynical.
It's not about my search engine, though. It's about any new search engine. It's about the future possibilities.

I care about how my customers experience Circle.

If your customers care about privacy and security and browse with JavaScript disabled by default, they will be annoyed. If they have disabilities and use a screen reader, they're likely screwed. If they get lost in your docs and decide to use "site:circleci.com" query to find the page they need, they will get nothing. If they would want to use a mini-crawler to download your docs for local usage, they will get nothing.

That is user experience, and those things are objective. They either work or not. On the other hand, performance gains and development time gains of single-page apps are -- debatable.

If you were to create a new search engine, and it didn't take into account one-page-apps, I'd say you've built the wrong architecture too.

There is no reliable way to build a search engine that would crawl through websites created mostly in an imperative language. Even unreliable ways to do that are complicated enough that Google and Microsoft fail miserably at them.
:)

1. I can't do everything. But I can deliver 99% of the work needed out there.

2. I started out cheap. Current rates are at $100/hour with a set minimum.

3. Offer them a chance to get to know you for free.

4. Talk about what they want to hear.

I'm not sure I would want to attract the sort of clients he gets.

You mean you don't want to work with great people? People like Mark, who is focusing on disrupting the online payment industry. Or maybe even Robert, who is getting amazing growth through a simple Facebook statregy. I mean, of course I want to work with them. They are just amazing.

Maybe you just want to sit in your office all day, writing yet another interface class. Not me. I want to be where the action is.
I don't want to commit temporary debug cruft to version control, so I'd still need to keep adding and removing that whenever I do a commit. Though I guess I could just always skip it with git add --patch.

I do have need for some solution, since I have packages that don't do anything with strings and therefore don't import fmt, but which still get bugs which I need to debug with the stdout.

One more robust approach would be to fit a complete configurable logging system permanently in place.
$100k STEM degrees aren't pumping out ROI either.
Yes, those ads. The latest one is the biggest seller.
No Google Maps Plan for iPhone 5
Is he still CEO?
bad title - he just said they haven't submitted anything. it says nothing about planning.
Yes, I get clients through networking. I just email other hackers and get to know them. Not to get work, but because I really do believe that I can learn something from everybody. I'm always emailing people about their projects. One thing leads to another and they remember someone who had approached them about a project and they declined due to not having time or whatever.

I'd say its 40% HN and 58% networking with a 2% chance of rain.
Retrofitted NES Zapper sets things on fire with laser
That's exactly what I meant. Unfortunately, slavery is much more than chains and forced labour.
They took it public with this statement, right?
Yeah, I understand that. I actually think is important to find what bothers us despite our "blessings" and try to make it better, we'd be stuck in the past if we didn't.

I just found "slavery" a strong word, and that a little perspective on these matters is also very important.
Dangerous, dangerous ideas
Which is hilarious, because "big pharma" own the big "alternative" "medicine" companies too - it's a multi-billion dollar business, of course they want a slice of that pie!
On my morning commute, it's important that fueling be quick. I have to stop at a station and fill up, something I can't do at home. However, if I were in an EV, I could fill up at home, while I slept. It'd be fully charged when I got in to go to work. If I could charge 30 minutes to half at home, charging time is nearly insignificant.

I would still love to see hydrogen cars instead. I think Honda has it right.
We're Losing the Stars - The Industry
I just tested it on a Samsung Galaxy S3, in several forms (as src in link, script, img, video and object elements, as well as the href in an a element). Nothing happened here.
I've always been curious why clinical trials are so expensive. Does anyone know an approximate cost breakdown of a typical clinical trial say for a new drug?

Really you're just having a few hundred people take a pill and monitor their progress. I always wonder why that should cost more than 10 or 20K per patient even with overhead.
"Er, no, you cannot, by definition."

Theism is belief in a personal god. So if you believe in god but not a personal god then you are an atheist.
Good to see the mods are being effective and efficient. How many more "lol, maps!" articles do you need to see?
Let's not pretend there's reason or justice in how the US treats those people. That's part of a larger conflict, and has little value as an example of individual responsibility.
Indeed, going barter will probably not let you avoid taxes. I thought of avoiding the use of money by totally withdrawing from the economic exchange.
And how do you know that? We'll see how it turns out but at this point you can't predict they won't.
"or connect it to an arduino"

As the article mentions, this doesn't seem to be as easy as it should/could be.
actually, the Go tool compiles packages in parallel by default.
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The complaint about lack of documentation is valid. Of course programming to the hardware is desirable; that's why you'd buy the thing, to do device control.
What kind of persons downvote this comment? (please someone argument this I am really curious why this happened)
"I spent some time researching the emigration options. A lot of time actually. And I’ve found out that the place where I live is in spite of all of the above probably one of the best places on earth to be living at the moment. It’s shocking! Half the world or more of it would be more than happy just to trade with me, and they’d be absolutely right."

If you can earn a first-world nation without having to live there, something quite possible in tech, there are a number of countries where many folks can be quite happy and more free. And remember you don't have to just stay in one country, you can travel around a bit and sample countries also.

I made the move and it was the right decision to me, imho.
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I'm somewhat surprised (or perhaps I shouldn't be) at the generally negative tone of the replies here so far. Maybe this specific project isn't the winner or the exact right idea, but I am _extremely_ bullish on the basic idea of getting car nav / "infotainment" systems all running a common OS (be it Android or iOS).

I think it is an absurd inefficiency and possibly one of the most anti-DRY things out there that nearly every manufacturer has its own totally-different way of doing things on the HUD. Every radio operates differently, nav systems have varying degrees of quality, and overall the UX is about 50 shades of crap :) Reminds me of the days when every phone manufacturer had a different os -- and we see how well that worked out for everyone.

I think the future of automotive UI rests on the adoption of a standard os. Though I'm partial to iOS on my own phone, I'm happy to see either iOS or Android in our cars (or both).

Imagine this: You get in your car -- the UI is familiar and comfortable (though adapted for automotive use). You have access to your music library (sync'd from iCloud) instantly, you get your choice of GPS apps (Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps -- lol, sorry just kidding), you can use radio services like Pandora or Spotify, etc. And yes, the manufacturer will have to make a custom app for the "manual stuff" like air conditioning controls, etc., but that's still a lot better than essentially having to reinvent the whole os.

Anyway, you get the idea. I'm very excited about this stuff and am fairly confident it's the way things are going. Whether or not this specific project is a winner is somewhat irrelevant - its a step in the right direction.
I just tried it on the S3 test device here at work. No go on either putting it in a web page, or going through a QR code.
Considering a CTCP request is just a PRIVMSG with ^A wrapped around the "command word", and a CTCP reply is just a NOTICE with the same ^A thing, you can make them "say" just about anything. It's unclear why an IRC client would need to worry about "escaping" +++, except if it's specifically been designed for people with bad modems.

Those of us with good modems back in the dialup days just laughed at this insanity. Hayes used to put "+++AT" in their press releases after a certain point just to trip up any noncompliant systems which may have passed it along.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequenc...
If you've got a single package with 700 files (I'm pretty sure that's what he was testing), you're doing something wrong.
Forgive me if you're kidding.

Designers and game devs loved Flash, but web devs hate(d) it. The only cool thing about it from a web dev perspective was Actionscript, but this was before Javascript was cool. You could also do long polling with it, but not many people did – anyway, this was really something that game devs loved, not web devs.

"Swf" is for ShockWave Flash; swfs are notoriously large. One of the hallmark of Flash files was the ubiquitous loading screen.