skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we've had personal communication for ages now. That's email, IMs, Skype, etc. I wonder how many users just use Facebook for the sake of private messaging by now because the topics that fuel conversations between friends are often of private nature. Things not everyone has to know. I think that kind of defeats the purpose of a social network though.
Interesting, it has provided me with the exact value I am charging right now ($33).
Most LLCs have assets and thus require liability insurance anyway.

The tech sector is a small slice of the business space. Lets phrase it another way - you get a bad shipment of chocolate from a supplier, and your cookies send a handful of kids into allergic shock from the peanuts tainting the chocolate. One of them dies. You're likely going to be sued, and your liability insurance is likely a drop in the bucket (enough to cover your business assets). Do you still deserve to lose your house?
I recently got the ultraslim logitech ipad keyboard cover and it is pretty awesome. I could really see a future for tablet+keyboard devices for a lot of people. Apple doesn't really need to promote this as their core feature because it's just an optional setup, but MSFT could propel the tablet keyboard market forward in very interesting ways. Very cool.
Yes, I think the underlying reason that drones are brought into these kind of discussions is because people are terrified of armed drones, especially autonomous ones. They make war cheap in the same way as CCTVs make surveillance cheap. But that's a completely different issue and shouldn't distract from the domestic surveillance one which is (at the moment) much more pressing.
Clean up mold, call environmental expert
The 1.5 factor for taxes and savings might be accurate for the US, but is way too low for some places (a factor of 2 would probably still be too low)
£10 per hour... not bad.

I love the simplicity of this, it's definitely a lot easier than thinking about it myself.
Manuel pixel level adjustments have always been difficult, even with a mouse. Place elements roughly by eye, and then have nudge buttons to position exactly. Have good support for snapping and alignment in a UI that people actually understand.
iPad Mini Teardown
To be fair to him, that's a little heavy, I looked at it, scrolled down to the bottom then closed the page.
Yep, in Austria taxes and insurance are approaching and even exceeding 50% of your income when you cross €100k per year.
Apple's Samsung statement reprimanded
Using Sandy as an Excuse to Email Spam Customers
And neither is Alan Kay.
China's Twitter-like Weibo poses danger, opportunity for new leaders
Thanks for the answers! Very helpful.
There does not seem to be any snark or condescension in the question. Which makes me wonder why the comment is getting downvoted. Which is too sacred to critique, the disaster relief or Airbnb? Neither should be above it.
Eh, I needed that shot of wakeup adrenaline anyway.
Plan, do, review, done: a very unoriginal process for doing client work
Having never used EC2, I wonder what an instance would cost me each month if I were to use it for something like hosting my website.

I'm very happy where I am now, but I'm interested in learning more about Amazon's offerings and moving my blog over would probably be a good first step.
Remarkable Purple Cow
While I appreciate the simplicity, design and speed of the site, the caveat at the end "Make sure the rate matches your value proposition. Charge what you're worth, but be reasonable." is the whole crux of pricing problems, and the site doesn't really help me figure out "what I'm worth" (also in the header text too).

If I'm a basic HTML developer with simple Dreamweaver skills from 1999, living in a major metro area, what I'm "worth" might really be something like $10-12/hour (in the US). The skills you have that are in demand dictate 'worth' in the market. And really, it's how an employer can translate those skills in to value in their marketplace that dictates the worth to them. If they're paying $5000 for website feature X, they reasonably assume they will get far more value than $5000 over a reasonable time frame (month? 6 months? 1 year?)

Being able to determine the value your skills brings to an employer is difficult, because it's not just your skills - you're reliant on them to be able to translate your labor in to money and they may suck at it. I've hired super talented people that I subsequently had to let go because I couldn't convert their awesome in to money.

Finding employers that are good at that, and that derive a lot of value from what you provide is a harder problem to solve, but more rewarding financially in the end.

Reading "million dollar consulting" (allan weiss) changed a lot of my thinking on this subject. It feels a bit dated now, but conceptually thinking about value instead of time for money, even if time for money is all you can get, still changes your perspective some.

Gentle plug: http://indieconf.com - coming up in just a couple weeks - will cover topics like these (specifically a session on "science of pricing" with Brennan Dunn) for freelancers.
> does anybody seriously believe that anybody will be using the Surface to do the sort of work where shifting a layer one pixel to the right is critical?

No, but the article gave me the impression that touchscreen + keyboard = the future of computing. I'm just trying to point out that the future of computing might involve one or two additional devices.

Of course the mouse isn't going to disappear. Many people buy mice with laptops nowadays, even though every laptop comes with a trackpad. The question is, will this trend continue with Surface-like devices, or is mouse sales going to plummet?
On a micro scale, I use pomodoros for this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique), but on a bigger scale, I often find that I'm subconsciously weighed down by worrying about things that I'm not currently doing anything on. Have to remind myself to just get moving and figure things out as I go.

My long streaks of working out almost always start with a couple days at the gym basically screwing around. I know it's not optimal, but it's something, and I gradually get more intentional and serious as I keep going.
This is the first step to true open hardware?!

You are not a hardware guy, are you?
If you removed the years of experience to achieve X from your definitions and added criteria you expect, then these "achievement levels" would have much more merit. I am pretty sure I am familiar with the types of individuals you are talking about here, but years of experience is one of the worst measures of, well experience.

Years of experience is one of the larger generalizations we make in our industry. One that is almost always worthless because it has negative connotations on both ends, while given little to no idea of what value lies in the middle. The only time it can be useful is as a barrier to entry to new graduates.
You can use it in your lap: you just have to use the on-screen keyboard rather than the keyboard cover.

That would probably not crimp my style because when I am too tired to get off the couch and move to a table or desk, I am also probably too tired to do a satisfactory job at writing anything longer than a tweet.
Agreeing with everything here, and adding the fact that Braintree has incredible support. There have been several occasions where I couldn't figure out a bug on my side, or there was a gap in our database records while testing a new feature, and I was able to get on the phone with a customer service rep and get it sorted out in minutes.

I've never had such a pleasant customer service experience before, doubly surprising because it was with a financial service.

Braintree is pretty awesome.
Trimming the Fat
From my experience, 'Where do you see yourself in 5 years?' actually helps me quite a lot. The jokers are obvious, the money-chasers are obvious and the people who genuinely love what they do are obvious.

As an example, here are two two extremes of answers I've heard: "perhaps leading my own team, perhaps even starting my company" and "doing what I love: computers". The first one tells me that the candidate isn't interested in sticking around for long, the other tells me that this person will excel because they are naturally interested in computers and not just chasing the money. The second candidate is still here and doing really well, by the way.

The pattern I've noticed in response to this question is that those who mention something intrinsic related to the job, such as "doing what I love: computers" or "being the best programmer I can possibly be", usually do much, much better. On the other hand, the candidates chasing external rewards tend not to last long.
I'm Canadian. I moved to VA for a couple of years. My children went to school there and we thought it was excellent.

We moved to the Boston area for a couple of years. We thought the school system was excellent there too.

We found some level of parent involvement is required in both countries to help over the rough spots and fill in the holes of missed knowledge.

None of our children have gone to a US high school so I can't speak to that. Up until that point I don't see much of a difference between the two countries and have negligible complaints.

That being said, I think computer based learning with the teacher only used to get over tough spots is what I'd prefer. (We can't risk a country-specific online school)
There's no situation where you should ever be charging so little! That's only just minimum wage.
(a) Any willful conduct which is of such a nature as is likely to drive
the woman to commit suicide or to cause grave injury or danger to life,
limb or health whether mental or physical) of the woman; or

(b) Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing
her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any
property or valuable security or is on account of failure by her or any
person related to her meet such demand.[8]

Could you elaborate on your objections to the above? I am not familiar with its use or misuse.
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727254
Delivery methodology for Hadoop projects- key to multi million enterprise bids
Cognitive dissonance [1]. It seems to happen a lot with discussions of Julian Assange as well. i.e. he could be both a "freedom fighter" and a sex offender, and the one person could have both very admirable traits, and abhorrent ones. See also Mike Tyson, Roman Polanski etc etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
San Francisco: product designers and mobile engineers.
[So far, every member of our team (who we didn't already know) joined us via Hacker News]

Subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the enterprise.

Just kidding.

We're a stealthy team of product generalists, ML engineers, and even a neuroscientist filling a hole in the universe by building software that enriches the human experience. Everyone on our team codes and contributes on every level, front to back. We've all built web scale products and scaled them to millions of daily active users with zero marketing spend.

The world is becoming a different place: everyone is going to be carrying around a network connected super computer with ambient sensors in their pockets. We can see the future that is enabled by these devices. We are making that future happen.

Real talk: We've been running our prototype for 5 months now and we all use it multiple times a day, every day. Every person we've shown it to has asked us if they can have it. Every single person who's installed ithas gotten mad when our testflights expire. This is, verbatim, what one of our investors had to say after running it for a week:

"Just wow. It's so magical. So easy. In fact, almost too easy. I'd insert something in the first time user experience that is whimsical and funny like: "making the magic happen..." And then boom suddenly your whole life shows up as an archive. I just can't get over this. So stunning. You've achieved what few could."

We are well funded by a long list of top tier investors: http://angel.co/herelabs

We're looking for a select few product designers (technical people with a portfolio of mobile work) and mobile engineers (who know iOS inside and out and have good taste in design) who can come in and contribute at speed on day one and who are world class at more than one thing.

Ideal candidates are brilliant, fearless, and passionate individuals who are uncompromising in their pursuit of building an incredible product that will positively affect the lives of every human being every day.

As teammates we value commitment and accountability; honing our craft; building tools to create leverage; and seeking to learn from and understand each other.

We are offering founding team equity and competitive salaries. Office space in the heart of the SoMa in beautiful San Francisco. $10K budget for equipment ready the day you start. Exec budgets, gym memberships, team lunches. Willing to relocate. Willing to fly you in for interviews. Willing to tell you our stealthy secrets.

We are not your typical San Francisco stealth startup. We are NOT another me-too-social-local-sharing app. We DON'T sell condoms by subscription. We are NOT the place to share photos of your dog taking a leak. There will be NO gamification.

Life is short. Build stuff that matters. Email siqi at herelabs.com.
Power Analytics | Raleigh, NC | Full Time

We're looking for a JavaScript developer to work on our CAD-type app done in SVG, JavaScript, and jQuery.

We sell electrical power system simulation and modeling software into data centers, oil and gas, manufacturing, and government. Help us work on the web-based interface to our simulation engine. You will help built a CAD-like WYSIWYG designer using SVG, Canvas, and JS.

Take a look at Google Doc Drawings. It's done in SVG. This is the kind of program we're working on. Does this sounds interesting to you? If so, we want to talk. Also, we're looking for someone who understands web frameworks and databases. We use C# ASP.NET MVC, but if you have experience with Java, Python, or Ruby web frameworks you'll be fine.

You'll need to have at least a couple years experience writing object oriented JS and understand standard web stuff like caching, AJAX, CSS, etc.

Email rkoopman@poweranalytics.com and mention Hacker News in the subject.
The world isn't divided into "poor" and "rich". A chair for a programmer, particularly an independent one, is one of the tools that you need to work effectively.

A friend of mine is an independent auto mechanic who has been in the business since he was 15 (about 20 years). He now owns a small shop, and probably nets a good "salary" similar to many IT professionals ($90-150k). Not rich, not poor.

Guess what? He doesn't use a Craftsman mechanics toolkit from Sears. He has an long-term investment in high quality tools from vendors like Snap-On to the tune of $50-60k. Cheap tools would cost 1/3-1/2 that, but guess what -- a broken wrench means that he isn't working, and his time is worth $90/hour, and the high-end vendor comes to him, so he doesn't waste time in stores.

As a programmer or IT type person, your brain is your primary tool, but it depends upon the working order of all of the supporting tools in your body to perform optimally. When your job involves sitting on your ass for most of the day, a proper chair is just like a $75 high quality wrench for a mechanic -- a good investment.
I have a mixin that often use to do basic querystring filtering with CBVs, but it is nowhere near as comprehensive as http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/resources.h....
I understand; I'm just back-seating anyway.

Where did you get the boards done?

Also, do you have any idea how fast the counter you made can go?
Sure you can. You must spend, over the course of a year, spend E300 on nothing (fancy meal you forget about as soon as your eyes close that night, pints in the pub, that vacation you planned for a month but wasn't as much fun as expected). That could've gone in that give-away Nexus 7.

Maybe for you this is not true and maybe you spend consciously, but people usually don't do real personal money management; if they pretend they do, they usually kid themselves by leaving things out conveniently. I don't do it because I find it an utter waste of time, but I tried it for a year and I was amazed and frightened how much I spend on completely nothing and for no apparent reason than instant gratification. Which can be important, but too much of it is like an addiction.

What I do as gifts is go on Ebay (or something like Ebay locally) and buy broken devices. People who's Nexus 7 doesn't work anymore, who's iPad 2 croaked, netbooks / laptops died, TVs 'just not turning on'. We live in the throw-away age, so often even WITH warranty people cannot be bothered to have things fixed. Especially when they cost < $300 it's not worth 'going to the other side of town' for. And usually (almost always) it's simple to fix. So you buy something broken for $10, figure out what is wrong (in my experience it's almost always related to the power supply/battery) and fix it. Then give it as a gift. Effect is the same, it's a nice hobby (well I like it) and I can make more people happy than buying new things.
Google may stop linking to French newspapers over payment law threat
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
Closer to "I can afford not to buy cheap" I think.
AOL "journalist" told to reword "The Guardian's article":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/01/apple-samsu...
I might, just might, ditch my laptop for a transformer prime running Ubuntu Mobile (or whatever it'll be called) if they do a decent job with their mobile OS. I assume it would be better as a tablet OS for a 'computer replacement tablet'.
Youtube isn't under indictment because they are complying with DMCA takedown requests in good faith. MU was not.
The tweet was not even about the finance minister (Mr. Chidambaram) but about the finance minister's son (Karthi Chidambaram)
Heck, many of the doubts and questions raised there are commonly held among string theorists. (The days of people exclaiming "We're going to unify physics within a few years!" are at least two decades behind us.) In my experience, string theorists do consider those issues significant, but not problematic enough to make them uneasy about the theory as a whole.

As a string theorist, the thing that bugs me about this dialog is mostly that the string theorist character is so befuddled by relativity. I'm sure there must be real string theorists out there who are confused by the difference between "general relativity" and "quantum fields in curved spacetime" or who don't understand that GR introduces subtleties with things like globally defined time coordinates, but I've never met one (at least not to know it). And it's bizarre to see a string theorist character act so surprised by the notion of spacetime as an emergent property of some very different underlying physics, given that the same thing happens in string theory itself. (Certain fields defined entirely on the two-dimensional worldsheet of a fundamental string interact in specific ways that give them the structure of a spacetime manifold.)
I'm pretty sure not worrying about food budget isn't what SquareWheel meant by "well-off".
In a phrase: Netflix for computer games. Basically a better version of onlive.
Are you looking for services we wish existed and would pay $50/m for or looking to find out the type of services that are important enough to pay $50/m for? or both?
Fancy Hands
Emmet — the essential toolkit for web-developers
HD television channels easily streamed on my TV, iPhone, iPad, and computer.

Much like what Tivly is doing. The ability to record x amount of shows to go back and watch anytime from anywhere on any device. It worked wonderfully on the Harvard campus.
I would pay $50 for a Apple version of Netflix, including all iTunes Store catalog.

But generally speaking, I would pay $50 for a high quality entertainment service, or for something that highly improves my productivity at work.

If something provide me a big stream of fun or money, it will have $50 from me, or even more.
Hey I'm the author. This is the post following "Building websites in Python with Flask" of two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642886
Fashiolista - Amsterdam, NL. Python/Django developers, DevOps. Full time, on-site in our office in the center of Amsterdam.

We are a funded startup looking for Python/Django developers and sysadmins with AWS experience... or ideally someone who ticks both of these boxes. As Fashiolista is growing rapidly, we are on the lookout for new team members who can help us scale the site and keep up with our growth.

Although we are in the fashion industry, a love of fashion is not required. If you love hacking open source applications and scaling high-traffic websites, you'll fit right in. We encourage our team to work on open source projects where possible, and attempt to open source many of the components we build ourselves. We are looking for "T-shaped employees" (a la Valve) who can contribute to a number of areas in the business.

Our stack consists of, among other things:
- Django
- Celery
- SOLR
- Redis
- Memcached
- PostgreSQL
- AWS (with heavy use of CloudFormation)

More information is available on our jobs page (http://www.fashiolista.com/jobs), you can also email me directly if you would like to discuss the role futher (email in profile).