skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me help you understand. Google is in the advertising business. They make money every time someone uses their services. When someone like Apple is in charge of mobile hardware and software, they can easily push Google out of the picture by setting the default search engine to Bing (which they thankfully haven't done) or changing the default mapping solution to their own (which they unfortunately have). Android is a way for Google to ensure that, as long as they provide the best search and mapping solutions, their services will dominate on mobile devices.
As I understand the various Uberman schedules, skipping a nap is a pretty serious issue - might be hard to schedule meetings that don't happen to cut into anyone's sleep schedule.
Content aggregation sites like HN and reddit often weight upvotes based on time. This makes some sense; an article that gets x upvotes in y minutes is more popular than an article that takes 4*y minutes to get the same number of upvotes!

But on Reddit this has an odd side-effect; as early upvotes are the key to getting to the front page, an article that takes 30 minutes to read doesn't get any upvotes in the first 30 minutes. But a meme or a 10-second gif? Upvoted in seconds, and on its way to the front page.

Of course, Reddit is quite successful; no shame in providing bite-sized posts with quick gratification if that's what the market demands.
Are you not meant to have a work permit to work while in another country, even if you’re being paid (and paying tax) in another?
His initial plan was to stick a greenhouse on Mars with an ICBM; no profit whatsoever.

Obviously his plan has evolved and grown in ambition since then, he seems to want to turn a profit now, but I think it is fair to say he didn't originally decided to get into spaceflight to get rich.
How Mario using CSS3 Animations and Media Queries was made
F.A. Hayek Denounces The Patent System
SAAS? PAAS? I think it's fairly well known that Patrick consults to help fund his other projects, with the ultimate goal of becoming independent of consulting in favor of passive income. (Apologies if I'm mischaracterizing Patio's intent -- that's at least how it always seemed to me.)

Alternately, you could raise your rates a bunch, save the difference and try to retire early.
The sales pitch comes later. The good thing about it is that, if you're interested in these posts, you'll probably be interested in what's on sale.
My understanding is they're already regulated under export control. SpaceX would probably need an export license from Congress to ship Falcon 9s out of the country. This is highly unlikely to ever happen for the reasons you state.
Interesting and I looked this up in the Oxford Dictionary and found the following two meanings -

1(of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area:
complacency is endemic in industry today
[attributive] (of an area) in which a particular disease is regularly found:
the persistence of infection on pastures in endemic areas

2(of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain place:
a marsupial endemic to north-eastern Australia

Clearly, 'endemic' in the current sense relates to definition 1 (a condition) rather than definition 2 (a plant or animal). I still think that there is no issue in English in the title. The title may have been a bit more euphemistic but I think it conveys the correct issue.
This plus trust. Not that I trust Google all that much, I just think they wouldn't risk their brand to see if I have nudie pics* in my account.

It looks really great in the screenshot, though. Pitch it to someone with an established brand?

* For the record, I do not.
Nobody wants a nobody. Have you tried manipulating the HN audience into thinking you're special? I can, annoyingly, name a dozen people from here who self-promote and pop up with frustrating frequency. After a while you start to think they're special even when they're just persistent. But few people are persistent with such follow through.

Write stuff people want. Get it distributed widely. Repeat.
How early can I start doing this? I'm young but confident and I do feel like I have something to offer people already. I guess it's getting the first client which will be tricky...
In other words, this argument isn't actually saying anything interesting - it's simply an emotional appeal. Why should or shouldn't copyright be 10, 20, or 70 years?

Arbitrary durations are arbitrary. Copyright term is one such arbitrary duration. You are right that there's no reason (other than the pre-1978 status quo) that the article shouldn't have used any other term -- 10 years, 5, 0, a million, etc. That doesn't invalidate the argument that copyright terms are presently out of balance.

Why is the 1978 law wrong? Why was it created in the first place? I don't know from this article.

The ongoing copyright debate is probably sufficient context to know the answers to those questions. This article can be considered to refer to those arguments implicitly. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976#History_...
Computer industries and platforms naturally tend toward monopolies. You need the virtuous the developer <-> user loop for a platform to survive.

Apple said that without its App Store and developers people may stop buying iPhones.

So "winning on the phone" means "getting the monopoly". The situation where both platforms have 50% of the market isn't really stable in the computer industry.
Kayak allows you to filter by wifi availability, I've used it many times: after searching go to "more filters" and select "show wi-fi flights only". Note that not even the airline can guarantee that there will be wifi on your flight, as equipment changes can and do happen.
Like, 100/3 = 33 cm? That's supposed to be difficult?

Or do you mean that it's difficult to know how to draw a third of a meter?

Why, is drawing a line that's one meter, or one yard, or one foot any easier?

Without a measure I can't draw accurately any of them.
If you don't have a large variety of jobs to pick and choose from, you're not doing it right.

I'm going to rant here a moment...

The secret to getting more work than you can handle (and charging $100/hr, which is not difficult)... DONT SUCK.

I swear to god, 95% of people out there suck, your competition.

Send emails to your phone, and answer them right away when you're out and about, even on weekends or when you're out having a drink. If you're busy, just say you got their email and will get back to them when youre in the office. Try to answer < 15 minutes.

The amount of replies I hear that say "wow you are so responsive and get back so fast, I love it" is a lot more than you would expect. These are my repeat clients. These are your people and you should take care of them.

It's SO easy too, and so many people wait days to reply. That doesn't mean you need to always be working either, or that you need to suddenly be at the mercy of your email, it just means be responsive to inquiries. VERY responsive.

As far as working, dont leave loose ends. This usually means fixing up those little nagging issues that they probably won't notice. Leave them with something stellar, and go the extra mile even if it means only 5 minutes of work extra fixing something they never asked you to fix or paid you for. It takes 5 minutes, and makes a tremendous impression on them.

I'm making this statistic up, but based on what I see it's gotta be over 90% of people don't do just a few simple things. They take a while to reply, deliver sub-par product, don't communicate well... it has nothing to do with their actual site or product they're delivering, just how they handle themselves, then they whine about not having work. (flurpitude, I'm not referring to you as whining, just people in general).

PS: it seems counter intuitive (I'm going to get a lot MORE bs work and bs replies), but it actually seems to eliminate them entirely. People respect your time and your skill, and they dont' waste your time with stupid questions or emails. They're also willing to pay top dollar for your services without giving you a hard time or anything.
Show HN: A Facebook Group for Solo Founders
Startups are tough. It's especially tough for solo founders. Having gone through Startup Chile, I understand the value in having a good community of peers.

So, if the value of having cofounders is really just emotional support, let's be the emotional support for one another. I've created a Facebook group for Solo Founders. Let's connect and share our experiences.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/390441457703323
Damn, that sounds nice. I wonder if system admin/architecture can be modeled that way. I'd love to bill even a modest $2k/week, rather than trawl craigslist, responding to posts for "unix/linux ninjas" then having shops balk at anything over $20 an hour.

I don't know how many messes I've cleaned up (likely left by people charging a hell of a lot more than me) for really low rates.

I know, I know. Craiglist and other online boards are the dregs of the job market. But I have no network (few friends, few contacts), and I only do remote work. I take what I can get, but it sucks to see half-assed admins getting the gravy.
Amazon is shipping Android devices without Google services, and little stops Samsung from doing the same, should they ever decide that they can make more money that way.
Moore's law: Transistor count doubles every 18 months. Assuming 40 years at the company (it's a bit less) that's: 2^(40/1.5) = 67,108,864

The 62 Core Xeon Phi has 5 billion transistors. Divided by that number is: 149. That's a bit low. The Intel 8080 that came out in 1974 (when he joined the company) had 4,500 transistors. Looks like Moore's law has been slowing down a bit in recent years. Probably due to the focus on reduced energy usage.

EDIT: It works out if you replace "18 months" by "24 months". Revised value: 2^(38/2) = 524288. Impressive still.
hipmunk.com is the best out there. It shows whether a flight has wifi or not, it has a price graph for flexible flights, and their interface is just the best I've found.
It's not necessarily about "smart" pointers. It can be just the use of stack - for all objects.
Read the URL the commenter you replied to posted. It answers your question.
Did anyone notice the last line?:
"Our message to the barbarians who would barge in on our haven with their chatter and blatting gadgets like so many bulldozers is: #@$%&!"

The symbols are in white font.
Perhaps not the most appropriate forum, but in paragraph three of the post, s/peak/peek/g.
Apple was up $31.30 or almost 6% for the day when I read this comment.
Chrome extension that adds description to Wiki links
How we autoscale our EC2 Infrastructure
So my boss just forgot that or thought it would not be valuable when writing the proposal. Most computer science research would benefit from having a programmer. Usually all code is written by students and researchers and (as expected) it is thrown away afterwards. Research and graduating leaves little time to polish code for publication.
Because I've worked at no less than three companies that have done exactly that, and the entire basis of the article talks about the monetary value of how you can move hours around, completely eliminating the human nature of work and craftsmanship. People who work on projects that they aren't going to be associated with in the future usually care less about quality.

Working colocated is only one facet of the equation. I would think ownership is a well understood concept in the startup industry. Being invested means more than being colocated or even having a financial stake. (open source development -- again, some small number of passionate developers generally in it for the long haul)
Try hipmunk.com, flexible +-2 day search or monthly search with wifi icons next to flights offering it.
I consistently meet people who earn > 200 $ / hour, without much programming experience (but know an open source project of interest very well).

I see this quite a bit as well. People can "luck into" something that gets hot and ride that wave into decent money in the short term. But a decent programming background is what keeps that ship floating because you always have to stay on top of the next thing if you want to keep that up, and it's hard to keep up with everything and even evaluate new stuff without some fundamentals.
>>Do people aspire to join the civil services because it opens up this wide possibility to be corrupt and wield power

Yes.
Leave a few rare ones every few years - who eventually turn up dead at some petrol pump or end up destitute - almost everyone joins to earn millions in bribe. The way they talk - "kya maila?" - "revenue?" - "Are koi nahi. Power toh nahi but paisa kisi se kam nahi hai isme bhi" ("what cadre did you get?" - "revenue" - "Oh, it's ok. There's no power but money is no less than anywhere else". This is what they plan before joining from toppers to tail-enders. I used to believe their topper's interviews in those magazine, before I personally came to know some in college and after.
It might just be me, but I don't see a market for consulting based on writing RESTful APIs.

I could be very wrong about that, though.
iPod Touch 4G running iOS 6.
This was actually an attack on the Israeli infrastructure. The registrar was hacked. All of the domains registered there (cnn.co.il, microsoft.co.il, skype.co.il, etc) were also returning the same response.
This saga between Microsoft, Nokia, Elop and Ballmer reeks of the foulest deal making and corporate strategy. First of all, I can only comment on the deal i think occurred since I unfortunately, like you all, don't have any of the important details of this deal.

Nonetheless, I can't really understand what exactly was going through Elop's head when he made that deal with Microsoft. How, as a CEO, can you make such a move? The guy cornered himself, or gets cornered (or persuaded even) to only make phones for the least popular OS on the mobile phone market (maybe not the least popular, but certainly not the leading), which not only is a strategically weak situation with no maneuvering, but ensures that you're company is going to lose.

Microsoft has shown this year that it doesn't care, it's part of the deal is open, it can get any OEM to make phones for it's platform, but, Nokia cannot!!! Does this make sens to you? Not in the least bit!

Then when all fails. And it has failed. When the company is losing money like crazy, he can't jump ship and make phone that consumers want i.e. Android phones. Why is this, is he prohibited by the deal, or is he riding it out to see what happens? It has to be the first former.

How can a person, who pretty much commits business suicide, continue to lead this company? Where is the board on this? Why aren't people resigning or getting fired?

This is even more dire for Nokia as they don't make tablets or laptops, as opposed to Asus, Samsung and Sony. So they can't leverage the conditions of their deal throughout a product line.

So as a consumer I don't particularly care much for Nokia proper, although it is a shame that they suck at business because they're really good at making actually products. This being said, consumers are losing choice and competition, me included, and despite this I hope that the market SEVERELY punishes Elop and Nokia for their awful decisions (and, it is).
This saga between Microsoft, Nokia, Elop and Ballmer reeks of the foulest deal making and corporate strategy. First of all, I can only comment on the deal i think occurred since I unfortunately, like you all, don't have any of the important details of this deal.

Nonetheless, I can't really understand what exactly was going through Elop's head when he made that deal with Microsoft. How, as a CEO, can you make such a move? The guy cornered himself, or gets cornered (or persuaded even) to only make phones for the least popular OS on the mobile phone market (maybe not the least popular, but certainly not the leading), which not only is a strategically weak situation with no maneuvering, but ensures that you're company is going to lose.

Microsoft has shown this year that it doesn't care, it's part of the deal is open, it can get any OEM to make phones for it's platform, but, Nokia cannot explore other OSs!!! Does this make sens to you? Not in the least bit!

Then when all fails. And it has failed. When the company is losing money like crazy, he can't jump ship and make phone that consumers want i.e. Android phones. Why is this, is he prohibited by the deal, or is he riding it out to see what happens? It has to be the former.

How can a person, who pretty much commits business suicide, continue to lead this company? Where is the board on this? Why aren't people resigning or getting fired?

This is even more dire for Nokia as they don't make tablets or laptops, as opposed to Asus, Samsung and Sony. So they can't leverage the conditions of their deal throughout a product line.

So as a consumer I don't particularly care much for Nokia proper, although it is a shame that they suck at business because they're really good at making actual products. This being said, consumers are losing choice and competition, myself included, and despite this I hope that the market SEVERELY punishes Elop and Nokia for their awful decisions (and, it is).
"So what if I hate people and don't want to make friends?" (You tolerate it and with civility it's easy to make acquaintances!)
"Cop out?" Do elaborate.
Once again, you're missing the point. Android isn't about making sure Google has a stranglehold on mobile devices, it's about leveling the playing field. Sure, Amazon can release a device with Bing as the default search engine, but Samsung can release a device with Google as the default search engine. And as long as Google is better than Bing (which it is right now), people will prefer the Samsung device over the Amazon one, at least in terms of searching the web. And if Microsoft pays off Samsung to set the default search engine to Bing on their devices too, someone else can come in and make yet another tablet that uses Google, since their mobile OS development costs will have been nullified by Android being free software.
The title is also a little confusing. It's not about making $XX,XXX per week programming. Rather, it's about marketing. I'm not sure the same rates would apply to developers becoming "consultants". I think it's something like this (two different tracks):

Web Site Developer => Marketing/SEO => Consultant => $XX,XXX
OR
Programmer => ISV => Product => $XX,XXX
Why Israel Targets Sports in Gaza
If you try hard enough you can be offended by anything.

Dell comedian? Comedians thrive on controversial material. Sounds to me like a tongue-in-cheek observational joke that is just as offensive to men as it is to women. "Congratulations, the IT industry is a sausage-fest, just the way you want it to be, right?"

CouchDB? Can't find a copy of the original presentation, but what's wrong with allusions to pornography? There are plenty of male porn stars, and plenty of pornography that degrades men?

Perks: Women? Again, an observation on the male dominance of the industry. Similar to the Dell comedian, this is much a joke aimed at men as it is at women; male geeks need to attend a code jam to come into contact with women, etc.
Craigslist can be useful for finding some jewels, but you have to be completely willing to say "Fuck no." We had a form letter we would send to these companies basically saying "We know you don't think you can afford to work with us, but we know you can't afford not to. Let us know when you're ready."

It only worked a few times, but for those few times it was worth it.
Goatse.cx: "What the internet could have been"

Shudder...
I'd love to offer a case study, I believe we're going to put one out in the first half of next year.

My feeling is that BYOD is great for introducing IT to outsourcing, but CYOD is a form of outsourcing that IT departments find easier to stomach. Lord knows that NETSEC teams hate Shadow IT with a passion!

Choose your own tech already exists in a lot of enterprises (here's a choice of two laptops! You can use Chrome or Safari!), but it's coming into providence now because of BYOD.
Agreed. And I'm also not sure why building a VC-fundable business is used interchangeably with building a business that rewards the founder(s). I've seen a lot of exits of VC-funded companies where founders received little more than a rich employment package.

But the largest return I've seen for a founder was a solo founder who raised no capital at all.

Has anyone run the numbers on tech company founder ROI across funding type and amount yet?
Unless your target audience is "vapid people who care about online startup gossip rags," then please don't get upset when your launch is 99.999% bounces.

After working on one project for a protracted period of time, we become slightly delusional. We think we matter more than we do. We think people care a heckuva lot more than they do. That's perfectly fine, but you must recognize your own delusions and not base your hopes and dreams on 'em.

Drag in your target customers and adjust from there.
I feel the exact same way. I wear a pair of noise canceling headphones and listen to music so I can block out all of the noise produced by other people. What I found a few days ago, however, was that I had a very, very difficult time concentrating and focusing when I wasn't wearing them or listening to music, where as a year ago that problem was nonexistent. I feel like the only time I can truly concentrate and be at peace anymore is late at night, when everyone else is asleep.
So with this, is Heroku going after Parse?
Typo on my part, meant to say that Gmail isn't the market leader in terms of users, Yahoo is.
It has apparently crossed several minds, because you're certainly not the first one to suggest it. But as someone who's organized more than one conference, I can say that "the best" is not nearly as easy to define as many people think. Of course there are various kinds of technical quality that we can estimate, and trade off against one another, but one also has to consider the overall balance of the event - for example, we don't want too many talks on the same topics, which may result in otherwise-worthy proposals getting bumped.

Moreover, there is a hugely important signalling role in the selection: it is advertising, "here is our community, here's who we are, here are the problems we work on and the cool techniques we use". So the selection also takes into account things like: "people doing X should get to meet people doing Y", "we think more people should work on Z", and so on. Diversity among the speakers is part of this! Just as surely as you wouldn't want a program of people all from the same company - like it or not, the makeup of the speakers does send a message, and part of the responsibility of organizing an event is deciding what that message will be. It's also communicated by all sorts of other things, including the process for soliciting and choosing submissions, details of language and graphic design, etc. All of these things contribute to a general impression of what the community is like.

The claim of "coincidence" in this instance would be a lot more convincing if the procedures and language were there to back it up. I'm not even talking about affirmative action. I only mean that if you want to claim to be meritocratic, you have to do the work, not just cross your fingers.
I don't know about sysadmin work, but I'm pretty sure DevOps could be.

I worked at a company that ended up spending probably several man-years worth of effort over a period of three years on puppetizing their environment and still doesn't have a one-click-deploy of their infrastructure and feels the pain of that acutely every few months when a new environment needs to be brought up by hand.

If someone'd been around offering 30, 50 or even 100k no-cure-no-pay work to get their environment into a one-click-deployable state in under a month or so I'm pretty sure I could've sold that internally at several occasions.
I guess I don’t know on the Surface…

But if you have a keyboard, you can do ᴀʟᴛ + F4, or kill it in the task manager…