skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have managed to find one client and your worry is finding clients you can trust?

Get clients first, then start worrying about getting screwed over when you actually start getting screwed over. At this stage, getting screwed over isn't so much a problem when you are new and looking long term.

However, it's never fun to work for free. On Elance and Odesk you can do the hourly option where your invoice is auto pulled from the buyers CC every week. You could do a 30 / 30 / 40 scheme where you get 30% down payment before you get started. You could get a down payment and then send an invoice weekly. With these schemes, even if you get screwed, it won't be for much.

Personally, in six years of doing freelance web development I have never been screwed over. A larger worry is generally the payment / headache ratio. Some clients are so great to work with that you feel like it's the easiest money you could possibly come across. Other clients are such a pain that you feel like you have to claw and grind for every billable. In some cases, it's better to get screwed over by a bad client and halt the project rather than grind it out for weeks / months and be burnt out by the time it's over.

While you will likely not have to deal with getting screwed over often, slow payments will be a much bigger problem and can hurt you as much as non payment. The same payment schemes apply. If a payment doesn't come through, then pause the project.

As for server access, this is very typical. Most clients will hand you their server access. Again, I have never had problems with this. An overall better method for handling development is for the client to give you access to a repo which is hooked into some sort of deployment scheme. In this case you wouldn't touch the client's server. However, not everyone will know how to set this up, so perhaps you could offer this setup to the client as part of your gig.
It's entirely likely that it's just outdated data. However, it's not so much a part of a trend of disappearing phone booths, TUSMA is providing government money to Telstra for keeping about 20,000 phone booths active such that all Australians have reasonable access to one.
Bogan Valley is more like it.

disclaimer: I say this as an Australian.
It breaks down because our government exists to serve us, not the Saudis. Supporting terrorists is obviously 100% bad for us. Supporting cheap oil, while maybe not 100% good, certainly is an easier argument to make. Would we prefer they didn't put their women in de facto slavery? Of course. Does it effect us? No. Would a rebel govt that disrupts oil production effect us? Yes.
Many people believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. The UN lists it in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
IMO, NH/reddit style discussion system will be better option. I personally find these much usable than the traditional forum/groups.
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Fairly common knowledge amongst college-educated 19-30 year olds in the US and Canada. Not well known outside of those groups.

My book is only of interest as a companion to a specific set of LSAT tests. So if someone doesn't know what the LSAT is, my book is completely inapplicable to them.

Pretty niche, but not a bad niche.
I do. Please show lots of examples of people with their HCP committing crimes.

Look at Switzerland. Do they have huge mass murders happening on a daily basis?
> London, July 7 2005

What's that supposed to illustrate? That a bomb in a crowded place can be harmful? Hmm, ok, better get the TSA to cordon off all malls, clubs, popular restaurants...

The thing about air travel is that there is a better argument for (some) security to prevent hijackings and bombs, both because planes are very fragile (there's a decent chance for a smallish bomb to result in the entire plane being lost and all passengers killed), and because they're usable as missiles against much larger targets (as illustrated by 9.11). Planes, in other words, have a somewhat unique ability to magnify the effect of a given terrorist attack.

None of that is the case for rail transport. For the most part, a train is simply a very crowded place, in a society that's absolutely chock-full of very crowded places. Indeed, the long-distance/regional trains most likely to receive TSA "attention" are much less crowded than local trains and subways which will almost certainly never be allowed to fall under TSA control for practical reasons.
I went to a high school with metal detectors, reinforced doors, armed guards, dogs, cameras, central electronic locking, road and pedestrian checkpoints, and, yes, ID badges. As a high school student in the late 1990s, I was more closely monitored than your average prisoner.

So my takeaway from the article is pretty specific: Bullshit. Carrying a school ID badge with an RFID chip on the school's campus is no great injustice. It's trivial compared to the routine degradations inflicted on a public school student.

Somehow, this makes it to court, while the routine problems are ignored. It's OK to treat students like prisoners, right up until new technology is involved. The RFIDs are the scary part, not the guards, weapons, bars, and locks.
As much as I dislike his GPL licences and prefer the MIT licenses because I find the GPL too limiting, I can't help but to be totally in agreement with him regarding Software Patents.

The best we can do is to abolish them.
No. It's that criminals think twice about robbing or raping someone if they know they are armed.
>> As my first open source project, I would have been happy if it got ten watchers. Now it got 439 which meant a great responsibility.

> This part really rang true to me.

Yeah, it is. I can relate in some small way. Some time ago I posted on HN nyan-mode.el (https://github.com/TeMPOraL/nyan-mode), and now I have 71 watches, 10 forks, 4 issue reports and 2 pull requests, not counting many e-mails with feature suggestions, fixes, et. al. Someone even added music! And it's all sitting here and waiting for me to have time to integrate it. I hope I'll manage to get some of it done this or next week. But there is this sense of responsibility when people start using your project; doubled if you happen to walk to your old employer and see your old former coworkers using it on their computers.

</shameless-plug>

> At least until some asshole links to it somewhere high-traffic. :)

You're daring people ;).
The page is completely broken on desktop Safari without Flash installed. Kinda ironic: http://cl.ly/image/1M233A072M06
'overpopulation, over-consumption of resources, massive unemployment, etc.'

We are going to have to face these things with or without immortality, likely this century.
ITU control is not about standardisation, piracy, or governance. As with everything, its about money and power. Oppressive governments want to de-anonymize users & enable greater censorship. Poorer countries want to charge for data transmissions - ostensibly to fund their own internet build outs.* Europe's ISPs want to tax the large American internet companies.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57444629-83/u.n-takeover-of...

* These same countries profited by charging international calling fees which have been greatly reduced by VoIP. Many of them have corrupt governments who use these fees as a source of international currency.
Google App Engine is Dead Again
And so is code.google.com which hosts the status update page. I've seen this movie before didn't I?
We just built a similar node.js tool which resizes images on demand: http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr
I'm surprised no discussion about the topic arised in comments. Here are a few points:

- What is that close-door meeting called? Who are the participants? How does Google know about this?

- What can Google about it? (besides collecting emails)

- How come collecting lots of emails and location can 'really' help preventing so many governments from doing something? (I don't know any examples, that's why I'm asking)

- Why is Google doing this?
I don't understand why women needs permission to travel?
I like some of the points made in that article and I would like to add that pg and the y-combinator startups he works with are a small part of what is out there and what is possible. The only thing I disagree with is the need (I think even many VCs feel) is to need apps that connect to hardware for it to feel more real. We don't even have decent social networks yet that solve basic problems for us. Facebook, twitter etc, in perspective, are just the first few truly global networks but... are they really the best we can make?
Ask HN: How to approach two competing job offers - is bidding war an option?
I studied Computer Science, and I recently graduated as a bachelor. I went on to apply to two major Silicon Valley companies, let's call them A and B, and aced the interviews.

I got an offer from A, which I would have happily accepted had I not had another company still contemplating their offer. Now B contacted me, not yet ready to give an offer, but they mentioned that their offer would likely be significantly larger if they would be able to see the offer from A in writing.

I got my offer from A both verbally and in informal writing to my e-mail. I find it clear that if I asked them for the offer in writing now, they would certainly know what's happening (given that I've kept them waiting for some time now). I told this to B already previously, they understood, but it would certainly benefit me if I had it in writing now.

How should this game be played in your opinion? I actually prefer A, and if B's offer were roughly the same size, I would be very happy to take A. However, I am wondering whether I am a wussy if I play it safe now, and take no action, and should I instead try to get some competition between these two. There's also a small chance that A is trying to lowball me with their offer, since I might be too humble analyzing my own value. All this leads me to think that I might just want to get the offer in writing, not caring what they think about it, but I am very very open to other ideas.

Also, I know that I should probably never try to bluff, and that's my intention, too - I'll never try to inflate my offer if I am not really willing to take the competing one. These both are great companies, and B can become better in my mind if their offer triumphs on the financial side.
People rallied against SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA without knowing any details. These acronyms are all outlining pro-censorship, government-sponsored, broad-sweeping and baseless monitoring of citizens -- that much is certain.

I'd hate to sound like a rabid Ron Paul fan but he had a point in his farewell speech, "They argue that freedom must be directed and managed to achieve fairness and equality thus making it acceptable to curtail, through force, certain liberties."
But if you're profiting from the fact that exactly because those women are oppressed, you can have cheap oil (thus cheap car, cheap iPhone, cheap internet, etc.), don't you feel that as a human being, it's your duty to protest? Especially since if you do, you won't be sentenced to prison, torture or death (as those poor women would if they protested) because you have the privilege of living in a free, democratic country?

That's why we ended the profitable business of slavery, after all.
My step mother goes midnight shopping every year. I went with her last year, due to a temporary lapse of sanity. It had been weeks since I'd been out of the house due to medical reasons and I thought well, it was something to do.

The stores were almost too packed to move. Getting anywhere took forever, and while most folks were generally nice, it got really pushy around some of the bigger displays. We left shortly after witnessing a fist fight over bed sheets.... Yeah.

That said, as insanely crowded as it was and as ridiculous as some people were behaving, it wasn't an angry, frenzied mob. The vast majority of folks were laughing, talking, and helping one another out. There was just a lot of them.

I'm opting out this year, though, despite her efforts to convince me to join her again. I didn't hate the experience, but I have no need to go and large crowds are difficult to navigate and a little intimidating when you have no peripheral vision.
I am just curious, how many people here on HN uses google app engine?
Stallman doesn't simply talk about a solution to a problem.

He talks about what the optimal Software Patents situation is, and why.

We are in dire straits because we ignored him 20 years ago.

It's our problem to either get to the optimal situation, or to try and fail.
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CFLAGS (-O3) only!

Nearly factor of 3 improvement.

I think I'll repost this link next week when more people are in work mode. It could save a lot of time and CPU cycles for a lot of people. It's a shame the default isn't better (not sure if it is RVM issue or the Ruby package itself or if I can configure a user/system default build config).
As a counterpoint to you and someone that went to high school at the same time in the US. I experienced none of what you did.
Apple needs to figure out how the Internet works
The problem with Yahoo is that is has no identity network. Who is logs on to Facebook regularly? Who here is currently logged into there Google account on Chrome? Probably lots and lots.

Who logs onto Yahoo regularly? Not that many, even though lots of people uses Yahoo services as an anonymous visitor (I use Yahoo to check my local TV guide for example).

No identity == no targeted advertising. Why do you think Yahoo is so against Do Not Track? Because non-consensual tracking of web users is all it has when it comes to targeted ads.

Facebook knows who my friends are and what I "like". Google knows what I am searching for. Yahoo knows little or nothing about me.

Online advertising has such ludicrously low yield in terms of click-through that targeted advertising has basically become mandatory, and Yahoo's ad product offers very little value compare to Google or Facebook.

MM needs a way to get users to share their identity with Yahoo, but how? Google knows who I am when I search, because I am also logged onto GMail, Google Docs, Google Reader, and more. Obviously they need a product that people want to log on to...but what? A social network to rival Facebook? If that were possible, everyone would be doing it already. Nice web tools to compete with Google? Possible, but Google has spent years developing a very nicely integrated suite of products -- Yahoo would have it work cut out to catch up and offer users a value proposition they cant refuse. A whole new product altogether? Well that happens all the time in Silicon Valley where the bright ideas happen, and Yahoo can simply join the queue when it comes to investing and buying out such companies.

The simple fact is Yahoo is a good company, but being good is not enough -- you need to be remarkable. Look at all the "good" companies that have disappeared over the years since the first Tech Bubble - and it is really not that hard to imagine Yahoo going the way of MySpace and a whole bunch of others...
We simply dislike the GPL (for our projects) because we want to use more permissive licenses.

He wants everyone to only use the GPL and ignore everything that's not GPL, he even dislikes the term 'Open Source' and the rest of the Libre licenses.

That's a clash of interests and the reason for our dislike.
There absolutely is a right to privacy. See the earlier response about Griswold v. Connecticut. I see people frequently saying privacy or things are not rights because they are not enumerated in the Constitution. Please note, however, the Ninth Amendement:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

In other words, the people have rights other than those in the Bill of Rights. Courts have determined a number of rights that are not in the Constitution, among them the right to privacy, often based on the fact that people have reserved that right and not been denied it in the past. Some people, for instance, believe that, while the individual right to bear arms is not in the Constitution, there is a strong Ninth Amendment case for it[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms#cit...
Government offices are closed today because of Thanksgiving, so what's the answer?

In the book "Tombstone" (the book by the author in the OP), the author reiterates the claim that no democracy has ever suffered from a major famine, but are you asserting an equivalency?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinion/chinas-great-shame...

> The reason is political: a full exposure of the Great Famine could undermine the legitimacy of a ruling party that clings to the political legacy of Mao, even though that legacy, a totalitarian Communist system, was the root cause of the famine. As the economist Amartya Sen has observed, no major famine has ever occurred in a democracy.
IMO, there is no harm asking for formal offer letter (probably a soft copy).

But I would suggest choose the job which is of your interest. Salary should be the second factor. If you choose a job of your interest, you will perform well there and your career growth will be much faster there.
We aren't profiting because they are oppressed. They are being oppressed and we aren't actively speaking out against it. Those are different things. This is the same BS we see all the time in America. People need to take personal responsibility. These women are being oppressed by the Saudi government. America hasn't helped them, but that doesn't make it our fault.

I'm fine with arguing that America should do something to help all oppressed people in the world (I don't think it's possible or should be done) but you can make that argument. You can't say it's our fault for not stopping it.
Price floors are dumb, but I don't see where Canada's constitution would prohibit one.

(I don't see what would prohibit a US city or state from enacting one either.)
I found some manuals on how to program this computer:

Programming manual:

http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/Wolv-Manual.pdf

Example programs:

http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch4.htm
http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch14.htm

Source: http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/witch.htm
Your usages are not limited; except you cannot use the application on more than 5 devices, unless the license clearly says you can use it on more devices. [...]
Therefore, I think it is quite safe, now, to publish a FOSS application on the Windows Store.

This surprises me a bit - doesn't the GNU GPL explicitly state that you cannot impose any further usage restrictions other than the ones states in the GPL?

(That is the reason the GNU GPL is not compatible with the original BSD license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD)

Not being able to run the app on more than 5 devices is certainly a restriction.
64-bit binaries net me a 15% performance increase with my application. Obviously it can vary per application, and depends on where the bottlenecks are. It's been my experience that x86->amd64 is often beneficial: the x86 is so register starved that it makes up for the larger pointers, and most of the latter is mitigated through 32-bit relative instructions. Now PowerPC, sure. 32-bit PPC code does tend to run faster than 64-bit from my experience.

The other advantage is being able to utilize more than 2GB of memory per process. The reason to favor pure 64-bit is to get rid of all that extra 32-bit compatibility code. WoW64, in this case, or ia32libs on Linux.

Whether you're pragmatic about it or not, 32-bit will eventually go away. I'd prefer to see it sooner rather than for it to drag on for decades like IPv6.

And yeah, WoW64 is a clusterfuck. Basically, Microsoft wanted to make porting 32-bit applications as easy as possible. Since some applications may have been hardcoded to System32, they stuck the 64-bit libraries there, and put the 32-bit ones in WoW64. They also cloned the registry so you actually have 32-bit and 64-bit keys (see KEY_WOW64_32KEY flag.) What can I say? Microsoft's always had a thing for rigid backward compatibility at the expense of common sense design. But they are still the market leader, so I guess they know a thing or two :/

I don't care for your Firefox example. What if one single tab needs >2GB, like say a really high-end WebGL game? What about other applications? People found similar tricks for getting more memory in 16-bit processes too (far pointers), but we aren't still using Win16.

I'm accusing people of apathy because they resist change simply because it's change. I get being pragmatic, but at some point we have to cut ties with the past. Even Microsoft understands this, as you can no longer run 16-bit applications on the latest versions of Windows.
oh well, guess nobody likes a noob question, i guess i'll try stack overflow to get modded "subjective"
Same here. We had mandatory ID cards, a school police force including a drug dog, regular locker searches (which regularly turned up drugs), trouble for students that didn't attend including suspension and not passing, etc.. I read the article and really don't see it as any different from my old school requiring us all to have our IDs constantly. So it has an RFID instead of a number to read off. Big deal.
Does this mean that my govt. can read all of my mails if they want to? Am I missing something?

Why is no one complaining?

Isn't there an email service which has 0% compliance? I would shift to that, now!
Apple knows what it should know and know that very well.
As Uber's similar difficulties in New York show, the governments both North and South of the 49th parallel consider city transportation to be their exclusive domain and are not shy to regulate it instead of looking out for consumers.

In Vancouver, Canada the quasi-government regional transportation authority is heavily subsidized by taxpayers and is still running in deficit. They are not exactly happy about competition from the companies like Uber.
How so? Is Google requiring all your connections to go through their servers?

Are they hiding some important information from you, maybe Ghostery is not showing up in your search results? Perhaps they provide a browser that you have to use in which you cannot install Adblock, or stop it from accepting third party cookies?
> I'm not writing from home where I have a grammar checker plugin in my browser ...

I wish there really was a "grammar checker" as opposed to a spell checker. That would be great, but such a thing doesn't exist yet. It would be much more complicated than a spell checker -- there are so many rules and exceptions to rules. In fact, thinking about it, I suspect it's not even possible.

But I would like to write a small, substitute grammar checker with very limited abilities. It would do trivial things like catch misuses of "less" when "fewer" is meant:

Less apples -> fewer apples.

But even that would be complicated -- there are edge cases and exceptions.

Oh well. :)
1. The author profiled by the BBC is not an agent of the BBC.

2. The author asserts that the Chinese famine is unique in that it occurred despite the lack of pressure from natural disasters. The Irish potato famine was exacerbated by the blight.

3. The estimate for the Chinese famine is 36 million dead and dwarfs the death toll of the previous Chinese famines. The potato famine death toll was about 1 million.