skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No "they" didn't, nobody ever said that horses were the ultimate form of transportation, and long before Ford came along the Railways were already whisking people along in greater safety and speed than horses.
In broad strokes, make businesses money.

In a little more detail, I (personally) work mostly for B2B SaaS businesses and know a few things which tend to work for generating incremental growth in revenue. If you've followed my blog or HN posts they won't sound all that impressively new: write drip email campaigns, do A/B yet, redo pricing tiers, optimize conversion funnels, etc etc.

There are many other consulting specialties out there, obviously, but that seems to be a mutually happy place for my abilities and clients' businesses.
Thanks, this is actually very helpful. Would you mind sharing the name of your app?
Obama’s Social Media Strategist Tells Tumblr How to Win an Election | Betabeat
> If Atwood's aiming at an international audience, then he should use both measurement systems.

That, and also Atwood's popularity among American readers gives him a great opportunity to encourage them to use metric.

In the meantime, use http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751410 :).
According to the wiki page on Boeing's Connexion, the equipment cost was $500,000.
This is why I work for myself, am building my own company(ies). I knew I would never get paid the value I can bring to the table, and I would never be motivated to do my best in that scenario.
Hmmm...Not sure I agree with this, because I don't think it scales. Look at all the off-shore investment that corporations have investing in cheaper IT markets. Eventually those markets get more expensive. And then there's the quality debate for anything that requires multiple resources.

Also, theres a huge cost in time and risk in finding these remote resources, at least more so than Local.

But for finding a few golden-people for your small company, sure, that works.
#opIsrael - Hackers hit Israel with mass Cyber Attack over Gaza
Actual code generation at the driver level seems utterly wrong.

"Utterly wrong" is a pretty black-and-white judgement. A JIT in the kernel has costs and benefits. You could as easily say that the ability to load modules dynamically into the kernel is "utterly wrong," since it opens up a code-injection vector that makes rootkits and other malware much easier to write. In some ways dynamically-loadable modules could be seen as even more risky than a JIT, because a JIT can only generate a subset of all possible machine code. It would be pretty hard to write a rootkit as a Berkeley Packet Filter program.
Cat6 is cheap nowadays!
In a few years the market will have already decided.

The signs are out there. The cop-out design of the iPhone 5, the "blue sky" initiative started with the employees -they are scrambling for new ideas.

Steve Jobs was the soul of Apple. His fire is gone. He took it with him.
One really annoying factor about collaboration across timezones is trying to get schedules to sync up. Especially if there is an 8+ hour difference. Back and forth communication ends up taking much longer and can significantly slow down the project. One interesting solution was examined in Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe [1] where online communities form based on the sleep cycles of people rather than their location.

It would be possible for remote workers to use melatonin supplements and light therapy to intentionally manipulate their sleep schedules to sync up with their HQ if they are willing to tolerate the offset from the local schedule. Even more interesting would be if everyone switches to something like Uberman [2] so that working at various timezones becomes feasible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Standard_Tribe
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep
Question:

What service can I use to find inexpensive flights with flexible travel dates (+-N days) and in-flight wifi?

kayak, my typical goto source for finding tickets, allows me to use flexible dates to minimize my travel costs. I then buy the ticket direct from the airline. It doesn't have wifi information, AFAIK.

routehappy, the site hyped by OP, allows you to sort by happiness and select on features like wifi. However, it doesn't appear to allow flexible travel dates, nor can you sort by price, or even see the price (!?).

What travel aggregator should I use?
BYOD vs CYOD: User Choice in a Policy Driven World
There are two things I miss on Linux: my collection of games and half of my battery life. I do virtually everything on Linux, but when on the road or in the mood for a game, well, there's not much of a choice.
I'd rather like it into as a drop-in webmail solution, I haven't seen any on the market that look even remotely as good.
... or using a union with an enum in plain C:

struct data {
void *data;
size_t length;
};

union value {
char *zstr;
int intgr;
float flt;
struct data *data;
};

enum type {
STRING,
INTEGER,
FLOATING,
DATA,
};
I would love for a simple easy way to make micro-payments to the websites I use regularly.

It'd be even better if that allowed me to turn off ads.

I'm gently concerned that would mean that site owners would allow obnoxious ads in an attempt to drive people to paying, but I guess they realise that people would ad-block or never visit again.
Thanks!

We'd definitely be making profit at £20 a listing. Right now, we're letting new landlords list for free, which is definitely a big factor in our growth - but we're seeing that either our landlords are returning, or they are waiting until their next property becomes available.

For now, we're ramen profitable, but as we continue to grow, that will turn into some real profit. The rental market is overpriced in it's current form, and there isn't much between our service, and the one you get from paying a letting agent £1500. The more we can offer, the more we'll generate I'm sure.
I'd like it if it was turned into as a drop-in webmail solution, I haven't seen any on the market that look even remotely as good.
if you're explicitly aiming to have a certain representation of all people, unless there's some bizarre statistical anomaly, there will be token people.

But women should not be among them, surely? According to the Office for National Statistics (see http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/pop-estimate/population-estima...), in 2011 the population of England and Wales was 50.8% female and only 49.2% male. So the bizarre statistical anomaly would be a BritRuby panel of fifteen speakers with no women, or even one woman.
Dan Bricklin: Original VisiCalc running in a JavaScript IBM PC emulator
Out of curiosity, is the London rental market infested with bait-and-switch, phantom offerings, etc., like the ones in NYC and Shanghai?
Slashdot allows you to turn off ads if your karma is high enough. They have other forms of revenue.
I can see different scenarios here, like a group of landlords running a cooperative listing site, agent - yes, agents... And probably a local real estate board or something alike. In either case, there is a party who wants to run a listings site and they need an engine (probably SaaS) to make it possible. I'm just speculating of course.
I don't think average is a good metric, or we should be more specific about what skill level we're discussing.

Entry-level developer jobs (i.e., BS in CS) pay $40k-$60k in the midwest.
Researcher gains admin access to Kaseya, ManageEngine
How to Choose Health Insurance – Startup Edition
Interesting. I can try that with Metallica's older stuff, as I have been listening to it for over 15 years.
I'd use it, and pay for it, if you gave me direct and private access to my data, hosted on a third-party. Control and portability are a huge concern of mine, and one of the reasons I'm terrified about keeping my data life with Google where I can get locked out with zero notice.

THe design looks great, and I'd love to see a host that helped me negotiate ways to protect my privacy and portability.
C++ is coming back in a big way because it saves money. It is the king of performance per watt, per cycle, per transistor which directly translates to performance per dollar. It cannot be beaten.

http://www.alejandrosegovia.net/2011/09/08/herb-sutters-why-...
Yearly cleaning of appliances
Seeing the world, on the clock
This reads like a bot trying to pass a Turing test? The grammatical structure is so robotic. Obviously also a total pile of stinking anecdotal nonsense.

You switched to Outlook, well, good for you. Something tells you you wouldn't recognize a good from bad ui if it bit you on your SCSI cable.
I can definitely see EADS getting more subsidies from the government to keep themselves afloat. Playing the "national security" angle is usually pretty effective.
Sigh... I'd settle for someone giving me $100 per hour.
Firefox and Chrome are both actually written substantially in JavaScript. It's possible that they could get away with JavaScript + C rather than JavaScript + C++ (conjecture here). In this world more stuff is implemented JavaScript perhaps.

There is the saying that any sufficiently large program contains a buggy and ill-specified version of Common Lisp... I would rephrase that as any sufficiently large program needing to contain its own extension language and programming language. JavaScript is filling that role for the browser, and I expect there to be a language in the future that does it better.

There won't be anything that replaces C (or C++). Go can't do it. But there will be something that works better with C and C++ for big performance-intensive applications. Lua is close. The reason I would prefer C is that C++ has a very hostile interface for another programming language to interface with.

I wish Python were there, but it's C API isn't really up to the task, especially with regard to concurrency (which e.g. Firefox and Chrome have a lot of!).
Hacker Vision = Save your eyes & increase battery life
It wouldn't be a very useful webmail service, accessing the website would be blocked by most firewalls.
I agree. This was an email sent to me. I was shocked at what I read because it was in sync with what people with H1B status have told me.
Can you say, "feature bloat"? I think your mantra helps avoid that whether in a hackathon or not.

Spot on description of motivation at the beginning of a hackathon.

I find that more often, what you're describing comes from the "business folks" in a group, that don't know what is involved in shipping apps on an aggressive deadline.
I want to add to this, people actually hated horses with a passion, especially in cities. They were a transportation necessity, you couldn't move heavy goods without them ... but they would defecate absolutely everywhere and most cities weren't terribly organized in terms of cleaning up the poop. Which means they reeked of horseshit constantly. As noisy and polluting as cars were, people considered them a godsend.
Yes! Agents love that tactic, and that's one thing we're combating against. If our property says it's live, it's available to Rent Now - that's a big win with our system.
The logohead says Goatse✉Mail. I would go so far as to say I'm just the tiniest bit disappointed that their symbol is, as far as I can tell, innuendo free...
HPMoR has significant value as a standalone work of fiction. There's a lot of new creative work. It's possible to read HPMoR on fanfic.net without ever knowing that the author, "Lesswrong," is Eliezer Yudkowsky, or what his affiliation is with the Center for Applied Rationality. I'd say that's a far cry from Harry appearing in a breakfast cereal commercial.

Of course, I probably agree with you that it would be much easier to avoid making the distinction at all. I'm just trying to point out that, if someone insists on making the distinction, it's possible to draw the line exactly where I want it ;-).
Just write your own JS interpreter inside of JS and make sure you execute your functions inside your own interpreter and not the one provided by the browser... problem solved.
In popular discourse, "racist" is synonymous with "the-worst-thing-ever" because most real people believe in the first definition. They associate it with things like concentration camps, racial slurs, and vigilante violence.

Social Marxists are pulling a nice propaganda coup by using the popular term "racist" with their different class struggle definition. But once their definition gains ground, they will find that they have defeated themselves and that nobody cares about racism anymore.

How much do you think the man on the street cares that a disproportionate number of ruby experts are white/Asian? Or that most movie actors are white? Or that "nude" toned makeup in historically European countries matches white people's skin? Not a quantum of care will be given.
The most convincing argument as to why not to include refinements in the Ruby spec comes from alternative implementations like JRuby and Rubinius. Method dispatch will need to be vastly more complex (and have scope-limited caching) to support this feature. Much, much slower. Folks using these implementations are still on the fringe, but it seems wrong to add a feature to Ruby that makes both more complicated code and slower running code.

Wasn't Object#source_location added in 1.9 to help folks understand and find method definitions in code? Shouldn't we simply test our code to ensure it functions correctly and not force additional semantics all the time to fix a rare issue?
I believe this is incorrect. If I remember correctly, transport was not the only issue with building the solid rocket boosters in one piece: physically pouring a solid rocket motor of that size was infeasible.
Not to refute his point on Apple post-Jobs, but Samsung is the only company in the Android ecosystem making any money, so it's not clear that Google is winning anything.
Mastering Node Streams: Part 2
So what do I do if I don't have a blog or any real friends to refer me? I don't know anyone at all here in SV and no one seems to want me anyways.

On the flip side, I suppose that there are people that could use me but they don't know how to find consultants.

The only time this has happened was when a potential employer and I didn't quite work so they let me name a price for the time I worked and they paid (rare in consultancy, I bet).
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HN's signal to noise ratio is dropping fast. Pretty soon the time taken to filter out the useful stuff will make reading HN not worthwhile.

It is what it is, though. I guess it's what happens when you let people submit stuff without moderation. 'Twas nice while it lasted, HN.
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@jacquesm-I have a request. Unfortunately I know (indirectly) of another case - a divorce case - which had a lot of similar situations. In that case, the victim happened to be a guy.

In spite of living in India, the people in question were not able to react as quickly at that time (I'm not in contact with them currently)

I would like to request that at some point, maybe 6months...A year... Please do take time to write about what it took for you to "unbreak" the system. I can guarantee that you would be doing a huge favor. Things like how-to-identify-a-good-lawyer, wouldn't be out of place at all.
It's not that hard. What do you know how to do? How do you currently market yourself? Who do you market yourself to? What are you really good at?

100 an hour seems like a lot to most of the contractors I talk to, but it's actually probably less than the average for a contract programmer.
Sir, the odiousness of your arguments is exceeded only by their selfishness.

But, at the very least, please elaborate on how your notion of property rights encompasses ideas. Please do explain how an idea, which can be copied at no cost and used to enrich the receiver, should be held in same esteem as a physical good which must be wrenched from your clinging little fingers.
It's definitely something worth considering, but for the most part, agents currently have software they use to manage their listings and push to portals. Many agents don't require websites, as the portals to the lead generation, and they just do everything offline as their margins are so high.

Having said that, it would be one avenue of attack / pivot if our new listing growth died, hopefully though, that won't happen. We think we can serve landlords better ourselves than be the platform for others to continue doing a bad job!
Just to be clear:

This is different than "freelancing" or "contract development". This is more traditional business consulting. You're going in and changing processes and structures more than anything else.

It might be around a specific goal like "make our signups more effective", but you're not just writing some code. You are going in an helping them to change their mindset by incorporating feedback (A/B testing) and new methodologies to run their business better. You get paid so much because the results don't just result in better signups, but in a transformed company at the end.

To do this type of consulting you need extreme credibility. Either a big business win, an ivy league education, or something equally as impressive.
hrrm, I'm skeptical of claims made by executives that don't work in that industry, although here he's probably right.

reads article

Wait, this is about some UK tech meetup where a reporter asks Musk some questions. And the quote is:

> Finally, I asked Musk who he thought would come out on top, out of Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook?

> "It’s the grudge match," he said. "It’s good for consumers that there is this battle. I think probably Google will win on the phone because Jobs is out of the picture..."

"Win on the phone?" What does that even mean?
I had issues with libraries providing fixes for builtin libraries (I believe Net::HTTP), yehuda katz had his own example[0] with activesupport and right_aws, the memorable Chainsaw Infanticide Logger Maneuver[1] rant was about plenty of people redefining Logger's methods. I also believe one of the reason rspec changed their syntax is to avoid some monkey patching issues[2]

The bad thing is, most of the issues would be caught quickly if we could run stuff with -w, but nowadays nobody uses and you'll get floded with warnings from the libraries you use :(

[0] http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-pra...

[1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

[2] http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2012/06/rspecs-new-expectatio...
This is all going to be somewhat redundant, because my reply to your comment will mirror the replies to Iain's comment.

May I make a conservative bet and say that you are a white man, much like Iain is? I am too. And on an instinctive level, I agree with what Iain said, and you echo. But that's because I haven't had to deal with systemic discrimination in my life- neither I, nor you, nor Iain know what life is like when, at all stages and in all environments, you are part of a minority. This is not the same as Iain's laughable example of having made multiple visits to nightclubs that contain black people.

Given that we have never experienced that life, we probably shouldn't tell minorities how they should feel, and what they should be afraid of, or if we're not careful we're going to get a reputation for being oppressive.
Finding a direction of time in exotic particle transformations
The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched
>>different religions have different laws that apply to them

That's incorrect and somewhat misleading. It's rather such as - certain parts of (minor subset) some civil laws or family laws come under respective personal laws based upon religion/tribe &c. Like Hindu Marriage Act, Hindi Code Bills, various succession acts &c.

Remaining (most) part is a uniform civil code. However, it can be noted that in case of criminal matters - AFAIK - Indian constitution doesn't discriminate, in any manner, at least on paper.

Politics - both religious and generic - is embedded to everything in India, even laws. There's a landmark Shah Bano case where Supreme Court of India overruled the verdict given by Muslims' holy book which was as interpreted by clerics which is often misleading as in any religions. The interesting part here was that the court was compelled to quote from their Holy book Quran in the verdict - an aayat (like some sort of support) - as it was a very sensitive matter.
I think noisy sales people would drive me crazy. If we leave the door open to the team room we can hear recruiting right outside. Very nice people, but I have even more trouble concentrating when they're on the phone all day.

Then again, that's focussed noise where I can easily pick out entire conversations. By contract, the coffee shop I'm in right now is full of a wild cacophony. So much noise that none of it forms a coherent picture. This is trivial to ignore.

In the end it probably comes down mostly to what you're willing to make work for you. I find a mostly silent room maddening enough that I'm unlikely to ever give it a try.
The first non-tech CEO is usually a strong sign that a company has grown from a startup with a single product focus to a long-term viable business with a diversified product portfolio. (Think GE, AT&T, Boeing etc.)

For people in the HN community, this is mostly horrific because it represents everything they avoid. However, for almost everyone else out there that is working for the purpose of simply providing for their families, the stability and strength of a diversified company is typically a major positive.

The thing that is always missing from the HN discussions about how bad MBAs are for a company etc. is that at the extremes of business, business becomes highly technical and requires someone who is technically proficient at business.

Knowing how to create the next high end transistor technology which maintains Moore's law is amazing, but that person is highly unlikely to keep a company of Intel's size successful.
Yes,okay, I've heard stories like this so I cannot discount them. I find it hard to believe that a car could deliver better gas mileage at 60 MPH than at 37 MPH, unless there was something very strange about the number of gears and how they related to road speeds.

But ... there it is. There really are such cars out there.
Am I the only one that checks the domain after reading the title?
- Start a blog

- Start going to meetups and make friends (no meetups? Organize one!)
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE launched in Korea with Android 4.1
If you mean in general, a consistent job at 100 $ /hour is completely different from being paid 100 $ / hour for consulting. The former is rather hard, the latter is indeed rather low. The end of Patrick's article gives one of the main reason why (scaling consulting is hard).

I consistently meet people who earn > 200 $ / hour, without much programming experience (but know an open source project of interest very well).
"So what do I do if I don't have a blog or any real friends to refer me? I don't know anyone at all here in SV and no one seems to want me anyways."

Change that. Go to conferences. Go to meetups. Leverage whatever professional network you currently have to expand it. Start a blog. Post to it. Establish yourself as an authority on something.

If you can't do the above yet (because you aren't an authority on something), become an authority. Contribute to a related open source project. Get involved in meetups that focus on the topic. Find conferences that relate to it and attend... later, speak at said conferences.
Get a blog and start making new business acquaintances. (Being in the Valley should not exactly have you hurting for options on that score.)
Lumawake crowdfunds cool anti-alarm clock — but not on Kickstarter
Interesting. Have you seen any specific case studies of organizations taking a CYOD strategy?

I wonder if this leads the way to CYOT / CYOC (Choose Your Own Tech / Choose Your Own Cloud) corporate strategies as well - same as BYOD paved the way to employees and business units turning to Shadow IT to get the tools they need.