skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is laughable. Few, very few companies experience that kind of exponential growth.

Don't be a jerk and cut people off just before their cliff. Do the right thing and reduce the cliff.
Shogun is a great read. It got me started on the whole historical fiction genre. The rest of the books in Clavell's Asian Saga are pretty good too except for maybe Gai-jin. I also enjoyed reading Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr from his Narratives of the Empire series - very entertaining and definitely not run-of-the-mill biographic portrayals.
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It's led to engineers getting paid more, but it's also arguably had negative effects on the people most of those European laws were meant to protect.
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This is a discussion about service issues in the legal music download sector.

I'm only referring to 'alternative' means of acquiring music as a benchmark to elucidate these service issues. I'm not interested in justifying copyright infringement, and I have better things to do than get dragged into that tired old debate.
You're right about CRUD and canned solutions. On the other hand, I think that OP is in fact bemoaning their lack of investment in the product- that "CRUD" is just the most notable feature of it. So I would agree and disagree with you at the same time: "embrace what you have" is true for "embrace this approach to development" because it's good, and you will find joy in the details. However, "embrace what you have" is false for "I'm doing a job where I have no love for the things I'm making." The longer you try to embrace it, the more damage you will do to yourself and to your employer.
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I read The 3 Mistakes of My Life written by Chetan Bhagat....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chetan_Bhagat
>And this once again is why I still prefer to "pirate" music.

Even read TFA? It has no DRM at all, this is a BS misunderstanding by the blogger.
There is tremendous demand for software engineers today. No matter that you are doing CRUD, employers need you.

They can't see your code that you developed at work, so a Github with some quality code would be good -- but the key is to remember that there is some employer out there who is better for you, and that that employer needs you as much as you need them.

Try my webapp, fiveyearitch.com , which we've optimized exactly for employed software engineers who want to scratch your itch.

I think it's important to leverage your current job, not escape it. You have a powerful starting position; you just need to hop over to a better job.
> ... whereas the US (whom borrowed it from the UK) uses a Common Law system.

The state of Louisiana was inspired by the Napoleonic Code: juries there decide both facts and law. Precedent is not worshipped like it is in the rest of the U.S.
>Alternatively, I can go to a not-so-legitimate website, and be presented with 10+ different versions of the same album (originals, remastered editions, reissues, international releases, vinyl rips, etc.), each of which is typically available in all the popular formats (FLAC, MP3 320kbps, V0, V2, etc.)
I can plump for the FLAC, along with which I will often get high resolution scans of the source material, as well as a LOG file to verify the veracity of the copy. If I want to re-encode it, I'm free to do as I please.
Then to top it off, the legal services have the audacity to charge as much as a physical copy of the CD. I despair...

Yeah man. That's the spirit. I propose everybody does that to the digital things you sell too, if they don't find the format, the price or any service detail conventient.
The Shadow of the Wind is a 2001 novel by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and a worldwide bestseller. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and sold over a million copies in the UK after already achieving success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks.For more visit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Wind
Then, there is no DRM.
I don't even understand the purpose of it. What percentage of car mechanics is female? Less than 5%? Now I'm thinking about whether any given car mechanic is most likely to be male or female and am completely distracted from the point she is trying to make.
In the U.S., an employee has the right to do the work they were hired to do, owing to the need for career development and currency.
This times a million.

If it's got more than a few sheets or few hundred rows then you will find out how much of a difference there is.

That ain't much in the scale of things either.
I'd hire anytime a guy who knows how something works over someone who knows how to correctly spell the name of that thing, or even knows how the damned things is called.

These things are very frequently closely related in at least one direction. Useful as a filter.

I've known people way smarter than I am that have way worse spelling, grammar and even basic communication skills than I have.

It isn't really the rule, though, is it?
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That only makes you MORE of a suspect and thus a target. Even for eavesdropping devices in your house perhaps...

A government that does those sort of things is bad in other ways too -- and can get your ass to wherever it wants at any time.

So, if you cannot trust the government not to do these things, then I suggest you try to change the government and the way things are done, instead of trying to hide from them with encryption or whatever.
have you ever tried living outside of the united states of america or europe? most content owners or distributors (music, books, movies) will tell you "fuck you, you're too far and too small for us to bother". Anything but blockbusters that I don't watch (pirated or not) is not even in theaters. Presented with the alternative pirate-or-don't-watch, I for one choose to pirate.
I'll give you that for pink Floyd :)

Perhaps they should ship as one mp3 with a cue file?
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via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/bootstrap-datetime-picker-sl...

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Bootstrap Date/ Time Picker is as its name says a date/time picker for Twitter Bootstrap. Unlike other pickers, this one combines both a date and a time picker in a simple pop-up menu.

This allows you to choose both a date and a time, down to the second. The interface of the date-time picker is sleek and allows you to change the picking mode from date to time with a single click. Of course, you can style the picker if you wish to.
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> Yeah man. That's the spirit. I propose everybody does that to the digital things you sell too, if they don't find the format, the price or any service detail conventient.

I'm not foolish enough to be in the IP business.
Very cool. As someone who works in the recruiting software biz myself, the only thing I found confusing was the "click to apply" link, which brings you to the job posting itself rather than ATS (which most job boards link to). Would be cool if those links could open in a separate tab. Also it would be great if some of the job description was pulled into scalajobz itself, although that would require scraping Indeed and others so I can see why its not happening right now.

Also, when going back into the main page, your last search seems to not be applied, although it is still visible on the top of the page.
Usually the worst 90 second example which is my point.
We're building matchist (http://matchist.com/talent) to solve this problem by creating a place for quality developers to find quality work.

We've found that our clients prefer developers who are great communicators and can provide guidance on their projects. They're looking for partners, not just somebody with Rails skills.

As a few have commented here already, your written communication could be improved to help inspire more confidence in potential clients. (I mean this as constructive feedback, not criticism.)
So the problem is the regulatory situation that the company was in, this weird contract that required you to keep a certain number of people employed.

I'm sorry you felt you had to abuse people to achieve your business goals. This would not be acceptable in my country, but then neither would you be bound to keep a certain number of people employed.
Indeed, see the update. It's just a fle extension mistake.
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Great article (I am from UK). Dunno why its attracted so many haters.
i like the time selection option very nice. I wish there was a nice daterange picker... in applications more often than a single time you need to select a range....
Interesting read. Resonates on a couple levels. I do tend to think that people take the work-life balance a bit too seriously in the startup world, but those are also the same people who might otherwise have problems saying no to partnerships and business deals.
No, it's not DRM protected!

There is an update to the article:

Update 26 December, 12:12 UTC: You can simply rename the extension from .m4p to .m4a and the file will play fine. There appears to be no DRM at all. I have no idea why Apple would do this since many apps and devices don’t recognize the .m4p extension, which only leads to unnecessary confusion (and posts like this), but whatever.
Oh this is really cool, and one of the few demos I actually want to interact with. But alas I am unable to control it in any kind of intuitive way, thus it is useless (sorry)
Fix the UI please!!!

EDIT: Oh and add a histogram of how far along a solution you are
Where did all of my FaceBook videos go?
Read the update on the post. They are still DRM-free. Just a different file extension(.m4p instead of .m4a to distinguish them from tracks that can be sold individually).
i have dyslexia its very hard for me to write in English
but hi i craft great applications (:
and i do understand you , and if we where talking in Skype i guess you could understand me very well also .
1200 hours in odesk and 5 star's reputations can prove it
> Accept that software is not a meritocracy. Not even close. The politics are as vicious as in any other industry.

Would you please share your professional experiences in industries other than software? Thank you.
In France it is illegal to use contractors where their condition of work are the same as employees. Specific cases are decided by the court, but basically the status of contractor can't be used to go around labour laws.
> Believe me, you don't have to work at "Intel, Google, Apple, or NASA" to "change the world".

Listen to this man. I was a full-time software engineer at Google for 5+ years, and I didn't change shit.
At one point the author complains about 20k of social charges overhead on a 50k job. Then a few lines later he says that it's cool that in Europe you mostly don't need to pay 800/mo in health insurance.

Those 20k are the equivalent of the health insurance + 401k. The only difference is that they are mandatory (and IMHO are a much better allocated).
Even if you were correct in all your points, the increase in collaboration it facilitates is a big enough win to, at minimum, make Google Apps a worthwhile compliment to MS Office. I'm not sure whether you have direct experience with Google Apps in a large enterprise but your points read as if you don't; I'll withhold my comments until/unless you clarify.
When considering the war on terror, and the threat to america/'the west', i think of how damn easy it would be for any one of us to cause at least double digit deaths, if we were determined[1]. And yet, there are extremely few of these events related to islamic extremism. I think of how basic the attacks that have happened have been. The US does not share it's intelligence with us, but these facts suggest that the real threat is.. minimal.

1. Look at Breivik for example. Or the latest nutter shooting up a school.
Agree on that point. But wouldn't you find that boring if all the websites and apps had a single font?
You misunderstood my argument. I did not assert the existence or nonexistence of libertarian free will or compatibilist free will. Such assertions were beside the point. I was only pointing out that the argument to which I responded contained a logical error. It assumes that "people do not have libertarian free will" entails "people are causally impotent", but the former does not entail the latter.

As an aside, your omission of "libertarian" from the quote of me suggests that you might be conflating two kinds of free will. Because you talk about free will without specifying the kind, the meaning of your reply is ambiguous. Hence, I have trouble agreeing or disagreeing with it. For what it is worth, I do not deny that compatibilist free will can have various degrees of freedom, where the degree is a function of the complexity and arrangement of the things it emerges from. For example, I do not deny that humans, dogs, and cats can be said to have compatibilist free will, nor that the human wills have more degrees of freedom than dog wills and cat wills.
yeah thanks, this is why it was important for me to try out to be freelancer before i intend to be full time freelancer , i know its hard.
It doesn't use a regex on the full name; FB provides separate fields and FbFriends searches those with a simple ORed string compare. So I'm surprised it's not working for you. I wonder if whatever FB uses to split the name up (i.e. their regex) isn't doing the right thing for your friends.

Or it could be a bug. I'll look into it.
By Ichino who was until a few days ago part of a very small, yet vocal, minority of a center-left party and has now joined the ranks of the centrr-right.

His views are far far from being mainstream...
What are the other indicators?
I'd be fine if people signed up with these to try it, but they should use a permanent address if they want to continue using it. I would have no sympathy at all if they lost their account.
What a great read! Thank you, OP, for finding and sharing it.

I don't know what I like about it more, that it's from an earlier "simpler" world or that it highlights a problem that's just as important today: learning to tell the difference between and issue and a detail and dealing with them differently. Sounds like the original author had his epiphany 90 years ago. I wonder how that ended up changing his life.

(I have often commented here about issues vs. details. A few highlights:)

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=edw519+issu...
thanks for the constructive feedback .
just side not i do comunicate with the clients very good via skype , i have dyslexia. so dont let this misleading.
i communicate very well in general .
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That will only work if you know exactly how your entire mail stack will handle resolution and you re-implement it exactly on your frontend. Consider this case:

Resolving not-mailinator.whatever.com returns:

not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 a.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 b.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 c.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 d.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 e.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 f.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 g.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 h.bad-mailserver.com
not-mailinator.whatever.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mailinator.com

If you choose one at random, your frontend has a 90% chance of choosing a mail server that isn't mailinator. But when your MTA tries to send the message, it will notice that bad-mailserver.com is offline and try the other MXes, eventually hitting mailinator and delivering the message you tried to block.

You could put a limit on the number of MX records a domain can have, but Gmail has 5 and so you'd only reduce the chance of success to 80%.

Then you have to consider the mechanics of DNS. How many layers of CNAME indirection will you follow? Will you cache results? (If so, how will you trust that the responses are valid?) How long will you wait for DNS responses?

A poor implementation of DNS lookups will use unbounded time, unbounded bandwidth, and unbounded file descriptors. This isn't a hack you are going to code up in an afternoon, and one mistake means your website is going to randomly go down.

And so you have to ask: why? Why do you care if someone uses mailinator? Spammers are just going to set up their own domain or use someone's malware'd Windows box. And someone that wants to ignore your email is just going to have a procmail rule auto-submit your messages to Spamcop anyway.

So you gain nothing, spend a lot of time programming, and it won't solve any problems. In conclusion: worst idea ever.
The use case I built if for was that I wanted wedding guests responding to an invite to be able to identify their +1 as one of their FB friends.

But I suppose the most common use case would be inviting a list of friends to an application. I've seen a number of apps that have that, and as far as I know, they all roll their own dialog for doing that.
Got you covered. Check out these:

Bootstrap Date Range Picker - http://www.functionn.in/2012/10/bootstrap-date-range-picker-...

jQRangeSlider - http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/jqrangeslider-jquery-slider-...

Both allow you to pick date ranges :-)
As a European, I cannot understand the reaction of people buying weapon (and especially automatic rifles) after such a tragedy.
Internal server errors.
Whenever a comment compares copyright infringement to rape, it's probably best to not respond to it. Nobody takes the argument seriously and it's only there to make you mad.
I keep hearing the name. I'm going to chuck it onto a VM and try it out.
DEA users are most likely long time internet users who care about their privacy and have learned to protect their email. At the same time, they have enough interest to register and try your stuff - so let them be... If the site requires users to enter an email address for freebies, savvy users will eventually find a way around it, as you suggested. You might also be blocking the early adopters. Eg. bloggers who want to review your stuff, etc!
That makes absolutely no sense. Apple wants us to buy music, it's not going to deliberately serve us the worst parts of a song so that we can't judge whether to buy it.
So true, The fact that smart people are defending inflation is a testament to how thorough the media machines are at tricking people into thinking theft equals productivity. I hope bit coin or something equivalent takes off. I just want to see the look on the Federal Reserve's face when they realize they can't steal any amount of money immediately from every holder of wealth.
Very interesting project. Since I watched the "what happened to the cryptodream" video, I have finally begun to understand that we need more tools like yours or say Wickr (closest to secure IM on ios...), tools which my mother who know shit about aes but know her history and what an enigma machine was, can use.

The fact that your code will (?) be opensourced, is a big +1
The fact that it's secure by design is a big +1

Count me in, and go defeat gmail, icloud, and all those monstrosities,... one user at a time !
Find different ways in doing it. When I do not have time, I do it like how I did it in my previous projects/work. When I have some time, I try do it in a different way - look at my previous code and then try to improve.
In the US employees also get the right to get a pink slip and move the hell away. Which is not always the case in Europe. A friend currently had some trouble firing a very toxic person from his startup.

This is perverse situation where employee rights has gone berserk - in my country firing is hard because the government prefers not to pay the unemployment benefits it is obliged to so they always side with the employees in the private sector.
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Gold has held it's value and increased in value since it was first recognized as a currency. Since the US Dollar was created, it has lost 99.99% of its value.

Gold = Money. When you get some in your possession, you have something people will covet, and continue to covet as long as gold can't be created from thin air.

USD = Not Money. It's a socialist shared bank account where others can withdraw from it without you knowing about it.
"Objective-C directly inspired Java and C# and has changed how almost everyone programs, even if they’re not writing for Apple’s machines," said developer Wil Shipley, who got his start writing software for NeXT computers.

I don't remember much talk of Obective-C when either Java or C# came out... I remember people comparing Java to C and C++, and C# to Java, C, and C++, but not really any mention of Objective-C. I actually remember researching Objective-C when I saw references to it in the Linux Kernel's "make config" and thought it was pretty awesome! but, still, I don't think the author's statement is really that accurate.
The point I take from it is that there's a clear demand for something that isn't being met. This is presumably because the industry prefers to focus on lobbying and litigation, and, to paraphrase, won't negotiate with pirates.

I also disagree with your point about playing the victim, because with the current state of affairs, legitimate consumers are the victim. They're the victim of criminalisation by private companies, who choose to employ all sorts of tactics to stop piracy, all of which affect the legitimate customer more than the pirate.
How about being perfectly legal?

There are companies which do geo-IP checking on their web site. If you're out of the US, you can't see anything. Just a page saying "we don't want you as a customer".

If you're a US person, with a US credit card, and a US billing address, tough. You need to be in the US to buy. People in the rest of the world are treated worse.

Look at Kodak (http://www.google.ca/finance?cid=10501). They've lost 90% of their value in the last 5 years because they didn't sell what customers wanted. They kept an archaic product, and then went into chapter 11.

If they were able to prevent competition through legislation, they would have. That's the main reason why the music labels are still around.

I don't like their rules, but I have no choice, because they have biased the legal framework against me. It's not the customers "fault for dressing too damn sexy". It's the music labels fault for jumping on me, rifling through my pockets and underwear... then claiming to be a victim.
Is this service really safe? It shows me a page with URL like https://receiveee.com/123456WC, and an email address of 123456XM@mailseal.de, so only the last two letters are different. Now once my email is sent and the address made public, isn't it very easy for someone to find out the page?
I could show you contrary citations and easily disprove your generalizations, but that's not the point. The point is that your statement was stupid and hypocritical.
Very good article. I think at some level, most "nice" people know they are taken advantage of. They know that they are supposed to say no, but they don't - primary reason being they don't know how to say no, plus they don't want to offend anyone. So the cycle keeps going.
Plus they aren't confident enough to know that people will still like them even if they don't do everyone favors.