skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us in the US still have unlimited data plans. Not many, but some of us were grandfathered into it and hold onto it for dear life :)

Not exactly related to your post, but I'm not sure why he would be concerned with the phone service's NAT if the x-window app is running on a remote server (making him the client). Now if he were running it on his phone (as the server) and connecting to it through the cellular data service, then I could see why.
Amazing read. Hard to believe it was written more than a century ago:

In addition, it must be remembered that
the conditions of modern life tend to reduce
our spiritual life to nothing, and bring about
mental distractions to a degree that can
hardly be surpassed. Ease of communication,
frequency of journeys, the habit of going to
the mountains, or the sea, all dissipate our
thoughts. There is not even time to read.
One lives a life that is full of excitement and
yet, at the same time, empty.
I really like the new branding + logo. Good call on the change. One negative point of feedback (nothing to do with the name or logo): the split image on the home page is poorly done in my opinion. It looks freakish.
How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty
At one point, after OtherOS was removed but before the keys were reverse engineered, there was some sort of "jailbreak" that used a bug in the PS3's USB stack.
Questcor Finds Profits, at $28,000 a Vial
Maybe you should try removing it from your Play Store account (the newest Play Store app allows you to remove apps completely), or just try disabling "auto update" for the Facebook app.
The majority accepting something has nothing to do with whether or not that something is acceptable. This is the concept behind the idea of the tyranny of the masses.

The tyranny of the masses has traditionally been held back by enacting rules of law that the masses have no interest in. In this particular case, that would be consumer protection laws that the majority of consumers would not care about.
I'm from London and I got back from SF in November after doing a month long trip there with my co-founder. We went because we fell that London just doesn't have the same vibe and opportunity so we set off to meet like-minded people, investors and to work on our product.

One thing I highly recommend is entering hackdays, we ended up winning one and not only came away with a small cash prize (some have huge prizes) but also agreed investment in the idea (which is completely unreleased to our product. This opened up opportunities like you wouldn't believe. It was a nice break from building our thing too.

In one month we made inroads to investors and were very close on meeting some great ones but our time ran out, if we had another month im sure we would have got some face time with one or two guys but they are extremely busy. We used meetup.com and eventbrite to find out about events such as a talk by the Yammer founder on starting up and getting acquired. I also noticed that some fanastic talks happen that aren't on those sites, like ones at AirBNB and Asana. I saw a amazing talk by a guy who helped set up the tech behind Reddit, even as a designer I thought it was fascinating how they scaled.

Sign up to the Startup digest which collects all the events in SF each week and emails them to you, really great http://startupdigest.com/

I'm sure you know this already but it's all about making connections to people and getting recommended. If you are passionate about what you do and show that through your work and conversations then its easy to get endorsed by people. I found that the process is gradual, you meet someone who knows someone who knows someone, getting time for a coffee with people may take a hour or 2 weeks.

Beware of time wasters. It's easy to find yourself at events and in meetings that have no benefit to you. I went to a lot of things expecting knowledge sharing only to find that I was trying to be pitched to or hired. There's a lot of people in SF on the startup wagon looking for designers and developers to work on their idea with nothing more to offer than equity. Pick and choose events wisely.

We stayed on Fell Street, near Alamo park in a apartment found on Airbnb. It was a nice and safe area, the accommodation was pricey, roughly £2300 for a simple, smallish 1 bedroom apartment (we took turns on the sofabed futon thing).

Mexican food is everywhere and it's amazing. In the same way London has kebab shops, SF has Taquerias and they are super cheap $6-9 for a burrito stuffed with meat. I don't recall having one bad meal in SF.

I you could learn more in SF in 6 months than you could in London in 2 years. The place is buzzing with activity, there's literally something brilliant going on each day, whether it's a hackday, founder talk or meetup. Add that to all the non-startup stuff going on like food festivals, street markets, Alcatraz and its great.
What a bunch of pathetic little arseholes. Hacking should be a tool to fight oppression, not one used to impose it.
Pigeon-guided missiles
I doubt this is true. In my experience, you get promoted when you get a counter-offer from another firm.
Hey Patrick. Loved this post. Do you have any blog posts (or perhaps could write one) on handling consulting in remote locations? I know you're out in the middle of nowhere Japan. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Also what happened to the podcast? Seems to have got into hibernation.

Cheers man.
There are hundreds of companies, individuals, analysts and twitter bots giving out stock tips, recommendations, target prices and whatnot. As long as you're not acting on insider information, is there anything illegal about advising people to sell a stock?
Mchannon is right.There is no proven formula for this.In fact, there is no proven formula for anything.If that were the case, Steve Jobs would have been a simple worker.Pure talent is always an exception yet there are always few exceptions.
You certainly can use FBA without listing on the Amazon market place, it's actually covered in their FAQ:

"Can I use Fulfilment by Amazon if I don t sell on the Amazon.co.uk website?
Yes. You can ship your product units to us, and we will pick, pack and deliver the items to your customers when you tell us to. This allows you to sell your products on other platforms but still take advantage of Amazon’s fulfilment centres and our experience in shipping products."

Source [1]; http://services.amazon.co.uk/services/fulfilment-by-amazon/f...
HN: Hire me? (Free btw)
THE OFFER

I'm willing to do a few small (10-20 hours) iOS development jobs for a few HNers at no cost whatsoever. Bonus points if it's for your startup or you have work leading on in to the future.

WHAT I CAN DO

I love anything web-based. I'm primarily an iOS guy, but I love Ruby (Sinatra in particular and Rails is cool too). I've done some PHP too. I also do frontend work.

If you need something that I can't do yet, note that I love learning new things — how do you think I got myself into all this?

If you need more information on past projects, hook me up and I'll be able to show you.

WHY I'M DOING THIS

I've been teaching myself this stuff over the last few years, but I don't have too much to show for it. I want to freelance, so I'm trying to build up my portfolio, and doing some free work occurred to me as a great way to do so while making new contacts at the same time. I tried this approach with success a couple of weeks back and I'm trying it again at a larger scale now.

CAVEATS

I just ask that requests be very limited in scope (say, something that would take a decent developer a few days), and I should be able to show the work in my portfolio. Also, I'm only free the first time. Finally, if I get many requests somehow, I may have to turn some down. But I doubt that will happen.

YOU SHOULD CONTACT ME

Even if you're not sure, or don't need it until later. What do you have to lose? Not money. What might you gain? A competent coder, or at least some work done by one. Please contact me now!

Email: ross@boun.cr
Arguing for NAT in order to compensate for a broken billing model is a terrible idea. :)

Saunalahti in Finland also have publicly routed 3G. I wish this were far more common, it feels very 22nd century to effortlessly ssh to the phone in your pocket, even if the capability existed since the 20th. Such a shame contemporary networks are usually so brain damaged
Japanese Firm Will Deploy Drones For Home Security
The period since the Italian Renaissance is actually more interesting than "pretty spiffy". While science improved by leaps and bounds, living conditions for ordinary people (in Europe) deteriorated quite significantly. Crop yields plummeted, leading to starvation, disease and decreasing populations all over Europe. Only in the 19th century did things improve again.

The moral of the story being, I guess, that improvements in science and technology, do not necessarily go hand in hand with improvements in living standards.
> In any other circumstance, I would have given up, gone to a competitor, and filed the company and brand name in my brain under "fuck you." (Actually, I did that last part anyway.)

This is why I never want to own an airline: you get blamed when your customer leaves his house too late to be at the airport on time.
This is a perfect example of why I dropped out of my CS program one year in:

The most proficient of students had no idea what they were doing.
This. I live like a student still. Class wars is a zero winners game. Expensive toys and things buy me nothing. My entire worth is about 600GBP. I shop at the cheapest places and grow some of my own food.

I have no intention of using the extra time I'm gaining doing anything other than having fun. I can afford to take 7 years out now which is good for 10 years work.

I too have a boat (a widebeam canal boat) which is being slowly refurbed in my spare time. When it's done, I'm living on it with my family.
There's also Locust, a Python powered load testing tool similar to this. It's focused on simulating user behavior rather than hitting specific URLs. This allows for much more true-to-life testing.

We used it to load test Battlelog (the online service for Battlefield 3) and successfully simulated over 2 million concurrent users hitting the service using EC2.
See http://locust.io for more info.
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors)
Sent from an imaginary device.

"i"pad - get it? :)
"Simply because my clients were confused. They would let the product stay alive for a couple of weeks, without marketing it, expect it to convert well and become rich overnight. And when that didn't happen, they would kill it."

This is a lesson for countless others who start with building products for clients on their own (thanks for articulating the situation). Milestones are the key, as well as sticking to the stringent "No further development without milestone payment" policy.
If you want to make it easier for others to use it, learn some basics about autoconf/automake. It shouldn't take more than a day to implement, but should make the installation a more standard process. Also drop the binaries from the repository - they're not needed. If you want to distribute binaries, package your app and provide a .deb and .rpm.

If you want to keep the custom makefile, Makefile is a more common name (but both are correct). For the clean target, you missed the `ma3c` file and the recursive option in rm is not needed. `rm -f *.o ma3c` would be more safe (or paranoid ;) )

I'm not sure what kind of comments were you looking for, but this is a maintainer's perspective.
What do you think about the launchpage of my startup?
Check out the IcoMoon icons, they don't have the fuzzyness like fontawsome icons for example...
Work on Open Source, build your own projects, do some work for a charitable cause.

I dont think I could recommend doing random jobs for some startup who is willing to take on someone for free work
See my comment to _frog: IcoMoon icons look pretty good, even on windows with chrome...
> There's a big, important difference between piracy and trade

Not really. What the British called "free trade" seemed pretty much like piracy to the Egyptians, the Indians and the Chinese they imposed it on.

And lest you think trade has become more civilized since the nineteenth century: I'm sure farmers in Jamaica are none too fond of having their livelyhood destroyed because their country imports cheap European dairy in the name of free trade. Which is just one example out of many.

Heck, even free trade loving Americans complain about their country getting swamped with cheap Chinese products.

As with most things, it's complicated.
This is correct. Everyone is an individual and no two people are, strictly speaking, equal.

But that doesn't justify all instances of treating people differently. If I steal from you, you would expect me to receive the same punishment as if you had stolen from me. We are therefore "equal before the law".

In the case of the law, we ask our legal system to suspend judgment of certain inequalities and to focus only on the facts of the case. There's no reason why we should not do this in other matters - if we're judging someone on their merits as a software developer, we can legitimately consider their unequal experience, intelligence, skills and abilities, but we should not consider their age, gender or ethnicity.

Now, you might argue at this point that we wouldn't consider age/gender/ethnicity anyway, because these have no bearing on software development. And you would be mostly right to do so - these factors are genuinely unimportant. But most people are imperfect judges; they use heuristics and intuition in ways which can sometimes go awry. We might apply stereotypes, we might allow our judgment of other similar individuals we have met in the past to cloud our judgment of the person before us now, and so on.

When people talk about equality, they're really asking that we find an effective way to ensure that we're making our judgments using only the truly relevant criteria. Past experience suggests that this takes effort and requires some cultural reinforcement. It's emphatically not about denying that people are different, but about ensuring that only the most contextually important differences are considered.
"I hired some interns, they were really talented, but in the end, I didn't want them to work with me because I didn't want them to develop a web app in return for a couple of hundred dollars. Because that would be unfair."

My suggestion is to halt thinking on these lines. Even your clients would come to you because their value-perception of the output of your work (web app) would far exceed the money they pay you. That's what you would do with anyone you hire -- the value-perception of the output given by them (e.g. building the webapp) would far exceed the money you pay them. This is how businesses earn profit. If everyone paid their employees exactly what they themselves would be charging the customers, companies wouldn't earn profits.
I just opened up a ticket offering to pick this up. We'll see where it goes.
Nice try, but no. In fact at the time even the Belgians couldn't get away with what they did. When word came out about what the Belgians were doing in the Congo it caused an uproar throughout Western Europe and it stopped.
I see what you are trying to do here, and I wish you all the best for your freelancing career. But I am not sure if this is the right way to do it. I know, it's better to work for free than to be cheap. But still, I am in doubt.

I have tried something similar, and it did not work out. Not at all. I am a freelancer and I normally work alone, but in this case I was working together with a company. The company was offering a free day of consulting, and I was one of the consultants you could book for free. There was not a single response.

Later I read some posts from patio11 about how people will not value your time or service when you work for free, and I think this was exactly the problem in what we tried.

Anyway, good luck, maybe this works for you. I would love to read a follow-up story from you!
Derision? Do you also deride people wearing shirts with a crocodile on them? People driving cars with a little lightning bolt in a circle? Businesses issuing paper invoices with the supplier's name printed on the invoice form? (Practices may vary by country.)

Leaving this one line unchanged says ~= zero about a person.
Thanks a lot for your reply! It sounds despite not having as much success as nathan you are capable of making a good living for yourself and you have a better taste in cars too :P
Release Process - From Startup to Professional
Finance, mobile, desktop applications. In my (limited) experience most people use a C++ subset though.
Ask HN: What are your big plans for 2013?
I was just doing my 2013 and wanted to know how others manage (what software/notebook/) and what they put in their Yearly Plan or todo list.
X windows client server model can seem intuitively backwards. The applications you run on remote servers are clients of the x server (that renders the windows) you are running locally.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen the second one. I felt like I almost understood what they are for, and the constructors for the arrow datatype aren't very cryptic, but then it hits the code examples, which has stuff like

y <- readFileA "unicorns.txt" -< ()

and it's unlike anything I'm used to. I'd love to find a post that described the utility of arrows as well as his did and then maybe having a middle step where they are used without the arcane symbols, and then finally with the arcane symbols.

Your post was very clear (although your code blocks have a tiny font on my computer for some reason). The &&& and >>> combinators make sense, especially with your diagram... but in the fizzbuzz case I don't get why it's preferable to have the arrow over something like

fizzbuzz x = combine (three x) (five x)

Although maybe it's just a case of making it simple to compose functions when there are tens of inputs or something, so the simple case wouldn't really demonstrate anything like that.
ask.fm sounds like a incarnation of formspring.me About four or so years back my facebook feed heavily consisted of people answering anonymous questions. It went out of popularity after a few months so I wouldn't worry to much about that. It be interesting to see if there is a resurgence of similar sites in the states though. As the youth bracket cycles perhaps sites cycle as well. Same functions, but with different names.
The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux
NASA's NEXT Ion Engine Achieves 43,000 Hours of Continuous Operation
I agree with you. Once everything became clear, it seemed that the conflict was partly fuelled by the wearer of the "cybernetics" being belligerent.

The "hate crime" was simply the wearer being asked to leave, and responding haughtily. Consequently both sides behaved immaturely, but not in "hate".
Exactly this!

People get into mortgages, in new car payments, etc, and into a deeper debt trap every time

"The solution is to keep a frugal lifestyle. e.g. my lifestyle is around Euro1000/month, even including my sailing boat. A typical good payed coders job leaves Euro2000 surplus every month. So working for salary for one year means, that I have two year runway to work for myself."

My situation is similar (including € but no sailing boat), I try not to live beyond my means but not only that, to save some money, and not "try to fill my salary with expenses"
http://myepisodes.com/

Keeps track of which shows you've watched, which you need to record, and which you have but haven't watched yet.
Please go to sleep. The improved quality of the remaining waking hours will more than make up for the additional time "lost" in bed.
Why the hate? He said "check in right before the cut-off", so he was on time. This could just as well have happened at any other location any other day and be just as annoying/time-wasting. For example if you tried to check-in from a hotel where the mobile is still your only internet device the situation wouldn't change.

The situation doesn't change the fact that the UX for mobile users is/was very bad.
Goodnight Nanny-Cam
What is the best way to attract early adopters and beta testers?
Yes, some companies have stupid decisions

This policy is good most of the time, but really, flying coach on long flights is uncalled for.

Sure, fly business on the cheapest carrier, still...
The 48 Laws of Power
Do you agree?!
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Ask HN: when using Google what are you struggling with?
I think this is not a big point to dont make data available to everyone.

making data available to everyone for free is the better way.

1. If i got the data i can make a list of strange companies and put this information out to the Internet.

2. How says that this Information is correct? you can scan my facebook profile what you will find: that i live in Australia but i dont. Yes my Ip give it away where i live but i can use a proxy. I like this and i like that but do i Really?

3. School/University Rankings are full of facts that are wrong and dont cover the reality.

Sry but if you only see data in the aspect to analyze it you could miss the beauty of the data. MP3 Files are just data but what makes them special? the noise we get out of the speaker.

So lets not think how we can abuse the data. Lets think about how with this data we can make a better world FOR EVERYONE !
I plan on writing another free ebook.
Is it really better than a loading indicator?

For me, yes. It is a loading indicator, without any additional "noise".

Also, the second-to-last pass is often quite good, if not indistinguishable from the last one. So you have the full image already, while more details get filled in, instead of first having the top, then the middle, then the bottom, and to me that's less "jarring".
I've been playing with these for a while .. here's my favourite one so far:

#include <math.h>
int main() { int v, i, z, n, u, t; for (v = -1;;) { for (n = pow(1.05946309, "CWG[Cgcg[eYcb^bV^eW^be^bVecb^"[++v & 31] + (v & 64) / 21), i = 999; i; putchar(128 + ((8191 & u) > i ? 0 : i / 8) - ((8191 & (z += n)) * i-- >> 16))) { u += v & 1 ? t / 2 : (t = v & 6 ? t : n / 4); } } return 0; }

I run it like this on Linux:

$ gcc 1linesynth.c -o 1linesynth -lm && ./1linesynth | sox -t raw -r 8k -e unsigned -b 8 -c 1 - -t raw -r 48k - | jack-stdin -e u -b 8 "firewire_pcm:000a9200c7110222_Output 1L_out"

Of course, ymmv .. you could use aplay too, but I'm a Jack kind of guy with a big multi-io rig, so I have to do all that malarky.
Yes, it is. You need to read more about how Sweden does espionage. See how that works?
The Power of a Hot Body
So you know: rendering is really bad in Firefox 17.0.1 on Windows Vista.
That's basically the Asus Transformer. Or some other Android tablet.
Just don't buy one then even if you want one. Oh wait, that's exactly what people are doing already :)
Most of the time I just visit a site from my phone because somebody posted a link on Twitter. I visit the site for the very first time and won't see it again. Why bothering me?

Make an ad in the sidebar but don't open a fucking confirm window!
Out of curiosity, what is the startup? Not trying to pry, but I'm curious what industry you're in and whether you're profitable or funded, since it is a bit strange to have the money to run four offices so far apart, insist on in-person travel and yet still have these problems.
this reminds me a bit of powershell's XML/object filtering except less painful.
>Now I did a google serarch for Bingo Card Creator and kalzumeus domain came first in search rezult, you might consider working on it, it's still a few clicks away for customers.

Google customizes results based on a bunch of user variables, so you can't trust that the search results you see are what everyone else sees. There's no one canonical set of rankings, but you can use tools to get an idea of what the generic user sees (e.g. [1]).

From my quick assessment, it looks like bingocardcreator.com is #1 for google.com

[1] http://www.whatsmyserp.com/serpcheck.php
Build more cool shit on the internet.
And for the last 3 days, too.