skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will get more money for iOS dev work than Rails work and it sounds like that's where your experience is. Also 50/hr is way too low for freelance iOS development and on the lower side for salaried position as well. That's only like 76k gross at 80pct billable and I'd never do the math at more than 75pct to be safe. Shoot for at least 150/hr. Even if you are only billing half the time you are still going to be OK. Also iOS development is more fun ;-)

Edit: Even the good people I've worked with outside the US charge $75 US/hr for iOS development work.
If no one wants to do a job at X price, it is then by definition a shortage.

Neoclassical economics suggest moving up the price ladder. But as a comment above mentioned, STEM job supplies are quite inelastic. In fact we should expect it to be inelastic, since STEM jobs require more expertise than say general labour.
Don't forget about gambling on horse and dog races.
Well, if you ever need a dev for $50/hr you know where to find one ;)

Seriously though, while not from India or Pakistan, I still live in a low-cost country (Portugal) compared to most of the USA or UK. $50/hr affords me a good quality of life. The market may allow me to charge more, but at the moment, I can't even find many clients at this rate (thus, focusing right now on building a public portfolio, I have other projects I have worked on that are very well rated on the Appstore, but can't really use them as showcase due to NDAs I've signed).
Re C: you could stand in a place that attracts what you consider to be an unbiased clientèle, ask women if they'll take a test, give them an IQ test (or establish highest level of education or similar). Score them on looks somehow. Compare results and test for correlation.

Or you could take a group with similar intelligence (eg a university class group) and have them rated for looks, compare the result curves with the expected results in general population and look for skew or spread variations.
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Not sure if I would read too much into it, though. One of my friends is a WebKit contributor, and apparently people at Apple regularly get their code reviewed and approved by Google employees and vice versa (as well as people outside both companies, since they're all just contributors to the WebKit project).
I thought it was because the UK rains money on people, free housing and the like.
I'm surprised common auth systems don't handle this more elegantly. It's possible to maintain a history of crypt methods and store that with the password data. The system can then keep track of which user records were created with older algorithms, and automatically update them when the user logs in, but not requiring an across-the-board password update. The process is completely transparent to the user.
From experience setting something like this up 13 years ago, probably the most successful way for Antigua to do this would be to contract out to a commercial company (incorporated in Antigua, and with no US principals or assets; ideally as Antiguan as possible), for a set fee of $21mm/yr, and to keep warrants or other potential upside (say, profit sharing in years 5+ of a 10+ year contract?)

That way the company can make arbitrary amounts of money, with some value eventually accruing to Antigua, while remaining within the WTO definition.

The company could choose to value its earnings pretty much arbitrarily (either really high, based on retail price times number of downloads; or really low, based on bulk data transfer prices).

The big issue would be keeping international connectivity up -- while the WTO allows Antigua to do this, IIRC most of Antigua's Internet access is on a couple of cable systems owned by non-Antiguan companies (mainly C&W plc); the US could make life crappy for those companies. There are some international law issues with cutting off all communications and with the contracts for service on these cables otherwise, though, but it could be messy.

Ultimately it would be cheaper for the US to just give Antigua an extra $21mm/yr in foreign aid in exchange for them waiving their rights under this judgment. This could be buried in some kind of educational or bilateral trade agreement or something.
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Are you sure, on a calorie basis? McDonald's is far more calorie dense than anything a sane human could make at home.
Being self-taught, I too have had to deal with the lower than everyone else wage. It's hard work on a daily basis when you spend a portion of your time helping out other "learned" members of the team by fixing mistakes that you /facepalm at.

What is worse are the ones that use your lack of a degree as evidence that you don't know what you're talking about... it usually comes back to bite them in the ass when their systems collapse due to the issues raised months prior, you know the ones they never listened to you about.

If and when I get around to hiring my own staff, I will be doing it based on what they have done, not what they can do (on paper).
Thanks! Although, if this post gets in any way popular I'm sure we'll see just how slow it can get!

I have weak design skills at all so for me, bootstrap is incredibly valuable when building things like this. It's great.
As I linked further down, this is probably based on Adi Shamir's (of RSA) threshold sharing scheme [1] [2]. Essentially, this approach splits any "secret" into n parts, requiring that k of them are necessary to reconstruct the original secret.

It relies on the fact that k points are necessary to reconstruct a k-1 order polynomial. So if you hand out n points, with n > k, then any k of these points can be used to reconstruct the polynomial, whose y-intercept is the "secret". The coefficients of the polynomial are random.

There are other [3] sharing schemes, and for the trivial k = n case, Shamir's scheme is probably overkill.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

[2, PDF] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.80....

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing

UPDATE:
Here are some links to RSA's "Distributed Credential Protection" offering [4] and the white paper [5] describing it.

[4] http://www.emc.com/security/rsa-distributed-credential-prote...

[5, PDF] http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h11013-r...
Wow this is beautiful. The opening captured my attention well and it guided me through everything so that I knew exactly what was going on. I love the little story at the beginning. The site engages me emotionally which is something that a generic goal tracking site wouldn't do. I'm going to give the site a go around to start some habits I've been wanting to start and see if it helps.

As an aside, do you have a monetization strategy for this site?
I'm not sure Rails would be the go-to platform is security is a primary concern...
The internet was a much smaller place.

Instead of seeing the change in the way most of the web is used as invading this anonymous meritocracy, perhaps it would be more reasonable to say that the meritocracy is now surrounded by settlers who are using the land in a different way.
I don't think confidence or assertiveness cause height
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Yeah...this is nice, but really who's gonna implement it? Only folks with a lot of resources and need to protect something more serious than passwords on a social network.

Or organizations who are vulnerable to the RSA sales person attack. ;)

As others have hinted - once you have folks sophisticated enough to do tricks like using multiple operating systems, you'd hope they're going to catch the basics...
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This is perfect timing for me, I need this in the current project I am working on.
Mnemonic?
Wow. Just wow is all I can say. HUGE props to anyone who can learn to code and design in just a year and put out the kind of website you did (design, illustrations, interaction etc). I was expecting to see a cliche SaaS app website, but love that you took a story approach which brought me right in.

A few thoughts:

- Very hard to see the logo. I respect and understand that you are going for a subtle look with it, but maybe a hint brighter would be nice.

- Didn't realize when I was creating my "self" that I had to click the speech bubbles from my future "self" in order to advance forward.

Other than that - awesome work.
In theory if your'e going to the trouble of having different OSes on the two systems, you'll have separate admin staff, as well...
Ah yes, I was wondering if you were outside the States, but decided to be ethnocentric and assume you were in the U.S. because of your excellent English.
Also, it seems that if you click on the Enter button on the first page under the clock more than once, it will zoom in too far.
No one bothers with rainbow tables anymore... Why bother with terabytes of storage when you can make billions of guesses per second, on extremely cheap commodity hardware?
I believe there are some systems that don't store the crypt methods with the password data, but instead just run through each password method to try to find one that works, then transparently upgrade to the newest.
One of the things I respect most about pmarca and a16z is that they donate the difference between real income tax rates and the bogus carry-as-capital-gains rates to charity (individually or as a firm, I forget).

I wish all VCs would do this, because carry-as-capital-gains is an incredible abuse of the system. I'm fine with founders getting this, and with LPs who invest cash, but VCs do not deserve preferential rates over other workers when they do not themselves take financial risk.
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Google, for example, does not have teams make hiring decisions for teammates.
Google releases detailed map of North Korea
> I discriminate against people every day, and I'm discriminated against every day.

First thing I thought of when I read that line was: Well yes, dropping support for older IE versions could be called discrimination, but its needed, and justified :)
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Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate you taking the time to review!

As for my business model, you pay what you feel it's worth. At the end of every month, you can review your progress and set your price. While that might not be a contemporary method, I feel that each individual will probably derive different levels of value from Habbit. :)
How many were ties? 19/25 is already a smallish margin.
Not unless nginx/apache routes the request directly to public/. There will definitely be more code-paths to YAML.load, but so far ActionDispatch::Http::Parameters has been the entry point.
How lovely for you. Now: the thrust of the piece is that for many, the status you assign yourself (and have assigned for you) in adolescence persists through adulthood.
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I must wonder, pg, if this is one of the submarine articles like the one you wrote? http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

either way, well placed PR for Watsi.
iOS development. No brainer. Everything is moving to mobile and good iOS devs are in demand now. Plus, I hate rails.
I assume their liabilities greatly outstrip the value of the code/etc that they could get. Possibly in bankruptcy some of the creditors will sell of parts of the company but its unlikely to be very public.
Thanks for your feedback! And certainly - I realize that the site title is a little difficult to see. I'll try to improve that in my next design iteration. (Same goes for the second point that you mentioned.)
I think it's pretty clear the OP's point was only in reference to the Terminal app, not Ubuntu in general. It's a valid point and doesn't really deserve the snark in your last sentence.
Oh boy, thanks for catching that!
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I second this. Good read. Another article that might be of interest is this NYT article that cites several former HP/Palm employees making the case that webOS was inherently flawed software.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/technology/hewlett-packard...

The primary issue with webOS, according to Paul Mercer, was that it "was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web technology, and we just weren’t able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design."

It's intriguing to note that tomorrow RIM will officially unveil BB10 and its first line of BB10 handsets — another phone software platform built using Web technology that is, in many respects, the heir of webOS.

The multibillion dollar question: has web technology finally reached the point that a phone platform built using it can be executed successfully head-to-head with iOS and Android?
We have a glut of female leaders who don't have companies to lead.
Fuckshow.js
Prismatic blog post which includes a beautifully named file, called "fuckshow.js"
The problem is that it's to be removed completely from Facebook. I think about deleting my profile all the time, but there's potential for awkwardness and offense that aren't worth it. Facebook has engrained itself in our lives pretty deeply and it's going to be a huge challenge to dig it back out.
No, a submarine article pretends to be about something else (usually a "wider trend"). This is a pretty straightforward article about Watsi, because Watsi is interesting enough all by itself.
Technical recruiter here. Just talked to VMWare recruiters that were interested in hiring as of last week. Doesn't mean that the story isn't true; just thought that I'd share.
> at the moment, I can't even find many clients at this rate

All the reason to charge more. If you have lots downtime between clients then you should make enough during your uptime to compensate for that. There are other benefits to outsourcing besides cheap labor and clients should pay a premium for those luxuries.
Thanks for the insight, especially on the second point about the future self. I'll fix that when I can.
.. so then as part of the settlement, the trolls says 'and withdraw your bounty'. Same thing.
No problem. What do you do full-time?
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I liked the idea and the design of the site, and stumbled upon its Code of Conduct. http://conf.writethedocs.org/code-of-conduct.html

I was expecting some advices like: "please be short when asking questions to conferencers", "no phone calls in conf rooms" and maybe even "please go to the leisure room tif you need to play Tetris", but I got a long thing about sexual harrassment: why? Is it so that each conf is a mine field haunted with sexual predators??
Introducing Courier Prime
Holy shit thankfully I played through the beginning.

So here are some unedited experience thoughts so far (played 10 minutes or so with it):

-Something is off about the landing page. TBH I left and then came back because I felt like an asshole for leaving, but there was nothing on the home page that told me how that site would help me build habbits/fix my future site.

-Make it more indicative that the home page slideshow leads to getting started with the website, I was still confused when I hit the end and it said "A request for the habbit"... I again you almost lost me at this point, I didnt know that was when the badassery began.

-Then I filled out the form and the page moved magically and what seemed like an incomplete app looking for a start date mailing list was a app full of life, and I am immediately glad I stuck through

-I will be a constant tester to improve myself, and look forward to giving a lot of feedback. But for now definitely look into making the landing page more 'hooking' and more explanative.
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Absolute bullshit. Let me give you a direct counter-example. Want to know where you rank in the Google pecking order? Tell your manager that you are considering an offer from Facebook. Expect to see a raise and/or equity refresher and your choice of interesting projects to transfer to, if not then you are just a drone and should either count yourself lucky to even be there or start looking for a better gig.

Google attracts engineers who want to work on interesting things _and be paid extremely well for doing so_. Period.
I'm glad to see this article, because it questions what has become an unquestioned building block of American society. Attempts to trivialize it come, as I see it, from two sources: repression ("Who cares about high school? They're all in jail or barefoot and pregnant now." I care. Wow do I care) or ignorance ("What? High school was a great time! I miss those days!" Well, I might have been part of the 1%...)

The reason we can't ignore high school is simple: sexual maturity. We cannot transcend our origins. Delay of the responsibility of having/caring for children into late (or even early) 20's is a leaky abstraction. Pretending kids are kids until they graduate does not make it so.

And with sexual maturity comes...aggression. Especially because high school is like Silicon Valley on steroids: there's so much change going on that everyone's at risk of becoming "disrupted" when one girl hits puberty the right way or one dude makes varsity in $SPORT to everyone's surprise. With the presence of adults whose roles are less in flux (like the environments the home-schooling families in the article implied), things are less turbulent and reward aggression less. But there are none; the teachers exist for (and get fulfilled by and paid for and punished for doing other than) teaching, not enforcing discipline.

"Your "'use case' should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?" ~ Jamie Zawinski, Groupware Bad

Also, props to PG for independently coming to the conclusion that it's the "middle classes" of high school that have the most reason to be nervous[1].

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Since they are all hand made I assume its more like wanting to buy some custom art, you don't just go on ebay and pick the first thing you see, you talk with the artist about what you desire in it. Based on that I bet the price changes. If you want a platinum face to your watch I'm sure he can accommodate.
I'm a recent graduate from UC Berkeley actually and, since Habbit became such an important project to me, I decided to continue working on this as my full-time job instead. :)
If it helps you feel better about your prejudices, you go right on ahead and keep judging a billion and a half people by the actions of ... wait, how many orders of magnitude fewer was that, again? Let's see...

Taliban? 20-50,000, by the US military's own estimates.
Hezbollah? 1,000 active, with another 6-10,000 volunteer fighters.
Hamas' militant wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades? Maybe another 10,000.

No, that's by no means all the bad apples in the Muslim world, but the remainder are even smaller and less well-organized. That should be enough to give some sense of the actual numbers of actual "bad guys".

So, summing the three most widely-known militant Islamist groups, we haven't yet broken a six figure count of people, and you'll apparently happily judge a population five orders of magnitude larger by their actions. Let's also judge all Jews (some 14 million) by the actions of Bat Ayin, a comparable ratio (to within an order of magnitude, anyway), shall we? Let's judge all Christians by the behavior of the Westboro Baptist Church and Anders Behring Breivik.

Or, how about this for a novel idea: let's not judge anyone by the behaviors of someone else.

The Koran is pretty clear regarding the need to commit violence toward infidels.

The Qu'ran is clear about justifying the defensive use of violence. It's also very clear that violence must never be used against the innocent, women, children, anyone with whom you have a treaty or pact, anyone who ceases their active attack against you, or anyone otherwise not actively involved in actively attacking you. And, no: "attacking" doesn't mean calling names. It means physical violence.

As for "violence towards infidels", I assume that like most people with this attitude about Islam, you're referring (knowingly or otherwise) to 9:005, which says, in part, "...kill the idolaters wherever you find them..." ("idolaters" is regularly mis-translated as "infidels").

What everyone blithely (or worse, deliberately) ignores about that verse is that in the verses immediately preceding it, "idolaters" are explained to be people who had declared war on Islam, and were actively, militarily attacking Mohammad and his followers — which is what is meant by attacks "against the faith". The verse is also typically shortened to omit the fact that a Muslim should only "kill the idolaters" after suffering their attacks through the holy months, during which fighting of any kind is not allowed.

But what about 2:190 "Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. God does not love the aggressors."?

That sounds awfully bloodthirsty to me...

Look, we can go 'round and 'round about this, but I'm only trying to make a simple, specific point: you're judging a huge portion of the human race by the actions of a tiny portion of the human race.

Should all Americans be judged by the fact that a small number of Americans lied us into invading another country about a decade ago?
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Pockewatches were never disproven as a former factor.
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What are the things you're migrating to ? I'm voting for VirtualBox, but I guess you could go with kvm which has slightly better performance in my experience.

Care to share where you're moving to ?
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ah right. thanks for the correction then
just try galaxy note ii and u'll throw your Droid 4 away
It's kinda like ripping off a Band-Aid. Feels good.
The issue with VLAs (variable length arrays) is that what tends to happen is that programmers create a denial-of-service bug. It's easy to do-- just create a VLA without first checking to make sure the size isn't too big. Then invalid (or sometimes even valid) input may lead you to use too much stack space, and-- boom! Segfault. These segfaults can be hard to reproduce because stack sizes can vary between machines or depending on which code path you call the function in. This is why Google banned VLAs in their coding standard.

If you're absolutely sure that you can handle the power, you can always call alloca and get some stack-allocated space, even with ancient C compilers. Just make sure to enforce a reasonable upper limit. Also, never mix C99-style arrays and alloca.
we already had aligned_malloc; it was just called posix_memalign.
Glad to be of some help. Another thought: it'd be good if the closing arrow for the future self module was located maybe within the box. If not that, then making it easier to associate to would work.
Great observation, in particular the "mush coding" has gotten popular over the years, instead of getting shit done people build abstraction over abstraction and high-level frameworks detached from reality and full of crappy magic. Backbone is a very good example for this (shattering code it into tiny pieces).
Sorry about the confusion on the landing page, you're right that I definitely need to convey information better from the start. Glad that you tried it to the end though!
I think Southern California has a distinctive accent. I'm not a linguist and can't place exactly what it is, but I can definitely hear it very clearly. I think there's a hard "a" and dragging out syllables at the end of a sentence like a question - "surfer dude", "valley girl" etc are definitely a thing.

But you're right that so much broadcast comes from socal that nobody would notice it, as its definitely become broadcast standard for anything that's not the news (reality TV etc)...
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