skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money is one of the main factors why I'm worried about attending university, in the short term I will go from a recently developed comfortable life style (I was homeless a year ago) to struggling again and after working this hard I am reluctant to relinquish the life I am now trying to enjoy!

I agree with the Math, I have been practicing Oxford CS & Maths entrance exams (I don't intend to go to an institute as "high" as Oxford, but I set the bar for myself quite high) and have been routinely scoring much better for the logical and riddle based exercises than the Maths and have recently been practicing my logarithms and linear algebra where I feel I am lacking (or at least weaker than my other areas)
That would probably make a better homework problem. People get nervous in interviews and can't even do fizzbuzz.

In general though it's better to ask people problems related to things they'll actually be working on. E.g., have them analyze a bug you recently found in your own code.
How the Asha series is saving Nokia’s bacon
A fee is appropriated, a tax is not. Your government can do what it wants with taxes (e.g. fund wars instead of building roads) but it cannot decide that the radio/television fee will be used for road building (without changing the law).
What is the power output of something like this? Would the FCC even care?
Damn, sorry I didn't get it. Thanks mate!
I have spend 5 minutes on your website, but I cannot figure out what would be the advantage of using this instead of Google Contacts.

Here is also a few problems I find:

1) I love that my google contacts are in Gmail and Google Voice on my desktop. I don't think that if I use your service it will autocomplete my contacts in Google Voice for example.

2) Google will most likely still exist in 20 years, you? I'm not so sure.

Do you have any advantages of using your service ?
I do not care about more simple or secure, Google Contacts is simple and secure enough.
Do you have any cool features, like for example synchronisation between accounts ? Me and my wife would love to have a group in Google Contacts called "Family", where if I add a person, or change a setting it would automatically update in her contacts.
We do have a roadmap - not with public dates, but items for the near term future include automatic exporting of your contacts from your current solution and better web management tools. The beauty of being a paid for solution is we can work to implement feature requests made by our customers rather than worrying about selling ads or finding a business model.
Yes but the settings are complex and counter-intuitive for average users.
This doesn't seem too hard to me but maybe that's because I'm mathy. At one of previous places my boss had found that he was able to boil down the interview to a take home problem that the candidate should just be prepared to discuss, not even solve. Literally 1 out of 10 did this. The rest gave up before hand.

It's hard to find good people.
That's a slogan and it can be interpreted in many ways.

If you buy into slogans as tech feature listings.

They store with encryption. That remains true. The fact that CDNs can potentially break into it doesn't mean that they store without encryption. Let's not exaggerate the scope of this flaw. A flaw that in any case is going to be fixed soon.

Crypto is hard, true. But this system is fixable on the server, so it's not as critical as a hardware system that may need to be recalled.

Don't worry, and remember that in any case THEY WILL STILL BE ABLE TO READ YOUR FILES.

They are possibly not emphasizing this enough. If you have truly sensitive data don't put it there as-is.
Javascript Mapping library from the US National Park Service
I'm in a similar situation but contemplating a masters. I'm actually leaning towards a masters in computer science rather than software engineering.
Show HN: BootCamper - a resource for all things programming bootcamps
Should Chicago Build Another 1871?
You really need to iterate a bit over the design. It looks like a train wreck on my screen.
The usual wording is that it applies to devices that display or record something as it is being broadcast. So if you're delaying the stream yourself, that's recording a live broadcast. And a third party delaying and rebroadcasting the stream would be copyright infringement.
Hmm, what about lithium air batteries, and fuel cells, and all the other things that we hear about having 10x the energy density?
In terms of value, I intend to improve my knowledge across every area of my degree units an order of magnitude and also to broaden my horizons, I would love to learn more about the hardware side too, being an all software person, it can sometimes be quite a mystical subject.

I agree about not needing the degree to do well, I would however propose that from stories I have heard so far it does seem to reduce the difficulty.
Wow.

From this list of issues some of which are "fixed at 4.x", and from the fact that --based on Google's own stats-- very few people have 4.x (only around 10% of all Android devices have it or have upgraded to it), the whole Android vs iOS fight seems kind of moot. Technology wise iOS wins hands down.
I've built this website with an intention of making it a one-stop resource to easily find programming/technology bootcamps, schools and academies, learn about them, and most importantly engage students in asking questions and sharing their experiences.

Currently the list is by no means complete, but I am adding new bootcamps on a daily basis.

I hope it will be of use to many new aspiring students and alumnis alike.

Feedback and ideas are always welcome and appreciated.

Thank you :)
It depends on the school. A lot of schools' CS curricula are really just a series of classes designed to teach you how to be a reasonably effective programmer; I would avoid these, because it sounds like you are already an effective programmer so you will not gain much. On the other hand, there are schools were CS is challenging and where just being a good programmer won't help -- and someone like you may actually find that the courses are interesting.
By the way, are super capacitors still a promising technology? What's the hold up on getting those commercialized?
What Americans really need right now is the ability to eat burgers faster and cheaper...

http://singularityhub.com/2011/07/19/fat-america-keeps-getti...

Duh.
You might be right, though one of the reasons I like this particular problem is that it lends itself to a recursive solution, and some of our production code is heavily recursive.
A quick chat with a local lawyer (if they think they might get business off your friend in future they might give advice for free) is the best way of clearing it up

Even if they do have the legal right to sue your friend it sounds likely it may not worth their time, effort or money.

The only other thing they could try to do without having any legal rights in your country is to get the domain name taken off your friend. There's a well established procedure outlined for them to legally try to do so at: http://archive.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm

It would cost them money to do this, and you would have the right to appeal.
We recently switched to Harvest at my company. So far we are absolutely loving it. We base hourly employees pay on their time tracked so most people keep up with it pretty well.

We typically bill by the project vs. by the hour but we find that accurate time tracking helps us keep a gauge on where we are with our budget. We also use that data for future project estimating.

http://www.getharvest.com/ is the link for anyone not familiar with the service.
In Denmark the price is around €320. So that's around €25 per month for a service I don't use.

How can you say that public broadcasting is "free from government", when this is the very entity that chooses whether to uphold the laws that provide funding for these stations? For public broadcasting, offending the government is quite literally biting the hands that feeds you.
I think you must remember at least one password, and everything else is in Keepass database. I also do the same thing.
That's a good point. I will switch the random number generation to SJCL, which uses mouse movement to seed the generator & hashes the aggregate.
Just because they lean left does not mean they are not independent. Independence does not necessitate impartiality. The point still stands that even a left-leaning media adds value to the overall media system by balancing the overall media system. That does not mean every single media outlet has to be balanced.

Just because the given media outlet's political views do not coincide with yours does not negate its cultural function.

I certainly disagree with the BBC regarding a number of political issues, yet I am still glad it exists.
Is there a way to view this without Flash?
Hey Scott, this is a great point. Well said.
Gun Regulation + Internet + 3D Printer = Distributed Defense
What a useful remark.
Whether the term used is "tax" or a "fee", it won't make a difference to the pocket that just got picked. If the difference between those terms comes down to the whim of government and its laws, then it remains out of your hands anyway.
Using jQuery to Delay SharePoint Navigation Hover
Would you pay Facebook to delete your data?
Another option (that I prefer):

x = Object.new
def x.foo
puts 'bar'
end
I don't think you can just separate these two issues. If you do not monetize your solution it will often be more attractive and thus the traction you get will be misleading. For example, I'm sure I could make a very popular product by simply giving away terabytes of free storage and bandwidth exposed through a simple API and web interface. But that would do nothing but attract the kind of takers that would never pay for anything while it hemorrhages money.
Agreed completely with most of your points - as I've already mentioned this is just the start and some of the things in the pipeline will easily surpass Google's relatively stagnant option.

However, I don't think Google does respect your privacy [1] [2]. That is a massive issue and is becoming greater over time and is something Add was created to directly counter.

Hopefully we can prove you wrong and still be here in 5 years - I want to build a sustainable and growing business, not a flash in the pan startup looking for a quick sale.

1. http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/update-on-buzz.html
2. http://blog.eset.com/2011/07/07/google-prepares-to-share-you...
Show HN: An experiment on putting a dollar value on your anger
Why not #tap with some one-letter variable for the first example?
vim proj.log

:r!date
Perhaps I should have mentioned that I'm quite aware of the origin of the quoted sentence.

I was pointing out that talk is cheap.
Is there a possibility for packages for non-core software to be built statically with all their dependencies? Why not use this approach?
If you don't know whether or not you should go to college, then you probably shouldn't go to college. If you're already on a path, at the age of 19, where you've been hired at multiple places programming and you're capable of teaching yourself what you need, why would you suddenly stunt that organic growth?

The barrier to getting a job at an early age is much less often whether you have a degree and much more often whether you have experience. There are lots of people with the former and fewer with the latter.

Unless there's something you specifically want to go to college and learn, and it doesn't sound like there is, you should continue along your path.
>Would love to hear an expert opinion on why this exchange even took place in any traceable from.

Notice that the initial contact came from Steve via phone, and the Palm email is intentionally saying "no" in a traceable form since they are not doing anything wrong. A "yes" would probably have been by phone. Steve also doesn't say anything incriminating in his email response, just vague threats.
>People think there is some secret to running a business...the most successful business man of recent history, simply threatening people like a dumb animal.

Except that having business skill is a necessary condition to getting to a position where you can leverage your power.
I have to agree. This probably isn't all that difficult to work out when you're in the zone, home alone but in an interview is completely different. You're in a completely different state and it's hardly reflective of a normal working environment.

I think if you are going to give this to people in an interview you should a) make sure you've told them to expect puzzles and b) give them a few questions, some as a warm up with plenty of time to settle in.
before I would use a service like this I would need MY data to be encrypted on your servers so NO ONE but me can read it. Even you.

I can't quickly/easily see if this is how the data is stored.

There is no way I'm giving you my social graph even if you say you wont sell it or give it away. You might be bought or the government might ask for it.

Looks good though, good luck.
The title is a bit of a garden path sentence[1], since "build" can be a noun or a verb.
I initially misread it as, "Before launching (your) build, software people use" and was confused by the apparently nonsensical second clause[2]. "Before launching, build software that people use" would be a less ambiguous wording.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence

[2] well, semi-nonsensical. If you ignore the plurality disagreement between subject "software" and verb "people", then "software people use" could be interpreted as "software occupies a purpose for which something may be employed", which is par for course in corporate buzzspeak.
> I have a natural aversion to cults of personality and all that goes with them and 2. the Apple vision of the world is about consumer products. I think this is exactly the wrong direction for all of society (producer products are the future)

But producers produce products for consumers to consume. You can't just eliminate the consumer side of the equation. Without one there isn't the other.
Useful comments and suggestions more than welcome - hi@useadd.com
A lot of people enjoyed reading the conversation with Amy:

http://unicornfree.com/2013/difficulties-for-nathan-barrys-a...

It's interesting, since we didn't plan on the transcript being public we talked in a much more transparent way.

As always, happy to answer questions.
What makes a product good?
There is a difference between products that perform poorly and products that perform well that is hard to put your finger on. Designers have been struggling to tell you about it for years. But it turns out it’s not the answer that is the problem, it’s the question.
The question is: Is it enjoyable? It’s the difference between functional and great.
Redbox's boost into it's current fame didn't have as much to do with automation as it did with the price and convenience factor.

People were tired of paying $5+ to rent from Blockbuster and get nailed with late fees all the time. Redbox simplified this model ($1/day until you return it). Of course the 24 hour kiosks are a boon too.
You mean you think that I would get a lot more out of a formal qualification if I left my comfort zone, focusing more on the theoretical than the practical?

My programming skills are pretty solid, I'm happy to sit down and write code for hours on end but as for the theory side I am probably below the par in terms of the other students.
All of that advertising still boils down to choice. I can refuse to purchase the goods that they're constantly peddling. The system is voluntary. Meanwhile, I cannot refuse the taxes/fees that the government decides to levy. In my own country (Canada), I am taxed for CBC whether I wish to watch/listen or not.
> consider them a threat rather than an ally.

I think that's a cynical view of it. Like your sibling post from Firehed says, it's probably more about "not getting too many cooks in the kitchen" than being territorial, as well as preventing the poison of uninformed public opinion from killing a project before it was released.
Yes it has seemed to change quite rapidly in the last 12 months.

I think Hacker News used to be mainly Start-Up, tech and business starters. Whereas now it is mainly start-up porn.
In Denmark, DR ("Danish Broadcasting") started building a concert hall some years ago - for the modest price of €430 million.

When the construction was done, the bill landed at €670 million. That's your TV license money at work right there.
I think you need to look at the situation in a completely different way.

You are 19 years old with 9 months of real experience. Most companies will pass over you right now because of this. If you are getting a great pay check, put the hard time in for a few years and work on side projects to build your brand.

I don't know anyone who will hire someone with only 9 months experience (regardless of age/degree) and your skill set that will provide the perks you are looking for.
Who cares? This thing called Atari is really just Infogrames with a borrowed name. And Infogrames is really just GT Interactive. So it's more like "company currently in possession of borrowed and reborrowed name declares bankruptcy."
I wouldn't expect them to write the code for it, maybe some pseudo code, but a candidate should be able to talk through the problem and come to a solution for this in 10-15 minutes. It also depends on what kind of work you expect them to do. If you are building iPhone apps or doing plain old web dev, you probably don't need candidates who can solve this in <10 minutes.

I'm not surprised by your 90% no-solve stat. Candidates I interview who put Java/C# on their resumes can barely "write a function that returns true if the first letter of a string parameter is capitalized". At least half flat out can't do it.
10$/month for unlimited? Where do you live if I may ask?
I make more than the average US programmer, don't have a degree, and don't have any student loans to pay off.

Most places that "require" a CS degree don't actually, and I wouldn't want to work for any company that is so stuck up in BS bureaucratic policy that it can't evaluate an employee on their merits. I find the lack of degree makes a good filter for avoiding companies with BS internal policies that would be frustrating to deal with on a daily basis. I want to work with humans who take reality into consideration not just arbitrary rules.

With that said, lacking a degree can hamper you in the beginning because you need some way to show that you actually know enough to be worth hiring. I solved that problem by simply working for myself in the beginning. As you've already got a job I say screw the degree, and put the saved tuition fees towards doing something amazing with your life.
Again, I see the overall goal as having a balanced media system. I wrote in a reply further down about the same thing. A balanced system does not mean each element has to be balanced (or "impartial"). A government-funded media station still counteracts a commercially funded media outlet on a much more fundamental functional basis than just political ideology.

Both public and private media are in my opinion necessary parts of an overall functioning and thus independent media system. This system, like every complex system, is only able to achieve "impartiality" from a certain point of observation, in this case that of the comparing listener/reader/viewer basing judgement on multiple outlets.
TBH they're not really interested I understand as the FM broadcast band is on its way out in the UK.
I was in the same position as you but replace PHP with Java.

I thought I didn't need a degree but then met people in the industry that I wanted to be like, but I was limited by not having a degree.

It wasn't possible for me to study full time and I didn't really want to as I wanted to continue to have my years of work experience growing, so I signed up for a part time course.

Two years before my degree was finished I was nearly passed over on a job because I didn't have a degree so it really encouraged me to get it finished.

With the last round of job interviews there are many that said I would not be being considered without the degree.

If I were back in that same position again, I'd choose to do it the same way. Your relevant work experience keeps growing but you still get a degree - it's hard work and long hours but I think it was worthwhile.
Alan Cox (temporarily?) leaving Linux development and Intel
I think there's a joke in there.
It's not like Jobs hired all of his workers fresh out of college. Where do you think they all came from before they got to Apple?

It's just far cheaper to threaten other companies than to keep your workers happy. It's not like there aren't legitimate ways to retain your people.
Good point, I'd only glanced at the chart.

Looks like the trees along the right have a half-life range of <10,000 to >1,000,000, even with nearly identical individual mass.
I assume you are being sarcastic?

I believe it is useful information for the owner of the web site. Whether you like it or not, people make decisions based on seemingly irrational factors, such as the design of the web site. It is particularly regrettable in this case, as the main design idea of the site is fine, but there are some glaring errors in the implementation. It would be simple enough to fix and could make a big difference for the company.
You can't take for granted that anyone actually checks the file contents. I'm pretty sure the laser printers that got sent takedown notices weren't actually sharing any content.
Chuck Norris tells nature when it's time to die.
As a recruiter who tries to find candidates who don't suck, your lack of a degree would not be factor in my decision on whether or not to approach you (if it looks like you don't suck).

One thing that really helps a candidates stand out is something that supplements their resume, such as a well written blog. Being able to show sucess in your career and an ability to articulate what you know is a pretty killer combo.
They describe they had to get several concrete walls and a metal cabinet between themselves and the Raspi before reception stopped, so I'd say too high.
Kim Dotcom Prepares Mega Cash Prize Encryption Challenge
that's pretty cool. amazon could resell your free browser cycles.
They say, "This means that all you need to do to turn the Raspberry-Pi into a (ridiculously powerful) FM Transmitter..." and claim it's transmitting at least 50 meters away, which is far beyond what's allowed by the FCC. Not that they'd care unless someone filed a complaint.
I wished they would re-issue the 2600 console and games.
Because people didn't have a social life or communicate before there was Facebook? Give me a break.