skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, there is such a huge sea of work out there, I would be happy if others would take some of it on... However, if you hone your skills and are at the top of your game, you should never have issues competing for contracts.

Life is long, Brandon. What's "hot" today might not be so hot tomorrow. Teaching an army of followers to do things the same way you do is just a race to the bottom (of the hourly/project rate variety certainly). The more you train, the faster you will find it harder to find work. The faster you train them, the sooner it is that someone else's rates will be played against yours in a bidding war. It's not rocket science we're talking about here; there is no debate about whether this will or won't happen. I think market economics are such that, if you/others cause the bottom end to drop (in price due to more competition), that the top end will drop correspondingly.

I always chuckle a bit about this and think, "Is this the sort of thing Sun Tzu advocated in The Art of War?" I can imagine a five-star general posting his "Here's our strategy in detail" on a public forum haha.

Jacques Matthiej has my favorite post on this topic: http://jacquesmattheij.com/So+you+are+making+good+money+now+...

Here's a tip: if you ever want to get downvoted, post that link. All the copycats at HN hate it when someone posts it. They want everyone telling them what/how to "be successful" rather than them having to actually work at it.
NodeJs and Bouncy as Web Front End
This is just out and I'm looking for feedback. It's a slide show with crude, line-drawing visualizations and drag and drop exercises. It doesn't sound sexy, but I hope its Head First-like approach will slip a lot of info your brain.
ha, never-mind. I was confusing myself thinking it was some special case a la !important. Just an ID of important.
That shouldn't even be relevant.

People shouldn't be punished for asking for feedback no matter how trivial, especially if it's in the pursuit of clarity to the end user, especially on HN.
@elamadej - I see you're into Polish startups. Looks interesting! I've got to take a holiday to Gdansk, I hear it's splendid (must.work.harder. ;) )
> how's it been?

Very pleasant. The general tone is really friendly and engaging, and feels much less one-way, producer-consumer than Twitter.

> Has the community and ecosystem grown?

Yes. Not slow but not blitzkrieg either, just steadily.

> Do you plan to maintain your subscription for the foreseeable future?

Yes, definitely.

> Do you see value in maintaining a corporate presence on the service?

Not applicable for me.
Capital Factory Dangles $50K To Move A Startup To Austin
I look forward to all the interesting morality discussions that come up as a result of this.

I know a lot of intelligent people who go out of their way (even when it's less convenient) to purchase books, music, and movies rather than pirate them. The reasoning usually seems to be that piracy is wrong. Though it's fun to get into hypotheticals like would the world be a better place if digital goods (like textbooks and scientific journals) were freely shared, most conversations about why it's wrong usually end at it being wrong because it is against the law.

So, is it still immoral to pirate something from Antigua if the WTO says it's legal, but the U.S. says it's illegal? If the WTO says it's ok but you still feel like it's wrong, why?
Bottom-up lighting on the face. Ominous, Hans-Zimmer-ish, military-industrial complex musical score. Dark lighting in the lab. Statements like: "It's important for people to know the truth." Even the title of the program: Rise of the Drones.

Result: Drones, engineers, and government projects are scary.

Not saying I agree or disagree with the sentiment, just that the bias is a bit over the top.
4 Dimensions of Scale in the Cloud
To be fair, that TNW link is from September 2012. The Appnetizens link is realtime though.

I'm an active user and thought I see few new accounts overall, it has picked up slowly over the past couple months mostly through referrals.
i sympathize and agree with most points! ubuntu is awesome, but some of their decisions seem to be more in their interest than in the users interest, but since im too used to ubuntu now, i moved to mint about a year ago! its kinda ubuntu without the bullshit! ^_^
Also:

* Delivering drugs and guns over borders and in urban environments
* Filming sports events
Their investment portfolio includes Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Pinterest, and GitHub.

I've done my research. Do yours, especially his timing and price entry points.
There have been several data science/analytics courses etc offered based on R lately, on Coursera, Udacity, etc. Have anyone had good experiences with any of them? I would also love to see a similar course based on iPython/Pandas etc.
Sadly, I do not have that experience. I know what everybody knows. I guess it is extremely hard. Software-Infrastructure wise it is possibly one of the most challenging product. Competition is stiff, so going global is almost not a choice. You either go vertical, or local-national. Yes you can use available open source software (Nutch, Hadoop, Solr etc) but they can make you go up to a point. If you want to go real big, then you may need to write your own crawlers, indexing - ranking, clustering, duplicate-spam detection algorithms, distributed file systems, ad systems etc. Making a search engine of course is not enough, you need to add a gazillion service to make it attractive. Many of those services are also requires cutting edge technology (translation etc.). And it burns money 7/24.

I understand why people values DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons. I respect that. But sure devleoping it, is far far easier than developing a real search engine.
I couldn't find any photograph or diagram of the device that generate the numbers in the web page. I worked with optic tables, and I'm just curious and want more details.

I only found the preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4438 , so they use an 1550 nm infrared laser. The preprint has a diagram, but no photographs.
Mr. Market Is Not Impressed With Apple (And Why He’s Wrong)
This page lists the LTE networks supported now: http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

It's interesting to note that, if it weren't for the US (& expansion packs), you could use a single iPhone model to access LTE networks all over the world...
> Argus is now obsolete, they had a replacement RFP back in 2009.

Scary. I wonder if it would be possible to do the same thing in infrared? What would it take to surveil the entirety of the US coastline and borders, for example?
As far as I'm aware Ulrich Drepper hates strcpy_s just as much as everyone else does. Certainly glibc had no plans to implement it when last I checked.
GOP digital divide may take years to bridge
At first i thought "why?" Can't you just go to SO and look that up, but i fell in love with your execution. Way cool! Will definitely use this!
Usually at the end of each month. I'm not an admin. Just founder of a startup that usually attends, https://degoo.com
If you have the savings and time, why not learn to code? You can add a lot more to the early technical parts and pull your own weight throughout the process.

Plus you'll better understand what's reasonable in terms of goals and deadlines, and find it much, much easier to find and attract technical people.
Optimizing your customer development cold calls
Github is Awesome (Or, my recent open source contributions)
We also do about 12M API requests per day: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
I thought I would chime in on my own experience with related imagery. It's not uncommon to use a drone similiar to ARGUS that is capable of NIIRS 5-7 (see http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/niirs.htm) resolution for surveying. The guys at the ground station will find some region of interest and then use another bird/sensor--whether that is SAR, IR, multispectral, etc--with NIIRS 8-9 resolution and have it give a better look at the finer details of the area.

In terms of detecting objects: anybody with any sort of computer vision background will probably be scoffing at drawing rectangles around objects that are moving within a stable image. However, at a broader scope, change detection and broad area detection are heavily research fields and are always of interest to whatever 3-letter agency that deals with the imagery.

So, not only does ARGUS solve problems, it also provides data for creating new problems. Cool little piece of hardware.
If you're willing to work more closely with your developers, and you're a cool person, you can skip wireframes altogether.

Ever build an app for yourself? Did you wireframe it? I bet you didn't.
Hug Your Copywriter
Computer programming languages are not copyrightable, says High Court judge
you hit the nail! they certainly dont act like people you can trust, their motto now is the same as apple! that they know best!
So why "use" basecamp to market your product? I'm hoping for a legit product story.
A Truth About the Glass Ceiling No One Wants to Talk About
Is that why Ubuntu is pivoting into a tablet OS? So they can finally close that bug? ;)
Evolution of home video game consoles: 1967 - 2011
Well DuckDuckGo searches their own stock and then points you towards google for anything DuckDuckGo doesn't have in stock. Google should be paying them commission, if anything.
Put it this way: Facebook has a very good reason to sell your data and limit API access; App.net does not. While there's nothing technical stopping them from suddenly targeting ads based on your posts or making sure that you can only use their official apps, they wouldn't make as much revenue as they're currently getting up front (how much does Facebook make per user?). Thus, their best course of action is to simply carry on as they are doing now.
Systemd is actually way better at logging why a service did not start. With sysvinit I often had to figure out the exact command the shell script would start the daemon with to see the stderr output. Systemd just logs this by itself and you can see this output in e.g. systemctl. This saves loads of time.
Do you believe Vine obtained sexual gratification from this screw-up?
Learning R via Python[pdf]
systemd tracks service status way more reliably than sysvinit. It also stops services more reliably. This due to the usage of cgroups.
There are some people offering websites and other packages for resale on eBay, of all places. Flippa might be a good source for web-based stuff.

Otherwise, can you be more specific about what you're looking for?
Oh, come on. You got hung up on an adjective used in a hero unit.

http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html

Filters, passing Ruby objects into it to generate classes, hell, even markup comments that don't show up in html.
This link has some slideshow thing: (http://photonics.anu.edu.au/qoptics/index.php)

Here's a higer level link with an image (http://www.acqao.org/gallery.htm)

And here's something about quantum memory: (http://www.cqc2t.org/facilities/unsw/anu/qml)
5 Must Known Tips For Using “Vine”
I thought this game was quite easy to figure out.

I used to build a circuit board version using light sensitive diod and a flash light source.

I didnt make the laughing dog. :P
An Internet for Manufacturing
Inkd Gives Webcomics Their Own Platform
> why can't they turn rocket drones into sniper drones by now?

How about chemical lasers? If you can see the target, you can hit the target.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTx_qTwQqjU

You might only get one shot out of one, but they can be quite powerful. (Considering when Real Genius was made, it's kinda prophetic. We even have a military mini shuttle around that size.)
EEVblog #414 - Apple Macintosh SE Teardown
This usually depends on how business critical it is. If some service is not very business critical, then how do you justify (or get budget for) the extra resources you need to make it way more reliable?

But even when not business critical, it is nice that you can bring it up quickly.
Whatever. Ulrich Drepper is/was an asshat for numerous reasons but was not the only one that was not happy with strlcpy. The best part is that as of a year ago, OpenSSH itself still contained buggy usages of strlcpy, and at least one with a security problem.

I agree that the _s functions API are crap and quite bizarre, notice I did not say they weren't, but that doesn't mean another flawed solution should have been chosen instead.
Fraud, Disclosure, and Degrees of Freedom in Science
I can't wait to get my hand on it.
The start of the wearables.
the funny thing is twitter or facebook could become a paid service anytime if it sees this as a threat. and people will pay for it
I really like that he included a reduced case of sample code. It really makes it easy to understand the differences in the solution.

Also, that last line, that comment, heh.
Of course! There are multiple birds/sensors with SAR, IR, and multispectral capabilities always surveying various parts of the world. Organizations like NGA (formerly National Imagery and Mapping Agency to give some context) are very keen to using such geospatial data and provide resources in acquiring certain types of unclassified data sets:

https://www1.nga.mil/ProductsServices/Pages/PublicProducts.a...
Scala IDE now has Play framework 2.1.x support (templates, routes, etc)
If you're interested in what it takes to write a search engine with its own multi-billion-webpage crawl/index, check out the blog series starting with http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/4/25/the-anatomy-of-sea...
I would say hang out with other hackers at meetups. You just dont wanna join a startup based on their ideas or skills. You wanna make sure its a good fit for you and the team you join. Hang out with people, hack with them at hackathons, meetups etc. Once you find a team/individual that is good fit for beers, build a small product together and ship it without the mess of any partnership/equities/llc.
I have such great admiration for these sorts of hackers. I really do love advanced clockwork (the Dr. Who episode with the clockwork ship crew that goes back to capture Madame de Pompadour comes to mind). Clockwork is, to me, the essence of hardware.

As an aside, it would be extremely cool if someone (maybe I would try my hand at it in the future) could create a sort of Hardware Description Language for clockwork, the same way we have VHDL and Verilog for circuits.
OSS Java for iOS/Android etc. hits 1.0 claims faster than native performance
Is there some SASS integration in HAML beyond regular HTML?
I don't think they can, no. But twitter didn't build vine, they acquired it. Can twitter and Facebook acquire the next big thing? Sure :)
Earn money when travelling
Nearly 60% of all iOS devices ever sold are running iOS 6
Each and every single one of those blue/red houses are already farmed into a single well-known polling precinct in every state I'm aware of.
Kim Dotcom's First Interview (Pics Included) since launch of Mega
I'm pretty curious about whats happening at Mega, so I was browsing around and found it. When you have someone who one likes to think, can give 'you know who' the finger, the best source will always be his twitter:

His Interview (Including pics from his launch):

http://rt.com/usa/news/kim-dotcom-interview-mega-673/

CEO of Mega:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10861607

PS: It appears, he had some sort of emergency landing yesterday, I wonder whats up (Check his twitter page)
I think the key argument to App.net is not open data but an open business model.
Basically, "the system" is what you call society when you're angry with it.
+1 for Ghostery. I love seeing it all alone in the IE section.
I am just writing my first technical book, this is perfect!

And I was planning a trip to the US in May ... this is less then perfect.

Decisions, decisions decisions.
Are there practical materials to make hoodies and/or jeans out of that are opaque to these devices?
It's not the delay, it's the fundamental technology. The duck hunt gun works by using signal processing on the timing of the scan-line. On an LCD TV there is no scan-line so it just doesn't work at all.
Playing Devil's Advocate here: how is this comparable to "nude" body scanners? From the demo images, it seems to produce an abstract outline except for the shapes that, I'm assuming, are too dense to be organic. In concept, how is this different than being forced to walk through a metal detector? Both this visual body scanner and the metal detector only provide vague indications of what you have hidden under your clothes.

From a pragmatic point of view...maybe I'm misunderstanding the technology, but it seems prone to a wide range of false positives...to the point that using the scans to justify apprehending someone is not much better than stop-and-frisking because a person looks "suspicious"
Uhm, no. Google can't be implemented in Perl.
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If these are terahertz-band scanners, I believe most metals will block the waves.
I think RequestPolicy fits in the Firefox section too: https://www.requestpolicy.com/
It's a very rare situation in which truncation is worse than a buffer overflow. I'd also bet that erasing the destination string is more liable to cause problems than truncating it. For example, the programmer might have pointers to locations in the destination string passed to str*cat. All of a sudden, these pointers are to garbage data.

strlcpy's behavior is the same as snprintf: return what the length would have been if there was enough room. That way one can recover from the error and realloc enough space. C programmers are used to this pattern.
Tiny speck released all the glitch assets under CC license
Possibly. I see the larger sites supported by ads. With ads, you get paid regardless of whether the review is positive or negative. With affiliate links, you only bet paid if people buy.
Computing for Data Analysis from Coursera is just finishing up and it was good. It focused mainly on how to program in R. Data Analysis from Coursera is just getting started, and so far it looks excellent. It focuses on actually doing the analysis.
Oracle Pledges More Outreach to Java Community on Security
The interesting measure is what is the peak rps

EDIT: I mean, it ~150 doesn't seem that much, but I'm sure the requests are not uniformly distributed, so the system should be able to handle much more than that within reasonable latency bounds.
I think it's unlikely that many retailers are going to pass along the fee via a surcharge. The law in Australia now allows retailers to impose surcharges or minimums for credit cards (by making these provisions illegal in the contract between retailer and credit card company). In practice very few businesses do so, with the exception of some small businesses that have maybe $5 or $10 minimums.

There does seem to be a lot of complicated maneuvering by retailers with regards to the fees - the change actually gives the retailers more negotiating power than before as they now have a stronger bargaining chip to use when negotiating swipe fees "Oh, Visa, you want to charge me 1% of the transaction amount when Mastercard only charges 0.5%? Well how about I impose a surcharge on Visa customers only and see how they like it?"

It seems like retailers are making a stink about it since this isn't their first preferred outcome where there is a ruling, settlement or law where interchange fees are actually capped.
How to deal with the Series A crunch
it is, Kraków is also awesome (railsberry.com and mmconf.com are in KRK if you need a work excuse)
Comparing Hyperdex against Cassandra and MongoDB is appropriate. All three are distributed databases with secondary indexes and an emphasis on consistency and scalability.

The other two databases you mentioned are not in the same problem domain. Redis will not manage more data than it can address in memory (barring the deprecated virtual memory paging) and Memcached doesn't bother with persistence at all. Both of these are very much memory databases targeting ephemeral storage tasks. Neither of them have distributed capabilities beyond very minimal master/slave configurations.

The YCSB benchmarks [0] were developed for Yahoo to evaluate a wide range of NoSQL databases by abstracting a few common operations to measure the primitives shared by all of them.

[0]: https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB
he comes off sounding like a redneck

Isn't that insulting and racist as well?
Google sells users to its customers: advertisers.
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Drones should never be privatized, combining that much surveillance data with your Facebook data, it can basically predict your next move. That would be too much power in the hands of big corporations or malicious hackers.
Pentagon's new expansion of 'cyber-security' is just a pretext
Gawker’s advertising future is affiliate links and “commerce journalism”
Yes, I understand that recursion is much more appealing and leads to much cleaner and elegant code than iterative solutions. and thank you for the introduction to the community I suppose.

Anyway I forked the original code, added an iterative version based on the comment by (Nick Craig Wood)
(https://github.com/AeonAxan/benchmarking_fibonacci)

Here are the benchmarks
[recursive fib: 7,765 ms] |
[iterative fib: 8,047 ms] |
[analytic opt fib: 54,875] |
[analytic fib: 103,937 ms] |

And it appears that the recursive version is faster than the naive iterative version by a few hundred milliseconds.
Well, sure if you want to use 1000 servers instead of 100, go ahead and use it. No wonder Facebook noticed this and desperately trying to compile Php to C. Perhaps if Blekko ever gets popular we will see if their choice will bite them.

Also an anecdotal example. Two months ago a friend of mine wrote a rather complex algorithm in Perl (He is very fluent with it). It was a novel sentence alignment algorithm using Gibbs sampling. Algorithm was hard to make parallel and not cache friendly. He needed to wait more than a day for training the system in a server. Well, long story short, with his help another developer converted it to Java in short time it worked around 200 times faster. So there. Moving bits around did not help Perl here at all.
How does this compare to tools like Sigil?
> In concept, how is this different than being forced to walk through a metal detector?

Well, you generally have a choice (kinda) to walk through a metal detector. People should be protect from random searches while walking around the streets. At one time there were very specific cases where you had to submit to a search -- one being hot pursuit.
I looked at the pictures trying to see what that thing my Dad brought home when I was little was, I think it was Pong, but I didn't see it there...
Is there an option for using this service without deploying to meteor.com?
Excellent metaphor, I like how this post explained simply difficult problem.

I can expand on it that I also ran into, like most of us, on similar comparisons and while I don't think it is wrong to seek help overseas, especially in places like India/Pakistan, I think that it is completely wrong to have clueless person seek help and then when they get burned, come back running to me and tell me about those bad, bad, people over there.

So again, excellent metaphor.
I love seeing all of these plugins, I use most of them for the various browsers.

What I'd love to know is what's the bare minimum of plugins I need to stop tracking (or as this page calls them, bugs).

For example, on Chrome, it seems to me that using Ghostery, Disconnect, SafeScript, AdBlock Plus and DoNotTrackMe are often overlapping in functionality. The less plugins my browser uses, the less chance of memory bloat (which I experience more as the browser ages).
are you kidding ? users will never pay for twitter or facebook. As soon as facebook/twitter is a paid service people will leave it and find for alternatives.
For paid APIs that's a different story but nothing is eternal on the internet.