skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good points!
Thats exactly why I am suffering now.. because I relied on them 100% to get business leads.

I already have created a list of repetitive customers, but keep in mind that most of the customers are individuals or very small offices that don't need work frequently.

So thats why I plan to start my own freelancing website.. to guarantee that I own the source of jobs.
MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development
If I had to state my tendency to have an objection to responsive design in one sentence it would be this:

Responsive design will not bring you one additional customer when compared to fixed design.

The geometric problem of A/B testing a responsive site makes it a loosing proposition in my book. If you applied half that effort to A/B testing a fixed layout site you run chance of improving conversions dramatically over time. The same optimization problem is at least N times harder with fluid design and, more than likely N2.

In short, from a financial perspective, not worth it.
You are a noble soul.
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The web is more free than a locked smartphone -- at least the web as open competition with no gatekeeper.
What is it like to be trending on HN?
A $1.35B government grant over ten years? Talk about proping up your dying industry. Surely there are research universities and any other number of more capable research groups that could benefit to divide such a huge grant. This is a mobile phone company with fairly little investment in materials science from what I can tell. Unless injection molded plastics count.
How to Not Get Busted On Social Media at Work
I'm too late :(
What does WikiLeaks releasing US Government secrets have to do with Hollywood? This just seems like a, "Hey this story is about the FBI, and I hate the FBI! Everybody let's pile on and bash the FBI for completely unrelated reasons!"
This is what the Facebook Card should look like
How could someone monetize this?
Yeah, the casual suggestion that MIT should try to badly damage the careers of most of its faculty (presumably causing them to leave) suggests that he hasn't thought about this problem very long or talked about it with many people. As much as I dislike academic publishing, the last thing I want is to have deans and their staff evaluate the merits of research on a case by case basis. It sounds nice in theory, I guess, but they're people with agendas and biases too, and even setting that aside, they don't have the time or the training to do it. (as an, I hope, neutral example: could a dean trained as an economist really evaluate the relative merits of 15 different experimental physics papers? Could a trained physicist really evaluate the contributions of 15 different economics papers?) (note that this all applies to deans at other universities. The deans at my university are of course exceptional and above reproach).

So, on the one hand, even MIT probably can't unilaterally make a lot of progress on this issue. On the other hand... almost every recent paper I've ever been interested in is available from the author's webpage (making this quote: "much of the work produced in academia is never seen by anyone outside that cloistered world, because everyone who’s not affiliated with a university is cut off from access" ring hollow to me), all of the work to produce the journals is done for free or nearly free by researchers, and (anecdotally) everyone prefers electronic copies of the journal articles anyway. It seems like open access publication is almost inevitable.

A more manageable (but less sexy) step might be for MIT and other universities to defray the admin costs for some of these flagship journals that want to go open-access. The article mentions the American Historical Review as having annual (editorial) costs of about $500k [1], which is tiny for a university.

[1] From this post: http://blog.historians.org/news/1734/aha-statement-on-schola...
I'm giving rrrewind.com to a hacker who wants to take care of it.
Some years ago I started rrrewind, a time machine of popular social content. It had good reviews when it launched.

At this point I don't have enough time to pour on it and I prefer to pass it to a fellow that loves the concept and who wants to take it further.

It was a personal project and no a for profit venture. It's up to you to decide how to go next. I just ask to be associated as the founder of it.

Stack: php. No DB, just a bunch of xml/json files.
Data: It contains 2 years of daily feeds from the most popular social sites and some unpublished.

Thanks
Just a heads up, in your 'Gittip is Hiring' post, the 'README' link goes to the old repo and the 'new issue' link 404s.
Perhaps something like this has more valuable for big-ticket items. I'm personally put off if I go to what I think will be a product page but instead get offered marketing spam. In my mind, it's a sign that the product on offer is no good, or is at least a poor value.
Yes, of course, you can use sudo command with the default ubuntu user or configure your /etc/sudoers file. I have put it this way to show both approaches, but you are right about the better practice.
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They are all the same in many respects though. Do any of them offer true unlimited data? Tethering? Usage of unlocked phones? Decent coverage? Data privacy?
Checkout http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php and http://www.lightspeed.com/
you're more than welcome to use the thread to do the same
My 5-yr old daughters got 2 Syma 109 helicopters for Christmas. They love them, but they're pretty hard for them to control--actually, very hard. But they're a blast for me.

My 8-yr old god-son got a big quad copter that he can control with an iPod and it has a camera (with real-time video to the iPod). It flies and hovers amazingly well. Of course is was $400+
You're right but Diaspora never could find the critical mass.
Why do you keep changing the title
One improvement would be to have it autodetect the compression type, so you don't have to remember -z, -Z, -J, or the other one I always forget.

However, and here is where I feel the premise of this comic is dissappointing: tar now does this. I mean, maybe he's on a Mac, and thereby his command line tools probably lose more functionality over time than they gain (such as when they switched from GNU grep to BSD grep recently, as part of their ongoing Great GPL Purge), but as a user of GNU tar I was pleasantly surprised when they made this change.
So a has-been telephone company that has less than a year to live gets a nine-digit check of taxpayer cash to do research in an area that is completely out of their competency?

Sweet job if you can get it.
the obvious course of action, as always, would be to closely monitor your traffic and analytics, then readjust your strategy when the numbers call for action. in the meantime, not being responsive allows for more agility and more targeted solutions.

their decision might not be popular, but it is definitely right for them. especially in the short- to mid-term.
I thought you were going to say you taught your children programming by creating algorithms visually through blocks. Otherwise they are pretending to be having fun.
This drop in inter-region data transfer prices is huge, and frankly, long overdue. Distributing across regions might actually be viable for companies that don't have money coming out of their ears.
Just an idea: How about you make it one step more interesting, if the purchaser executes certain milestones within a certain time period, the price will be free and instead equity only? (Otherwise they would need to return the domain back to you)

Ideally the milestones would not be development oriented (given that you seem to be a designer).
The data is more expensive, but the other challenge is the complexity and volume of the data. Our thought is to build an end-to-end system on equity and then add other instrument types.
> I think getting a PhD increases your likelihood of getting an otherwise unlikely outcome in the sense of career success/advancement, getting rich, etc.

I can't see how it could fail to decrease it, once you take opportunity cost into account. The most likely way to get rich in a technical career is doing a startup. During the five or six years you were spending on your PhD, you could have founded two startups, had them both fail, learned from the experience, taken a third shot, and be seeing your latest startup taking off, all by the time you would have been putting your PhD in your pocket and wondering what to do next.
Yes but did it occur to him that maybe the only reason such journals exist is because they are commercial enterprises?
> I just know that from a business perspective it sounds like there is no need for the makers of this program to invest in correcting its problems

The programmers are active on Reddit, twitter and youtube. There have been several examples of people posting information about bugs or suggestions and those things being implemented.
I think interactive brokers is one of the common choices for people who don't have the resources/money to get direct exchange connections or similar.
House of Cards: The “13-hour movie” defining the Netflix experience
Have there been problems with your name conflicting with the identically named scripting language?
For those like me who never heard of graphene - watch the video at the end of the page - it's fascinating.

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTSnnlITsVg
It's crazy hard in Gothenburg, at least for some place I wanted to live. I've heard that Stockholm is worse. If you're a single person, willing to share an apartment with someone else, then you can rent just a room ("inneboende"). That's likely the easiest. You can also look for a sublease ("andrahandskontrakt"). But getting a lease ("förstahandskonrakt") is hard. Parts of town require you to be on a waiting list which can be up to 5 years long. For Gothenburg, I was on the list for 1.5 years for a lease before we gave up and moved to the smaller city of Trollhättan.

No startup scene, but a 1,300 sq. ft. apartment in the center of town (3bd, 1.5 ba) goes for only $1,500/month, and the commuter train to Gothenburg takes about 45 minutes.

If you have money you can get a "business apartment" for about 2x the normal rate. Those are pretty easy to find. But you'll need to have a business first (even one in the US) to rent it.

You can get an idea of what's available using the aggregator http://kvalster.se/Stockholm . When a place is "1 rum" it means studio, "2 rum" means "living room and bedroom", etc. As a decent approximation, 1sq meter is 10 sq. feet.

Rates in the tech area of Kista look about $700 for a shared room/studio. In Södermalm I see prices more around $800 for a room/studio, though you can pay a lot more. (350 sq. ft studio apartment, furnished, for one month rental while the owner is overseas, $1264 for the month.)
1) You are not going to get rich purely as a salary (wo)man unless you are lucky enough to be an early stage employee (which I don't see how the PhD or otherwise helps you that much)

I think this is basically true, but I wonder about a couple of potential exceptions:

(a) I suspect that in huge corporations (IBM being a canonical example), just having the credential can help qualify you for leadership roles (e.g. leading, say, groups of 100 to 1,000 people), if you are also a good leader/strategical thinker/do-er. And at some point, these leaders are probably getting paid significantly more, which (with wise investments) could potentially (?) be bootstrapped into getting rich. I'd be interested if anyone with personal experience can comment on any of the above.

(b) I would think that having a PhD would help qualify you for the top-level executive roles. Although, frankly, I've looked at company websites, and top-level executives with PhDs are not _that_ common, even in software companies. But yeah, I mean, there _should_ be a top-level decision maker who is _at least_ keeping a close watch on any research related to what the company does (I'm talking software companies here, not companies that _use_ software)... and the vast majority of people who have the necessary skills will be people who did PhD-level research. Anyway, this person should be able to advocate for how the company can leverage new research, and this should not just be left to lower-level (hierarchically) technical folks who have no true strategic voice in the company.

To found your own company and leverage your PhD skills seems tempting but rarely if ever do PhD's have research that can be converted into successful industry products.

Do you think this is true even of CS PhDs? I feel like in my research group, there is a real chance for any of we (students) to do this, but AFAIK I am the only one who has ever really thought about it, because my colleagues tend to keep their noses in the books and focus on narrow technical concerns, whereas I'm really a big-picture thinker. So: in my case, plenty of opportunity, just not much interest among actual PhD students.
Having just bought a house in the past month, i'm going to say that they fax it around 5 or 6 times, then they forward that to their gmail account.

That way it looks like crap by the time it gets back to you.
Yes, but also, it's the banks who employ the financial experts who convince people that they can afford these loans that they can't really afford.
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are welcome

Scribd (social publishing & eBooks, top 100 website) is hiring talented hackers and other technical people for a broad range of technologies.

We've hired THREE full-time people and numerous interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads, including a one just last month ... it really works!!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (we recently switched to Coffeescript and are loving it)

* iOS

* Android

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations

* Back-end problems: scalability, web crawling, big data, analytics

* DevOps and web infrastructure

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience. We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a zipline!). We've got flexible hours, a very engineer-driven company culture, and a really terrific team.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire.

We're working on a big new product launch now that we're really excited about. If you're interested in eBooks, I'd love to tell you about it.

Generally we're looking for full-time and INTERN hires (junior year or older) who want to move to SF. H1B and relocation are no problem.

See more at scribd.com/jobs and feel free to email me directly: jared at scribd.com
Appthority

FullTime no-remote Backend Developers (ror/c++), Devops, ios researchers .

We provide an API for very large companies to scan mobile applications against. We perform static/dynamic analysis (amongst other things) and prepare reports against them.

If you join you'll have the ability to own entire projects. You won't be wasting anytime doing boring webdev work. No social local mobile here. Screw that. We have quite a few projects that will allow you to really utilize your knowledge.

Yes, we have the booze and the nerf guns and the snacks and all that crap but we actually pay our developers too. Since this is the case we don't do startup slave interns or junior developers.

We are funded and have the biggest companies in the world as paying customers and they are asking some quite crazy things of us - step up to the challenge. On a side note - we basically don't build anything until someone hands us a check.

We need help but we need people who can write code that is very efficient and very fast.

Our office is near Embarcadero, SF.

Please email me right now at ieyberg@appthority.com .
http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/mcdonalds-joke
As far as I know their headquarters is still in Espoo, Finland. They recently sold the building, and leased it back in order to raise cash, but they haven't moved out of the country.
[Show HN] CLI Password Manager - Time for a security review
Meta. Telling you how he builds trust by teaching his audience. In turn he's teaching the audience. So he's building the audience's trust.

Recursive money algorithm.
Three Storytelling Tips For French Startups When Pitching
Show HN: Launching energy tracking and automation web app
Damn it, I thought it meant this:
http://jondot.github.com/graphene/
Is it just me or is the whole article in Swedish?
So true. I took the endorsements area off my profile. My "image processing" expertise was endorsed by a fellow I knew solely through screenwriting, which isn't surprising given how pushy LinkedIn is getting about endorsing other contacts' expertise.
Hahahaha, I'm laughing at you retards trying to silence me. Boo-hoo, bad words make jesus sad. Lmao! Give me head or give me death! xoxo
No idea, these grants have complicated terms and probably quite a few loop holes.

They'll still publish lots of the basic research but maybe not the really valuable industrial stuff.
That's my current stack as well. Though some of the recent changes in the next version of Bootstrap might tempt me back.
You don't have to ask for a user's age if your site is intended for a "general audience". You'll still need to purge information from users who are discovered to be under 13.

See questions 40/41 http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm#teen

"""
40. I operate a general audience site and do not ask visitors to reveal their ages. I do have a button that users can click to send feedback, comments, or questions by email. What are my responsibilities if I get an email that says, “Hi, I am Steve, age 10, and I really like your site. When do you think you will add some more games?”

Under the Rule’s one-time contact exception, 16 C.F.R. § 312.5(c)(2), you may reply to the child once without sending notice to the parent or obtaining parental consent, if you do not re-contact the child, and you delete the child’s personal information, including email address, from your records after responding to the email.

"""

Legal Corollary of 40: If you send spoofed email to a site operator claiming to be under 13, you could legally force them to delete another user's account.
Be careful about thinking Iceland is some utopia. Many articles in the Anglosphere seem to not have done any fact checking. Some even think Iceland is in the EU and uses the Euro.

"Iceland told the banks to f* off, why can't USA do the same" is a nice story. The truth is usually more complicated.
My next sleep experiment
The last time I went to a new doctor, I filled out all those forms on a touchscreen tablet they provided.
How to Move from MySQL to Couchbase Server 2.0: Part 1
It would be cool if the interactive map would actually show up...
It's fine to express an opinion, but for the sake of others, could you state why you believe they are so great? And if you really want to help, please state other frameworks, IDE's or text editors you have used.
Can you point me to one you believe is done really well? The ones I have encountered, without exception, fail to deliver on this promise, and feel more like spam and less like value.
I don't think the job is done. I don't think it can be - FOSS is a tool which for some problems can remain in the box without lessening the benefits which come when a particular problem is solved.

The problem of appliances locked down with spyware is an example. I believe it is a problem whose first order implications are more serious than those which FOSS (and even GNUism) are intended to address. The implications include threats to physical safety and political liberty.

I understand that there are different opinions. I acknowledge that it might be the case that the best possible solution adheres to GNUist principles. I just think that an unwavering GNUist approach is likely to an impediment to achieving a good and practical solution

I use "GNUist" because FOSS doesn't prevent lockdown - and "Stallmanist" sounds too much like "Stalinist". And like "pragmaticism" is too ugly to be co-opted for other purposes.

My Symbian Phone would load open source code written in Java, but only after it was signed. I was granted the means of self-signing, but only by Nokia's grace. And that turtle goes all the way down. The OS could have been FOSS and the device still constructed so as to require code signing for the OS.
The company was Sycor--unlikely anyone has heard of it. They invented the Intelligent Terminal--a data entry device replacing keypunches that could do validation checks on entered data.

They were building an 8085 powered computer with their own OS. They hacked the PL/M compiler--actually rewrote it in Fortran to emit the appropriate object code and the rest of their tool chain. They started an effort to rewrite the compiler, but it failed. I came in, and being familiar with XPL (From the book "A Complier Generator"), having finished a port of it for the Xerox Sigma 5 at a previous gig. One other person on the team had finished a PhD in computational complexity and the other had project experience writing COBOL compilers.

The project stared with a desire to change the language a bit, so we designed a new language. It wasn't too different from PL/M as it had to be mechanically translatable. The language was named, embarrassingly, Syclops. We started out with batch jobs on a 360/35, writing it in PL/1. They shortly got a PDP-10, which I miss, and we commenced to rewrite the compiler in Bliss-36. So it was essentially a cross-compiler, spitting out 8085 machine code with a very fancy assembler listing, including timings for each basic block.

The project was wildly successful, and opened the door to switching processers. For a while, they considered the 6809, but ultimately stuck with the 8085. The CEO was very pleased, at least, to have the opportunity to consider the switch.

My favorite activity was taking bug reports from the programmers who always looked at the generated code. The would come in with the listing, saying that the code was wrong. I would go over the code, and the reaction from them always was "wait--that is odd, the code is right. Weird."

My boss at the time like to say "A compiler should produce code that an assembly-language programmer would be fired for writing."
How is investigating WikiLeaks, "investigating copyright crimes?"