skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about $3M of additional cost with $60M in revenue.

What does that mean in reality? You either take a margin hit, or enhance the margins by raising prices and changing product mix.

Also consider that minimum wage folks proportionally spend alot of money where they work. If Wal-Mart adds $3M in payroll, they're getting alot of it back as sales.
Assuming that a "proper" Open Source project is one with an active community and commitments to long term development and growth etc., is detrimental to simply getting code out there that people can use. There's often an assumption that even if you're releasing code under a Free/Open license you must want to almost run it like a startup, paying close attention to the needs of your "customers" etc.

But there's a whole other side, where you simply take code you're probably never going to do anything more with ever again, but rather than just letting it die, you set it free for other people to do something with it if they like.

One of the core Freedoms is the freedom to adapt existing code in whatever way you like. If something I've written can have some of its innards repurposed into something someone else needs, and save them a day or two of development in the meantime, then that's every bit as valid as if I create a black-box library that tens of thousands of people use (and expect new features from on an ongoing basis).

IME there is woefully insufficient attention paid to the first of these approaches.
"I don't assert that ALL php code is unmaintainable, just the quick site I built. "

Sounds like you're the problem here.
Functional programming for optimization problems in big data
Gumroad introduces Offers (allows discount codes for products)
I feel frusturated if I don't update my blog with some intresting code/post :( It 90% technical stuff so far have 450+ articles....
You're assuming that they have to make their living 'hacking'. If instead they have an oil well in the back yard providing a steady paycheck (I live in Texas, and know people just like this), they have plenty time for non-profit endeavors.
>I've struggled sometimes too. Try increasing your font size. My vision is excellent, but I think staring at tiny fonts increases strain on your eye muscles or something.

This one has been the big one for me. My vision is not excellent, and the coke-bottle glasses are a testament to that, but I'm just about 20/20 with them on and I still end up feeling weird after staring at a screen for too long. I tend to use fonts about three steps up from normal size and I never have problems anymore.

Big fonts and 1920x1200 (Retina) on a 15" screen makes for a lot of workspace and it looks good. :)
And yet that it persists brings to mind all the problems faced by large organizations. An inability to change processes, execute quickly on decisions, disconnect between customers and company operations. Which is why startups can disrupt them. Pretty much everything HP produces seems mediocre and of substandard quality including their printers, ink, devices, services such as their open stack cloud offerring.
Proportionally, the middle class in China is small, but growing.
And somebody who wanted to spend all of their time surfing.

What do you think they'd be doing on days off? Surfing maybe?
I agree, yet as a first step it is already helpful for people that are not yet informed.
Ask HN: Anyone work at Facebook? My wife needs graph search now.
Hi there. My wife owns a small rug business and design studio in Brooklyn, NYC. She's been a rug dealer and designer for several years, but is just starting to break out - brilliant press from amazing design blogs, New York Magazine, etc... I can feel her traction and momentum. More importantly, I really respect her fun and creative use of social media to drive real world sales and connections with people. She is an excellent candidate for graph search, 1 woman shop, and can innovate. Please help her get off the wait list - she's a first adopter you can get a real story/use case out of:

http://aelfie.com
Bob Iger: Steve Jobs used to call me and tell my movies sucked
Google Docs makes it easy to do market research
"infinite never ending amounts of information" has become my drug :( It's so tough to go offline!
Iran doesn't have China on its side.
His example changes permissions for directories only, which I believe your example does not.
Better that he repeats himself a lot then to mention it only once. It was the first time I saw this comment and as somebody who's developing aching wrists and fingers, I'm glad I came across it.
The way I understand it is that you either have a pool of interpreters per app or per set of apps. In the second case, life is easy: you can have a simple system that allocates interpreters to apps on demand. In the first case, you have to have a more complex solution. Perhaps the process manage (in this case apache) could implement such a system, but thus far it has not.
The central promise of Open Source is not that you can get workarounds for bugs — it's that you are free to fix any bug yourself (or pay someone else to). Lots of non-free projects have great support too, but when you fall through those cracks there's nothing you can do about it. Open Source gives you a much better promise instead.
This looks like a sales pitch for Ruby Motion to me.
How does a giant eagle physically put on a tiny ring
I'm pretty sure ssh-agent doesn't store the password, but the private key. Also, the fact that it supports timed expire (and can be setup to drop keys upon events such as screen lock) make it a wiser choice than passwordless keys.
My day job is not affected. I have pocket installed but don't use it much. Can't restrict myself so easily like you did! :(
Writing to your SSD will not "trash" it. Even in 2008, Intel drives were rated for 100GB/day for 5 solid years. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2614/4 And controllers have only gotten smarter since then.

Edit: The physical tech has also improved since then with "high-endurance MLC" cells. http://www.anandtech.com/show/5518/a-look-at-enterprise-perf...
I would go a step farther and say that OpenDoc should be in a separate interface from SaveDoc.
I also doing coding and I feel frusturated if I don't update my blog with some intresting code/post :( It 90% technical stuff so far have 450+ articles..
No. Because: http://oglaf.com/ornithology/1/
Need to...very badly.
The Surveillance Camera Man video (linked in the article) is quite brilliant, but tying that into Google Glass debate is questionable: If someone were videotaping a store or public scene, no one would bat an eye (and it happens everywhere), but in this case he is clearly focusing all of his attention on specific people, clearly upsetting them in exactly the same way it would if he simply followed them around staring at them. The reaction seems to be a paranoia that they have been singled out for some reason.

I see Google Glass and technologies like that as simply inevitable. And while people are sure that their foibles are going to be the laughingstock of YouTube, it will quickly become so pervasive that it becomes irrelevant from that angle.
I had arm trouble while typing for a while, and fixed it.

Trigger point therapy was the big one. I had a few spots in my right forearm that were messed up. The therapist jabbed them. It hurt terribly, but then my arm was much better.

I'm strong enough that I can now do the same thing to my own arm if I feel it getting tense. Armaid is also a great tool for this.

On my left arm, I had something worse. Found a physiotherapist who did MAT (muscle activation technique) and he managed to work out some adhesions in the upper part of my left hand.

If you have pain, go see a relevant therapist. There's a decent chance you have some kind of muscle trouble.

Note: I saw several non-useful therapists. For muscle adhesion problems, results should be pretty quick. I only needed 1-2 sessions with each of these guys.
I freaked out when I found out about the "screen" command several years back. "screen" starts a virtual screen that you can detach from with "ctrl-a d" and you can log out, login from a different machine/session and reattach with "screen -r". it has history so you can run long running commands and reattach 3 days later to continue from where you left off as if you had been logged in the whole time.
There is a certain inescapable problem even with small farms raising layer hens. I know exactly how this plays out large-scale and some idea on a smaller farm.

There are different breeds that are raised as layers and for meat. Layers have been bred to produce more eggs than normal, and meat birds to produce more meat than usual. Layers are not raised for meat. But farmers do need to fertilize and hatch a certain number of eggs to continue to get new generations of layer hens. Somewhere around 50% of those are males. If you're lucky, you can keep 1 rooster for 6 hens, and even that is pushing it. Those numbers just don't work.

I know that many small farmers and families with small flocks already get their hens from large hatcheries. I would like to know what happens to that minority of male chicks that are hatched on small farms though.
There is also
tar -C /local/dir -czf - . | ssh dest "tar -C /remote/dir -xz"
It speaks well of Tolkien's work that such a rigorous analysis is needed to conclude (rightly, I think) that it was simply an overlooked plot hole.

The most convincing evidence is indeed that discussion of the Eagles was omitted at the Council of Elrond, when numerous other potential courses of action were mooted, some much less plausible.
This has always bugged me. As a result, I decided to try my hand at a Chrome extension to fix it. If it's any interest to you, get it here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazon-search-auto....

It's my first extension, so be gentle if it has issues.
Update your resume, set up a portfolio site, publish anything you can to GitHub, and hit up the monthly WhoIsHiring Freelancers thread[1]. Beyond that, just follow any "how to start freelancing" guides.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
I'll take the bait on the three states you mention that are indeed stable democracies following a social-democrat strategy: Greece, Italy and Portugal. I'll drop the Soviet Union and North Korea, which are straw men in your argument, for plainly obvious reasons.

Let's back our conversation with numbers, shall we? Infant mortality rates and percent of population below the poverty line.

Infant mortality rates (deaths by 1000 live births)[1,4]: United States 6.81, Greece 4.65, Italy 3.51, Portugal 4.45, EU 4.49

% of population below poverty line [2,3]: United States 15.1%, Greece 20%, Portugal 18%, Italy 18,2%

So, I think we can close the discussion on infant mortality rates. It'd be a stretch proving that the US is better than Greece with those numbers.

As for the poverty threshold, I could argue that the numbers are within the same order of magnitude, but I don't really have to. Some statistics gimmicks are occurring here: The US poverty line is defined at an annual income of around $11k, for a median national income of around $50k. The EU defines the poverty line at percentile 40% of national income. Easily any of the European countries has one order of magnitude less poor people than the US.

You brought up indicators on innovation and defence spending. As for defence, it's an endless discussion, where I guarantee you, many people in the world would wave away US military intervention outside of its own borders in a heartbeat. Innovation is a more interesting topic, since it's often touted as a bastion of the US. Here, the sheer scale of the US is misleading. Try to compare with aggregates of the same dimension, like the EU: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/ius... You'll find that the US/Japan do lead, but nowhere can they be defined as the world providers of R&D, from where other countries benefit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage...
[3] http://www.inequalitywatch.eu/spip.php?article99
[4] http://www.indexmundi.com/european_union/infant_mortality_ra...
Maybe you are right. When I was 20 or so, I also used the computer a lot, not so much for programming yet, but for this and this. So I did use the mouse much more than I do now. However from time to time I felt issues with my hands.

So I even bought this heavy Logitech Natural Keyboard, I think things improved a lot. Anyway, from time to time I still had minor issues.

Being 28 now, working since some years fulltime as developer with normal keyboards, I hardly have such issues anymore. Although I have to admit that I pay attention that I get up from time to time. But I am definitely no ergonomics ideal. Half of the time I sit like depicted on the picture on the OP's link and in the evenings even worse when I hack at home on my laptop.
LASER Summer School 2013: Software for the Cloud and Big Data
Of course, here's the "LoTR alternate ending : Eagle version" ; )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh06CoC7th8
The ring can change size http://www.thetolkienforum.com/archive/index.php/t-5856.html
do you really think these two projects are comparable, or for that matter, that their code-licensing models are comparable?
Alternative fan theory that I've always chosen to believe: http://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/130it2/lord_of_...
If I am deploying an application with "deploy" (i.e. non-priviliged), it is ok to also run Unicorn as deploy? Or should it be run as nobody or www-data ?
The ring resizes to fit its bearer's finger.
Some Doctrine 2 best practices
Neither does North Korea, when it comes to this. Also, Iran could be said to have Russia on its side. I think the difference comes down to it being more politically expedient to Israel's and the US's interests for Iranian regime change.
Three years ago my friend published his first app in the App Store. He taught himself Objetive-C and had never programmed a day in his life before. He first app made a few bucks a day so you know what he did? He build another app. And another. And another. You know what he is doing today? House hunting in San Francisco and taking frequent vacations to Hawaii. By the way he did this working four days a week. So the problem is not really the App store it's that peoples initial exception don't intersect with their willingness to put in the time needed to build a business.
ssh-agent and 'ssh -A' is also useful if you have to login to one machine to access another, without having to copy your private key to the first machine.

For example if you login remotely to a machine, and want to access a git repository on another:

$ eval `ssh-agent -s`
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_<yourkey>
$ ssh -A <firstserver>
you@firstserver$ git clone git+ssh://<secondserver>/path/to/repository
Actually SSDs are the best place for a swap file. 4K random reads and writes. If a few random 4K writes is enough to make you worry about your SSD failing then you bought the wrong SSD (i.e. a non Intel or Samsung one).
We have applied EmberJS to a fairly complex application backed by Rails backend. We had to deal with complex JSONs delivered by backend which were schemaless MongoDB documents. At lot many places we had non RESTful Rails controllers. So when we started with EmberJS we had a worry the documentation was not proper, there were very few reference projects. After a few weeks of thrill and steep learning we settled on with things. We have applied a lot of functionalities offered by Ember to our code. Migrated from router from old to new api of pre 4. But we feel in our team it was right thing to apply Ember. The way overall MVC imposes structured programming, the way HTML is seperated from JS, the way ember data can have serializer and adapter customized, two way bindings all of it had been useful. We struggled at few places with deep nested JSONs in hasMany/belongsTo relation in embedded JSONs. But doing workarounds were easy. We used fixtures to hasten development while backend was not yet ready. All in all we believe that we made a good choice to stick with Ember, though it looks difficult to comprehend on the start but thats also getting better with time.
Can someone please explain to me why the tech press thinks a $1500 fashion accessory is better for taking secret video than a $30 pen camera?

I suspect the answer is "tech press don't know pen cameras exist, because they were invented more than five years ago".
Agree, but sometimes you have to work with systems from other people. The fact that encoding issues can occur, means it will happen someday.
How Facebook onboards users to its new Graph Search feature. (Video)
I'm looking forward to the first video of someone running into a wall and breaking their $1500 google glass.
I use variations on "find" so often that I've created several little commands "fij" (find in any java source), "fit" (find in any text / org file), "fix" (find in any XML file) etc. which I use all the time
I'm sorry, I laid my sentiment over your point and ended up missing the argument. Bad conversation on my part.

You're saying, A value proposition worth paying for would focus on support, not software availability. Yeah?

I'm unsure whether that's always the case. And as the OP is pointing out, support is implicitly included by his need to maintain a reputation. I'm not sure the profit model has to explicitly include it.
Regarding set -o vi, which I love, is there a way to have it load my vimrc as well? I have custom bindings I would love to have.
it's enough to make you miss the days of the bowtie camera.
and you can do things like

"screen -X -S minecraftserver -p 0 -X stuff "say test $(printf '\r')"
What if "that low priority problem that bugs the shit out of you" is your crappy job?
I disagree, I believe TypeScript/VisualStudio provides a closer experience than AS/IntelliJ. The inference and refactoring work quite well. And they are in their infancy, generics are coming very soon.
His son Christopher served in the Royal Air Force in the early 1940s. It also seems unlikely JRRT would overlook the importance of air power as the Luftwaffe bombed the British Isles while he worked on the books during the war.
> Why would an employer ever start a business if he had to pay every dollar of "profit" to the employees?

No one, ever. Maybe, on a technicality, the founders of 501(c)(3)s. I didn't use the word profit.

> Besides, who is to say what that productivity to the employer is?

The employer is to say the productivity of the employee. They won't do this explicitly, and it's very rarely a value that could be directly calculable.

This could be a case where I'm not using the best possible term. When I say the "productivity to an employer" of an employee, I'm actually talking about the value to the employer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(economics)).

One way to answer the question of what the productivity of an employee is would be to ask this question:

"Were there only one laborer remaining unemployed, and they were free to name their salary, what is the maximum price that I would be willing to pay someone to perform this work?"

>If I start a grocery business and hire you to work the cash register - it's pretty easy for you to see $5k/day come through the drawer and think, "I'm responsible for $5k/day."

See above. All of this is from the employer's perspective. It doesn't matter what the employee thinks their "worth" is; what matters is what value the employer gains from the relationship.

> Your "productivity" is actually what you negotiate for your salary. My productivity as the business owner is what's left after all my costs including your salary.

This actually hits at my key point. Your "productivity" is actually your VALUE. What you negotiate for your salary is your PRICE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price). I argue that these two are not necessarily coupled. Further, I suspect in the current U.S. economy at the low-income end of the job market these _are not_ coupled.

EDIT: Changed the final sentence from "I argue...that I suspect" to simply "I suspect...".
Warning: most of this site is NSFW.
> Guess what you do with vacation days when you have no money. Sit at home and be bitter about the fact that you can't afford to go any where.

What? This whole "no fun without money" attitude is maleficent bullshit.

This dude had a surfboard and waves are free. Besides that, there's a ton of activities that are fun and free or almost free. Running, walking, swimming, biking. Even if you can't do physical activities (for a reason that isn't merely an excuse) there's still meditation, for which the only requirement is basically that you are alive.

The only reason that stops anyone from having fun without money is the mindset.
I agree with antirez point of vue. To write a software is one thing, you can be crowd funded for that, no problem. What Antirez is saying, as far as I understand it, is that your software is not valuable if you don't have a sustainable model in the long run. You'll still have to pay your bill the day the software will be released open source.
In that perspective, crowd funding might not be a solution.
So in the end, I think what Antirez is saying is that you probably should choose between releasing open source (and find something else to pay the bills) or go and make your project sustainable by making it something like licensed closed sources.
How it should have ended - LOTR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

I recommend basically all the 'How It Should Have Ended' videos.
I'm looking forward to reaction of people who have their prescription lenses fitted into Google Glass trying to gain admission to the cinema.
I agree about the awesome range of libraries for Python. But, in Clojure, doesn't access to the all the JVM libraries make up for this?
Tried FAR? http://www.farmanager.com
Yeah well, that's just like, your opinion piece, man.
When a Product Launch Goes Horribly Wrong
Agreed! It's killing me that its not production ready as I have an idea that work so well with it.
There is the simple reason that this occurred after Sauron was no longer watching everything.
Oh wow! That's a lot of reasoning for making a story boring.This is far from the truly interesting analysis you can make about LotR.

[spoiler alert just in case]
The one I like the most is the topic of why Frodo fails. When Frodo reaches Mt Doom he finally loses himself to the power of the ring and proclaims himself its master. This is both a product of his character growth and his proximity to Sauron. In the words of Tolkien:

> If you re-read all the passages dealing with Frodo and the Ring, I think you will see that not only was it quite impossible for him to surrender the Ring, in act or will, especially at its point of maximum power, but that this failure was adumbrated from far back.

In the books Gollum falls into the volcano almost by chance, as if there was an invisible (rethorical) hand pushing him. In the movies Jackson just had to add the literal cliffhanger because it's Hollywood. But Gollums fall in the light of Frodo's failure expresses Tolkien's philosophy:

> There exists the possibility of being placed in positions beyond one’s power. In which case (as I believe) salvation from ruin will depend on something apparently unconnected: the general sanctity (and humility and mercy) of the sacrificial person. I did not “arrange” the deliverance in this case: it again follows the logic of the story. (Gollum had had his chance of repentance, and of returning generosity with love; and had fallen off the knife-edge).

You can read Tolkiens letters on the topic here: http://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=334. I think there's a published book with all his letters to readers.