skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a lot of work for US-based clients. I'm registered as a sole trader here in Poland, and my accountants take care of the tax details.

I issue invoices every month, and transfer monies where my accountants tell me to.

Taking payments is easy: I have an account with http://currencyfair.com that clients can deposit funds into. At a push, I can be convinced to accept PayPal - clients pay all fees associated.

My advice: find a few accountants nearby to you, have a meeting with each and discuss your requirements. They'll be able to give you the answers you need, and life becomes good from there.
Yes, adsense generates virtually nothing. I had it up for about 6 months and it generated ~$70 or so.

Sounds like you have something very wrong going on there. I have one incredibly crappy site with 5k uniques/month that is bringing in more than that.

I'm no expert, but if you'd like me to take a look, ping me on email.
Awesome WebGL Bone animation Demo
Jean-Pierre forgets to mention the appeal of receiving funding vs. no equity...
Forget Your Resume - Use an Online Presence to Impress Potential Employers
Internet Explorer 10, Chrome, and Firefox hacked at Pwn2Own
Wasn't this announced a month or so ago?
Regarding AngularJS, please use it only if you are new javascript and prefer learning Angular Javascript (which is not javascript by the way) :)

I am not sure you "know" javascript. If you are saying that there is an Angular version of javascript then you are terribly mistaken. Angular is probably one of the only mainstream framework that stays true to javascript. All other frameworks ( Backbone, Ember etc.. ) are the ones that actually mould javascript into an OOP language. I would say that Angular uses the prototype chain ( you know javascript is a prototypical language right? ) the best. The whole scope object inherits prototypicaly while in all other frameworks we create an illusion of OOP. Someone correct me if I am wrong here.

Just for clarity, I believe that when you write Angular code you are writing the purest form of javascript. Because thats what you are writing there. Just plain javascript. There is no constructs imposed by the framework at all. This is probably why most people think "Angular's javascript" is not javascript. They have been always fed layers on top of javascript because "javascript is somehow not optimal, not right" and it has to be "changed" and "corrected" . OOP is shoved down the throat. This is probably gone on to the extent that when someone actually writes in pure javascript it starts looking like a foreign language !!
Avoid ExtJS like the plague. It is bloated nonsense that takes up hundreds of megabytes of RAM per tab for large applications. Extremely hard to do properly and almost impossible for UX guys to skin thanks to the over abstraction and the almost pathological fear of HTML in the library.

(anecdote: forced to work on a "cutting-edge" ExtJS 3 app for months. They had "customized" it so much just to get it to do what they wanted to do that they could no longer upgrade to later versions of 3 or the much better 4.)
Theres probably lots of well thought arguments for basic income guarantee but here's the things I could come up with:

- much cheaper than welfare because you don't need to hire people who decide if you deserve it

- less corruption than welfare because you can't bribe people who decide whether you deserve it.

- you don't have to hide that you are working in order not to loose the benefit, so possibly more money from taxes and healthier, more honest social climate. Also no need for minimum wage.

- no need for government sponsored pension or formalized retirement age

- you no longer have to care so much about unemployment. From political issue it becomes only yet another indicator of the state of economy. Hence the government can safely shed off large quantities of its employees.

- no need for minimum wage, wages can safely drop below any currently conceivable minimums.

- more worker mobility since you don't have your whole income at stake when you decide to look for new job.

- strong incentive for having kids since they add to family income, also parents have sense of security that they will be able to support a child and have time to raise it as well.

- more money in hands of more careful consumers. Poor people tend to spend money more wisely as they choose products more carefully with regards to ratio between price and quality. More purchasing power in hands of dedicated consumers, results in more efficient market.
>If I click on something I expect to go somewhere

You are going somewhere. To the instant mini-view of what would have been an entire page in 1999: More navigation and drill-down.

> So providing multiple options is a must

Not all opinions are equal in quality/quantity, and this ain't government.
Gawker told me to disable NoScript
I told Gawker I am a NoScript user having trouble telling which of around a dozen third-party JavaScript domains will let me view comments. I included some links to tips on Gawker blogs to enhance one's security using NoScript. Here is their response:

'Unfortunately, the only advice I can give from my end is to just disable NoScript in general (it just doesn't play well with our sites).'

'And unfortunately, I don't have a list of third party domains to give you ( and if I ask the tech team, they're just going to tell me to have you disable Noscript, since its a known problem causer/ is just a pain in the butt from their end), so your best bet is to either play around from your end or just disable the plug-in. Let me know if you have any other questions/concerns.'
If it only covers the cost of living in SF I would suggest that you do not take that job. Also if you are working now as a Team Lead try to find another job that does not bust you down.
I disagree that this example is too narrow/shaky. I believe it actually encompasses a vast majority of people who are currently earning the minimum wage. Note that I'm willing to change my beliefs if my reasoning has led me astray :)

The key assumption you've made that I disagree with is this: "why would the worker keep working for that employer for $X/hour in the first place?". It seems to me that this assumption boils down to an underlying assumption that the labor market is an efficient market.

In another comment elsewhere in this thread sergiosgc makes a statement that I think is relevant here: "You wrongly assume the job market is a perfect market. It's not; there are barriers to entry, barriers to exit and lots of asymmetric negotiation positions."

My argument (and I Am Not An Economist) is that the COST of labor and the VALUE of labor (from the employer's perspective) are not necessarily equal.

A quick hyperbolic example of a labor-rich job market that demonstrates this difference:
* Your labor market has 1,000,000 people
* You are offering the only job in the labor market. For every hour the lone employee works the job will generate $500 of additional revenue for your company.
* There is no minimum wage, and your goal is to minimize your costs while maximizing your revenue.

What is the price you pay your employees under these conditions? It's not $500/hour. It's probably only room and board.
If we introduce a minimum-wage of $5/hour, what is the price you pay now?
If we raise the minimum-wage to $10/hour, what is the price you pay now?
If we raise the minimum-wage to $100/hour?
$1,000/hour?

I admit that this was an extraordinarily hyperbolic example, but I think the current U.S. job market is a less-extreme example of this.

1) Based on anecdotal evidence (that I'm too lazy to look up current estimates of the number of people not participating in the U.S. workforce), the current job market around the country currently favors employers. Many people are fervently searching for jobs which drives down the PRICE of labor. This doesn't change the VALUE of any particular job for the employer.

2) The median U.S. income is down over the last several years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...), while U.S. corporate profits are hitting record highs (https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease...). This is a pretty strong indicator that the PRICE of labor and the VALUE of labor are disconnected.

Finally, I refer you to Wikipedia where there is a rather good summary of current economic thinking on the impact of minimum wage laws on unemployment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage). As far as I can tell from a brief summary, currently thinking by economists is relatively mixed.
This is awesome stuff. It really adds a lot of end-user benefits when your app is able to sync via Dropbox.

While the APIs are only for iOS and Android, on BlackBerry 10, it's technically baked into the OS. If the user has linked their device to Dropbox, the OS automatically syncs the filelist and presents it as a part of the filesystem. This means that the user can open, edit, and save files directly to their Dropbox, without having to worry about connectivity. This also means that every BlackBerry 10 app can access your Dropbox folder, for free.

Even still, I have a feeling the Sync API likely offers something more than what I've described, but I haven't had a chance to delve into it. But I'm glad to see Dropbox branching out like this.
Customer Mobility
Oh yes you're wrong: http://imgur.com/IH1osAD

And http://i.imgur.com/qJXJUaH.png are just proofs than they can't own anything.
I get the impression that dsl is a pretty successful person IRL already.
It's likely that variation in productivity accompanied the rise in productivity.

You're not much more (in real terms) productive than a bored teenager in 2013 than you were in 1993, but the most productive people in 2013 may be an order of magnitude more productive than the most productive people in 1993.
I typed "[[[[" and the script became unresponsive (hung).

Repeated by reloading the page. Same result.

FireFox / MacOS.
Responsive Web Design is not a war
I agree that business often need some kind of investment to help get started but it is not always the case.

It feels like the end game of any startup these days is to close a round of investment from a top-tier fund as if that creates a business in itself. That point is very much just the beginning and then the real work starts.

We need to get back to thinking of investment as an aid to building a sustainable business not the first step to a sale to {insert large tech firm here}
Here's a complete authentication web app that uses Clojure

https://github.com/xavi/noir-auth-app

It generates HTML using Enlive (for complete separation of code and markup), it talks to a MongoDB database (using CongoMongo). It also has a little bit of ClojureScript (I think that being able to use the same language in both client and server is a very good benefit of using Clojure for web apps, especially if the people developing the front-end and the back-end are the same).
Sadly there seems to be no MIME type for ANSI art. Of course this should depend on the "Accept" header and not the User Agent. But it seems infeasible.
The future of Google Glass[video]
> why haven't any client devs who ran into token limited tries using the official keys yet? will they be taken out of an app store?

Probably, just like AirFoil Speakers Touch has been kicked out for using some Apple private key extracted from the Airport firmware to act as an AirpLay receiver.
Safari actually has 60% of mobile web usage.

Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/02/01/apple-android-market-...
Ask HN: How can I switch to remote freelancing?
I'm a full-stack Java/J2EE engineer in France that until now worked on soul-crushing projects for big corps (mainly high-traffic web portals and almost-realtime data analytics). I'm moving from the city to the countryside; to work on bootstraped startup projects (expect an annoncement soon) and to do some remote freelancing. I won't be able to find some Java remote freelance gigs in France, so I'll guess I'll have to go "international". Do you have some clues on how to make this transition ? I don't really have a network to leverage and cannot get back to previous big-corp customers (they never allow remote working).
I have a friend who tells me that good (windows) zero days, with remote execution, are worth about $50K on the market that transacts these things, with a contract to increase that value if their is no open disclosure. I.E. If your zero day remains a zero day for another six months, there is an opportunity to see further reward.

I've always wondered if it's intelligence agencies, criminal organizations, police organizations, or commercial endeavors that sell services to those three bodies that are paying that kind of money for zero days.

I also don't understand why people give good zero days away for free, if is really the case that there is a market in these types of properties. Anybody have actual insight into this?
That's bad. I'll look into it right away.
Well, that looks really nice. I am not a IDE type, but I do enjoy nice coding helpers when I write. This, well integrated into say, Vim, would make Javascript programming really comfortable.
> Maybe subliminal messaging then?

Ask for a review after the user gets 5 stars in a level? :p
That part of the point of BTC though, AFAICT - no price control, no supply control.

It appeals to libertarians for this reason. Doesn't appeal to me because I like stability in my currency and am happy to have central authorities that try to ensure that, but it appeals to libertarians.
Probably people who like to think they like reading, but didn't read the article.
Working fine on Chrome 24 on Linux/x64.
Android: Vulnerability in PBKDF2 implementation
NoScript was meant to use on sites like gawker's and other primarily US based sites that include an awful lot of 3rd party scripts.

I think websites that include 3rd party scripts should be liable when one of these script run amock.

But I am not going to wait for that, so sites like that are removed from my attention field when I am not able to make them function from enabeling scripts of their own domain.
Great stuff. Now it just needs to find it's way into the KeePass apps.
The browser tab hangs on Chromium 24.0.1312.56 on Kubuntu 12.10 (when typing [[[[).
I could use this for a Qt app. Why not a c or c++ api instead of IOs and android ?
How people live on minimum wage.
I agree on your points about the War on <term>, and the necessity to move back to a position of having more concrete definitions and end-games for war. I take issue with your dismissal of Paul's concern of the issue.

(All politicians of any success will be playing politics; it's a matter of whether they're playing them to the right ends, personal ambition aside. If this is Rand manoeuvring, I want to see more of it.)

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Drones represent another removal of the "difficulty barrier" between law enforcement and their unquenchable desire to subjugate civilians. Just as guns don't kill people, drones don't kill people. And just like gun-control advocates don't trust the people to bear arms, drone-control advocates don't trust the federal government to respect the existence or the privacy of its citizens.

The difference is that a civilian murderer usually gets punished. It is a shock to the system to hear of any law enforcement officer or agency to be seriously reprimanded for the most egregious of murders, assaults, and violations of trust.
Should be better now. It was a change I made half an hour ago. Ad-hoc changes to sites that are receiving traffic always do that.

[You'll need to hard-refresh to get the fixed code.]
Pitching to a large client puts you at risk of becoming a contractor for that client. This is a dangerous trap if your goal is to sell a scalable product.
Maybe because they don't want people's computers to be abused by people with lots of cash to spare? One can only assume they're getting more than $50k worth of value from the zero day, so something pretty dodgy must be going on
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And there is the issue!

The rest of us, through taxes, are already subsidising the big corps and their minimum wage employees. We do this because people shouldn't have to starve in the modern world, but where people are employed we shouldn't need to.

By forcing a raise in the minimum wage we stop the employer from taking from our collective pocket to support their broken business model.
Considering Chrome had a last minuite patch applied
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/06/last-minute-pre-p...

It's good to know it still got taken down, because I had a horrible fear they where going to try and advertise they were 100% safe because they weren't exploited.
If you have an iPhone and Mountain Lion, you can just pass messages between devices via the Notes apps and iCloud.
A parable about problem solving in software development
At least I posit 'a' solution! I'm not a fan of mystery meat navigation, and to be honest - there are plenty of sites - that use quite dumb non-intuitive UIs - including non obvious links and drop down menus. An intuitive navigational mode applied to web pages could really help.

I get what you are saying though. I'd envisage say, as soon as you tap the screen or move the mouse, all the navigational controls would be highlighted - rather than having to hover the mouse over something to see if it's a link or not.
Or they aren't about to kill the same bug in MobileSafari, since it is worth exponentially more.

https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/309585202810867712
Exactly! And at the same time we can exploit the power of the web, which unfolds into an easier approach to collaboration and a wider range of possibilities in terms of ways to show / plot / share the data and any other products of the scientific research. "Papers" haven't changed at all in the last few hundred years, but research and technology has dramatically. It's time to keep up.
Would depend on the effect of the rising costs (of labour) of the firms.
Do they make less profit or increase the prices of their goods?

Hopefully the extra money comes from an area that has a higher rate of tax than the tax rate of low income earners thus putting more money back into the "market economy". This should be likely in a country with progressive taxation.
touching the void
I played the SAME game before as a flash game. Even the first 5 or 6 levels are the same... Hope, that you don't get sued for that!
So yes - static factory methods - or, if it gets complex enough, a distinct factory object - are the right place to do work that would otherwise need to be done in the constructor. Use package-private constructors to enforce that people don't bypass them.
Selling books and TED tools are something all those "legitimate" scientists do as well, including the Nobel prize winners.

He is doing research. I can't say if he's doing enough but he's done quite a lot.
If a user doesn't have an account (or hasn't linked their account yet) Dropbox should let developers store data in an anonymous account tied to that device until the uses does. I think developers would pay for that.
Amazing, but it could be even more awesome if you could provide API that could be integrated with other editors.
Someone on another HN thread said that they bought some bitcoins at a certain price, price jumped by a couple of dollars and five days later Coinbase cancelled the transaction due to 'lack of supply'.

One can only assume that in the reverse case they'd have pocketed the difference. So it seems like it might be the latter.
Machinarium point-and-click adventure
:-) Good summary....
It does seem swamped by the swag hunters.

I've found that the I/O Extended event works out well...
They hold them in many countries now, and live stream the keynotes. It's a great atmosphere, and you meet interesting people.

Outside of Extended, the tech talks/firesides should be streamed live via YouTube. It was a bit hit and miss last year... hope it's smoother this time.
If you need help, want to suggest a modification, or otherwise need to interact with the author(s) of something you're using, it's nice to have friendly people to deal with, rather than assholes, all else being equal.
Android Accounted For 79% Of All Mobile Malware In 2012, 96% In Q4 Alone
> But that is a proprietary system tied to a single IDE. If the crowd-funding succeeds, Tern will be an open system that can (and will) be plugged into a variety of editors and IDEs.

Hopefully, that will happen. Sounds very cool though, as my IDE, sublime text, is rather underpowered in the intelligence department I'm afraid.

I could imagine it applying .tmLanguage scopes to words in the document, where you could colorize different variables according to type (I would opt for different background shades, myself). Then, mixed type colors (prompting you to click it and see what Tern says) when you can't know. Damn, that would be helpful.
yep, so you shouldnt rely on it but make it a feature of your app to sync the data to dropbox.
So people starve?

We, collectively, support the employees that allow walmart and their ilk to operate. Mandating a minimum wage at a higher level takes the burden away from the rest of us.

The alternative is not just to pull the rug out from under folks feet and let them sink. This would not result in better negotiation skills, or people choosing jobs that pay a living wage, or any other utopian ideas. It would result in further abject poverty.
full page visual graphic of a mockup of your service or product always works quite effectively.
Those other solutions involve the taxpayer footing the bill, why should we be subsidising employers?
Love it! I would love to see social integration as well. For example 1 on 1 matches - first one to fail a level looses. And maybe even co-ops, this requires advanced levels though. You have n-sized teams, e.g. n on n matches - the first team to fail a level looses.
How Excite Won a $3M Bet-the-Company Deal with $1M in the Bank
this only makes sense if you save locally and want to have the files synced to the cloud like Dropbox does. Since a webapp will most likely not store stuff locally (and when it does, i doubt dropbox could access it) it doesnt really make sense.

But you can still use their Core API for this though.
Yeah sure, that trickery is what makes iOS so easy to use for very young children. Time to put away the blinders and put yourself in the perspective of other people.
First time scale/traction
Our company has a milestone to achieve in order to meet investors needs (for the first seed stage investment). 100.000 users by end of April. Plan of action? Suggestions?
How not to launch a project on KickStarter
I suspect the point being made was that Joe First Line Support Guy shouldn't generally have arbitrary access to your database either. If you're handling sensitive information, including almost any personal data, then generally the number of people with root/admin/open access to the relevant systems should be minimal and tightly controlled, and everyone else should have controlled-by-need access through their own front-end.

Organisations (usually relatively small ones) where everyone can be root or access any user's file in the database so they can Get Things Done sound great, right up until the point where it turns out you hired the wrong person, they did something naughty with your database, and your whole organisation and/or its executives personally are sent to live in legal/regulatory hell for months/years/ever.
1,500 GH/s Bitcoin mining hardware
Oh, I know all that (I was building websites in the mid 90s, so I'm old enough to remember a life before the WWW).

I assumed you were referencing an old meme or a famous quote from some notable UNIX greybeard. I hadn't realised you were just joking about being old (that wasn't clear from your original comment).

Sorry mate, I just misunderstood the context of your joke. (my epic lack of sleep probably didn't help)
my odd issue with their site is that pageup/pagedn do not scroll properly, they are moving a line or two too far.

Still trying to understand why Twitter must be forced to renew a contract in how they sell their data. I do not see how a company can sue to force another company to sell access to it.