skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do a lot of copy editing yourself. I recommend you print things out on paper and proofread a couple of times. It is not so hard.

Another trick I use is to get the computer to read the text to me (using mac os's built-in text-to-speech function). It works really great --- you won't be able to find the mistake if you reread, but you will definitely //hear// the mistake.

As for more serious copy editing (my book), I found a freelancer who is going to proofread the entire thing carefully.

You can also try these simple shell scripts which are good for scientific texts: https://github.com/ivanistheone/writing_scripts

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As for getting into that space, I hear that $20-30/hr is the going rate for copy editing, which is not too exciting. My advice would be to combine your copy-editing-as-a-service offering with another service. Quality control, click counting (is the app/website well organized?) or general feedback for startups.

Copy editing is VERY valuable, but unfortunately most people don't recognize the value so you will have to work hard to convince them that they need you.

Good luck!
Sim City usually needs to scale that far, but this version has a much smaller scale. The "cities" are only something like 2km by 2km squares. It's really more "Sim Suburb"
Here's another video with Leo explaining details of how/why he builds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplsGiSmnJI

Discusses writing software around the 1:50 mark.
Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither.

What? A salaried job is literally a company converting some of its money into time. It may not be your surplus of time or surplus of money, but that doesn't mean you aren't building something interesting.
I suspect this author and editorial organization would, in fact, call all the similar activities by the government 'spying', that you and I would agree should be called 'spying'. So the fact that other people, sometimes, use and understand 'spying' less consistently isn't very relevant for condemning this headline use as 'misleading'.

Wiretapping requires a court order. And it is also 'spying', in the common understanding of the word. ('Spying' does not require illegality. With a court order, wiretapping is legal spying. These NSLs are also currently-understood-to-be-legal spying.)

The headline "Google: FBI Spies on its Customers" would have been defensible, too. It's a short, opinionated summary of the equally-opinionated reporting. Yes, it would prompt readers to wonder exactly which kind of 'spying' is meant, which they could find in the article.

'Requests Some Customer Data' would not be enough: there's no indication of the compulsion and secrecy. 'Secretly Investigates' would not be enough, either, because just researching someone via public sources could be a 'secret investigation'. Only 'spying' adds the necessary connotation of surveillance or privileged-document-collection.

And sure Wired picked the word for drama. We should expect reports to feature the most-dramatic-yet-still-fair headlines that can be backed up by the reporting. This recent expansion of oversight-resistant domestic-spying is in fact a dramatic development. Google finding a way to hint at its magnitude is also a dramatic development.
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Isn't it a matter of time before someone release a crack/patch that eliminates the online DRM requirement? The bitter complaints seem a little pissant to me. (Then again my experience with the game is limited to one 20 minute session on friend's PC during the first beta period.

I'm annoyed that they didn't release concurrently for Mac. Also a bit relieved since I can't afford to spend a lot of time playing right now.
That may or may not be valid depending on what one considers "done" in the context of a project.

My team considers a feature done when it goes through QC and business analysis.

I personally find it nice to just hit a couple of hotkeys instead of working through the application itself in order to test functionality. It does save me time because I want to ensure that the feature works and I have to devote less cycles to fix some small thing I missed when running the real app as opposed to tests.
Edge case: after deleting the first line, no gutter shows op
Sorry when I look at a problem, I think about the solution for the problem. And not testing the solution.
...and a bit of a roasting now and again, particularly in MyPods and Broomsticks.
I didn't buy HBA5 for Solar 2, but I can already tell it's going to be one of my favorites from this bundle, along with Beat Hazard Ultra (the PC version of which I had already played and enjoyed).

Simply flying around as an asteroid is alright, but the real fun starts once you've smashed into enough rocks to become a planet. Then you can collect a whole swarm of asteroid, orbiting around you. Colliding with asteroids now reduces your mass instead of growing you; you have to swallow the rocks in orbit to do so. Once you become a star, collecting whole planets (with their own orbiting asteroids) is even neater. Along the way, the inhabitants of planets will build little ships and planetary shields to defend themselves against rival systems... until you swallow their homeworld, anyways. I've yet to build a multi-stellar system before becoming a black hole and gobbling up my orbitals, but that's my next goal.

If nothing else, I'm glad HBA5 introduced me to this game I'd somehow overlooked.
Unit tests verify if what you have written is correct. They don't verify if you are writing the right thing.

Writing unit tests for the wrong thing, only tests the wrong thing.
So if this was the case, why couldn't the other shards handle application requests while you casually upgraded the application and database tier in say... 30 seconds (or even minutes) as opposed to sub 15s?
Letter from Steve Wozniak to a high school student in Korea
While I agree with the underlying point that most people grow their spending with their job, I strongly disagree that "it's not just about discipline or will". It really does come down to wanting less and buying less. I don't know in what absurd world you "need" to spend $300k to keep a $400k job, or even $80k to keep a $100k job. Nothing stops you from having a six-figure salary and living like a college student.

That represents one of the most critical financial lessons of all time: your salary and your expenses do not need to correlate, so don't let them.
There are technical solutions to this [1]. They just run counter to Google's business model. Why do you think they have not rolled out integrated PGP support, even in Labs?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
And in related news, he is also considering Cottonelle to wipe his ass.
My thoughts exactly. Additionally, their obsession with remaining 2D is probably one of the biggest apparent design flaws. The whole point of a GUI to a DF-like game would surely be to render it in a more information dense, immersive way - not seeing that at all when we're dealing with isometric 2D.
it looks like its basically an anti-competitive law that requires a $500,000 license to be any sort of payment processor in California. The law was pushed through by a lobby group of existing big name financials companies.

some recent developments
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Probably because there are dozens of other sites that do the same thing.

Here's a recent discussion about one of them. The feedback there could probably help you too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5271266

Good luck!
I've gotten much more done with this one than anything else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPHEUZbPnw

An hour long of unchanging audio sort of fades into the background so you are unaware of it.
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Your Live Edit idea is a good one, but I think the assumption about "un-pre-processing" would be part of the pre-processing development tools understanding what was being pushed to them, therefore, the need for an open standard as has been alluded to above.
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It really depends on the type of functionality that you're talking about. So many web apps (at least the kind that I seem to work on the most) just consist of data storage and fancy presentation on the screen. Not much worth testing there, especially when the testing frameworks are immature and have the possibility of sucking you into time-consuming, head-scratching, yak-shaving hours of debugging and figuring out what is wrong with your TESTS. Been there, done that... my views on testing are much more pragmatic than they were in the past.
Yeah, I used one back in school. It had a 'letter quality' mode which looked like a million bucks compared to the typical Epson monospaced dot-matrix printout. Probably subtly nudged up my GPA.
How does it feel to have a front page profile on HN? (Hi vlad! :D)
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It's about time this opinion started spreading. Let's hope we can change google... though I doubt they'd be moved by a news article.
Control Your music With the New Web Speech API
What's your opinion on clojure? I'm trying to pick the lisp I'd like to learn and clojure with it's java interop is really attractive
Love my Roku 2 XS. It's a little slower than I'd like so I'm jumping on this immediately.
> We were living off less than 30% of our after tax income. Remember, you should enjoy yourself while you're making money now, not just save it all for the future.

If you can live off of 30% of your income, the future becomes a lot closer: you can retire in ~8.8 years. (Or round it up to 10 or so and you'll have even more income during retirement.)

Try http://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement if you want to fiddle with savings rates and find out how long you need to work. Notice that the number of years depends solely on the savings rate, not on the total salary.
If you want it to work, you do 100% code reviews.

Many people think they want it to work, but they don't want to put in the effort to make sure it works.

When you do a code review, you demand what you think are reasonable tests.

If the organization you work for supports your sincere belief that the code is fucked, and needs re-working... or the testing framework is fucked, and needs re-working... or the guy typing shitty code is fucked, and needs to not be working... then over time, your code will tend to get better.

As long as you've got the relevant skills in the room. A sufficiently difficult problem is not likely to be coded correctly by someone who lacks the requisite skills and experience.

It pretty much comes down to "invest in the code, or exploit the code." Many managers think they're investing in the code, just because they have coders adding features. That's like saying you know you're fixing potholes, because you see people driving on the road.

NOTE: doing code reviews does not guarantee it will work. But over time, skipping code reviews guarantees it will eventually not work.
The Pirate Bay Hoax -- We're not critical enough
Getting 1k users from 10k visits is actually quite a good signup rate, but only getting 10k visits over 3 months is probably more likely the problem. This is the first I have heard of you, probably because I am in SF. This LBS space is crowded, so working on getting more attention and aware for what you are doing is crucial. At a 10% conversion rate don't worry about converting everyone who visits the site, worry about getting more visitors.
Exactly... we're accustomed to the system representing our beliefs. Today people are growing accustomed to the system, without the same preconceived beliefs.
The international barrier is a large extra hurdle to cross.
Indeed. Also on the "bright side interpretation" is the fact that only about a thousand of these NSLs are issued per year (and given Google's size, that's probably a good guess at the total number of such investigations). A thousand isn't small, but at the same time it's only a tiny fraction of the number of law enforcement investigations. At least this is proof the NSL mechanism isn't being used for blanket surveillance state activity. That's something.
Ruby has several frameworks you can use such as vision-commander, main, and thor just to name a few. Boson, too.

You must look at the highline gem too. Here's a small CLI app you can try.. https://github.com/rkumar/cetus
Ok, if we are going to start using that "mark as spam" button to punish people, maybe then I should go sign up for your comms.io "tell me when the product is ready" mailing list using a bunch of Hotmail and Gmail accounts, and mark your messages spam on all of them when I receive them.

I mean, if we are going to use that button to feel "satisfied" by punishing others whose business practices we or actions we disagree with, rather than to actually mark, you know, actual spam that we shouldn't have received in the first place, why not include some old fashioned tit-for-tat, right?

Seriously: you are abusing the right to be part of a collective spam filter by interpreting the rules of that law in that way. You aren't even doing it in a way that other users of that spam filter are going to obviously appreciate: a lot of people (heaven forbid) actually like receiving the email we sign up for.
MPD backend for my music player
Adding a headphone jack to the remote is a smart idea. When watching movies late at night I string a long audio extension cable between my headphones and the DVD player, but this solution is much more elegant. It's one of those "of course!" ideas that seems so obvious once you see it.
For the record, I have been a software developer since 1970, and have worked at several different startups. One in 1976 which was a great success; and another in 1987 which muddled and eventually failed. I have started several of my own companies since 1990. I have recently founded cleancoders.com, which is a very successful video training startup using TDD for the website. I also work for 8th Light which is a consulting company started by my son 6 years ago, and is dedicated to TDD.

I have been practicing TDD since 1999; and have found very few situations in which it does not help me be both better and faster at my job. I would certainly never hire anyone who did not practice it.
How could gmail support PGP? The whole point of PGP is that the infrastructure can't read your mail. Even of Gmail wanted to, they couldn't, except maybe in the android/iphone app. But even then, you would be insane to trust them to do it right, even if they tried.
The search functionality looks fantastic. Plus, I love that they're updating Roku 2 with this new interface. I can't wait.
>Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither. Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from them.

Yes, it's advisable to just start off with time and money.
A professional job that pays $400k is being a dermatologist in New Jersey. Even after the nanny and $600K house you are still putting away $200K a year. Your husband's $100K hobby job as a stay at home dad/computer programmer can be used as a slush fund to take care of the parents and keep him entertained with a new iPad every other year. Most high earning situations are not really like an adaption of a Bret Easton Ellis novel.
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Thanks a lot, I'll do my best! :)
I think the expected rate is about $6 /1000 impressions for ad based stuff
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Nice TODO app in HTML5
Thanks to the Bluetooth remote. So obvious, I'm surprised this hasn't been done before.
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It is kept secret from the victims, the most relevant people to the spying.
The only way to prevent abuse is to keep your data unavailable to Google and others.
The winners in a brutal race have learned how to avoid as much risk as possible. The prize does not go to the biggest risker. The prize goes to those who do everything they can to minimize the risk of going slow.

What slows a programmer down? Debugging. Messy code. Fear of change. How do you minimize those risks? A comprehensive suite of tests. How do you get that suite? TDD.
Balam Acab - Wander Wonder. Textural, ambient, sparse dub beats, sometimes dark, sometimes uplifting. Full album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiH-O8eU1yg

Lifeformed - Fastfall. I made this! It's my first album, I made it for the indie game Dustforce. It's electronic, chill, fakebit (8-bit chiptune sounds with a modern sheen), with some beats. Full album: http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/
Do you think we'll ever be able to pay HBO directly for an HBO Go subscription? It's the only reason I still pay for cable -- would jump on this Roku immediately if it let me cut the cord.
PageSpeed optimization libraries (under the hood): https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/psol
This seems like a rough equivalent of "Onavo" for Android: http://www.onavo.com/apps/android_extend/
RestSQL 0.8.6 released
Woz is such a generous, stand-up soul that he should be famous for that alone, even if he were just a mediocre engineer. The fact that he was also one of the greatest hackers in his time is just a bizarre, but welcome anomaly of tech history.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, running a catering business is an honest way of living. So we are just hustling as hard as we could to keep that alive. We'll keep you posted.
Don't discount your writing skills, I found them quite readable. Great article!
Clarification: Your code != your startup.

You can have a polished high quality codebase, but still have a dying startup because you've built something that nobody wants. Conversely, having a desirable product makes up for a vast multitude of sins.

However, technical debt is expensive. Having a clean well-factored codebase makes changes cheaper, which means your company will have lower overhead and be more responsive to market demands.

As far as "forcing you to build loosely coupled code", good TDD should involve a thin layer of integration tests (Selenium/Capybara/Whatever), which drive out unit tests for the individual components. If you let the tests drive your code design, and follow the "Red -> Green -> Refactor" workflow, it tends to shepherd you into writing small easily testable functions and objects that are loosely coupled.

You can also use TDD to salvage crappy code, and derive good design even after the damage has been done. For a beautiful demonstration of this process at work, I strongly recommend Katrina Owen's video on "Therapeutic Refactoring". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dlF0kcThQ

Of course, there's no substitute for having good technical instincts. I couldn't agree with you more on that point. TDD isn't a silver bullet. It's just a damn useful tool, and more startups should be using it.
Disappointed it still doesn't seem to have native DLNA support? I'm in the market for new wireless headphones and this would have solved the problem nicely.
When was the moral and political culture not in the shitter?

edit:

And when was it not "too late"?
If Netflix can keep pumping out quality content like House of Cards, they will eat HBO's lunch.
It is also worth pointing out that there is active harassment of people like Moxie, Jacob Appelbaum, wikileaks founder is in some embassy hiding, Aaron is gone. It goes from interrogations on border crossings, confiscation of electronic devices, drummed up charges (didn't DoJ admit Aaron was hounded down mostly because of his political views?).

There is a price paid. Yes I know, those who live(ed) in totalitarian regimes might laugh -- "what is confiscation of a cell phone compared to the disappearance of my family?" On an absolute scale yes, true, but if you look at it from another way we are already comparing this country to brutal totalitarian regimes, that says something too perhaps.
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I have to agree with this. Currently prototyping a project in Clojure/Compojure but I'm moving the project to Yesod for the production system.
Do they have a non-native solution? Because not having DLNA has been the one thing keeping me from getting one.
Be it Wine or Adobe AIR, I think that blaming from the community is superficial and dumb. Let's focus on the actual issue -- game quality assurance. Does it install, does it work? If it uses Wine but I never notice because it all runs smoothly, then both me and the developer is a winner.
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>> Who was releasing closed versions of mongrel again?

He is not saying there were closed versions being released. He simply wanted to point that people were using mongrel very blithely, but not crediting the hard-work, effort and innovation of Zed's work, (which they were using for their own monetary gain!). I don't think he was interested in "naming-and-shaming", flame-baiting, etc., (I suppose).

>> He is saying "RoR was famous, and mongrel wasn't, and I don't like that", as a reason to use the GPL

No. He's not saying that. Here's some paras where the mongrel and ruby discussion takes place. I'll leave it at that.

Even though everyone was using my software, the vast majority of firms using Mongrel were startups. The last thing a startup wants to admit is that they don’t own their intellectual property. They want everyone, especially the VCs and investors, to believe that they’re all geniuses who “innovated” everything they run.

When I looked around, companies had no problem admitting they used Ruby on Rails, hell that probably got them their funding. What I didn’t see was them saying they used anything else, which meant that when I would try to get work, it was impossible for me to explain the magnitude of Mongrel’s impact. To them it was just some simple web server that their system administrator had to use

After Mongrel I almost need companies to have to admit they use my software. I would actually rather nobody use my software than be in a situation where everyone is using my gear and nobody is admitting it.
Or worse, everyone is using it, and at the same time saying I can’t code.
The cable companies know some subset of customers only keep cable for premium channels (movies, ppv sports, etc) which is why they pay HBO alone over 4 billion dollars a year.
In my experience as a startup founder thus far, you may be over-thinking this one. Your lawyers are a valuable source of information and reaction, and help provide some guidance, but they aren't making or breaking your day-to-day existence as an entrepreneur.

Having just gone through a long selection process to find our attorneys, the combination of things we were looking for:
1) Deferral of fees. There are some reasonable arguments that this can actually be counter to your best interests, but if you're bootstrapping and don't have a big nest egg in the bank, it's hard to choose someone who doesn't
2) Affordable rates. Because even if fees are deferred, you will ultimately have to pay them
3) Relevant expertise. I would argue that this has more to do with startups similar to you (e.g. in your industry) than it does with a particular domain like corporate law or IP. He or she should obviously be able to serve you in diverse areas, or introduce you to the right people who will
4) Personal fit. You have to want to work with these people through formation, fundraising, and negotiations.

Look for them by asking for referrals from other startups in your industry. Local meetup groups for your industry are a good place to meet those people.
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It's still plain spying. Spies would not be spies if the spied on knew they were spies, except in situations where they discover the spy and want her to lead them to her network of spies. But normally who the spies are is unknown to the entity being spied upon. to put it plainly it's unnecessarily redundant in the title.
Evernote to adopt two-step authentication