skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One-on-one reviews are tremendously valuable, and I suspect not only large companies would buy them for consulting rates.

Consider a startup product on the finish line, which lacks polish because non of the makers is a professional designer. If they are like me, they do notice that the overall design is not professional/engaging/appealing enough, but are themselves not able to identify why exactly, and what to do about it. Thats where professional designers are sorely needed.

Me in that situation would not hesitate to pay you, say $600 (in european circumstances) to sit with me for 4 hours interactively, you giving advice and me tweaking the css/svg (the harder stuff for homework), provided

a) I am convinced you know you skills

b) You are able to communicate effectively with a non-designer

c) You could concentrate on the low hanging fruit: Limited effort which still improves my design significantly. It won't perfect, and doesn't have to be.

Note that for all of these points you would have to gain my trust, which is in itself a lot of work. Without that, I might still give it a try, but I would only willing to pay you throwaway money.
But gaining my trust doesn't have to be one-on-one though, a good blog or your tutorials could do.
WebFUI - Manipulate DOM the functional way in ClojureScript
Business Model Innovation 
I find the Business Model Canvas by Alexander Osterwalder an AWESOME tool to innovate around your business model and give your company competitive edges. I first found this amazing concept in 2011 but it's only now that I'm reading its book "Business Model Generation"

The book is shifting my mindset from product innovation to business model innovation.

What do you think about the canvas, book? Any relevant experiences, stories?
I am with IsThisLost service. We struggled with this concept and found that charging for recovery is very similar to purchasing auto insurance after the accident has occurred. If our cost per user is $6 and 1 in 50 users lose something, we'd have to charge the "recovering user" greater than $300 for recovery !!
Probably OP was using "state violence" in its sense as part of a socio/political theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

There's always been a strong connection between punk subculture and anarchist thinking (which is specifically opposed to this type of "legitimate violence"), so its actually a somewhat reasonable thing to bring up.
No. If someone does manage to control 51% of the computing power of Bitcoin, he's much better off using that to mine bitcoins rather than "cheating". If he'll use it to cheat, he'll cause panic, make bitcoin drop their value and undermine the source of his own potential wealth. It'll be much better for him to play fair and just gain (a lot, with that much computing power) wealth by mining.
This is the kind of thing which makes OS X generally less productive for (non-Apple) development than it could be.
That's strange, I've never had a problem with Wacom on Ubuntu
We're doing motivational posters here now? Okay, we can do that.

I recommend: the Tao of Programming http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html
Yes, it makes the very demographic people are trying to reach out to the most feel very unwelcomed. It also means that many people never challenge their assumptions and the lady doesn't get to correct them.
actually i'm using M+n (M=alt, n=number) to switch windows
and i use M+[hjkl] to switch to left right top down window
0.1% of a house's value is almost certainly not an appreciable amount of money. It's so low that, if the parties could not find a way to come to terms over it, the agents may swallow it themselves just to get the deal done.

For a half-million dollar home, which would be a relatively nice house for most of the country, you're talking about $500. For any party on that transaction (buyer, seller or their respective agents who each stand to make $15k on a normal 3% commission), that's not a lot of money and is almost certainly not worth arguing over if you're in all but the earliest stages of negotiation.
>So all cops are 'agents of state violence'?

Yes. That's what law enforcement is by definition. Non compliance results in (eventual) violence, regardless of the severity of the crime.

P.S. Nice edit. Both "hacker" and "cop" carry some negative connotations without the qualifying "evil" in front of it.
Please re-read my comment. I never said software patents are benign, in fact I said exactly the opposite.
We have been in a post gold economy since the end of the Breton-Wood agreement. Hording gold is far from a wise investment. It certainly isn't a safe way to store value. First, history aside where it's value comes from is difficult to understand. There is literally tones of it lying around without any real use (far more than what is produced). Basically it's a safe haven because people decide to use it this way but the market could crash any day and has multiple times before and thus despite central banks holding so much of it they dwarf anything someone could decide to inject.

From my point of view, bitcoin is an even more stupid investment. As little as 5000BT makes the rate plummets. Nothing could stop a young Soros from pulling out a mini-black Wednesday. Add the fact that the market is completely unregulated and you have a pretty risky situation. I see Bit coin has a step backward. It's like current currency without any of the warranty provided by governments (security of trade is one of the main reason we instituted government after all). To the people who will argue that Cyprus is currently stealing its citizen, please think about what would have happen to them if there was no way to get a bailout and the banks actually collapsed.
Its my Dad and his comic, so I'm shamelessly plugging it :)
Yes, I agree that there are many companies out there. The key to success, in our minds, is to do it better than anyone else. To that end, we 1) have better name, 2) anonymizing service, 3) anonymous post back, 4) managed recovery, i.e. a service agent steps in, if needed and arranges for the return postage.
In general I think you're right, but in this case, most Rails devs can probably maintain a Sinatra codebase.
Using tmux 1.8 and switching between windows is super fast.
I found it useful, yes. It doesn't guarantee anything, but as a framework to drive your thinking in certain areas and force you to think about innovating in areas that you might not have thought about, it's very handy.

A fun exercise is to get a small group of like minded folks together (5-7 max), print out some blank canvas forms, and huddle up around some coffee or something, and brainstorm ideas collectively. As long as no one in the group is competing with your thing and/or you trust the other people, it can be a fun way to generate new ideas for everyone.

We did something like this a while back as an RTP Hackers & Founders event and it went over very well.

Some of the frameworks ideas from the book Blue Ocean Strategy are also useful in a similar way.
Reading the story on the link made me feel envy :)

I admire those who really understand how it all works under the hoods.

Although I tried to learn assembly on my own a long time ago, I never went much further than reading some imput and printing it to the screen. It seems it is a very specialized knowledge nowdays.
Quadrilateral Cowboy - "A cyberpunk hacking game set in the 1980s"
ThriveStreams has been submitted at 3PM ET.

Here we go yo... Here we go yo... So what so what so what's the scenario?
Might be easy to understand, but it's horrifically wrong, which in my book precludes "really great."

Its accounting of the origin of money is totally devoid of historical fact or perspective. That can't be stated strongly enough: people who are interested in empirical findings instead of ideology have looked into the origin of money. This has been an area of research for at least a century, and there's not a bit of evidence that money developed as the slideshow claims.
Interesting, but there are a couple of things that this doesn't really cover:

1) Your about page is empty. I can find a mailing address on your contact page, but that's it.

2) What happens if you lose something overseas? How do you coordinate returns in that case? This would be a key sticking point for me.
(Katy here) I would super appreciate feedback on how to be less abrasive.
he might hire someone to maintain it based on their rails experience, for example.
Pretty good, I prefer Binky myself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pJlnpkLp0), but to each their own.
Our vision is to build a global lost and found database, that is non-commercial. The question is how to get there?
Mock-up of the new Facebook Android-Powered Phone
It doesn't make code beautiful to run (nearly) as performant as possible. These are two different things.
> but still.

Why the "still"?

If I don't have to use JS then it is worth it even if it was about the same speed.
Yeah, instamovi renders correctly only on Chrome :(. I had coded the entire CSS myself, which I am not an expert at.

Thanks for sharing info :)

I left you a mail!
I have never understood what was so confusing about the concept of pointers. What I can see as confusing though is the way C's syntax works with declaring multiple levels of pointer indirection with arrays mixed in, although that can be mitigated with the use of typedefs.
I agree with you about Economics: the USD is based on one economic "story" and Bitcoin on a different one.

The part that gets weird is when people describe the USD through the lens of the Bitcoin story, which is really common in the Bitcoin and Gold communities but I don't think actually helps people understand the USD and how it works. If people are going to make an informed decision, they should be looking at Bitcoin through the lens of the claims of Bitcoin Economics, and USD through the lens of Fed Economics, and decide which if any are credible.

Sorry if the tone in the grandparent post came across as a little harsh, I know it's always easier to criticize than to create something yourself.
People DOS your employers, call for you to be fired and offer bitcoin rewards for the best 'shopped picture of you being raped because you beat them at Street Fighter III? I find that unlikely.
The fsck can't make it worse if you mirror the drive first.

Also, is "you can't rely on fsck to alleviate that problem" an argument for not having an fsck?
To be clear, even on architectures that allow it (or OS environments: the NX bit on modern x86 boxes means that you can't write to code space without mmap'ing the region yourself), it's a Very Bad Idea. Code and data use different L1 caches (on Sandy/Ivy Bridge, there's even a still lower level "uop" cache for code!), and keeping them coherent after self-modifying code has run is (1) extraordinarily difficult to get right and (2) hugely slow, much slower than simply indirecting on data in the first place.
So while the FDA, the ATF, and leagues of scientists from the Institute for Tobacco Studies have not found a singe contributing factor, and instead have found evidence to suggest that lung cancer may be caused by a conjunction of many different causes -- you are here announcing to all of us that It's not a mystery, cigarettes cause lung cancer?
I've put quite a bit of time into researching the Discourse install process: https://github.com/baus/install-discourse

I'm not a Rubyist, so it took me a longer than I would expect it would take an experienced Ruby admin. With that said, installing and running a modern Rails app is not a trivial process. I'm curious how Bitnami has addressed this.

Jeff Atwood and the team have put a lot of thought into the project. While it is in early stages, it has a lot of potential. Given their credentials, I think there is a good possibility that Discourse will eventually subsume most other open source forum projects.
The big thing missing from the OSS implementations that Oracle 11 has got is FDE.

It's possible with dmcrypt and LUKS, but you void most of the reasons for using ZFS. encryptFS is also a possibility, but it's both much less secure (an attacker can run ls) and also drops a few ZFS features like dedup.

Meanwhile, Solaris 11 has FDE that actually works, and there seems to be no serious FOSS effort either to reverse engineer their work, or to design something better.

In 2013, no software developer should be storing things without FDE unless they have unusual physical security measures. That makes FOSS ZFS a non-starter for most of the people who would use it.
I would certainly hope that he charges the NewEgg/Amazon price for the part in addition to a healthy hourly wage, and transport costs if there are any.

If he's keeping a stock of a lot of parts it can be worth a markup. But in general the cost of having someone buy a part and install it vs. buying the part yourself and paying someone to install it should be pretty close.
Free college advice you didn't know you needed
We can't easily know the state of the code, but we can easily read the number that you have assigned it. That number should reflect your own assessment of the code's stability.

It's also a matter of how much cognitive load you want to impose on your users. We use dozens of different open-source packeages, each with its own version number. Can you really expect us to keep track of all of them? "Which Linux ZFS release was the first stable one?" "Uh, I think it was 0.6 something, or maybe 0.5.1?"

Don't do that to your users. Call it 1.0.0.
For what it's worth, here is my carefully crafted ~/.tmux.conf file. I was used to screen, so I carried most of the keybindings along when I switched to tmux.

https://github.com/ludwig/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf
A handful of anecdotes about hyperinflation do not amount to "plenty of historical data".

Inflation has the important role of decreasing the value of debt, which is something demurrage does not provide. Neither does a constant rate of 'inflation' via demurrage allow any kind of countercyclical policy.

"[inflationary monetary policy] constitutes the redistribution of wealth via inflation from the people to the banks"

Do you have any evidence for that claim?
> yet for the most part it hasn't really mattered all that much.

I'm a little confused by what you mean. Do you mean what he's afraid about doesn't matter that much? Considering the massive patent lawsuits flying around I think that's pretty blatantly false. I mean, some of this has been ameliorated by industry's unexpected generosity towards the open source world (Google via a ton of shit, Apple via LLVM), but certainly not all of it.

Personally, I've stopped ignoring what Stallman is saying. I'm not saying he doesn't have a side of him that worries about completely irrelevant shit, but I think he's been proven well enough on important topics that he deserves our (as hackers, consumers, and business owners) respect, even if you decide you disagree with him.
Does anyone know where to find a good introduction to tmux?

I attempted to start using it a couple of weekends ago but wasn't able to find any good documentation with my google-fu.
Put it in Chrome and make awesome applications with it, everyone will follow.

Nobody thought JS and Ajax was a serious thing until Google Maps came about and everyone's jaws dropped. Despite all the academic or theoretical benefits async requests it might have had, they didn't become popular until a killer application came about.

I am also thinking Dart for Android? I wish they had Python for android, but oh well, I understand it was much more of a political thing, but I can see Dart+VM being that platform.
So many amazing stacks, so little time.. Firebase, Meteor, SocketStream, SpaceMagic, Derby
hard to say which is the main, i find it as easy to find a tech job in the bay area
I never really got why people found pointers to be complicated. I suck at writing C code, but pointers are something I understood pretty easily. It in the name really, it's something that points to (the location of) something else.

I doubt that anyone struggles to understand pointers, they/we struggle to understand the implementation of pointers in C, in some cases. If you want to explain pointers, to people from a object oriented programming background, you might start by comparing points to "by reference" and "by value".

My issue has always be why I would care about the memory address of a variable, rather than getting the value as the default behavior, but that might be why I suck a C.
I would say that finding solutions to problems on the internet is still far from moving beyond its infancy. We are very lucky, but there is much more to come.
Pointers to stack objects?
I have 28" monitors, so I had to do some command line configuration to make the tablet respond. It may feel like the appropriate sensitivity out of the box on a smaller screen. There was also no GUI configuration last time I checked.
Ditto; mine's at https://github.com/pavellishin/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.co...

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So what you're saying is now Apple can share in on the decline of console gaming market?

What happens when 50 million people plug in an Apple controller that requires little more investment then buying Apple stuff and plugging it in? You get a bubble market of casual shovelware games that destroy the credibility of the entire concept as a serious contender in the industry. You design a LCD (least common denominator) peripheral with LCD UI and LCD functionality so you can have a huge, market that couldn't care less about your product and can't wait to find an exciting risky alternative. Sounds great for quarterly profits though.
Anyone with the legal knowledge to help you probably knows better than to do so. Find a lawyer, this type of thing is why they exist.
I don't really understand the Bitcoin hype. Yes it's interesting application of cryptography, but it's not really that useful as a currency. It's online only, and not really accepted anywhere very much, especially because there's too much of a barrier to casual usage. All of the transactions are public, making it a privacy nightmare unless you're careful to completely dissociate your real-life identity from your Bitcoin addresses. I just don't see the point other than as a speculative toy.
Probably because Amazon entered the game...
Monte Carlo Pi & Processing.js
Is there a way to set it up to do this if you hit (escape-key) (current buffer index)? That's the way weechat works, and I keep expecting it to work in tmux as well :/
This Open For Business Plans is quite handy: http://openforbusinessplans.herokuapp.com/

It's free btw.
Cloud Storage for Your Linux Platform
In the other hand, I find that C++'s ability to add semantics to memory management is extremely valuable in doing the right thing at all times.

unique_ptr<>, scoped_ptr<>, and shared_ptr<> all say different things about heap memory lifetime, and those make it easier to maintain your grasp on what you're asking the computer to do.

Like many things in C++, you can do that in C too (e.g. by using a variant of Hungarian notation). But the important thing is to do it.
The actual reason you make less money is that you were offered less money and said yes. So why did you say yes? Pondering that question will reveal a lot about yourself and what you value, and it will also suggest what you should do if you're not happy with your current situation.
So all cops are 'agents of state violence'?

Yes.
I never stop discovering features in emacs, for example I found out about embedded calc mode yesterday. I was so impressed by it that I made a screencast demoing its features:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPMgj3XWi8Q
I recommend the backtick: `

The only two pains that come with it are a) having to type `` to get a single `, and b) pasting anything containing a backtick behaves as if you'd typed it out.
>This patent from 2008 describes an accessory that wraps around a portable electronic device with touchscreen (sound familiar?) and includes a standard D-Pad and button

Wasn't there a YC company that made exactly this?
Just because you understood it great the first time doesn't mean everyone is like you. I was turned off to C for a long time due to how awful my teachers were at explaining the concept. My first time being exposed to pointers was in a binary tree traversing algorithm handout given out by my teacher - it was just way too much at once.
Legal actions would only be possible if a spoken wish, which is not part of the written contract, can be used as a basis for a lawsuit in Germany. I know that it was "only spoken", but I do not know the legal possibilities we have here.
I don't understand why it supposedly makes them feel unwelcome.
'bandwidth' is a management term now?
In an email update I received from them yesterday, there are currently 104 games available for download, including Final Fantasy III.
I followed MP3 and Vorbis development in its early days. From my perspective as an end user myself, I thought that MP3 encoders (LAME, especially) improved by leaps and bounds in the transparency front, while Vorbis remained largely as a low-bitrate (128kbps~) alternative.

Plus, I could play MP3 on virtually any device. Vorbis support depended on iRiver releasing new firmware, or hacking an iPod to support Rockbox.

The Hydrogenaudio forums [1] are a great place to see how the formats progressed, if you're willing to dig through the archives.

[1] http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=idx
> In 2001, that wasn't the case at all. You still needed to put in some elbow grease, and there were corner cases for sure, but I was using Linux with no problems (except a lack of Counter-Strike), had been for years and so had my parents.

Linux (and the ecosystem surrounding it) definitely worked, it was just atrocious at most non-coding tasks. What would you do if someone sent you a .doc (I am glad those days are gone and I can demand PDFs these days), would you just work through the compatibility errors and hope you didn't lose any content? And forget it if you had any non-popular hardware: even if there were drivers for it, they were either incomplete (not blaming the driver writers, just the poor resources for them) or difficult to configure and work correctly.

It's really only in the past five years or so I would be confident someone could probably learn to use it without much help, and I would still recommend OSX for non-devs. I still can't upgrade my ubuntu install without breaking at least one crucial aspect of the system (graphics, sound, the goddamn user interface).

Could you use it well in 2001? Yes, but not without being either very familiar or only using web browsing and email (hope you don't run into active x or flash or any kind of codec that involves you breaking the law).
You may be surprised how much a bad professor or tutorial can derail someone. Almost all concepts seems "obvious" or, HN's favorite word, "trivial" once you know it! But getting to the "a-ha" moment can take varying amounts of time depending on the quality of the presentation of the material.
Anecdotally when I arrived in London I talked to a recruiter who claimed that PHP devs get payed less then .Net devs. One recruiter in one city so take with a pinch of salt.
To say that Erlang fails to deliver what most programmers need misses the point. If you have a mainstream problem, use a mainstream language!

I've spent many years developing and reviewing products in the telecoms realm, and have found that failing to realize when something like Erlang brings life-saving concepts to your project may well make the difference between delivering on time and disappearing into a black hole of endless complexity. It's not for everyone, but when it fits, boy does it help!
Inflation redistributes wealth from the people to the banks? You understand that inflation reduces the value of bank debt, which is almost always nominal. And surely you must know
that tight money has the objectively observed effect of rewarding capitalists and punishing earners (viz. the wealthy parts of the Eurozone, right now).

What are you trying to say that I'm missing?