skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially, I did my degree in Economics and my dissertation on satisficing.[1] There are plenty of SMEs that need the help of a programmer, one that can understand how a business works and what it needs to be competitive.

I started with some of the freelancing sites. It's hard to find decent work, but if you do it with an eye on building relationships it can be worthwhile. (pro-tip, put some money through the site and hire yourself; takes about a week to do without arousing suspicion, but then you have ∞ly more chance of geting hired [$50-100 dollars should be fine])

Business forums for accountants, truckers or anything, can also provide you with leads. Just make sure that you show an interest in their work, not just in getting work from them.

Next, find a way to help the people that you've built relationships with make money. Adwords, I didn't know much about it, but a few hrs later and I had turned a 50€ a day campaign from loosing ~1/2 the π (profit) to doubling every day. (email me for some of the tricks)

Google apps script is just js and easy to learn. With a small number of regexen etc and the simple APIs into google's services GAS gives you, I have been able to speed up ~5-10 jobs that were done daily, from taking ~3hrs, to the time it takes to click a button. Apps that would take a week or two elsewhere are 10hr/day jobs with GAS.

This took about 6 months, but I have been working for about 1yr now at ~10hrs a week and I just ensure that people realise that 10hrs is my schedule and not to ask for more. I'm sure the _value_ I have provided to these businesses would allow me to double my rate tomorrow and face zero resistance; from ~£80k p.a pro rata, and I would say I am a moderate programmer at best.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Ask HN: virtual credit card number service?
The linode "incident" HN thread has a couple examples[1] of banks using virtual CC numbers you can use for one transaction only: BofA and CityBank

Does any one know about other services like this?

1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5553723
Each application - their website included - uses its own set of API credentials to make calls, thus identifying a client is trivial.

Pedantic edit: version 1 of the API supported some anonymous calls, but that version is very close to being dropped. All API calls to version 1.1, though, must be authenticated.
Unlimited*
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It works well until it gets dust on it. They should read some of their own papers. The biggest challenge to reflection is that it only works when the surface is still reflective. If you lose 10% of reflection the system goes from cooler to heater.

Places like Phoenix if you have a dust storm while you are out of town the next day your Grandma dies of heat stroke because the "AC" is out.

I'm certain there are applications for this tech, but not as a replacement for AC in most locations.
You may want to check Chupamobile out. It is the only marketplace 100% focused on source code for Mobile apps. Authors in the marketplace are already making thousands a month.
Trouble is - you have to stand up to the bullies - even for those with whom you are less than sympathetic. Bullies must be stopped as if they succeed it will be you who they will come after next.
As a game developer I work on average 38 hours a week, and have never done more than 70 in a week. I come in for weekends once or twice near the end of a project and I've never pulled an all-nighter. From what I've seen this is also the case for most other programmers where I've worked, as most have families or actual lives.

I've seen high-employee turnover before, and it's generally down to the company demanding too much overtime or being disgustingly underpaid. There's plenty of companies about now that understand overtime doesn't = productivity.

>Your average industry professional is a 31 year old white man with one to three years of experience

I've got no idea how true this is, but in my experience it's around 3-6 years average, though I've never worked for an indie or mega-studio, and I'm based in the UK.
No, EME is an API that the browser exposes to site-supplied JavaScript code. The JavaScript code uses EME to talk with a Content Decryption Module (CDM) whose exact characteristics (including the protocol you talk with it; EME sees byte buffers) is unspecified and out of the scope of the EME spec. The interface between the browser and the CDM is not being standardized.

The CDM is basically a new kind of proprietary component that exposes a CDM-specific protocol to the Web and that is annexed to the side of the browser. You should not assume the distribution model to be the same as with traditional plug-ins: E.g. in the case of Chrome OS, the CDM comes from Google itself.
> This is why I am trying to build a non-profit news site with no adverts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
I know basically nothing about cryptography, but Scheier is the first to my mind as well. The only other name that even comes to my mind is Colin Percival, but that's only because of his comments on HN (cperciva).
What do you mean by "it changed the default licensing"?
> I'm defining "society" in terms of the only thing I care about: the people and country around me.

The country/government is irrelevant, the people are the society and that is what I am defining it as. Governments have come and gone with great frequency; societies almost always survive them. Really only genocides, cultural or otherwise, can halt them (and mad bombers are in no position to perform any sort of genocide against modern society).

It strikes me as a fairly American-centric viewpoint that conflates American government and American society. Plenty of other countries with strong, long-lived, cultural identities have gone through numerous governments in past centuries, many of these governments lasting a few short decades or less. A government is much easier to kill than a society, and dies with far fewer consequences.

If the death of a society is not what you are actually concerned about, then perhaps you should have put some thought into your initial comment before drawing comparisons to the fall of the roman empire. If merely the fall of governments and economies is what you are worried about, there are countless better examples.
The front end is pretty cool too. Check this out, just released:

https://github.com/airbnb/rendr
What's the downside of cleaning it? Is it irreparably damaged by dust? Or does a micron-thick layer of dust render it ineffective?

We built windshield wipers to clean car windows. I think we can manage something to clean these automatically. In the meantime, putting on a pair of work shoes and getting out the ladder once a week/month to polish the mirror hardly seems like a downside given it might be able to cool a medium-large home at no cost.
> under the Pax Romana Europe enjoyed an extremely well-developed civil society that brought self-evident benefits to the participants, just like our culture of appreciation for scientific progress, the arts, and political theories...a culture which is not nearly as universal as you seem to imagine.

What is your point? I am not claiming that the aspects of our society that we cherish are unique to our society, or were absent in Roman society.

"...a culture which is not nearly as universal as you seem to imagine."

We are talking essentially about the society of all developed and rapidly developing nations. This is not an American concept; even if this hypothetical mega-attack caused the American governmnet to go tits up it would survive, both domestically and throughout the world. Not even "starvation or hopelessness" would erase this modern identity. Not any starvation falling short of extinction-threatening.

Are particularly American perspectives in our modern society something that is, outside of the US, less than universal (to say the least)? Certainly. But 1) who cares? American perspectives are but few of many in modern society, 2) such perspectives are not endangered, and would not be endangered by any collapse of our particular current government.
So if the buyer just left a bad rating, but no words, could she still be sued? One one hand voting seems like an extension of free speech, but on the other it feels that online voting shouldn't be counted as slander / libel.
It becomes absurd if you substitute tall and short people for men and women. Tall people have higher earnings[1] and are better off in many other ways, so should we not be satisfied if a conference panel doesn't include at least one short person?

[1] http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...
No indication of this being a foreign terrorism attack may make my argument less relevant but I still stand behind it.

Your point is also a good example of how terrorists aren't dumb. One of the major things we remember about Oklahoma City was how devastating it was.
Or most people are lucky, and you hear about those who have aggravating experiences.
"Our fears would play right into the perpetrators' hands -- and magnify the power of their victory for whichever goals whatever group behind this, still to be uncovered, has."

Thats really bad writing!
Lots of other communities tend to default to GPL.
Basic Opera Mini support would be nice too.

https://twitter.com/sausaw/status/320064095321722880
For me, TDD, a REPL and the occasional console print statement almost completely eliminates the need for a debugger. That being said, I probably fire it up every couple of months when working on a java or .net project. #java #scala #ruby #javascript #.net
Feds may use subpoena powers to study patent trolls
Just what the kids need
I was surprised how many thing the management of the company I'm currently working for is doing right, until I reached the afterword. ;)
This is an excellent point I think people often forget about. How does property tax in a house (whose valuation you often have no control over) compare to rent?
"the smartness of the leaders is averaged down by the low quality of the foot soldiers who actually decide to die for the cause."

Deciding to die for a cause does not make you stupid. The 9/11 attackers were intelligent enough to pilot a commercial aircraft. There are also many patriots who love their country and have been willing to die for it. WW II Japanese fighter pilots are a classic example. I wouldn't call those guys low quality.
But who is the bully here? I'm not sure.
The concept of "passthoughts" has been discussed recently.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/04/passthoughts-...
Only if Netflix chooses to port their HTML5 DRM plug-in (CDM) to Linux and makes the CDM API available to browser vendors (the W3C spec they wrote deliberately does not have this API documented).

And this is unlikely, since Netflix and other cable companies stated they need strong DRM with OS and hardware support (which I presume is what they got in the closed version of ChromeOS).
It's so pervasive now that you could make the statement true by replacing nerd with any other group of people.

The only exception would be people in relationships or marriages. Unfortunately, even that is becoming questionable: look at Ashley Madison and its nearly 2 million uniques per month.
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When is the last time a bully offered to buy you lunch because he accidentally took yours by accident?
This seems like a very unfair situation for the company.

Think about what would happen if this were the other way around. For example, buyer returns an article, sends it through the post, and for some reason it ends up at Med Express door with postage due. They leave a negative feedback on eBay about the user.

The Internet would then also be up in arms about the company, 'abusing' its position to harm an underdog user.
Mostly web dev stuff. A Vagrant vm Ubuntu box running all day and Sublime Text. Then the usual Mail, Chrome, Spotify etc. Photoshop occasionally.

I'm 100% sure the Air will cope with my day to day and not have any lag etc. But since it's only an extra €100 to get the Pro I'm not adverse to paying the extra for those times without a monitor, I just don't want any downsides because of that!
Currency magnified
Cool. This is actually a good use of bitcoin. And I like how it directly links to github.
Uploading Your Jar to Maven Central
I might have done - but the extra resolution of the Air wins over the regular non retina Pro.. Some extra pixels is great, loads more might be overkill for my use!
That doesn't answer the question.

Also, the MIT license was essentially universal for Ruby projects, popular in other ecosystems, and very widespread on GitHub before node's existence and subsequent growth.
Mostly obvious stuff there but I learned about MeekroDB, will check that.
This is a movie simplification. The Romans copied battle styles from local armies during their conflicts. When Romans started having money problems they started outsourcing their armies to local people and they stopped their public works. When the army started getting less relevant to local affairs and only a tax imposing machine, the locals would turn against the Romans and join the militia. The Germanic leaders were also trained in the Roman army, and the "barbarians" pretty much knew how to conduct warfare and they also knew their weaknesses. So they fought a war of attrition, that forced the Romans to spread out. Soon enough the Romans knew they could not sustain their wars. So the "barbarians" tried different things until they found fight patterns that Rome did not have the technology to beat in a economic way. The Roman nobility had not lost it's privileges but nobody was interested in fighting, and they soldiers were only doing it for money which was not even enough to retire afterwards.

So it is totally irrelevant with the current situation.
People need to look up from their computers / phones once in awhile and tone down the passive aggressive nature that pseudo anonymity has instilled in the lot of us. How hard is it to work things out without escalation?
I'm guessing his comment is a bit more like "THESE GUYS SUCK!!!!1111111" than "I had to pay $1.44 more for postage". IMO that is fair enough, he is in the wrong. OTOH I'm sure eBay have a process in place for this - I think suing him is a bit much.

They could also just leave him negative feedback...
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Reservations don't bring about institutional changes.

Again, I have to come down to giving the example of Indian society[Sorry can't help it, but 60 years of these experiments make India the perfect case study for these sort of problems].

In India, there are cases where some one got a medical seat through reservations. The person generally goes on to become a pretty good doctor, earns well and is now pretty much empowered to do anything he/she wants. But yet you will see their children claim seats though reservations. What's more ridiculous? You can even get a post graduation seat through reservations. Why does one need a reservation when a transparent ranking process exists through a competitive exam? The exams are often objective multiple choice questions and the candidates identity is anonymous and known only through a serial number.

While all this is happening, some guy in the general category watches his well deserved seat go to some other guy who makes it through on just qualifying marks.

At one point of time, before the free market reforms in the 90's. This problem was the big reason, why so many Indian's left India to settle abroad.

>>The only difference is, it will eventually change the whole system (for the better).

It won't.

Quota/Reservations systems at best work like socialist/communist set ups.

Sooner or later- The deserving guy finds no motivation to continue contributing to the system. The undeserving guy never contributes because regardless of his work the rewards are assured.
Cool fact, a Slovenian company that is now SF based has made this tech into an iPhone app a few months ago. -> http://www.azumio.com/apps/cardio-buddy-2/

I really like their apps and I'm quite proud that they originate from my neck of the woods.
Yeah, anyone presenting web pages to me with huge drop caps like that is asking for a visit from Mrs Clue Bat and her friend Violent Swing.
Couldn't you have an automated system for cleaning it?
Not to derail the thread, but on the eve of my 30th birthday, if I've learned anything it's that "stuff" is a fucking liability, and spending a lot of resources on a place to house it is just one of the manifold reasons to perpetually avoid accumulating it if at all possible.
Daft punk on random access memories
Mostly obvious stuff there

Thankfully for you - sadly not that obvious though, otherwise I wouldn't have seen these so frequently, and often enough that it drove me to write such biased and uncompromising pages!

(with more in the works, incidentally)
Both parties don't come off well here - the buyer could have given the seller the benefit of the doubt before posting a negative feedback over a trivial amount and the seller managed to turn an unjustified, in my opinion, negative feedback into a terrible publicity for itself.
"Ever wonder why extremists haven't bombed the Cook Islands"

It's nice to be a country like the Cook Islands. You're surrounded by a vast ocean that makes it very difficult to attack. Your interests are also protected other, larger nations, so you don't have to do any "dirty work" to protect them.

You also don't have to spend tons of money on a military and can rely on treaties with other countries to provide your defense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
I have sat on organizational committees and name-blinding would not work for some of us for one key reason: We use speaker's name/identity as a criteria for talk selection. Two main examples are whether they have presented before and how "strong" of a speaker they are.

We DO use names to discriminate but that often allows us to have "fresh" speakers and keep the lineup somewhat varied. It also allows us to filter for all the other spam-talks; i.e. marketers.

It is an issue of priorities but I would easily place quality of presentations over guaranteed blinding to prevent gender-bias selection.
> you have to re-invent-from-scratch all the tools

If they are in standard library, they must be invented before too! The difference is that there isn't standard solution (hence the name) and anyone can offer his/her own solution to the problem.
And after you blog about your negative experience of having lunch taken away by accident, the bully sues you for slander.

In my book everybody acted within acceptable reason until they sued him for leaving a true review on ebay.
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I'm sure eventually node will have it's very own Tornado/Twisted/Boost/etc that you can then apply to your argument.
I can be in some cases. I got mugged and my card was used to pay for parking garages for 1.5 years until it expired even though it was canceled and blocked by the issuing bank. They said that for some transactions, the blocking mechanisms are so expensive its more economically sane to them to refund whatever was drawn.
quietly?
> To do otherwise is to suffer a whole day trying to install ImageMagick

Sure, you could do that, or issue [pkg-manager] install imagemagick. It took me yesterday around 15 seconds to install imagemagick without even leaving iTerm. Even brew knows that.
BBC is only entirely 'non-profit' within the confines of the UK.

Flip on a VPN and you hit the BBC World version of the BBC news, complete with adverts.

Besides which, competition is healthy - so I applaud the creation of another another non-profit news site.
There is this perverse notion that there is something like "fair discrimination". As a South African this is something I've been forced to accept. Actually what it does is breed extreme discontent and disillusionment in those on the opposite side of the fence. No amount of rationalization can make this palatable. They even do it in sports. What this does is discredit people because everyone is thinking "Oh look, a quota player" and any actual merit this person might have possessed is discredited because of the bias in the selection process.
"bring the responsible to justice"

Probably the most difficult parts of this will be to define who is responsible and what exactly constitutes as justice.
> [...]friends around the world who can celebrate with them immediately from their phones.

I get the part of the videos, but is this guy delusional? We don't live in an advert, so we don't send out PR quality photo's, or celebrate a friends something by 'like'ing a photo. You do that by calling your friend and congratulate. Social networks is marketing itself as a replacement for actual networks, which is catastrophic.
You should really revise what you wrote earlier in light of what you've just written and, in the process, get off the high horse. It would have been a lot shorter and less annoying for everybody involved. (Hint: "best counter to the faff in this article is simply: Talk to someone who watches the news. Then talk to someone who doesn't." implies that one is "better" than the other and which one, but not at all why)

Now that you've explained why, I can tell you my experience is not like yours at all, I find that many people who actively follow the news tend to parrot them out without true understanding.
The actual feedback is not only linked, but quoted in the article. Your guess was wrong.
That is a reality that I guess I just naively assumed wasn't possible. This bit really kind of shook me. I've always thought of terrorism much like the author and the aforementioned poster you're replying to, a seemingly random and rare event. I'd never thought about what living in a society where it has become common place

Got back and look at the UK in the 70's and 80's during the worst of the Northern Ireland troubles for an example.

There was a period of a couple of years where "suspect device" was a regular reason used for my train being late.
> to uninstall something installed from a .dmg file all you need to do is delete the ApplicationName.app "file"/folder.

AppCleaner / AppZapper / AppDelete / CleanApp / etc beg to differ. A lot of packages leave a lot of crap behind that doesn't get removed with the .app directory itself.
Boy, if Ebay's policies are such that someone has incentive to sue someone else just for one negative feedback... I'm glad I don't use Ebay.
Of course. When women don't want to be discriminated against, it's an issue of rights and equality. When men don't want to be discriminated against, it's a laughable sense of entitlement.
Good to see some discussion and acknowledgment from Linode, but their treatment of the credit card encryption is distressing. They don't address the claim that the private keys were on the servers' filesystems, and instead focus on them being password protected. If the password is brute-forced, then it's game over.
I really wish they would officially comment on the 'cover up' aspect. Security breaches happen, and are forgivable. But attempting to broker a 'silencing' deal with the intruders and hoping your customers will never be the wiser is not.

All this update does is restore my faith in their ability to store my information correctly. It does nothing to reassure me that they won't try to cover anything up again.