skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a pretty low ranking being shoved into the patent troll category of evilness. When someone goes and patents an obvious algorithm at some point in the future and my little project shows up as prior art would I be redeemed :)
Remote workers listening.. How do you monetize your knowledge?
Hi HN people,
I'm a 30 guy from ol' Europe (sry for my English) and I'd like to share my story, If You have a suggestion for me please leave a comment below!
I've a CS degree and I consider myself a Web Developer even if It isn't the main job which "pays me the bills" :D

I like comparing, experimenting, blogging, developing with new cool tecnologies, often I share the code on GitHub, sometimes I build a Side-project,.. but It isn't a job.
When I'm not at the computer, I like to sleep, walk, run, swim, travel, attending at conferences,..

I tried to be a regular worker but I wasn't satified:

- Small company, web developer. Write code like a monkey before requirements, sleep nights at work,..

- Very big company, everything consultant. They didn't know the techlogy. Man in the Middle to Indian developers, my work was just to check and test the others progress.

- Startup Buzz. I didn't work there, but many Steve Jobs wannabe wanted a working prototype from me. :D

- Freelance. I'm also a freelance, I teach at courses, I'm a remote consultant (200€ a day) but many customers are a waste of time and some of them don't even pay you here. Unfortunatly I can't move to London or Berlin (I receive a lot of job offers from there)

So how do I earn money? Ehm.. I'm an AdSenser. I've a not so great site which I'm not proud of it which pays the bills for me via AdSense. I do 25k € per year, it isn't much but It's enough for my lifestyle.

Are you in a similar situation? I'd like to reach 35k €, working maximum one week per month (via consulting) and the rest monetizing via AdSense and Side-projects, do you have some suggestions to differentiate my business?

Thanks
Luca
It's a picture of the campus that they're talking about. Everything below the big tree line in the middle of the picture is Microsoft's campus. Note that it's not even the whole thing. The campus is huge and extends outside of the picture in every direction but north.

It's relevant because it puts into perspective how massive their campus is.
The problem I have balancing the likelihood of CF stack bugs vs. CF app bugs is that I've had to assess a bunch of CF apps, and they're uniformly coded to mid-1990s best practices. No matter how many bugs have been announced in the CF stack, as a betting man my money would always be on CF app bugs.
Not only that, it also makes me wonder about the free RAM upgrade from almost a week ago. Some people are reporting their Linode credit cards being used for fraudulent purchases as far as a week ago, so this might have been a move to gain some pre-emptive goodwill.

I don't know though... will wait until more details are available but will be keeping an eye on CC statements / VPS alternatives.
This is the most orwellian thing i have read in a long time.
Switched to https://www.digitalocean.com/ last week. Excellent service and pricing.
Here's an idea. Think outside of the box: If being employed in the past six months is really such a big deal, just start your own LLC and do contracting work of some sort. Hey, look at that. Now your resume shows that you were employed during that period. Sure, you might not have made all that much money while you were employed at your own business, but at least you were employed.
> Too bad its NSFW.

Too bad it's not safe for your work place :) (maybe that was what you meant). I don't see any reason to sacrifice expression for prudes.
A Neil Armstrong-class oceanographic research ship was named after Sally Ride
the cost of a shrinking viewer base: drastically shrinking, in fact, and it's about to shrink even more.

Are you sure? The vast majority of users are entirely ignorant of tracking, and don't care much even when they do know of it.
our version of universal healthcare isn't that impressive..
That's a fair point. I'm speaking more as a judge/jury view on the situation though. I don't think Linode users should panic and run for the hills just yet based off this alone.
This is really amazing, great idea and really well executed.

I know it kinda goes against the whole idea of this, but I think it would have been better if the mouse cursors that didn't "obey" the instructions were filtered out, all the cursors that just stayed in one place, or didn't follow the instructions were a little distracting.
Bitcoin is a decentralized exchange for bitcoins - it's built into the system.
Actually in most official Documents he's known as Usama Bin Laden thus UBL (Also he's referred to that way throughout ZDT, if you want a cultural reference)

He's not just an accused terrorist, he's a enemy combatant and a POW, totally different ball game. And while the US might be "appalled if Russia or China did it," it would be for political reasons (the enemy of my enemy is my friend) and not ethical (reasons).

Finally, this thread has gone on far enough, I'm stepping out. I will not be replying to anymore posts.
There is a clear value add for people coming into a city who don't want to rent a normal rental car. But I'm not sure the same value add is there for people renting out their car, unlike Airbnb. If the maximum you can obtain for renting out your car is < $100, is that really what your emotional peace of mind (your car being ticketed, trashed, and scratched, loss in blue book value) is worth?
>As I said, I didn't really mind what the answer was, just that you had an answer.

Let's take that. A person with a good employment history, leaves (or loses) their job and takes a few months off to do nothing. What exactly makes them unhireable when they rejoin the workforce?

Furthermore, how do you know the person you're interviewing will tell you that they were looking after kids, or working at McDonald's. Maybe they don't consider it relevant work experience, or maybe they were embarrassed, or better yet maybe it was something personal that's none of your business (e.g. a health issue, a messy divorce etc.), whatever it is, they decide to not go into details. Why punish them?
Ditto. Unfortunately, the type of people who have the skills worth teaching are often not the ones doing the teaching.

Being primarily non-designers who don't know any better, HN users are often quick to upvote posts regarding design and take these people up on their offers, despite the fact that -- as many of these posts are by people who are merely trying to get their name out there -- they could be doing themselves a disservice by listening to someone who is just trying to promote themselves rather than promote good design practices.
That's pretty much how trust works.
Well the steps I would like to take regarding linode aren't exactly legal. Satisfying yes, but not legal.

But I just checked and my credit card haven't been used anywhere I didn't use it.
" What's really wrong with me leaving work, living off my savings while watching TV, and then rejoining the workforce 7 months later?"

Nothing. The big question is what you do in month 8 when you decide to re-enter the work force. You've made it harder to find a job, but if you had enough savings to voluntarily take 7 months off, then presumably you have sufficient savings to plug the hole.
I understand that concept, except that the tone that was taken in his post and subsequent response to mine was just made to be snide. Instead of making an opinion and standing by it (which I would gladly upvote even if gray and it disagreed with my own personal opinion), he attacks the knowledge of a commenter via a generalization.

Making anonymous statements is essential in some situations, but in my personal opinion, I find it completely unnecessary in this particular one. If they had just gone with paragraph 1 and 3, then it'd be a perfectly fine comment. Instead it has a decidedly different feel and attitude which is then 'shielded' via a throwaway.
Link to playlist? :)
I am so impressed by the mechanism used to hold and release the bottom piece -- it's an elegant, simple solution that fully demonstrates why I lack the talent to be a practical engineer.
$10 in gas cards per day seems like low compensation for putting my vehicle at risk. I realize they have insurance but anyone who's had a car get damaged and repaired knows it's never the same as before the damage, especially if it's suspension/steering related.

I wish them the best, though, if any industry is stagnant and in need of being overhauled it's the terrible car rental industry.
I tend to think the timing is just a coincidence. They also upgraded CPU and bandwidth over the last month and there were rumors of upgraded RAM for a while too.
I think it sounds like a terrible idea. As an applicant, I would never take advantage of it. As an employer I would never WANT to hire anyone who took advantage of it. A side effect would be that I would begin to distrust resumes and would therefore hire more by word-of-mouth instead, which would reduce opportunities for minorities and those less well-connected.
So you're unfortunate enough to be a customer who had their CC leaked. So you spend 5 minutes changing your password (you use unique, non-formulaic passwords, right?) and 15 minutes on the phone to CC company to ask for a new card. Then you use your backup card for 2 weeks (you have a backup card, right?)

A month later, spend 30 minutes on the phone with CC company only if strange transactions appeared.

Not the end of the world. The CC industry is set up well to handle this kind of thing.
Yes

But if that happens, it's not your responsibility (at least not 100%), it's theirs
I agree with jhacks. I'm sure you will be successful with a few changes.

Good luck and good job asking for constructive criticism (...it's a smart idea people unfortunately often shy away from).
Detecting Concealed Carry Weapon 
This article talks about "spotting a hidden weapon" infograph by Megan Jaegerman. This interactive Article Shows bits of images of the infograph, but the main point is conveying the development of the power of "observation".
There are many cases from private Intel companies indicating prior to an ambush, the tell tale signs are there. But 90% of the time we're too busy either mentally thinking of something or just plain not seeing the details in front of them.
Though at home we don't have to be worried about getting frag by an IED. We do need to be aware of thugs, mentally ill individuals that carry concealed weapons. Spotting, or reading body languages and your environment is what the article is advocating.
New Brasilian Bitcoin Exchange
Two alternatives often mentioned on here are DigitalOcean and RamNode.

I've only used DigitalOcean. My anecdotal experience from running a Chef Server on a 1GB instance has been pretty mixed. The price is good, but network and CPU performance feels very variable to me. A month ago their Amsterdam servers were unable to be resized, and there was nothing about it on their status page. I tweeted and was told they'd be working "some time later today". Doesn't fill me with much confidence in general.

I'd still choose Linode for anything of importance - their long reputation is well earned in my opinion. But, if this breach is true, I hope they handle it well.
In the last year I've probably put together 20-30 sets of various size (50 pieces to 1000 pieces) and some lego don't hold at all out of the box either. Lego is super easy to deal with for broken or missing pieces from sets which is the only reason it doesn't bother me too much.
"I'm french.... My country is not the best country in the world but we did not end up with some terrible thing like Guantanamo"

Let me preface this by saying I'm a big fan of France. In fact, I think France was a good ally recommending caution with Iraq (precisely because they had the most recent experience with fighting a counter-insurgency in an Arab country).

But I take exception with your claim that France didn't end up with Gitmo.

Read 'A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962'. France pretty much invented torturing arab terrorists.
Tell me about it, I grew up in Pinochet's Chile and it worries me deeply how our government is ignoring the constitution and bullying its way around the same way Pinochet did back in the 80's.

With its treatment of gitmo detainees and persecution of wikileaks' Julian Assange, the US is lowering itself to the constitutional level of a run-of-the-mill banana republic.
Don't forget the cost of parking at the airport. If you're gone for 10 days, that's almost $200.
Storing credit card info just helps make you a bigger target. If your a small company, better let someone else store card info, let them be the target.

Also you're fined by the credit card companies if you lose card information. I believe it's a per card fine, so it get expensive really quickly.

Actually I don't get why any company would choose to store credit card information, when most payment providers will do it for you.
I absolutely agree there are reasons, however this situation has someone acting more belligerent than rational. I personally find hiding anonymously when making such aggressive comments cowardly.

There was a perfectly fine point buried in his original comment, and I personally believe if he had posted with their own account, then they would have taken the time to proof-read and remove the unnecessary emotion and ire from the comment.
cool app.

I would love To see 'finger <friend>' :-)
To those of you who have claimed that your CCs have been abused -- I checked mine (which I used to pay for Linode) and it hasn't been used to do anything funny.
Putting aside any opinions on his morals or maturity-level displayed in the chat, it's a fun read. I love how ryan keeps reconnecting after each attempt to kick him out. He must have a pre-verified list of proxies/compromised-boxes he can connect from so he's just burning through them as he gets banned. I found that amusing.
Flat+3D Mockup Kit
This Flat+3D Mockup Kit makes it easy to create attractive mockups for your apps on a wide variety of devices. There are free and paid kits included, depending on which devices you need.
It's called Frisson (I have it also)

There used to be a great Wikipedia page on it, but the deletionists got to it at some point and turned it into this content free page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_chill

There's a slowly growing body of studies into it.

There's also a reddit devoted to it http://www.reddit.com/r/frisson but I've found that what causes one person to frisson doesn't necessarily cause another.

This book has a bit on it http://books.google.com/books?id=uyI_Cb8olkMC&lpg=PR5...
If you want to spend seven months watching TV, then document it. Explain your motivation, what you gained from the experience, etc. My earlier point was that the "we shall not speak of this time" gap in the resume is the problem, not that you were not making money during a period of time.

Everything in life is a job, including watching TV. You just need to account for that time if you want people to not think you are sketchy and trying to hide something. At least that is how I take the whole thing.
I love all of the "arm chair CEOs" that assume by getting on a plane that they'll meet PMarcA in the SFO airport, they will raise $50MM on their idea and their good looks. Raising money is hard. Building a company is hard. It doesn't matter if it is in Toronto, Edmonton, NYC, Palo Alto, SF.
"Someone hacked us and stole customer details... quick, give everyone more RAM!"

Doesn't sound very plausible to me.
Yeah, a week sounds like plenty of time to assess a hosting provider.
You missed the step where you have to find all charges going to your old CC and then deal with moving every one of those accounts to your new one when it gets there. Hopefully you don't incur any late fees while you're going through the process!

Kind of sucks to have to spend hours doing that for someone else's oversight. It's not the end of the world, but it paints a clear picture about where a company's priorities are.
Linode is always bad about communicating with customers over breaches and outages.
I am using digitalocean, check them out.
You mistakenly believe the political spectrum stops at "big government worshiping liberals". I'm a freaking socialist, I'll abolish your private property as soon as look at you.
Weird, I just tested it successfully under both FF 20 & Chrome 26.0.1410.43 (on os x). I've also used that technique in production code (but not with a list that large) and haven't had any problems with it thus far.
The typography is screwed because of the seemingly faulty font stack in:

.ncDcParagraph {
font-size: 14px;
font-family: Segoe,Verdana,sans serif;
}

I think it should be "Segoe UI" which is a very nice font (on Windows) and it's falling through to Verdana which makes it look dated.

Details, details...
Ah of course, I thought it was truncated. Using my German to translate Dutch, not always successful :) Love the similarities, "Kammer" means "compartment" or "small room" in German.
For the first time in my life, I felt as part of a human ant colony. I'm also proud to see other people admit they're asexual during the "Which do you prefer" question with a male on side and a female on the other. A small percentage of arrows flocked to the center in between them... Or maybe that means they were bi... :(
Obama did call Congress out on their behavior. Openly, publicly and many times.

It accomplished absolutely nothing.

Look, when you have an entrenched party, backed up by the ultra-rich, that has sworn to do anything in its power to make sure you fail, there's not much you can do, even if you are the President of the United States.
I would permit some advertising, if 1) It didn't "move around" and try to distract me; 2) It wasn't a potential vector for malicious technical endeavors (meaning, as opposed to advertisements for crap/exploitative products).

Every time I read about another ad network vector for malicious behavior, my current position is reinforced. I feel some guilt about this, with respect to sites I like, but it doesn't override my need for "safe computing".

So... if you want your advertising to get onto my system, improve your fucking product!

Back when "the Web was young", I permitted advertising, and I actually encountered a number of interesting and useful products via it. That was also a time when the "Web" community was a lot smaller, and particularly technology-oriented advertising has a significantly higher chance of being on-target with respect at least to me as audience.

Then ads starting moving, shouting, and playing bad sets. And then came the malware. That was it, for me.

Clean up your act, and I might let you back.

Sooner or later, someone is going to figure this out.
FlightCar (along with Uber, Lyft, etc) has been issued a C&D by SFO airport:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/transportation/2013/04/sfo-t...

Surprised that the article didn't mention this.
If he is guilty then why hasn't he been tried? 11 years is an awful lot of time for the prosecution to get their case together.
Even so Enemy combatant has a lot of the same laws as POWs.

It's possible they should be treated better but this guy is a known bodyguard of UBL[1] and has lied consistently to everyone [1] so it's not clear how he's being treated (remember this is a Oped about politics - anything goes).

I'll ignore the last line as you've said nothing of substance.

[1]http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/43-samir-na...
New book "Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python" released. Free to download.
Impossible tasks:

Can we get a snapshot of the internet at 6 AM each morning?

Can you send a physical package from Los Angeles to New York City in 14 minutes?

Can you write software that will province 100% accuracy of handwritings for all human beings on the planet? (That's arguably more possible than the Los Angeles example above, but only in theory)

Can you write software that will write the sequel to the Lord of the Rings?

Can you write software that will complete Mozart's unfinished Requiem Mass in d minor?

Can you get a complete list of valid email addresses of actual people on the entire internet, in all countries?

Can you write software that will convert what it sees through a camera as speech, thus allowing a blind person to walk around a city and have the software describe, in details, what the device with the camera is pointing at?

Can you create software that can replicate the artificial intelligence of a common fly, and be placed in a device the size of a hand-powered drone, with the ability to actually fly and avoid being hit?
Haha, well to be fair..they don't make me feel bad. It was just an observation
What do you consider the problem?

Let's say government growing out of bound (and government's power growing compared to an individual's power) is a problem. One way to curb that growth is to slow down the functioning of government.

But if you don't consider monotonic growth of government a problem, then we are very far apart indeed. =)
Come on, now. He's not saying "just fly to a trade show and you'll get job offers," he's saying that you need to be proactive. Go into a business unsolicited and ask if they're hiring (obviously you should know what they do and know that you're a fit).

Are you a web developer? I live in a rural area and there are a half dozen shops within a 30 minute drive. Show up during business hours, ask for the GM or owner and tell them why you're there. Sure, you'll have the people who are put off by you just showing up, but it's just as likely you'll hit someone with a need just a few days (or hours) before they were about to place a listing.

So no, he's not saying to "take on the risk and cost of flying to a trade show," he's saying to be proactive and act like you actually want to have that job, not just a job.
If this is true, they've blatantly lied thus far in their communications with their customers. I don't think that deserves support.
I wouldn't call it self-hatred. It's point out a glaring reality that's invisible to a lot white people. If they hadn't put that in the headline, it might otherwise have gone unremarked that it's mostly white people. Whiteness can be quite difficult to see if you are yourself white.

Put another way, it's not the whiteness itself that's objectionable, at least not exactly. It's the lack of diversity. It just so happens that the lack of diversity presently and historically manifests as a bunch of white dudes. And a great many white dudes just don't notice; for them, that's the "default."
Hi, I'm the author of the book. While the ebook is free to download under a Creative Commons license, there are hard copies for sale on Amazon. 100% of proceeds go to the EFF, Creative Commons, and Tor Project.
Also from the hideously repressive, reactionary and paternalistic social norms of the '50s.
I don't think they mean to suggest that all users "enjoy" advertising, but it IS a reality of the current state of Internet monetization economics that advertising plays a large role in allowing, in IAB's words, the "long tail" of the web to operate in the near-term and grow in the long-term.
Really off-topic, but still sad: This is a link to slashdot, but it's on HN's frontpage before it's on slashdot's front-page (if it'll ever get there). (And IMHO that's sad, because /. used to be top notch).

I've noticed before that stuff from the HN frontpage appears on /. one to three days after, but I've never seen it for links to slashdot :-)
I've suspected for a long time that the idea that life originated on Earth is the last geocentrism.
They're hard to set alight.
Making sure a certain % of speakers are women is ridiculous. I'm a woman and a programmer and I'd be offended they just threw a few women on to even it out vs. to make sure the best of the best speakers are there. If some happen to be women - great! If not, who cares. Women are not being excluded, so what's the problem? Why include women who may be mediocre just for the score? Too much sensitivity these days...
>Hm, I wonder if there is an interest to make this a more open event :)

Yes. I bet there is.