skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to get out of the mindset of charging for your time. You are charging for the value you create - and time is just a crude approximation of that at best.

What if you gave a client two choices: fixed price for $1,000 or hourly at $100/hour with an estimate of 8-12 hours. They're on the fence, but opt for the fixed price deal. You luck out and knock the work out in 3 hours. Do you feel bad? No. You gave them $1000 worth of value.

Now what if they had chosen hourly? Now you get $300 in exchange for the $1000 of value you delivered. Don't do that.

No, what's going to piss them off is when you deliver $1000 of value, but take 20 hours to do it and charge them $2000. Your goal is to match the value you create with the money they pay. That's how you build lasting profitable relationships.

You're not charging for time. You're charging for software.
A feature request, localize the switch. I think if the language is english, you get 'ON'/'OFF', otherwise just just |/O. Unfortunately unicode doesn't have these glyphs, but they are pretty simple to CG draw.
The routing and vertical-trip, horizontal-later display of options are quite nice, thanks!
I'd love to live in this world with you. Literally, I think one friend I know, even of techie friends of friends that work in tech (msft, etc), would know what I meant if I said that without having to think for [too long].

It's why I'm so upset that a large network that had the potential to include a huge amount of people and volume AND LEVERAGE XMPP just spat in our faces.
Not exactly 'mildly' by any united states standard... interesting post though.
So your suggestion for propagating 35 years of community norms that have made Mac OS, Mac OS X and iOS successful is to not say anything when newcomers ignore those norms?
Gravitational Shielding
Non-non-conspiratorial explanation: Google fans are flagging other stories like this on so that Google I/O get the maximum exposure. :)

Edit: I thought the smiley at the end would show I was joking?
Does anyone know if there is a "UFOnews" HN clone?
You should be able to to run code downloaded as part of IAP also. But this is one of the major things I wish they would change, and also one of the major reasons I'll be switching to Android.
I seriously only added this metaphor as an afterthought, after pulling it out of my ass to explain all the furious typing to my partner. It's pretty funny that it's become the most famous part of the article.
Besides disagreeing that what you have shown is evidence of systematic underhanded flagging of MS related posts, I am at a complete loss as to how you figure that the mods are perpetrating some sort of abuse.

Also, whether or not you get your flagging privileges revoked is, among other factors, a function of how popular the things that you are flagging are. That is why you can flag spam on 'new' all day long to your heart's content but one hour of flagging a dozen or two "Steve Jobs died" posts will see you unable to flag almost immediately.
The couple profiled in this piece are the subjects of the documentary Herb and Dorothy. I gave it a watch and I was entertained. It is available on Netflix streaming[1].

[1] http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Herb-Dorothy/70117555
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I think content providers (and users) would gladly retire Flash if they could "lock up" their content in EME instead.

The CDM API should make porting to multiple platforms easier because the browser implements all the non-DRM infrastructure like networking and playback. That said, I don't really expect Linux to suddenly be a top priority for Netflix or Amazon. On the other hand, a CDM is bright red bullseye for crackers. :)
Sadly, it means the same tech as in the 90s will win out, because it is TRULY platform independent.

SMS. And as much as I hate to say it, iMessage has the best support/transparency for it so far
They might be moving towards some kind of XPC service so you can talk to a JIT through a Mach port.

Speculation is my own, derived from: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...
Well, the XMPP still works and is decentralized. Is also the biggest network. If that is not enough for you then I'm afraid you won't find any other alternative.

You can set up your own XMPP server or use one of tons of the public ones: http://xmpp.net/

Edit: There's also jabber.org http://www.jabber.org/ which probably will operate as long as XMPP is still relevant.
Endangering yourself for curiosity is pretty much the absolute definition of a scientist. By definition, when you do something where you're not sure what it will do - that is, science - it's possibly dangerous.

Let's keep in mind: this incident, where no one was injured or harmed in the slightest, is being punished infinitely more severely than destroying the entire world financial system has been. Because, hey, poor black girl in Florida.

Interestingly, of all your links, not one caused even the slightest injury or slightest property damage. Injuries seem to be rather rare (and plastic shrapnel would lose velocity within a couple of feet).
Google unveils All Access music streaming service
Google launches streaming music service ahead of Apple
So now it isn't just Microsoft posts that are getting flagged, but everything not Google? Give me a break, that will absolutely get your flagging privileges revoked, and quickly.

Does it really surprise you that Google is receiving large amounts of exposure today? Really?

Edit: Apologies, I assumed your intentions poorly.
About the same time the store workers in my town would call the police / fire department when we bought aqua net and/or starter fluid. (I guess 5 teenage dudes buying multiple cans of hairspray was a bit obvious.)

Never did get in trouble with our potato guns. I'm sure I'd already be in jail if it were this day.
We are using the Google Cloud Datastore for quite some time at Blossom.io (through App Engine) and it is an amazing piece of technology.

Since scaling the data-tier is the most challenging part of building a high traffic application (especially when it comes to scaling writes) the Google Cloud Datastore (& App Engine) imho is among the very few services that can actually claim to solve this problem whereas other platforms just try to market theirs this way – "go cloud and then you can scale automatically (if you know what you do)".

I'm really glad the Datastore is now also available outside of App Engine.
Microsoft to Google: "lol go fuck yourselves".

There's no reason whatsoever Microsoft should comply to those ridiculous demands.

And it's awesome that Microsoft removed those YouTube antifeatures for users, they for once deserve to be thanked for the good they are doing.

Google is looking more and more like the evil one (although far less evil than Apple or Oracle).
"They managed to squish Netscape like a little bug"

How many "little bugs" has Google squished with their Search? Granted they didn't get sued by DOJ because they were smarter (Google's Lobbying Budget: $25 Million During FTC Probe - http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/01/04/google-spend-25-mill... ) than Microsoft but with a 70% online market share they can destroy virtually any business or niche they want to.

All the extra stuff you see on Google Search now was done by other companies and most were destroyed during Search updates for having "spammy and shallow content." If you ask Google why the clutter? The answer is something like "Because users love that content...blah blah" But users hated it when others did it and Google didn't make money on it. Of course.
> Not to sound arrogant, but they sometimes marvel ...

Now it doesn't make sense.
He wasn't talking about Zuckerberg. What lottery did MLK win?
Great, another .NET is dying post voted up on HN. Didn't we have one of those just this morning?

Meanwhile, in the real world, Microsoft posted these earnings:

"Server & Tools business reported $5.04 billion of revenue, up 11% from last year"

Inspite of competing products like Linux, Apache, Eclipse, Ruby, Java being given away for free, people are willing to pay for Windows Server, Visual Studio and IIS.

Does anyone have real data related to ".NET is dying" other than idle conjecture, short sighted "frog in the well" anectodes which sound like they're written and voted up by people sipping on a latte on a Macbook in a Starbucks in Silicon Valley?

Like the number of jobs posted? They seem to increasing every day.

Sigh, some people here just love these '.NET is dying' posts, perhaps some with a vested interest to scare startups from using it.

Again, any hard data will be appreciated that shows .NET is dying instead of the same paragraph upon paragraph of opinion and no links, references or data, we have enough HN comments of that already.
Thanks - that would seem to make the title of this submission to HN quite misleading (even if it is extracted directly from text of the source).
Beautiful read. Something to be said for dedications and small steps.
EC2 is indeed very expensive for Windows hosting. A c1.medium instance on EC2 reserved for 3 years is $42/mo Linux and $116/mo Windows - that's nearly triple the cost for the same hardware!

Another option is to switch to mono and run your .net apps with EC2's Linux prices. Then it's even cheaper than Azure. This is what I did for my current project.
Introduction to Map and Reduce in Javascript
No dude. I'll just create one more alternative and amass a user based and then ??? and then profit! But I'll have an iOS app and an Android app, so that should cut it right? Fuck feature-phone users, Symbian/BBM/etc. Don't have a browser/desktop app.

Whatever. Google Voice is a dying product, and I hate them for what they've done, but at least the underlying transport is SMS and a portable phone number -- if I want I can host it myself in Plivo, which I plan on doing soon.
Dwolla killa?
Acting Chief of I.R.S. Forced Out Over Tea Party Targeting
I don't understand what you mean. How does having two clients connected rule out "being really secure"?
I remember watching this documentary a few years ago.
Outstanding piece of work, really stunned that they valued their collection more than wealth.

I remember one of the pieces of their collection was a few inches of frayed rope with a nail through it. Art is always in the eye of the beholder, they always bought what they personally liked.

Sad to hear that Herb passed away a few years ago. Their like may never been seen again...
Momentum wheels are reaction wheels. I'm not sure why the wikipedia article on them thinks differently-- Hubble wasn't gyrostablized at all, it's a telescope, it can't be allowed to spin.

Hubble also masses eleven times that of Kepler. (11,000kg vs 1,000kg) I don't know the actual numbers, but attitude control systems possibly take up a larger percentage of spacecraft mass on Kepler than it does on Hubble.
Power draw?
Maemo never did. I had a N900, and one of its standard YouTube app allowed you to download videos, which seems to be one of Google's issues with the Windows Phone app. I never recall Google sending a mail to Nokia about that. Maybe nobody used Maemo? Or the fact that it did not have a kill switch?
I realise you haven't directly stated that you support these actions, I would like to make the following comment since it seams to me that you think school shootings and terrorist attacks are valid reasons for this behaviour.

I believe while you are under the impression your government and law enforcement agencies are just doing more to protect you, you are actually relinquishing your freedom in exchange for false hope and allowing your government to nerf the world, and allowing the terrorists to win.

Arresting 11 year olds for bringing a plastic knife to school is ridiculous behaviour and should not be allowed (or encounraged) under the guise of "protecting us from school attacks and terrorists".

(I say 'your' because I am actually a UK citizen. While the ridiculous behaviour of the Americans is not really a concern of mine, I worry that other countries and governments will follow suit. That said, we're not dumb enough to allow rampant legal gun ownership. Sorry.)
I wonder whether the target audience here is developers who want to build a new PHP application from scratch for GAE, or just people who want to install Wordpress? Using GAE adds a development/deployment step, but the lack of deployment fuss is the primary advantage PHP has over anything else.

I'm also slightly alarmed that the PHP examples use htmlspecialchars and nothing else. The Python documentation has a whole section on templating with an example autoescaping setup using Jinja2.
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Just wanted to add that the cynicism quote is by Stephen Colbert; one of my favorite quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95264-remember-you-cannot-be...
Aaron Diaz is amazing. The time travel/transhumanism comic Hob is greatly recommended ( http://dresdencodak.com/2007/02/08/pom/ ).
Ah that explains it. I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories in general, but it definitely was suspicious at first =)
You attribute high availability to the infrastructure entirely, not just a front facing programming language. Facebook has a massive architecture and only it's front-end stuff (views, data retrieval) are done in PHP. Everything else are separate services written in Java (or some other JVM language) and communicate through Thrift. PHP isn't accredited with Facebook's high availability and Facebook doesn't even serve PHP, it serves compile C++ code that was compiled from PHP.
I absolutely love the Windows Phone and think it's very underrated. I would use one all the time but our company phones are only iPhone or Android =(
Interesting note from the end of the article:

"IRS agents also could be targeted in private lawsuits by those who were subject to any improper scrutiny. Those lawsuits, called Bivens actions, raise claims of constitutional violations by federal agents and would likely make it difficult for the Justice Department to defend the IRS agents, since it also is investigating the matter."

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivens_v._Six_Unknown_Named_Ag...
Ask HN: How can I build a lambda-calculus compiler in Scheme?
Recently I have some interests in building compiler, but I'd love to start with a very tiny one.

So I'm eager to know how I can build in Scheme, I mean what the structure should be and What cool features I can add in?
I can understand that. Any other day I would find it suspicious as well.
PHP as just started to get a package community going (Composer) but it's incredibly slow. Using external packages in PHP isn't as easy as with other platforms.
No I haven't, but that brings me back to the first question - how do you research which companies to contact?
That's a wild guess and IMHO very wrong. I get that you may not have a lot of resources, but those places normally pay badly even for 3rd world countries.

Saying they're all employed it's a rationalization people make to feel less guilty.

Paying people to code less than the ones that cut your lawn is wrong no matter what the reason is.
Depends on why you're a programmer. If you wish to optimize for compensation, by all means, learn as many different languages, platforms, and technologies as you can.

So I would say you should learn something in addition to PHP so that you bring more value where you go.

Put another way: don't be a PHP programmer. Be a programmer. Then, use the right tool for the job based on the constraints given to you. If that ends up being PHP, you'll still be paid more to do it.
We'll look in to that. It turns out BART often has issues with real-time data at terminus stations. (like Fremont or the airport)

This is probably a source data issue, but we'll look in to it and see if we can fix it regardless.

Also, we can't support iOS 5 unfortunately. We used a number of iOS 6 only features in core flows.
Canada has had Interac email money transfers for around a decade, without any lock-in to a particular "wallet service" or email host.

This is so late to the market as to be irrelevant.
Which is what I meant by "within the bundle of your app." That may have been a bit too iOS developer-centric, I apologize.

In Foundation, [NSBundle mainBundle] returns a reference to an object representing your application's root directory, and the code and resources found within. Roughly the same bits that you'd find within an unpacked IAP file.
You're extrapolating things I haven't said. It is well known that signal interception (and communications interception in general) has been a tool used by the military and the government for as long as any of the above have existed.[1]

"offline verification is just something the whistleblower needs to figure out themselves."

You are seeing the point, albeit as if through a glass, darkly. The New Yorker has not advised anyone of this need, nor have they communicated the additional safeguards one much take, proportional to the risk of interception and identification.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON, https://www.eff.org/cases/nsa-multi-district-litigation, black ops, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aldrich_Ames_mailbox.jpg, http://web.archive.org/web/20060210092316/http://www.liberty..., http://books.google.com/books?id=mAR0GI5ggf8C&pg=PA62#v=..., http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/civil..., http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/635080/Sir-Francis..., &c.
Aaahh these flamewars bring me back memories of alt.linux.advocacy

It is funny to read how quickly a news.ycombinator discussion degenerates when talking about Google, Microsoft or Apple.
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A. What do you mean by universal?
B. Sorry, no can do.
I think the future of the MVC framework is a better question. It's stuck in the middle of two worlds- huge corporate projects don't use it, and anyone that even thinks about MVC will be more likely to use something like Ruby.
> Given yelp's somewhat shady practices

I remember reading about this a couple years ago. Is it still an issue? Can you point to any recent sources?
You mean, aside from the one being empirical, and the other just being a pyrotechnics demo?

It makes no difference with respect to her punishment. It was unfair no matter what. I'm just pointing out the technicality.
He may actually have a nuke. They are not that hard to make - the hard part is surviving the process :P
> Mono? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)

You are funny.
It was a fantastic comment, it is a real shame you are not giving it more credit. Extremely arrogant.
> “Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.”

Source for the quote below, I have to say that the longer version is equally, if not more, powerful.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert
I've had a Windows Phone (Lumia 920) for a few months now and probably would never go back. Sure, some apps are missing from the ecosystem, but I rarely use apps so maybe that's just me.

The integration, slick performance, and interface really are streets ahead of Android in my opinion and I was a daily android flasher for over 2 years.

If apps are your thing though, make sure enough of them are there to keep you happy.
Embark has an app for Boston. Different design and focused on the T, so it's rail only at this point though.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/embark-boston-t-mbta-by-emba...
As a Tor Exit Node Operator, I can say that not all of the nodes are compromised.
Actually, I'm paying very near my own salary. And I cut my own lawn.
Eh. You are probably correct, but were it "high" art (say.. "David"), not some sketches on tumblr, it would certainly be mild. Sussing out what is potentially offensive and how much so can be difficult.
If you think Mono is a viable alternative to the .NET platform, you don't understand why people choose .NET.

Don't get me wrong, Mono is awesome. But it's not about to be adopted by Fortune 500 companies across the world.
He could sell the icons as a pack, too.
Surely Google could just preinstall something. The Python templating docs say GAE includes both Jinja2 and the Django template engine.
The problem is the "all devices" bit - what happens if you add a new device? How do you define the low watermark behind which a new device gets nothing?

User expectations of privacy and magic are often in conflict, especially when sync is involved.
interac is not free, this is
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If authorities obtain the cooperation of either the sender-to-you, or the receiver-from-you, they can find out who they thought they were dealing with, and why.

You should probably assume that all businesses/exchanges with fixed addresses and traditional bank accounts will cooperate with authorities. And, some fair proportion of others, as well, including even those involved in explicitly illegal activities (who may be informants/plants, from the beginning or once discovered).

So if 'your' Bitcoin is received several hops from any of the known nodes/addresses, and after your spend goes several hops before arriving at a known node/address... you may be safe. That is, if you're small-scale, use Bitcoin only with others who avoid reporting requirements, and no big priority investigation peels back the links one by one using all the tools and pressure available to the state. And, if other security compromises and traffic analyses don't prematurely reveal your correspondent nodes.

But ultimately, a financial-enforcement agency might be running their own operation much like blockchain.info... with 1000X the resources, and various extra private sources of information. Every error by any participant -- mixing different outputs, client bugs revealing identity correlations, announcing pubkey-to-identity associations, matching time-online with time-of-spends, providing historic data after being targeted by an audit or prosecution, etc. -- would constantly improve the map of balances-to-real-world-entities. And like playing a game of 'minesweeper', a few lucky hits by enforcement, even years down the road, might suddenly illuminate large portions of the network. The blockchain never forgets!

And, a few policy changes could supercharge this map. Legislate that if you're an above-ground operation, you must register your public keys. Any balances received from unregistered/tainted addresses are subject to forfeiture (or a punitive excise tax), but balances received from registered addresses are OK. Bitcoin's public blockchain makes this possible, and it's not possible with cash.

All the above-ground businesses and users then register their addresses, and stop accepting -- or quickly report under penalty of law -- received funds from unregistered addresses. The gaps in the enforcement map then shrink pretty fast. You might also then have, within one blockchain, both 'dark' and 'light' balances that usually don't mix and aren't 1-to-1 interchangeable. To spend your 'non-taxable' coin on things like food or rent, you'd have to swap it for registered coin, through some legitimate-looking (and thus likely tax-paying) transaction. That's just money laundering, and it's no easier and probably much harder than with real cash businesses. (Are you sure the person willing to give you 'light' balances in return for your 'dark' balances is not and will never be an informer?)
>That story changed under interview,

You go be a 17 year old kid who's never been in trouble before and let's see how tough you are in an interview room with a few cops for a few hours.
I'd trust Google with my money just like I'd trust them with my real world information.

/s
The very first example about @fopen is full of weird stuff about INI file changes and stuff that are not on by default and if someone turns them on they should understand what they are doing.
Exactly. Being closed isn't the problem, it's just effectively unsupported on any platform that's not Windows. Mono's nice and all, but it's not complete, and it never will be.