skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may apply to many people here so I hope you don't mind answering a question specific to my situation. Huge thanks in advance if you can!

I've recently discovered a skill I never knew I had - and one I'm way better at than being a developer. I'm really good at working with non-technical people who want to build things. I can explain technical things to them in a way they understand (because I was in their shoes for many years). And most importantly - I can quickly grok what business problem they are trying to solve and think of way better ways to solve them than whatever strategy they came up with ("I want a site that has like dropdowns and a calendar and logins and maps and a place where..." when a two page lander+them doing everything manually, would be a better and cheaper way to test their idea).

Ok so my question is, how do I market that service (not where to find clients but how to pitch them)? What do I call myself? Should I just charge them hourly/per project (and offer the 2-day a month retainer) or is there a better model I could sell them on that could be more lucrative for me and a better solution for them?
If you prefer simplicity try http://skimfeed.com.
Do you have some info about MariaDB adoption rates?
My IDE doesnt take up enough memory, and thats a problem
You could have left off the last 5 words.
Ask HN: Does a Skype work for you on mac?
The whole day today my skype is crashing on mac, is it just me or it happens to somebody else?
The father believe his son is committing treason for revealing government corruption and to stop exposing it further: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/17/exclusive-father-... The father prejudiced the public against his son in the hopes of having his son close to him again. The father even believes Wikileaks is an irresponsible organisation.

It seems that Snowden may have not planned for his family to be used to get him back. It's eerily similar to dictatorships who warn citizens going abroad that their family will still be here if they do not return.

In contrast, Julian Assange's family supports him fully in public. That's pretty powerful support. His mum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bn7s10_VZ8

It's so sad. I hope he continues for the people of the world, unfortunately without a father in life.
The author posts a number of details and seems to be answering questions at http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ha5dd/rss_reader_w...
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The weirdest thing for me is, after seeing pretty thorough comparisons between open/insecure and closed/secure systems throughout history, the folks in charge have decided to pursue closed/secure despite a proven track record of failure.

I don't know exactly what to chalk it up against, other than short-term thinking that benefits the individuals making the decisions, hubris that "this time it's going to be different!", or some sort of intentional pursuit of the worst long-term strategy possible. Probably some combination of the first two?
I don't even know papa Snowden and it's pretty obvious to me he's just saying what some government agent told him to say... or else. It is a sad state of affairs that the U.S. has fallen so low. Why isn't anyone protesting? Why aren't people marching on capitol hill? I thought americans wouldn't stand for this kind of stasi crap. I was wrong.
There are many such sites on the web where you can easily and for free create a web site with plain HTML, and many of them have been around for 10+ years and give you more than 10MB. What's the big deal here, appart from the name?
I don't think people would really have that much of an issue with spying programs if they were more transparent.

By that I mean they can't spy on ANYONE, they actually have to have justifiable evidence to suggest a person or group of people is conducting some form of illegal activities or are involved in potential terrorist activities/groups. Which they must then get a court order granting them the ability to spy on these people for a period of time.

During that period of time they don't have to give out the name but once the warrant expires if nothing shows up then the warrant becomes public domain, or if it expires and they prove its helping build a case then names can continue to be suppressed until the time of trial.

No secrecy within the country but enough secrecy that the person being spied on doesn't know until its too late.

^^ Hope that makes sense... My opinion.
Sometimes a parent's sentimentality and love for their child blinds them to all else. It has been mentioned that a number of his family works for the government in various capacities, so they could very well be of a slightly more authoritarian or trusting in authority than Snowden himself.

Snowden seems willing enough to face the statutory punishment for his actual crimes, just not the trumped up politicised charges the Government seems to have in mind.
The example code looks really silly. As others said, it's just bad programming.
Probably just you. Working fine here with version 6.5.0.443 and Mac OSX 10.8.4
You sure?

The first time the father spoke, it was begging for his son to come home, that his son had done something terrible. Most people probably (wrongly) agreed with him. That got peoples' attention.

This time he's changed position, he's a lot more moderate. The people who agreed with him before will now have to re-evaluate their own position.

Let's see what his next announcement is.
Honestly not unthinkable in this day and age. Maybe office becomes the corporate niche thing, and everyone uses g docs or a tablet/phone app at home.
Looks great, well done on the kickstarter. I just wanted to add that I think that this:

>TEAM: Show your staff and collaborators that you appreciate their time: let Taco give them back some of it. Receive all Supporter rewards for 5 people whose time you value

is an excellent backer reward. Well worded, tied to theroduct in a meaningful way and a great concept.

I wish you the best of luck!
There are lots of things to be done, even with static content (from the server PoV). Right next to this entry stands "A dark room", which is entirely static server-side.

Regarding the "airport kid" saddies, someone pointed out how he longed for the C64 days and put one up again. I see this as an opportunity. What can you achieve with 10M and HTML+JS? While the web seems to look like "old stuff" there's lots to be done with WebGL, canvas, websockets... All of this now available to everyone for free. No domain name to own, no DNS to set up, no VPS or RPi+FTTH to own, no hacking around to squat Heroku or GAE with static content.

Think outside the box and show off your skills, folks. Push the envelope. That's the hacking spirit.
Wow. I've only every programmed Java and this looks amazing. I'm so sorry scripting languages, I've neglected you!
You could just put in a few hyphens surrounded by blank lines:

----

Like so.
Nice, but I don't see a "download" link.
Without the ability to run my own, how can I be sure this will not go the way of the "Google reader"? Especially being a "one man show".
Is molecular nanotechnology science?
It's from the sequence of ["foo","bar","baz","qux", "quux", ...]. More info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#English

Doesn't sound like a great name, but whatever. It's a placeholder at least.
I know we often try to keep it civil around here, but shame on them.

Actually, let me rephrase, Fuck Palantir. There is a point at which I disregard the technical hurdles that they overcome, due to the fact that they're at odds with our constitution. They are far, far past that point.
Citizen only. I would cite Sens. Wyden and Udall as reliably working within the system to expose the abuses in a strategic manner, knowing how powerful the forces arrayed against them are.

Now certainly you can disagree with me and say that they should have exposed everything they knew about the programs to the public, but I think their work over the years has been more productive that that. Had they gone public, they probably would have been replaced by other individuals all too interested in quid pro quo.
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Same here. I immediately searched for it on the page.

It's the only Yahoo service I use (well, except for Tumblr, I suppose), but it's great.
Author here.

Glad you find it useful!
This. Notation in formal mathematics is just totally awful. You pick on a great example as well there.
It's recently replaced mysql in redhat builds, so it's definitely on the up.
Thanks for checking it...will investigate further. All of a sudden stopped working and crashing on launch.
Red Hat Software Collections
Oh! Thanks for explaining. I had no idea.
Bootswap: bootstrap design tool, permutate via hotkeys/arrows
yes. just used it today. mountain lion. latest version. try reinstalling.
If it succeeds, it's worthy of the Ig Nobel Prize.
And Frog Fractions is worth checking out if you like Candy Box.
Quite agree. Take my money too.

PUt it this way, I stopped backing up to tarsnap after a reinstall, but were I paying 100 a month it would be top of my todo list. Do me a favour, charge me more so I value it more

Cheers
Serious Consistency Shit for Google App Engine Datastore
I suspect an interpretation, if not grandparent's, is that one monopoly is being traded for another.
What exactly would stop government from breaking such promises? They allowed to lie at negotiations with "terrorist".
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011k45f
Marco has talked about this (on a podcast I think, 5by5 build and analyze) although his reasoning was to do with feeling dirty collecting personal data and (I think) removing the possibility of it coming out via a bug or hack or such like. Different reasons but the end effect is the same.
The hard part isn't the encryption, it's making sure everyone has everyone elses public key and nobdy loses their private key, otherwise the average person will see it as too much bother and just won't do it.
More specifically: 64 bit ULTRIX. The search index was held in memory.
Using your example where a client is on retainer for two floating days per month, how do you avoid clients making urgent demands for that time? I fear having a number of clients pre-paying for time each month and then the last week of the month those that, for whatever reason, didn't use their time, staking claims.

1) In my experience - it doesn't happen.

2) The way I set it up to alleviate that fear, before I saw that it didn't happen, was to separate the booking time from the delivery time. So $client gets N days each month when they can ask for a booking, which will then get scheduled in over the next 30 days from the point they book it (so if the client requests N days on April 15th, they get booked in any time from Apr 15-Jun 14.)
Apple to stop using Samsung-made chips beginning in 2014
Guice for the Rubyist
The site asks for sign-in. Just invent any email address to read the article immediately.
> multiple felonies each year

year -> day
How weird, it didn't a minute ago.
Made me "lol".

jk
Since quantum cryptography requires a special physical connection between the two parties, it wouldn't be particularly effective at securing the all-important SSL traffic. Luckily, I highly doubt practical use of Shor's algorithm will be possible publicly in 5-10 years, but even if it will, it's not necessary to use quantum cryptography to defend against quantum computers:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
What's the coolest use-case for a quantum computer of the future?
It would help if we had popular services create databases with people's public keys. Like let's say Gmail would allow you to search for your friend's public key, or you could find it in their profile, and you'd be able to easily import it in whatever PGP app you're using.

Of course that implies these services to actually care about security for their users this much. There are a ton of things major companies could to do make end-to-end encryption mainstream and popular. The problem is they have no interest in doing it, and not enough people are asking them to do it.

But I'd like to think that in a Post-PRISM world where nothing changes at the government level, there would be more services popping up and offering these "features". It's what competition is supposed to do.
6 year old boy, wants to reach 1 million Facebook fans
Try Lazy Newb Pack, and also less drama and theatrics.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0

It helps modify the graphics and makes for better keybindings.
HN I know we can make this happen. Do what you can please. Link to the news article on YouTube
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=a5LY4EF-Ik8&desktop_uri=%2Fwa...
Convicted Pedophile Priest Claims the Vatican Had a Rentboy Ring
How can I save for real? :S
I don't. But, I haven't changed the product since march 2012, I believe 14 months of consistent range of 27-34 sales each month can be considered stable. Especially since the drop started the day I changed the price.

I want to leave it like this until the end of month 4. And then I'll revert back to $19.99 to see if number of sales go back.

Although, I'm thinking I might offer two versions of the product, one for $19.99 and other for $29.99 as someone suggested.
New guests come in when you have vacancies anyway.
There is no expectation of privacy in these activities at all.

Tell that to anyone who doesn't know what a "tracking cookie" is. A normal, non-technical, rational person will have an expectation of privacy with regard to their Internet browsing habits.
26 US Senators write to US director of national intelligence James Clapper
If you are afraid of your privacy being violated, why are you using Facebook in the first place?
I think if this really takes off we'll have a "quantum card" like a video card for a PC
I'd rather sell millions of apps for $100 each. - Bill Gates ;)
Alternatively, in Chrome, right click on the sign-in window, click "Inspect element", scroll up a bit, highlight the <div> elements with ids TB_overlay and TB_window, press delete, close the inspector window, and enjoy. (I'm sure it's just as easy in other browsers.) ;)
There's a fourth "area" (Room | Village | Path) you can get after you explore a whole bunch. The alien alloy is used there.
If you decide to bump up the intensity with a strong statement or two, you'll need to be more clear on who exactly it applies to. The idiots who conceived the damned assignment? Or the ones who conceived the damned JVM?
Ask HN: What proof is there that Snowden is safe?
I don't trust anything Assange has to say. Besides Assange's tweets, what proof is there that Snowden isn't been held in Russia and that he is safe?
Or you can Ctrl-U and copy the article HTML (I mean the actual article).
Some really interesting commentary here from people in a position to know what the NSA is collecting, and they mention a broad range of possible records:

Furthermore, we are troubled by the possibility of this bulk collection authority being applied to other categories of records. The PATRIOT Act's business records authority is very broad in its scope. It can be used to collect information on credit card purchases, pharmacy records, library records, firearm sales records, financial information, and a range of other sensitive subjects.
How Snapchat made a leap of faith by building atop Google cloud services
Apocalyptic news from a site that needs your email? Sure, why not?
I make guesses about what the result of something will be, check the guesses to see if they work and then write down why I think they worked or didn't work.
Artists top surveillance cams with party hats for George Orwell's birthday
"Android running on 92% of phones"
New unit to tackle online piracy and counterfeit crime (UK)
Is this enough to jumpstart a full blown investigation, or do they need the majority of the Senate for that?
For those interested in an experience report I'll copy and paste the post from the developer from http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ha5dd/rss_reader_w... (go there for some additional discussion):

<--- 8< ---->

Hi, I'm developer of this RSS reader and want to share with you why Haskell is a big win for my project.

First. Haskell is a fast compiled language. Most RSS readers are written in Python, Ruby or PHP. And they're all quite slow or requre a ton of servers to handle the load. With Haskell I'm able to quickly implement complex features and don't think much about performance.

Second. Haskell is very high level and handles concurrency well. It's not a problem to write very generic code or spawn thousands of threads.

Third. There a many good libraries now (much more than 10 years ago ;).

I want to thank Bryan O'Sullivan, Michael Snoyman and all other package authors for their efforts on making Haskell true platform.

I'm especially like text, riak, aeson, http-conduit and warp packages. They're used 24x7 under load and I haven't found any major problems with them.

And few quirks.

Unfortunately not all packages are equal in quality. Many libraries are toys or don't work well under load. But at least there are libraries to take some code from.

Bindings to C libraries (as well as C libs itself) are evil. I've had problems with almost every C package I've tried (curl, regex-pcre, hsdns).

Long-lived ByteStrings can cause memory fragmentation and ten-fold performance drops. So I'm using Text for everything except I/O.

Haskell was missing fast malformed html/xml parser. But it took only a couple of days to write fast-tagsoup package that parses tens of MB/sec.

In general with Haskell I can quickly write high level code that runs fast. And (at least for my project) I'm seeing that most tasks now are CPU bound (due to fast SSDs), not I/O. So compiled yet high-level languages shold gain more popularity now.

If you have some questions about reader implementation details feel free to ask me.

PS: reader is profitable, so I'm thinking it could be counted as a Haskell success story ;)

</--- 8< --->
Console.image
You can use Adblock to block it (right click on it). It might take 2-3 tries to get rid of everything.
The article is low on content. More useful info is here:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/internet-archiv/
The page is super slow because of the particles animation in the header. It makes documentation almost impossible to read. (at least on FF)
Any lawyer would have a field day if it was made completely public with media coverage of what was happening and then BAM they screwed him the moment he set foot in the country.
What would big data think of Einstein?
I was googling "Whoever's Law" hoping there would finally be a law named "Whoever's Law", because holy shit are there a lot of "Laws" now.
Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful for us
Given that I immediately emailed this to many people, I'm not sure I agree with Patrick that he'll fast overstay his welcome. If you write remarkable things for our community, expect them to be shared.
Open source projects aren't tax scams
Great talk. Loved it. Bruce is an insightful, engaging speaker. I come to like him even more :)
Glenn Greenwald: NSA Can Store A Billion Cell Phone Calls Every Day
I sought out people on oDesk who charged much higher rates. Most anyone under $30/hour on there is really unlikely to be any good.
But until you get to the point that "just works" it's a huge pain in the behind (configuring, etc)

Also, the SQL syntax is usually a pain to get it first (MySQL is much more tolerant for a newcomer)

And yes, PSQL commands usually work in MySQL (except for the specific stuff, like \dt but that's not even SQL so...)
I went to Jameco and just grabbed the name of a part at random, "Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1".

I'm curious, how do you propose that part be named? I mean, sure, you can call it part #112176. That's a name with fewer words. The part number is preferable for, say, ordering from a catalog. But when actually designing a device that uses that part? Well, at some point, I need to know what it is. And what it is is a "Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1".

Sometimes in engineering you just need some really specific thing, and it makes perfect sense for a really specific thing to have a really specific name.

I'm genuinely curious: what is the argument behind your conjecture that nothing should exist that takes so many words to name? Should that phototransistor not exist?
Great game. I'm having fun
"Editors do make a difference in your productivity - that is why people have favourites and why they have flamewars. That productivity matters."

How do these people know it makes a difference? Do they measure their productivity? Is there any scientific research on this?
I'm willing to bet that N is a single digit.
Or if there was some scroll action hooked up that fired if you were hovered and you scrolled.
The D-Wave is a quantum annealer not a multi-purpose quantum computer.
Recommend reading: http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-Aar...

Lots of interesting stuff about quantum computing and quantum algorithms in there. Some interesting tidbits:

- var x; var y = x
- print(x) <--- Impossible, quantum information can't be duplicated. x no longer exists.

And:

- var y
- var x = f(y) <--- The value of y is now changed. You must undo f with f' to return y to it's original state.

I'm sure some QPL's will build this sort of stuff in so you don't have to worry about it, but definitely interesting reading~

(this is probably more directly relevant to programming though, and free: http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/qml/compiler/jjg-thesis.pdf)
My number one issue with VIM is the need to always count everything: number of lines, number of words, etc. That alone makes the short cuts take a lot longer because generally I'm thinking "I want to cut this function" or "I want to cut down to this line right here". I've never in my life instinctively thought, "I need to cut this line plus four more!".

I end up using visual mode a lot in VIM because it's often faster (or easier) than stopping to count how many times I need to repeat the operation.
Some prior paper demonstrated that a carefully crafter computer program was as fast as this machine, and I think they did not believe the Q system would get asymptotically faster.
Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, publicly said that
Snowden isn't held in Russia.

Putin said Snowden remained in Sheremetyevo airport's
transit area and vowed that Moscow would not extradite
the whistleblower to the US. He also insisted that
Russia's security services had no contact with Snowden,
a claim greeted with suspicion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/25/edward-snowden-m...

We haven't received a sign of life from Snowden for six days now, we don't know for sure if he is safe.
Some others:

https://www.catincan.com/

http://bountyoss.com/

http://funding.openinitiative.com/

In development: https://snowdrift.coop/
"My friend Olga Bychkova, a host from radio Echo of Moscow, described a scene she witnessed in the airport's transit zone on the day of Snowden's arrival on Sunday. "I saw about 20 Russian officials, supposedly FSB [security service] agents in suits, crowding around somebody in a restricted area of the airport," Bychkova told me. "The Kremlin pretends they have nothing to do with him being stuck in Moscow, but in reality they're all over him."
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/26/the_no_show
2038... I hope it's not using 32-bit Unix time.
Agreed. A minute of dodging, ship goes zoom, and then a game reset. It'd be nice to at least see a summary of my resources, or a score, or anything.
Yeah, because you want to do all then when the website shows that they don't care about you as a visitor on their site.