skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here's one reason that overrules all 5: because the customer doesn't like surprise pricing.

Their business is knowing how much something is going to cost. This isn't exclusive to the project I'm working on with them. This extends to every aspect of running their business. Whenever I see a business owner angry about a new government policy being considered that would impact their business, they're rarely upset about the policy itself and more upset about the vagaries that come with being affected by the enigmatic legislation process. Small businesses and even medium sized businesses flourish under consistent understanding of their costs.

Even if I'm not as big a shop or even as talented a shop as the next guy, I know almost any company is going to go with me because I will give them a number and I won't deviate from it unless they, themselves, have deviated so far from the scope that I have to forewarn them that the project needs to be re-estimated. At which point they understand because they're a business owner too.

Moreover, it just feels sheisty. It feels like a bait-and-switch. If I severely underestimate my costs on a project, I shouldn't be passing that mistake along to the customer. It's not their fault. It's mine. I'm the expert here. I'm the professional in this field they hired me to be the professional in. How can I go back to them and ask for more money because I didn't prove myself to be professional? It's not their concern how I run my business, nor should it be.
I believe this is more of a problem in the US than elsewhere, although there is some office in every city where this is the culture (like a game of chicken over who will get up to leave first, that goes on beyond 8pm every evening.)

I like to imagine the whole of life as a not-for-profit business; where if you can cover your (living) costs, you've won, and you don't need to work any harder. If you can cover those costs in 2 days per week, great; three days for "side" projects and fun, and two days for relaxing. If you need to save up for a new toy, just work an extra day for a month.

This especially makes sense for programmers, who have well-paid telecommutable desk jobs and are in a position to request pro-rata work - "You want to give me a 20% pay rise? great, I'll keep the same salary and work 4 days, thanks."
I thought I read somewhere that it broadcasts only to those subscribed to the broadcaster.

That should be the way it works. You can't send a message to someone unless he's subscribed to you.
Here in Catalonia, some pirates are developing a model based on adhocracy and liquid democracy, accountable and transparent.

We call it "liquid organizations": http://thinkship.cc/en/introduction-to-liquid-organizations/

Check it out. We should team up ;) More info at http://lyd.dario.im/
Welcome to Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
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2003 Java is why Java is not popular on desktops, not 2013 Java.
I've used it at conferences and concerts. It's a great feature. But I am ALWAYS conscious to turn it off immediately after. I absolute have no desire to be found at a local coffee shop... by anyone.
Not in the US: I have not seen a single US city yet with proper bike lanes. At best (and this is rare) you're separated by a solid line which is not enough. But most of the time you're basically on your own.

I just looked up the scene of the accident at 1700 Hillandale Road, Durham on Google Street View. If you're on a bike there's nothing for you - you're like a slow engineless motorcycle. This is _very_ dangerous.
To my mind, as long as the Content-type header is set, the server should try to parse the body accordingly.

In the case of JSON, an empty body cannot be a JSON representation, but for other formats an empty body can have a meaning.
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Google 2010
Apple 2013
It will be added to iOS according to the linked page.

Not sure why they close Latitude before supporting their preferred alternative on all platforms.
Don't forget identity management. It's easy to want to say you should be able to carry on an encrypted conversation with anyone as long as you think you can reasonably identify the other party as not being a government agent (or man-in-the-middle).
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oh yeah, and they've totally destroyed all competition in that market too.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_stor...

Amazon sells ebooks for the sake of selling ebooks - to make a profit.
Apple sells music as a tie-in for its hardware offerings - it has no reason to "squeeze out" competitors in this space.
I'm pretty sure dart2js runs faster than Dartium. Dartium is just for reducing the time the edit/test cycle takes and from what I've read on the mailing list, not intended to be something that end-users will ever see. In that respect, Dart is exactly like CoffeeScript or the many other attempts to fix Javascript.

The Dart FAQ says:

Q. Is Dart going to divert community effort from JavaScript-based web development?

If people like Dart and use it, then to a certain extent, yes, but isn't this true of any improvement to existing web development? Nothing is zero-effort to learn or 100% back-compatible to legacy browsers, so people use both new and old. You might look at it this way: Google is putting significant effort behind both Dart and JavaScript, choosing to develop Dart while at the same time using JavaScript extensively, and working on JavaScript tools, implementation, and language spec. We're doing both because we think Dart is worth it.

Server-side web programming finds room for many languages: does Python divert effort from Perl, and does Java undercut C++? Again, to a certain extent, yes they do, but people generally consider that a healthy situation, better than if we all used a single programming language. Multiple languages have allowed for faster change than any single language has achieved through a standards process. Furthermore, languages coexist in different niches: does Groovy really compete directly with C++? People face different engineering tradeoffs and choose different languages to meet them. Ultimately, we think client-side developers should have this kind of flexibility.

Q. Is Google planning to put Dart under the control of a standards body?

Yes, we hope to. Once Dart reaches a certain level of maturity and acceptance, we expect that a standards process will be the next step.

As for the various APIs you describe above, those are all for packaged apps, which really have nothing to do with the web except that they happen to run inside Chrome. It's like complaining that iOS in-app purchases go through Apple, or that Gnome has Bluetooth support. (Or even that Firefox extensions don't work in Safari.)
Thanks for telling this story and yes, I would have done the same.
CyanogenMod and Moxie are working on something similar, I believe - end to end encryption with PGP, but it may work with more than just one chat app:

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/23vfN2qdZTu

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/jnZSBV96wxU
But where does that end? We decide the 8 hour work week isn't productive enough, even though worker productivity has skyrocketed, so we go to 10, then we decide 10 hour days are for socialist pussies and go to 12 hour days, then eventually we are calling people lazy for sleeping and ridiculing them for not dragging concrete blocks for a .0000001% holding Elon Musk's Mars Miner corporation. I mean at some point life has to be about being happy versus maximizing the profitability of the company you work for...
This happens all the time in court cases. When I sued a home builder for fraud, after reading the pleas and within 20 minutes of being in court the judge said to the Defendant, "Look. I'm finding 300bps to be a credible witness. I have another case I have to go to now. There's a room over there, I suggest you settle with him." They ended up settling with me.

In Apple's case, every conspirator involved except Apple settled with the government. Apple are the only ones that chose to go to court. The "tentative view" that Judge Cote formed by reading the pleadings was a way to tell the Defendant: you sure seem guilty based on the evidence you and the government provided. If you want to save yourself some money, I suggest settling.

Sometimes cases are so clear cut that it is just not right for it to proceed to a full trial. That's where things like tentative views and Summary Judgments come in.
To Secunia. Law 101. Don't talk about incidents when you're being sued. Wide open grounds for incrimination.
no, you are saying that next week I will work on the deliverables we agreed for the week. And I will deliver them. And they will bring you this much benefit.

If I need to go and hire two guys and work nights to do it, I lose. But I only lose a limited amount.

SO, I guess I really am saying work fixed bids of one week projects.
Disney does not own a trademark on Snow White's use in literature (fiction or non-fiction.)
I ride in the street every day, and violate our "no bikes on the sidewalks" rule constantly for my own safety.

Just last week I was almost hit while hogging the lane to make a left into my apartment complex by a car that thought it would be more fun to pass on the left (over the double yellow)... while I was making said left turn.

This was in broad daylight; I can only image what would have been the case had it been at night.
I want headlines to stop telling me what to do.
We build our own IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and you'll get access through vpn. Building our own IaaS keep us much busy than we thought.
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Yeah, I've already ruled out OVH if you read the last part of my comment. The comments on Hacker News about OVH didn't really inspire confidence in OVH for more than hosting side projects, and that's not my use case.

Are you using OVH for hosting Exocortex? I checked your website and it seems to be hosted on Linode.
"build only the features that customers can't live without" - who makes this call? What if you disagree on this? What if the customer learns something new after 2 weeks and needs to change the scope?
OK, let's say that it is better first to learn how to make trees with conses and traverse them using maps and folds with null? as a base case, and then enjoy a compiler which won't allow you to "cons" improper element to it.)
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If there are any dents in their processing power/capabilities, they'll quickly improve their capacity to accommodate it.
Good question. I don't know.
I use it all the time as well, especially when making a road trip or just doing touristy stuff in DC. My phone is slow enough that I can usually figure out what street I'm trying to get on by the cached map before the network data finally starts streaming in.
Well, there are certainly two camps with regard to this.

If you don't feel like going over to Alex's campfire, holding hands and singing Kumbaya - let me invite you over to the other fire for an inspirational moment before getting back to work:

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big-league ball players and the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time." ~ George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army, just before the Normandy landings.
I used to train 20-somethings fresh out of college into the workforce of running small, project-based consulting teams. (Working with high-performing, motivated, recent college grads is the best job in the world)

I found that high-performers want to run hard. Additionally, I found the folks back at HQ were more than willing to load them up with even more work than their 40 hours per week. I kept having to tell the noobs, "Pace yourself. This is a marathon, not a sprint. I want you just as fresh and energetic a year from now as you are today"

So I am firmly on the author's side here. But I also think you can go too far. I see a lot of these articles, and I wonder if they're not just telling people what they already want to hear.

"Shouldn’t we stop pretending spending 50+ hours a week at the office or jobsite to be a good thing and recognize that real genius is finding a way to streamline the process and get that same job done in 25?"

He's creating a false dichotomy: work smart or work long hours. In fact, in many cases it's possible to be the smartest-working person in the shop and still have a lot of work to do. Being smarter doesn't give you a get-out-of-long-hours card. In fact, the drive and dedication that got many people to learn a lot is the exact same drive that will keep them there until late at night. In fact, many of the most valuable things we can do in life need exceptionally smart people working as hard as they can to pull off.

Remember, I'm on the author's side! But I also think that there's nothing wrong simply enjoying a project that calls for a lot of work -- as long as you don't do it to excess. I enjoy projects with the occasional crunch time every few months where folks work late and push through something fun. I like hiking up mountains, even though smart people just drive their cars up or look at photos on Facebook. Hard, difficult work to achieve a worthwhile goal is a good thing! Hard work all the time simply because it's expected or because you confuse hours with value is not.

Work life balance is important, but we need to be clear that certain parts of life actually require a lot of hard work. The guys studying to be brain surgeons don't sit around talking about how they should take more time out to go fishing. Simply because you make a choice to bust your ass doing something tough doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. It's your choice. Whatever your choice is, it just has to be sustainable and fit your values.
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If we choose to write optional<User*>, then we have three possibilities. The point is that we don't have to do that in C++, we can write optional<User> and be certain that the returned value is either empty or a User.

Compare this with a function that returns a string:

string get_name();

In C++, the caller of this function knows that a string is always returned. Null isn't part of the picture. The string object itself holds a pointer to some heap data, but that's not something the user has to deal with.

PS: I've done my fair share of programming in Haskell so I know the advantages it has :-)
I try to be conscious and not buy the new gadget/car year. I'm still holding up a nexus one. Working around all the hardware bugs... But i probably will not be able to install the huge g+ crap app just for latitude because this phone has like few hundred megabytes for apps..
I wasn't contradicting you but trying to reinforce the point that there's an equivalence between "impure" functions and pure functions that produce actions (having impure effects if sequenced). In particular, I wanted to highlight that (mapM_ print) is not somehow more impure than (map print). Many people seem to believe that it is.
I love that the carousel on this site also moves too fast for you to digest what the hell it's saying, further enforcing its point.
Yes, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with the question I asked.
I'm not saying everyone has to work long hours. I'm just saying that the few people who do will have an obvious advantage. It's up to each person to figure out if that's what they want.
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Oracle wrote a blog post on how to move data from Oracle to MongoDB (seriously)
Great point. Giving or receiving surprises is kryptonite to consulting relationships.

Part of the value we must provide is be the guide to finding and doing the things a business needs to move forward, and help communicate the risks, unknowns and things that have to be figured out before ever starting them so the customer gets to participate in things as an experiment.
Just to add more fuel to the bike vs car fire: Did anyone else catch that the driver was driving with a revoked license? [1] Clearly he shouldn't have been operating a vehicle and probably had a history of dangerous driving. But hey, this is America, we gotta drive.

[1] http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-k...
No, copyright expiration. And yes, I know how Disney is at the forefront of efforts to abolish that and how it's ironic that they profit from it in this case, but I doubt they'd have problems paying license fees either.
Because a client who is reliably paying you for days of work is worth a free hour or two now and then, and because the precedent that you will work for hours instead of days will come around to bite you in the ass later on.
You should start with http://www.securitytube.net/ also on youtube you'll find very insightful information.
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Thank you for the recommendation, it's definitely a better deal than Rackspace for my needs, but not compelling enough for me to switch from AWS at the moment.
in a statement to reporters she essentially said she thought Apple was guilty before hearing any evidence.

The judge had received a preponderance of evidence both in pre-trial and related rulings before making that statement. Pre-trial opinions are specifically designed to inform the two parties of the judge's current temperament.
The work I did does not even remotely tie into what I am doing now nor did it warrant a second thought beyond the office. It was a contractor position. I had to import data sets into excel from other documents. All I did was export the previous doc into a CSV file and write a script to import it into excel. It was piss easy. Then I shipped off that data set to whatever team needed it. That's all I did. It was menial.

Right now I'm doing iOS development. I get to take my laptop to the park, or anywhere outside and it's goddamn amazing. Last night I worked all day on an isolated beach on an island right across from my city. Possibly the most fun I've had in months to be honest.

Freelancer is the new bohemian.

In all honesty though, that job instilled severe depression in me. Did about 6 months there and literally almost killed myself until I seeked help and my contract was up.
Hi, I'm the dancer in the video. Minikomi is right, I wanted to check my progress. Because I started out awkwardly though, I didn't take many videos in the beginning. I wish I had taken more.
Mind telling who's giving it? Hetzner?
In one of the later parts, he complains that employers only look at diplomas instead of what you can actually do. His prospects opened up a bit after he graduated.
My father in law is a security guard for a private company.

He watches DVDs for 7 hours a day on a laptop and goes for an amble the other hour.

That is the entire job.

If only he put some of that time to better use like that kid did. It's not amazing, but a good use of the time.
Opensource audio plugins + Low-jitter++ (low-latency, smooth openGL)
Well maybe VLC did something wrong or not. How can we say that simply from that article. The only things I can see for sure are (A) that Secunia failed to communicate their issues to VLC and (B) that Secunia seems to consider their own policies as god given laws which all other companies must abide to as well. Both points don't seem all too convincing.
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Wow. It amazes me how people interpret things differently. Not that there's anything wrong with what you thought, it's just interesting.
In part 3 a controller is mentioned called a "wireball". What is that?
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Have you ever read Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh? Sounds very similar to your story, he automated his work using a script, I think he even stopped going into the office
If you want to start a bittorrent tracker but don't want to bother with all of the trouble of things like Gazelle, you might like thehighseas, a straightforward bittorrent tracker I wrote:

https://github.com/calpaterson/thehighseas
Riding a bike does not have to be as dangerous as it is in most places in the United States.

Here[1] is an interesting video on how the Dutch got their bicycle paths.

From the intro:

"The Netherlands has the world's largest number of cyclists, but it is also the safest place in the world to cycle. That is largely because of the perfect cycling infrastructure that can be found throughout the country. How did the Dutch get this network of high quality cycle paths?"

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
One of my favorite books is The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt, and one of my favorite quotes from it is:

The secret of success is to complete a single simple task on a daily basis.

It really is about making slow, meaningful progress. No one wakes up a prodigy.
Agreed. Also in Balkans, due to weak economy and lack of state support, devs won't easily risk giving up their jobs in order to run a full-time startup (no VC's to fund projects there).
Wow - you have summed it up perfectly. "Pirates are just under-served customers"

Imagine if the Executives at the all of these entertainment companies looked at it like this.
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There is a tremendous value add from the whole AWS package, so naturally you are going to overpay a lot if you compare on raw power alone. AWS allows you to not purchase backup hardware, it allows you to shape your stack to your load profile on demand rather than purchasing hardware and potentially making a long-term commitment that is wrong, it allows you to handle load spikes very easily and inexpensively, and it allows you control everything from a robust API, and it's big and stable enough where you don't usually have to fight for and be disappointed by support: problems tend to be large and affecting everyone, or small and you just boot a new instance.

So what if you're spending $25k a year where a colo'd rack would be only $5k, that's not your major cost center in a startup (or any business for that matter). If you are utilizing the benefits of AWS it could well tip the scales in terms of not needing to have a $150k systems engineer.
I bike commute in Boston (Live in Somerville, bike into Boston), and while there's definitely a risk, I feel pretty safe doing so - there are a lot of good bike lanes that make it possible. I definitely agree with your recommendations - need to be very aware of the cars around you (assume everyone in a car is an idiot/out to get you), and I wear a neon jacket, along with lights when it's dark. I definitely feel like it's only a matter of time until I get doored, though. . .
The problem with this post is the word "hourly"; the author means "time & materials". It's fine to bill based on your time, but unless you're a furniture mover, you shouldn't be doing it in hour increments.

This is a hobby horse of mine, so I'll spare you the retread:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tptacek+hourly...