skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As znowi mentioned, don't bother charging hourly or daily or any period of time.

The client will ask for a specific thing to be done. Give the client a specific price for that thing. That's it.

How you calculate that is your business. Personally, I figure out the worst-case scenario and price it for that. If I finish earlier, because of my brilliance, well we can just call that profit.

You're happy because you just finished something high quality and in good time. The client is thrilled because they knew what they were going to pay, got what they wanted, and got it quickly and professionally. The client didn't have to worry about hourly rates or daily rates, unexpected surprises, etc. they knew what they were going to pay. You took the risk out of the transaction for the client and made a good amount of cash for yourself. Everybody wins.
I agree, having been one of those people. I just meant that those jobs are not so specialized that it's hard to find other people if you fire your existing cleaners regularly; unfortunately there are more people who need the money than can afford to give such unethical employers a wide berth.
mysql_real_escape_string is not the right answer. The only way to prevent SQL injection attacks is to use bind variables.
It can also stream a Chrome tab in a browser.
Exactly. They "gave up" on real money gaming. Not happening and won't save them.
I like project-based billing but a lot of people don't, because it exposes them to risk (scope changes, unexpected complexities, client downtime) that they can avoid with time & materials billing. A weekly rate is, to a customer, pretty close to the same interface as a project rate, so if you're thinking about charging project rates, consider weeklies instead.

Also remember that part of the idea of upping your billing increment is not accepting piecemeal work.
Because OVH is so cheap they {used to,currently have} massive abuse problems, depending on your current opinion of them.

Real identity verification is a solid step towards cleaning up the network, so if you do buy a server from them it can actually reach other parts of the internet.
For each of these token prosecutions, there are many others who continue unabated. Fines, if any are often a trivial portion of the profits stolen in such schemes, which incentivizes the behavior.
My understanding is that memory sharing is generally not done in multi-tenant xen systems, and that this is one of the reasons why Xen is so dominant in that space.

OpenVZ, generally speaking, shares memory, but does not use ballooning; ballooning is specific to systems where each user has their own kernel.

Generally speaking, I think it's much less bad to oversubscribe CPU than memory. Among other things, if you take cpu away from a heavy user to give to a user who has not used their fair share, all the new user has to do is reload cpu cache from main memory, which is slow, but super fast compared to reloading main memory cache from disk, which is what the light user has to do when you take memory away from the heavy user.

Of course, the equation is quite different when the system is all owned by the same entity.
You are taking it a bit too far
If you actually value either, you also have to value the other?

But I can also answer that with a question if you want: which do you value more, slow but steady progress, and planting for generations ahead and reaping from what generations before sowed, or instant gratification and profit, and the constant low-intensity war that entails? (not that we lack a constancy of military action in the world, but hey)
I've been betting heavily on a turnaround, adding to my position in ZNGA each time it dipped below $3. Real money gambling I knew would be the savior and since they weren't burning much cash any more, they just had to wait for that to pass in the US.

Them canceling those plans - and Mattrick saying they are 'resetting' and expect volatility to continue, makes me lose my faith. I think I'm going to get out of the stock.

I don't know much about Mattrick so maybe he is a turnaround specialist and what he did at EA and Microsoft was great and he will save the company - but the business they are in is a loser. And they don't appear to be interested in a pivot.

Sad day. I now agree with the sentiment that Zynga is a dead company.
"A very large number of bugs have been fixed at an estimate of around 3000 bugs, of which 400 came from authors with apache.org mail addresses."

I believe that the Apache OpenOffice developers have been complaining that the LO guys just cherry-picks their changes and don't do anything. This should hopefully put paid to that complaint!
The paper still stands. There has been quite a bit of research activity in this area.

Anecdotally: my lab recently got a Brother laser printer. There was an odour after printing so we tried the experiment (using the same air quality equipment). Sure enough, we saw huge UFP peaks.

Recent developments: UFP emissions from 3D printers http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231013...
As of now your survey has less than 50 responses, and is heavily skewed towards young males. Right now it looks like barely 20 people have said it is "flat-out wrong." How are you concluding that "almost nobody supports it" based on a sample this small?
I guess they are still sitting on cash reserves.

There is a profitable business in Zynga, as much as some people hate that. They need to downsize and make more targeted bets.
Mattrick's track record with XBox One really should not inspire any confidence. But maybe that was just an unfortunate set of circumstances outside his control...
Web of trust. So say I meet someone visiting from the US that I trust, he gets my public key and signs it, and vice versa, then I can guarantee to people who have my pubkey that the one I'm sending them is his one.
Extremely fast. In some cases, they load Excel spreadsheets faster than Excel 2010.
This is interesting... every time I've read a "light slowed down" article over the last 10 years it's been Professor Lene Hau. This time it isn't.
> which currently means "make the quarterly number look great".

Corporations with high P/E ratios are the counterexample to this, and Amazon in particular has a very high P/E.
many many Googlers feel VERY STRONGLY about not doing creepy/immoral things like that

Many Googlers != All Googlers != Google

How would you explain this? http://mashable.com/2012/02/17/google-caught-tracking-safari...
Ah yes, the "Shit got old" symptom.

Every startup needs to watch out for this one. Users are aquired in several different ways, 2 main ones are:

- Tricking users into your product or service through gimmicks, lies, or aggressive marketing.

- Earning users by solving their problem and selling them value.

Zynga did the former and users are getting sick of it. Other examples are infomercial products, they sell like crazy based on promises and gimmicks and fade away into oblivion in the mid and long term. Think back to all the things you've seen on TV (especially exercise products and makeup brands), how many of them are still around? Despite many of them being successful and collecting dust in millions of homes' basements, they fizzed out.
If it's just a side project, why not host it on Meteor? All you have to do is set up a CNAME record to point at origin.meteor.com: http://docs.meteor.com/#deploying
How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program
Personally, if it tells me, "Don't vote for these 4 people" and I can only vote for 1-2 of them, I wouldn't mind. If it tells me, "Don't vote for these 15+ people", that's just noise and I wouldn't find it useful.
Black hole feasting may help crack four cosmic puzzles
The niche is growing and will continue to grow into the foreseeable future. So making a good profit is possible.

However the competition is heating up quickly to nuclear fusion temperatures. Every useful app or silly game on every smart phone is effectively a direct competitor -- Zynga needs people obsessing on very certain games for hundreds of hours, enough time to punch in real dollars on the whim.

Furthermore, this is an inherently unsticky kind of niche. Every customer will need to be won over again in 12 months or less, as they tire of that one charming game.

The stock is going to crater...
>No they weren't. They were experimented on with the intent of causing pain. If you really believe that the intent was science then you owe it to yourself to learn more history

man, are you serious or just doesn't know anything or just trolling?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

the rest of your statements are about the same. I'll just stop here.
No they do activation, or used to, by mail.
IMO this is for legal purposes.
I find it weird how this story/event/business is positioned. Basically Zynga is a collection of mostly similar games. All popular games follow the same life cycle. If a game is good, people play the game. The game becomes popular. Then people get bored of the game, and they stop playing. I feel sorry for people, especially those at Zynga, who didn't see this.
Javascript isn't being put into the HTML.

Angular expressions are. It's a big difference.

IMO, it makes writing javascript-only applications (like all the internal tools for my company) much easier. It bugged me to look at a given view and not know what happened when something was clicked, or what the class name for an element needed to be to get the right behavior. Angular apps feel like writing a desktop app, which is great.
There is nothing "token" about a prison sentence.
Calling it a "thesis" is awfully generous. It really doesn't matter if it accomplishes the same, but I have a hard time believing that the author was so deliberate. The simpler explanation is that he was just emotional and complaining about perceived unfair treatment.

Sympathy can lead to action, but provoking sympathy on an irrelevant point can lead to action you never expected. It might simply lead to finding the manager in question and dealing with that one problem. Whether thoughtful or emotional, focusing on the process itself would be more likely to inspire the prescribed changes.
Cant edit my original comment, but this is a fairly comprehensive list: https://angel.co/developer-apis
Cash runs out, especially with their overhead. Sure, the downsizing helped, but there's no reason they need that kind of staffing. VC's will push for huge hires in the beginning. But the company has been taking for well over a year. The IPO was a scam, Pincus raped the price and stole $200M. The SEC should investigate him 100%

They need a good product. They don't have one. They probably won't have one since their entire company revolves around copying former titles (like the Sim games). I wonder what happened with the EA assault on Zynga?
Yeah, that's one of those applications that you really need to colo and secure yourself with outside security verification, or at the very least go with a host that has a reputation for ironclad security. Hosting that kind of thing on a low-cost VPS is ridiculous.
HP's ink-jet and multifunction-printer driver software and UI are absolutely abysmal, though. As in offensive to customers. Is the laser division totally separate?
This is one of the first studies on cellular memory traces but not the first. Similarly, in 2011 Garner et. al. had created a hybrid memory trace chemically: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6075/1513
I agree in general, particularly about the appropriate response being to change the rules. However:

the practices that made them a hundred-billion dollar company

Doesn't make sense to me. I don't think Amazon got to be big by avoiding long-term relationships with low-level employees, although it may have helped them to get bigger, faster (depending on the actual costs of contractors vs. full-time employees). My understanding of how Amazon got to be a huge company was by building large warehouses and powerful cataloging systems, and then have first a copy of any book, and later a copy of just about any thing for sale. Pricing is part of that and historically the firm has been competitive but not that great. To me the major plus has been convenience, quality of selection, good return policy etc. I can often do better if I shop around, but that has to be offset against the cost of dealing with multiple suppliers, time spent searching out better prices etc. - if Amazon is only 5% more than competitors it might not be worth my while chasing that 5% for most items.

Having said that, I'm more motivated to deal with other suppliers now because I don't want to support such zero-sum hiring policies with my trade $.
Taking off my Marx hat, generally, people mean something along the lines of "an employer can take advantage of the fact that people will take any work rather than starve, and this drives wages down to a point that's unfair." In other words, an employer can exploit the fact that people are desperate.

So yes, it may have been a contract that they 'voluntarily' agreed to for a wage they 'voluntarily' agreed to, but that doesn't mean it's not a shitty position, and we should try to do better, as a society.
Our whole DOD budget is only 600-700 billion, so its unlikely we spend "hundreds of billions" on the NSA. Estimates are 8-10 billion: http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillanc....
Google disconnects Chromecast's Netflix deal
This is really cool. A few buddies and myself got this setup working with an AR drone and a Rift a few months back. I'll try to get videos up somewhere soon. If you are into this kind of stuff and in the Bay Area check out this meetup: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Drones-Startup-Meetup

We had the people from Velodyne who make the 3d Lidar for googles self driving cars present last night and demoed their newer 1kg unit.
When you abstract mathematics, you get more mathematics. When you abstract assembly, you get simpler mathematics, etc.

Which is totally different from hiding mathematics, which you may do at your own risk...
well that's just not logical.
What we've learned after one night with chromecast
A little weird that Google wouldn't pony up $30/household to get a Google product onto the living room television. Many companies, including Google, have spent far more money with far weaker returns.
Thanks - I just bookmarked that.
The current user trend is still nothing but down. With user acquisition costs likely not getting any smaller, they aren't that far away from crossing the threshold of not having enough users to migrate to a new game, to spark it. At that point, it won't matter if their games are original, or re-badged copies of other games. They'll be in the same situation as your average (or below average) game dev startup, except with 10x (or 100x if they don't do more layoffs) the expenses.
Hey, developer on zipkin here. Happy to answer any questions you have.
If you're going to ignore chilling effects, then by that reasoning the NSA surveillance is totally harmless.

That's a ridiculous argument. The Beltway sniper killed 10 people in 2002, a fraction of the number who died in car accidents that year. But tens of thousands of people had their lives disrupted as they ducked down while filling up at gas stations.
If appropriate for your use, VTune for Linux (and the rest of the Intel Compiler Suite) is available for free under a "Non-Commercial Software Development" license.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/non-commercial-software-deve...
The industry doesn't shy away from politics.

It just pretends that it's opinions and practices aren't political, despite their enormous and very deliberate impact on the way society functions and public policy is made.

The industry's politics are mostly disguised by claiming it's the objective truth, or "that's just the way things work". You can see examples of it here on HN in pretty much every thread that isn't 100% technical.

And even then, like Mitch Kapor said "Architecture is policy". The fact that we don't feel comfortable acknowledging it in a society that has become anti-political doesn't mean it isn't about politics.

Hell, attempts to de-politicize such things are in themselves expressions of political ideology.
And that would be a fine argument, I suppose, if I'd seen anything in the article about the wages.

Like I said though, if that's the case, it's either outside the scope of this article, or I just missed it. Is that indeed the case, that Amazon is paying exploitative wages for these positions?
It's actually pretty common for hosts to keep charging the same prices for a server you rent in perpetuity, until you order a new server and migrate. I'd say Linode has been above average in that regard.
Which other way would you suggest?

Also, I was under the impression that very little money and effort was put into attempting to enforce the GPL through lawsuits (and these slides don't seem to suggest otherwise, naming just a few people and suites over the years). Is it more common than I think?
As I understand, all of the large tech companies do this. We do the same work as employees, but without any benefits or job security.
The best permatemps get jobs elsewhere and the worst are let go. The rest of us try are left in limbo hoping to be hired someday..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp
In this case, it's not the wages, it's the fact that they can't work for more than 11 months and that there's no chance of upward mobility. A person with no experience is given a 'real' job while a temp isn't even considered.
I should observe that daleharvey is being very modest by the casual mention of PouchDB, which I think is actually one of the coolest things the Couch ecosystem has going for it right now. :)
I blame ignorance and not malice. Then again, I wouldn't want to blemish a prosecutor's high conviction rate by invoking basic human liberties like expressing an opinion. Just think what might happen to the children.
I've had a twitter account since May of 2008 and have less than twenty tweets. It just sits there, aging.
Privacy Protects Bothersome People (and healthy democracies need bothering)
http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
It's nice how you do the "he was paid fairly with unicorns and rainbows, with sweet choirs singing him to his rest... .... ... ... (or what he was willing to accept)", front-loading the idea that the employment was an ideal situation rather than what the guy may have had to take at the time. You could say exactly the same thing about illegal jobs paying under minimum wage.
I didn't force you to re-hash. Maybe I'm just not cynical enough to believe a thief that appears to be on an egotrip [which is realistically what the hackers in this instance are].

They made a mistake on the 12th and corrected it by the [with some forum posts in between those two dates and someone claiming responsibility between those two dates] 16th. I'm not seeing the issue in regards to the previous question except 'Hackers say otherwise'.

None of those threads date before the 12th which was kind of the point. I generally assume incompetence before malice while everyone else seems to be the reverse.
oh, i'm so glad my negative feelings are healthy. now i can relax, and even better, i can cancel my lobotomy.
Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion due to overwhelming demand
I used to work for Amazon, in a different department than the author, and I agree with this part. My old team employed two contractors "in perpetuity", to my protestations, and the reason wasn't monetary.

Not directly anyways.

At the time (circa 2009-10) upper management was freaking out about the economic downturn. Hiring caps were put in place, and every team was watched like a hawk for "unnecessary" headcount. Bringing in a full-timer was basically impossible, especially for a position that was "second class" (read: not a PM/TPM/SDE).

Turns out though, you can hire contractors just fine so long as you could prove need - and this conveniently let you hire someone without exposing yourself in upper-managerial whack-a-mole.

All in all, I learned a lot at Amazon, but it is a terribly managed company as a whole. There are good parts, there are bad parts, but much of the upper management is more interested in politics than the product/customer/company. This sort of systemic dysfunction was just one of many "quirks" of working there.

Funnily enough, that same hiring cap was what eventually got me to leave. During this whole time the team had a need for more software engineering hands, but we were always turned down by management since other teams had more acute needs and needed to fit under the hiring cap. We built up a massive tech debt in the meantime as our maintenance and workload increased at breakneck pace.

Eventually, a couple of years later, the hiring restrictions were relaxed and my team of 3 engineers opened up seven positions in the same month. I spent the next 3-4 months basically interviewing and sitting in meetings full-time. Then I decided I enjoyed coding more than interviewing people and explaining why interviewing people for 5 hours a day was causing nothing to get done.
Then the title is slightly misleading. The beam of light is not sufficient for creating the memory, just part of the process. The other thing not mentioned in the title is that the mice are either genetically engineered to have neurons that express light sensitive proteins, or have been injected with a virus that makes these neurons sensitive to light.
I'm not sure how to interpret your comment. Kindly explain?
>"James F. Turner II, Clay Capital Management, LLC hedge fund's chief investment officer has received a one-year prison sentence and a $25,000 fine for insider trading. Turner's conduct netted over $2.5 million."

That ought to put a stop to it eh?
Furthermore, this is an inherently unsticky kind of niche. Every customer will need to be won over again in 12 months or less, as they tire of that one charming game.

Full agree with this statement. If you look at titles like Candy Crush, sure, they're doing amazing right now, pulling in huge numbers (users and revenue) - but in 3-6 months - they won't be around. Retention will switch over to the next 45th copy of Bejeweled.

It's actually a very interesting model. The same games are re-created by new "startup" companies every few months. 1/100 hits and becomes a Top-10 item in the app store. The game gets huge traction by leveraging FB's massive user base, company puts together obscene numbers showing engagement, in-app purchases, growth projections (which end up diving after a few Q's) and then go out and raise Series-A rounds.

What I CAN'T figure out is - are VCs really this dumb to invest in companies that won't be around in 12-18 months? Maybe they're not, maybe it's the VC model that's flawed. Invest in 100 companies @ $1.5-3M per and 1 will go public or get acquired and we'll make our money back. But this is an entirely different conversation.
I recommend you actually read the letter (it's just two pages not including signatures--shorter than the EFF's hysterical description of it): https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/cda-ag-letter.pdf.

They're asking Congress to add two words to the CDA:

"Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair the enforcement of section 223 or 231 of this title, chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of children) of Title 18, or any other Federal or State criminal statute."

(Addition emphasized.)

This is in response to a W.D. Wash. decision that determined that the CDA preempted state criminal law. They're asking for it to be modified to say that the CDA does not preempt state criminal law.
Which of those responses are you interpreting as "it's flat out wrong" as you put it?

I think there's a lot of space between having concerns about something and being vehemently opposed to it.
RACI Matrix
The shitty thing is that all of Pincus's sins will be forgotten the next time he starts a company because in Silicon Valley a man's worth is measured by his bank account.